BOOK 2.

CHAPTER 1.

THE plunder and massacre at Antwerp by the Spaniard. The damage sustained by the English merchants there; and the barbarous usage of them. Other cruelties exercised in the Low Countries. Which causeth the queen to interpose in their behalf; and of her own subjects; by embassies to the States; and to the king of Spain. Jealousy of the Freneh’s coming into the Low Countries to aid them. The French protestants prepare to fly into England. News out of France. Order for intercepting letters to the Scottish queen. The bishop of Chichester visits his diocese. The disaffected to religion there. Account of his proceedings with them.

His letters to the lords of the council. Many of the queen’s subjects at mass in the Portugal ambassador’s house, at the Charter-house.

The recorder of London gives account to the court of what was done there. Names of popish fugitives; certified into the exchequer.

CHAPTER 2.

The bishop of Exon sends up some that refused going to church.

Another of his diocese makes nothing of a book-oath. His dealing with him. He opposeth the sending down a commission ecclesiastical: and why. The bishop of Lincoln preacheth at court.

The suitableness of his subject. He is concerned as visitor of Kings college, Cambridge. Great differences in that college. Articles of accusation against Dr. Goad, the provost: his answers: his good service to that house, Sandys, bishop of London, translated to York: his farewell sermon at St. Paul’s. Endeavours used to get Bishop-thorp from that archbishop. His reasons why he will not part with it. Elmer, that succeeded in the see of London, contests with the archbishop about the revenues. The case brought before the lord treasurer.

CHAPTER 3.

The bishop of Worcester made vice-president of the marches of Wales. The presidents thereof. Curteis, bishop of Chiches-ter, preaches at Paul’s Cross. Process against the bishop of Gloucester from the queen. Pilkington, bishop of Durham, dies.

His prayers. Dr. May makes interest to succeed him. Bishop of Carlisle is made bishop of Durham; sues for dilapidations. And Dr. May succeeds to Carlisle. Holds the rectory of Darfield in commendam. Dr. May’s family.

CHAPTER 4.

Rockrey, B. D. of Queen’s college, Cambridge, inconformable to the apparel prescribed by statute: his case signified by the master of the college. One Gawton, a puritan, summoned before the bishop of Norwich. The matters laid to his charge. Is suspended.

One Harvey, another puritan minister of Norwich, suspended.

Gawton’s letter to the bishop, disowning his jurisdiction. A sect of libertines. Dr. Lawrence Humfrey made dean of Gloucester.

Observation of the 17th of November. Irish priests, bastards, dispensed with by the pope to take orders.

CHAPTER 5.

Manchester college: its revenues in danger. The corn act procured for the universities by the lord treasurer. The benefit of Sturbridge fair obtained by him for Cambridge. The lord treasurer’s letter to the queen about his daughter, the countess of Oxford. His grave advice to White, master of the rolls in Ireland. An edition of the Bible: some account of it. Other books now set forth, 1576. The death of Walter earl of Essex; and of sir Anthony Cook. Sir Thomas Smith, and others of the court, at Buxton Well. The queen goes her progress.

CHAPTER 6.

Matters of the Low Countries. The queen’s safety concerned therein; especially the French kings brother entering into action for them. The apprehensions of the lord treasurer. The lord keeper’s letter of counsel to the queen in this juncture. Reports from abroad concerning the Scottish queen’s escape. Advice of it sent to the earl of Shrewsbury from the court. A matter in Ireland about the cesse; comes before the queen and council. The rigorous exaction complained of: regulated.

CHAPTER 7.

The queen’s ambassador at the council at Frankford: and why.

Sent to the princes of Germany. New books of religion there set forth. The archbishop of York about to visit the church of Durham, is refused. The proceedings thereupon. The bishop of Durham’s account of his visitation of his diocese, by order from the queen; and especially of the disorders in that church. His letter to the lord treasurer about it: slandered and hated. His vindication of himself, for some words of his against archbishop Grindal, and the exercises. Bishop Barne’s pedigree. Cox bishop of Ely’s thoughts upon archbishop Grindal’s suspension. The queen’s letter to the bishop of Lincoln to forbid prophesyings. The bishop of Chichester’s troubles. Caldwell, parsonof Winwich, his sermon. Dr. Goodman, dean of Westminster, concerning the statutes of that collegiate church.

CHAPTER 8.

Maimed professors in these days. Popish books secretly dispersed.

