Dover. 2. His Letters of Commission to the said Suffragan, XII. A Declaration to be read by all Curates upon the publish- *XIII. Thirteen Articles of Faith, supposed to have been agreed on by the English and German divines in 1538. p. 273. *XV. On the Order and Office of Priests and Bishops. p. 300. XVI. Mandate by Cranmer for certain returns respecting bene- XVIII. Constitution by Cranmer for the regulation of Church- XIX. Statute by Cranmer respecting the number of proctors in XX. Extracts from the Fathers against the fear of death, &c. XXVI. King Edward VI.'s Injunctions to the Bishops. 1547. *XXVII. Letter from the Privy Council concerning Homilies XXIX. A Proclamation for abstaining from flesh in Lent, 1548. * The Articles marked with an asterisk are now, it is believed, printed XXXI. Mandate by Cranmer for removing images, 1548. p. 350. XXXII. Letter from the Council to the Bishops, respecting the administration of the communion in both kinds, 1548. p. 352. XXXIII. Letter from the Council to licensed preachers, 1548. XXXVI. 1. Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, 1549. XXXVII. Three letters from the Lords of the Council at Wind- sor to the Lords of the Council in London, 1549. XL. Letter from the Council to the Princess Mary respecting the celebration of mass by her chaplains, 1550. XLI. Mandate by Cranmer for reading in the churches an act of parliament against rebellion, 1551. *XLII. Letter from Edw. VI. to the bishops, on occasion of the XLIII. 1. Edw. VI.'s Letter to the Bishop of Norwich respecting a A DECLARATION OF THE REVEREND FATHER IN GOD THOMAS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, CONCERNING THE SLANDEROUS AND UNTRUE REPORT OF SOME, SET UP THE MASS AT CANTERBURY. Camb. As the Devil, Christ's ancient adversary, is a liar and the MSS. Emfather of lying, even so hath he stirred up his servants and man. Coll. members to persecute Christ and his true word and religion MSS. with lying which he ceaseth not to do most carnestly at this C.C.C.C. present time. For as a prince of most famous memory, King Harl. ColHenry VIII, seeing the great abuses of the Latin mass, lect. 417. [This Declaration is printed from a manuscript copy in the Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as being, on the whole, the best authority. The copies published by the English exiles 1557, by Coverdale, and by Foxe, differ much from each other. That of Foxe approaches the nearest to the manuscript here used.] 66 b [There can be no doubt that this Declaration was the "seditious "bill" referred to in the following minute from the Council Book. On the 8th of September, 1553, "Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury appeared before the lords, as he was the day before appointed. After long and serious debating of his offence by the whole board, it was "thought convenient that as well for the treason committed by him "against the Queen's Majesty, as for the aggravating of the same his "offence, by spreading about seditious bills moving tumults to the dis"quietness of the present state, he should be committed to the Tower, "there to remain and be referred to justice, or further ordered as "shall stand with the Queen's pleasure." Extracts from the Proceedings of the Privy Council, printed in Archæologia, vol. xviii. p. 175. According to Foxe, the Declaration was circulated in London on the 7th of September; according to Burnet's Latin copy, it was "lecta "publice in vico mercatorum ab amico qui clam autographum surripu"erat, 5 Septemb. anno Dom. 1553." See Preface.] cv. p. 321. the Mar tyrs. &c. vol. iii. p. 94. Answer, &c. edit. p. 305. Acta Dis sis, &c. Coverdale, reformed some things in his time; and after, our Sovereign Letters of Lord King Edward VI. took the same wholly away for the great and manifold errors and abuses of the same, and restored Foxe, Acts, in the place thereof Christ's holy Supper according to Christ's own institution, and as the Apostles used the same in the priCranmer's mitive Church in the beginning: so the Devil goeth about now by lying to overthrow the Lord's holy Supper again, 1580. and to restore his late satisfactory masses, a thing of his own Strype, Cranmer, invention and device. And to bring the same more easily to pass, some have abused the name of me, Thomas Archputationis bishop of Canterbury, bruiting abroad, that I have set up Londinen- the mass again at Canterbury, and that I offered to say edita a Va-mass at the burial of our late Sovereign Prince King Edward, and also that I offered to say mass before the Queen's Highness, and at Paul's Church, and I wot not where. And Burn. Ref: although I have been well exercised these twenty years to App. vol. ii. B. ii. No. 8. suffer and bear evil reports and lies, and have not been much grieved thereat, but have borne all things quietly; yet untrue reports to the hinderance of God's truth are in no wise to be tolerated and suffered. Wherefore these be to signify to the world, that it was not I that did set up the mass at Canterbury, but it was a false, flattering, lying, and dissimuling monk, which caused mass to be set up there without mine advice or counsel. Reddat illi Dominus in die illo. Jerando Pollano, 1554. And as for offering myself to say mass before the Queen's Highness or in any other place, I never did, as her Grace right well knoweth. Nor no man can say to the contrary, and speak truth, that there is any thing in the Communion set out by the most godly and innocent Prince King Edward VI. in his high court of Parliament, but that it is conformable to the order which our Saviour Christ did observe and command to be observed, and which his Apostles and the primitive Church used many years. Whereas the с [Foxe reads "his Latin," which is supported by the Latin version in Burnet.] d["Whom the Archbishop afterward named to be Thornton." Foxe, Acts, &c. 1st edit. p. 1478.] |