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[363]Churton’s Life of Dean Nowell, pp. 403. 407.

[363]Churton’s Life of Dean Nowell, pp. 403. 407.

[364]Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 61.

[364]Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 61.

[365]On this subject see “A Collection of the Principal Liturgies,” by Dr. Thomas Brett, with a Dissertation on the same, p. 357.

[365]On this subject see “A Collection of the Principal Liturgies,” by Dr. Thomas Brett, with a Dissertation on the same, p. 357.

[366]Fox, ii. 659, who here gives the dates more accurately than others.

[366]Fox, ii. 659, who here gives the dates more accurately than others.

[367]These were Goodrich, Bishop of Ely; Ridley, of Rochester; Skyp, of Hereford; Thirlby, of Westminster; Day, of Chichester; Holbeach, of Lincoln; Dr. May, Dean of St. Paul’s; Dr. Taylor, Dean of Lincoln; Dr. Haynes, Dean of Exeter; Dr. Redmayn, Dean of Westminster; Dr. Cox, Almoner to the King; and Dr. Robertson, Archdeacon of Leicester. But the chief compilers, besides Cranmer, were probably Ridley and Goodrich. In the committee for drawing up the Communion Office, there were also the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham, Worcester, Norwich, St. Asaph, Litchfield, Salisbury, Carlisle, Bristol, and St. David’s.

[367]These were Goodrich, Bishop of Ely; Ridley, of Rochester; Skyp, of Hereford; Thirlby, of Westminster; Day, of Chichester; Holbeach, of Lincoln; Dr. May, Dean of St. Paul’s; Dr. Taylor, Dean of Lincoln; Dr. Haynes, Dean of Exeter; Dr. Redmayn, Dean of Westminster; Dr. Cox, Almoner to the King; and Dr. Robertson, Archdeacon of Leicester. But the chief compilers, besides Cranmer, were probably Ridley and Goodrich. In the committee for drawing up the Communion Office, there were also the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of Durham, Worcester, Norwich, St. Asaph, Litchfield, Salisbury, Carlisle, Bristol, and St. David’s.

[368]Archbishop Laurence’s Bampton Lectures. pp. 207. 289.

[368]Archbishop Laurence’s Bampton Lectures. pp. 207. 289.

[369]See Burnet, ii. 210.

[369]See Burnet, ii. 210.

[370]Wheatly, p. 267.

[370]Wheatly, p. 267.

[371]The—day of September, 1559, theNew Morning Prayersbegan now first at St. Antholin’s in Budgrow, ringing atfivein the morning.—Strype’s Life of Grindal, p. 27.

[371]The—day of September, 1559, theNew Morning Prayersbegan now first at St. Antholin’s in Budgrow, ringing atfivein the morning.—Strype’s Life of Grindal, p. 27.

[372]Bp. Sparrow’s Collections, p. 8.

[372]Bp. Sparrow’s Collections, p. 8.

[373]Ibid. p. 72.

[373]Ibid. p. 72.

[374]Herbert’s Country Parson, p. 76.

[374]Herbert’s Country Parson, p. 76.

[375]Contempl. lib. xii.

[375]Contempl. lib. xii.

[376]Country Parson, p. 25.

[376]Country Parson, p. 25.

[377]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 27.

[377]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 27.

[378]Strype’s Annals, p. 87.

[378]Strype’s Annals, p. 87.

[379]Epistle Dedicatory to the University of Oxford, prefixed to vol. vii. of his sermons, ed. 1722. 8vo.

[379]Epistle Dedicatory to the University of Oxford, prefixed to vol. vii. of his sermons, ed. 1722. 8vo.

