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BOOK " and behaviours for ourselves, for the preachers, and other "inferior Ministers within our church, we know none that Anno 1564. “liveth unorderly, or to use himself otherwise than is by "order prescribed and permitted by the Queen's Highness Injunctions.

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This year did Grindal Bishop of London, and Skamler

ated Doc- Bishop of Peterborough, go out Doctors of Divinity per tors in Di- gratiam, in the University of Cambridge.

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Proceedings with Sampson and Humfrey. Sampson deprived, and confined. The Archbishop's kindness to him in letters wrote in his behalf. His grave advice to him. Other recusants silenced. Among the rest, Withers of Bury. His letter to the Archbishop of compliance. Some are winked at.

THE Archbishop was now arrived to the sixty-first year Anno 1565. of his age; and all the remainder of his days from hence to his grave was imbittered by the labours and pains he had with such as would not comply with the established rites and orders of the Church. The former part of this year The Archwas taken up in very uneasy work to the Archbishop and his Fellows, viz. in pressing conformity to the ceremonies, why. and to the habits chiefly; and in citing and censuring those that yielded not due obedience.

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We come now to pursue the proceedings with Sampson Sampson and Humfrey; who, being the heads of this party, had been frey will summoned up from Oxford before the Archbishop and the not comply. Commissioners ecclesiastical, with whom we left them earnestly debating the last year. With these they did not only contend about the points in controversy both in words and

BOOK writings, but they appealed to the learnedest foreign Divines III. of the reformed Churches, whose judgments they themAnno 1565. selves had sent over in their letters, that there might be a

means of allaying these contests, as we shall hear more of by and by but nothing could move them. No, though Bishop Grindal prayed Sampson even with tears that he would but now and then, in the public meetings of the University, put on the square cap, but could not prevail with him to do so. So they, utterly refusing to conform 185 themselves, were both confined. But the storm fell upon Sampson chiefly, who being in so eminent a place in the University, and for fear his example might have too great an influence among the students, was, by a special order from the Queen, deprived of his deanery by the Archbishop and Commissioners.

Sampson deprived.

Humfrey

retires to

Humphrey, after confinement in London for some time, Mrs. War- got leave to depart home; retiring for a time to the house of cup's house. the pious widow Mrs. Warcup, dwelling in Oxfordshire or

Humfrey

to Fox, to

Duke of

Berks; the same that was so remarkably charitable to the poor afflicted under Queen Mary. Being here, he wrote a letter May 24. to his friend John Fox, lamenting the present condition of their affairs; and knowing what an interest Fox had in the Duke of Norfolk, whose tutor he had been, and for whom the Duke had expressed a long time a very great respect, Humphrey excited him to use all his influence with the said Duke; that he, by letter or by word of mouth, would procure a forbearance of these impositions. And the Duke indeed seemed well inclined hereunto. For when Humphrey was at Norwich not long before, the Duke promised him his endeavour in many kind words. But if we desire to see the earnest concern this learned man had for this cause, I shall here set down a part of his letter.

Nostra res quo in statu sint, in quo lubrico et scopuloso move the loco versentur, non ignoras, audis, vides, ingemiscis. Quibus autem modis tantæ miseria sublevari possint, quo tot MSS. Foxii. malis salutaris medicina adhiberi queat, non reperio, non invenio, nescio. Tu siquid nosti, communica; ne desis

Norfolk.

1.

Anno 1565.

causa bona, officio tuo, laboranti Ecclesia. Siquid Ducis CHAP. Nor. litera, opera, gratia, authoritas valere possunt, age, effice, ut vel scribat ad suos serio et sæpe, vel præsens cum aliis instet, urgeat. Miseret me fratrum; aliorum qui summi et primi esse volunt, pudet. Dux, cum essem Norwici, longè et prolixè pollicitus est omnia. Deus sic illi dux sit, sic regat et flectat alios, ut congruentibus animis et studiis in causam honestissimam, sed deploratissimam, incumbant. Ultimum ac præstantissimum refugium est, ardens ad Deum hominum bonorum comprecatio, pro Regina serenissima, pro consiliariis honoratissimis, pro Episcopis, pro Ecclesia. Tu, mi Foxe, ora, intercede, clama, ac vale in Domino, qui tuos omnes labores sanctificet ac fortunet, uxorem et liberos conservet. Anglia ex ædibus D. Warcoppa, pia et lectissima vidua. Maii 20.

T. totus Laur. Humfredus.

Notwithstanding, Humphrey, for his usefulness in the University, had a toleration till ten or eleven years after, when he complied, and wore the habits. But even this present Presented year 1565. he was presented to a benefice in the diocese to a living. of Sarum, by the Bishop of Winton, with the mild Archbishop's consent, as it seemed, though Jewel, the Bishop of the diocese, made some stop to it. Humphrey had a little before felt the pulse of these Bishops assembled in the ecclesiastical commission; and found the Bishop of Winton contented to pleasure him, and had the Archbishop's favour too; but Bishop Jewel seemed more difficult. Yet Humphrey thought he would not refuse to admit him at last; which was the cause that he had not spared his purse nor travail about this living. That Bishop objected to him St. Paul's ἀκαταστασία; meaning either that confusion spoken of by him, 1 Cor. xiv. 33. God is not the author of confusion, but of peace; or those tumults, (the same word in the Greek,) 2 Cor. xii. 20. whisperings, swellings, tumults, which the Apostle layeth to the charge of the same Corinthians. The Bishop also told him, that diversities in God's worship B b

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BOOK was deformity; and that it was a sufficient cause of deprivation. What Humfrey's answers were, he gave in a letter Anno 1565. to the Bishop, dated Decemb. 20, from Oxon, to this purport: "That his Lordship's stay hung upon a small point. That " he never was author of confusion: for that was, he said, a horrible crime. But that he had studied to live in peace "and concord with his brethren, and in due obedience to"wards his betters; and that so he purposed, by the grace "of God, to do. But that he took this matter far otherwise "than his Lordship did signify it to be, both in nature and "substance; and in all circumstances, as appeared by the “word ȧxataσtaría in St. Paul. And that if diversity in "outward ceremonies were deformity, if it were any confu❝sion, if it were a sufficient cause of deprivation, if it were a 186" necessary parcel and essential piece of the ministry, that "none might be without it; if this congruity and prescrip"tion came not directly from the Pope, and if it were be"fore the Popedom; then I am, said he, much deceived. "But that whatever it were, light or great, order or disorder, "it forced not. And that, as he writ before, so he again "assured his Lordship, that his desire was not to innovate

any thing that way, or to violate their ecclesiastical ordi"nances by example, thought, or counsel. He added, that the 66 man that then served the cure, he heard was conformable 66 enough, and that he himself, when he preached, should not "transgress. That therefore if he offended not in his dio"cese, he trusted the Bishop would not be offended out of his "diocese. In short, that this was the first living or bene"fice that ever was granted him: and for that he had pass"ed the Scillis and Syrtis of Popish Proctors by the Arch

bishop of Canterbury's favour, and the Bishop of Winton's "patronage, now it rested upon his friendship; and in por"tu to make shipwreck, it would grieve him, and to take a "repulse by him [the Bishop] would comfort Mr. Saye, "whose prophecy of his not having it would by the Bishop's means be verified." What effect and issue this earnest letter had with the Bishop, I do not find. But in

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