very hard that when I think to deserve best and in a manner to consume my self to satisfie that which God her Majestie the Church requireth of me should be so evil rewarded Sed meliora spero And I know your Lordship doth all as you are perswaded for the best I beseech God long to bless and preserve you John Cantuar. It seemes the Lord Treasurer took exceptions at some passages herein I dare not say with those That the Letter was brought to him when he was indisposed with the fit of the Gout which made him so offended But what soever was the cause of his passion see some signs thereof in what followeth I Have Received your Graces Letter The L. Treasurers smart Letter to the Arch-Bishop answering sundry speeches as I think delivered by your Chaplain Doctor Cozens and I perceive you are sharply moved to blame me and clear your self I know I have many faults but I hope I have not given such cause of offence as your Letter expresseth I deny nothing that your Grace thinketh meet to proceed in with these whom you call factious and therefore there is no controversie between you and me expressed in your Letter the controversie is passed in your Graces Letter in silence and so I do satisfie your Grace promised me to deal I say onely with such as violated order and to charge them therewith which I allow well of But your Grace not charging them with such faults seeketh by examination to urge them to accuse themselves and then I think you will punish them I think your Graces proceeding is I will not say rigorous or captious but I think it is scant charitable I have no leisure to write more and therefore I will end for writing will but increase offence and I mean not to offend your Grace I am content that your Grace and my Lord of London where I hear Brown is use him as your wisdoms shall think meet If I had known his fault I might be blamed for writing for him but when by examination onely it is meant to sift him with twenty four Articles I have cause to pitty the poor man Your Graces as friendly as any WILL. BURLEY Short but sharp I see though anger only resteth a Eccles. 7. 9. in the Bosome of Fools it may light on the Brest of a wise man But no fear that these friends will finally fall out who alternately were passionate and patient So that now it came to the turn of Whitgift to be calme as he expressed himself in the following return To the Lord Treasurer My singular good Lord GOd knoweth how desirous I have been from time to time to satisfie your Lordship in all things The Arch-Bishops calm Letter to the half-angry Treasurer and to have my doings approved to you For which cause since my coming to this place I have done nothing of Importance without your advice I have risen early and sat up late to write unto you such objections and answers as on either side were used I have not the like to any man and shall I now say I have lost my labour or shall my just dealing with two of the most disordered Ministers in a whole Diocess the obstinacy and contempt of whom especially of one of them you your self would not bear in any subjected to your authority cause you so to think and speak of my doings yea and of my self no man living should have made me believe it Solomon saith an old friend is better then a new and I trust your Lordship will not so lightly cast off your old friends for any of these new fangled and factious sectaries whose fruits are to make divisions wheresoever they come and to separate old and assured friends Your Lordship seemeth to charge me with breach of promise touching my manner of proceeding whereof I am no way guilty but I have altered my first course of depriving them for not subscribing only justifiable by the Law and common practice both in the time of King Edward and from the beginning of her Majesties Reign and chosen this only to satisfie your Lordship Your Lordship also objecteth that it is said I took this course for the better maintenance of my book my enemies say so indeed but I trust my friends have a better opinion of me what should I seek for any confirmation of my book after twelve years or what should I get thereby more then already And yet if subscription may confirme it it is confirmed long agoe by the subscription of all the Clergy almost in England before my time even of Brain also who now seemeth to be so willfull Mine Enemies and tongues of this slanderous and uncharitable sect report that I am revolted and become a Papist and I know not what but it proceedeth from their lewdnesse not from any desert of mine and I disdain to answer to any such notorious untruths which the best of them dare not avouch to my face Your Lordship seemeth further to burden me with wilfulness I am sure that you are not so perswaded of me I will appeal to your own conscience There is difference betwixt wilfullness and constancie I have taken upon me the defence of the Religion and rights of the Church of England to appease the sects of schisms therein and to reduce all the Ministers thereof to uniformity and due obedience herein I intend to be constant and not to waver with every winde The which also my place my person my duty the laws her Majesty and the goodness of the cause doth require of me and wherein your Lordship and others all things considered ought in duty to asist and countenance me It is strange that a man in my place dealing by so good warranties as I do should be so incountred and for not yielding to be counted wilfull but I must be contented Vincit qui patitur and if my friends forsake me herein I trust God will not neither the Law nor her Majesty who hath laid the charge on me and are able to protect me But of all other things it most grieveth me if your Lordship should say that two Ministers fare the worse because your Lordship hath sent them Hath your Lordship ever had any cause so to think of me It is needless for me to protest my heart and affection towards you above all other men the world knoweth it and I am assured that your Lordship nothing doubteth thereof I have rather cause to complain to your Lordship of your self that upon so small an occasson and in the behalf of two such you will so hardly conceive of me yea and as it were countenance persons so meanly qualified in so evill a cause against me your Lordships so long tried friend and their Ordinary That hath not so been in times past now it should least of all be I may not suffer the notorious contempt of one of them especially unless I will become Fsops Block and undoe all that which hitherto have been