[380]They are here given from a reprint of the last Primer of Edward VI., by the Rev. H. Walter.—King Henry’s Primer, printed by Grafton in 1546, though containing some prayers of a more private nature, is in general an abridged translation of the Breviary; intended for the use of a congregation, (see Sparrow’s Collection, p. 11.) and furnished with a Litany nearly the same as that in our Book of Common Prayer. These publications, therefore, though bearing the same name of Primer, (which, indeed, seems to have been applied to many forms of devotion published in those times,) are, in themselves, very different works. Probably the Prayer Book having been put forth in the interval superseded all other public forms, and thenceforward the Primer was adapted to the use of the closet only.

[380]They are here given from a reprint of the last Primer of Edward VI., by the Rev. H. Walter.—King Henry’s Primer, printed by Grafton in 1546, though containing some prayers of a more private nature, is in general an abridged translation of the Breviary; intended for the use of a congregation, (see Sparrow’s Collection, p. 11.) and furnished with a Litany nearly the same as that in our Book of Common Prayer. These publications, therefore, though bearing the same name of Primer, (which, indeed, seems to have been applied to many forms of devotion published in those times,) are, in themselves, very different works. Probably the Prayer Book having been put forth in the interval superseded all other public forms, and thenceforward the Primer was adapted to the use of the closet only.

[381]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 410. Archbishop Laurence, Bampton Lectures, p. 37.

[381]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 410. Archbishop Laurence, Bampton Lectures, p. 37.

[382]Bampton Lectures, Notes, p. 233.

[382]Bampton Lectures, Notes, p. 233.

[383]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 207, 208.

[383]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 207, 208.

[384]Bampton Lectures, p. 233.

[384]Bampton Lectures, p. 233.

[385]Neal’s Hist. of the Puritans. iii. 55., and Append. n. 7. where the amended articles may be seen.

[385]Neal’s Hist. of the Puritans. iii. 55., and Append. n. 7. where the amended articles may be seen.

[386]Neal’s Hist. of the Puritans, iv. p. 298.

[386]Neal’s Hist. of the Puritans, iv. p. 298.

[387]Bampton Lect. p. 234.

[387]Bampton Lect. p. 234.

[388]Bampton Lect. pp. 45. 240.

[388]Bampton Lect. pp. 45. 240.

[389]See Bampton Lect. p. 243. Strype’s Eccles. Mem. ii. 28.

[389]See Bampton Lect. p. 243. Strype’s Eccles. Mem. ii. 28.

[390]Strype’s Cranmer. p. 350.

[390]Strype’s Cranmer. p. 350.

[391]Strype’s Cranmer, Append. p. 195; and Annal. p. 207.

[391]Strype’s Cranmer, Append. p. 195; and Annal. p. 207.

[392]Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 201.

[392]Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 201.

[393]Archbishop Laurence, Bampton Lectures, Serm. iv. and v. This subject is treated by Luther with great power in his Commentary on the Epist. to the Galatians; see particularly ch. ii. v. 16.

[393]Archbishop Laurence, Bampton Lectures, Serm. iv. and v. This subject is treated by Luther with great power in his Commentary on the Epist. to the Galatians; see particularly ch. ii. v. 16.

[394]See Todd’s Cranmer, ii. 294.

[394]See Todd’s Cranmer, ii. 294.

[395]Prose Works, edited by George Burnett, i. 7.

[395]Prose Works, edited by George Burnett, i. 7.

[396]Bishop Hall, Ep. Decad. iv. 4.

[396]Bishop Hall, Ep. Decad. iv. 4.

[397]Warburton imagined that there was a political feeling coupled with this scruple. Such a principle, pursued through its necessary deductions, leading to a reformation ofCivilgovernment onJewishideas. Alliance of Church and State, book i. sect. 4. note.

[397]Warburton imagined that there was a political feeling coupled with this scruple. Such a principle, pursued through its necessary deductions, leading to a reformation ofCivilgovernment onJewishideas. Alliance of Church and State, book i. sect. 4. note.

