Marginalia1557. February.and buryed in a dunghil.

Howbeit, when it pleased God vnder good Queene Elizabeth to geue quietnes to hys church, long tyme persecuted with pryson and death, then Doctour Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, Emund Grindal byshop of London, Richard Goodricke, with diuers other her Maiestyes hygh Commissioners in matters of religion (nothing ignorant how farre the aduersaryes of the truth had transgressed the boūdes of al humanity, in violating the sepulchre or graue of that good and vertuous womā) willed certaine of that Colledge, in the which this vncurteous touch was attempted and done, to take her out of that vncleane and dishonest place where she lay, & solemnly in the face of the whole towne to bury her again in a more decent & honest monument. MarginaliaPeter Martyrs wiues bones agayne reduced out of þ^e dunghill, and layde in a decent monument.For though of the body being once dead, no great estimation were to be had, how or where þ^e bones were layd: yet was some reuerence to be vsed towarde her for sexe and womanhood sake. Besides, to say the truth, it was great shame, that he which had trauayled so far at king Edwardes request, from the place wherin he dwelt quietly, and had taken so earnest paynes, beyng an old man, in reading & setting foorth the truth all he could, with learning to teach and instruct, and so wel deserued of that Vniuersity: MarginaliaGreat ingratitude shewed to Peter Martyr.should with so vngentle a recompence of ingratitude be rewarded agayne, as to haue hys wyfe, that was a godly woman, a straūger, good to many, especially to the poore, and hurtful to none, eyther in worde or dede, without iust deseruing, and besides theyr owne lawe, not proceding agaynst her according to the order therof, spitefully to bee layd in a strinking dunghill.

To all good natures the fact seemed odious, and of such as be endued wyth humanity, vtterly to be abhorred. MarginaliaM. Iames Caldfield.Wherefore Master Calfield, then Subdeane of the Colledge diligently prouided, that from Marshals dūghil she was restored & trāslated to her proper place againe, MarginaliaThe bones of Peter Martyrs wife coupled with the bones of S. Frideswide.yea and withall coupled her with Frideswides bones, that in case any Cardinal wil be so mad hereafter to remoue thys womans bones agayne, it shall be hard for them to discerne the bones of her from the other. And because to the intent the same myght be notified to the mindes of men the better, the next day after, which was sonday M. Rogerson preached vnto the people, in which sermon by the way he declared the rough dealing of the aduersaryes, which were not contented to practise theyr cruelty agaynst the liuing, but that they must also rage agaynst one that was dead, & had lyen. 2. yeares in her graue. God graunt them once to se theyr owne wickednes, Amen.

And thus much touching the noble Actes & strangnes of this worthy Cardinal in both the Vniuersities: wherunto it shall not be impertinent, here also consequently to adioyne and set foorth to the eyes of þ^e world the blynd & bloudy articles set out by Cardinal Poole, to be inquired vpon within his dioces of Canterbury, wherby it may the better appeare what yokes & snares of fond and fruitles traditions were layed vppon the poore flocke of Christ, to intangle & oppresse them with losse of lyfe and liberty. By the which also wise men haue to see what godly fruites proceded from that catholicke church and sea of Rome. In which albeit thou seest (good reader) some good articles insparsed withall, let that nothing moue thee: for els how could such poyson be ministred, but it must haue some honie to relish the readers taste.  

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Pole's Visitation Articles for the Diocese of Canterbury

This passage, added in 1570, is a powerful, because grudging, tribute tothe worth of Pole's articles.

¶ Touching the Clergie.  

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The records of Cardinal Pole's visitation of the diocese of Canterbury survives as Lambeth Palace Library SR/78/2. John Strype also printed a copy of Pole's visitation articles for the diocese of Lincoln copied, Strype claimed, from a manuscript in Foxe's papers (Strype, EM III, 2, pp. 2389-413). This manuscript does not survive.

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MarginaliaArticles of the Cardinall to be enquired in hys visitation of Kent.FIrst, whether the diuine seruice in the Church at times, dayes, howers, be obserued, and kepte duely or no.

