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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77889	The abridgment of The history of the reformation of the Church of England. By Gilbert Burnet, D.D.; History of the reformation of the Church of England. Abridgments	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing B5755A; ESTC R230903	375,501	744

Corrections are to be seen made with his own Hand which shew both his great Judgment in those Matters and his extraordinary Application to Business but as he was fond of his two accquired Titles of Defender of the Faith and Supream Head of the Church and loved to shew that he did not carry them in vain so there was nothing which he affected more then to discover his Learning and Understanding in matters of Religion He writ also a List of all the new Sees which he intended to found which were Waltham for Essex St. Albans for Hartford another for Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire out of the Monasteries of Dunstable Newenham and Clowstown another for Oxfordshire and Berkshire out of the Rents of Osney and Tame one for Northampton and Huntington out of Peterborough one for Midlesex out of Westminster one for Leicester and Rutland out of Leicester one for Glocestershire out of St. Peters in Glocester one for Lancashire out of Fountain and the Arch-Deaconry of Richmond one for Suffolk out of Edmundsbury one for Stafford and Salop out of Shrewsbury one for Nottingham and Darby out of Welbeck Wersop and Thurgarton and one for Cornwall out of the Rents of Lanceston Bodmyn and Wardreth Over these he writ Bishopricks to be made and in another part of the same Paper he writ Places to be altered which have Sees in them and names Christ-Church in Canterbury St. Swithins and several others a little under that he writ Places to be altered into Colledges and Schools but mentions only Burton upon Trent Neither Chester nor Bristol are named here tho Episcopal Sees were afterwards erected in them The King had formed a great Design of endowing many Sees and making many other noble Foundations yet the great Change that was made in the Councils and Ministry before this took Effect made that only a small part of that which he now intended was accomplished An Act for Proclamations Another Act was brought in concerning the Obedience due to the King's Proclamations which set forth That great Exceptions had been made to the Legality of the King's Proclamations by some who did not consider what a King might do by his Royal Power which the King took very ill and since many Occasions called for speedy Remedies and could not admit of Delays till a Parliament might be called therefore it was enacted that such Proclamations as the King set out by Advice of his Council with Pains upon Offenders should be obeyed as if they were Acts of Parliaments yet it was provided that no Laws nor Customs might be taken away by them and that the Subjects should not suffer in their Estates Liberties or Persons by them If any offended against them and fled out of the Kingdom that was made Treason It was also provided that if the King's Heirs should reign before they were of Age the Proclamations set out by the Privy Council should have the like force in Law By this the Injunctions that had been given or should be thereafter given were now legally authorized The Statute of Precedence past in this Parliament The King's Vicegerent was to take place of all after the Royal Family and next him among the Clergy came the two Arch-bishops then the Bishops of London and Duresme after them the Bishop of Winchester as Prelate of the Garter and all the other Bishops were to take place according to the Date of their Consecrations A Bill of Attainder past Some attainted without being heard not only confirming the Sentences that had been given against the Marquess of Exeter the Lord Mounticute and others that had been condemned at common Law but of some that were of new attainted without a Trial of these some were absent and others were in Prison but it was not thought fit to bring them to make their Answers The chief of these were the Marchionses of Exeter and the Countess of Sarum Mother to Cardinal Pool It was questioned whether this could be done in Law or not The Judges delivered their Opinion that it was against natural Justice to condemn any without hearing them and that when the Parliament proceeded as a Court they were obliged to follow the common Rules of Equity but if they did otherwise yet since they were the Supream Court of the Nation whatsoever they did could not be reversed The latter part of this was laid hold on and the former was neglected so that Act past This Council was ascribed to Cromwell and he being the first that was executed upon such a Sentence gave occasion to many to observe the Justice of God in making ill Councils turn upon those that gave them When the Parliament was prorogued The King 's Kindnesss to Cranmer the King ordered Cranmer to put in writing all the Arguments he had used against the six Articles and bring them to him He sent also both Cromwell and the Duke of Norfolk to dine with him and to assure him of the Constancy of his Kindness to him At Table they expressed great Esteem for him and acknowledged that he had opposed the six Articles with so much Learning and Gravity that those who differed most from him could not but value him highly for it and that he needed not to fear any thing from the King Cromwell said the King made that difference between him and the rest of his Council that he would not so much as hearken to any Complaints that were made of him and made a Parallel between him and Cardinal Wolsey the one lost his Friends by his Pride and the other gained on his Enemies by his Humility and Mildness the Duke of Norfolk said he could speak best of the Cardinal having been his Man so long this heated Cromwell who answered that he never liked his Manners and tho Wolsey had intended if he had been chosen Pope to have carried him with him to Italy yet he was resolved not to have gone tho he knew the Duke intended to have gone with him Upon this the Duke of Norfolk swore he lied and gave him foul Language This put all the Company in great Disorder They were in some sort reconciled but were never hearty Friends after this Cranmer put his Reasons against the six Articles together and gave them to his Secretary to be written out in a fair Hand for the King's use but he crossing the Thames with the Book in his Bosom met with such an Adventure on the Water as might have at another time sent the Author to the Fire There was a Bear baited near the River which breaking loose run into it and happened to overturn the Boat in which Cranmer's Secretary was and he being in danger of his Life took no care of the Book which falling from him floated on the River and was taken up by the Bear-Ward and put in the hand of a Priest that stood by to see what it might contain he presently found it was a Confutation of the six Articles and so told the Bear-ward that the