[398]See his two admirable Sermons, xi. and xii. ad Aulam, on 1 Cor. x. 23. “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”

[398]See his two admirable Sermons, xi. and xii. ad Aulam, on 1 Cor. x. 23. “All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient; all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.”

[399]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 266.

[399]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 266.

[400]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 375.

[400]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 375.

[401]Strype’s Cranmer, Append. No xiv.

[401]Strype’s Cranmer, Append. No xiv.

[402]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 211. 212.

[402]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 211. 212.

[403]Compare the Latin Catechism, p, 25, and the English, p. 34. See Grindal’s opinion of these interludes. Strype’s Life of Grindal, p. 82.

[403]Compare the Latin Catechism, p, 25, and the English, p. 34. See Grindal’s opinion of these interludes. Strype’s Life of Grindal, p. 82.

[404]This letter is given from the original MS. in Mr. Todd’s new Life of Cranmer, i. 205.

[404]This letter is given from the original MS. in Mr. Todd’s new Life of Cranmer, i. 205.

[405]Latimer’s Serm., i. 268.

[405]Latimer’s Serm., i. 268.

[406]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 185. Latimer’s Serm., i. 268.

[406]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 185. Latimer’s Serm., i. 268.

[407]See an original Letter published in Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 363.

[407]See an original Letter published in Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 363.

[408]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 168. 279. Burnet, ii. 8.

[408]Strype’s Cranmer, pp. 168. 279. Burnet, ii. 8.

[409]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 165.

[409]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 165.

[410]Burnet, ii. 203.

[410]Burnet, ii. 203.

[411]Burnet, iii. 197.

[411]Burnet, iii. 197.

[412]Heylyn’s Hist. of Reformation, fol. p. 134. There may be something of high colouring in this picture of spoliation; for Heylyn (who dedicates to Charles II.) had, as is well known, a strong anti-puritan bias, which is particularly apparent in the unfavourable complexion he gives to Edward’s reign in general, and in the unfair, though self-contradictory, terms, in which he speaks of his individual character: indeed, so strangely is he sometimes at variance with himself on this subject, that he might almost be thought to have written for one set of readers and revised for another. Still the weakness of a minority is seen at this period—the more so after the rule of a Henry—solitaque jugum gravitate carebat.

[412]Heylyn’s Hist. of Reformation, fol. p. 134. There may be something of high colouring in this picture of spoliation; for Heylyn (who dedicates to Charles II.) had, as is well known, a strong anti-puritan bias, which is particularly apparent in the unfavourable complexion he gives to Edward’s reign in general, and in the unfair, though self-contradictory, terms, in which he speaks of his individual character: indeed, so strangely is he sometimes at variance with himself on this subject, that he might almost be thought to have written for one set of readers and revised for another. Still the weakness of a minority is seen at this period—the more so after the rule of a Henry—solitaque jugum gravitate carebat.

[413]Fox. ii. 707.

[413]Fox. ii. 707.

[414]Strype’s Cranmer, 313.

[414]Strype’s Cranmer, 313.

[415]Id. 360.

[415]Id. 360.

[416]See Sir John Hayward’s Life and Reign of Edward VI. given in Kennet’s Hist. of England.

[416]See Sir John Hayward’s Life and Reign of Edward VI. given in Kennet’s Hist. of England.

[417]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 283.

[417]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 283.

[418]Burnet, ii. 224.

[418]Burnet, ii. 224.

[419]Fox, ii. 554.

[419]Fox, ii. 554.

[420]Burnet, ii. 127, 165.

[420]Burnet, ii. 127, 165.

[421]Hist. of the Puritans, part i. chap. iii. at the beginning.

[421]Hist. of the Puritans, part i. chap. iii. at the beginning.

[422]Wilkin’s Councils, iv. 86.

[422]Wilkin’s Councils, iv. 86.

[423]Burnet, ii. 276. Comp. iii. 162.

[423]Burnet, ii. 276. Comp. iii. 162.

