The Question. For what Cause it were not expedient nor convenient to have the whole Mass in Eng. lish? The Answer. This Question is answered by Dyonise and Basil, De Spiritu Sancto; and also an uniformity of all Churches in that thing is to be kept." XXVI.—A Collection of some of the Chief In dulgences then in the English Offices. Hora B. Mariæ Virg. ad usum Sarum; Folio 38.-To all them that be in the State of Grace, that daily say devoutly this Prayer before our Blessed Lady of Pity, she will shew them her blessed Visage, and warn them the Day and the Hour of Death; and in their last End, the Angels of God shall yield their Souls to Heaven; and he shall obtain 500 Years, and so many Lents of Pardon, granted by five Holy Fathers, Popes of Rome. Folio 42.-Our Holy Father Sixtus the 4th, Pope, hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer before the Image of our Lady, the sum of 11000 Years of Pardon. tus, Folio 44-Our Holy Father the Pope, Sixhath granted, at the instance of the highmost and excellent Princess Elizabeth, late Queen of England, and Wife to our Soveraign Liege Lord King Henry the 7th, (God have After these answers, follows a reply by Cranmer, in other queries, as, "If you cannot tell what and where the acts of John can profit Thomas, being so far distant from him, that he can never hear from him; why do you then affirm, that to be true, which you cannot tell how, nor wherein it can be true? "Whether our prayers for all the souls departed, do profit the apostles, prophets, and martyrs ? "Whether they know all the actions of every man here in earth? And, if not, how do they rejoice of those good actions, which they know not? Whether our evil deeds do them hurt, as our good deeds profit them? "Whether the presentation of the body and blood of Christ, do stand in all the words and actions that the priest useth in the mass, which now we do use? Whereby is it known, that in the primitive church were priests that preached not? Why may not we as well alter the Mass into the English tongue, or alter the ceremonies of the same, as we alter the Communion to be under both kinds, that in other churches is uniformly ministered to the people under one kind; seeing that the uniformity of all churches requireth no more the uniformity in one than in the other. mercy on her sweet Soul, and all Christian' Souls) that every day in the Morning, after three tollings of the Ave-Bell, say three times the whole Salutation of our Lady, Ave Maria Gratia; that is to say, at six of the Clock in the Morning three Ave Maries; at twelve of the Clock at Noon three Ave Maries; and at six of the Clock at Even; for every time so doing, is granted of the Spiritual Treasure of Holy Church 300 days of Pardon, toties quoties. And also our Holy Father, the ArchBishop of Canterbury and York, with other nine Bishops of this Realm, have granted, three times in the day, forty days of Pardon to all them that be in the state of Grace, able to receive Pardon; the which began the 26th day of March, Anuo 1492. Anno Henrici 7. and the sum of the Indulgence and Pardon for every Ave Maria, 860 days, toties quoties. This Prayer shall be said at the tolling of the AveBell. Folio 47.-Our Holy Father the Pope, Bonifacius, hath granted to all them that devoutly say this lamentable contemplation of our Blessed Lady standing under the Cross weeping, and having compassion with her sweet Son Jesus, seven Years of Pardon, and forty Lents. And also Pope John the 22d hath granted 500 days of Pardon. Folio 50-These be the fifteen Do's, the which the Holy Virgin S. Bridget was wont to say daily before the Holy Rood in S. Paul's Church at Rome; whoso says this a whole Year, shall deliver fifteen Souls out of Purgatory of his next Kindred, and convert other fifteen Sinners to good Life; and other fifteen Righteous Men of his kind shall persevere in good Life; and what ye desire of God ye shall have it, if it be to the Salvation of your Souls. Folio 54.-To all them that before this Image of Pity devoutly say five Pater Nosters, and five Ave Maries, and a Credo, piteously beholding those Arms of Christ's Passion, are granted 32755 Years of Pardon; and Sixtus the 4th, Pope of Rome, hath made the fourth and the fifth Prayer, and hath doubled his foresaid Pardon. Folio 56.