CHAP. sung; two of pricksong, and the third of requiem; and a LX. sermon made by a Grey friar. After the offices of the Anno 1558. Church were performed, the lord mayor and aldermen, and all the mourners and ladies, went to dinner, which was very splendid, lacking no good meat, both flesh and fish, and an hundred March pains. An Irish August 17, a Bishop of Ireland, [viz. Dowdal, archarchbishop bishop of Ardmagh,] who died the 15th, was carried from the Gorge in Lumbard-street by water to be buried. buried. The Bishop's cro On the 20th, Mr. Morton, one of the Gray Amisis of sier buried. Paul's, and the Bishop of London's crosier, was conveyed from London to Fulham, to be buried. Prior of St. ried. On the 22d, Dr. Peryn, master of the Black friars in mew's bu- Smithfield, (which was the first house of religion set up by Queen Mary in her time,) was buried at the altar-side afore St. Bartholomew. When King Henry VIII. rejected the Pope, and dissolved monkery, he became a voluntary exile, and after twenty years returned home; and under this Queen was made much use of to preach up the papal superstitions. He remained a stiff opposer of the reformed religion to the last. Four sermons of the eucharist, preached by him, he caused to be published, wherein he extolled the mass. Against whom, with respect to those sermons, Parkhurst made some verses; beginning, Dr. Cook, dean of the Desipis, insulsas qui fers ad sydera missas, &c. On the 23d, Dr. Cook, dean of the Arches, and judge of Arches, bu- the Admiralty, a right temporizer, was buried in St. Greried. gory's beside Paul's. The church hanged with black and 450 arms, &c. There were present all the brethren of Jesus in satin hoods, and JHS upon them, with all the priests of St. Paul's. In January following was set up for him a coat armour, and a pennon of arms, and two banners of One buried in St. Bartholomew's. saints. On the 24th, a gentleman, unnamed, was carried from Grays-Inn in Grays-inn-lane, unto St. Andrew's parish in Holbourn; and there dirge sung. And after, carried through Bartholomew fair unto the Black friars there. And at the gate all the friars met him, and had dirge sung, and then buried him there. Such was the opinion of being buried CHAP. within the walls of a monastery. LX. Sir Geo. Ditto, Sir George Paulet, knt. brother to the Marquis Anno 1558. of Winchester, was buried honourably. This gentleman Paulet bumarried one Mrs. Lark, once a mistress to Cardinal Wol- ried. sey. On the 29th was the Lord Windsor buried very splen- Lord Winddidly according to his quality. sor buried. Septemb. initio, Judge Stamford was buried at a town September. beyond Barnet. He was one of the Queen's sergeants at Judge the famous trial of Sir Nic. Throgmorton anno 1554. Stamford buried. in better The 5th, the Queen had of late been very ill, and indis- The Queen posed in her health, but now she was better than she had health. been ten or twelve days before: which Sir William Cordel, one of the Privy Council, thought fit to signify in a letter dated September 5, from St. James's, to the Earl of Shrewsbury in the north. The 6th day, Judge Morgan was buried in Northamp-Judge Mortonshire honourably, with four banners of images. gan buried. Jud buried. The 14th, was buried Sir Andrew Jud, skinner, mer-Sir Andrew chant of Moscovy, and late mayor of London, with ten dozen of escutcheons, an hearse of wax, and five principals, garnished with angels, many poor men in new gowns, and two heralds. On the 20th, the Lady Southwel, wife to a privy coun- Lady Southsellor of that name, was buried at Shoreditch. wel buried. buried. Ditto, the Lady Cecilie Mansfield, deceasing at Clerken- Lady Cecilie well, was brought unto the Black friars in St. Bartholo- Mansfield mew's, Smithfield, with banners of saints. The Lady Peters, wife to the Queen's secretary of state, was chief mourner; and her servants bare the Lady's train, and bare torches also in black coats. She was buried afore the high altar, at the head of the old Prior Bolton. The church, choir, and rails, hanged with black and arms. The friars sung dirge after their song, and buried her after their fashion, without clerks or priests. And after, to the place to drink. And on the morrow were three masses said. And there was a godly sermon preached by the father of the CHAP. house, as ever was heard, (saith my MS.) teaching and adLX. monishing to live well. Anno 1558. On the 25th died the Lord Cobham, in Kent, knight of Lord Cob- the Garter. ham dies. Lady Peck sal dies. October. worth dies. On the 26th died the Lady Pecksal, in the country, wife to Sir Richard Pecksal, knt. and daughter of the Lord Marquis of Winchester, lord treasurer. October 23, Wentworth, esq. cofferer unto Queen Mary, Mr. Went- died, and was buried at St. Margaret's, Westminster. Ditto, Mr. Cotton, a great rich man of the law, was buCotton, a ried at St. Giles without Cripplegate. 