[424]The sketch of this celebrated pulpit given in the title-page is from a print in the library of Magdalen college, Cambridge; being one of the many curiosities collected by Pepys; for a sight of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Lodge.

[424]The sketch of this celebrated pulpit given in the title-page is from a print in the library of Magdalen college, Cambridge; being one of the many curiosities collected by Pepys; for a sight of which I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Lodge.

[425]Fox, iii. 18.

[425]Fox, iii. 18.

[426]The new foundations to which this measure gave occasion were King’s Langley in Hertfordshire, to which she annexed the nunnery of Dartford in Kent; the Greyfriars at Greenwich; the College of Manchester; St. Bartholomew’s Priory in Smithfield; the House of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem; the Savoy Hospital; Sion Nunnery; Westminster Abbey; Wolverhampton College in Staffordshire; and the Carthusian Priory of Sheen in Surrey—ten in all: they were for the most part re-annexed to the crown under Elizabeth; Ellis’s Letters of the Reign of Queen Mary, vol. ii. 2d series. Strype’s Annals, p. 68.

[426]The new foundations to which this measure gave occasion were King’s Langley in Hertfordshire, to which she annexed the nunnery of Dartford in Kent; the Greyfriars at Greenwich; the College of Manchester; St. Bartholomew’s Priory in Smithfield; the House of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem; the Savoy Hospital; Sion Nunnery; Westminster Abbey; Wolverhampton College in Staffordshire; and the Carthusian Priory of Sheen in Surrey—ten in all: they were for the most part re-annexed to the crown under Elizabeth; Ellis’s Letters of the Reign of Queen Mary, vol. ii. 2d series. Strype’s Annals, p. 68.

[427]Strype’s Annals, p. 37.

[427]Strype’s Annals, p. 37.

[428]See Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 331.

[428]See Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 331.

[429]Fox, iii. 116.

[429]Fox, iii. 116.

[430]Collier’s Eccl. Hist. ii. 282.

[430]Collier’s Eccl. Hist. ii. 282.

[431]Fox, iii. 125.

[431]Fox, iii. 125.

[432]Strype’s Annals, pp. 239, 240, 241. Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 11. 17. 22. fol., where there will be found much information as to the manner in which Fox’s book was composed.

[432]Strype’s Annals, pp. 239, 240, 241. Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 11. 17. 22. fol., where there will be found much information as to the manner in which Fox’s book was composed.

[433]Compare p. 444 of the first ed. (very scarce) with subsequent editions.

[433]Compare p. 444 of the first ed. (very scarce) with subsequent editions.

[434]This incident has been made the subject of much criticism to the disparagement of Fox: he, however, gives it as hearsay only; and though the circumstantial details might not have been reported to him correctly, the substantial fact may be true nevertheless. Fox, too, was personally connected with the family of the Duke of Norfolk, (at whose house the scene is said to have occurred,) being once tutor in it. Strype’s Annals, pp. 110. 368.

[434]This incident has been made the subject of much criticism to the disparagement of Fox: he, however, gives it as hearsay only; and though the circumstantial details might not have been reported to him correctly, the substantial fact may be true nevertheless. Fox, too, was personally connected with the family of the Duke of Norfolk, (at whose house the scene is said to have occurred,) being once tutor in it. Strype’s Annals, pp. 110. 368.

[435]Strype’s Annals, p. 242.

[435]Strype’s Annals, p. 242.

[436]Fox, iii. 459.

[436]Fox, iii. 459.

[437]Three Conversions, ii. 215.

[437]Three Conversions, ii. 215.

[438]Id. 230.

[438]Id. 230.

[439]Three Conversions, ii. 81, and Strype’s Annals, p. 240.

[439]Three Conversions, ii. 81, and Strype’s Annals, p. 240.

[440]Id. ii. 81, and Strype’s Annals, p. 336.

[440]Id. ii. 81, and Strype’s Annals, p. 336.

