1570 Edition | Book 10 | Page 1617 
CloseThe wording and close linking of reform to the queen can be seen in the glosses 'Good Byshops displaced' and 'Popish Prelates intruded by Q. Mary'. These are contrasting glosses: the 'displaced' (a word which suggests fault if not illegality) good bishops and the 'intruded' (roughness of dealing, but, again, no illegality suggested by this term) popish prelates.
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CloseGenerally, if Foxe quotes a document in the 1563 edition which pertains to the London diocese, it came from the London diocesan records, one of the few archival collections which Foxe systematically exploited before the 1563 edition. Mary's precept to Bonner to dissolve Convocation probably came from these records.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaQ. Mary breaketh vp the Cōuocation.MAria. &c. Reuerendo in Christo patri & domino, domino Edmundo London. Episcopo, salutem. Cum præsens conuocatio Cleri Cantuariensis prouinciæ apud Sanctū Paulum London. iam modo tenta & instans existit, certis tamen vrgentibus causis & considerationibus nos specialiter mouētibus, de aduisamento Consilij nostri ipsam præsentem conuocationem duximus dissoluendam: Et ideo vobis mandamus quòd eandem præsentem conuocationem apud Sanctū Paulum prædictum debito modo absque aliqua dilatione dissoluatis, dissoluiue faciatis prout conuenit, significantes ex parte nostra vniuersis & singulis Episcopis, nec non Archidiaconis, Decanis, & omnibus alijs personis Ecclesiasticis quibuscunq; dictæ Cantuariensis Prouinciæ quorum interest vel interesse poterit, quod ipsi & eorum quilibet huic mandato nostro exequendo intendentes sint & obedientes prout decet. Teste meipsa apud Westmonasterium. 13. die Decembris, Anno regni nostri primo.
[Back to Top]In the dayes of kyng Henry, and also of K. Edward raygning after hym, diuers noble men, bishops and other, were cast into þe Tower, some charged with treason, as MarginaliaThys lord Courtney was sonne to the Marques of Exceter.Lord Courtney and the Duke of Northfolke, (whose sonne L. Henry Earle of Surrey had bene the same time beheaded, a worthy & ingenious gentlman, for what cause, or by whō, I haue not here to deale: this is certain, that not many yeres after his death folowed the beheading of both the Lord Semers, and at last of the Duke of Northumberlād
CloseThe most interesting of these items is a rather remarkable passage on the execution of the Earl of Surrey: 'a worthy and ingenious gentleman, for what cause or by whom [he was beheaded], I have not here to deale, this is certeine, that not many yeres after his death, followed the beheading of both the L. Semers and at last of the Duke of Northumberland' (1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1343; and 1583, p. 1417). This passage, implying that Surrey was unjustly executed and that this injustice was providentially punished, first appeared when Surrey's son (who was Foxe's pupil and patron) was in the Tower awaiting execution.
[Back to Top]The same time Boner also had bene prisoner in the Marshalsey, whom likewyse Quene Mary deliuered & restored to the bishopricke of London agayne, displacing MarginaliaGood Byshops displaced.Doct. Ridley, with diuers other good bishops mo, as is aboue mencioned, as Cranmer from Canterburye, the Archbishop of Yorke likewyse, Poynet from Wint. Iohn Hooper from Worcester, Barlow from Bath, Harley frō Hereford, Tailour from Lincolne, Ferrar from S. Dauids, Couerdale from Excester, Scory from Chichester. &c. wyth a great number of Archdeacons, Deanes, and briefly all such beneficed men, whych eyther were maryed, or woulde constantly adhere to their profession. All which were remoued from their liuinges and other of the contrary Secte set in the same, as MarginaliaPopishe Prelates intruded by Q. Mary.Cardinal Poole (who was thē sent for) Gardiner, Heath, Whyte, Day, Troublefield. &c.
[Back to Top]And as touching Cranmer, of whom mention was made before, forsomuch as there was a rumour spread of him the same time at London that he had recanted, and caused Masse to be said at Canterbury for purging of him selfe he published abroade a declaration of hys truth and constancie in that behalfe, protesting that hee neither had so done, nor minded so to do: MarginaliaCranmer with Pet. Martyr, and v. other, offer to defend the cause of their doctrine agaynst all men.Adding more ouer, that if it would so please the Queene, he with Peter Martyr, and certayne other whom he would chuse, would in open disputation sustaine the cause of the doctrine taught and set forth before in þe tyme of king Ed-
[Back to Top]ward, agaynst all persons whomsoeuer.
CloseMuch of the remaining material, particularly that concerning the rumours that Cranmer had celebrated mass and his public denial of these rumours, would be treated in greater detail later in the Actes and Monuments (cf. 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; and 1583, p. 1418; with 1570, p. 1465-66; 1576, p. 1395; and 1583, p. 1635).
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Close'Argentine', mentioned in 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; and 1583, p. 1418, is a slightly anglicised version of the Latin name for Strasburg.
After this, in the moneth of MarginaliaNouemb.Nouember, the Archbishop Cranmer, notwithstanding he had earnestly refused to subscribe to the kinges wyll in disheriting hys Syster Mary, alledging many graue and pithy reasons for her legitimation, MarginaliaD. Cranmer with the Lady Jane arrayned of treason in the Guild hall.was in Guild hall of London arreyned and attaynted of treason, with the Lady Iane and three of the Duke of Northumberlandes Sonnes, whych at the intreatie of certayne persons were had agayne to the Tower, and there kept for a tyme.
