BOOK and some others, sitting this winter, reformed the calendar I. of the Common Prayer Book, by putting out less proper Anno 1560. Lessons, and appointing others to be henceforth used in Divine 49 Service: and also ordered, that the Ten Commandments in English should be set upon the east wall throughout all the churches of the kingdom. And for the putting this legally in actual execution, in February a mandate came Vid. p. 57. from the Archbishop to our Bishop, that since these ordinances, corrections, interpretations, &c. were imprinted, to see them observed in his cathedral church of St. Paul's, and in the churches of London, and throughout his diocese; and further, with all speed, to signify the same to all the Bishops of the province, to be used in their respective dioceses. Ordinations. Episc. For the conclusion of our Bishop's doings this year, I shall set down here the names of all the persons on whom he conferred holy orders, since the last ordination before mentioned, which may be observed not to be so many as formerly the reason whereof probably was, because of the late mandate from the Archbishop, not to admit mechanics. August 24, being St. Bartholomew's day, was one Deacon ordained, named John Cleake, born at Croydon, and charactered to be liberæ conditionis et laudabilis commendationis; and one Priest, John Ashton, M. A. Fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge. Sept. 21, being the festival of St. Matthew, John Orvyse, John Webster, Will. Sedom, John Lancaster, born in the parish of Knaysborough, Yorkshire, aged 36, by letter dimissory from Matthew Archbishop of Canterbury, were made Deacons. Thomas Spicer, Hugh Barber, John Green, John Amery, John Webster, were made Priests. Octob. 18, being St. Luke's day, these persons were admitted into the order of Deacons; Thomas Cost, Richard Lymborn, John Whiting, Will. Austin, Sebastian Roccartalica of the diocese of Winchester, born in Genoa in Italy, aged 80, James Renyger, John Woolward, Rob. Street, Rich. Peers: and into the order of Priesthood, Rich. Pakeman, John Ireland, John Althen, John Whiting, Hamletus Tayler, Thomas Pet, John Stevens, Sebastian Roccartar- CHAP. liaca, [so written here,] John Woolward. V. Octob. 21, Thomas Goddal alone was ordained, and Anno 1560. made Deacon and Priest. Octob. 28, on Monday, being the festival of St. Simon and St. Jude, James Renyger was ordained Priest. Novemb. 10, Henry Willet took both orders of Deacon and Priest. Ult. Novemb. St. Andrew's day, were ordained Deacons, Anthony Harleston, Leonard Stepney, Tho. Turpyn, Robert Clay, Hugh Brady, A. B.; and Priests, Robert Street, Simon Williams, and William Scotman. Decemb. 22, Richard Pyers [Peers] was made Priest. Decemb. 27, Friday, Anthony Harleston was preferred to the order of Priesthood. Decemb. 28, were these Deacons ordained; David Smith, Decemb. 29, Sunday, Thomas Hewton was made Priest. 50 Jan. 16, Ralph Skinner, M. A. [who soon after was made Dean of Durham, or one of his name,] and Baptist Willoughby, B. A. received the order of Deacon and Priest. Jan. 26, were these made Deacons; Will. Barker, M. A. Will. Farmer, Rich. Herry, Peter Isles, Thomas Addy, Tho. Ackworth: and these Priests; Tho. Pemberton, Cook alias Price, and Rob. Cod. On Sunday the feast of Purification, Feb. 2,, Herald Pachet, fellow of Martin [or Merton] college, Oxon, was ordained Deacon. Feb. 22, were these Deacons ordained; Robert Rowland, John Beaumont of London, Henry Bradwater, and John BOOK Bowden: and these Priests; Walwen Farmer, Will. Barker, John Orvyce, and Hugh Brady, B. A. 1. Anno 1561. March 9, Pilkington, Bishop of Durham, ordained these in the Bishop of London's oratory in London: Deacon; Richard Longworth, M. A. Fellow of St. John's, aged 27, (afterwards master of the same,) born at Bolton in Cheshire : Priests; Tho. Turpin, born in Calais, and Rich. Pedder. March 14, Friday, John Hill was ordained Priest. And thus much for the ordinations of this year; wherein perhaps a discerning eye may perceive some things not unworthy observation, concerning these first ordained ministers next after the Reformation. All the graduates and scholars of the University I have noted carefully; who were very few in comparison. The Universities were now so much infected with the late Popish leaven, that but few came up from thence to receive Orders from the hands of Protestant Bishops. CHAP. VI. The Bishop writes to Frankfort in behalf of the Dutch church there. Unites St. Mary at Ax to St. Andrew Undershaft. St. Paul's burnt. The Queen's order for the repair. Proclamation against profanation of that church. The Bishop visits. The Bishop THE governors of the free town of Frankfort in Germany intercedes for the gregation fort. began now to stomach much