Spreders abroade of such Bruts, Tydings and Rumours, touching us in Honour, or Suretie, the State of our Realm, or any Mutation of the Lawes, or Customes thereof, or any other Thing which might Cause any Sedition, and the same with their Settersforth, Mayntenors, Counsaylers, Fautors, and Adherers with all Diligence to apprehend and commytte to Ward, or Prison, without bayl or mynprise till Evidence to be given against them, at the Arrival of our Justice in that Country, or otherwise upon your Advertisement to us, or to our Counsell, to be given, to our further Pleasure known, they may be punished for their Sediciouse Demerits according to the Lawe, to the fearful Example of all others: Imploying and Indevoring your self the unto, so ernestly, and with such dexteritie as we may have Cause to think that ye be the Men which above all Thing desire the Punishment of Evil Doers and Offenders, and that will let for no travail to set forth all Things for the Common Peas, Quiet, and Tranquility of this our Realme: And like as the Daunger is Immynent no les to your Self and your Neighbours then to other, so ye of your own Mind shuld procure and see with Celeritie our Injunctions, Laws, and Proclamations, as well touching the Sacramentaries and Anabaptists, as others, to be set forth to the good Instruction, and Conservation of our People, and to the Confusion of those which would so Craftely undermind our Common Wealth, and at the last destroy both you, and all other our Loving Subjects, although we should give unto you no such Admonishion: Therefore fayle ye not to follow the Effect, Admonishion and Commandment both in our said Letters, and in these Presents, and to Communicate the Whole tainour of these, to and with such Justices of our Peas, your Neighbours, and other in that District, and to give unto them the trew Copie thereof, exhorting them likeas by these we desire and pray, and nevertheles straitly Charge and Command you, and every of you, that you will shew your Diligence, Towardnes, and Good Inclination to see every Thing for his Parte, and Good Inclination to see every Thing for his Parte put in Execution accordingly, as ye and they tender our Pleasure, and will deserve our Condigne Thanks, given under our Signet at our Manner of Hampton-Court, the Day of December, in the 30th Year of our Reign. LXIII. The Design for the Endowment of Christ-Church, in Canterbury. (Cotton Libr. Cleop. E. 4, P. 301.) FIRST a Provost..... Item, 6 Preachers, every of them 201. a Year.... Item, a Reader in Divinitie in Hebrew, by the Item, a Reader both in Divinitie and Humanitie, .... in Latin, by the Year.... Item, a Reader of Civil.. Item, a Reader of Physike.. Item, 20 Students in Divinitie to be found 10 at Oxford, and 10 at Cambridge, every of them 10. by the Year.... Item, 40 Scolers to be tought both Grammar and Logik in Hebrew, Grek, and Laten, every of them 5 Markes by the Year... Item, a Schole-Master 20l. and an Husher 101. by the year. 30 0 0 Item, 8 Pety-Canons to Sing in the Quer, every of them 101. by the Year.... 80 0 0 Item, 12 Layemen to sing also, and searve in the Quer, every of them 6l. 13s. 4d. by the Year 80 0 0 Item, 10 Choristers, every of them 5 Marks by the Year... Item, a Master of the Children................................ Item, a Gospeler. Item, a Episler.. Item, 2 Sacristens. Item, 1 Chief Butler, his Wages and Diett.... Diett, and making of his Books... Item, 1 Chief Cook, his Wages and Diett. Item, 12 Poor Men being Old, and Serving Men, 38 6 8 10 0 6 13 4 5 6 8 6 13 4 4 13 4 3 6 8 6 13 4 4 13 4 3 6 8 10 80 010 Item, to be distributed Yearly in Alms........ Item, a Stuard of the Lands.............................. Item, an Auditor.... Item, for the Provost's Expences, and receyving the Rents, and Surveying the Lands, by the Year LXIV. A Letter of Thomas Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, to Cromwell, upon the New Foundation at Canterbury. An Original. (Cotton Libr. Cleop. F. 1.) My very singular Good Lord, after my most hartie Commendations, these shall be to advertise your Lordshippe, that I have received your Letters, dated the 27th Day of November; And therewith a Bill concerning the Divise for the New Establishment to be made in the Metropolitan Church of Canterbury; by which your Lordshippe requireth my Advice thereupon by Writing, for our Mutual Consents. Surely my Lord, as touching the Books drawn, and the Order of the same, I think that it will be a very Substantial and Godly Foundation; nevertheless, in my Opinion, the Prebendaries, which will be allow'd 40l. a Peece Yearly, might be altred to a more Expedient Use: And this is my Consideration, for having Experience, both in Tymes past, and also in our Daies, how the said Secte of Prebandaries have not only spent their Time in much Idleness, and their Substaince in Superfluous Belly Chere, I think it not to be a convenient State, or Degree, to be mainteyned and established: Considering Firste, that commonly a Prebendarie is neither a Learner, nor Teacher, but a Good Viander. Then by the same Name they look to be Chief, and to bere all the hole Rule and Preheminence, in the College where they be Resident: By means whereof, the Younger of their own Nature, given more to Pleasure, Good Chere, and Pastime, then to Abstynance, Studye, and