Item, whether the Parsons, Vicars, and Curates do

comly, and decently in their maners & doinges, behaue themselues or no.

Marginalia3.Item, whether they do reuerently and duely minister the Sacramentes and Sacramentalls or no.

Marginalia4.Item, whether any of their parishioners do die without ministration of the Sacraments, through the negligence of their Curates or no.

Marginalia5.Item, whether the sayd Parsons, Vicars, or Curates, do haunt Tauernes or Ale houses, encresing therby infamye and sclaunder, or no.

Marginalia6.Item, whether they be diligent in teaching the midwifes how to christen children in time of necessitie, according to the Canons of the Church or no.

Marginalia7.Item, whether they see that the font be comely kept, and haue holy water alwayes ready for children to be christened.

Marginalia8.Item, if they do kepe a booke of all the names of them that be reconciled to the dutie of the Church.

Marginalia9.Item, whether there be any Pristes that late vnlawfully had women vnder pretensed mariage, and hetherto are not recōciled, and to declare their names and dwelling places.

Marginalia10.Item, whether they do diligently teach their parishoners the articles of the faith, and the tenne commaundementes.

Marginalia11.Item, whether they do decently obserue those thinges that do concerne the seruice of the Church and all those thinges that tende to a good and a Christian life, according to the Canons of the Church.

Marginalia12.Item, whether they do deuoutly in their prayers pray for the prosperous estate of the King and Queenes maiesties.

Marginalia13.Item, whether the sayde Parsons, and Vicars do sufficiently repayre their Chauncels, Rectories, and Vicarages, & doe kepe and maintayne them sufficiently repayred and amended.

Marginalia14.Item, whether any of them do preach or teach any erronious doctrine, contrary to the Catholike fayth, and vnity of the Church.

Marginalia15.Item, whether any of them do say the diuine seruice or do minister the Sacramentes in the english tong, contrary to the vsuall order of the Church.

Marginalia16.Item, whether any of them do suspiciously keepe any women in their houses, or do keepe company with men suspected of heresies, or of euill opinions.

Marginalia17.Item, whether any of them that were vnder pretence of lawfull matrimony maryed, and now reconciled, do priuely resorte to their pretensed wiues, or that the sayd women do priuely resort vnto them.

Marginalia18.Item, whether they do go decently apparelled, as it becommeth sad, sober, and discrete ministers, and whether they haue their crownes and berdes shauen.

Marginalia19.Item, whether any of them do vse any vnlawfull games, as dice, cardes, and other like, wherby they grow to sclaunder and euill report.

Marginalia20.Item, whether they do kepe residence and hospitality vpon their benefices, and do make charitable contributions according to the lawes ecclesiasticall.

Item, whether they do keepe the booke or Register of Christening, Burying, & Mariages, with the names of the Godfathers and Godmothers.

MarginaliaArticles of Card. Poole to be inquired vpon, touching the Laitie.Marginalia1.FIrst, whether any maner of person of what estate, degree, or condicion soeuer he be, do hold, maintaine, or affirme, any heresies, errours, or erronious opinions, contrary to the lawes ecclesiasticall, and the vnity of the Catholike Church.

Marginalia2.Item, whether any person doth holde, affirme or say, that in the blessed Sacrament of the aultar there is not contayned the reall and substanciall presence of Christ: or that by any maner of meanes do contemne and despise the sayd blessed Sacrament, or doe refuse to do reuerence or worship thereunto.

Marginalia3.Item, whether they do contemne or despise by any maner of meanes any other of the Sacramentes, rites, or ceremonies of the Church, or do refuse or deny auricular confession.

Marginalia4.Item, whether any do absent or refraine, without vrgent and vnlawfull impediment, to come to the Church, and reuerently to heare the diuine seruice vppon Sondayes, and holy dayes.

Marginalia5.Item, whether beyng in the Church, they do not apply themselues to heare the diuine seruice, and to be contemplatiue in holy prayer, and not to walke, iangle, or