RELATING CHIEFLY TO

RELIGION,

AND

THE REFORMATION OF IT,

AND THE EMERGENCIES

OF THE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

UNDER

KING HENRY VIII. KING EDWARD VI.

AND

QUEEN MARY I.

WITH

LARGE APPENDIXES, CONTAINING ORIGINAL PAPERS,
RECORDS, &c.

One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power. The memorial
of thine abundant kindness shall be shewed; and men shall sing of thy righteousness
Psalm cxlv, 4,7.

OLIUN

ECCLESIASTICAL MEMORIALS,

RELATING CHIEFLY TO

RELIGION,

AND

THE REFORMATION OF IT,

SHEWING

THE VARIOUS EMERGENCIES

OF

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND,

UNDER

KING HENRY VIII.

WITH

REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS MADE OCCASIONALLY, OF

PERSONS IN CHURCH AND STATE, OF EMINENT

NOTE IN THAT KING'S REIGN;

AND PARTICULARLY OF

THE TWO ENGLISH CARDINALS, WOLSEY AND POLE.

TO THE

MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

WILLIAM,

BY THE DIVINE PROVIDEnce, lord ARCHBISHOP of
CANTERBURY, PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND,
AND METROPOLITAN;

AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY

COUNCIL.

May it please your Grace;

THAT I, with your favour and licence, dedicate these Ecclesiastical Memorials to your Grace, is not with intent that you should countenance and defend all that is contained in them, or patronize the frail and fallible author; nor yet this way to recommend my work to the world, nor for any other mercenary ends, as have been not unusual in dedications to persons of great figure and eminence: but indeed, to speak the truth, that both the author and his book may receive an honour and ornament from so great and venerable a name as your Grace's is.

Your Grace will not regard so much the private writer, as the gravity and importance of the subjects treated of, being matters historical of this noble kingdom; and chiefly, and most designedly, the ecclesiastical affairs and transactions throughout the reigns of three princes successively: wherein reli