Audre professing at first to be afraid to adventure on so high a Subject disheartened in reading a Popish Authour to rant so in her Commendation Let b The Flowers of the Saints written by Hierome Porter the fabulous Greeks talk no more of theirchast Penelope who in the twenty yeares absence of her Husband Vlysses lived continently in despite of the tempting Importunity of many noble Woers and let the proud Romans cease to bragg of their fair Lucretia that chose rather to become the bloudy instrument of her own Death then to live after the violent Ravishment of her Honour and let all the world turn their Minds to admire and their Tongues and Pens to sound the Praises of the Christian Vertues and Chastity of our blessed Ethelreda c. But leaving the Bubbles of his Rhetorick to break of themselves on serious considerations we are so far from admiring 't is more then we can do to excuse this S t. Audre as her Story is reported 109. This Audre was Daughter to Anna King of the East-Angles Twice a Wife still a Maid and from her Infancy a great affecter of Virginity However she was over-perswaded to marry one Tombert Prince of the Fen-land with whom she lived three yeares in the Bands of unexperienced Wedlock both by mutuall Consent abstaining from Carnal Copulation After his Death so importunate were her Friends with her that she married with Egfride King of Northumberland 110. Strange Pretended chastity real injustice that being once free she would again entangle her self and stranger that being married she utterly refused to afford her Husband what the c 1. Cor. 7. 3. Apostle calls due Benevolence though he by importunate Intreaties requested the same Being Benevolence it was Uncharitable to deny it being Due it was Unjust to detain it being both she was uncharitable and unjust in the same action Was not this a Mockage of Marriage if in that Age counted a Sacrament solemnly to give her self unto her Husband whom formerly she had passed away by a previous Vow of Virginity At last she wrested leave from her Husband to live a Nun in the Monastery of Ely which she built and endowed After her entrance therein she ever wore Woollen and never d Bede Eccles Hist l. 4. c. 19. Linen about her which whether it made her more Holy or lesse Cleanly let others decide Our e Hierome Porter in his Flowers of the Saints and Harpsfield sec 7. cap. 24. Her miraculous Monument of Marble Authour tells us that in Memory of her out English Women are wont to wear about their Necks a certain Chain made of fine small Silk which they call Ethelred's Chain I must professe my self not so well acquainted with the Sex as either to confute or confirm the truth thereof At last she died of a Swelling in her Throat and was buried in Ely 111. Sixteen yeares her Corps slept in a private Grave near her own Convent when it came into the head of Bishop VVilfride and her Friends to bestow on her a more costly Buriall But alass the soft and fenny Ground of Ely Isle where scarce a stone bigg enough to bury a Worm under it afforded not a Tombe-stone for that purpose Being thus at a Losse their want f Beda Eccles Hist lib. 4. cap. 19. is said to be miraculously supplyed 696 for under the ruined Walls of Grantchester or Cambridge a Coffin was found with a Cover correspondent both of white Marble which did fit her Body so exactly as if which one may believe was true it was made for it Herein was Audre's Corps stately inshrined and for many yeares superstitiously adored 112. But Io. Cajus Confuted by a credible witnesse Fellow of Gonvile-Hall Anno Dom. 696 within ten Miles of Ely at the Dissolution of Abbyes being reputed no great Enemy to the Romish Religion doth on his own Knowledge report In his Histor Cantab. lib. 1. pag. 8. Quamquam illius aevi caecitas admirationem in eo paret quod regnante Hen. nuper 8. dirutum idem sepulchrum ex lapide communi fuit non ut Beda narrat ex albo marmore Although the blindnesse of that Age bred Admiration therein yet when the Tombe was pluckt down in the Reign of King Henry the eighth it was found made of common Stone not of white Marble as Bede reporteth Thus was her Tombe degraded debased one degree which makes the Truth of all the rest to be suspected And if all Popish Miracles were brought to the Test they would be found to shrink from Marble to Common Stone nay from Stone to Dirt and untempered Morter The Council at Berghamsteed 697 113. It is needlesse here to insert the Canons concluded on at Berghamsteed by VVithred King of Kent and Bertuald Arch-bishop of Canterbury First because Topicall confined to that small Kingdome Secondly hard to be understood as depending on some Saxon Law-terms whereon Conjectures are the best Comment Thirdly such as are understood are obsolete viz. If a Master gave his Servant Flesh to eat on a Fasting-day his Servant was on the Refusall and Complaint thereof to be made a S r. Henry Spelman 's Councils p. 1904. c. free Some punishments therein were very absurdly proportioned viz. Six shillings or a Whipping was to be paid by that Servant who ate flesh on Fasting-dayes and just the same Penalty was inflicted on him if convicted of offering Oblations to the Devil as if equall their Offences And be it remembred that this Council was kept cum viris quibusdam Militaribus some Souldiers being present thereat and yet the fifth Canon therein was made to punish Adultery in men of their Profession Wilfride restored to York and outed again 114. As for Bishop VVilfride whom lately we mentioned so active about the removall of S t. Audre's Corps he was about this time restored to his Bishoprick of York Whereupon he fairly quitted the Bishoprick of Selsey which Edilwalch and after Cedwall Kings of Sussex bestowed upon him and returned to York It is much this Rowling Stone should gather so much Mosse and get Wealth enough to sound two Monasteries who sometimes had three Bishopricks together York Lindisfern and Hagulsted sometimes none at all living many yeares together in Exile And indeed he continued not long in York but being expelled thence again was for a time made Bishop of Leicester Nor was the King of Northumberland content with his bare Expulsion but also he would have him confesse the same Legall and resign it according to the late Decrees which the Arch-bishop of Canterbury had made against him But more hereof God willing in the next Century THE EIGHTH CENTURY Anno Dom. Thomae Adamidi Senatori Londinensi Mecoenati meo IN hac tanta rerum Vicissitudine quis qui te novit Constantiam tuam non suspicit Vndique turbatur Tu interim tibimet ipsi tota Tranquillitas cum Deo
England reconciled to Rome wherein she parted with her Supremacy to the Pope and Poole by his power Legatine solemnly reconciled England to the Church of Rome that is set it at open oddes and enmity with God and his Truth Then did he dispense with much irregularity in severall persons confirming the Institution of Clergie-men in their Benefices legitimating the Children of forbidden marriages ratifying the Processes and Sentences in matters Ecclestasticall and his Dispensations were confirmed by Acts of Parliament as in the Statutes at large appear Then was Anthonie Brown Vicount Mountacute Thirleby Bishop of Eli and Sr. Edward Carne sent on a gratulatorie Embassie to Pope Paul the fourth to tender Englands thanks for his great favours conferred thereon A sad and certain presage of heavie persecution which immediately did ensue SECTION II. Anno. Dom. 1555 To Mr. THOMAS BOWYER of the Old Jury Merchant Anno Regin Mar. 3. YOu may with much joy peruse this sad story of Persecution presented unto you whose Grandfather Francis * * Afterward Sheriffe of London Anno. 1577. Bowyer brought no fewel to these flames but endeavoured to quench them The Church is indebted to him for saving reverend Dr. Alexander Nowel then School master of Westminster designed to Death by Bonner and sending him safe beyond the Seas Thus he laid a good foundation to which I impute the firm-standing of your family it being rare to see as in yours the third Generation in London living in the same Habitation May many more of the stock succeed in the same the desire of your obliged friend T F. 1. WE come now to set down those particular Martyrs that suffered in this Queens Reigne The disposing of the future matter But this point hath been handled already so curiously and copiously by Mr. Fox that his industry herein hath starved the endeavours of such as shall succeed him leaving nothing for their penns and pains to feed upon a Eccles 2. 