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A32784	The true subiect to the rebell, or, The hurt of sedition, how greivous it is to a common-wealth written by Sir Iohn Cheeke ... ; whereunto is newly added by way of preface a briefe discourse of those times, as they may relate to the present, with the authors life.	Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3778; ESTC R18562	48,490	89

was content upon equall termes to reason the matter with Mr Cheeke and so he did fairely and friendly in his first letters The Professor was not willing to desert the cause and quitt the feild having so Honorable an adversary hee answers the Chancellour once and againe freely I confesse and as the BP thought boldly Long was the cause bandyed betwixt them the one pleading ancient right the other present possession But at last Mr Cheeke was content to submit to that one unanswerable argument of the Chancellours Authority Yet his rules and practise had taken such deep root in his Auditours that by them it was propagated through this whole Kingdome and that we English-men now speak Greek and are able to understand one another when no body else can this we must acknowledge to be a speciall effect of Mr Cheekes rare ingeny Which could not long be contained within the narrow precincts of the Vniversity that famous King HENRY the VIII thought it fit to call this great light of learning out of the shadow and so he did Iulij X. 1544. and to his custodie he then committed the most precious jewell of the Kingdome the young Prince EDWARD being at that time not full seven yeares of age Here was such a happy concurrence of sweetnesse and ingenuity that it was no very hard matter for the Master to imbue the tender yeares of his Scholar with so deep a tincture of Piety and good letters as render'd him the glory of his owne times and the miracle of ours What unspeakable progresse he made under this Directour of his Studies he that makes a doubt of Cardans testimony may be confirmed from those many noble reliques of his industry and sufficiency both in Greek and Latine written with his owne hand which are still preserved in his Majesties Library at S. Iames And what a fit and happy choyce the King made in such a Tutor for such a Schollar I cannot better expresse then in the words of that learned Antiquary Iohn Leland who dedicated one of his books to Mr Cheeke with this L'envoy Ad libellum ut Ioanni Checo Grantano placere studeat Si vis Thespiadum Choro probari Fac ut consilio libelle nostro Facundo studeas placere Checo Quem Pandioniae colunt Athenae Et quem Roma colit diserta multúm Quem Rex Maximus omnium supremùsque HENRICVS reputans virum probatum Spectatúmque satis reconditeque Censorem solidum eruditionis EDVARDVM bene filium suúmque Haeredem puerum illi ad alta natum Sic concredidit utriusque lingua Flores ut legeret venustiores Exercens facili manum labore Ut CHRISTI imbiberet suäve nectar Felicem arbitror hunc diem fuisse Tanto Discipulo dedit Magistrum Qui talem c. I suppose it may be truely said that under God M. Cheek was a speciall instrument of the propagation of the Gospell that Religion which we now professe in this Kingdome For he not only sowed the seeds of that Doctrine in the heart of Prince EDWARD which afterwards grew up into a generall Reformation when he came to be King but by his meanes the same saveing truth was gently instilled into the Lady ELIZABETH by those who by his procurement were admitted to be the Guides of her younger Studies Such were first William Grindall a hopefull young Scholar of S. Iohns in Cambridge whom being destitute of other meanes of subsistance M. Cheek took into his service Anno 1544. and soone after preferr'd him to the Lady ELIZABETH with whom he continued as long as he lived in good favour and likeing and the losse of him was by Mr Cheekes meanes presently supplyed in Roger Ascham who had formerly been his Scholar in the Colledge and Successour in the Orators place in the Vniversity A man deare unto him for similitude of studies but more for his zeale to the true Religion Which was so precious with our Author that no man was great in his books but such as were well affected to Gods Even in HENRY the VIII time his friends and familiars were most of those worthy men which proved Reformers in King EDWARDS dayes and either Martyrs or Exiles in Queene MARIES His forreigne acquaintance were Sleidan Melancthon Sturmius Bucer Camerarius Coelius Peter Martyr and others great Scholars and good Protestants And the Crowne was no sooner on King EDWARDS head Ianuary XX VIII 1547. and the Gospell set at liberty but many of these men came and others were sent for to help forwards that great worke of the Reformation in England when the young King was well setled in his Throne and began to be skilled in the art of reigning he thought fit to make choyce of such men for the nearest attendance upon his person as he knew to be best affected to it therefore amongst others admitted M. Cheek to be one of his Privy Chamber This accrue of honour to her sonne made his learned mother the Vniversity a suiter to him for protection in those stormy times who in her letters to him gives him such an elogie as I cannot omitt without guilt of concealment This it is Ex universo illo numero Clarissimorum virorum Clarissime Chece qui ex hac Academia in Rempublicam unquam prodierunt Tu unus es quem semper Academia prae universis alijs praesentem complexa est absentem admirata est quam Tu vicissim plusquam Vniversi alij praesens ornaveras absens juvas About this time he took so much leasure as either to pen or publish severall learned and usefull Tracts both for Church and State And as his merits so his Princes favour were ever in progression In the yeare 1551 after the treaty about the Match with France when his Majesty was pleased to make a doale of honours amongst his deserving Subjects M. Cheek was not forgotten he with his Brother in Law Secretary Cecill and others were then Knighted This was but a foundation upon which the gratefull Prince had a purpose to erect higher preferments had not the hand of Providence so soone snatch'd him a way into another Kingdome to invest his temples with a more glorious Crowne This was done Iuly VI 1553. Not long after he had called Sr Iohn Cheeke to sit at the helme of State the Councell Boord In this common losse of so good a King He good man had more then a common share The tide of the times must now turne and he must either row with it or be in danger to perish in it And so he was for his zeale to Religion transporting him a litle beyond his loyaltie to his lawfull Soveraigne he was one of those among the Councell who could have been content the Lady IANE'S title to the Crowne should have been thought better then the Lady MARIE'S And for this He amongst others was clapt up in Prison Iuly XXVII Here he was stripp'd of the greatest part of his honours and all his fortunes but his person

