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THE AGES DIGITAL LIBRARY HISTORICAL ANNALS OF THE REFORMATION VOLUME 7 (FORMERLY VOLUME 4) by John Strype Books For The Ages AGES Software • Albany, OR USA Version 1.0 © 1997 2 ANNALS OFTHE REFORMATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION AND OTHER VARIOUS OCCURRENCES IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND DURING QUEEN ELIZABETH’S HAPPY REIGN TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX OF ORIGINAL PAPERS OF STATE, RECORDS, AND LETTERS BY JOHN STRYPE, M.A. A NEW EDITION VOLUME 7 (FORMERLY VOLUME 4) 3 THE PREFACE. MY store of authentic papers, transcribed by me from the originals, are sufficient to furnish me with matter to carry on my Annals to the end of queen Elizabeth’s reign in the same method with the former volumes, and to be digested into a just and methodical history; a thing which many of my learned friends and readers have desired to see. But my great age, and infirmities accompanying it, require me to forbear. And yet, that those papers might not be quite lost, or remain in obscurity and of no use, I have at last, in intervals of better health, prepared a great number of the most important and useful of them, as I took them by my own pen at first from the originals, and have now digested them into a course of historical matters, succeeding year by year, as they fell out. By which means a knowledge of the affairs both of the church and state may be attained, until the access of king James to the kingdom, and some years after. Wherein will be discovered divers remarkable occurrences during the latter part of her reign. Which consisted chiefly of the king of Spain’s formidable attempts against this realms plots of popish seminaries and Jesuits, and the endeavours of the disaffected to the establishment of this church, and the episcopal government of it; and the judicial proceedings taken with them. All which these collections will give a great light into; none of them as yet having been published to the world. So that this following large number of records will want nothing to render it a complete history of those times of the queen, (all very communicative of the chief matters transacted,) though not compiled into a formal history. And let me add, (which will give a sufficient credit and estimation to these papers,) that they were for the most part found by me among the manuscripts and state-papers of that great and wise counsellor of the queen, lord Burghley, lord treasurer, the Nestor of his age, as he was styled. Under the year of whose death some peculiar and curious remarks in this work are given of him. Since the publishing of the former volumes of the Annals, I have met with many material papers, which may improve and illustrate the said history; and therefore have added them by way of Supplement at the end of this book, as they fell out yearly. 4 THE CONTENTS. Number 1. Reports sent from sir Edward Kelly in Bohemia, June an. 1589, of one Parkins a Jesuit: brought by Robert Tatton and George Leycester. Thus endorsed on the paper by the hand of the lord treasurer Burghley, as followeth, viz. Certain articles of the discovery of high treason, made by sir Edw. Kelly, baron of Bohemia, unto certain English gentlemen, which came to visit him at Tribona in the said kingdom, the latter end of June, 1589, whose names are here subscribed. To which may be here subjoined two letters wrote to the said Kelly by the lord treasurer Burghley, as a remaining memorial of the same famous man, sometime of this nation a native; viz. Number 2. The lord Burghley, lord treasurer, to sir Edward Kelly, written ann. 1591, declaring the value he and others had of him, upon the account of his great knowledge and virtue; and inviting him to return to his own country: and begging a medicine from him for his old enemy the gout. Number 3. Another letter from the lord Burghley to sir Edw. Kelly, in answer to a letter from him, brought by Mr. Dyar. Exhorting him earnestly, and that by command from the queen, to come over into his own country; that they might receive the honour and service that his great wisdom and knowledge deserved. Written by that lord’s own hand. Number 4. Sir Francis Knowles, knt. treasurer of the queen’s chamber; to the lord Burghley, lord high treasurer. A letter of some sharpness against the superiority of bishops. Number 5. Sir Francis Knowles to the queen, upon some displeasure she had taken against him. Occasioned by his controversy about the superiority of bishops. Number 6. One Mrs. Dyer had practised conjuration against the queen, to work some mischief to her majesty; for which she was brought