Answered by Dr. W. Fulk. Ithel, a fugitive Lo-vainist, comes to Cambridge: discovered. The council’s letter hereupon to the university. Egremond Radcliff, a fugi-rive since the rebellion in the north: his letters for the queen’s pardon, and leave to come home: is put into the Tower: set at liberty: his end.

CHAPTER 9.

The queen’s progress. The lord treasurer, and others of the court, at Burton Well. The earl of Leicester at Chatsworth, entertained there. The queen’s letter of thanks to the earl of Shrewsbury upon that entertainment. The mortality at Oxford. The plague breaks out. The diligence of Fleetwood, the recorder at London. Sessions at Newgate. An intention of robbing the lord treasurer’s house. A privy search in Smithfield. Cozeners and cheats, &c. Phaer, a notable coiner. His offer; to discover all the coiners, and such as practised magic.

CHAPTER 10.

Books translated and set forth in the English tongue. Bullin-ger’s Decads: to be read by unlearned curates instead of sermons.

Sarcerius’s Common Places. Henry Nicolas the author of the family of love, his epistles. The Courtier, by Balthasar count Castiglione. The high esteem that book obtained. Buchanan’s History of Scotland. A blazing star. Gualter’s letter to bishop Cox about it. Dr. Wylson made secretary of state. Some account of him.

Put into the inquisition. His book of thc Art of Rhetoric. T.

Cartwright marries a sister of Stubbs, whose right hand was cut off. Thomas Lever dies: His excellent letter about impropria-tions belonging to colleges and hospitals.

CHAPTER 11.

Monsieur Gondy, French ambassador, comes to the court with intent to go to the Scottish queen. News at court of foreign matters.

Duke Casimire comes to court. His esteem here with the queen and nobles. His manifesto in taking arms for the defence of those of the Low Countries. Simier, the French ambassador, still at court soliciting the amours of the duke of Anjou. The archbishop of York continues his visitation. Account there of sent up. The trouble he met with about the dean of Durham, Whittingham: by occasion of inquiry into Iris orders, taken at Geneva. A commission for visitation of that church

CHAPTER 12.

Abbot Feckenham at the bishop of Ely’s. Conferences with him by the bishop: and by Dr. Pern, dean of Ely. An account thereof written to court. Feckenham’s confession. The said bishop’s excellent letter to the queen, being in her progress. He orders the stay of vessels laden with corn, passing through his liberties, in order to transport it from Lynn. Deodands claimed by the bishop of Salisbury, the queen’s almoner. Dr. Young becomes bishop of Rochester: his character. The case between the bishop of Bath and Wells and the lord Pou-let about impropriating a benefice.

CHAPTER 13.

Sectaries. Their principles, and dangerous assertions. Coppin, a prisoner in Bury. Wilsford; makes it an high crime in the queen to be styled caput eccles. Chark and Dering; their sayings. A bookseller taken up for selling the Admonition to the Parliament.

Mackworth holds the having two wives lawful. Imprisoned in the Marshalsea. The council’s order about him. Large indulgences accompanying certain crucifixes, given by the pope to Steukley.

Exeter college popish. The state of the university of Cambridge. A decree made against the disguised apparel of students. Peterhouse: the state thereof. Dr. Perne, master thereof: his good government. The heads complain of mandamus’s to their chancellor: which he acquaints the queen with.

CHAPTER 14.

The queen’s progress. The university wait upon her at Aud-ley End. Her splendid entertainment at Norwich. A sentence in the star-chamber. Magic practised to take away the queen’s life. A conjurer suddenly falls down dead. A foreign physician consulted for the queen’s tooth-ache. Dr. Ju-lio, the Italian physician, the queen’s servant: his suit. Shows before the queen, performed by certain of the young nobility. Lord Rich assassinated: and another.

Remarks of some persons of note, dying this year. Sir Nicolas Bacon, lord keeper. The lady Mary Grey. The lord Henry Seymour. Books now set forth. The Holy Bible; the Geneva edition.

Bishop Jewel’s Defence in Latin. Mr. Fox’s Good-Friday sermon at Paul’s Cross. View of Antichrist. A book against the outward apparel and ministering garments. A Display of Popish Practices.

The Way of Life. Guicciardin’s history. Books printed in Germany: in a letter to the bishop of Ely.

CHAPTER 15.

The queen’s match with the French kings brother; concerted.

