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I have only one thing more to say of Grindal with respect I. to Fox's work: that he also supplied him with collections of Anno 1558. matters that happened before these times, whereof one was A particular so remarkable, that by setting Grindal's name under it he communi- might acknowledge whence he had the relation. The pas cated by him to Fox. sage is concerning the death of the pious Mr. Stafford, 22 Reader of Divinity in Cambridge about 1528, when religion

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first began to shew itself there. The story was this. There was one there of great fame for his skill in the black art, and therefore was commonly called Sir Henry Conjurer. This man at last fell sick of the plague. Out of compassion to whose soul at this time, that good man ventured his own life by resorting to him; and there so effectually argued with him of his former wicked life and practices, that he brought him to repentance, and caused all his conjuring books to be burnt before his face. Thus he endeavoured to save that man's soul, though he lost his own life by it; for he got the infection, went home, and died. To this story are subjoined these words, Ex testimonio D. Ridlei et Edmundi Episc. Lond. The meaning whereof I suppose was, that Ridley might have told this to his chaplain Grindal, and he to Fox.

Hastened home

CHAP. III.

Grindal comes home. Employed in the Reformation of Religion; and in a public Disputation. Preaches at the Court, and St. Paul's. One of the Queen's Visitors. Visitation of London. He and other eminent exiles preach at St. Paul's. Nominated for the see of London. His scruples. Consults with Peter Martyr about various usages in this Church. His answers. Grindal elect, his Letter to the Queen about exchanges. His concern about the crucifix in the Queen's Chapel.

bouee upon IT pleased God to bring him home sooner than he thought, Mary's to exercise his talent in his own country. For upon the

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access of Queen Elizabeth to the crown, there was need of CHAP. Grindal to assist in the work of the restitution and government of the Church of England, lately much defaced by Anno 1558. Popery. And therefore he was hastened home; and was ready to depart for England in December 1558, that is, the very next month after Queen Mary's death. Being come home, he was soon employed in several weighty ecclesiastical affairs.

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And first, when a form of prayer and public worship was The use thought fit to be drawn up and prepared, which might be ready to be presented against the Queen's first Parliament sat, to be laid before the House, and other matters to be deliberated for the reformation of the Church; there were some few learned and wise men set apart privately for this weighty work; whereof Mr. Grindal was one; who it is likely, having been chaplain and very intimate with Bishop Ridley, was well acquainted with the reasons and methods used under King Edward in the composing the Common Prayers, wherein that Bishop, with Archbishop Cranmer, had the chief hand. And in Sir Thomas Smith's lodgings 23 in Cannon-row in Westminster, did he and the rest meet accordingly, from time to time, that first winter.

I find him at this work, upon Dr. Edwin Sandys (one of this number) his presenting this assembly with a paper by him drawn up, of certain things which he judged needful to be redressed: one whereof was, that private baptism, where-Instances of his judgin women sometimes took upon them to baptize, might be ment in taken out of the book; for which he thought the Queen matters to was to be solicited. At which Grindal wrote his judgment ed." in the margin in these words: Potest fieri in Synodo; i.e. It may be done in the Synod. Which Synod was ere long to be called together.

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There was another paper drawn up for ecclesiastical discipline laid before these Divines, now or some time after, it is uncertain, which passed also Grindal's eye and censure, and had his emendations and additions by his own hand, which I have seen among Mr. Petyt's manuscripts. In one article of this paper it was thought fit it should be enjoined to min- Petyt's

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used in the Popish time; and that wisely and warily, for the avoiding of offence at that nice time: shewing his judgment herein quite contrary to the innovators, who would have no difference at all in apparel between the clergy and laity. For so was one of their queries made some time after in Ann. of the their appeal to Bullinger, the learned foreigner: viz. whe

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ther laws for garments ought to be prescribed to churchmen, to distinguish them from laymen? Another article was in favour of small vicarages and livings, for the obliging the impropriators to augment them; and that ordinaries, with the assistance of one or two justices, might have authority to tax the parishioners of great towns, for the bettering of the stipends of them that ministered there. But this article our Divine thought a tender point, to lay this burden upon the people, and therefore gave his judgment in the margin, Consideretur melius, i. e. that it was better to be considered of: and after, upon consideration of it, it was thought fit to be omitted; for it is in the paper crossed out. To another article in this paper, viz. about orders for pluralists and non-residents, he subjoined this seasonable clause: And for such as had livings, and had obtained licences to live beyond seas only upon misliking of religion; as many priests at this time did. These instances are produced, not only to shew that he was employed in the first reforming of religion, but of his prudent and grave advice and conduct therein. Grindal ap- Again, when in March following a solemn conference was pointed to held publicly at Westminster, whereat was present the Lord Popish Bi- Keeper, and many other of the nobility and gentry; and shops. White Bishop of Winchester, Watson of Lincoln, and Abbot Feckenham, with some few more Popish bishops, undertook to make good some Papistical principles; Grindal was one of the eight Protestant Divines selected to enter the lists against them. Which disputation is more largely spoken of Chap. v. p. in the Annals of the Reformation.

