MarginaliaTermes of Papist and Hereticke forbidden. 1553.Papist or Heretike, and such like, and applying their whole care, study, and trauaile to liue in the feare of God, exercising their conuersations in such charitable and godly doing, as their liues may in deede expresse that great hunger and thirst of Gods glory and holy woord which by rashe talke and woordes many haue pretended: and in so doing they shal best please God, and liue without daungers of the lawes, and mainteine the tranquilitie of the Realme. Wherof as her highnes shalbe most glad, so if any man shall rashly presume to make any assemblies of people or at any publike assemblies or otherwise shall goe about to stirre the people to disorder or disquiet she mindeth according to her dutie, to see the same most surely reformed & punished according to her highnes lawes.

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And furthermore, for as much also as it is wel know? that sedition and false rumours haue bene nourished and mainteyned in this Realme by the subtiltie and malice of some euyll disposed persons,MarginaliaFalse surmise agaynst true Preachers, Printers and Players. which take vpon them without sufficient authoritie to preach & to interprete the word of God after their owne braine in Churches and other places, both publike and priuate: & also by playing of Enterludes, and printing of false fond bookes, ballades, rymes, & other leude treatises in the English tongueMarginaliaHere was the head of Winchester. concernyng doctrine in matters now in question, and controuersie touchyng the high poyntes & misteries of christ? religion, which bookes, ballades, rymes, and treatises, are chiefly by the Printers and Stationers set out to sale to her graces subiects of an euyll zeale, for lucre & couetous of vile gaine: MarginaliaPreaching, Printing, Reading, and playing of Enterludes, restrayned.her highnesse therfore straytly chargeth and comma?deth al and euery of her said subiectes, of what soeuer state, condition, or degree they be, that none of them presume fr? henceforth to preach, or by way of readyng in Churches or other publike or priuate places, except in scholes of the Vniuersitie, to interpret or teach any scriptures or any maner poynts of doctrine c?cernyng Religion, neither also to print any bookes, matter, ballade, ryme, Enterlude, processe, or treatise, nor to play any Enterlude, except they haue her graces special licence in writyng for the same, vp? payne to incurre her highnes indignation and displeasure.

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And her highnes also further chargeth and commaundeth all and euery her saide subiectes, that none of them of their own authoritie do presume to punish, or to rise against any offendour in the causes abouesaid, or any other offendour in wordes or deedes in the late rebellion committed or done by the Duke of Northumberland or his complices,MarginaliaThe whole cause of the rebellion done by the Duke of Northumberland reserued onely to the Queenes order. or to sease any of their goodes, or violently to vse any such offender by striking or imprisoning, or threatning the same, but wholy to referre the punishment of all suche offenders vnto her highnes & publike authoritie, wherof her maiestie myndeth to see due punishm?t, according to the order of her highnes lawes.

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Neuerthelesse, as her highnes myndeth not hereby to restraine and discourage any of her louyng subiectes, to geue from tyme to tyme true information against any such offenders in the causes abouesaid vnto her grace or her Counsaile, for the punishment of euery such offender, according to the effect of her highnes Lawes prouided in that part: so her said highnes exhorteth & straitly chargeth her said subiects to obserue her c?ma?dement & pleasure in euery part aforesaid, as they wyl auoyde her highnes said indignation and most greuous displeasure. The seueritie and rigour whereof, as her highnes shalbe most sory to haue cause to put the same in execution: so doth shee vtterly determine not to permit such vnlawfull and rebellious doinges of her subiects, wherof may ensue the daunger of her royal estate to remayne vnpunished, but to see her saide lawes touching these poyntes to be throughly executed, which extremities she trusteth all her said louing subiectes wyl forsee, dread, and auoyde accordingly: her saide highnes straytly charging and commaunding all Maiors, Sheriffes, Iustices of Peace, Bayliffes, Constables, and all other publique Officers and Ministers, diligently to see to the obseruyng and executyng of her saide commaundements and pleasure, and to apprehende all suche as shal willfully offende in this part, commyttyng the same to the next Gayle, there to remaine without bayle or mainprise tyll vppon certificate made to her highnes or her priuie Co?saile, of their names and doinges, and vppon examination had of their offences, some further order shalbe taken for their punishment to the example of others, according to the effect and tenour of the Lawes aforesaid. Yeuen at our Manor of Richmond, the xviij. day of August, in the first yere of our most prosperous raigne.

