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, One generation shall praise thy works unto another, and declare thy power-The memorial BY JOHN STRYPE, M. A. VOL. III. PART I. OXFORD, AT THE CLARENDON PRESS. MDCCCXXII. Clar. Press. 1.f.23. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS, ECCLESIASTICAL AND CIVIL, OF EVENTS UNDER THE REIGN OF QUEEN MARY I. WHEREIN ARE BROUGHT TO LIGHT VARIOUS THINGS CONCERNING THE MANAGEMENT OF AFFAIRS, DURING THE FIVE YEARS OF HER GOVERNMENT: AND, MORE PARTICULARLY, The restoring of the Pope's authority and the Popish religion in this kingdom: and the rigorous methods of burning, and other severities, for the replanting of it, used towards such as adhered to the religion reformed under King Edward VI. THE PREFACE. A DISMAL face of things appeared to the professors of the gospel, upon this Queen's access to the throne; occasioned by the fierce resolutions taken of undoing all that had been done many years before, in the reigns of her father and brother, towards the reforming of religion; and for bringing back again into practice the old religion and superstitions. The chief managery of this work was left in the hands of two disobliged and bloody-minded bishops, London, and Winchester, lord chancellor. And what severe methods were pursued to bring this about, the ensuing Memorials will shew in divers particulars, besides what Mr. Fox and others since him have published. And since my writing of this history, I have met with some other informations about it; and that from the pen of a very eminent foreigner and sojourner, but well acquainted with the affairs of England; who lived here in those very days; having been sent for over hither by the former Prince, to read divinity in one of our Universities, and to assist in the reformation of religion. It was Dr. Peter Martyr; who, after his fleeing away hence in the beginning of this Queen's reign, wrote several letters to his correspondents concerning himself and the overthrow of religion here, and of the condition of the English professors of the gospel, both at home and abroad, soon after the Queen's coming to reign. As, Peter Mar out of Eng In November 1553, when he made a narrow escape out of England: which he looked upon as an extraordinary piece tyr's escape of God's good providence towards him: thus he described land, Epist. it in a letter writ to Calvin, from Strasburgh. Qua ratione |