-This Epistle of our Saviour, sendeth our Holy Father, Pope Leo, to the Emperor Carolo Magno; of the which we find written, Who that beareth this Blessing upon him, and saith it once a day, shall obtain forty Years of Pardon, and eighty Lentings, and he shall not perish with sudden Death. Folio 57.-This Prayer made by S. Austin, affirming who that says it daily kneeling, shall not die in Sin; and after this Life shall go to the everlasting Joy and Bliss. Folio 58.-Our Holy Father the Pope, John 22d, hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer, after the Elevation of our Lord Jesus Christ, 3000 days of Pardon for deadly Sins. Ibid. Our Holy Father the Pope, Bonifacius the Sixth, hath granted to all them that say devoutly this Prayer following, between the elevation of our Lord, and the three Agnus Dei, 10000 Years of Pardon. Folio 61.-Our Holy Father, Sixtus the 4th, hath granted to all them that be in the state of Grace, saying this Prayer following immediately after the Elevation of the Body of our Lord, clean remission of all their Sins perpetually enduring. And also John the Third, Pope of Rome, at the request of the Queen of England, hath granted to all them that devoutly say this Prayer before the Image of our Lord Crucified, as many days of Pardon, as there were wounds in the Body of our Lord in the time of his bitter Passion, the which were 5465. Folio 65.-These five Petitions and Prayers made S. Gregory, and hath granted unto all them that devoutly say these five Prayers, with five Pater Nosters, five Ave Maries, and a Credo, 600 years of Pardon. Folio 66.-These three Prayers be written in the Chappel of the Holy Cross in Rome, otherwise called, Sacellum Sancte Crucis septem Romanorum, who that devoutly say them, they shall obtain ten hundred thousand Years of Pardon for deadly Sins, granted of our Holy Father John 22d, Pope of Rome. Folio 68-Who that devoutly beholdeth these Arms of our Lord Jesus Christ, shall obtain 6000 Years of Pardon of our Holy Father S. Peter, the first Pope of Rome, and of thirty other Popes of the Church of Rome, Successors after him. And our Holy Father, Pope John the 22d, hath granted unto all them, very contrite and truly confessed, that say these devout Prayers following, in the commemoration of the bitter Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, 3000 Years of Pardon for deadly Sins, and other 3000 for venial Sins, and say first a Pater Noster and Ave Maria. Folio 71.-Our Holy Father, Pope Innocentius the Second, hath granted to all them that say this Prayer devoutly in the worship of the Wound that our Lord had in his blessed Side, when he was dead, hanging in the Cross, 4000 days of Pardon. Folio 72.-This most devout Prayer, said the Holy Father S. Bernard, daily kneeling in the worship of the most Holy Name Jesus. And it is well to believe, that through the Invocation of the most excellent Name of Jesu, S. Bernard obtained a singular Ward of perpetual Consolation of our Lord Jesu Christ. And these Prayers written in a Table that banged at Rome in S. Peter's Church, nigh to the High Altar there, as our Holy Father the Pope evely is wont to say the Office of the Mass; and who that devoutly, with a contrite Heart, daily say this Orison, if he be that day in the state of eternal Damnation, then his eternal Pain shall be changed him in temporal pain of Purgatory; then if he hath deserved the pain of Purgatory, it shall be forgotten and forgiven, through the infinite Mercy of God. XXVII.--Injunctions for a Visitation of [Ex MS. Dr. Johnson.] To, the Parson Vicar, Curat, Chaunter, Priests, Church-wardens, and two of the most honest Persons of the Parish of being no Founders, Patrons, Donors, Lessees, nor Farmers of the Promotions of Corporations hereafter recited, nor of any part thereof, and to four of them at the least. FIRST, Ye shall make diligent search and inquiry, immediately upon the receit hereof, of the number; and how many Chauntries, Hospitals, Colleges, free Chappels, Fraternities, Brotherhoods, Guilds and Salaries, or Wages of Stipendiary Priests, being Perpetuities now charged, or that ought to be charged, or chargeable, to the paiment of the first Fruits and Tenths, and of all Colleges chargeable, and not chargeable to the said paiment of Tenths and first Fruits, which be within your Church and Parish. Also you shall enquire of the Orders, Ordinances, Kinds, Qualities, Degrees, Uses and Abuses, or