"description of him, but that he seems to be a person who "has studied the law, and perused our historians care"fully."

Number 6.

Observations and corrections of the two volumes of the History of the Reformation, made by Mr. Strype.

P. 99. 1. 5. from bottom. Staphileus was a bishop; Simoneta was dean of the rota.

P. 107. 1. 16. S. Greg. Cassali was not then at Rome, but at Orviet, where the pope was at that time. Staphileus was not yet come: and when he came, he did not promote, but hindered the king's business all he could. See Gardiner's Letters.

P. 109. 1. 18. This was the third commission sent from the pope. The first was sent from Rome by Gambera, and the second from Orvieto, brought over by Fox, but both were disliked; so this was now obtained.

P. 227. 1. 19. they cried out.] It was only one: "quidam "respondebat." Jour. Convoc.

P. 255. 1. 3. Stow is in the right for in a letter of Cranmer's to Hawkins, then the king's ambassador with the emperor, dated in June, from Croydon, he wrote, "Queen "Anne was married much about St. Paul's day last; as "the condition thereof doth well appear, by reason she is "now somewhat big with child."

P. 262. 1. 21. The number of those who voted being only twenty-three, must be understood only of the divines : for the second question was put only to the jurists, who (in those times) exceeded the divines in number, and they did all vote in the affirmative: so that the numbers did far exceed twenty-three.

P. 265. 1. 7. Cranmer, in a letter, gives this account of the final sentence of divorce, in these words: "As touching "the final determination and concluding of the matter of "divorce between my lady Katherine and the king's grace: "after the convocation in that behalf had determined and "agreed, according to the former sentence of the universi

"ties; it was thought convenient, by the king and his "learned council, that I should repair to Dunstable,—and "there to call her before me, to hear final sentence in this "said matter. Notwithstanding she would not at all obey "thereunto. On the 8th of May, according to the said ap

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pointment, I came to Dunstable; my lord of Lincoln be"ing assistant to me: and my lord of Winchester, Dr. Bell, "Dr. Claybroke, Dr. Tregonnel, Dr. Sterkey, Dr. Olyver, "Dr. Britton, Mr. Bedel, with divers others learned in the "law, being counsellors for the king. And so there, at our

coming, kept a court, for the appearance of the said lady "Katherine: where we examined certain witnesses; who "testified that she was lawfully cited,—and called to appear, "as the process of the law thereunto belongeth: which ❝ continued fifteen days after our first coming thither. The "morrow after Ascension-day I gave sentence therein; how "that it was indispensible for the pope to license any such "marriage." All this is taken out of Cranmer's letter to Hawkins.

P. 271. 1. 20. Queen Elizabeth was born the 13th or 14th day of September: for so Cranmer wrote to Hawkins; and says, that he himself was godfather at her christening, and the old duchess of Norfolk and the marchioness of Dorset were godmothers.

P. 336. 1. 26. Tracy's business was never in the bishop of London's court: it was brought into the convocation, by the prolocutor, on the 24th of February 1530; and, after eighty days, the archbishop gave sentence against the will, and condemned it. In another session the bishop of London read the sentence in the archbishop's name. It was also decreed, that Tracy died a heretic, and his body was ordered to be dug up, and cast a great way from ecclesiastical sepulture. The prolocutor had indeed moved, that his body should be burnt; but the sentence went not so far: yet the execution of it being committed to Parker, chancellor of Worcester, he went further than the sentence warranted him, and burnt the body.

P. 453. 1. 4. from bottom. The seventh article is wholly

omitted, for providing a Bible in Latin and English, and laying it in the choir.

P. 491. 1. 4. Not a convocation, but a commission from the king to bishops and other learned divines.

P. 495. 1. 15. Somner saith, "that Becket's bones were "burnt to ashes."

COLLECTION OF RECORDS.

P.234.1.17. Roanen.] King, abbot of Osney, had the title episcopus Roanensis: he was afterwards bishop of Oxford. P. 312. This letter was drawn by Gardiner; but it is not certain that it was sent.

P. 316. The agreement at the end of these questions is in Cranmer's hand. Cott. Libr. Cleopatra, E. 5.

P. 476. and 480. Two papers said to be Cranmer's; but they are not written by him, nor by his secretary: so it does not appear that they are his.

