"vered unto the Queen's Majefty during John Calvin's "Life. But being not discovered until, or about the "Sixth Year of her Majefty's Reign, her Majesty much "lamented they were not found fooner: Which the expreffed before her Council at the fame time, in the Prefence of her great Friends, Sir Henry Sidney, and Sir William Cecil.

4. In the fame Year (1560) Martin Bucer and Paul Fagius, whofe dead Bodies had been dug out of their Graves, and burnt in the late Reign, were reftored to their Honour by the University of Cambridge. This Queftion being asked in a full Affembly, Placetne Vobis, ut gradus & honoris titulus, qui olim Martino Bucero & P. Fagio publicis bujus Academia fuffragiis adempti erant, eifdem in integrum reftituantur, & omnes Actus contra eos aut eorum doctrinam refcindantur? Every body agreed to it. The publick Orator made an Oration in Honour of thofe Two Learned Men: A Sermon was preached upon that Occafion: The Entrances and Walls of the Church were all hung with Verfes containing feveral Encomiums upon thofe Two Foreigners, whofe Memory had been defamed by the Enemies of the Reformation.

5. The dead Body of Peter Martyr's Wife was dug up at Oxford Two Years after her Death, in the Reign of Queen Mary, and buried in a Dunghil. But in the Year 1561. the University caufed the Corps to be taken out of the Dunghil, and it was buried again in Chrift-Church, with two filk Bags, in which the Bones of St. Fridefwide were wrapped up and preferved. Thofe Bones were placed upon the Altar of that Church on folemn Days, and expofed to the publick View, to be reverenced by the fuperftitious People.

6. In 1561. Queen Elizabeth went a Progress into Effex and Suffolk, and was very much furprised to fee fo many Women and Children in Cathedrals and Colleges. Whereupon the put out an Order at Ipfwich, whereby fhe forbad the Heads or Members of any College or Cathedral to keep their Wives, or other Women in thofe Pla-. ces, upon pain of forfeiting their Ecclefiaftical Preferments. The Queen did not approve that the Clergy fhould marry; and when Secretary Cecyl fent this Injun

ction to Archbishop Parker, he knew that Prelate would not be well pleased with it, fince he was a married Man, and very much approved the Marriage of the Clergy. I fhall fet down the beginning of the Secretary's Letter to the Archbishop. "Your Grace fhall understand, that I have. " had hitherto a troublefome Progrefs, to ftay the Queen's Majefty from daily Offence conceived against the Clergy, by reafon of the undiscreet Behaviour of the "Readers and Minifters in these Countries of Suffolk and

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Effex. Surely here be many flender Minifters, and "fuch Nakedness of Religion as it overthroweth my "Credit. Her Majefty continueth very ill affected to "the State of Matrimony in the Clergy. And if I were "not therein very stiff, her Majefty would utterly and. "openly condemn and forbid it, &c. The Bishops were very much offended at the Queen's Order, if one may judge of it by a Letter of Cox, Bishop of Ely, to the Archbifhop. That Letter is worth reading.

About that time the Archbishop waited upon the Queen. That Princess did very much exclaim against the Marriage of the Clergy, and spoke very angrily about it. The Archbishop writ a Letter to Secretary Cecyl the very next day, wherein he gave him an Account of his Converfation with the Queen. "I was in a Horror (fays be) to hear fuch Words to come from her mild Nature, and Chriftianly learned Confcience, as she fpake concerning God's holy Ordinance and Inftitution " of Matrimony. And it is a wonder to me that her "Highness is fo incensed by our Adverfaries, that all the " World should understand her Displeasure against us.

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Whereby our Credit be little, our doing God fervice " and Her fhall take least among her Subjects, to her own difquiet of Governance. Infomuch that the " Queens Highness expreffed to me a repentance, that we "were thus appointed in office, wifhing it had been

otherwife". The following words of the Archbishop are very remarkable. "I fhould be fory, that the Clergy "fhould have cause to fhew disobedience, with Oportet "Deo obedire magis quam hominibus. And what inftillers "foever there be, there be enough of this contemptible flock, that will not thrink to offer their blood for the

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"defence of Christ's verity, if it be openly impugned, " or fecretly fuggilled.

7. Tho' Beza was very zealous for a Presbyterian Government, and far from being fo moderate as Calvin in that refpect; yet it appears from fome Paffages quoted by Mr. Strype, pag. 243. that he advised the English diffenters to fubmit to the bishops, and not to quarrel about Ecclefiaftical garments. Those Paffages deserve to be read.