12. For what can the man doe that cometh after the King even that which hath been already done saith Solomon And Mr. Fox appearing sole Emperour in this subject all posterity may despair to adde any remarkable discoveries which have escaped his observation Wherefore to handle this subject after him what is it but to light a candle to the Sunn or rather to borrow a metaphor from his book to kindle one single stick to the burning of so many faggots However that our pains may not wholy be wanting to the Reader herein we will methodize these Martyrs according to the several Diocesses and make on them some brief observations 2. In the Diocesse of Exeter containing Cornwall and Persecution in the Diocess of Exeter Devonshire I finde but one Martyr namely Agnes b Fox 2052. Priest condemned by William Stanford then Judge of the Assise of Lanceston but burned at Exeter The tranquility of these parts is truly imputed c Holinshed pag. 1309. to the good temper of James Turbervile the Bishop one as gentilely qualified as extracted and not so cruel to take away the lives from others as carefull to regain the lost livings to his Church and indeed he recovered to him and his successours the Fee-farme of the Manour of Crediton Yet to shew his sincerity in Religion that he might not seem to do nothing he dipp'd his fingers in this poor womans blood but did not afterwards wash his hands in the persecution of any other Protestant for ought we can finde in any history 3. The like quiet disposition of Gilbert Bourn In the Diocess of Bath and Wells Bishop of Bath and Wells secured Somerset shire Indeed he owed his life under God to the protection of a Protestant for Mr. Bradford at Pauls-crosse saved him from a dagger thrown at him in a tumult and this perchance made him the more tender to Protestants lives Yet in the Register of his Church we meet with one a Fox pag. 2004. Richard Lash condemned by him though his execution doth not appear and yet it is probable that this poor Isaac thus bound to the Altar was afterward sacrificed except some intervening Angel staied the stroak of the sword 4. So also the Diocess of Bristol In the Diocess of Bristol made up of Dorset-shire and part of Glocester-shire enjoyed much quietnesse John Holyman the Bishop did not for ought I can finde prophane himself with any barbarous cruelty But Mr. Dalby b Fox pag. 2052. his Chancellour as an active Lieutenant to a dull Captain sent three namely Richard Sharpe Thomas Benton and Thomas Hale to the stake at Bristol for the testimony of the truth This Dalby knowing himself to be low in parts and learning and despairing otherwise to appear in the world thought the onely way to recommend himself to mens notice was to do it by his cruelty 5. More sparks of persecution flew into the Diocess of Sarisbury In the Diocess of Sarisburie in Wiltshire and Barkshire under John Capon the Bishop and Dr. Geffray his Chancellour for this Dâ—eg was worse then Saul himself At Nubery he sent three Martyrs to heaven in the same charriot of fire c Fox pag. 1940. Jalius Palmer John Gâ—in and Thomas Askin Yea this was but a light flourish in respect of that great blow he intended had not heaven prevented him and many others of his bloody crew by the death of Queen Mary whereby to use Davids phrase God smote them d Psal 3. 7. on the cheek-bone and brake the teeth of the ungodly 6. In the Diocess of Winchester In the Diocess of Winchester consisting of Hantshire and Surrey I finde no great impression from Stephen Garainer the Bishop and much marvell thereat It may be this politician who managed his malice with cunning spared his own Diocess fox-like preying farthest from his own den Indeed he would often stay behind the traverse and send Bonner upon the stage free enough of himself without spurring to do mischief to act what he had contrived Yea I may say of Gardiner that he had an head if not an hand in the death of every eminent Protestant plotting though not acting their destruction And being Lord Chancellour of England he counted it his honour to flie at stout game indeed contriving the death of the Ladie Elizabeth and using to say that it was vain to strike at the branches whilest the roote of all Hereticks doth remain And this good Lady was appointed for the slaughter and brought to the shambles when the seasonable death of this butcher saved the sheep alive 7. However as bloody as he was for mine own part The Authours gratitude to Stephen Gardiner I have particular gratitude to pay to the memory of this Stephen Gardiner and here I solemnly tender the same It is on the account of Mrs. Clarke my great Grandmother by my mothers side whose husband rented Farnham-Castle a place whither Bishop Gardiner retired in Surrey as belonging
of Warning The Protestants triumph on the other side seeing besides that both sides were warned at the same time that Party sent a challenge and gave the first defiance in their late Declaration and now it was Senselesse in them to complain that they were set upon unawares That if the truths were so clear as they pretended and their learning so great as was reputed little Study in this Case was required That Bacon was appointed Moderator not to decide the matters Controverted but to regulate the manner of their Disputation whereunto his known Gravity and Discretion without deep learning did sufficiently enable him That it was an old Policy of the Papists to account every thing fundamentall in Religion which they were loth should be removed and that the receiving of erroneous principles into the Church without examination had been the mother of much ignorance and security therein For the preventing of the farther growth whereof no fitter means then an unpartiall reducing of all Doctrines to the triall of the Scriptures that their declining the Disputation manifested the badnesse of their Cause seeing no pay-master will refuse the touch or scales but such as suspect their Gold to be base or light That formerly Papists had disputed those points when power was on their side so that they loved to have Syllogisms in their mouths when they had swords in their hands 14. It remaineth now Nine Bishops now dead that we acquaint the reader how the popish Bps. were disposed of who now fell under a 4. fold division 1 Dead 2 Fled 3 Deprived 4 Continued There were nine of the first sort who were of the Death-gard of Q. Mary as expiring either a little before her decease viz. John Capon Robert Parfew Maurice Griffin William Glyn. B p. of Sarisbury Hereford Rochester Bangor These were Q. Mary her Vshers to her grave Or a little after her departure as Riegnald Pole John Hopton John Brookes John Holyman Henry Morgan B p. of Canterbury Norwich Glocester Bristol S. Davids These were Q. Maries trainbearers to the same 15. Three only made their flight beyond the seas Three fled beyond the Seas namely 1. Thomas Goldwell of S t. Asaph who ran to Rome and there procured of the Pope the renewing of the indulgences for a set time to such as superstitiously repaired to the well of S t. Winnifride 2. Cuthert Scot of Chester who afterwards lived and died at Lovain 3. Richard Pates of Worcester whose escape was the rather connived at because being a moderate Man he refused to persecute any Protestant for his difference in religion 16. Be it here remembred 〈…〉 that the See of Worcester had nine Bishops successively whereof The four first being all