[441]Id. iii. 23.

[441]Id. iii. 23.

[442]Fuller’s Church History, b. viii. 20. See also Fox, iii. 171.

[442]Fuller’s Church History, b. viii. 20. See also Fox, iii. 171.

[443]Strype’s Annals, p. 246.

[443]Strype’s Annals, p. 246.

[444]Fox, iii. 681.

[444]Fox, iii. 681.

[445]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 274.

[445]Strype’s Cranmer, p. 274.

[446]See, however, Fox, iii. 427; where the Bishop of Gloucester is made to say, Latimer leaned to Cranmer,Cranmer to Ridley, and Ridley to the singularity of his own wit. But it was the policy of the Catholic party to run down Cranmer.

[446]See, however, Fox, iii. 427; where the Bishop of Gloucester is made to say, Latimer leaned to Cranmer,Cranmer to Ridley, and Ridley to the singularity of his own wit. But it was the policy of the Catholic party to run down Cranmer.

[447]Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 140, where this letter is printed from the Lansdowne MSS.

[447]Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, i. 140, where this letter is printed from the Lansdowne MSS.

[448]Copies of this disputation were abroad in Ridley’s life; for Grindal in a letter to him, dated Frankfort, the 6th of May, 1555, speaks of having seen such.—Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 12. 18. It seems that Cranmer and Ridley had committed all that they could remember to writing; and that Grindal had compared their account with that of the notaries, and found the two agreeing in the main.

[448]Copies of this disputation were abroad in Ridley’s life; for Grindal in a letter to him, dated Frankfort, the 6th of May, 1555, speaks of having seen such.—Strype’s Life of Grindal, pp. 12. 18. It seems that Cranmer and Ridley had committed all that they could remember to writing; and that Grindal had compared their account with that of the notaries, and found the two agreeing in the main.

[449]Burnet, ii. 315.

[449]Burnet, ii. 315.

[450]Collier, ii. 397. Fox. Strype’s Eccles. Mem. iii. 291.

[450]Collier, ii. 397. Fox. Strype’s Eccles. Mem. iii. 291.

[451]Burnet’s Reform. iii. 263.

[451]Burnet’s Reform. iii. 263.

[452]Id. iii. 275. Strype’s Annals, p. 133.

[452]Id. iii. 275. Strype’s Annals, p. 133.

[453]Id.

[453]Id.

[454]Strype’s Life of Parker, pp. 33, 34. Where there is given, in the Archbishop’s own words, a succinct catalogue of the miseries of this reign.

[454]Strype’s Life of Parker, pp. 33, 34. Where there is given, in the Archbishop’s own words, a succinct catalogue of the miseries of this reign.

[455]Bishop Jewel’s View of the Bull—towards the end.

[455]Bishop Jewel’s View of the Bull—towards the end.

[456]Bishop Jewel’s View of the Bull—towards the end.

[456]Bishop Jewel’s View of the Bull—towards the end.

[457]Strype’s Annals, p. 29.

[457]Strype’s Annals, p. 29.

[458]Ellis’s Letters, Second Series, ii. 261.

[458]Ellis’s Letters, Second Series, ii. 261.

[459]Strype’s Annals, p. 41.

[459]Strype’s Annals, p. 41.

[460]Strype’s Annals, p. 82.

[460]Strype’s Annals, p. 82.

[461]Heylyn, p. 109. fol.

[461]Heylyn, p. 109. fol.

[462]Sparrow’s Collection, p. 82.

[462]Sparrow’s Collection, p. 82.

[463]Ibid. p. 112.

[463]Ibid. p. 112.

[464]Strype’s Annals, pp. 106. 147. 150.

[464]Strype’s Annals, pp. 106. 147. 150.

[465]Id. p. 237.

[465]Id. p. 237.

[466]Strype’s Annals, p. 88.

[466]Strype’s Annals, p. 88.