8. In 1567. there arofe a great controverfy in the Univerfity of Cambridge about the true fenfe of Chrift's defcent into Hell; whether it was a local defcent, or whether the words of the Creed had another meaning. This dispute was managed with fo much heat, that it came to the Secretary, who was the University's Chancellor. He confulted the Archbishop about it, who gave him his thoughts to compofe that difference. Mr Strype obferves, that the fenfe of Chrift's descent into hell was left in fuch a latis tude in the Book of Articles, without affigning any particu lar meaning thereof.

9. In 1570. the Crucifix, which had been removed out of the Queen's chapel, was brought in again. The Archbishop was the more concerned for it, becaufe there went a false report that it had been done by his ad

vice.

In the fame year fome Prebendaries of Norwich, and others, entred into the Quire of the church, broke down the Organs, and committed other outrages; which occafioned a fharp letter of the Queen to the Bishop of Norwich.

10. Mr. Strype (p. 319, 320.) difcourfes of the clause concerning the Authority of the Church, that is not to be found in the Manufcript of the Book of Articles - in Benet-College. I refer the Readers to the Author himfelf.

11. He makes a remarkable Obfervation, pag. 531. "In Archbishop Lanfrank's time, fays be, who lived under William the Conqueror, all Latin books that had any expreffions against a bodily prefence in the Sacrament, "were craftily abolished by the Papists. And fo John Fox * obferves in his Acts and Monuments, that in the time " of

"of Lanfrank and Pope Innocent, studying by all means "how to prefer and further this their new-come doctrine " of Transubstantiation, they did abolish and raze out of "Libraries and Churches all fuch books, which made "to the contrary. And because Lanfrank and other "Italian Priefts here in England understood not the "Saxon books, as they did the Latin, all that they un"derstood they made away: But the Saxon books, be"cause they knew them not, remained. For proof "whereof be offered it to be confidered, &c.

12. Our Author obferves (pag. 130.) that the ignorance of the ordinary fort of Clergymen was very great in those times. To give an Inftance of it; he fays, that one Tempeft, Curate of Cripple-gate, being asked among other Questions by Peer fon the Archbishop's Chaplain, what was the meaning of the word Function; he knew not what to make of it. But foon after he writ a Letter to the Chap lain, wherein he excufed himself, pretending that he had been surprised.

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The ignorant Curate of Cripple-gate's Letter to Mr. Peerfon, the Archbishop's Chaplain.

To the beloved in the Lord Jefus, Mr. Perfie. Know you, that wheras your Mastership faid, I knew not " what this Word Function meant, I being Pauperes Spiritus "to a quick appofing, it may please you to understand, "that I take it for my Utilitie. And wheras the Prophet • David faith, Impulfus everfus fum, ut caderem; I may fay, "for lack of good Memory, and a pregnant Wit, I was "overseen in making mine Anfwer. And the Prophet "faith furthermore, Et Dominus fufcepit me. And I wilk

pray quotidie, that the Lord may encrease me in my "Function, and great Charge. For I am Curate over Three "thousand and more of Gods Sheep. And therefore my -Function is not to fleep and be fluggish, but to wait on "my Office, to discharge as I am charged, in teaching and "governing; and to exercife my felf to do my Duty, if "I were worthy before the Lord. For he faith, Gratuitò

recepiftis, gratuitò date. So I must blow the Trumpet

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against Ungodly, or els the Lord will require the Bloud of the People at my hand, because the Office ce and Function is mine. Therefore my Suite to my Lords Grace and to you, is to have a les thing towards my Living. Scriptus te viginti quinque die

«Mencis Junus.

Anno 1569. ·

Per me WALTERUS TEMPEST, Curatus in Ecclefia Sti. Egidij extra Cripplegate Civitas Londoniencis.

ARTICLE XX.

PARIS.

MAdam Dacier has lately published a French Tranfla

tion of Homer's Iliad with Remarks.

L'Iliade d'Homere, traduite en François, avec des Remarques. Par Madame Dacier. Paris 1711. 3 Vol. in

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There is an Excellent Preface prefixed to this Tranflation. In the first place, Madam Dacier gives an Account of the Reasons that moved her to tranflate Homer into French, notwithstanding the great Difficulties of fucceeding in fuch an Attempt. Secondly, She mentions the Subjects treated of in the Remarks added to her Translation. In the Third place, the fhews how the Poems of Homer have been preferved and transmitted to us, and fpeaks of the moft Celebrated Commentators upon that Poet. Laftly, She enquires into the Nature of an Epick Poem, and examines whether Pleasure be the only Defign of it.

That Lady gives her Judgment about her own Performance in the following Words. "Let us fuppofe (fays fhe) that Helena died in Egypt; that the was embalmed in that Country; and that her Body being preserved to