Provoked by a seditious book against it. Issueth out a proclamation: the sum thereof. Stubbs the author punished: remains prisoner in the Tower. His petition. A nobleman (thought to be sir Philip Sidney) writes to the queen, upon the parliament’s suits to her to marry. The earl of Leicester under dislike with the queen about this French match. His protestation, and offer of exile.

CHAPTER 16.

Sandys, archbishop of York, troubled for dilapidations by the bishop of London. The archbishop’s letter to the secretary hereupon. The bishop of London moves for a commission for inquiry into the dilapidations: and why. Reasons offered by the archbishop for qualifying the sentence. Difference between this archbishop, and the earl of Huntington, and the dean of York.

Motions for reconcilement with the earl, and the dean. The archbishop’s letter about it. The dean’s vindication of himself. The archbishop’s sermon at York, on the l7th of November, 1579.

CHAPTER 17.

Cox, bishop of Ely, defends the see against a lease for Hatton Garden. The Lord North’s actions against him. Labours to resign his bishopric. His letters thereupon; and requests. The bishop of Norwich declines a remove to Ely. His honest letter on that occasion. By the lord treasurer’s intercession, the queen grants the bishop of Ely leave to resign. Sectaries of the family of love in Norwich diocese. The bishop of Norwich prevents a change of some lands belonging to his church. The bishop of Peterborough endeavours to ease a heavy tax laid upon the poorer sort there, for draining a common. The bishop of London takes a seditious printer, named Carter. Chatham hospital in danger by pretence of concealment. The bishop of Rochester stirs in its behalf. His notes upon the book called, The Gospel of the Kingdom. The bishop of Lincoln’s letter upon the queen’s thoughts of removing him to Norwich. The vicar of Cuck-field, vicious: the bishop of Chichester required to deprive him.

CHAPTER 18.

Parry false. Hath leave to go abroad, and give intelligence to the queen. Returns. His letters to the lord treasurer; and protestation of service: notwithstanding, privately reconciled at Paris. His earnest letters thence, to be employed. The family of love increase.

Some account of the first rise of this sect here. Some of them in Colchester in queen Mary’s reign. Freewill men. Christopher Vitelli comes from Delph to Colchester. Crinel’s confession concerning him and his doctrine. Henry Nicolas, the founder of the family of love, his doctrines. Libertines: their speculations. A book writ against them. Puritans. One of them expostulates with the lord Burghley: and that he should use more liberty of speech with the queen. The queen calls in her commissioners for concealments. Proclamations for the length of swords, bucklers, &c. Against carrying and shooting in guns, &c. nor where the queen’s residence should be. No coats or doublets of defence to be worn: nor pocket dags suffered. Proclamations about apparel.

Letters from the privy-council for keeping Lent.

CHAPTER 19.

Books published this year, 1579. A confutation of the principles of the family of love; by William Wilkinson: and another by J.

Knewstubs. A book in answer to the assertion, that the church of Home is the true and catholic church. The Gaping Gulph; by J.

Stubbs. His letters wrote with his left hand. Some farther account of him and his abilities. Plutarch’s Lives set forth in English by sir Thomas North. Catalogue of the bishops of Exon. A book of Simples and Surgery, by William Bullein. Egyptians and Jews pretending to do cures by palmistry and charms in these times.

Richard Bullein, a divine and physician. Hugh Broughton, fellow of Christ’s college, Cambridge; outed of his fellowship (founded by king Edward) wrongfully. His remarkable case. The decision of a college statute; being the ground of this contention. One undertakes to make saltpetre. One offers to fortify the seaports of England and Ireland. The names of the queen’s privy-counsellors.

CHAPTER 20.

The French kings brother departs. The queen’s concern thereat.

The French ambassador and prince of Conde in private communication with the queen, about assisting of the king of Navar. What it was, the queen tells the lord treasurer. His thoughts of Conde’s message. The queen’s message by Randolph to Scotland, in favour of earl Morton, and for removing D’Aubigny from the king. Her notable declaration to those states assembled, by Randolph. III counsellors about the king: their names and characters. That nation’s ingratitude to the queen. Some account of earl Morton. D’Aubigny professes himself a protestant. The lord president of the north, his letter concerning these Scotch matters. A popish rebellion, and invasion in Ireland.

CHAPTER 21.

A reformation endeavoured of certain abuses in the church. The parliament’s address to the queen for that purpose. Her answer.

