CHAPTERS AND CONTENTS. Sect. 1. Cheke's birth and family; vindicated. His nativity. Ann. 1514, Parents. Sect. 2. His education, proficiency; usefulness at St. 1534, John's college. Sect. 3. Made the King's Greek Professor. Re- 1542, forms the pronunciation of Greek. Sect. 4. Letters pass between 1548. Cheke and the Chancellor of the University about it. What and how Cheke read. Sect. 6. Cheke, University Orator. 1547, Sect. 1. Cheke removed to Court. Instructs the Prince. The Ann. 1544, wife offends the Duchess of Somerset. Sect. 4. Preferred at Court, and does good offices for men of religion and learning. Sect. 5. Procures Ascham to go Secretary in an Embassy to the Emperor. Sect. 6. Cheke translates the Communion Book. His friendship with Martyr and Bucer. Hath a son. Sect. 7. Reads Aristotle's Ethics in Greek to the King. Instructs him for government. Sect. 8. Concerned about the death of Bucer, the King's Divinity Professor at Cambridge. Sect. 9. Writes piously From the time of Cheke's knighthood, to his being made a Privy Counsellor and Secretary of State. Sect. 1. Cheke is knighted. Sect. 2. Inquisitive after Dr. Red- man's declaration concerning religion at his death. Sect. 3. His disputations concerning the Sacrament. Sect. 4. Resigns his Greek Professorship. Gets Leland's MSS. Falls sick. Sect. 5. From Sir John Cheke's highest advancements to his exile; Sect. 1. Cheke's highest advancements. A Privy Counsellor. Secretary of State. Stands for the Lady Jane. Sect. 2. Com- mitted, indicted, pardoned. Travels abroad. Sojourns at Stras- burg. Sect. 3. Some letters of his printed. Writes to Cecil. His condition become mean. Reads a Greek lecture at Stras- burg. Taken prisoner, and brought to England. Sect. 4. Too credulous to astrology. Betrayed. Complies. Subscribes. Re- cants. Sect. 5. His submission to Cardinal Pole as the Pope's Legate; and his recantations. Sect. 6. Observations upon Cheke's recantations. The Queen grants him lands in exchange. Sect. 7.. What happened to him after his recantation. Trou- bled. Repents. Dies. Sect. 8. His circumstances at his death. Sect. 1. Cheke's three sons: Henry Cheke, eldest son; John Cheke, the second; Edward, the third. Sect. 2. Henry Cheke, Sir John's eldest son. Sect. 3. Sir Thomas Cheke, son of Sir Sect. 1. His natural disposition, and the endowments of his mind. Sect. 2. His learning. Sect. 3. Cheke considered as a Some observations upon Sir John Cheke's religion and principles. His fortune and his fall. The conclusion. Sect. 1. Cheke's religion. Sect. 2. His religious practices. REMARKABLE LETTERS OF SIR JOHN CHEKE AND OTHERS, COLLECTED IN THIS HISTORY. CHEKE to Dr. Matthew Parker, Queen Anne's Chaplain, in behalf of Bill, a Scholar of St. John's college, p. 9. To Stephen, Bishop of Winton, Chancellor of Cambridge, concerning his new way of pronouncing the Greek, p. 15. To Dr. Butts, the King's Physician, being sick, consolatory, p. 26. To Peter Osborn, from Cambridge, where he was retired from Court, p. 39. To the Duchess of Somerset, excusing his wife, under her Grace's displeasure, p. 45. To Martin Bucer, upon his recovery from sickness, p. 54. To the same, concerning John Sleidan's pension, p. 55. To Peter Martyr, consolatory upon the death of Dr. Bucer, p. 58. To Dr. Parker and the University, on the same occasion, p. 61. To Walter Haddon, upon his sickness, p. 63. To Sir William Cecil, from Strasburg, giving him warning against compliance with the Popish religion, p. 99. To Queen Mary, declaring his submission, p. 112. To Cecil, in Greek, in behalf of a poor foreign Bishop come into England, p. 176. The University of Cambridge to Cheke, congratulatory, upon the access of King Edward to the throne, p. 33. Stephen, Bishop of Winton, and Chancellor of Cambridge, to Cheke, prohibitory of his new way brought in of sounding the Greek letters, p. 15. Walter Haddon, LL. D. to Cheke, upon his leaving the University, p. 23. To the same, upon his translation and edition of certain Orations of Chrysostom de Fato, p. 31. Nicolas Car to Cheke, consolatory, concerning the death of Dr. Martin Bucer, p. 58. Roger Ascham to Cecil, upon the hope of Cheke's preferment to the provostship of King's college, p. 35. To Cheke, from Germany, shewing the state of religion and REMARKABLE LETTERS, &c. xiii learning abroad, p. 49. To the same, congratulatory of his high advancement at Court, p. 92. Yong to Cheke, concerning the declarations of Dr. Redman on his death-bed, concerning certain points of religion, p. 67. Thomas Lever to Ascham, concerning Cheke's recovery, p. 89. Archbishop Cranmer to Cecil, signifying his concern for Cheke's troubles upon Queen Mary's coming to the Crown, p. 94. Lady Frances Cooke to the Lord Burghley, about precedency to the Lady Cheke, p. 135. John Cheke, son of Sir John Cheke, to the Lord Burghley, upon his going to the war, p. 139. Bartholomew Clark, LL. D. to Cecil, concerning the proficiency of Henry Cheke at Cambridge, p. 140. BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS MADE USE OF OR MENTIONED IN THIS WORK. VARIA penes me MSSta. Visitation Books in the Office of Arms. Weever's Funeral Monuments. Bishop of London's Register. Fox's Acts and Monuments. His Martyrology, the first edition. A MS. of Dr. Sloan's. Checi de Recta Græcæ Linguæ Pronuntiatione. Epistola D. Winton Checo in libro præfat. Cælii Secundi Curionis Epist. Dedicatoria eidem Libro. Aschami Epistolæ. Lelandi Epigrammata. Dixoni Poemata, MSS. c. c. c. Volumen Epistolarum in Biblioth. C. C. C. C. Dr. Langbain's Life of Cheke. |