BOOK II. Anno 1576. CHAP. VII. 210 Redmayn, the Archbishop's Chaplain, becomes Archdeacon of Canterbury. Consecrates two Bishops. The Queen's letters for the Bishop of Man. A metropolitical visitation. Commissions for visiting. Injunctions and Articles. Puritans. His course with them. The Arch Chaplain deacon. THE Bishops of Rochester hitherto of the Queen's reign bishop's had held the archdeaconry of Canterbury in commendam. made Arch- Now Freke, the present Bishop, being to be removed to another see, the Archbishop laboured to break that custom, which he saw had great inconvenience in it; and that the annexing of that office to the see of Rochester had done very much harm in the diocese of Canterbury. And having a learned and deserving man his Chaplain at this time, (William Redmayn by name,) and who had proved himself a good preacher by a sermon before the Queen, the Archbishop had solicited her once and again, (whilst he was in her Majesty's presence,) that he might have the archdeaconry: he obtained also Secretary Walsingham to do the like. And now in April he acquainted the Lord Treasurer what steps he had made in this business, adding that his good liking of this suit known to her Majesty (mentioning to him also the very good sermon, as he styled it, he had lately made at Court) would much forward his cause: which no question he did out of his real respects to this Archbishop. And his request took effect. Which Redmayn was of such desert, that he was afterwards advanced by the Queen to the bishopric of Norwich. Bishops consecrated. In the month of April our Archbishop consecrated two Bishops. The former was John Piers, Dean of Sarum, lately elected to the see of Rochester; whose election the Archbishop confirmed April the 4th; and the next day in his chapel at Lambeth performed to him the office of consecration, assisted by Edwin Bishop of London, and Robert Bishop of Winchester. And Apr. 15. following, he VII. consecrated John Merric, M. A. Bishop of Sodor or Man, CHAP. assisted then also with the Bishops of London and Winton. For though the diocese of Man was in the province of Anno 1576. York, yet York being now vacant, the Archbishop of Canterbury performed the consecration of the said Bishop, by special letters from the Queen in that behalf. ters for the tion of the Grind. Re Which letters, recognizing the title of the Earls of Derby The to nominate Bishops to this see, and the form of the Queen's Queen's letacceptance, may perhaps be worth reciting in this place. consecraCum perdilectus et perquam fidelis consanguineus noster Henricus comes Derby, ex indultis et largitionibus progenitorum nostrorum, Regum et Principum hujus regni gist. nostri Angliæ progenitoribus suis comitibus Derb. ab antiquo fact. et elargit. eidem comiti, hæredibus et successoribus suis rite et legitime confirmatis, et longo usu stabilitis, jus habeat patronatus, nominationis, præsentationis, et dispositionis episcopatus in insula de Man Eboracen. Provinciæ, in qualibet ejus vacatione; ita quod dict. episcopatu quacún-211 que ratione vacante bene liceat eidem comiti, hæredibus et successoribus suis quamcunque personam dignitati hujusmodi idoneam et habilem ad eundem episcopatum nominare, &c. ipsumque in episcopatum hujusmodi confirmare, munusque consecrationis eidem conferre, inaugurationem quoque sive installationem in realem et corporalem ejusdem episcopatus possessionem cum suis dignitatibus, præeminentiis, privilegiis, juribus, et immunitatibus quibuscunque petere et obtinere, &c. Then the said letters proceeded to set forth, how the said Earl of Derby had by his letters to the Queen under his seal presented this Merric to the said bishopric; humbly praying, that she would graciously accept and admit the said presentation. Therefore, (as the instrument proceeds,) Sciatis, &c. Know ye, that we do accept the said presentation, and yield our assent and favour. Then signifying her pleasure, that he, the Archbishop, should confirm and consecrate him Bishop of Man. This year he entered upon his metropolitical visitation. Visits meHis visitation of his own church at Canterbury, visiting tropolitiboth the cathedral church and members thereof, commenced cally. BOOK May the 16th, 1576. The names of the present Dean and Prebendaries were as follow: II. Anno 1576. Thomas Godwin, DD. Dean. Thomas Willoughby Geo. Bullen John Bungey Commissions for visitation. St. David's. Wells. Bristol. William Darrel Steven Nevinson Andrew Peerson Will. King Paul French John Hill Anthony Rush Thomas Lawse John Winter. After some entrance made, Richard, Suffragan of Dover, and Thomas Godwin the Dean, were commissionated by the Archbishop to prorogue this visitation to March the 1st: and thence he sent out another instrument to prorogue it to the 10th of June next following: then prorogued again from the 10th of June to the first of March following. The reason of which prorogations perhaps might be, the cloud the Bishop lay under from the Queen, of which we shall hear hereafter. Commissions were also issued out from the Archbishop for the visiting of other sees; which he committed partly