Italians none of them lived there The five last Latimer Bel Heath Hooper Pates none of them died there as either resigning removed or deprived and all five were alive together in the raigne of Q. Mary As for Pates we finde him thus subscribing the councell of Trent Richardus Patus Episcopus Wigorniensis under-writing only in his private and personall capacity having otherwise no deputation as in any publick imployment 17. The third sort succeeds The rest restrained of such who on the refusall of the oath of supremacy were all deprived though not restrained alike Bonner was imprisoned in the Marshalsea a Jaile beeing conceived the safest place to secure him from peoples fury every hand itching to give a good squeeze to that Spunge of Blood White and Watson Bishops of Winchester and Lincoln died in durance their liberty being inconsistent with the Queens safety whom they threatned to excommunicate 18. As for Bishop Tonstal and Thyrlby they were committed to Arch-Bishop Parker Here they had sweet chambers soft beds warme fires plentifull and wholsome diet each Bishop faring like an Arch-Bishop as fed at his table differing nothing from their former living save that that was on their own charges and this on the cost of another Indeed they had not their wonted attendance of supperfluous Servants nor needed it seeing a long train doth not warme but weary the wearer thereof They lived in 〈◊〉 custody and all things considered custody did not so soure their freedome as freedome did sweeten their custody 19. The rest though confin'd for a while soon found the favour to live Prisoners on their Parole Some living in their own Houses having no other Jaylour than their own promise Thus Poole of Peterburgh Turbervile of Exeter c. lived in their own or their friends houses The like liberty was allowed tho Heath Arch-Bishop of Yorke who like another Abiathar * 1 King 2. 26. sent home by Solomon to his own fields in Anathoth lived cheerfully at Chobham in Surry where the Queen often courteously visited him 20. Popish writers would perswade people Cruelty causelessly complainâ—d of that these Bishops were cruelly used in their prisons should their hyperbolicall expressions be received as the just measure of truth Carceribus varijsque cusodiis commissi longo miseriarum taedio extincti sunt De Schism Ang. pag. 335. saith Sanders Confessor obiit in vmculis saith Pitzeus of White A great cry and a little pain Many of our poor Protestants in the Marian dayes said lesse and suffered more They were not sent into a complementall custody but some of them thrust into the prison of a prison where the Sun shined as much to them at mid-night as-at noon-day Whereas Abbot Feckenham of Westminster who as a Parliamentary Baron may goe in equipage with the other Bishops may be an instance how well the Papists were used after their deprivation For He grew Popular * Camdens Eliz. in hoc Anno. for his alms to the poor which speaks the Queens bounty to Him in enabling him a prisoner to be bountifull to others 21. Onely one Bishop conformed himself to the Queens commands One Bishop continued and was continued in his place viz. Anthony Kitchin alias Dunstan of Landaffe Camden calls him Sedis sâ—ae calamitatem The bane of his Bishoprick wasting the lands thereof by letting long leases as if it were given to Binominous Bishops such as had two Names to be the empairers of their Churches as may appear by these 4. contemporaries in the raigne of K. Henry the 8. John Capon John Voisey Robert Parfew Anthony Kitchin alias Salcot Harman Warton Dunstan spoiled Sarisbury Exeter S t. Asaph Landaffe I know what is pleaded for them that Physicians in desperate consumptions prescribe the shaving of the Head which will grow again to save the life and that these Bishops fearing the finall alienation of their lands passed long leases for the prevention thereof though whether Policy or Covetousnesse most shared in them herein we will not determine Only I finde a mediate successour * Godwin in the Bps. of Landaffe of Kitchins and therefore concerned to be knowing therein much excusing him from this common defamation of wronging his See because many
consueto ritu fuisse in sancto verbi Dei ministerio institutum precibusque ac maâ—uum impositione confirmatum Postero autem die post sabbatum bâ—llo in frequenti Anglorum coetâ— concionem rogante eo qui a Synodo delegatus erat Ministro propensissimisque totius Ecclesiae animis acceptum fusse Quod quidem Domini ac fratris nostri celendi apud Anglos Ministerum ut benignitate sua Deus omnipotens donorum suorum incremento amplissimo functionis ejus fructu ornare dignetur enixè precamur per Iesum Christum Amen Dat. Antwerpiae 14. Maij. 1578. Det Logelerius Vilerius verbi Dei Minister Johannes Hochelcus verbi Dei minister Johannes Taffinus Verbi Dei Minister Thus put in orders by the Presbytery of a forrain Nation he continued there some years preached with M r Cartwright unto the English factory of Merchants at Antwerpe untill at last he came over into England and for seven years together became Lecturer in the Temple refusing all presentative preferment to decline subscription and lived domestick chaplain in the house of the Lord Treasurer Cicel being Tutor for a time to Robert his son afterwards Earl of Sarisbury And although there was much heaving and shuffing at him as one disaffected to the discipline yet Gods goodness his friends greatness and his own honesty kept him but with much difficulty in his ministeriall imployment 52. Yea now so great grew the credit and reputation of M r Travers He with Mr Cartwright invited to be Divinity professors in St. Andrews that by the advice of M r Andrew Meluin he and M r Cartwright were solemnly sent for to be Divinity professors in the University of S t Andrews as by this autograph which I have in my hands and here think fit to exemplfie may plainly appear MAgno quidem fratres charissimi gaudio nos afficit constantia vestra invicta illa animi fortitudo quâ contra Satanae imperium reluctantem Christi imperio mundi fastum armavit vos domini spiritus in asserenda apud populares vestros Ecclesiae suae disciplina Sed permelesium tamen nobis semper fuit pertinaci inimicorum odio violentia factum esse ut cum latere solum subinde vertere cogimini minus aliquanto fructus ex laboribus vestris ad pios omnes perveniat quam si docendo publicè concionando destinatam ecclesiae Dei operam navare licuisset Hoc quia in patria vobis negatum videbamus non aliud nobis magis in votis erat quà m ut exulanti in vobis Christo hospitium aliquod in ultma Scotia praeberatur Quod ut fieri non incommodè possit speramus longo nos conatu perfecisse Vetus est non ignobilis apud nos Academia Andreana in quâ cùm aliae artes tum philosophia imprimis ita hucasque culta fuit ut quod ab exteris nationibus peteretur parum nobis aut nihil in eo genere deesset Verum divina ilia sapientia quam vel solam vel praecipuam colere christianos decet neglecta diu in scholis jacuit quod à prima statim religionis instauratione summus omnium ardor exstaret in erudienda plebe in aliis ad sacrum verbi ministerium instituendis paucissimi labor aerent non leve ut periculum subesset nâ— quod propitius nobis Deus avertat concionatorum aliquando inopia periret quod tanta cum spe in hominum animos conjectum est verae pietatis semen Animadvertit hoc tandem ecclesiasticus Senatus cum rege regnique proceribus diligenter egit ne hanc officij sui solicitudinis partem desiderari amplius