to. Makes statutes for the cathedrals. His visitations; and consecrations of Bishops. Of Chichester, Dr. Bickley, Warden of Merton college. Mr. Savil succeeds him there. Westphaling, Bishop of Hereford; Billet, Bishop of Bangor. The Archbishop unites two churches in the county of Lincoln. Licences granted on divers occasions. Sends the names of such as had been preferred to benefices. A new platform of discipline. The Archbishop is made a Privy Counsellor. A mock communion. Penance enjoined for it by the Archbishop. CHAP XVI. P. 453. Anno 1586. Travers silenced by the Archbishop. He writes his case to the Lord Treasurer. And sues to him for his liberty to preach. His exceptions to Mr. Hooker's sermon. Hooker's account of Travers's controversy with him. And his vindication of his doctrine. The Archbishop excepts against Travers's taking Orders at Antwerp. Travers's reasons for the lawfulness of his ministry. The Archbishop's animadversions thereupon. Forbids Cartwright to answer the Rhemists' English translation of the New Testament. The Archbishop's favour to Samuel Fox, for his father's sake, the Martyrologist. P. 474. CHAP. XVII. A Parliament. The Puritans bring in a bill and book. The opposition it met with. Two notable papers of arguments to this purpose; supposed of the Archbishop's drawing up. The House petition the Queen for the new model of discipline. Her notable answer. Matters transacted in the Convocation. Their benevolence; and subsidy. The province of York granteth the same. Their petition to the Queen. The Clergy's address to her Majesty; with a tract against the new model. Puritan Ministers engage themselves by subscription to the Discipline. Observations upon it. Of the resolution to set it up by force. P. 487. CHAP. XVIII. Examination of Ballard, the Priest, in the Tower. What his judgment was of Archbishop Whitgift's book, and of the Puritans. The Archbishop and Bishops charged to be promoters of Popery. The Archbishop's judgment in the Star-chamber against Secretary Davison. Divers tracts set forth about the laws for Papists. A discourse, or speech, about the falling away to Popery. A cautious licence from the Archbishop for bringing in of Popish books. A form of prayer and thanksgiving prescribed by the Archbishop for the use of his province. P. 505. CHAP. XIX. The Lord Treasurer's secret letter to the Bishops, to inform him Ann. 1587. of the Justices of the peace. A metropolitical visitation of 1588. Bath and Wells. Visits Saltwood and Hith hospitals. Digby, a Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, expelled by Whitaker the Master. Appeals to the Archbishop; who, with the Lord Treasurer, restore him. Is concerned about the expulsion of a Fellow of Bene't college, one Hickman. Reports his case to the Lord Treasurer. Writes to the Bishops for the Clergy to find men and arms: and for prayer and fasting. His dealing with divers Popish gentlemen in Wisbich castle. P. 514. CHAP. XX. Letters to the Bishops from the Archbishop, for the observation CHAP. XXI. Hackington vicarage augmented. The conditions for the Vicar, by the Archbishop's instrument. The see of York vacant by the death of Archbishop Sandys. His deserts towards that Church. His character; and testimony to this Church of England. Succeeded by Piers, Bishop of Sarum. Confirmed at Lambeth. Martin Marprelate's libels. The secret printing press. A letter from some of the Council to the Archbishop, to search for these books and the authors. Expressions against the Bishops in those books. Cases and questions proposed and resolved by the Puritans, at their classical and provincial assemblies. Superiority of Bishops asserted in a public sermon, by Dr. Bancroft. A syllogism framed against it. Answered by him. Another syllogism, to charge the Archbishop with tyranny. CHAP. XXII. Anno 1599. Expressions in Marprelate's book against the Bishops in general. Foul language there given the Archbishop. The Bishop of Winton's book against the libel; wherein that Bishop is foully abused. He vindicates some expressions in his sermon. The Archbishop slandered in that libel. His particular answer to the charges against him there. CHAP. XXIII. P. 570. The Archbishop visits Peterborough and Canterbury. His articles of inquiry. Mr. Treasurer offended at them; and at the Bishops' assumed superiority. Argued against by letters. Two questions propounded about it: and resolved. Martin Marprelate's press taken. The Archbishop's letter thereupon to the Lord Treasurer. Letters of Beza to the Archbishop. Seminaries and others brought to the assizes at Oxon: and condemned. Mr. Davers and Mr. Cope, two gentlemen of that 'county, of different principles, contend. A private receptacle of Jesuits and Romish Priests discovered. CHAP. XXIV. : P. 593. The soldiers furnished by the Clergy required to be in a readiness. THE LIFE AND ACTS OF ARCHBISHOP WHITGIFT. BOOK I. CHAP. I. The introduction. Whitgift's name, stock, and family. His birth, education, and removal to the University of Cambridge. Made Fellow of Peter house. His danger in the visitation under Queen Mary. The rigour thereof. Dr. Perne, the Master of the college, his favour towards him. Whitgift's gratitude. IT was the Queen's care and resolution to preserve the Church of England on the same foot it was at first in the beginning of her reign, reformed and constituted, both in respect of the doctrine and of the government of it. The Papists endeavoured more clandestinely to overthrow the former; but a rank of Protestants, that required a further reformation, more openly and violently struck at the latter, both by many books and libels published, and diligently dispersed abroad; and also by frequent bills and addresses in Parliament against the established hierarchy by diocesan Bishops: and therein also finding much fault with many things in the Liturgy and Offices prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer. The Queen therefore (the metropolitical see of Canter resolves Archbishop. BOOK bury being now void by the death of Archbishop Grindal) I. carefully sought out for an active, as well as pious and The Queen learned person, as highly requisite to place in that see, upon Whit. who might, by his diligence and watchfulness, preserve gift for and maintain the present constitution of the Church, and check and quell these innovators; who by this time indeed became formidable to the State, as well as the Church. And of all her Divines, she looked upon none so fit for this high office on this account, as Dr. John Whitgift, Bishop of Worcester. By the experience she had of whom, and of whose government, both in the Church, and in the marches of Wales, (whereof he was for some years Vice-President,) she knew him to be both wise and stirring in the management of both ecclesiastical and civil affairs. And by his book, written some years before, against this disaffected set, in vindication of the present establishment of religion, he appeared to all that were unprejudiced, to be a Divine of a clear head, well seen in ancient ecclesiastical history, and versed in the Fathers of the Church, and also a man of excellent temper and moderation. For though Sandys, Archbishop of York, and 2 Aylmer, Bishop of London, were both very stout and learned men, and as tight to the present establishment of this Church, and his elders in years; yet their tempers were somewhat hot, and also both married men, a thing which the Queen disliked in the Clergy. As were likewise Horn, Bishop of Winchester, and Cox, Bishop of Ely; though otherwise they also his seniors, and excellently qualified in respect of learning and conduct. What to be considered in this Archbishop's life. I purpose, as much as I can, by the help of records, registers, and other original and authentic papers, to retrieve the memory and acts of this Archbishop, (as I have done the two former,) the third and last of that most venerable rank, that presided over the Church of England in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, of happy memory. In the writing whereof, I humbly implore the assistance of the good Spirit of God. Archbishop Whitgift may be considered in his birth and younger years; in his flourishing state in |