66 III. "nesses committed and intrusted to us by her Highness; CHAP. firmly command your brotherhood in behalf of her Ma-. "jesty, that with the receipt of these presents, with all the Anno 1560. celerity and mature diligence you can, you publish and "declare the ordinances, corrections, or reformations of the "calendar, together with the Tables of the Commandments "made, conceived, and established by us and other the "Queen's Commissioners, by authority and vigour of the "said letters missive, according to the form of the statute "aforesaid, (the copies whereof imprinted in paper annexed "to these presents we send to you,) to all and singular our "venerable brethren of our province of Canterbury, Fel"low-Bishops and Suffragans of our Church of Christ in 66 Canterbury and to them and every of them, on the part "of our Lady the Queen, you firmly command that each of "them in their cathedral churches, and in the parochial "churches of their concerns and dioceses, the ordinances, "reformations of the calendar, and the Tables of the Com"mandments of God aforesaid, be inviolably observed, in "all and by all, according to the prescript of the Queen's "letters, and be accomplished: and that they diligently and "exactly take care thereof with effect; and do not delay to "have them done: and so to be done and observed by you, "dear brother, in your cathedral church, and in London, and through your diocese. Given at our manor of Lambhith "the 15th of February 1560, and the second year of our "consecration." 66 The Bishop of London accordingly sent his letters to the Registr. Bishop Suffragans, ult. Feb. the said year. Grind. 84 Allowed to change the Before this reformation of the Lessons, it was recommended to the discretion of the Ministers, to change the chapters Ministers to for some others more proper. For so it is in the Admonition Lessons. to the ecclesiastical Ministers set before the Second Book of Homilies, (but I suppose erroneously, belonging rather to the First Book, which was printed this year 1560,) where it is said, " And where it may so chance, some one or other chapter of the Old Testament to fall in order to be read "upon the Sundays or holydays, which were better to be 66 II. BOOK 66 changed with some other of the New Testament of more "edification, it shall be well done to spend your time to Anno 1560.consider well of such chapters beforehand: whereby your "prudence and diligence in your office may appear. So that The reformation in the Lessons. Private prayers printed with the Common 66 your people may have cause to glorify God for you, and "be the readier to embrace your labours, to your greater "commendation, to the discharge of your consciences and "their own.” But when the abovementioned Commissioners had altered the Lessons, and made a new calendar, and tables directing the chapters to be read, this liberty was no longer indulged every private Minister. The reformation that was made in the Lessons was this: that whereas in King Edward's First Book there were no peculiar Lessons for the holydays and Sundays of the year, but the chapters of the Old and New Testament were read on in course without any interruption or variation so I have seen it in a Common Prayer Book in folio, printed 1549: and in the second edition of that book under that King, there were Proper Lessons for some holydays, but not for Sundays. Now (as I have observed in a Common Prayer Book in quarto, printed this year 1560.) there was a table of Proper Lessons thus entitled, Proper Lessons to be read for the First Lesson, both at Morning and Evening Prayer, on the Sundays throughout the Year: and for some also the Second Lessons. And it begins with the Sundays of Advent. On the first whereof is appointed to be read, Esay i. for mattins, and Esay ii. for evensong. There is another table for Proper Lessons on holydays, beginning with St. Andrew. Wherein the first Lesson is Prov. xx. and for evensong Prov. xxi. And yet a third table for Proper Psalms on certain days: which are Christmas-day, Easter-day, Ascension-day, and Whit-sunday. But these Proper Psalms indeed were not now first appointed, having been used ever since the first Common Prayer Book was enjoined. At the end of this Common Prayer Book (viz. that in quarto, put forth this year, and printed by Jug and Cawood) were divers very good prayers added for private and family Prayer. III. use: entitled, Certain godly Prayers to be used for sundry CHAP. Purposes. Which I cannot think otherwise but to be inserted by the order of the Archbishop; and they were the same Anno 1560. that were printed in the former Common Prayer Books under King Edward. But in our latter editions of the Common Prayer Book, they are either shortened, or wholly omitted: which, whatever was the reason, to me is great pity, being so proper to be used for various occasions and emergencies. I will but mention what the subject and matter of these prayers were. The first was a general confession of sin, to be said every morning, beginning, " O Almighty God "our heavenly Father, I confess and knowledge," &c. Then followed prayers to be said in the morning, four in number. Besides these, there was a prayer against temptation: a prayer for obtaining of wisdom, Sapien. ix. beginning, " O God of "our fathers, and Lord of mercy," &c. This prayer is also set at the beginning of the