paterentur Placuit summo omnium applausu in proximis ordinum comitiis decretum est ut quod amplitudine ceteris opulentia collegium praestat theologiae perpetuo studiis consecretur utque ad verbi Dei ministerium nemo admittatur nisi linguarum utriusque testamenti locorum communium curriculo prius consecto confiti autem quadriennii spacio à quinque professoribus posse Ex hoc numero adhuc desunt Thomas Cartwrigtus Gualterus Traversus reliquos nobis domi ecclesia nostra suppeditabit Messem hic videtis singulari vestra eruditione pietate non indignam Ad quam pius vos princeps proceres nostri ad quam boni vos omnes fratres vestri ad quam Christi vos ecclesia Christus ipse operarios invitat Reliquum est ut humanissimè vocantes sequi velitis ad docendi hanc provinciam vobis honorificam ecclesiae Dei salutarem maturetis magnas à principe majores à Christi ecclesia maximas immortales à maximo immortali Deo gratias inituri Quod ut sine mor a facere dignemini per eum ipsum vos etiam atque etiam obtestamur cui acceptum ferri debet quod ecclesiae filii sui prodesse tantopere possitis Valete Edinburgi Ja Glasgney Academiae Cancelarius Alaynus Rector Thomas Smetonius Decanus Andreas Melvinus Collegij praefectus Mr David Wems minister Glascoviensis This proffer both joyntly refused with return of their most affectionate thanks and such who know least are most bold in their conjectures to adventure at the reasons of their refusall As that they would not leave the Sun on their backs and remove so far North or they were discouraged with the slenderness of the salary assigned unto them In plain truth they were loath to leave and their friends loath to be left by them conceiving their pains might as well be bestowed in their native Country and Travers quietly continued Lecturer at the Temple till M r Hooker became the Master thereof 53. M r Hooker his voice was low The character of Hooker as to his preaching stature little gesture none at all standing stone-still in the Pulpit as if the posture of his body were the emblem of his minde unmoveable in his opinions Where his eye was left fixed at the beginning it was found fixed at the end of his Sermon In a word the doctrine he delivered had nothing but it self to garnish it His stile was long and pithy driving on a whole flock of severall Clauses before he came to the close of a sentence So that when the copiousness of his stile met not with proportionable capacity in his auditors it was unjustly censured for perplext tedious and obscure His sermons followed the inclination of his studies and were for the most part on controversies and deep points of School Divinity 54. M r Travers his utterance was gracefull The description of Travers gesture plausible matter profitable method plain and his stile carried in it indolem pietatis a Genius of grace flowing from his sanctified heart Some say that the congregation in the Temple ebb'd in the fore noon and flowed in the afternoon and that the auditory of M r Travers was far the more numerous the first occasion of emulation
but the curing of consciences I am credibly a By my own father Mr Thomas Fuller who was well acquainted with him A great instrument of the good keeping of the Lords-day informed he in some sort repented his removall from his Parish and disliked his own erratical and planetary life which made him fix himself Preacher at last at Christ-Church in London where he ended his dayes 69. He lived Sermons and was most precise in his conversation a strict observer of the Lords-day and a great advancer thereof thorough the whole Realm by that Treatise which he wrote of the Sabbath No book in that age made greater impression on peoples practice as b Mr Joseph Hall one then a great wit in the University now a grave wisdome in our Church hath ingeniously expressed On M r Greenhams book of the Sabbath While Greenham writeth on the Sabbaths rest His soule enjoyes not what his penn exprest His work enjoyes not what it self doth say For it shall never finde one resting day A thousand hands shall toss each page and line Which shall be scanned by a thousand eine That Sabbaths rest or this Sabbath's unrest Hard is to say whether's the happiest Thus godly Greenham is fallen asleep we softly draw the curtains about him and so proceed to other matter SECTION VIII To the Lady Anne Archer of Tanworth in Warwickshire Anno Regis Eliza. Anno Dom. Madam YOu beeing so good a Houswife know far better then I how much strength and handsomness good hemming addeth to the end of a cloath I therefore being now to put a period to this long and important Century as big as the whole Book besides but chiefly containing her Reign the Honour of your Sex and our nation have resolved to prevent the unraveling thereof to close and conclude it with this Dedication to your Ladiship On which account alone you are placed last in this Book though otherwise the first and freest in incouraging my weak endeavours 1. OF M r Vdals death come we now to treat The uncertain date of Mr. Vdals death thorough some defect in the a Records transposed o Searched by me and my friends in the office of the Clerk of Assise for Surrey or lost we cannot tell the certain day of M r Vdals condemnation 35. and death 1592. But this appears in the office that two years since viz. 32. of Eliz. July 23. he was indicted and arraigned at Craydon for defaming the Queen Her government in a book by him written and intituled A Demonstration of the Discipline which Christ hath prescribed in his Word for the government of his Church in all times and places untill the worlds end But the mortal words as I may terme them are found in tho preface of his book written to the supposed governors of the Church of England Arch-Bishops Bishops c. and are inserted in the body of his Indictment as followeth Who can without blushing deny you to be the cause of all ungodliness seeing your government is that which giveth leave to a man to be any thing saving a sound Christian For certainly it is more free in these dayes to be a Papist Anabaptist of the Family of love yea any most wicked whatsoever than that which we should be And I could live these twenty years any such in England yea in a Bishops house it may be and never be much molested for it so true is that which you are charged with in a Dialogue lately come forth against you and since burned by you that you care for nothing but the maintenance of your dignities be it to the damnation of your own soules and infinite millions moe To this indictment he pleaded not guilty denying himself to be the Author of the Book Next day he was cast by the Jurie and submitted himself to the mercy of the Court whereby he prevailed that judgement against him was respited till the next Assises and he remanded to the Marshalsey 2. M r. Vdal his supplication to the Lords of the Assises March following the 33 d of Queen Elizabeth he was brought again to the Bar before the Judges to whom he had privately presented a petition with all advantage but it found no entertainment Insomuch that in this moneth of March the day not appearing in the Records he at the Assises held in Southwark was there condemned to be executed for a felon 3. Vâ—rious censures on his condemnation Various were mens censures on these proceedings against him Some conceived it rigorous in the greatest which at the best is cruel in the least degree considering the worth of his person and weakness of the proof against him For he was a learned man blameless for