PART est amare. O dulcedo virginalis, nunquam fuit nec est talis, &c. II. Fol. 77. Georgi martyr inclite, te decet laus et gloria: prædotatum S. George. militia, per quem puella regia, existens in tristitia, coram dracone pessimo, salvata est, et animo: te rogamus corde intimo, ut cum cunctis fidelibus coeli jungamur civibus, nostris abluti sordibus, ut simul cum lætitia, tecum simus in gloria, nostraq; reddant labia laudes Christo cum gloria. Martyr Christophore, pro salvatoris honore, fac nos mente fore, dignos Deitatis amore: promisso Christi, quia quod petis obtinuisti, da populo tristi, bona quæ moriendo petisti: confer solamen, et mentis tolle gravamen; Judicis examen, fac mite sit omnibus Amen. Ibid. St. Fol. 78. Fol. 80. 11000 virgins. Ex MS. Col. C. C. O Willielme pastor bone, cleri pater et patrone, munda nobis in agone, confer opem et depone vitæ sordes, et coronæ cœlestis da gaudia. O vos undena millia, puellæ gloriosa, virginitatis lilia, martyrii rosæ, in vita me defendite, præbendo mihi juvamen, in morte vos ostendite supremum ferendo solamen. To St. Alban. Te nunc petimus patrone, præco sedule, qui es nostra vera gloria, solve precum votis, servorum scelera. To St. Peter and St. Paul. Beate Petre qui maxima reseras, claudis verbo cœli limina, sume pius vota fidelia, peccati cuncta dissolvendo vincula: Sacra Paule ingere dogmata, illustrans plebis pectora. In die omnium sanctorum. Mariam primam vox sonet nostra, per quam nobis vitæ sunt data præmia: regina quæ es mater, et casta, solve nostra per Filium peccamina: angelorum concio sacra, et arch-angelorum turma inclyta, nostra diluant jam peccata præstando supernam cœli gloriam. Number 30. Dr. Redmayn's opinion concerning the marriage of the clergie. An original. I THINK that although the word of God does exhort and I. counsel priests to live in chastity, out of the cumber of the BOOK flesh and of the world, that thereby they may wholly attend to their calling; yet the bond of continuing from marriage doth only lie upon priests in this realm, by reason of canons and constitutions of the church, and not by any precept of God's word, as in that they should be bound by any vow: which (in as far as my conscience is) priests in this church of England do not make. I think that it standeth well with God's word, that a man which hath been, or is but once married, being otherwise accordingly qualified, may be made a priest. And I do think, that forasmuch as canons and rules made in this behalf are neither universal nor everlasting, but upon considerations may be altered and changed; therefore the king's majesty, and the higher powers of the church, may, upon such reasons as shall move them, take away the clog of perpetual continence from priests, and grant that it may be lawful for such as cannot, or will not contain, to marry a wife; and if she die, then the said priest to marry no more, remaining still in the ministration. John Redmayn. Number 31. Articles of high treason, and other misdemeanours against the king's majesty, and his crown, objected to sir Thomas Seymour kt. lord Seymour of Sudley, and high admiral of England. concilii. 1. WHEREAS the duke of Somerset was made governor Ex libro of the king's majesty's person, and protector of all his realms fol. 236. and dominions, and subjects; to the which you your self did agree, and gave your consent in writing; it is objected and laid unto your charge, that this notwithstanding you have attempted and gone about, by indirect means, to undoe this order, and to get into your hands the government of the king's majesty, to the great danger of his highness person, and the subversion of the state of the realm. ᏢᎪᎡᎢ II. 2. It is objected, and laid to your charge, that by corrupting with gifts, and fair promises, divers of the privychamber, you went about to allure his highness to condescend and agree to the same your most heinous and perilous purposes, to the great danger of his highness person, and of the subversion of the state of the realm. 3. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, that you wrote a letter with your own hand; which letter the king's majesty should have subscribed, or written again after that copy, to the parliament house; and that you delivered the same to his highness for that intent: with the which so written by his highness, or subscribed, you had determined to have come into the commons-house your self; and there, with your fautors and adherents before prepared, to have made a broil, or tumult, or uproar, to the great danger of the king's majesty's person, and subversion of the state of this realm. 4. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, that you your self spake to divers of the council, and laboured with divers of the nobility of the realm, to stick and adhere unto you for the alteration of the state, and order of the realm, and to attain your other purposes, to the danger of the king's majesty's person, now in his tender years, and subversion of the state of the realm. 5. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, that you did say openly and plainly, you would make the blackest parliament that ever was in England. 6. It is objected, and laid to your charge, that being sent for by the authority, to answer to such things as were thought meet to be reformed in you, you refused to come; to a very evil example of disobedience, and danger thereby of the subversion of the state of the realm. 7. It is objected, and laid to your charge, that sith the last sessions of this parliament, notwithstanding much clemency shewed unto you, you have still continued in your former mischievous purposes; and continually, by your self and other, studied and laboured to put into the king's ma I. jesty's head and mind, a misliking of the government of the BOOK realm, and of the lord protector's doings, to the danger of his person, and the great peril of the realm. 8. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That the king's majesty being of those tender years, and as yet by age unable to direct his own things, you have gone about to instill into his grace's head, and as much as lieth in you, perswaded him to take upon himself the government and managing of his own affairs, to the danger of his highness person, and great peril of the whole realm. 9. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That you had fully intended and appointed, to have taken the king's majesty's person into your own hands and custody, to the danger of his subjects, and peril of the realm. 10. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That you have corrupted, with mony, certain of the privy-chamber, to perswade the king's majesty to have a credit towards you; and so to insinuate you to his grace, that when he lacked any thing, he should have it of you and none other body, to the intent he should mislike his ordering, and that you might the better, when you saw time, use the king's highness for an instrument to this purpose, to the danger of his royal person, and subversion of the state of the realm. 11. It is objected and laid unto your charge, That you promised the marriage of the king's majesty at your will and pleasure. 12. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, That you have laboured, and gone about to combine and confederate your self with some persons: and specially moved those noble-men, whom you thought not to be contented, to depart into their countries, and make themselves strong; and otherwise to allure them to serve your purpose by gentle promises and offers, to have a party and faction in readiness to all your purposes, to the danger of the king's majesty's person, and peril of the state of the realm. 13. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, That you have parted, as it were, in your imagination and intent the PART realm, to set noble-men to countervail such other noble-men devilish purposes, purposes, and so great dan as you thought would let your 14. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, That you had advised certain men to entertain and win the favour and good-wills of the head yeomen and ringleaders of certain countries, to the intent that they might bring the mul titude and commons, when you should think meet, to the furtherance of your purposes. 15. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That you have not only studied and imagined how to have the rule of a number of men in your hands, but that you have attempted to get, and also gotten, divers stewardships of noblemen's lands, and their manoreds, to make your party stronger, for your purposes aforesaid; to the danger of the king's majesty's person, and great peril of the state of the realm. 16. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That you have retained young gentlemen, and hired yeomen, to a great multitude, and far above such number as is permitted by the laws and statutes of the realm, or were otherwise necessary or convenient for your service, place, or estate, to the fortifying of your self towards all your evil intents and purposes; to the great danger of the king's majesty, and peril of the state of the realm. 17. It is objected, and laid to your charge, That you had so travailed in that matter, that you had made your self able to make, of your own men, out of your lands, and rules, and other your adherents, 10000 men, besides your friends, to the advancement of all your intents and purposes; to the danger of the king's majesty's person, and the great peril of the state of the realm. 18. It is objected, and laid unto your charge, That you had conferred, cast, and weighed so much mony as would find the said 10000 men for a month; and that you knew how and where to have the same sum; and that you had |