other pious Founders and Benefactors made to them are they not as good and strong by the Lawes of this Land as any other private conveyance Have not the Clergy as true a propriety in their free-holds as the rest of his Majesties Subjects Are they not the first words of those fundamentall Lawes of England comprised in the Great Charter We have granted to God and by this our present Charter have confirmed for us and our heires for evermore that the Church of England shall be free shall have all her whole rights and liberties inviolable Does not every King at his Coronation take a solemne Oath for the preservation of them Are there not many hideous and direfull imprecations of their Founders laid upon all such as dare to violate their intentions And has not common experience taught us that Church-chapmen though they had the cheapest penyworths had not ever the best bar gaines Not but that the Meanes as well as the Ministers of the Church as they are lyable to abuses so must they submit to a Reformation And the Government it selfe so farre as it shall appeare to the wisdome of the State to be notoriously inconvenient no good man but will desire to see it altered But for those which knowe least to take upon them most not only to instruct and direct the Law-givers but even to iudge and condemne the Lawes themselues to cry out against them as tyrannicall and made in times of Popery to reiect the Common-prayer-book as a piece of Jdolatry and brand that for superstition which is yet legall conformity to call the very Office of Episcopacy Antichristian Diabolicall which all Antiquity counted sacred our publique Acts of Parliament acknowledge to be one of the greatest States of this Realme to give out that if all arguments fayle they will dispute it with the sword what are these but rudiments of Sedition scattered among the common people too much distempered with those two vulgar diseases Ignorance and desire of Innovation whence it is they can only say they would not have this Government but cannot say what they would have Yea may it not be feared that an Anabaptisticall parity as well in State as Church sounds too plausibly in the eares of the multitude Consult our Chronicles see what were the aymes and ends of those rude companies under Iack Straw and Wat Tyler in RICHARD the seconds daies Look upon Kets demands and Ombles Prophecy under EDWARD VI Doe not they all amount to this Summe they would have no Noble men no Gentlemen no Lawyers no Iustices as well as no Bishops This you will finde to be the occasion why this worthy Author Sr Iohn Cheeke first writ this Discourse Which indeed was printed againe by order of Queen ELIZABETH 1569. and then too not without cause for there was at that time a Rebellion in the North those that were parties to it pretending a restauration of Religion tore and trampled under foot the Common-prayer-Bookes which they found in the Churches of Durham To prevent all such disorders in the giddie multitude of these succeeding times in quibus magis alii homines quàm alii mores I have thought it might in part conduee to the publike peace good of this Kingdome if they were once more presented with this short but considerable Tract Of the Hurt of Sedition which may with more ease be kept out of a Commonwealth then expelled sooner suppressed then moderated The Author himselfe lived as peaceably as he writes whiles he was in his Colledge he was a president of love and amity and after his departure an earnest mediator to compose the Societie a litle distracted by domestique factions He that desires to knowe more of him let him peruse the succeeding imperfect story of his life collected for the most part out of such as were contemporary with him and somewheres spelled and put together out of the severall letters of himselfe and others THE LIFE OF Sr IOHN CHEEKE THIS learned and worthy man fell immediatly from the wombe of his mother into the lappe of the Muses being both borne and bred within the liberties of that famous nursery of good letters Cambridge Where I quickly find him at a full height but cannot tell you how low he took his rise the diversity of expression in severall Anthors cannot but in this point distract the Reader some making him of a noble some of a base extraction We may imagine the meane to be of a nearer alliance to truth then either extreme I have read his Mother saluted by the name of Mrs cheeke and two of his Sisters fairely matched one to Doctor Blith the Kings professour of Physick and Mary another of them to William Cecill afterwards Lord Burghley a most able minister of State in those dayes the Father of divers noble Families in these Vpon which probabilities I would conclude M Cheeke for his parentage to be somewhat more then the sonne of his owne deserts And yet these were so farre above vulgar and ordinary that they quickly purchased him a Fellowship in St Iohns Colledge and it may be disputable whether in point of learning he ought more to the place or the place to him His eminency was so generally taken notice of by the whole Vniverlity that they pitched upon him for the sole manage of two weighty but honorary employments of their publique Oratour and Greek Reader In the discharge of this latter he went over Sophocles twice all Homer all Euripides and part of Herodotus to his Auditors benefit and his owne credit which was all the Salary he then had Till King HENRY the VIII of his Royall bounty endowed that and the other Chaires with the liberall allowance of forty pounds per annum Then the place was thought worthy the seeking for and I find three powerfull competitors all suiting for it in Mr Cheekes absence yet it seemes the prudent King upon the sole commendatories of his former deservings reserved that honour for him to be the first Regius Professor of the Greek tongue in Cambridge as Sr Thomas Smith was of Law Whom I mention for that great intimacy which he had with our Author They were both Fellowes of the same Colledge both Professors in the same Vniversity both Officers of State in the same Court they two especially by their advice and example brought the Study of Tongues other politer learning first into request in that Vniversity But while they were in their full cariere they had the hap to meet with some rubbs Vpon hopes of facilitating the understanding of the Greek tongue they attempted to reduce it to the ancient but obsolete māner of pronunciation a thing very repugnant to the genius of those times and other places This innovation was quickly obserued by Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester then Chancellour of that Vniversity who took a course to represse it by a strict injunction sent to be published there Maij XXI 1542. Yet so as he