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The Injunctions and Other Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard UC-NRLF miiiiii B 3 MS2 135 PUBLICATIONS SURTEES SOCIETY ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAR M.DCCC.XXXIV. VOL. XXII. FOR THE YEAR M.DCCC.L. V : THE INJUNCTIONS AND OTIIEE ECCLESIASTICAL PROCEEDINGS EICHABD BARNES BISHOP OF DURHAM, FROM 1575 TO 1587. DURHAM GEORGE ANDREWS. WHITTAKER & Co., 13, AVE MARIA LANE, ) London. T. & W. BOONE, 29, NEW BOND STREET, j WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS, Edinui iu,i LONDON: Printed by Samuel Bentlf.v and Co., iiangor House, SUoe Lane. 'HE SKAL OF THE CHANCELLOR OF THE SEE OF DURHAM FOK CAUSES ECCLESIASTICAL IN THE TIME OF BISHOP BARNES. 257193 At a Meeting of the Council of the Surtees Society, held in the Warden's Room in the University of Durham on the 14th of June 1849, the President in the chair, It was Resolved, That the Ecclesiastical Proceedings of Richard Barnes Bishop of Durham be the next publication of the Society, to be edited by Mr. Raine, on the usual terms. Cha. Thorp, President. PREFACE. This volume consists of such Documents, at length, or in an abridged form, as illustrate the administration of the See of Durham during the episcopate of Dr. Richard Barnes, the second of its bishojjs after the Reformation. Of the Bishop himself it has been deemed expedient to reprint the following brief memoir from the first volume of the History of the County of Durham by Mr. Surtees, omitting, however, the Pedigree of his family. Mr. Hutchinson, in his life of the Bishop, is more diffuse, citing at length many authorities, to which Mr. Surtees contents himself with giving reference. Memoir of Dr. Richard Barnes. " Dr. Richard Barnes, Bishop of Carlisle, w^as trans- lated to Durham on the 5th of April 1575 ; had the royal assent on the 29th of the same month, was con- firmed on the 9th of JNIay, enthroned on the 19th, and received restitution of the temporalities on the 29th.' ' In a letter, dated 23rd March 1576, he acknowledges the all-powerful minister Burleigh as his patron, to whom he owed both Carlisle and his present promotion. " Your lordship vvas mine only preferrer to Carlell, where I have served my seven years, and I trust discharged the promise yee then made unto her highncs on my behalf, which in this poor and bare living was all that to better, if in time I I could do ; now by your good means being preferred a be not thankfull," &c. Sometlung more, however, was expected from Bishop Barnes than professions, or the discharge of his episcopal duties, and he was — X PREFACE. He soon after addressed a letter to his patron, Lord Burleigh/ in which, after lauding the people of North- umberland for their civil obedience and excellent con- formity, and himself for having driven out ' the recon- ciling priests and massers, whereof there was store, but now they be all gone into Lancashire and Yorkshire,' he proceeds to give the following very different character of ' our countrymen : I assure your good lordship, those people are far more plyable to all good order than those stubborn, churlish people of the county of Durham and their neighbours of Richmondshire, who shew but, as tlie proverb is, Jack of Napes clmriiy in their hearts. The customes, the lives of these people (Northumber- land), as their country is, is truly salvage ; but truly, such haste to amend (though it be for some) as is zelous, and yet none extremity shewed to any, otherwise than by threatening, which hath wrought pannicum terrorem in their minds, and in the clergy a good readiness to apply their travells to their calling, only that Aucjice stabidum the Church of Durham exceedes, whose stinke is grievous in the nose of God and men, and which to purge far passeth Hercules' labours. The malicious of this county are mervailously exasperated against me; and whereas at home they dare, neither by words nor deeds, deal undutifully against me, yet abroad, &c., they grant to the Crown leases of the following manors very soon called upon to ; VVhickham and Gateshead, Norham, Norhamsliire and the Fisheries, Darling- ton and Blackwell Mills, Leake Hectory, Midridge, Wolsingham Parke, Coun- don Grainge, Morton le Grange, Howden, Crake, and Bishop Middlehain. Strype, ii. App.GS. [See Noutu Dukham, Gen. Introduction, p. 14, p. 28. — JEt/.J ' Feb. 11, 1575-G; Strype, ii. 482-3, PREFACE. XI deface me by all slanders, false reports, and shameless lyes ; tliongh the same be never so inartificial or incre- dible, accordhig to the nwtheim guise, which is never to be ashamed, however they bely and deface him whom they hate, yea, though it be before the honorablest. Pessimum hoc genus hominnm ex aliqua invidia laudem sibi quajrens.' ^ The rest of Bishop Barnes's history consists chiefly of his very uninteresting disputes with Archbishop Grindal, which may be seen in Strype." Barnes is said to have been learned, affable and generous, but he wanted firmness to maintain, like his predecessor, the privileges of his see against a rapacious court, and he justly suffered a heavy load of public odium for permitting the oppressions and exactions of his worth- less oflScers and relatives.