II. 66 BOOK "I protest afore God, I write this simply and plainly to your lordship, as manifest cause doth enforce. Therefore Anno 1579. they were in time to be looked unto." To which I may add, that Fitz Morice and the earl of Desmond also in Ireland broke out into rebellion there this year. The former had been with the pope, and obtained a consecrated banner from him, and letters of recommendation to the Spaniard. And also authority of a legate was granted to Saunders the Jesuit. The queen will not allow mon Yet the queen, in these transactions with that French prince, took care for the security of religion in her realm; sieur the absolutely refusing to allow to that prince the exercise of the Roman the Roman religion here; the laws of the kingdom not perreligion.mitting it, and the dangers otherwise likely to ensue to the exercise of Titus, B. 2. peaceable state of her subjects considered. Take some short account of this matter from a letter of Malvesier, the French ambassador, among the papers of the Cotton library; giving this account of his communication with the Malvesier's queen. He wrote, "that she had told him, that she would letter. "maintain the religion that she was crowned in, and that "she was baptized in: and would suppress the papistical "religion, that it should not grow. But that she would "root out puritanism, and the favourers thereof. And that "she had rather be the last of her line without marriage, "than monsieur should innovate or alter any thing in her "reformed church. Which might suffice in her resolution "to content her subjects without further disputation of that "which appertained; and to them [the ambassadors] to be "carriers of [to France.]" the queen about her A letter to I meet with a notable paper, being a private letter of some nobleman, giving his advice to the queen concerning marriage. marriage; when it was propounded by way of humble address to her divers years past. And though it were so long ago, yet being a letter to her majesty, and having so many remarkable passages in it of this argument, let me have leave to preserve a memorial of it here. It was thus only endorsed by secretary Cecyll's hand, The queen's marriage, February 10, 1562. It was writ in or soon after XV. tents there parliament-time, by some ancient personage of eminency, CHAP. wisdom, and experience; and that had lately both written to her, and discoursed with her of this affair by word of Anno 1579. mouth. The main drift whereof was to persuade her, for the peace and quiet, and safe state of her kingdoms, to marry. That there might be an heir to succeed her, thereby to stop the parliament's urging for an entail to the crown. For the letter was occasioned by a suit in that parliament moved to the queen for her marriage; and also for an entail by heir to be nominated of the succession to the crown, in case of her leaving the world without heir. "That the The con"matter he should write to her majesty about, did import of. Cott. li"to the contentation and quiet of her own mind, and to brary. "the perpetual tranquillity and peace of the realm, being "perfected in a right course; or to the contrary, if by pri"vate affection managed, it were otherwise finished than it 66 ought. That the greatest matter that he or any man "alive at that day could remember, was now brought into "deliberation. And that therefore, as well the parliament's "motion, as her majesty's answer, required a serious con"sideration. That concerning the succession, he himself 569 "had heard king Henry the Eighth say, that the greatest "anchor-hold to this crown after Henry I. took root in a fe"male, Mawde, that king's heir." And then proceeding in a long discourse of the pedigree of the kings of England, he spake against entailing of the crown to be done by the queen, (which some then propounded,) and that she should name her successor: to which he said, "that still the suc"cession to this crown was to their own children, or bre"thren or sisters' children: and so left it to the next right "heir." He took occasion to mention the government of the realm of France, that appointed the crown to the heir male only, excluding the females. And so, it seems, some liked to be done here. Whereupon he shewed, "how after by disheri son of a female never realm had suffered more calamity. II. BOOK "call together her judges, barons of the exchequer, her "sergeants, attorneys general of the duchy and of the Anno 1579. “wards: and in her own person to adjure them to declare "it unto her under their hands, in whom, by the laws of "the land, the right rested. And to keep secret to them"selves their opinion therein, but only reveal it to her majesty. And that then she might close or discover the same, as time should require.” 