Postremo, postquam nunc et rationibus solidis ostensum, et argumentis irrefutabilibus comprobatum est, nullam ejusmodi super Episcopos et clerum universalem potestatem ad Romanos Pontifices juste et legitime pertinere, sapientes sane ac cordati viri omnes facile videant atque perspiciant, multo minus eos posse sibi vindicare Christiani orbis monarchiam, et eam in reges ac principes omnes potestatem, qua regnis suis et imperiis ipsos privare, eaque aliis pro suo arbitrio donare poterint; cum Scriptura plane diversum docet atque præcipit, nempe ut principibus ac potestatibus mundi Christiani omnes, tam Presbyteri et Episcopi, quam reliqua populi multitudo subditi sint atque obediant. Verissimum enim profecto est, Deum ita instituisse et ordinasse, ut regum ac principum Christianorum auctoritas in populi gubernatione summa ac suprema esset; aliisque omnibus potestatibus et officiis emineret atque excelleret. Et regibus quidem tanquam supremis reipublicæ capitibus, totius sine ulla exceptione populi, qui ipsorum regnis ac dominatu vivit, curam ac gubernationem Deus commisit. Quocirca Christianorum principum interest, non solum illis rebus incumbere, quæ ad civilem reipublicæ gubernationem spectant, verum etiam Christianam doctrinam tueri ac defendere, et abusus, hæreses, atque idololatriam abolere; curare præterea et modis omnibus prospicere, ut Presbyteri et Episcopi officium et functionem sibi commissam, pure, sinceriter, et diligenter obeant, nec ea ullo pacto abutantur. Id quod si facere obstinate recusaverint, adeo ut ipsorum culpa et obstinatia Christi gregem illis creditum in exitium ruere, et quotidie perire, manifeste constiterit, tunc principum est, huc curam suam adhibere, ut ejusmodi nequam et inutilibus servis ab officio justo ordine amotis, alii meliores in illorum loca substituantur. XVI. Breve Regis et Mandatum Archiepiscopi de Nominibus Benefi- Wilkins, vol. iii. p. 857. from nem. Breve supra dicti metuendissimi Domini nostri Regis una cum articulis eidem annexis nobis directum, nuper cum ea qua Cranmer's decuit reverentia accepimus, tenorem subsequentem in se conRegister, tinens: Henricus octavus, Dei gratia Angliæ et Franciæ Rex, Fidei Defensor, Dominus Hiberniæ, ac in terra Supremum Caput Anglicanæ Ecclesiæ, reverendissimo in Christo patri Thomæ Archiepiscopo Cantuarien' salutem. Volentes certis de causis certiorari de et super quibusdam articulis præsentibus annexis, vobis mandamus, quod de veritate eorundem nos in curia nostra primorum fructuum et decimarum in octavis sancti Michaelis proxime futuri, sub sigillo vestro reddatis certiores, remittentes nobis in curiam prædictam articulos prædictos una cum hoc Teste Johanne Baker, milite, apud Westmonasterium vigesimo quarto die Junii, anno regni nostri trigesimo tertio. First, to certify how many benefices or other spiritual dignities and promotions have been void within your diocese or jurisdiction, the names of them and every of them, how long they have been void, of whose presentation, nomination, or donation, they and every of them be, and the names of them and every of them that have perceived and taken the mean profits of the said promotions, since the last becoming void of the said dignity or benefice. Item, To certify as well the name and names of all such parson and parsons, as have been collated, institute, or induct in any promotion spiritual within your diocese or jurisdiction, since the feast of the nativity of St. John Baptist, which was in the reign of our sovereign lord the King that now is the thirtysecond, unto the same feast next following; as the name and names of all and every such promotion, whereunto any person hath been collated, institute, or induct from the said feast of St. John Baptist, in the thirty-second year aforesaid, unto the same feast next following; as also the name of the county where the same promotion doth lie. Nos ejusdem domini nostri Regis mandatis, pro officii nostri erga suam Majestatem debito, parere et omni subjectionis honore obedire, uti par est, volentes, cupientesque de omnibus et singulis articulis supradictis, et in eis contentis et comprehensis quibuscunque, mature fieri certiores, vobis pro parte suæ Regiæ Majestatis tenore præsentium districte præcipiendo mandamus, quatenus cum ea qua poteritis celeritate et diligentia, de et fol. 53. super articulis præmissis et in eis declaratis quibuscunque, ma- Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iii. p. 857. from XVII. The King's Letter and the Mandate of the Archbishop of Can- THOMAS, permissione divina Cantuarien' Archiepiscopus, to- Craum. 