his life powerfull in his praying and no less profitable than painfull in his preaching For as Musculus in Germany if I mistake not first brought in the plain but effectual manner of preaching by Vse and Doctrine so Vdal was the first who added reasons thereunto the strength and sinews of a Sermon His English-Hebrew-Grammar he made whilst in prison as appears by a subscription in the close thereof The proof was not pregnant and it is generally believed that he made only the preface out of which his indictment was chiefly framed and not the body of the book laid to his charge Besides it was harsh to inflict immediate and direct death for a consequential and deductory felonie it being pen-housed out beyond the foundation and intent of the Statute to build the indictment thereupon Others thought that some exemplary severity was necessary not only to pinion the wings of such pamphlets from flying abroad but even thereby to crush their eggs in the nest Surely the multitude of visits unto him during his durance no whit prolonged his life For flocking to popular prisoners in such cases is as ominous a presage of their death as the flying and fluttering of Ravens near and about the house and chamber of a sick body 4. He died peaceably in his bed But an higher Judge had formerly passed another sentence on Vdals death that his soul and body should not by shamefull violence be forced asunder but that they should take a faire farewell each of other How long he lived after his condemnation we know not there being a tradition that S r Walter Rawleigh procured a Reprieve in a fair way to his pardon this is certain that without any other sickness save heart-broken with sorrow he ended his dayes Right glad were his friends that his death prevented his death and the wisest of his foes were well contented therewith esteeming it better that his candle should goe than be put out lest the snuff should be unsavoury to the survivers and his death be charged as a cruel act on the account of the procurers thereof 5. Anno Regin Eliza. 36. Anno Dom. 1593. The Ministers of London flocked to his funeralls His solemn buriall and he was decently interred
shine on Earth as long as the Sun that faithful Witness endureth in Heaven Being more confident that my desire herein will take effect considering the Honourable Governous of this Hospital are Persons so Good they will not abuse it themselves and so Great they will not suffer it to be abuâ—ed by others 22. England at this time enjoying abundance of Peace Nov. 6. The death and prayâ— of Pr. HENRY Plenty and Prosperity in full speed of her Happiness was checkt on a soddain with the sad News of the death of Prince HENRY in the rage of a malitious extraordinary burning-Feaver He was generally lamented of the whole Land both Universities publishing their Verses in print and give me leave to remember four made by Giles Fletcher of Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge on this PRINCES plain Grave because wanting an Inscription and it will be Honour enough to me if I can make thereof a Translation Si sapis attonitus sacro decede Sepulchro Nec cineri quae sunt nomina quaere novo Prudens celavit Sculptor nam quisque rescivit Protinus in lachrymas solvitur moritur If wise amaz'd depart this holy Grave Nor these New-ashes ask what Names they have The Graver in concealing them was wise For who so knows strait melts in tears and dies Give me leave to adde one g Made by Mr. George Herbert more untranslatable for its Elegancy and Expressivenesse Vlteriora timens cum morte paciscitur Orbis And thus we take our leave of the Memory of so Worthy a PRINCE never heard by any alive to swear an Oath for which Archbishop Abbot commended Him in his Funerall Sermon the PRINCE being wont to say That He knew no Game or Value to be won or lost that could be worth an Oath 23. One generation goeth and another generation cometh Feb. 14. The Marriage of the Palatine but the earth remaineth for ever the Stage stands the Actors alter Prince HENRY's Funerals are followed with the Prince PALATINE's Nuptials solemnized with great State in hopes of happiness to both Persons though sad in the event thereof and occasioning great revolutions in Christendome 24. Expect not of me an account of the Divorce of the Lady Fra Howard from the Earl of Essex 11. 1613. Essex his Divorce discussed and of her re-marriage to Robert Carre Earl of Somerset which Divorce divided the Bishops of the Land in their judgments Against it George Abbot Archbishop of Canterbury John King Bishop of London Alledging the common same of Incontinency betwixt Her and the Earl of Somerset For it Thomas Bilson Bishop of Winchester Lancelot Andrews Bishop of Elie. Rich Neale BP of Coventry and Litchfield These proceeded secundùm allegata probata of the Earls inability quoad hanc and the Ladies untainted Virginity 25. Onely I will insert one passage A memorable Speech of Bishop King Bishop Overall discoursing with Bishop King about the Divorce the later expressed himself to this effect I should never have been so earnest against the Divorce Ann. Dom. 1613. Ann. Reg. Jac. 11 save that because perswaded in my conscience of falshood in some of the depositions of the Witnesses on the Ladies behalf This sure I am from her second Marriage is extracted as chaste and virtuous * Anne Countess of Bedford a Lady as any of the English Nation 29. Nicholas Wadham Wadham-Colledge sounded Esquire of Merryfield in the County of Somerset did by his last Will bequeath Four hundred pounds per annum and Six thousand pounds in money to the building of a Colledge in Oxford leaving the care and trust of the whole to Dorothy his Wife One of no lesse learned and liberall than Noble extraction A Sister to John Lord Peters and Daughter to Sir William Peters Secretary to four Kings and a worthy Benefactour to All-Souls Colledge In her life-time she added almost double to what her Husband bequeathed whereby at this day it is become one of the most Uniform buildings in England as no additionall result at severall times of sundry fancies and Founders but the entire product all at once of the same Architect 30. This year the same was finished Where formerly a Monastery of Augustineâ—s built in a place where formerly stood a Monastery of the Augustine Friers who were so eminent for their abilities in disputing that the University did by a particular Statute impose it as an Exercise upon all those that were to proceed Masters of Art that they should first be disputed upon by the Augustine Fryers which old Statute is still in force produced at this day for an Equivalent exercise yet styled Answering Augustines The Colledge hath from its beginning still retained something of its old Genius having been continually eminent for some that were acute Philosophers and good Disputants Wardens Bishops Benefactors Learned Writers Doctor Wright admitted 1613. Dr. Flemming admitted 1613. Dr. Smith 1616. Dr. Escott 1635. Dr. Pitt 1644. Dr. Joh. Wilkins 1648. Robert Wright Bishop of Bristoll then Coventrie and Lichfield Philip Bisse Doctor of Divinity Canon of Wells and Arch-deacon of Taunton gave 1849 Books for their Librarie valued at 1200 pounds Humphrey Sydenham a very eloquent Preacher So that very lately r viz. An. 1634. there were in this Colledge one Warden fifteen Fellows fifteen Scholars two Chaplains two Clerks besides Officers and Servants of the Foundation with many other Students the whole number 120. As for Dr. John