XXXV. Anno 1553. expedient to have some matters there to be consulted. CHAP. "Their lordships were required immediately to repair to "the court, where they shall understand his Majesty's "further pleasure. And that day his Grace was sent for." November 11, he was present at council. At Westminster, November 16, 17, 18, 26. December 4, when the Archbishop and Bishop of Ely answered the Bishop of Chichester, then before the council, as to the texts by him produced in behalf of altars. December 5, 9, 11, 13: on which day a letter was sent to the Lieutenant of the Tower, to bring the Bishop of Winchester to Lambeth before the Archbishop. January 13. he was present at the council at Greenwich, when Hoper was ordered to be committed to the Archbishop's custody. Present again at council at Greenwich, February 8. At Westminster the 16, 18: then, upon the report of the Archbishop made of one Young, a learned man, [I suppose he of Cambridge, that was Bucer's antagonist,] viz. that he had preached seditiously, [against the King's proceedings in religion,] it was ordered that the Archbishop, and the Bishop of Ely, should examine him, and thereupon order him, as they should think good. He was present at council, still at Westminster, March 4, 8, (when he was appointed to receive a sum of money in respect of his charges and pains in his process against the late Bishop of Winchester, now deprived,) 9, 11, 12, 22, 24. Anno 1551. March 26, 31. At Greenwich, April the 8, 9, In the year 11, 26. May 4, 10, 24, 25. June 4, 14, (when a letter was given to the Archbishop to send to the Lieutenant of the Tower, for the bringing White, Warden of New College in Winchester, and delivering him to the Archbishop, to remain with him till he might reclaim him,) 15, 21, 22. At Richmond, August 9. At Hampton-Court, October 1: when a licence was granted to Wolf, under the King's privilege, to print the Archbishop's book. At Westminster, October 17, 19, 22, 28. November 2, 5, 9, 10, 15, 17, 21, 26. December 11, 12, (13, a letter was sent from the council to the Archbishop to send them a book touching religion, sent out of Ireland,) 17, 18, 19. January 24, 31. February 8, 16, 22, 28. March 22. 1551. Anno 1552. He was present at the council now sitting at In the 1552. year II. BOOK Westminster, March 30. April 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 18, 19, 24. From which time, till the month of October, he was not at Anno 1553. the council, and yet seems to have been at home. October 7, 301 the council sent to him to stay his going into Kent till Tuesday, because the lords would confer with him; that is, till October 11, when he was again present at council. The Archbishop now retired into his diocese, and was at his house at Ford: whither several messages and letters were sent to him from the council: as, November 20, they sent him the Articles of Religion (framed chiefly by him, and reviewed by the King's chaplains) for his last review, in order to the putting them into due execution. November 24, another sent him, according to the minute, of some business unknown. December 2, another letter to him for the installing of Hoper, without paying any fees. And another, February 2, in favour of Mr. Knox, to be by him collated to the living of Alhallows. This month he returned, and was at the council at Westminster. Likewise February 21, 22, 25, 27, 28. Anno 1553. John Har ley. Anno 1553. March 25. April 1, 7. At Greenwich, June 2, 3, 6, 8: and that was the last time mentioned in the Council-Book, ending at June 17. Nor cared he to come afterwards, the business then in transaction not pleasing him. A Bishop consecrated. May 26. John Harley, S. T. P. was consecrated (and was the last that was consecrated in this King's reign) Bishop of Hereford, upon the death of Skip, by the Archbishop, at Croyden chapel; Nicolas Bishop of London, and Robert Bishop of Carlile, assisting. This Harley was one of the King's six chaplains, Bill, Bradford, Grindal, Pern, and Knox, being the other five, that were appointed to be itineraries, to preach sound doctrine in all the remotest parts of the kingdom, for the instruction of the ignorant in right religion to God, and obedience to the King. The end of the Second Book. I FIND the Archbishop present among Queen Jane's coun- Anno 1553. The Arch and counsellors' con the Lady sellors whose party seemed to be resolute for her until the : 19th of July. All these persons of quality were with her bishop's in the Tower, consulting of affairs for her service: Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury; the Bishop of Ely, Lord Chan- cern with cellor; the Earl of Winchester, Lord Treasurer; the Dukes Jane. of Suffolk and Northumberland; the Earls of Bedford, Arundel, Shrewsbury, Pembroke; the Lords Darcy and Paget; Sir Thomas Cheiney, Sir Richard Cotton, Sir William Petre, Sir John Cheke, Sir John Baker, Sir Robert Bowes; being all of her council. All which (excepting Northumberland) signed a letter, dated July 19, to the Lord Rich, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Essex, who had signified to them that the Earl of Oxford