Misuses, Conditions, Estates, and Necessities, of and concerning all and every the said Chantries, Fraternities, Guilds, Stipends, or Wages, and other the Premises; and by what Names, Sirnames, Corporations, or Titles, they and every of them be taken or known; and to what intents, purposes, and deeds of Charity they and every of them were founded, ordained, and made; and ye shall take into your hands, and also bring with you, at the day of your Certificate, the Foundations, and all other writings which you have or can attain, for the true declaration and proof of the same. Also you shall enquire, how and what manner or sort the Revenues and Profits of the Lands and Possessions of all the aforesaid Promotions, and every of them, be used, expended, imploied, or bestowed. Also how many of the said Promotions be Parish-Churches. Also how far space or distance the said Chantries and Chappels be, and stand from the Parish-Churches, of the Parishes wherein they do stand. Also ye shall enquire of all the Houses, Lands, Tenths, Rents, Possessions and Revenues, united, annexed, or appertaining to the aforesaid Chantries, Hospitals, Guilds, and other Promotions abovesaid, and to every of them, and of the yearly value thereof, and shall make a true and perfect Rental or other Book thereof. And ye shall enquire of all the Resolutes, Deductions, and yearly paiments or charges going forth of the Premises, and of every part thereof, and shall certify the same in writing; that is to say, for every Chantry, or other the aforesaid Promotions severally by it self; and over this, to bring with you all such Rentals of the same, and every of them, as ye have or may attain or come by. Also ye shall enquire of al. the Lands, Rents, Possessions, and Hereditaments, which were or be united, annexed, or pertaining to the aforesaid Promotions or Corporations, or to any of them, which at any time since the fourth day of February, in the 27th Year of the King's Majesty's Reign, did appertain or belong to them, or any of them, and of the Goods, Jewels, and Ornaments, lately pertaining or belonging to the same. Also ye shall enquire how many of the aforesaid Chantries, Hospitals, Guilds, and other the aforesaid Promotions or Corporations, and what Lands, Rents, or parcels thereof, sithence the 4th day of February, in the 27th Year of the Reign of our aforesaid Soveraign Lord, been or have been dissolved, purchased, or by any other means or ways taken, entred unto, or obtained by any of the King's Majesty's Subjects, by their own Authorities, without the King's License. And ye shall enquire of the Lands, Tenths, Rents, and Hereditaments thereof, and of the yearly Value of the same, and of all the Goods and Ornaments of the same; and of the yearly Resolutes, Deductions, and Paiments going forth of the same; and shall make a true Rental or Book thereof, and shall certify the same particularly. Also ye shall enquire of all the Plate, Jewels, Ornaments, Goods, and Chattels, meerly and truly pertaining or belonging to all the aforesaid Promotions or Corporations, and to every of them severally, and shall make one true Inventory thereof, with the Value of the same, and of every parcel thereof, that is to say, in true weight of all parcels of Plate, Chalices, and other; and the price or value of all other Ornaments, Goods, or Chattels, and in whose hands or possession the same be or remain. Also, finally, ye shall make ready and finish your Certificate in writing, before the of all and singular the Premises, and of every Article above-said severally, and not in gross, or in one whole Article, as ye will answer and be sworn to the same: And that you, and every of you, being resident or remaining within the said Parish, shall Sign and Seal the same; and ye shall send the same your Certificate sealed unto us, at such day and place as hereafter shall be assigned unto you, by one of the most honest of the aforesaid Church-wardens, and by all the Incumbents of the Chantries, Chappels, Hospitals, Guilds, and Promotions aforesaid, if there be but one Incumbent in the said Promotions, or any of them; And if there be more Incumbents than one in the said Promotions, or any of them being of one Foundation, that then one of the said Incumbents, together with the said honest Church-warden, and other Incumbents, being but one of one Foundation, as is aforesaid. Foreseeing always, that your Proceedings and Certificate of the Premises, and every part thereof, be executed, ordered, and done, with all diligence, substantially and truly, that the same may so appear unto us at Mr. Wallay. Mr. Norton. Auditor. XXVIII.