Wilkins the present Warden thereof my worthily respected friend he hath courteously furnished me with my best intelligence from that University 31. A Parliament was called A Parliament suddenly called soon dissolved wherein many things were transacted nothing concluded In this Parlament Dr. Harsenet Bishop of Chichester gave offence in a Sermon preacht at Court pressing the word Reddite Caesari quae sunt Caesaris as if all that was leavied by Subsidies or paid by Custome to the Crown was but a redditum of what was the Kings before Likewise Doctor Neale Bishop of Rochester uttered words in the House of the Lords interpreted to the disparagement of some reputed Zealous Patriot in the House of Commons both these Bishops were questioned upon it and to save them from the storm this was the occasion chiefly as was supposed of the abrupt breaking up of the Parliament 32. Anthony Rudde The death of Bishop Rudde Bishop of S. Davids ended his life He was born in Yorkshire bred in Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge where he became Fellow A most excellent Preacher whose Sermons were very acceptable to Qu. ELIZABETH Hereon dependeth a memorable Story which because but defectively delivered by Sir John Harrington I request the Readers Patience and require his Belief to this large and true Relation thereof 33. Bishop Rudde preaching in his course before Queen ELIZABETH at White-hall Ann. Reg. Jac. 12 Ann. Dom. 1614. A remarkable 〈◊〉 Her Majesty was highly affected with his Sermon in so
guilty of no lesse than damnable perjury 6. I could have wished that he had mentioned in the margin The Suggesters surmise most improbable the Authors of this suggestion whereas now the omission thereof will give occasion to some to suspect him for the first raiser of the report an heavy accusation charging a whole Synod of injustice When Festus the heathen Magistrate was so much Christian as not to condemn an accused man u Acts 25. 26. before he hath licence to answer for himself could any Assembly of Christian Ministers to so heathen as to binde themselves by an oath right or wrong with blinde obedience to beat down the opposite party Wherein they were all actually forsworn having publickly taken so solemnan oath to proceed impartially according to Gods Word and their own conscience What said Laban to w Gen. 31. 50. Jacob If thou shalt take other wives besides my daughters no man is with us see God is witness between thee and me So if these Divines having betroathed their faith to God and the world in so open and publick a manner besides this Oath did binde themselves with any other taken before or after in a clandestine way contrary to their publick promise would not God the sole judge herein sensible of this affront offered to him and his truth heavily punish so heinous an offence And can any charitable-minded man believe that learned men would that godly men could be guilty of so deep and damnable dissimulation 7. Musing with my self on this matter and occasionally exchanging Letters with the Sons of Bishop Hall it came into my minde to ask them Joseph's Bishop Hall his Letter to the Author * Gen. 43. 27. question to his brethren Is your father well the old man of whom ye spake is he yet alive And being informed of his life and health I addressed my self in a Letter unto him for satisfaction in this particular who was pleased to honour me with this return herein inserted WHereas you desire from me a just relation of the carriage of the businesse at the Synod of Dort and the conditions required of our Divines there at or before their admission to that grave and learned Assembly I whom God was pleased to imploy as an unworthy agent in that great work and to reserve still upon earth after all my reverend and worthy Assocaites doe as in the presences of that God to whom I am now daily expecting to yeild up my account testifie to you and if you will to the world that I cannot without just indignation read that slanderous imputation which Mr. Goodwin in his Redemption Redeem'd reports to have been raised and cast upon those Divines eminent both for learning and piety That they suffered themselves to be bound with an Oath at or before their admission into that Synod to vote down the Remonstrants howsoever so as they came deeply preingaged to the decision of those unhappy differences Truly Sir as I hope to be saved all the Oath that was required of us was this After that the Moderator Assistents and Scribes were chosen and the Synod formed and the several Members allowed there was a solemn Oath required to be taken by every one of that Assembly which was publickly done in a grave manner by every person in their order standing up and laying his hand upon his heart calling the great God of heaven to witnesse that he would unpartially proceed in the judgment of these controversies which should be laid before him onely out of and according to the written Word of God and no otherwise so determining of them as he should finde in his conscience most agreeable to the Holy Scriptures which Oath was punctually agreed to be thus taken by the Articles of the States concerning the indiction and ordering of the Synod as appears plainly in their tenth Article and this was all the Oath that was either taken or required And farre was it from those holy souls which are now glorious in heaven or mine who still for some short time survive to give this just witnesse of our sincere integrity to entertain the least thought of any so foul corruption as by any over-ruling power to be swayed to a prejudgment in the points controverted It grieves my soul therefore to see that any learned Divine should raise imaginary conjectures to himself of an interest and obligation of a fancied Oath working upon them and drawing them contrary to the dictation of their own conscience as it did Heord's in the case of John Baptist's beheading meerly out of his own comparative construstion of the different forms of expressing themselves in managing those Controversies Wherein if at any time they seemed to speak nearer to the Tenet of the Remonstrants it must be imputed to their holy ingenuity and gracious disposition to peace and to no other sinister respect Sir since I have lived to see so foul an aspersion cast upon the memory of those worthy and eminent Divines I blesse God that I yet live to vindicate them by this my knowing clear and assured attestation which I am ready to second with the solemnest Oath if I shall be thereto required Higham August 30. 1651. Your much devoted friend precessor and fellow-labourer Jos Hall B. N. Let the Reader consider with himself how the Suggester speaks by hear-say of things done at distance whereat himself not present whose disassection to the decisions of that Synod inclines him to credit ill reports against it And yet as afraid though willing to speak out in his me-thinks I see vents but his own conjecturall surmises Let him also weigh in the balance of his judgment how this purgation of this Synod is positive and punctual from one an ear-and eye-witnesse thereof being such an one as Doctor Hall and now aged so that his testimonium herein may seem testamentum his witnesse his will and the truth therein delivered a Legacie by him bequeathed to posterity I say the premises seriously considered let the Reader procced to sentence as God and his conscience shall direct him and either condemn a private person of slander and salsity or a whose Synod of injustice and perjury 8. My desire to make this History of the Synod intire The death of Bp. Montague hath made me omit the death of James Montague the worthy Bishop of Winchester who left this life the last year Son to Sir Ed Montague of Boughton in Northampton-shire bred in Christs afterwards Master of Sidney-Colledge in Cambridge highly favoured by King JAMES whose Works he set forth preferring him to the Bishoprick first of Bath and Wells then to Winchecter in Bath he lies buried under a fair Tomb though the whole Church be his Monument which his bounty repaired or rather raised out of the ruins thereof One passage at his buriall I must not forget having received it from the mouth of his younger Brother Sir Sidney Montague present at his Funeral solemnities 9. A certain Officer of