Bishops' Bible, put forth by Archbishop Parker; who, we may conclude, ordered the setting of that prayer there, as proper to be used before the reading of any portions of the holy Scripture. The next is a prayer against worldly-carefulness: beginning, "O most "dear and tender Father," &c. A prayer necessary for all persons, "O merciful God, I a wretched sinner," &c. A prayer necessary to be said at all times, "O bountiful Jesu," &c. Then there follow certain prayers taken out of the service daily used in the Queen's house. The first whereof beginneth, "Almighty God, the Father of mercies, and God "of all comfort," &c. These prayers are nine in number. Then follows a prayer for trust in God," The beginning of "the fall of man was trust in himself; the beginning of the "restoring man was distrust in himself, and trust in God," &c. A prayer for concord of Christ's Church. A prayer against the enemies of Christ's truth. A prayer for patience 85 in trouble. A prayer to be said at night going to bed. A prayer to be said at the hour of death. In this year was the First Book of Homilies first reprinted, Homilies containing twelve sermons, after they had been by the first reprintQueen's order diligently looked over and perused by her ed. BOOK Divines: and added at the end of the said quarto edition of II. the Book of Common Prayer. These homilies bore this Anno 1560. title, Certain Sermons appointed by the Queen's Majesty to be declared and read by all Parsons, Vicars, and Curates, every Sunday and Holyday in their Churches. And by her Grace's advice, perused and overseen for the better understanding of the Simple People. Newly imprinted in Parts according as is mentioned in the Book of Common Prayers. Anno M.D.LX. Bucer and Fagius restored. nour. Among other things done this summer by the ecclesiastical Commission aforesaid, which was appointed for settling of the Church, and inspecting matters of religion, and correcting of abuses, according to the power the Parliament had lately given the Queen, as having the supremacy of the Church in her own dominions; our Archbishop, Bishop Grindal, and Dr. Haddon, Master of the Requests, among many others, were three in the Commission; who, by virtue of the power committed to them by the Queen, wrote letters to the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Andrew Pern, and the rest of the University of Cambridge, to restore Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius, deceased in that University, to their due hoWhose dead bodies had been in the late reign so inhumanly dealt with by Cardinal Pole's order, as to be digged out of their graves, and publicly burnt in the market-place. The said letters being read in the senate, Dr. Pern being then Vice-Chancellor, it was asked, Placetne vobis, ut gradus et honoris titulus, quæ olim Martino Bucero et P. Fagio publicis hujus Academiæ suffragiis adempta erant, eisdem in integrum restituantur, et omnes actus contra eos aut eorum doctrinam rescindantur: which they all agreed to. This was done July 22. And the 30th of July Dr. Ackworth, the Public Orator, made an oration publicly in St. Mary's in honour of these two learned men, at an assembly of the University appointed for that purpose. And the oration done, Dr. James Pilkinton, the Public Professor of Divinity, went up the pulpit, and made a sermon upon the cxith Psalm, beginning, Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, &c. The entrance and walls of the church were III. all hung with verses in the praises of these men. And an CHAP. account of this restitution the University on the 3d of August sent up to the Archbishop and the Commissioners; Anno 1560. acquainting them with what great joy and triumph and арplause it was generally done; and that as soon as their letters were read to the Senate, and the injuries offered to the dead bodies by them mentioned, they were all presently on fire to honour them. dines with About the time this was in doing, the Queen honoured The Queen the Archbishop with a visit at his palace. For on the 29th the Archof July she set out on her progress from Greenwich west- bishop. ward, and coming to Lambeth she dined with my Lord of Canterbury, together with her Privy Council. And thence took her journey towards Richmond: where she rested five days; and then removed to Oatlands, to Sutton, and other places on that side. CHAP. IV. The Archbishop takes care of the vacant sees: especially those of the north. His Admonition concerning Matrimony, set forth. An order concerning preaching. A message from the Protestants in Germany. The visitors of Cambridge advise the Archbishop, of Cosins of Katherine hall, his resignation. The Council sends to the Archbishop concerning the Popish Bishops in the Tower. He writes in behalf of some of the Dutch Church, London, in the inquisition in Flanders. Appoints a special form of prayer. Forbids the ordination of mechanics. 86 for bishop THERE were three great and rich bishoprics yet undis- Preachers posed; which required some longer deliberation, what suffi- appointed cient men to place in them: namely, the archbishopric of rics vacant. York, and the bishoprics of Winton and Durham. William May, LL. D. Dean of St. Paul's, under King Edward, and also in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth, a wise and wellweighed man, was resolved upon for the archbishopric, but he |