-The Protector's Letter to Gardiner concerning the Points he was to handle in his Sermon. [Ex MS. Col. C. C. Cant.] WE commend us unto you; We sent to you yesterday our Servant William Cecil, to signifie unto you our pleasure and Advice, That you should, in this your next Sermon, forbear to intreat upon those Principal Questions, which remain amongst the number of learned Men in this Realm, as yet in controversy, concerning the Sacrament of the Altar, and the Mass; as well for that your private Argument or Determination therein might offend the People, naturally expecting decisions of litigious Causes, and thereby Discord and Tumult arise; the occasions whereof we must necessarily prevent and take away; as also for that the Questions and Controversies rest at this present in consultation, and with the pleasure of God, shall be, in small time, by publick Doctrine and Authority, quietly and truly determined. This Message we send to you, not thinking but your own wisdom had considered so much in an apparent Matter; or at the least, upon our remembrance, ye would understand it and follow it with good will, consulting thereby your own Quiet in avoiding Offence, as observing our Pleasure in avoiding Contention. Your Answer thereunto, our said Servant hath declared unto us in this manner. Ye can no wise forbear to speak of the Sacrament, neither of the Mass; this last being the chief Foundation, as ye say, of our Religion, and that without it we cannot know that Christ is our Sacrifice; the other being so spoken of by many, that if you should not speak your mind thereof what ye think, you know what other Men would think of you; in the end, concluding generally, that you will speak the Truth, and that ye doubt not but that we shall be therewith content; adding also, as our said Servant reporteth unto us, That you would not wish that we ourselves should meddle or have to do in these Matters of Religion, but that the care thereof were committed to you the Bishops, unto whom the blame, if any should be deserved, might well be imputed. To this your Answer, if so it be, we reply very shortly, signifying unto you our express Pleasure and Commandment, on our Soveraign Lord the King's Majesty's behalf, charging you, by the Authority of the same, to ab stain in your said Sermon from treating of any Matter in controversy concerning the said Sacrament and the Mass, and only to bestow your Speech in the expert explication of the Articles prescribed unto you, and in other wholesome Matter, of Obedience of the People, and good Conversation and Living; the same Matters being both large enough for a long Sermon, and not unnecessary for the time. And the treatie of other, which we forbid you not meet in your private Sermon to be had, but necessarily reserved for a publick Consultation, and at this present utterly to be forborn for the common Quiet. This our express Pleasure, wherein we know how reasonably we may command you, and you (we think), know how willingly ye ought to obey us. For our intermedling with these Causes of Religion, understand you, that we account it no small part of our Charge, under the King's Majesty, to bring his People from Ignorance to Knowledg, and from Superstition to true Religion, esteeming that the chief Foundation to build Obedience upon: and where there is a full consent of others, the Bishops and learned Men, in a Truth, not to suffer you, or a few other, with wilful headiness, to dissuade all the rest. And although we presume not to determine Articles of Religion by our Self, yet from God we knowledg it, we be desirous to defend and advance the Truth, determined or revealed, and so con sequently we will not fail, but withstand the Disturbers thereof. So fare you well. From Sion, June 28. Anno 1548. Your Loving Friend, E. Somerset. XXIX. Some of the Collects and Hymns to the Saints in the Hours ad usum Sarum, printed at Paris, Anno 1520. In which, immediate Adoration is offered to them, and those things are asked of them, which God only gives. Folio 4.]