Europe in a Flame The next Year Pool sent Ormaneto with some English Divines to visit Cambridge A Visitation of the Universities They put the Churches in which the Bodies of Bucer and Fagius lay under an Interdict They made a Visitation of all the Colledges and Chappels in which Ormaneto shewed great Integrity and without respect of Persons he chid some Heads of Houses whom he found guilty of misapplying the Revenues of their Houses The two dead Bodies were burnt with great solemnity They were raised and cited to appear and answer for the Heresies they had taught and if any would answer for them they were required to come The Dead said nothing for themselves and the living were afraid to do it for fear of being sent after them so Witnesses were examined and in conclusion they were condemned as obstinate Hereticks and the dead Bodies with many Heretical Books were all burnt in one Fire Peru was Vice-Chancellour at this time and happened to be in some Office four years after when by Queen Elizabeth's Order publick honours were done to the Memory of these Learned Men and he obeyed both these Orders with so much zeal that it appeared how exactly he had learned the Lesson so much studied in that Age of serving the time After this there was a Visitation of all the Colledges in Oxford and there it was intended to act such Pageantry on the body of Peter Martyr's Wife as had been done at Cambridge But she that could speak no English had not declared her Opinions so that Witnesses could be found to convict her of Heresie yet since it was notoriously known that she had been a Nun and had broken her Vow of Chastity they raised her Body and buried it in a Dunghill but her Bones were afterwards mixed with Saint Frideswide's by Queen Elizabeth's Order The Justices of Peace were now every where so slack in the Prosecution of Hereticks A severe Inquisition of Hereticks that it seemed necessary to find out other Tools So the Courts of Inquisition were thought on These were set up first in France against the Albigenses and afterwards in Spain for discovering the Moors and were now turned upon the Hereticks Their power was uncontrolable they seised on any they pleased upon such Informations or Presumptions as lay before them They managed their Processes in secret and put their Prisoners to such sorts of Torture as they thought fit for extorting Confessions or Discoveries from them At this time both the Pope and King Philip though they differed in other things agreed in this that they were the only sure means for extirpating Heresie So as a step to the setting them up a Commission was given to Bonner and twenty more the greatest part Lay-men to search all over England for all suspected of Heresie that did not hear Masse go in Processions or did not take Holy bread or Holy water they were authorised three being a Quorum to proceed either by Presentments or other Politick ways they were to deliver all they discovered to their Ordinaries and were to use all such means as they could invent which was left to their discretions and Consciences for executing their Commission Many other Commissions subalterne to theirs were issued out for several Counties and Diocesses This was looked on as such an advance towards an Inquisition that all concluded it would follow ere long The burnings were carried on vigorously in some places and but coldly in most parts for the dislike of them grew to be almost Universal In January More burnings six were burnt in one Fire at Canterbury and four in other parts of Kent 22. were sent out of Colchester to Bonner but it seems Pool had chid him severely for the Fire he had made of thirteen the last Year so he writ to Pool for directions The Cardinal imployed some to deal with the Prisoners and they got them to sign a Paper in general words acknowledging that Christ's Body was in the Sacrament and declaring that they would be subject to the Church of Christ and to their lawful Superiours And upon this they were set at liberty by which it appeared that Pool was willing to have accepted any thing by which he might on the one hand preserve the Lives of those that were informed against and yet not be exposed to the rage of the Pope as a favourer of Hereticks In April three Men and one Woman were burnt in Smithfield In May three were burnt in Southwark condemned by White the new Bishop of Winchester and three at Bristoll Five Men and nine Women were burnt in Kent in June and in the same Month six Men and four Women were burnt at Lewis In July two were burnt at Norwich and in August ten were burnt in one day at Colchester They were some of those 22. that were by Pool's means discharged but the Cruel Priests informed against them and said the favour shewed to them had so encouraged all others that it was necessary to remove the scandal which that mercy of the Cardinals gave and to make Examples of some of them In August one was burnt at Norwich two at Rochester and one at Litchfield One Eagle that went much about from place to place from which he was called Trudge-over was condemned as a Traytor for some words spoken against the Queen But all this Cruelty did not satisfie the Clergy they complained that the Magistrates were backward and did their duty very negligently upon which severe Letters were written to several Towns from the Council-board and zealous Men were recommended to be chosen Mayors in sundry Towns In September three Men and one Woman were burnt at Islington and two at Colchester one at Northampton and one at Laxefield a Woman was burnt at Norwich a Priest with thirteen other Men and three Women were burnt at Chichester In November three were burnt in Smithfield Rough a Scotchman that had a Benefice in K. Edward's time kept a private Meeting at Istington but one of the Company being corrupted discovered the rest so they were apprehended as they were going to the Communion and he and a Woman were burnt in December so 79. were burnt in all this year This Year a horrid Murder of one Argol The Lord Stourton hanged and his Son was committed by the L. Stourton and some of his Servants who after they had butchered them in a most barbarous manner buried them fifteen Foot deep in the ground The Lord Stourton was a zealous Papist and had protested against all the Acts that had past in King Edward's time yet the Queen not only would not pardon him but would not so much as change the Infamous death of hanging into a beheading not because the Prerogative extends not so far as some have without reason asserted for both the Duke of Somerset condemned in the Reign of King Edward and the Lord Audley condemned under King Charles the First for Felony were beheaded but the Queen resolved in this case to