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He was also upon occasion called forth to preach. And

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in the Queen's first Lent, on the 23d of February, he CHAP. preached before her Majesty. In which Lent there preached also divers other learned Protestant Divines, and the first of Anno 1558, note in King Edward's time; viz. Dr. Cox, Dr. Parker, Dr. before the Bill, Dr. Sandys, Mr. Whitehead; all whom, excepting the Queen. second and third, had but lately come from exile.

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Paul's, at

The English Service Book, that had been enacted in the Anno 1559. late Parliament to be used throughout the churches of England, began Sunday May 12, 1559, in the Queen's chapel. The Wednesday after, May 15, it began to be read at St. Paul's church. And for the more solemn introducing it Preaches at there was a sermon, which Grindal was made choice of to the first make, together with a very august assembly of the Court reading of present; viz. the Queen's Privy Council, the Duke of Nor-mon Prayer folk, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Lord Treasurer, the Lord Marquis of Northampton, the Lord Admiral, the Earls of Arundel, Sussex, Westmoreland, and Rutland, the Lord Russel, and many more lords and knights; the Lord Mayor also and Court of Aldermen. And sermon being done, they all departed to the Lord Mayor's to dinner.

In the summer of this year 1559, the Queen's visitation was on foot all over England, to require the oath of supremacy, to inspect cathedrals and the manners of the clergy, and the like.

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Then was our Divine employed, being one of the Queen's Employed commissioners for that royal visitation, in the north. When among other things then done, he deprived him that was sitation in the unworthy governor of Sherborn hospital for Papistry; and who had made such unreasonable leases and grants, that that house, that maintained a great number of poor, was like to go into utter decay: a practice commonly used by the Popish Clergy in these times. We shall hear hereafter (viz. under the year 1574) the endeavours Grindal, being then Archbishop of York, used to make void those leases.

And as distinct visitors were appointed by the Queen's special commission for each part, so London and the parts Visitation adjacent had their peculiar commissioners. Of these I can

of London.

BOOK only assign Dr. Rob. Horn, an exile, not long after this I. Bishop of Winton. This being afterwards the chief city of Anno 1559. Mr. Grindal's see, I shall hint a few things of the visitation

of it. And the first and chief care seemed to be taken for the reforming of the city of London, that commonly gave the example to all the rest of the realm.

To trace, therefore, a little this visitation. Those few friars and nuns who were anew instituted, and set up of late under Queen Mary, were discharged: for July 4, the priests and nuns of Sion and Charter-house departed; and 25 on the 12th the black friars in Smithfield, and the Abbot of Westminster and the monks there, were deprived. On the 18th of July the visitors sat at the Bishop of London's palace. In this visitation they took care to have all the utensils and instruments of superstition and idolatry demolished and destroyed out of the churches where God's pure service was to be set up; such as the roods, that is, the images of Christ upon the cross, with Mary and John standing by; also images of other saints, tutelaries of the churches, to whom they were dedicated, Popish books, altars, and the like; as knowing that while these things remained, the practices of idolatry must almost necessarily be continued among the ignorant people, and the reformation of religion be greatly obstructed.

St. Paul's purged, and other

And first, the cathedral church of St. Paul's was to be purged. The visitors sat there August 11. Then Harpschurches. field, Bishop Bonner's chaplain, and divers others belonging to that church, were summoned. On the 21st the visitors sat at St. Bride's, where the two church-wardens and two others were sworn to bring in a true inventory of that church. And so, I suppose, were the respective churchwardens of divers other parish churches within that precinct. The 22d they sat at St. Laurence in the Jury, the 23d at St. Michael's in Cornhill; inquisition being chiefly made in each for church goods. And so likely at other churches.

Popish images

burnt.

The 24th, being St. Bartholomew's day, was the first day the burning of Popish relics began. And it was so ordered as to be seen of the Lord Mayor, the Aldermen, foreign

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