Lerning, shall easily be brought from their Books to follow the Appetite and Example of the said Prebandaries being their Hedds and Rulers. And the State of Prebandaries hath been so excessively abused, that when Learned Men hath been admitted unto such Room, many Times they have desisted from their Good and Godlie Studies, and all other Vertuous Exercise of Preaching and Teaching: Wherefore if it may so stand with the King's Gracious Pleasure, I would wish that not only the Name of a Prebendarie were exiled his Graces Foundations, but also the superfluous Conditiones of such Persons. I cannot deny but that the Beginning of Prebendaries was no lesse purposed for the Maintainance of Good Learning, and Good Conversation of Living, than Religious Men were: But for as much as both be gone from their First Estate and Order, and the one is found like Offendour with the other, it maketh_no_great Matter if they perish both together: For to say the Truth, it is an Estate which St. Paule, reckoning up the Degrees and Estates alowed in his Time, could not find in the Church of Christ. And I assure you my Lord, that it will better stand with the Maintenance of Christian Religion, that in the stede of the said Prebendaries, were 20 Divines at 101. a Peece, like as it is appointed to be at Oxford and Cambridge; and 20 Students in the Tongues and French, to have 10 Marks a Peece; for if such a Number be not there Resident, to what intent should so many Reders be there. And surely it were great petie that so many good Lectures should be there redde in vain: For as for your Prebandaries, they cannot attend to applie Lectures for making of good Chere. And as for your 20 Children in Grammar, their Master and their Hussher be daily otherwise occupied in the Rudiments of Grammer, then that they have Space and Time to hear the Lectures. So that to these good Lectures is prepared no convenient Auditorie. And therefore my Lord, I pray you let it be considered what a great Losse it will be, to have so many good Lectures Redde without Profitte to any, saving to the 6 Preachers; farther, as concerning the Reader of Divinitie and Humanitie, it will not agree well, that one Man should be Reader of both Lectures. For he that studieth in Divinitie must leave the Reading of Profane Authors, and shall have as much to doe as he can to prepare his Lecture to be substantially redde. And in like manner he that redeth in Humanitie, had not need to alter his Studie, if he should make an Erudite Lecture. And therefore in mine Opinion, it would be Office for ii sundry Learned Men. Now concerning the Dean, and others, to be elected into the College, I shall make a Bill of all them that I can here of in Cambridge, Oxford, or elsewhere, mete to be put into the said College, after my Judgment: And then of the hole Number, the King's Highness may choose the most Excellente, assuring you my Lord, that I know no Man more mete for the Dean's Room in England, then Doctor Crome, who by his Sincere Learning, Godly VOL. III, PART II. R Conversation, and Good Example of Living, with his Great Soberness, hath done unto the King's Majestie as good Service, I dare say, as any Priest in England. And yet his Grace daily remembreth all others that doth him Service, this Man only except, who never had yet, besides his Gracious Favour, any Promotion at his Highness Hands. Wherefore if it will please his Majestie to put him in the Dean's Room, I do not doubt but that he should shew Light to all the Deans, and Ministers of Colleges in this Realm. For I know that when he was but President of a College in Cambridge, his House was better ordered than all the Houses in Cambridge besides. And thus my Lord you have my finale Advice concerning the Premisses, which I referr unto the Kinges Graces Judgment, to be allowed or disallowed at his Highness Pleasure. Sending unto your Lordshipp herewithall the Bill again, according to your Request. Thus, my Lord, most hartely fare you well. Your own ever assured At Croyden, the xxixth T. CANTUARIen'. Day of November. LXV. A Part of a Letter concerning the Debates of the Six Articles in the House of Lords. (Cotton Libr. Cleop. E. 5.) AND also Newes here; I assure you never Prince shew'd himself so Wise a Man, so well Lerned and so Catholick, as the Kinge hath done in this Parlyment. With my Penne I cannot expresse his marvelous Goodnes; which is come to such effecte, that we shall have an Acte of Parliament, so spirituall, that I think none shall dare saye, in the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter, doth remayne eyther Bred or Wyne after the Consecration; nor that a Prist may have a Wife; nor that it is necessarie to Receive our Maker sub utraque Specie; nor that private Masses should not be used as they have be; nor that it is not necessarie to have Auriculer Confession. And notwithstanding my Lord of Canterbury, my Lord of Ely, my Lord of Salisburie, my Lord of Worcester, Rocester, and Saint Davyds defended the contrary long tyme, yet finally his Highnes confounded them all with Goddes Lerning. Yorke, Duram, Winchester, London, Chichester, Norwiche, and Carlisle, have shewed themselfs honest and well Learned Men. We of the Temporaltie have been all of one Opynyon, and my Lord Chancellor and my Lord Privye Seale, as good as we can |