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their hands, and prayed to the image. Vast numbers flocked CHAP. to the sight. And one present (who indeed was the contriver, and formerly belonged to the priory of this cathedral) Anno 1559. told the people the cause, viz. That he could not choose but sweat blood, whilst heresy was then come into the Church. The confusion hereupon was so great, that the assembly brake up; but the people still fell upon their knees, thumping their breasts: and particularly one of the Aldermen and Mayor of the city, whose name was Sedgrave, and who had been at the English service, drew forth his beads, and prayed with the rest before the image. The Lord Sussex and those of the Privy Council hasted out of the choir, fearing some harm.

But the Archbishop of Dublin being displeased, caused a The cheat form to be brought out of the choir, and bade the sexton of discovered. the church to stand thereon, and to search and wash the image, and see if it would bleed afresh. The man soon perceived the cheat, observing a sponge within the hollow of the image's head. This sponge one Leigh (sometime a monk of this cathedral) had soaked in a bowl of blood: and early on Sunday morning, watching his opportunity, placed the said sponge, so swoln and heavy with blood, over the image's head within the crown: and so by little and little the blood soaked through upon the face. The sponge was presently brought down, and shewed to these worshippers; who began to be ashamed: and some of them cursed Father Leigh, (who was soon discovered,) and three or four others that had been the contrivers with him.

The Archbishop the next Sunday preached in the same church before the Lord Lieutenant and the Council, upon 2 Thess. ii. 11. God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe a lie: exposing the cheats, who openly stood there, with Father Leigh, upon a table before the pulpit, with their hands and legs tied, and the crime written on their breasts. This punishment they suffered three Sundays; were imprisoned for some time; and then banished 46 the realm. This converted above an hundred persons present, who swore they would never hear Mass more.

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And further, upon the 10th September 1559, the Archbishop caused this image to be taken down, although he Anno 1559. himself had caused it to be set up at his coming to that see, after it had been pulled down once before by George Brown, the former Archbishop in King Edward's time.

Archbishop of Dublin writes to

our Archbishop about it.

He adviseth

the Queen to remove the crucifix

out of her chapel.

The contents of all this did Archbishop Corwen write in a letter to Archbishop Parker: who was glad thereof; by reason that the Clergy were debating at this present, whether images should stand in the churches, or no; the Queen herself being indifferent in the matter, and rather inclinable to them. But this letter which the Archbishop shewed her, wrought on her to consent for the throwing of images out of the churches; together with many texts of Scripture, which our Archbishop and other Divines had laid before her, for the demolishing of them.

Another of his applications to the Queen about this time must not also be forgotten. The Queen had been prevailed with, that images, and lights, and crucifixes, should be enjoined to be taken away, to prevent that gross idolatry and superstition that the common people had been brought into by means thereof. But she retained nevertheless in her own private closet a crucifix and lighted tapers in divine service. This being so contrary to her own injunctions, and savouring so much of superstition, and that example being so dangerous, the Archbishop elect had the assurance and the honesty to advise her Majesty not to permit these things any longer in her presence: which he did with that gravity and freedom Sir Francis becoming his office, that Sir Francis Knollys sent him a lethim here- ter, October 13, 1559, "wishing him prosperity in all godliupon. MSS. "ness; namely, in his good enterprize against the enormities yet in the Queen's closet retained. Although, said he, "with the Queen's express commandment these toys were “laid aside till now a late." But though Parker did thus discharge his duty, she, I doubt, continued these furnitures of her oratory: which gave such an offence to another of her Bishops, that he could very hardly be induced to minister there before her as may be read more largely in the HisChap. xiii. tory of the Reformation under that Queen.

Knollys to

C. C. C. C.

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The Archbishop elect employed. In commission upon Ministers deprived. Divers Popish Bishops and Divines in the Archbishop's custody. Bishop Tunstal; Bishop Thirleby; Dr. Boxal; Dr. Tresham; and Dr. Richard Smith; some accounts of them. An addition to the Archbishop's coat of arms; given him by Garter. The patent thereof.

The Arch

PARKER, Archbishop elect, remained now in London, or Anno 1559. rather at Lambeth, there being great need of him both at bishop elect Court and elsewhere, with the rest of the Bishops elect and at Lambeth. other Divines, to consult with, concerning matters of the Reformation that was now at hand.