to his own officers, and partly to the Bishops of the sees themselves, according as he approved of them. This visitation was adjourned from time to time for the greater convenience: so as it was on foot for divers years. Thus he issued his commission for the visitation of the church, city, and diocese of St. David's, to Richard Bishop of St. David's, and Lewis Guin, M. A. his Vicar General, March 28, 1576. Another commission to visit the church of Wells, to Gilbert the Bishop, and Thomas Yale, LL. D. dated August 17, 1576. Another commission to visit the church, city, and deanery of Bristol, to Tho. White, LL. D. Chancellor of Edmund Bishop of Sarum, and to Toby Matthew, D.D. Arch212 deacon of Bath, June 14, 1576. to whom, by another commission, was added Felix Lewis, LL.D. Chichester. Another commission went forth to visit the church of VII. Chichester. For though I do not find the commission entered CHAP. in the register, yet there is an inhibition to Richard the Bishop of the said diocese to forbear to visit, dated Apr. 9, Anno 1576. 1576, and another inhibition to the Dean and Chapter, and another to the Archdeacon. Another commission to visit the diocese of Bangor, to Bangor. Nicolas Bishop of Bangor, and Tho. Yale, LL. D. dated May 2, 1576. Another for the city and diocese of Glocester, to Lau-Glocester. rence Humphrey, and Herbert Westphaling, S. T. PP. Rob. Lougher, LL. D. and Arthur Sawle, M. A. dated July 14, 1576. But Westphaling and Lougher only visited, and gave injunctions in Latin to the Dean and Chapter of Glocester, Dec. 1, 1576. The sum whereof consisting in eight articles were to this tenor: for Gloces "That those that were as yet called the statutes of the Injunctions church, should be still so reckoned, esteemed, and ob-ter. "served by the Dean, Prebendaries, &c. That every first "Lord's day of the month, there should be a Communion "celebrated in the said church of Glocester: and that all "the Prebendaries and lesser Canons and other Ministers "come oftener to it: whereby they might celebrate the me"mory of our Lord's death, and give a testimony of their 66 brotherly charity and mutual love, and might shine forth "to others in their good examples. That every time the "Communion is celebrated there be a sermon, or some "exhortation by the Dean or some Prebendary. That "there be a general chapter, at least in every year, at the "feast of St. Andrew, the day before the Annunciation of "the blessed Virgin, and the day before John Baptist; to "deliberate concerning affairs, for the profit and honour of "the Church. That in all those general chapters, the "Dean, or Vice-Dean in his absence, the other Prebendaries assisting, call before them all the Petty Canons, and pre"scribe and enjoin them some portions of the holy Scripture "to be read, learned, or according to their power to be "explained by them, against the next general chapter. "That the Dean, Prebendaries, and Petty Canons (unless 66 II. BOOK" sickness hinder) use those hoods, that habit, and those 66 caps which it becomes ecclesiastical persons to use, and Anno 1576. " not oppose the Queen's Majesty's injunctions, or ordina❝tions, or articles, made by certain of the Queen's Commis 213 66 sioners, viz. Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury, Ed"mund Bishop of London, Richard Bishop of Ely, Ed"mund Bishop of Rochester, Robert Bishop of Winton, "Nicolas Bishop of Lincoln, Jan. 25. in the seventh year of "the Queen. That no grant of any feode, fee, or farm be "henceforth made to any by Dean and Chapter, under the "seal of the church, either for the term of life or for term "of years, before all those grants of fees which have been 66 already made be vacant, under pain of deprivation. And "because the nave of the church, and the churchyard in "many places, wanted reparation, that they should lay out every year twenty mark out of the goods of the church, "till all were fully repaired." These articles the Archbishop did allow, subscribing his hand thereunto. 66 Yet another commission went forth this year, dated SepHereford. tember 1, to visit the church, city, and diocese of Hereford, to John Bullingham, S. T. P. John Langford, and — Loyd, LL. DD.Thornton, B.D. and Robert Philles, Clerk. Bangor. Injunctions cese. this The church as well as diocese of Bangor was also visited year: and these injunctions were then given to the Dean and Chapter of the cathedral church, and others of the Clergy of that diocese, by the most reverend Father in Christ, Edmund Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all England and Metropolitan, in his metropolitical visitation of the said diocese of Bangor, as it is expressed in the register. Which were as follow: "Imprimis, That the Dean and Prebendaries of the said for the dio-cathedral church, and every of them, which are bound by the Queen's Majesty's visitors' injunctions to preach in "the said cathedral church, do and execute the said sermons "in their proper persons, every of the times to them espe"cially appointed; except for reasonable causes they obtain "of the Bishop of the said see, to perform such sermons, |