was fled to the Lady Mary. In their letter they exhorted him to stand true and tight to Queen Jane, as they said they did, and would do. It was penned by Cheke; for Secretary Cecyl was absent, and Petre, the other Secretary, though present, did it not, though he signed it. The letter is in the Appendix. The No. LXIX. day before this letter was sent, viz. July 18, there being a rising in Buckinghamshire, and the parts thereabouts, Queen BOOK Jane herself, thinking herself sure of Sir John Bridges and III. Sir Nicolas Poyntz, signed a letter to them, therein orderAnno 1553. ing them to raise with speed all the power they could of their servants, tenants, officers, and friends, to allay that tumult and so she had written to other gentlemen in those parts to do. This letter also I have put in the No. LXX. Appendix. They de Queen And yet, (to see the vicissitude of men's minds, and uncertainty of human affairs,) July 20, divers of those very counsellors, that but the day before set their hands resolvedly to stand by Queen Jane, proclaimed Queen Mary in the city of London, and immediately dispatched the Earl 304 of Arundel and the Lord Paget unto her with a letter, writ from Baynard's Castle, (where they now were removed from the Tower.) In which letter "they beg her pardon, and "to remit their former infirmities, and assure her, calling "God to witness to the same, that they were ever in their "hearts her true subjects since the King's death: but could "not utter their minds before that time without great de"struction and bloodshed of themselves and others." The No. LXXI. copy of this letter may be read in the Appendix. And write to Nor down his arms. Stow. sure. The same day the council wrote to the Duke of Northumber- thumberland their letters, dated from Westminster, sent by land to lay an herald: wherein the Duke was commanded and charged, in Queen Mary's name, to disarm and discharge his soldiers and to forbear his return to the city, until the Queen's plea And the same was to be declared to the Marquis of Northampton, and all other gentlemen that were with him. The herald was also, by virtue of his letters from the council, to notify in all places where he came, "that if the Duke "did not submit himself to the Queen's Highness, he should "be taken as a traitor, and they of the late King's council "would persecute him to his utter confusion." And thus far our Archbishop went. For this was signed by him, and the Bishop of Ely, Lord Chancellor; the Marquis of Winchester, the Duke of Suffolk, the Earls of Bedford, Shrewsbury, Pembrook; the Lord Darcy, Sir Richard Cotton; Petre and Cecyl, Secretaries; Sir John Baker, Sir John Mason, Sir Robert Bowes. The Duke saw it in vain to oppose, and so submitted to this order: and the plot that his ambition had been framing so long, and with so much art, CHAP. fell on a sudden. I. sadors. Very speedily Queen Mary was owned abroad, as well as Anno 1553. at home: Dr. Wotton, Dean of Canterbury; Sir William The Queen owned by Pickering, Sir Thomas Chaloner, ambassadors in France, the ambaswrit their letters to her and the council, acknowledging her, and ceasing any further to act as ambassadors. She continued Dr. Wotton, and sent for Pickering and Chaloner home; and sent Sir Anthony St. Leger, the beginning of August, ambassador thither, joined with Wotton. This determination the council, August 12, signified to the said three ambassadors. bishop misreported to mass. But now to cast our eyes upon the state of religion at this The Archtime. Upon this access of Queen Mary to the crown, whose interest as well as education made her a zealous Papist, the have said good progress of religion was quite overthrown; and the pious Archbishop's pains and long endeavours in a great measure frustrated; and he himself soon after exercised with great afflictions. The first pretended occasion of which was this: it was reported abroad, soon after King Edward's death, that the Archbishop had offered to sing the mass and Requiem at the burial of that King, either before the Queen, or at St. Paul's church, or any where else; and that he had said or restored mass already in Canterbury. This indeed had the Suffragan of Dover, Dr. Thornton, done; but without the Archbishop's consent or knowledge. But however, such good impressions of religion had the Mass at Archbishop left at Canterbury, that, though mass was set up Canterbury there, and priests were through fear forced to say it, yet it was utterly contrary to their wills. And, about new-year'stide, there was a priest said mass there one day, and the next came into the pulpit, and desired all the people to for- 305 give him. For he said, " he had betrayed Christ; but not "as Judas did, but Peter." And then he made a long sermon against the mass. But the aforesaid slanderous report so troubled the Arch- which he bishop, that, to stay it, he wrote a letter to a friend of his, makes a public de that he never made any promise of saying mass, nor that he claration did set up the mass in Canterbury: but that it was done by against. a false, flattering, lying monk, Dr. Thornden," (such a |