restored to

Among other weighty matters the Archbishop was now Dr. Turner employed in, one was in doing justice to such as had been his deanery. wrongfully deprived and thrown out of their places in the Church under Queen Mary. One of these occurs, namely, William Turner, Doctor of Physic, and a zealous Divine, who under King Edward VI. had been Dean of Wells, but outed in the next reign, and became an exile. He was now restored to his deanery by the judgment of the Archbishop and some others, joined in commission with him. But after his restitution in the year 1560, John Goodman, the last Dean, had procured a commission to certain special persons, named and chosen by himself, and (as it was thought) very partial, to convent the said Dr. Turner, and to remove again 47 him from the said deanery. Whereupon he made supplication to the Queen to inhibit the said commission to proceed against him. Nevertheless, that justice might be indifferently ministered to both parties, she willed and commanded the Lord Keeper, by her letters, to call both parties before him, and to direct a commission in her name, as he was accustomed to do upon appeals, to such indifferent persons as he should think fit, or as they both should accord upon and in the mean season to take order, that Dr. Turner might remain

BOOK in quiet possession: and so he did to his death; which wa I. in the year 1568, being buried in Crutched Friars church, Anno 1559. London: where he hath a monument yet remaining.

Bishop
Tonstal

with him

there;

Now were committed unto the Archbishop's custody divers Popish Bishops, as Cuthbert Tonstal, Bishop of Durham, having been deprived in July; who died in the Archbishop's house at Lambeth in November following, being eighty-five years of age. But before his death, by the Archbishop's means, he was brought off from Papistical fancies. And he declared it his judgment, that the Pope's too far distended power ought to be restrained within his own diocese Matthæus. of Rome. Letters to which purpose he had long before written to Cardinal Pole. Unto which mind he now returned again, after his compliance with the Pope under Queen Mary. And not above fourteen days before his death, while he lived with the Archbishop, he testified to him and others, those letters to Pole to be his; one of which is extant in Fox's Monuments, writ about 1534, and others of them be in MS. in the Cotton Library. Tonstal also allowed of the marriage of Priests, as permitted by the word of God. To all which I may add his judgment in point of justification, which was according to the doctrine of the Reformed: as appears by a book that he wrote and published ann. 1555, in quarto, Contra Blasphematores Johannis Redmanni de Justificatione. Which learned Divine, Dr. Redman, did on his death-bed declare freely his judgment for justification by faith. For which, it seems, several Papists had railed against him after his death; and occasioned this learned Bishop, even under Queen Mary, to take his part in the said book: which is, or was, among our Archbishop's books, by him given to the public library of Cambridge. Of this man Erasmus speaking, gave this character of him in his younger years, before he was Bishop: "That he was a man of a most "unblameable life, exactly skilled in both kinds of learning, ❝and not unversed in any good disciplines."

Besides Tonstal, (whom the Archbishop caused to be de

Is homo est vitæ inculpatissimæ, utriusque literaturæ ad unguem doctus, nec ullius honestæ disciplinæ rudis. Erasm. Ep. xvi. lib. 15.

X.

Anno 1559.

And Bishop

cently buried under a fair stone, with an inscription in brass, CHAP. in the parish church of Lambeth,) he entertained Thirlby, first Bishop of Westminster, late Bishop of Ely; and Boxal, D. D. of New college, Oxon. and late Dean of Peterborough Thirlby, and Windsor; a man, who though he were so great with Dr. Boxal, Queen Mary, yet had the good principle to abstain from the cruel blood-shedding of the Protestants, giving neither his hand nor his consent thereunto. Thomas Tresham, Vice- And Dr. Chancellor of Oxford, was also sent to be with the Arch-Tresham, bishop in custody. But he giving sureties, that he would neither by word nor deed attempt any thing against religion in the behalf of the Papacy, was set at liberty. To his custody also was committed Dr. Richard Smith, once Public And Dr. Professor of Divinity in Oxford, a very fickle man, of whom some things have been spoken in Archbishop Cranmer's Memorials. Being with Archbishop Parker this year, he con- Book ii. vinced him of many errors that he had divulged in a furious chap. 7. book by him writ against the marriage of Priests: insomuch that Smith now pretended to some detestation of it; and declared openly this his detestation of his book at Oxford, in the same schools in which he once read divinity: and he acknowledged there, that it was writ by him out of a vain ostentation of his wit and parts. And that if any doubted of those doctrines which he recanted, he desired such to come to him, and he was ready to satisfy them with very good reasons.

Smith.

sent up

sitors.

Of this Smith I have something more to add: namely, Who was that at the visitation at Oxford, (the Queen's visitors being, from Oxon. among many others, the Lord Williams of Thame, Dr. by the viRichard Cox, Elect of Ely, Sir John Mason, and Dr. Walter Wright, Archdeacon of Oxford,) he did, it seems, refuse the oath of supremacy, required of him. Upon which he was sent up to the Council, and the Council remitted him to the 48 Archbishop, and the Bishop of London, to whom they writ their letters to deal with Smith, to take the oath to the Queen and the Archbishop was successful therein, and persuaded him to take it, and to make a subscription with his hand to the same purpose. Concerning which, the Arch-The Archbishop bishop writ a letter to the Council, together with Smith's writes to