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AN. REG. 1, hereafter frequented, used, and observed'; and that children be christened by the Priest and confirmed by the Bishop as heretofore hath been accustomed and used.

Imposture of "the spirit in

the wall.'

(14) Touching such persons as were heretofore promoted to any Orders after the new sort and fashion of Orders, considering they were not ordered in very deed, the Bishop of the diocese, finding otherwise sufficiency and ability2 in those men, may supply that thing which wanted in them before, [and] then according to his discretion admit them to minister.

(15) That by the Bishop of the diocese an uniform doctrine be set forth, by Homilies or otherwise, for the good instruction and teaching of all people. And that the said Bishop and other persons aforesaid do compel the parishioners to come to their several churches, and there devoutly to hear Divine Service, as of reason they ought.

(16) That they examine all Schoolmasters and Teachers of children, and finding them suspect in any wise, to remove them, and place Catholic men in their rooms, with a special commandment to instruct their children so as they may be able to answer the Priest at the Mass, and so help the Priest to3 mass, as hath been accustomed.

(17) That the said Bishops and all other the persons aforesaid have such regard, respect, and consideration of and for the setting forth of the premises, with all kind of virtue, godly living, and good example, with repressing also and keeping under of vice and unthriftiness, as they and every of them may be seen to favour the restitution of true religion, and also to make an honest account and reckoning of their office and cure, to the honour of God, our good contentation, and profit of this our realm and the dominions of the same 5."

31. The generality of the people, not being well pleased before with the Queen's proceedings, were startled more than 37 ever at the noise of these Articles; none more exasperated 207 than those whose either hands or hearts had been joined with

1 In Fox, Burnet, and Wilkins, the latter part of this paragraph is

a distinct article, so that the number of the whole is eighteen.

2 Edd. Heyl. "sufficient ability."

3 Edd. Heyl. "at."

4 Edd. Heyl. "or.”

5 Fox, vi. 427; Burnet, I. App. 252, (folio); Wilkins, iv. 89.

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Wyat. But not being able to prevail by open army1, a new AN. REG.1, device is found out to befool the people, and bring them to a misconceit of the present government. A young maid called Elizabeth Crofts, about the age of eighteen years, was tutored to counterfeit certain speeches in the wall of a house not far from Aldersgate, where she was heard of many but seen of none, and, that her voice might be conceived to have somewhat in it more than ordinary, a strange whistle was devised for her, out of which her words proceeded in such a tone as seemed to have nothing mortal in it. And thereupon it was affirmed by some of the people (great multitudes whereof resorted daily to the place) that it was an angel, or at least a voice from heaven; by others, that it could be nothing but the Holy Ghost; but generally she passed by the name of the Spirit in the wall. For the interpreting of whose words there wanted not some of the confederates, who mingled themselves by turns amongst the rest of the people, and, taking on them to expound what the spirit said, delivered many dangerous and seditious words against the Queen, her marriage with the Prince of Spain, the Mass, Confession, and the like. The practice was first set on foot on the 14th of March, which was within ten days after the publishing of the Articles, and for a while it went on fortunately enough, according to the purpose of the chief contrivers. But the abuse being searched into, and the plot discovered, the wench was ordered to stand upon a scaffold near St Paul's Cross on the 15th of July, there to abide during the time of the Sermon, and that being done, to make a public declaration of that lewd imposture2. Let not the Papists be from henceforth charged with Elizabeth Barton, whom they called the Holy Maid of Kent; since now the Zuinglian Gospellers (for I cannot but consider this as a plot of theirs3) have raised up their Elizabeth Crofts, whom they called the Spirit in the wall, to draw aside the people from their due allegiance.

1 Qu. "arms?"

2 Sanders, 255; Stow, 625.

3 Burnet, II. 549, and ii. 565, protests against "the malignity of one of our historians" (Heylyn), in having adopted this notion from Sanders. But the subject of the words uttered by the "Spirit" appears to bear out the remark in the text; moreover Speed, a writer of principles very opposite to Sanders, ascribes the imposture to "certain giddy reformers." 851; and the girl herself declared that she was instigated by a servant of Sir Antony Knevett-one of Wyatt's adherents.-Machyn, 66.

AN. REG. 1, 32. Wyat's rebellion being quenched, and the realm in a

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Further

conditions of the Queen's marriage.

New
Peerages.

condition capable of holding a parliament, the Queen convenes
the Lords and Commons on the second of April; in which
session the Queen's marriage with the Prince of Spain, being
offered unto consideration, was finally concluded and agreed
unto upon these conditions, that is to say, "That Philip
should not advance any to any public office or dignity in Eng-
land, but such as were natives of the realm, and the Queen's
subjects. That he should admit of a set number of English
in his household, whom he should use respectively, and not
suffer them to be injured by foreigners. That he should not
transport the Queen out of England, but at her entreaty, nor
any of the issue begotten by her, who should have their educa-
tion in this realm, and should not be suffered but upon neces-
sity and good reason to go out of the same, nor then neither
but with the consent of the English. That, the Queen deceasing
without children, Philip should not make any claim to the
kingdom, but should leave it freely to him to whom of right it
should belong. That he should not change any thing in the
laws either public or private, nor the immunities and customs
of the realm, but should be bound by oath to confirm and keep
them. That he should not transport any jewels, nor any part
of the wardrobe, nor alienate any of the revenues of the crown.
That he should preserve our shipping, ordnance and munition,
and keep the castles, forts, and block-houses in good repair,
and well manned. Lastly, That this match should not any
way derogate from the league lately concluded between the
Queen and the King of France, but that the peace between
the English and the French should remain firm and in-
violate1."