a church of reformed Flemings Dutch con- among them, who, for seven years past, namely from their at Frank- flight out of England upon King Edward's death, many of them, had remained in that place, and enjoyed peaceably the exercise of their religion and worship: but now set on by some zealous Lutherans, the government looking upon them to be little better than heretics, for their different sentiments about the holy Sacrament, and refusing the Augustan 51 VI. Wyng car letter. Confession, intended to eject them out of their city. This CHAP. put this poor congregation to great trouble; and they imparted their present condition to their brethren of the Anno 1561. Dutch church here in London, which soon made known to the Bishop in what ill case those their brethren stood. The good Bishop heartily espoused their part; and having been formerly known unto those of Frankfort, when the English exiles were there, he wrote a very earnest letter, to them in behalf of this church, and for the continuance of it still among them. And Gotofrid Wyng, one of the Gotofrid ministers of the Dutch church in London, being appointed ries the to carry the letter, and be the messenger to those magistrates, Bishop's the Bishop first gave them a character of the man, viz. "That he was a person that had been long under persecu❝tion in Flanders, and was a pious, moderate, and peaceable "man." And then, with many arguments, he beseeched them "not to eject this poor church, which had been so "long harboured with them; and that although they perhaps "disagreed in one controverted article of doctrine; yet if "this church disturbed not peace, as, he hoped, they had "not hitherto done, nor should hereafter do, they would "not descend to the extremest courses: but if they should, "these poor men must necessarily fall into the butcherly "hands of Antichrist; since there was no other place in "Germany for their reception. In France things were in an "unsettled condition, that neither might they retreat there; "and before they could come into England, (where they "should be received with both arms,) such a multitude must "be incepted in the midway, and destroyed." The Bishop forgot not, in this letter to those magistrates of Frankfort, to acknowledge, with all possible gratitude, their great charity and humanity in the hospitable entertainment the English exiles had lately found with them. The copy of this letter was kept in the archives of the Dutch church, London, being transcribed by Peter de Loene, their minister: nor do I think it any ways unworthy the memory of Bishop Grindal, to be here exemplified. BOOK The letter to the ma of Frank fort. Ex Eccl.Belgic. Lond. Gratiam et pacem in Christo. Rogarunt me fratres I. Flandrenses, qui religionis nomine hic apud nos exulant, ut Anno 1561. et Gotfridum Wingium, qui istas defert, et Ecclesiam Flandricam, quæ in urbe vestra collecta est, quæque jam per gistrates aliquos annos benignissimè apud vos hospitium invenit, vestræ amplitudini commendarem. Ego verò, clariss. et Biblioth. ampliss. viri, hanc scribendi occasionem libenter arripui, non solùm, ut illis gratificarer, verùm etiam ut meo, atque adeo omnium Anglorum exulum nomine, vestræ amplitudini pro vestra summa erga nos, afflictissimis nostris temporibus, benignitate ac pietate gratias agerem. Nulla unquam dies hoc vestrum beneficium Anglorum animis eximet. Argentinensi, Tigurinæ, Basiliensi, Wormaciensi, sed ante omnes vestræ inclytæ reip. debet Anglia, quod tot habeat Episcopos, 52 cæterisque verbi divini ministros, qui hodiè puram evangelii doctrinam annuntiant. Vos illos hospitio excepistis, exceptos summa humanitate complexi atque authoritate tutati estis. Et, si istam vestram pietatem gratis animis non agnosceremus et prædicaremuș, essemus omnium mortalium ingra tissimi. De Gotfrido Wingio hoc habeo quod scribam, hominem esse doctum, pium, ingenio moderato ac pacifico, quique diu in Flandria sub cruce, et quasi perpetuo animam in manibus habens, Christi evangelium prædicavit. Quo nomine non dubito quin vestræ pietati erit acceptissimus. Oro etiam, idque visceribus Christi, ut Flandrensis Ecclesiæ jam integrum septennium apud vos agentis, nunc vero de ejectione nonnihil sollicita, tutelam et patrocinium perpetuetis. Valeat in illos charitas vestra. Nihil enim vel apud homines gloriosius, vel apud Deum acceptius facere potestis, quam si tot membra Christi in pristino suo hospitio retineatis. Quamquam fortassis in uno articulo, jam per multos annos inter doctissimos alioqui viros controverso, cum quibusdam per omnia non consentiant; tamen si ecclesiarum vestrarum pacem non perturbent, quod spero eos neque fecisse hactenus, neque postea facturos, orandi estis nè ad extrema remedia descendatis; sed potius ut Christiana lenitate et |