CloseThe description of the arraignment of Cranmer, Jane Grey and Northumberland's sons is taken from Crowley's chronicle (cf. Crowley, Epitome, sig. Ffff2v with 1563, p. 916; 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; 1583, p. 1418) except for the passage which reads: 'which at the intreatye of certayne persons were had againe to the Tower and there kept for a time'. This passage is excerpted from Thomas Cooper, Coopers chronicle ... vnto the late death of Quene Marie (London, 1560), STC 15218, sig. Yyyy2r. This is Foxe's only borrowing from Coopers chronicle in Book 10 (or, as far as is known, anywhere in the Actes and Monuments).
[Back to Top]This being done in Nouember, the people and especially the Churchmen, perceauing the Queene so egerly set vppon her olde religion, they likewyse for theyr partes, to shewe them selues no lesse forward to serue the Queenes appetite (as the maner is of the multitude, commonly to frame them selues after the humor of the Prince and tyme present) began in their Quiers to set vp MarginaliaGoing about of S. Katherine and S. Nicholas.the Pagiants of S. Katherin, and of S. Nicholas, and of theyr processions in latine, after all their old solemnitie with theyr gay gardeuiance, & gray amices.
CloseThe passages on the restoration of the festivals of St. Catherine and St. Nicholas and of the repeal of the statutes of praemunire and of the Edwardine religious statutes, were added to the 1570 edition (see textual variant 14). The sources cannot be determined; possibly they are an individual's recollections transmitted to Foxe.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaCardinall Poole sent for.In this meane whyle Cardinall Poole being sent for by Quene Mary, was by the Emperour requested to stay with him, to the intent (as some thinke) that hys presence in Englād should not be a let to the mariage, which hee entended betwene Philip his Sonne and Quene Mary. For the making wherof, hee sent a most ample Abassade, with full power to make vp the mariage betwixt them: MarginaliaMaryage betwene Phillip and Mary concluded.which toke such successe, that after they had cōmuned of þe matter a fewe dayes, they knitte vp the knot.
CloseThe detaining of Pole by the emperor and the coming of an embassy sent to arrange the marriage of Philip and Mary are recounted by Crowley and reprinted by Foxe (cf. Crowley, Epitome, sig. Ffff2v with 1563, p. 916; 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; 1583, p. 1418).
CloseMuch of the material in this section is reprinted from Crowley's chronicle. Later in Book 10, after the Oxford disputations, Foxe would draw on yet another chronicle or chronicles to form a political narrative of the early years of Mary's reign. Because he was drawing on different sources which covered roughly the same chronological period, there was a good deal of repetition (and a certain amount of inconsistency) between these different sections of Book 10. For example, Foxe gave one account of the capture of the Duke of Suffolk here (1563, p. 916; 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; and 1583, p. 1418) and another, different, account of the same events later in Book 10 (1570, p. 1637; 1576, p. 1396; and 1583, p. 1467). Foxe made no attempt, at any time, to reconcile any of these differing versions of the same events.
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CloseFoxe seems to have been especially concerned to defend the Wyatt rebels against Mary's account of their intentions ('Demaundes pretended to be sent from M. Wyat and hys company to Queene Mary' and 'How he pretended the spoyle of theyr goodes it appeareth in that he comming to Southwarke, did hurt neither man, woman, nor childe, neyther in body nor in a penny of their goodes'). The later dropping of the gloss 'Duke of Suffolke forsooke Quene Mary' (1563) is a possible example of Foxe striving to discredit Mary without explicitly speaking against her.
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CloseIt might be noted here that in the Appendix of 1563 (p. 1731), Foxe prints a letter from Mary to the third Duke of Norfolk, informing the Duke of Wyatt's defeat. (This letter was removed from the editions of 1570 and 1576, but was reprinted in the 1583 edition). This letter was almost certainly loaned or given to Foxe by the fourth Duke of Norfolk.
[Back to Top]The brief description of Wyatt's rebellion, Suffolk's capture and the flight of Sir Peter Carew are all taken from Crowley (cf. Crowley, Epitome, sigs. Ffff2v - Ffff3 with 1563, pp. 916-17; 1570, pp. 1579-80; 1576, pp. 1347-48; 1583, p. 1419).
There is one interesting piece of re-writing here, however. Crowley described the fate of the Duke of Norfolk's expedition against Wyatt: 'Thomas Duke of Norfolk, who beynge forsaken of them that went with hym, escaped to London agayne with great difficultie, as he thought, although no man followed him' (cf. Crowley, Epitome, sig. Ffff2v). Foxe, apparently thinking that this made the Duke of Norfolk sound too much like the Duke of Plaza Toro, rendered this: 'Thomas D. of Norfolke, who being aboute Rochester Bridge, forsaken of them that went with him, returned safe to London with out any more harme done unto him, and withoute bloudshed on either partie' (1563, p. 916; 1570, p. 1579; 1576, p. 1347; and 1583, p. 1418). Once again Foxe's loyalty to the Howard family shaped his narrative.
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CloseWhile Foxe reprinted the account of Suffolk's capture directly from Crowley, in the 1570 edition, he added one detail not in Crowley's account: that the name of the servant who betrayed the duke was Underwood.