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BOOK said Master of the hospital should, out of the annual rents III. thereof, make the payments of the said salaries, as afore

Anno 1569. said.

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Norfolk,

Lincoln.

The foresaid indenture of the 22d of May was made between William Murphet, Clerk, Master of the hospital of the poor of Eastbridge, in the city of Canterbury, and John Porie, D. D. Master or Keeper of Corpus Christi college in Cambridge. The said William and his successors to pay to the said Master or Keeper yearly, at the choir door in the church of Westminster, on the west part of the said church, at the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, or within thirty days next following, the sum of twenty-seven pound, thirteen shillings, and four pence, for and during the term of two hundred years. In consideration of which, the Master or Keeper of the said college should admit and receive into the said college, for the increase of the number of scholars there, two scholars, to be named and chosen by the Master of the hospital and Dean of Christ's church, Canterbury, to be taken out of the freeschool in Canterbury, and such as should be born within the county of Kent.

And further, by another indenture, dated the last of May Suffolk, and this same year, it appears the Archbishop obtained from the Queen, out of certain tenements, situate in Westminster, in a place called Long Ditch, in the parish of St. Margaret's, an annual clear rent of eight pound, thirteen shillings, and four pence, for the more happy progress and increase of three scholars in the college of Corpus Christi, or Bene't college. And because the foresaid cathedral church of Can terbury had some part of their farms and possessions within the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, by a certain agreement and consent it was determined, that two of the three foresaid scholars might be freely taken by the Dean and Chapter out of them, who were the children of their tenants, in the said farms and possessions, if their parents did crave and desire it. The third to be of the county of Lincoln; of the cathedral church whereof the Archbishop was sometime Dean. Which three, after they should be sufficiently in

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structed in grammar learning, the said Dean and Chapter CHAP. were to send from the school to the said college, to enjoy the same benefit, table, and stipend, as other scholars of that Anno 1569. college had a right to; as by an instrument between the said Dean and Chapter, and the foresaid Master and Fellows, did appear. And here the Archbishop made a wise proviso, viz. that the Master and Fellows might increase or diminish the said sum to the scholars, according as the said living should increase or diminish: foreseeing what improvements might in aftertimes be made of those tenements.

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Still further, this same year, he founded two fellowships Founds two fellowships and two scholarships more, in Bene't college, appropriated to and two Norwich. For which, and other charitable uses, he paid scholarships three hundred and twenty pounds to the mayor, sheriffs, Norwich. citizens, and commonalty of the said city. In consideration of which money there was an indenture made, August the 6th, 11. Regin. between the said mayor, sheriffs, &c. and the said college; wherein the former gave and granted to the 291 college an annuity of eighteen pound of lawful money, out of all and singular the messuages, lands, tenements, &c. lying within the parishes of the said city, hamlets, or fields, belonging unto the same, which they had in the right of their corporation; to employ the same annuity for several uses and purposes. As, to the use of two Fellows yearly to be found, and to continue within the said college; likewise to the use and towards the exhibition of two grammar scholars, to be sent out of the schools at or in the city of Norwich, Wymondham, or Aylsham, to the said college; and other uses.

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The Archbishop also made certain articles, or ordinances, Makes ordiconcerning these two fellowships, and also concerning the them. ninth and tenth fellowships, and concerning the two Norwich scholars, viz. that these two Fellows be called the Norwich Fellows, and always to be at the order of the election of the Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi college, as they chose other Fellows of the same house. That these two Fellows might enjoy any pension or canonship, prebend or prebends, in any cathedral or collegiate church, without cure, valued not above ten pounds in the book of