-SANCTA Dei Genetrix, quæ digne meruisti concipere, quem totus orbis nequivit comprehendere; tuo pio interventu, culpas nostras ablue, ut perennis sedem gloriæ, per te redempti, valeamus scandere, ubi manes cum Filio tuo sine tempore. other places ]-Ut ejus meritis et precibus a gehennæ incendiis liberemur. Fol. 30.]-Sancta Maria succurre miseris, Juva pusillanimes, refove flebiles, ora pro populo: interveni pro clero, intercede pro devoto femineo sexu. Fol. 33.]-Virgo singularis, inter omnes mitis, nos culpis solutos, mites fac et castos : Vitam presta puram, iter para tutum, ut videntes Jesum, semper collætemur. Fol. 44-A Prayer to the Virgin, to the sayers of which, Pope Celestine granted 300 days of Pardon; a part of which is. Consolare peccatorem, et ne tuum des hoCali. Me habeto excusatum, apud Christum norem, alieno vel crudeli; precor te Regina tuum natum, cujus iram expavesco, et furoMaria Virgo, noli esse mihi aliena, gratia rem pertimesco, nam peccavi tibi soli. O Colesti plena; esto custos cordis mei, signa me timore Dei, confer vitæ sanitatem, et da morum honestatem: Et da peccata me vitare, et quod justum est amare, O dulcedo Virginalis, nunquam fuit nec est talis, &c. clite, te decet laus et gloria: prædotatum Fol. 77. S. George.]-Georgi Martyr inmilitia, per quem puella Regia, existens in tristitia, coram Dracone pessimo, salvata est, et animo; te rogamus corde intimo, ut cum cunctis fidelibus, Cali jungamur civibus, nostris abluti sordibus, ut simul cum lætitia, telaudes Christo cum gloria. cum simus in gloria, nostraq; reddant labia Ibid. St. Christopher.]-Martyr Christophore, pro salvatoris honore, fac nos mente fore, dignos deitatis amore, Promisso Christi, quia quod petis obtinuisti, da populo tristi, bona quæ moriendo petisti: confer solamen, et mentis tolle gravamen; judicis examen, fac mite sit omnibus Amen. Fol. 78.1-O Willielme Pastor bone, Cleri pater et patrone, munda nobis in agone, confer opem et depone, vitæ sordes et Coronæ Cœlestis da gaudia. Fol. 80. 11000 Virgins.]-O vos undena millia, puellæ gloriosæ, virginitatis lilia, Martyrii Rosa, in vita me defendite, prebendo mihi juvamen, in morte vos ostendite supremum ferendo solamen. To St. Alban. es nostra vera gloria, solve precum votis, serTe nunc petimus patrone, præco sedule, qui vorum scelera. Fol. 11. S. Panthaleon.]-Sancte Panthaleon Martyr Christi, militari ordine fuisti, quo promeruisti; - Demum heremiticam vitam acquisisti,-Tu vero hydropicum sanum reddidisti-Missus in equleo ungues perdidistiTo St. Peter and St. Paul. Costas cum lampadibus adustus fuisti-Col- Beate Petre qui Maxima reseras, claudis lum subdens gladio pronus pertulisti-Fun- verbo Cœli limina, sume pins vota fidelia, dens lac pro sanguine vitam sic finisti- peccati cuncta dissolvendo vincula: Sacra Cunctas febres dilue a plebe tam tristi-Qui Paule ingere dogmata, illustrans plebis pecCœlestis Gloriæ Regna meruisti. Fol. 12. S. Tho. Cant.]-Tu per Thomæ sanguinem, quem pro te impendit, fac nos Christe scandere, quo Thomas ascenditVersicle gloria et honore coronasti, eum Domine: Resp. et constituisti, eum supra opera manuum tuarum. Fol. 12. of Pope Nicolaus. And so in many tora. In die omnium Sanctorum. Mariam primam vox sonet nostra, per quam nobis vitæ sunt data præmia: Regina quæ es mater, et casta, solve nostra per filium peccamina: Angelorum concio sacra et ArchAngelorum turma inclita, nostra diluant jam peccata præstando supernam Cœli gloriam. XXX.-Doctor Redmayn's Opinion concerning the Marriage of the Clergie.-An Original. [Ex MS. Col. C. C. Cant.] I THINK that although the word of God does exhort and counsel Priests to live in Chastity, out of the cumber of the Flesh and of the World, that thereby they may wholly attend to their Calling; yet the Bond of conteyning from Marriage, doth only lie upon Priests in this Realm, by reason of Canons and Constitutions of the Church, and not by any Precept of God's Word, as in that they should be bound by any Vow: Which (in as far as my conscience is) Priests in this Church of England do not make. I think that it standeth well with God's Word, that a Man which hath been, or is but once married, being otherwise accordingly qualified, may be made a Priest. And I do think, that for as much as Canons and Rules made in this behalf are neither Universal nor Everlasting, but upon Considerations may be altered and changed; Therefore the King's Majesty, and the higher Powers of the