P. 488. col. 2. 1. 5. It is not Redman: it is difficult to be read. It seems to be Edmondes.

P. 547. 1. 29. For the, r. our.

P. 548. 1. 9. For directors probable, r. direct and probable.

Corrections of the second volume.

P. 2. 1. 9. Queen Jane died the 24th of October, in a journal written by Cecil; that was in twelve days after king Edward's birth: so it is in the herald's office. Line 13. The duke of Suffolk was godfather at his confirmation, not at his baptism.

P. 52. 1. 3. from bottom. This rule was not observed; in some circuits there were four visitors; in others six; in some no civilians; in some two divines; in some one gentleman; and in some three. See Cranmer's Mem. p. 146.

P. 54. 1. 23. These titles are not as they are in the original book they are only abridged.

P. 56. marg. articles and injunctions.] The injunctions are only abstracted, not the articles.

P. 59. 1. 7. These articles are not in bishop Sparrow's Collection, but were printed anno 1547.

P. 81. 1. 16. The lord Rich made the speech mentioned, though not inserted in the Lords' Journal.

P. 88. 1. ult. The archbishop of Canterbury might use his own name in all faculties and dispensations.

P. 145. 1. 26. This Catechism was first made in Latin by another, but translated by Cranmer's order, and it was reviewed by him.

P. 167. 1. 9. This proclamation was printed by Grafton, among king Edward's proclamations.

P. 248. 1. 23. The two colleges of Clare Hall and Trinity Hall could not be brought to surrender, in order to the uniting them. Some visitors were for doing it by the king's absolute power: to this Ridley would not agree; and for this he was complained of.

P. 310. 1. 13. The duke of Somerset was not then fallen; it was between his two falls. The proceedings in council are signed by him. L. 17. Fox says, it is so in king Edward's Journal.

P. 319. 1. 14. The passport was signed in March 1554, to go with four servants and three horses.

P. 328. 1. 29. These reasons were drawn up by Ridley. P. 335. 1. 6. This was not before Cranmer, but long after; before archbishop Parker.

P. 342. 1. 12. The greater part of the bishops were enemies to the reformation.

P. 375. 1. 29. He was sick before; for a commission was granted to some to do the business of the chancery.

P. 405. I. 13. Cranmer's part is thus expressed, Summæ negotii præfuit.

P. 468. 1. 15. On the 8th of July also they sent for the mayor and certain aldermen, and told them of the king's death, and of the succession; but bade them keep it secret. L. 28. give pardon, r. she wrote, she was ready to remit and pardon; and that she could take their doings in good part.

P. 471. 1. 8. For Robert r. Richard.

P. 486. I. 15. Yet in the second session of this parliament, a private act passed to make void the duke of Norfolk's attainder.

P. 496. 1. 21. The reason of the wounding himself was the trouble of mind that he felt for his compliance, upon bishop Day's communication with him the day before.

P. 506. 1. 22. Yet Tregonnel, a prebendary of Westminster, sat in the house in the second sessions of this parliament.

P. 520. 1. 14. Cardinal Pole was stopped in his journey by Mendoza, sent post to him from the emperor, desiring him not to proceed in his journey; upon which he went back to Diling, a town belonging to the cardinal of Ausbourg.

P. 543. 1. 8. Poinet wrote a book to justify resisting the queen; which I have seen.

P. 548. 1. 14. Cheek was sent to the Tower with the duke of Suffolk, and had licence to travel. L. 19. They did not render themselves, but were seized in their journey; bound and thrown into a cart, and sent prisoners to England.

P. 549. 1. 8. Seven persons were discovered to be complices. The words spoken from the wall were against the queen, the prince of Spain, the mass, and confession.

P. 553. 1. 6. Hopton, by the regist. of Cant. was consecrated the 28th of October; Anthony Harmer, p. 134. says it was the 25th of October.

P. 561. 1. 16. The bill was to avoid, and not to revive, the statute of the six articles.

P. 637. 1. 25. Shaxton did not condemn them: Fuller, the bishop's chancellor, condemned them. Steyward, dean of Ely, and Christopherson, dean of Norwich, with others, were in the commission, but the chancellor was the chief. P. 645. 1. 22. Heath was appointed chancellor on new year's day.

P. 648. 1. 4. from bottom. justices of peace.] The bill was, that no servants to gentlemen, and wearing their clothes, (except the king and queen's) should be justices. It was read the second time on the 12th of November.