451 lawyer, buried. On the 24th, Dr. Owen, physician to the Queen, was buDr. Owen ried at St. Stephen's, Walbrook. He had also been physician to King Henry VIII. and no doubt to his son King Edward. buried. November. November 12, a woman was set on the pillory for saying A woman the Queen was dead. pillorized. The Queen dies. Queen Eli claimed. On the 17th, being Friday, in the morning, Queen Mary died. And though her reign were now expired, yet I will continue on my journal a little farther, till her interment. The same day Queen Mary deceased, in the morning zabeth pro- between eleven and twelve aforenoon, the Lady Elizabeth was proclaimed Queen by divers heralds of arms, and trumpets, many noblemen and knights present, as namely, the Duke of Norfolk, the Lord Treasurer, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Bedford, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, and many more. In the afternoon all the churches in London rung their bells: and at night were bonfires made, and tables set in the streets, and the people did eat and drink, and make merry. Cardinal Te Deum sung. On the 18th, the Lord Cardinal Pole died at Lambeth, between five and six in the morning. And there he lay till the Council set the time that he should be buried: and where, and how. The same day Te Deum laudamus was said and sung in every church in London. November 20, Dr. Bill, Queen Elizabeth's chaplain, preached at Paul's Cross, and made a godly sermon. Ditto, Gruffith, the bishop of Rochester, and parson of CHAP. St. Magnus on London-bridge, died. LX. Rochester Johnson, an November 22, Robert Johnson, gentleman and officer to Anno 1558. the Bishop of London, was buried honourably in Jesus Bishop of chapel, (a chapel, I suppose, in St. Paul's or St. Faith's,) dies. many mourners in black; and all the masters [or brothers] officer to the of Jesus in their black satin hoods. The morrow-mass, and Bishop of a sermon. And after, a great dinner, and a dole of money. buried. On the 26th, Basset, esq. one of the privy-chamber to Basset buQueen Mary, was buried at the Black friars in Smithfield, ried. with tapers, arms, heralds, &c. London, of Roches On the 30th, the Bishop of Rochester was carried from Burial of his place in Southwark unto St. Magnus in London. He the Bishop had an hearse of wax, and five dozen of pensils, and the ter. choir hung with black and arms, two white branches, two dozen of torches, two heralds of arms. Sir William Petre chief mourner; many mourners; twelve poor men had black gowns, and twelve of his men bare torches. The Bishop of Winchester preached. After he was buried, they went to the place to dinner. He had a great banner of arms, four banners of saints, and eight dozen of escutcheons. December the 7th, the Lady Cholmely, wife of Sir Roger December. Cholmely, knt. late lord chief baron, was buried in the parish Lady of St. Martin's, Ludgate, with four banners of saints. Cholmley buried. December 8, Dr. Weston, sometime dean of Westmin-452 ster, was buried at the Savoy. Dr. Weston buried. The 9th, Mr. Richmond, herald, was created Norroy by Heralds the Queen at Somerset Place. And Ricebank created Blue- made. mantle. The 9th, Dr. Gabriel Dune, priest, was buried honour- Dr. Dune ably at St. Paul's. buried. of her cha On the 10th, the deceased Queen was brought out of her Queen Mary chapel, with all the heralds, many lords and ladies, gentle- brought out men and gentlewomen, and all her officers and servants in pel. black. The Cardi The same morning the corpse of the Lord Cardinal was nal's body removed from Lambeth, and carried toward Canterbury, I 4 removed towards Can terbury. LX. CHAP. with a great company in black; drawn in a chariot with bannerols wrought with fine gold, and great banners of arms, and four banners of saints. Anno 1558. Mr.Verney buried. Sir George ried. The Queen's funeral. The 11th day, Mr. Verney, master of the jewel house, was buried within the Tower. The 12th, Sir George Harper, knt. (one of those in Sir Thomas Wyat's business,) was buried at St. Martin's, Ludgate. On the 13th were the funerals of the late Queen magnificently celebrated at Westminster. But now we turn back to see how matters stood with the Church, and in what state religion was, this last year of the Queen. CHAP. LXI. Cardinal Pole's commissions. Advowsons settled upon the see. Causeth some to be burnt. Commis- IN the beginning of this year, Archbishop Pole (pretend sion for heretics. ing to take some care of his diocese) issued out a commission, dated March the 28th, against the heretics there, (as the honest professors of the gospel were now called,) to Nicolas Harpsfield, Rob. Collins, Richard Fawcet, Hugh Turnbul, S. Th. PP. John Mills, Hugh Glazier, and John Warren, S. Th. BB. canons and prebendaries of Canterbury these were commissioned to absolve, admit, and receive into the bosom of the Church those that confessed their errors, and retracted and abjured them; and to enjoin them penance. But the obstinate, and such as would not be brought to the unity of the Church, to reject, and cast them out of the communion of the Church, and to commit and deliver them to the secular power: yet adding this condition, si facti atrocitas ita exposcerit; if the heinousness of the fact shall so require. And to such sentences he required two of them, at least, to join and give their assent and consent. This commission opened a door to a great persecution in Kent this year. |