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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

dogged doings Libros omnes exurunt inquit indignantes se ab alio quàm ab ipso suo spiritu doctos videri Miserum est cernere Bibliothecas non ignobiles ab execranda Secta hoc modo aboleri They think scorne of any other Spirit to seem learned then of their own fanaticall braines Antonius Corvinus saith also in his book against them Anabaptistarum furor optimos quosque authores ac vetustissima venerandae antiquitatis exemplaria absumpserunt in Bibliotheca Osnaburgensi I could bring out a great number of like testimonies from Oecolampadius Zuinglius Bullinger Calvin and Philip Melancthon with other of the most notable writers of our age concerning this ungracious violence of these chimney Preachers and bench-Bablers but let these two rehearsed at this time suffice Thus far Iohn Bale in his declarations upon Lelands iournall to King EDWARD the VI 1549. But to returne I conceive the very sight of these barbarous insolencies committed upon those Treasuries of good Letters Books and Libraries could not but impresse in serious apprehensions a deep contemplation of the approaching funeralls of most kindes of Learning make them take their long leaves of the Universitie And so they did insomuch that at Oxford their publique Schooles were converted into a private gardenpiot their publique Treasurie robbed their monies and muniments embesel'd wasted as does more largely appeare by the preface to a royall Grant of MARIES to that Vniversity in the first of her Raigne Regina omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint salutem Gravissimorum hominum testimoniis ad aures nostras perlatum est ac certissimis quibusdam rationibus nobis quasi ob oculos positum nostram illam Academiam quae Oxonii sita est alterum totius regni lumen olim bonarum literarum omnium celeberrimum emporium sic temporum injuriâ afflictam esse ut penè inculta jaceat inopiâ harum retum quibus dignitas omnis sustinetur adeo oppressam esse ut extincta jam penè quodam quasi squallore contabuisse videatur Publicas enim illius Scholas in quibus olim fiebat statis quibusdam solennibus diebus frequens discentium concursio vastatas in privaros hortos conversas Publicum thesaurum direptum ornamenta publica ablata publica vectigalia it a tenuia imò it a ferè nulla esse accepimus ut neque publicis usibus aliquâ exparta sufficiant neque publicarum causarum defensioni injuriis propulsand is respondeant Nos igitur Academiam illam quâ contemptâ desertâ nec orthodoxa fides defendi nec in rebus controversis veritas erui nec certè in Repub justitia administrari potest penè oppressam jacentem erigere atque excitare illiusque squallorem depellere inopiam nostrâ munificentiâ sublevare ad regium munus nostrum perrinere existimantes ut posthac habeat quo suas Scholas erigat erectas teneat perpetuis ut speramus futuris tem poribus se suaque privilegia adversus quarumcunque injuriarum procellas defendat c. And though this might perswade with some that to be a Schollar was none of the greatest curses yet I doe not see that the people were hearty friends with learning all Q. MARIES daies nor in the beginning of Queene ELIZABETH What a learned ministery shall we thinke they had under Queen MARY when many were made Priests being children and otherwise utterly unlearned so they could read to say Mattens and Masse And how can wee expect it should be much bettur in the first of Q. ELIZABETH when some Ministers because they were but meane Readers are injoyned to peruse over before once or twice the Chapters and Homilies to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people And what estimate shall we make of their discretion when it was thought very necessary that no priest or Deacon should take to his wife any manner of woman without the advice and allowance first had upon good examination by the Bishop of the Diocesse two Iustices of the Peace What rare Preachers shall we imagine they had in the Vniversitie at that time when M● Tavernour of Water-Eaton high Sheriffe of Oxfordshiere came in pure charitie not ostentation and gave the Schollars a Sermon in St Maryes with his gold chaine about his neck and his sword by his side beginning with these words Arriving at the Mount of Saint Maries in the stony Stage where I now stand I have brought you some fine Biskets baked in the oven of Charitie and carefully conserved for the Chickens of the Church the Sparrowes of the Spirit the sweet Swallowes of Salvation By this we may guesse what a dearth of learning there was till it pleased God good Queen ELIZABETH to redeeme it from poverty contempt by granting new and ample Charters to the Vniversity of Cambridge and passing severall Statutes in Parliament That of Provision and others very beneficiall for the maintenance of Schollars and reducing the Clergy of this Kingdome to that lustre which they had in the daies of her royall Father when that high and Honourable Court of Parliament gave them this testimony that the body Spirituall now being usually called the English Church alwaies hath been reputed and also found of that sort that both for knowledge integritie and sufficiencie of number it hath been alwaies thought and is also at this houre sufficient and meet of it selfe without the intermedling of any exteriour person or persons to declare and determine all causes of the Law Divine or of spirituall learning and to administer all such offices and duties as to their roomes Spirituall doth appertaine For the due administration whereof and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection the Kings most noble Progenitors and the Ancestors of the Nobles of this Realme have sufficiently endowed the said Church both with Honour and Possessions Indeed nothing more certaine then that this one Kingdome of England has in all ages produced as many nay more learned men in all Professions then any other Nation in the world besides witnesse the severall Catalogues of our ancient Authors their works No better reason for it then the liberall maintenance of Schollars in the Universities and the faire preferments in the Church Take away these and what can be expected but the whole Nation will be quickly over-run with beggery and barbarisme Then that definition of a Schollar will prove too Catholique a silly fellow in black So true has that of the Historian ever been nihil à quoquam expeti nisi cujus fructus antè providerit And sublatis studiorum pretiis etiam studia peritura ut minùs decora By all the Lawes of God may not a man as freely dispose of his estate io the endowment of a Church or Colledge as to any lay person or Corporation The donations of Kings and

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