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MarginaliaMaister Bournes Sermon at Paules Crosse. August. 13.ABout this tyme or not long before, Boner Bishop of London being restored, appoynted Maister Bourne a

Canon of Paules to preache at the Crosse. Who afterwarde was Bishop of Bathe, hee taking occasion of the Gospell of the day to speake somewhat largely in iustifying of Boner beyng then present: MarginaliaNo maruell if Boner were so foule fallen away in such a vyle dungeon of the Marshalsey.which Boner, saide he, vppon the same Text in that place that day foure yeares had preached before, and was vppon the same most cruelly and vniustly cast into the most vile Dungeon of the Marshalsey, and there kept duryng the tyme of king Edwarde. His woordes sounded so euyll in the eares of the hearers, that they could not keepe silence, but beganne to murmure, and to sturre in suche sort, that the Maior and Aldermen with other estates then present, feared much an vproare. But the truth is, that one hurled a Dagger at the preacher, but who it was, it could not then be proued, albeit afterward it was knowen.

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In fine, the sturre was such, that the Preacher pluckt in his head, and durst no more appeare in that place. The matter of his Sermon tended muche to the derogation and disprayse of king Edwarde: whiche thing the people in no case coulde abide. MarginaliaM. Iohn Bradford appeaseth the people.Then Maister Bradford at the request of the Preachers brother, and other then beyng in the Pulpite, stoode foorth and spake so mildely, Christianly, and effectuously, that with fewe wordes he appeased al: and afterward MarginaliaBradford and Rogers garded the preacher.he and master Rogers conducted the preacher betwixt them from the Pulpit, to the Grammar schole doore, where they left hym safe, as further in the story of M. Bradford is declared. But shortly after they wer both rewarded with long imprisonment, and last of all with fire in Smythfield.

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The next sonday folowing,  

MarginaliaAugust. 10. the Queenes Garde was at the Crosse with their weapons to garde the Preacher. And when quiet men withdrew them selues from the sermon, order was taken by the Maior, that the auncients of al companyes should be present, least the preacher should be discouraged by his smal auditory.

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About the fift day of September the same yeareMarginaliaSeptember. 5. Peter Martyr came to London from Oxford, where for a time he had bene c?maunded to keepe his house, and found there the Archbishop of Canterbury, MarginaliaCranmer offereth to defend the doctrine of the seruice booke in english.who offered to defende the doctrine of the booke of Common prayer, both by the scriptures and Doctors, assisted by Peter Martyr and a few other, as hereafter ye shal heare. But whilest they were in hope to come to disputations, the Archbishop & other were imprisoned, but Peter Martyr was suffered to returne whence he came.  

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MarginaliaOctober 1.The first day of October Queene Marye was crowned at Westminster,MarginaliaQueene Mary crowned. and the tenth day of the sayd moneth of October then folowing, began the parlament with a solemne Masse of the holy Ghost, after the popish maner, celebrated with great pompe in the Palace of Westminster.MarginaliaOctober. 10. The Parlament beginneth with a Masse. To the which Masse among the other Lordes, accordyng to the maner, should come the bishops, which yet remayned vndeposed, which were the Archb. of Yorke, Doct. Taylor Bishop of Lincolne, Iohn Harley bish. of Oxford. Of the bishops, MarginaliaTwo Byshops withdrew themselues from the sight of the Masse.doct. Taylor & master Harley presenting th?selues according to their duetie, and taking their place amongst the Lordes, after they sawe the Masse begyn, not abidyng the sight therof, withdrewe themselues from the company: for the which cause the Bishop of Lincolne beyng examined, and protestyng his fayth, was vppon the same commaunded to attend: who not long after at Alkerwyke by sicknes departed.  

MarginaliaM. Harley Byshop of Hereford put out of his Bishopricke.Maister Harley because he was maryed, was excluded both from the Parlament, and from his Bishoprike.

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Masse beyng done, the Queene accompayned with the Estates of the Realme, was brought into the Parlament house, there accordyng to the maner, to enter and begyn the consultati?. MarginaliaStatutes of Premunire and other repealed.At which consultation or parlament were repealed al statutes made in the tyme of king Henry the eight for Premunire, and statuts made in king Edward the sixts tyme for administration of common prayer & the sacram?ts in the English tongue: & further, the attainder of the duke of Northumberland was by this Parlament confirmed. MarginaliaAltars and Masses erected.In this meane while many men were forward in the erecting of aultars & masses in churches. And such as would sticke to the lawes made in king Edwardes tyme, tyl other should be established: some of them were marked and some presently apprehended. Among whom MarginaliaSyr Iames Hales knight.sir Iames Hales a knight of Kent, and Iustice of the Common place was one, who notwithst?ding he had ventured his lyfe in quene Maryes cause, in that he would not subscribe to the disheriting of her by the kyngs wyl, yet for that he dyd at a quarter Sessions geue charge vppon the statutes made in the tyme of Henry the eight, and Edward the sixt, for the supremacie and religion, MarginaliaThe trouble of Iudge Hales.he was imprisoned in the Marshalsey, Counter, and Fleete, and so cruelly handled, & put in feare by talke that the Warden of the Fleete vsed to haue in his hearyng,MarginaliaA subtile policie. of such tormentes as were in preparyng for here-

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