THE REMAINS OP ARCHBISHOP GRINDAL. mt $a*fcet Society Snatitutrtu a. 33. Hi. 19 <£<£©. Sit. dFor tf)e $uWtcatton of tfje SHorfee of tfje ^atfiera antr CSatlt? ffiBritere of tfje mcformea THE REMAINS EDMUND GRINDAL, D-D. SUCCESSIVELY BISHOP OF LONDON, AND ARCHBISHOP OF YORK AND CANTERBURY. EDITED FOR CTe liarfcet Society, BY THE REV. WILLIAM NICHOLSON, A.M. RECTOR OF ST MAURICE WITH ST MARY KALENDAR, WINCHESTER. CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. M.DCCCXLIII. CONTENTS. PAGE I. Biographical Notice vii II. Sermon at the Funeral Solemnity of the Emperor Fer- dinand 1 III. Dialogue between Custom and Verity 35 IV- Occasional Services for the Plague 75 1. Form of Prayer and Public Fast 84 2. Homily concerning the Justice of God 95 3. Thanksgiving for the Abatement of the Plague Ill 4. Thanksgiving for the Cessation of the Plague 115 V. Injunctions and Articles of Inquiry. i. For the Province of York: 1. Injunctions for the Clergy 122 2. Injunctions for the Laity 132 3. Injunctions to the Dean and Chapter of York 145 4. Order for the removal of Rood-lofts 154 ii. For the Province of Canterbury : 1. General Articles of Inquiry for the Metropolitical Visitation 156 2. Articles of Inquiry for Cathedral Churches 178 3. Injunctions to the Dean and Chapter of Bangor 183 4. Articles agreed upon in the Synod of 1575-6 185 5. Mandate for the publication of the above Articles 191 VI. Disputation at Cambridge a.d. 1549 193 VII. Examination of certain Londoners before the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a.d. 1567 199 VIII. Letters of Archbishop Grindal 217 To John Foxe, 219—237. To Bishop Ridley, 238. To his Archdeacons, 240, 246, 415. To the Suffragan Bishops, 241. Miscellaneous, 242, 261, 286, 293, 362. To Sir William Cecil (Lord Burleigh), 244, 253—261, 264-266, 267—275, 280—285, 287—290, 291—292, 295—298, 299—315, 320—326, 329—333, 342—346, 348—352, 355—361, 363, 365, 391, 397—400, 401—403. CONTENTS. PAGE To the Magistrates of Frankfort, 247. To Archbishop Parker, 252, 267, 290, 294, 299, 326, 347, 353. To the Lord Robert Dudley, (Earl of Leicester) 261. To Hierome Zanchius, 276—280, 333—342. To the Privy Council, 316—320, 392, 396. To his Officers, 361, 408—414, 417—420, 423—429. To Queen Elizabeth, 364, 376. Letters and Documents relating to the Archbishop's Sequestration, 372—403. To Bishop Whitgift, 370. To Dr Matthew Hutton, Dean of York, 394—396. To the Bishop of London, 404—408, 421. To the Bishops, 429. IX. Miscellaneous Pieces: 1. Animadversions on Justus Velsiu9' Norma, Latin and English 436 2. Form of Revocation offered to Hadrian Hamsted, Latin and English 441 3. Account of the Archbishop's Court of Faculties 446 4. Opinions and Directions concerning Ecclesiastical Discipline 451 X. The Archbishop's Last Will and Testament 458 XI. Appendix 465 1. The Queen's Letter to the Bishops 467 2. Lord Burleigh's Message to the Archbishop 469 3. Speech to the Archbishop in Council 471 4. Christiani Hominis Norma, auctore Justo Velsio 474 5. A Form of Meditation 477 XII. Index 485 BIOGRAPHICAL NO.TICB OF ARCHBISHOP GRINDAL. Edmund Gkindal was born in the year 1519, in the parish of St Bees in Cumberland. Of his family and early history little is known. One remarkable incident, however, is on record connected with his boyhood, which shews his diligence in learning. His book was the companion of his walks, and thereby on one occasion became the preserver of his life. While he was walking in the fields, an arrow lighted upon his breast, and, had not the book intercepted it, would 1 probably have been fatal . He was the intimate friend and companion of Edwin Sandys, who was a native of the same place, and who after- wards succeeded him in the sees of London and York. At the usual age he was sent to Magdalen College, Cambridge, whence he afterwards removed successively to Christ's College and Pembroke Hall. Of this last-named society he became fellow, president, and master. He seems to have taken the degree of B.A. about a.d. 1538, in which year he was ad- mitted to a fellowship ; upon which, as a title, he was ordained, July 4, 1544, by John Bird, bishop of Winchester. In 1541 he proceeded to M.A., and in the year 1548, served the office of senior proctor. His academical career gave promise of future eminence. " Before he came to be taken notice of in the church (ob- 1 Saepenumero mihi in mentem venit, honoratissime Antistes, illius sagittae, quae de coelo delapsa, ruri cum puer ambulares, pectus tuum ita feriit, ut nisi liber, quern pro praecordiis turn forte gerebas, vim teli intercepisset, actum fuisset de vita tua. Conrad. Hubert. Epist. dedica- toria in Buceri Scripta Anglicana. 