crossing the Protectour herein and other misdemeaners soon after was outed of his Mastership of Trinity Hall Anno Regis Henrici 8. 2 and first Doctor Haddon Anno Dom. 154 7 8 then Doctor Mouse substituted in his room William Bill 3 Vice-Chan 154 8 9 George Bullock Phil. Baker Proct. Richard Brakin Major Doct Theol. 1 Bac. Theol. 1 Mag. Art 8 Bac. Art 32 30. Commissioners An extraordinary Act before the Kings Commissioners were sent from the King to visit the University viz. Thomas Goodrich Bishop of Eelie Nicolas Ridley Bishop of Rochester Sir William Paget Sir Thomas Smith Sir Iohn Cheek VVilliam Mey Doctor of Law and Thomas VVendey Doctor of Physick Before these an extraordinary Act was kept wherein Answerer Opponents Moderatours Quaestions D r. Madew Iune 20 Protest held the negat Doct. Mag. Glin. Langedale Sedgewick Yonge Papists His Majesties Commissioners above mentioned 1. Whether Transubstantiation can be proved by plain and manifest words of Scripture 2. Whether it may be Collected confirmed by the consent of Fathers for these thousand years past Answerer Dr. Glin 24 Papist held the affirm Mag. Grindal Perne Gwest Pilkington Protestants M r. Pern Protest 25 held the negat Mag. Parker not D r. Mathew Parker but another of his Name Pollard Vavasour Youge Papists Bishop Ridley according to the custome of the University concluded all with a solemn Determination But the transactions of this Disputation are so amply reported by Master Fox that the sharpest appetite of his Reader need not fear famishing if he can keep himself from surfetting thereon Walter Haddon 4 Vice-Cha 15 49 50 Andrew Peerson Iohn Ebden Proct. Alexander Raye Major Bac. Theol 9 Mag. Art 17 Bac. Art 26 31. Ed. Duke of Somerset and Chancellour of Cambridge was much declined in his power at Court Northumberland made Chancellour though surviving some Months after Now the University had learned to live by the living Anno Dom. 15 in favour and not by the dead Anno Regis Edvardi 6. 4 and therefore chose Iohn Dudley Duke of Northumberland Chancellour in place of Somerset 32. Martin Bucer Bucer and Fagius called to Cambridge and Paulus Fagius in Dutch Buchlein or Beecher living formerly at Strasburg at the instance of Arch-Bishop Cranmer were sent for by King Edward to become Professours in Cambridge My Authour a Germane living then hard by makes them to depart thence Magistratus Argentinensis voluntate consensu whom the Iesuite Parsons will have both banished by that State If so the disgrace is none at all to be exiled for no other guilt then preaching the Gospel opposing the Augustine Confession which that Emperiall City embraced Besides the greater the providence if when commanded from one place instantly called to another 33. Over they come into England Made Professours there and last year were fixed at Cambridge where Bucer was made Professour of Divinity Fagius of Hebrew The former had the ordinary stipend of his place tripled a Pantalcon de Illustribus Germaniae unto him as well it might considering his worth being of so much merit his need having wife and children and his condition coming hither a forrainer fetcht from a far Country So it was ordered that Fagius should in Hebrew read the Evangelicall Prophet Isaâ—ah and Bucer in Greek the Propheticall Evangelist S t. Iohn 34 But alas Fagius his death the change of aire and diet so wrought on their temper that both fell sick together Bucer hardly recovered but Fagius that flourishing Beech nature not agreeing with his transplanting withered away in the flower of his Age as scarce fourty five and was buried in the Church of S t. Michael 35. After his death Emanuel Tremellius was sent for to Cambridge to succeed him in the Professours place Tremellius Heb Prof. in Cambridge There he lived sometime on this token that Dr. Parker preferred him before many other Friends to be Godfather to his Son which Tremellius b See Tremellius his own Preface to his Caldee Grammar accounted a great favour But it seemeth that soon after either afrighted with the valetudinous condition of King Edward or allured with the bountifull Proffers of the Prince Palatine he returned to Heidelberg Io. Madew Vice-Ch Ralph Standish William Cony Proct. Christop c Cajus Hist. Cant. Acad. lib. 1. p. 207. Franck He would not take his oath to the Vice-Chancellour till forced by the Lord Protectours letters Maj. 155â— â— 5 Doct. Theol. 1 Iur. Civ 2 Medic. 1 Bac. Theol. 4 Mag. Art 17 Bac. Art 37 Henry Brandon Duke of Suffolk Son of Charles Brandon by Katherine Lady VVilloubie died at Cambridge where he was a Student of the sweating-sicknesse 36. Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk younger brother to the same Henry died within twelve hours of the same disease They were much bemoaned of the University printing a Book of Verses on their funeralls amongst which these following of D r. Parkhursts afterward Bishop of Norwich I shall endeavour to translate FRatres Amiclaei Pollux cum Castore Potuere sic cum morte depaciscier Vt cum alter eorum esset mortuus tamen Alter superesset reversis sortibus Vicissim uterque utriusque morte viveret Cur Parca nunc crudelior est quam olim fuit Anno Regis Edvardi 6 15 Fratres duos Anno Dom. 155â— â— nuper ea quales hactenus Nec vidit unquam nec videbit Anglia Lumina duo duoque propugnacula Fortissima virtutis Reique publicae Mors crudelis ah uno peremit funere Virtus nequaquam illam nec egregia indoles Movit nec Edvardi Regis nec optimae Matris nec totius gemitus Britanniae O dura duramors ô saeva numina The same in English CAstor and Pollux Brothers pair Breathing first Amicle's air Did with death so bargaine make By exchange their turns to take If that death surprized one brother Still alive should be the other So the bargain was contriv'd Both dy'd both by turns surviv'd Why is fate more cruel grown Then she formerly was known Wee of Brothers had a brace Like to which did never grace This our English earth before Nor the like shall grace it more Both bright stars and both did stand Hopefull bulwarks of the land Both alas together slain Death at once did murther twaine Nothing could their vertues move Nor King Edvvards hearty love Nor their best of mothers mones Nor all Britaines heavy grones Nothing could stern death abate Oh cruel over cruel fate Many in Cambridge died of this sweating sicknesse Patients mending or ending in twenty four hours Some sought for the naturall cause thereof out of the heavens imputing it to the conjunction of the superiour Planets in Scorpio Others looked for it from the earth as arising from an exhalation in moist weather out of Gipsous or plaisterly ground The cure thereof conceived impossible before and easie as all things