18. a. Anglicanæ sub Christo Caput, ad infrascripta sufficienter aucto- Most reverend Father in God, right trusty and right entirely 1 not only cause the images i and bones of such as they resorted and offered unto, with the ornaments of the same, and all such writings and monuments of feigned miracles wherewith they were illuded, to be taken away in all places of our realm; 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 altark: it is lately come to our knowledge, that this our good intent and purpose notwithstanding, the shrines, covering 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 hypocrisy and superstition, and also that our Injunctions be not kept as appertaineth: 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 churches for those things, and if any shrine, covering of 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 other 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, and as you will answer for the contrary. Yeven under our signet at our town of Hull, the 4th day of October, in the thirty-fourth year of our reign. In capite vero eorundem sic scriptum est: By the King. In calce hæc nomina habentur: Wm. Southampton, Robert Sussex, J. Russell, Cuthbert Dunelmen., Anthony Browne, Anthony Winkfyld, John Gage. Inscriptio hæc est: To the most reverend father in God, our right trusty and right entirely wellbeloved counsellor the Archbishop of Cantur., and our trusty and well-beloved his vicar general and the dean of the cathedral church of the same. Nos vero affectantes ex animo ejusdem domini nostri Regis i [See an account of a conversation upon the use of images between Hen. VIII. aud Cranmer, in a Letter from Gardyner to the Protector Somerset. Foxe, Acts, &c. vol. ii. p. 720.] * [See Crumwell's Injunctions of 1538. Burnet, Ref. vol. i. App. b. iii. No. XI.] 1 [Rectius, "third." Wilkins.] literis et mandatis obtemperare, volentesque pro nostro erga suam regiam celsitudinem officio, nobis demandatis negotiis omnem nostram curam et solertem adhibere diligentiam, vobis pro parte suæ Regiæ Majestatis, tenore præsentium mandamus, et præcipiendo injungimus, quatenus receptis præsentibus, cum omni qua poteritis celeritate et matura diligentia, omnes et singulos ecclesiarum collegiatarum magistros, ecclesiarumque parochialium rectores, vicarios, et presbyteros quoscunque infra decanatus prædictos degentes, coram vobis diebus et locis pro vestro sano arbitratu, quam citissime tamen fieri possit, assignandis, convocari possitis, eisque coram vobis constitutis contenta et comprehensa in prædictis literis pro parte suæ Regiæ Majestatis denuncietis, declaretis, exponatis, et dilucidetis ac demonstretis; eaque et contenta quæcunque in dictis literis, necnon et Injunctiones alias a sua Majestate clero et plebi suo editas et promulgatas, ab omnibus et singulis subditis suis infra nostros decanatus prædictos degentibus, firmiter et exacte atque ad unguem observari, et debitæ executioni demandari curetis, et efficaciter absque ullo fuco fieri causetis, prout eidem domino nostro Regi sub vestro periculo respondere volueritis. Et quid in præmissis feceritis, nos citra ultimum diem mensis Novembris proxime futuri, per literas vestras, auctentice sigillatas, reddatis certiores. In cujus rei testimonium sigillum nostrum præsentibus est appensum. Datum in manerio nostro de Lambehith decimo quinto die mensis Octobris, anno Domini MDXLI. et nostræ consecrationis anno nono. Wilkins, Concilia, vol. iii. p. 862. from MSS. C. C. C. C. Strype, vol. iii.' p. 65. XVIII. Constitutio Thoma Cranmeri, Archiepiscopi, et aliorum Fratrum suorum de Apparatu Escarum moderando. In the year of our Lord MDXLI. it was agreed and condescended upon, as well by the common consent of both the archbishops and most part of the bishops within this realm of England, as also of divers grave men of that time, both deans and archdeacons, the fare of their tables to be thus moderated. First, that the archbishops should never exceed six divers kinds of flesh, or six of fish on the fish days; the bishop not to exceed five; the dean and archdeacon not above four; and all other under that degree not above three. Provided also, that the Archbishop might have of second |