33. For the clearer carrying on this great business, and
to encourage them for the performance of such further services
as her occasions might require, the Queen was pleased to
increase the number of her Barons. In pursuance whereof,
she advanced the Lord William Howard, cousin german to
Thomas Duke of Norfolk, to the title of Lord Howard of Ef- 38
fingham, on the eleventh of March, and elected him into the 208
Order of the Garter within few months after; whose son called
Charles, being Lord Admiral of England, and of no small re-
nown for his success at the Isle of Gades, was by Queen Eliza-
1 Godwin, 178.

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beth created Earl of Nottingham, anno 15891. Next to him AN. REG. 1, followed Sir John Williams, created Lord Williams of Tame on the fifth of April; who, dying without issue male, left his estate (though not his honours) betwixt two daughters; the eldest of whom, called Margaret, was married to Sir Henry Norris, whom Queen Elizabeth created Lord Norris of Ricot, in reference perhaps to his father's suffering in the cause of her mothers; from whom descended Francis Lord Norris, advanced by King James to the honours of Viscount Tame and Earl of Berkshire, by letters patents bearing date in January, anno 16204. After him, on the 7th of April, comes Sir Edward North, created Baron of Chartlege5, in the county of Cambridge, who, having been Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations in the time of King Henry, and raised himself a fair estate by the fall of abbeys, was by the King made one of his executors, and nominated to be one of the great Council of estate in his son's minority. Sir John Bruges brings up the rear, who, being descended from Sir John Chandois, a right noble Banneret, and from the Bottelers, Lords of Sudley, was made Lord Chandois of Sudley on the 8th of April; which goodly manor he had lately purchased of the crown, to which it was escheated on the death of Sir Thomas Seimour, anno 1549. The title still enjoyed, though but little else, by the seventh Lord of this name and family; most of the lands being dismembered from the house by the unparalleled imprudences (to give it no worse name) of his elder brother.

34. Some Bishops I find consecrated about this time also, consecra

tions of

1 1597, for his services against the Armada, 1588, and in the Cadiz bishops. expedition, 1596. Camd. Eliz. Lat. ii. 137.

2 A. D. 1559.

4 Dugd. ii. 404.

3 See Eliz. Introd. 15-17.

5 He was created Lord North of "Kirtling, now called Carthlage."-Dugdale, ii. 394. Edd. 1, 3, read “Charleleg;" Ed. 2, " Charlebeg." I have given the name as it is in Godwin, 184.

6 Edd. 1, 2, "impudence." Dugdale, (ii. 356) mentions that George, Lord Chandos, died in 1654. "To whom succeeded in his honour, William his brother, but not to much of his lands, he having settled the inheritance of them upon Jane his last wife," by whom they passed to her second husband, George Pitts, Esq., ancestor of the Earls of Rivers. For an account of the Chandos peerage, see the Supplement to Collins, Vol. IX., and many other publications of Sir Egerton Brydges. Against his claim, a work by Mr G. F. Beltz, of the Heralds' College.

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AN. REG. 1, to make the stronger party for the Queen in the House of Peers ;-no more Sees actually voided at that time to make room1 for others, though many in a fair way to it; of which more hereafter. Hooper of Glocester, commanded to attend the Lords of the Council on the twenty-second of August, and committed prisoner not long after, was outed of his bishoprick immediately on the ending of the Parliament; in which all consecrations were declared to be void and null which had been made according to the ordinal of King Edward the Sixth2. Into whose place succeeded James Brooks3, Doctor in Divinity, sometimes Fellow of Corpus Christi and Master of Baliol College in Oxon; employed not long after as a delegate from the Pope of Rome in the proceedings against the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom he condemned to the stake. To Taylor (of whose death we have spoken before) succeeded Dr John White in the See of Lincoln ;-first Schoolmaster and after Warden of the College near Winchester, to the Episcopal See whereof we shall find him translated anno 1556. The church of Rochester had been void ever since the removal of Dr Scory to the See of Chichester; not suffered to return to his former bishopric, though despoiled of the later: but it was now thought good to fill it, and Maurice Griffin, who for some years had been the Archdeacon, is consecrated Bishop of it on the first of April. One suffrage more was gained by the repealing of an Act of Parliament made in the last session of King Edward, for dissolving the Bishopric of Durham7; till which time Doctor Cuthbert Tunstall, though restored to his liberty, and possibly to a good part also of his church's patrimony, had neither suffrage as a Peer in the House of Parliament, nor could act any thing as a Bishop in his own jurisdiction. And with these consecrations and creations I conclude this year.

1 The editions read Rome; but it seems unnecessary to follow them in the text.

2 Mar. Sess. ii. c. 2.

3 Godwin de Præsulibus, 552.

4 Godw. p. 301; sup. p. 98. As was there remarked, the vacancy of Lincoln was caused, not by the death of Taylor, but by his deprivation.

5 May, 1552. Edd. 1, 2, read "Story," as if confounding the name of the Protestant Bishop with that of the Romanist civilian, who is repeatedly mentioned.

6 Godwin, 538. Brooks and White were consecrated on the same day.

7 1 Mar. Sess. i. c. 3. See Vol. i. p. 290.

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