Church, may, upon such Reasons as shall move them, take away the Clog of perpetual Continence from Priests, and grant that it may be lawful for such as cannot, or will not contain, to marry one Wife; and if she die, then the said Priest to marry no more, remaining still in the Ministration. John Redmayn. XXXI-Articles of High Treason, and other Misdemeanours against the King's Majesty, and his Crown, objected to Sir Thomas Sey mour, Kt. Lord Seymour of Sudley, and High Admiral of England. [Ex Libro Concilii. Fol. 236] 1. WHEREAS the Duke of Somerset was made Governor of the King's Majesty's Person, and Protector of all his Realms and Dominions, and Subjects; to the which you your self did agree, and gave your consent in writing; it is Objected and laid unto your Charge, That this notwithstanding you have attempted and gone about, by indirect means, to undoe this Order, and to get into your hands the Government of the King's Majesty, to the great danger of his Highness Person, and the Subversion of the State of the Realm. 2. It is Objected and laid to your Charge, that by corrupting with Gifts, and fair Promises, divers of the Privy Chamber, you went about to allure his Highness to condescend and agree to the same your most heinous and perilous purposes, to the great danger of his Highness Ferson, and of the subversion of the State of the Realm. 3. It is Objected, and laid unto your Charge, that you wrote a Letter with your own hand; which Letter the King's Majesty should have subscribed, or written again after that Copy, to the Parliament House; and that you delivered the same to his Highness for that intent: With the which so written by his Highness, or subscribed, you had determined to have come into the Commons-House your self; and there, with your Fautors and Adherents before prepared, to have made a Broil, or Tumult, or Uproar, to the great danger of the King's Majesty's Person, and subversion of the State of this Realm. 4. It is Objected, and laid unto your Charge, That you your self spake to divers of the Council, and laboured with divers of the Nobility of the Realm, to stick and adhere unto you for the Alteration of the State, and Order of the Realm, and to attain your other Purposes, to the danger of the King's Majesty's Person, now in his tender Years, and subversion of the State of the Realm. 5. It is Objected, and laid unto your Charge, that you did say openly and plainly, You would make the Blackest Parliament that ever was in England. 6. It is Objected, and laid to your Charge, That being sent for by the Authority, to answer to such things as were thought meet to be reformed in you, you refused to come; to a very evil Example of Disobedience, and danger thereby of the subversion of the State of the Realm. 7. It is objected, and laid to your Charge, That sith the last Sessions of this Parliament, notwithstanding much clemency shewed unto you, you have still continued in your former mischievous Purposes; and continually, by your self and other, studied and laboured to put into the King's Majesty's Head and Mind, and of the Lord Protector's doings, to the a misliking of the Government of the Realm, danger of his Person, and the great peril of the Realm, 8. It is Objected, and laid to your Charge, That the King's Majesty being of those tender Years, and as yet by Age unable to direct his own things, you have gone about to instil into his Grace's Head, and as much as lieth in you, perswaded him to take upon himself the Government and managing of his own Affairs, to the danger of his Highness Person, and great peril of the whole Realm. 9. It is Objected, and laid to your Charge, That you had fully intended and a pointed, to have taken the King's Majesty's Person into your own hands and custody, to the danger of his Subjects, and peril of the Realm. 10. It is Objected, and laid to your Charge, That you have corrupted, with Mony, certain of the Privy-Chamber, to perswade the King's Majesty to have a credit towards you; and so to insinuate you to his Grace, that when he lacked any thing, he should have it of you and none other Body, to the intent he should mislike his ordering, and that you might the better, when you saw time, use his King's Highness for an Instrument to this purpose, to the danger of his Royal Person, and subversion of the State of the Realm. 11. It is Objected, and laid unto your |