[467]Strype’s Parker, p. 155.

[467]Strype’s Parker, p. 155.

[468]Strype’s Grindal, p. 28. et alibi.

[468]Strype’s Grindal, p. 28. et alibi.

[469]Spenser, Eclogue vii.

[469]Spenser, Eclogue vii.

[470]The nature and political effects of this famous bull, issued by Pius V. in 1563, may be seen in Bishop Jewel’s “view of it.”

[470]The nature and political effects of this famous bull, issued by Pius V. in 1563, may be seen in Bishop Jewel’s “view of it.”

[471]See Hallam’s Constitutional History, i. 223.

[471]See Hallam’s Constitutional History, i. 223.

[472]See the letter in Burnet, ii. 311.

[472]See the letter in Burnet, ii. 311.

[473]See these injunctions in Bishop Sparrow’s Collection. p. 1. and p. 67.

[473]See these injunctions in Bishop Sparrow’s Collection. p. 1. and p. 67.

[474]Nelson’s Life of Bull, p. 25. Oxf.

[474]Nelson’s Life of Bull, p. 25. Oxf.

[475]Strype’s Annals, p. 298.

[475]Strype’s Annals, p. 298.

[476]Chap. VIII.

[476]Chap. VIII.

[477]Hist. of his own times;—conclusion.

[477]Hist. of his own times;—conclusion.

[478]See Sir James Mackintosh’s History of England, ii. 272., and for the fact of the distinction (which has been disputed), Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 334.

[478]See Sir James Mackintosh’s History of England, ii. 272., and for the fact of the distinction (which has been disputed), Mr. Todd’s Life of Cranmer, ii. 334.

[479]Jewel’s Apology, part iii. ch. i. sect. 3.

[479]Jewel’s Apology, part iii. ch. i. sect. 3.

[480]See The Liberty of Prophesying, sect. xiii. No. i. p. 190. and sect. xv. No. iii. p. 212. 4to.

[480]See The Liberty of Prophesying, sect. xiii. No. i. p. 190. and sect. xv. No. iii. p. 212. 4to.

[481]Cranmer’s Answer to Gardiner, p. 265. ed. 1580. quoted by Mr. Todd, ii. 152.

[481]Cranmer’s Answer to Gardiner, p. 265. ed. 1580. quoted by Mr. Todd, ii. 152.

[482]Serm. i. pp. 160. 183.

[482]Serm. i. pp. 160. 183.

[483]Strype’s Annals, p, 256.

[483]Strype’s Annals, p, 256.

[484]Knight’s Life of Colet, p. 100.

[484]Knight’s Life of Colet, p. 100.

[485]Latimer’s Serm. i. p. 94. Strype’s Cranmer, p. 89.

[485]Latimer’s Serm. i. p. 94. Strype’s Cranmer, p. 89.

[486]These facts are gathered from a sermon at Paul’s Cross, in 1550 by one Thomas Lever, afterwards master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. A copy of this sermon, and of another by the same author, is in the library of St. John’s.

[486]These facts are gathered from a sermon at Paul’s Cross, in 1550 by one Thomas Lever, afterwards master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. A copy of this sermon, and of another by the same author, is in the library of St. John’s.

[487]See Sparrow’s Collection, pp. 6, 71. In K. Edward’s injunctions, it is a “competent exhibition;” in Q. Elizabeth’s the sum is specified, 3l.6s.8d.

[487]See Sparrow’s Collection, pp. 6, 71. In K. Edward’s injunctions, it is a “competent exhibition;” in Q. Elizabeth’s the sum is specified, 3l.6s.8d.

[488]See particularly his Sermon on Psalm lxix. 9.

[488]See particularly his Sermon on Psalm lxix. 9.

[489]Kennet on Impropriations, p. 297.

[489]Kennet on Impropriations, p. 297.

Transcriber’s Notes:1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected silently.2. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have been retained as in the original.


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