into question. And accordingly her words and doings were sent to Popham, the queen’s attorney, and Egerton, her solicitor, by sir Francis Walsingham the queen’s secretary, and sir Tho. Heneage, her vice- chamberlain, for their judgment of her case; whose opinion was, that Mrs. Dyer was not within the compass of the estatute touching 5 witchcraft; for that she did no act, and spake certain lewd speeches, tending to that purpose: but neither set figure nor made pictures. The attorney’s and solicitor’s letter in answer follows. Number 7. Sir Francis Drake to the lord treasurer; concerning the fleet landing at Caskays with don Antonio, for his recovery of the kingdom of Portugal from the king of Spain, who had taken it. Number 8. A discourse of Anthony Coppley, dated the 6th of January, 1590, (of his abode and maintenance beyond the seas, written to Mr. William Wade. [Who was one of the queen’s secretaries.] He seems to be the son of Tho. Coppley, a principal popish fugitive in Q. Elizabeth’s reign, and was made great master of the Maes by the king of Spain; and afterwards knighted by the French king, and the title of baron given him; as Camden, under the years 1575 and 1577 of his Annals, writes. Number 9. Whitgift, archbishop of Canterbury, to the justices of peace in Kent: for release of the clergy from composition-corn. An original. Number 10. The bishop of Winton to the lord treasurer. Upon a contest between the president and fellows of Corpus Christi college, Oxon: deferred to their visitor the said bishop, with his sense of it, shewed to the said lord treasurer; who had sent to him to put an end to it. Number 11. Merick, bishop of the Isle of Man, to the lord Burghley, lord treasurer. Complaining of his being charged above his ability. Shewing his needy condition. Writ April, 1590. Number 12. Hutton, bishop of Durham, to the lord treasurer, that his lordship would be a means to satisfy the queen concerning his bestowing of Sherborn hospital, the queen having granted it to another. Writ in March, 1590. Number 13. Harberd, bishop of Hereford, to the lord treasurer; informing him of one brought before him for seditious words. Number 14. Ann. 1590. Memoire a monsieur le grand tresorier, pour Geneve. The paper following so endorsed was drawn up by Le Lect, agent here for Geneva; shewing their present miserable condition, and craving his interest with the queen on their behalf. Number 15 The magistrates of Geneva to queen Elizabeth, thanking her for a collection sent to them, and craving further aid in their distress. 6 Number 16. Thomas Cartwright, the puritan, to the right worshipful Mr. Puckring, one of her majesty’s sergeants at law; being sent for by a pursuivant, now deprived of his hospital at Warwick. Number 17. Some account of the trial and condemnation of John Udal, a minister, concerned with Martin Marprelate in publishing several schismatical books. Taken from the MSS. of sergeant Puckring; before whom and baron Clark the said Udal was brought to his trial, at the assizes held in Surrey. Number 18. Articles delivered to the judges by Mr. Udal, shewing reasons why they should not proceed in judgment against him, notwithstanding the verdict given against him. This paper consisteth of nine articles. Number 19. Udal’s submission: sent to baron Clark and sergeant Puckring, November 18, 1590. Number 20. After sentence given against Udal in the Lentassizes, Feb. 1590, sergeant Puckring wrote this letter to thc lord chancellor Hatton about their proceedings with him. Number 21. The copy of the submission required by the judges, to be made by Udal. Number 22. the last offered submission of Udal, Feb. 19, Number 23. Dr. Bancroft, chaplain to the lord chancellor, to Mr. Sergeant Puckring, to stay execution of Udal. ibid. Number 24. Udal to sergeant Puckring, after his return from the assizes to his prison in the White Lion, November 11, 1590. In which letter may be observed his lofty and unrelenting behaviour: his justifying his innocency: calling for execution, or deliverance from his imprisonment. Resenteth the disgrace that was done him; &c. Number 25. November 18 following, Udal writ both to the baron and the sergeant: who had told him that upon his submission they were willing to become means to her majesty for his pardon. He sent this letter. And Nov. 25 he wrote to them again another letter: upon their sending him a messenger, that his former submission did not content them. ibid. Number 26. Udal’s belief. Drawn up to pacify the queen, who conceived an high displeasure against him, for asserting, that the prince had nothing to do in spiritual matters, and that she was subject to their censures.