11 BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE serves Strype), he made a figure in the university, as one of the ripest wits and learnedest men in Cambridge 1 " In proof of which we find him, in June, a.d. 1549, selected out of the whole university, as one of the four disputants against the doctrine of transubstantiation, at a public disputation held 2 before king Edward's visitors . In the same year he was appointed Lady Margaret's preacher, and also president, or vice-master, of his college. In the following year, 1550, bishop Ridley appointed him one of his chaplains, together with Bradford and Rogers, both afterwards martyrs in queen Mary's reign. It is not improbable that Ridley, besides knowing Grindal as a member of his college, had also been impressed with a favourable opinion of his learning and abilities during the recent disputation at which he had presided. The high estimation in which the bishop held him is apparent in the following extract from a letter 3 " which he wrote to Sir John Cheke : Now the man master Grindal, unto whom I would give this prebend [that of Cantrells or Kentish Town], doth move me much ; for he is a man known to be both of virtue, honesty, discretion, wisdom, and learning." Shortly after this, August 24, 1551, he was preferred to the office of precentor of St Paul's. While thus connected with bishop Ridley, he was con- stantly employed in preaching throughout the diocese; a satis- factory evidence of the reputation in which he was held, when the choicest men were selected for the pulpits, in order to impress the popular mind in favour of the reformed religion. In the same year we find him engaged in two private conferences on the eucharistic controversy ; the question being the true meaning of the words, " This is my body," whether to be understood figuratively or literally. The disputants were, on the protestant side, Grindal, Horn, Cheke, and Whitehead; and on the other, Fecknam, Young, and Watson. In De- cember of this same year he was appointed chaplain to king 1 2 Grind, p. 6. See p. 194. 3 See bishop Ridley's Works, Parker Soc. p. 331. OP ARCHBISHOP GRINDAL. HI Edward, with a salary of £40.; and in July 1552, he ob- tained a prebend in Westminster. In the month of November a project was under con- sideration for dividing the diocese of Durham, then vacant by 4 the deprivation of bishop Tonstall ; and it seems that Grindal was nominated for one of these bishoprics. Newcastle-upon- Tyne was to have been the newly-erected see ; but the design was frustrated through some influence at court. On July 6, 1553, king Edward died, and with him the hopes of those who looked favourably upon the advancing work of the Reformation. Foreseeing the storm which was gathering over the church, Grindal, in company with many others of great piety and learning, of whom several afterwards attained to places of eminence under queen Elizabeth, took refuge on the continent. His first place of exile was Stras- burgh ; and so little hope did he entertain of a change in the aspect of ecclesiastical affairs in England, that he applied himself diligently to learn the German language, that he might be able to exercise his ministry in those parts 6 From Stras- burgh he occasionally visited other places, and spent some time at Wasselheim, Spires, and Frankfort. One of GrindaFs chief employments during his exile was to collect " the writings and stories of the learned and pious sufferers in England, and to publish them ; for which purpose 11 he had a great correspondence here. The results of his in- quiries he communicated to John Foxe, who incorporated them into his laborious work, the " Acts and Monuments." How much Foxe was indebted to Grindal, will appear from the correspondence given in this volume, to which the reader is referred, (pp. 219—238.) The unhappy dissensions amongst the English exiles at Frankfort, in 1554, are too well known to require explanation 4 See bishop Burnet's account of this matter, ii. 442, Oxford, 1829. 5 Desperans de patriae salute, Wasselheimii linguse Germanicee operam dederis, quod earn ita adeptus sis, ut vox tua etiam in Ger- manicis ecclesiis audiri potuisset. Conrad. Hubert. Epist. Dedic. in Buceri Script. Anglic. a2 : IV BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE here. It is sufficient to observe that there were two parties, one desirous of maintaining the exclusive use, in public wor- ship, of king Edward's second book ; the other, headed by Knox and Whittingham, endeavouring to approximate the services to those then in use at Geneva. These dissen- sions and heart-burnings were matters of deep concern to the brethren at Strasburgh and elsewhere, who saw in them, not only a scandal to the reformed English church, but the elements of danger to the cause of the Eeformation in general.