66 66 In fine, "He persuaded her to be a sort of Christ, a re"deemer and a saviour unto us: and to take upon her "marriage: to bring forth princely children. And then "she should not need to fear the entail. Then should her majesty be quiet, and we happy." But I refer the reader to the whole letter, (whereof this is but a very imperfect scantling,) recommending itself to us, both in respect of the dignity of the writer, and the curiousness of the subject. Numb. XX. It will be found in the Appendix. The earl of dislike with about the French match. And here for a conclusion of this subject, I shall relate a Leicester in passage of the earl of Leicester; who, however he carried the queen it at this juncture, and assisted at the council in this weighty affair, and entertained the French ambassador, yet fell at this time in great dislike with the queen. Probably the cause was (what Camden writes) his carriage towards Simier, the French ambassador, and his endeavour to bring him in disgust with her. Which displeasure of her majesty (whether this or any thing else was the cause) gave occasion to these words in a private letter of his to the lord treasurer: "That it grieved him the more, having so faithfully, carefully, and chargeably served her majesty this twenty years. And then called him [the lord treasurer] to witness, that in all his services he had been a direct servant "unto her, her estate and crown. And that he had not more sought his own particular profit than her honour." His offer of exile. 66 66 66 And whereas he had lain under great blame in the thoughts and opinion of divers in the nation, for his supposed opposition of the queen's marriage, now for his clearing in this matter, or to atone for his judgment, that went contrary to the judgment of all the rest," he offered, as he XV. "writ, for the avoiding of such blame as he bare generally CHAP. "then in the realm, his own exile; that he might not be, "suspected a hinderer of that matter, which all the world Anno 1579. 66 desired, and were suitors for." Sandys, archbishop of York, troubled for dilapidations by the bishop of London. The archbishop's letter to the secretary hereupon. The bishop of London moves for a commission for inquiry into the dilapidations: and why. Reasons offered by the archbishop for qualifying the sentence. Difference between this archbishop, and the earl of Huntington, and the dean of York. Motions for reconcilement with the earl, and the dean. The archbishop's letter about it. The dean's vindication of himself. The archbishop's sermon at York, on the 17th of November. Now to come nearer to the ecclesiastical affairs. And The bishop first, I shall remark a few things concerning some of our bishops. of London contends with the of York pidations. Sandys, late bishop of London, translated to the see of archbishop York, was succeeded by Elmer, archdeacon of Lincoln. about dilaBetween whom, (learned, worthy, and excellent men both, and exiles for religion,) grew unhappily a contest about dilapidations, which continued hot to this year. In the Paper Office there is a whole packet concerning this lawsuit between bishop Ælmer and the two archbishops, viz. Sandys, and his predecessor Grindal: which continued till the year 1584. Of these dilapidations two views were taken, one in the year 1577, and the other in 1580. The charges Life of brought in for repairs at both views, and something of this Bishop Aylmer, controversy, hath been shewn elsewhere. But what related pp. 27, 73. to the archbishop further, I proceed to shew. Understanding that the bishop of London had applied to secretary Walsingham, to assist and befriend him to the queen, for II. BOOK granting out a commission for the dilapidations, the archbishop addressed a letter, April 20, to the said secretary, Anno 1579. importing, The archbishop writes to the secretary here. upon. 66 66 “That he had learned that the said bishop laboured to "make him a means unto her majesty for procuring a com“mission against him for dilapidations at London. Truly," as he began, "he offereth me great wrong, and requiteth my friendship toward him with great ingratitude: asserting, that he found those houses in marvellous great ruin, "and no show of any reparation done therein in his prede❝cessor's time. That he neither required, neither received "one farthing for dilapidations of him. And that in the "six years he lived there, he bestowed in reparation a suf"ficient portion of money for his time; he verily thought, more than in twenty years before. And that if his successor did his part as well, there would be no cause for "those that came after to complain." 66 66 He added, "How he forwarded what he could his new "successor to that living, commending him to her ma jesty; while he lay in London, he [the archbishop] gave 571" him all friendly entertainment. That he tasted so much "of his good-will, that he promised him to require no di<< lapidations of him. Which thing he told his brother, "Miles Sandes. Who counselled him to get his [Elmer's] "promise in writing. Which thing, he said, he omitted, "not suspecting his word. Further, that when he left "London-house, he gave him many things. He helped to "consecrate him, when he wanted others of that province. "And that as soon as he was made bishop, he set himself against him; laboured to discredit him; gave further notes, not only to the lord treasurer, but also to her ma"jesty against him; and by his means, as he added, hin"dered him 1000l. without gaining himself one groat. "And, that before his [the archbishop's] departing out of "London, he asked of him 1007. for dilapidations; but "now he laboured for a great commission, minding thereby "a greater gain." 66 And then applying himself to the secretary, used these |