BOOK first-fruits and tenths: and that the ninth and tenth Fellows III. might enjoy, with their fellowships, the like ecclesiastical Anno 1569. livings, valued not above six pound in the said books. By reason of which preferments the said four Fellows were bound to teach freely the five Norwich Scholars. That if the two Norwich Fellows, the ninth or tenth Fellows, or any of them, would not or could not enjoy in their own persons such canonship or canonships, prebend or prebends, that then the Master and Fellows for the time being should have the disposition thereof, pro hac vice tantum, with such convenient consideration as should seem best unto their consciences, to the relief of the four Fellows aforesaid, and five Norwich Scholars. And that every the said Fellows, at the acceptation or presentation of the said ecclesiastical livings, should enter into sufficient bonds to the Master and Fellows, and that at their departure out of the said fellowships they should resign up their said ecclesiastical livings, to the behalf of such as should succeed them in their rooms. And here let me add, that, for the more convenience and benefit of the Scholars founded by him, he afterwards, anno 1574, allotted them chambers in the college, and procured them several books to be used in common by them in their studies. Whereby he saved them much money, that must otherwise have gone out of their purses to provide them. The chambers were on the east side of the college; for three of which (if no more) the Archbishop provided implements, viz. beds, mattresses, bolsters, and coverlids of tapestry, chairs, and tables; that is, one of each sort belonging to each chamber. Which cost him ten pound eight shillings. The books, which were for the common use of all the six Norwich Scholars, were chained, and remained within the under-chamber of the tenth chamber on the east side. And they were these:

Provides his
Scholars

chambers;

And books.

Textus Biblia cum Gloss. Lyra in quatuor voluminibus. Novum Testamentum Græcum, cum versionibus Vulgat. et Erasmi.

Paraphrasis Erasmi super Novum Testament. in duob. voluminib. Latinè.

Concordantia Bibliorum.

Lexicon Græco-Latinum, recognitum an. 1562.

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Thesaurus Lingua Roman. et Britannic. per Thom. Cooper, anno 1565.

Thesaurus Lingua Latin. in trib. voluminib. recognit. anno 1561.

Lexicon Latino-Græc. anno 1554.

Historia Antiquitat. Cantabrigiæ. anno 1574.

Anno 1569.

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This year the Archbishop expressed a further testimony Gives a baof his good-will to his native city of Norwich, by presenting sin and (as a new-year's gift) a basin and ewer, whole gilt, weigh- Norwich. ing an hundred, threescore, and fifteen ounces, to the Mayor, Sheriffs, and Citizens thereof. For which they gave a bond of an hundred pound, to Bene't college, never to alienate it, except for urgent causes of necessity, as might be thought reasonable to the Master of the said college. On the outward bottom of the basin was this inscribed, Matthaus Parker, Norvicens. Archiepisc. Cantuar. dedit eidem civi-292 tat. 1. Jan. anno Dom. 1569. et anno consecrationis sua XI. ætatis suæ vero 66.

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I meet with these persons preferred this year by the Preferred Archbishop; viz. Radulphus Cavelarius, (Hebrew ProfesArchbishop. sor at Cambridge,) admitted Jan. 27, to the seventh pre-Regist. bend of Christ's church, Canterbury and Thomas Lawse, Clerk, admitted the 13th of February, to the government of the hospital of East Bridge in Canterbury.

Parker.

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I end this year with the emergence of an excellent man, Cecil, the Secretary Cecil, out of a very great danger of disgrace, if Archbishop's great not of death; most of the great men about the Queen com- friend, recobining to bring her into displeasure with him. He was the Queen's Archbishop's chief and fast friend, and to whom he con- favour. stantly made his applications on all occasions, (as is evident by what hath been already said,) and so did all the rest of the good Bishops in their affairs and necessities. So that on his safety and credit with the Queen, the Church's welfare in great measure depended. In what strength and security this great patron and friend of the Archbishop and hierarchy now again stood, after a desperate shock, I had rather express in his own words than mine. Writing thus to a friend

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BOOK of his. "I am in quietness of mind, as feeling the nearness "and readiness of God's favour to assist me with his grace, Anno 1569. " to have a disposition to serve him, before the world. And "therein have I lately proved his mere goodness to preserve 66 me from some clouds or mists; in the midst whereof I "trust mine honest actions are proved to have been lightsome and clear. And to make this rule more proper and "special to be applied, I find the Queen's Majesty, my gra"cious good Lady, without change of any part of her old "good meaning towards me. And so I trust only by God's goodness to observe the continuance. I am also presently "moved to believe, that all my Lords, from the greatest to "the meanest, think my actions honest and painful, and do "profess inwardly to bear me as much good-will as ever "they did heretofore."

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