^ After presiding eleven years. Bishop Barnes died at Auckland, where he chiefly resided, on the 24th of August 1587, and was buried in the middle of the choir of Durham Cathedral. ' Reverendo in Christo patri ac domino Richard Barnes, Dunelmi Episcopo, prsesuli prsedocto, Kberali et niunifico, P. S. praecharissimo patri, P. P. P. Obiit 24 Augusti A. D. 1587, aetatis suaa 55. Mors mihi lucrum. Astra tenent animam, corpusque lioc marmore clusum ; Fama polos penetrat, nomen nati atque nepotes Conservant : vivit semper post funera virtus.' ' Strype, ii. 482-3. ^ Ibid. 484. ^ He was commendable himself, but much suffering for the corruptions luul viciousncss of John Barnes his brother and Chancellor. Sec the Life of Gili)in, Portion, ii. p. 169. For much more concerning Barnes, see Fuller's Worthier, under Lflncas/(/;-e; Strype 's Annals, ii. 482-4 ; and Athena;, i. GOT. [It is certain that John Barnes never held the office of Chancellor under his brother the Bishop. See p. 8G.— iV.] " Xll PREFACE. " Thomas Calverley, the late Bishop's Temporal Chan- cellor, was appointed guardian of the temporalities September 22, 1587. The see continued vacant nearly two years. The following picture of the state of the Northern diocese at this period is probably not over- charged. ' The bishopric greatly impaired, the best things of it demised at length,^ &c., the diocese, viz. Northumberland, especially about the borders, most wretched and miserable, enough to burst the heart of a well-meaning pastor; so small assistance for public service of religion, and the state, both ecclesiastical and civil, no where less, he thought, in all this realm or the next; the place exceedingly chargeable in peace, and in war doubly dangerous ; yet, if God would send it, it should be welcome.' In the Appendix are contained various documents of a date antecedent and subsequent to the period of Barnes, of a nature tending to illustrate the state of affairs, in an ecclesiastical point of view, of the Diocese of Durham, from the beginning to the end of the six- teenth century, developing the condition of the see at the accession of that prelate, and the state in which he left it. I. The intrusive Visitation of the Diocese of Durham by the Archbishop of York in 1501, which will be read with interest. The Wills proved during this Visitation ' That is on long leases, viz. the Bishop's leases, already recorded, to the Crown. During the vacancy the Earl of Leicester, according to Strype, advised the Queen to impoverish the bishopric still further by taking 1200/. per annum of the best manors and lands in exchange fur impropriations and tithes of the same yearly value, iii. 369. PREFACE. Xiii arc given at length, as tending to rcnrler more complete the series of Durham Wills already printed by this Society. — Appendix, 1. —xl., from a transcript in the library of the Dean and Chapter of Durham.^ II. III. Inventories of ornaments, vestments, church- plate, books, &c. &;c., in the Cathedral Church of Dur- ham and the City chantries, in the time of King Henry the Eighth.—xli.—xlvii., from the Augmentation Office. IV. An imperfect Inventory of the plate, vestments, bells, &c. &c., belonging to certain churches in North- umberland, 6 Ed. VI.—xlviii.— 1. Ibid. V. Inventory (perfect), of the same date and nature, relative to the county of Durham.— li. —Iviii. Ibid. VI. Survey of all Colleges, Deaneries, Chantries, &c. (Sec, within the county of Durham, with their yearly value, possessions, endowments, &c. &c. 2 Ed. VI.— lix. Ixxvi. Ibid. VII. A similar survey for the county of Northumber- land.—Ixxvii.—xciv.^ Ibid. VIII. INIinister's Account of dissolved chantry rents in 1568.—xciv.—xcvii. Ibid. IX. Notes of Ordinations by Bishop Barnes, from 1577 to 1587.—xcviii. — cii. From the Bishop's Register. ' A like attempt on the part of the Archbishop of Yoric to exercise juris- diction in the Diocese of Durham, side vncante, was made upon the deatli of Bishop Barnes, and after a long litigation, the right was proved to be in the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Since that time the custom has not been dis- puted. Sec MS. Hunter, No. 32. D. and C. Library, in which the whole of the proceedings are set forth. * For the tran.script of this survey from the original in the Augmentation Office the Society is indebted to William Woodman, Esq. of Morpeth, one of its members. XIV PREFACE. X.
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