Church holydays: much sin committed then. The disaffected to the church busy. Appoint fasts. A fast appointed at Stamford: the lord Burghley’s letter forbidding it. Beza’s book concerning bishops, translated into English. His letter to Scotland. A popish school set up at Doway; and another in Scotland. Dr. Allen’s book. The pope sends over priests into England. Intelligence from Switzerland of the pope’s preparations against England. Commissions for search after papists in Lancashire and Yorkshire. The archbishop of York’s letter concerning them. Countess of Cumberland: lady Wharton. Children of northern gentlemen sent to Caius college, Cambridge; Dr. Legg, a papist, master. Intelligence from the bishop of Winton, concerning papists in the county of Southampton. A search in papists’ houses. Sir William Tresham in Hoggesdon. Priests taken: their confession. Popish cases found in sir James Hargrave’s study.

CHAPTER 22.

Divers popish emissaries taken up. The conference at Wis-bich.

Feckenham’s confession. Dr. Fulk sent by the bishop of Ely thither. Account of the conference published. Fulk’s challenge. The pope’s factors abroad discovered by A. M. Design in Rome of invading England. Some of the principles taught in the English college at Rome. Campion confesses where he was entertained in London, and elsewhere, viz. in Yorkshire and Lancashire. Several disputations with him in the Tower, in answer to his challenge.

Some account of Campion, and his course of life. Parry at Paris: corresponds with the lord treasurer: intercedes for certain popish fugitives: the Ropers: sir Anthony (alias lord) Coppely. Advice for defence in case of invasion.

CHAPTER 23.

Gualter of Zurick acquaints the archbishop of Canterbury what was doing in the synod at Frankford, for union. Formula concordiae; disliked. Zanchy’s confession of faith; disliked: and why. The harmony of confessions: a motion to this effect to the king of Navar. Horn, bishop of Winton, dies. Translates two seasonable sermons of Calvin in his exile. His apology for his flight. His last will. Dr. Overton made bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. Some passages of him. Railed upon and abused in the pulpit at Chichester, when prebendary there. Two evils oppress bishop Cox. AElmer, bishop of London, accused for felling his woods. Visits his London clergy. The bishop of Norwich, his proposal for rural deans in his diocese. Mr. Laurence, a preacher, sequestered by that bishop for nonconformity. Endeavours made at court to get him restored. The bishop’s letter on that occasion.

CHAPTER 24.

University matters. The heads of Cambridge apply to their chancellor about two graces obtained. His letter; and decision.

His advice to the vice-chancellor about a fast enjoined the university by the bishop of Ely. Great disorders in St. John’s college. The bishop of Ely moves the lord treasurer to finish the new statutes for that college. How things now stood in the other university. The two chancellors compared. William Whitaker preferred to a prebend at St. Paul’s. The queen’s proclamation for horsemen, and breed of horses. The queen sick. A new disease at court, and in the city. A list of the great officers of the queen.

Public prayers, occasioned by an earthquake. Earl of Arundel dies. Peregrin Bertie claims the title of lord Willoughby and Eresby.

CHAPTER 25.

Books published this year, 1580. A Discourse of God’s Judgments against great Sins. A description of the earthquake. Dr. Fulk’s Retentive. His Challenge. Forty popish books inEnglish set forth by this time. What they were. All answered. The genealogy of Mary queen of Scots: set forth by bishop Rosse. Glover, Somerset herald, writes against the bishop of Rosse’s book. Dr. Dee’s Instructions for the northeast passage. Everard Digby’s dialogue against a book of P. Ramus. Answered. The holy Exercise of a true Fast. The occasion of the writing thereof..

THE APPENDIX.

BOOK 1.

NUMBER 1 . Thomas Cartwright, B. D. lady Margaret professor, to sir William Cecil, knight, chancellor of the university of Cambridge; in vindication of his readings.

NUMBER 2 . Letters wrote from divers of the university to their chancellor, in behalf of Cartwright.

NUMBER 3 . Epistola alia, D. Cancellario data; ut restituatur Cartwrightus ad legendum.

NUMBER 4 . An astrological calculation concerning the queen’s marriage.

Written by secretary Cecil, propria manu .

NUMBER 5 . The charter for wrecks on the coasts of Sussex granted by king Henry VI. to Adam, bishop of Chichester.

NUMBER 6 . Cautions given by Mr. Fox to the reader of his Acts and Monuments; concerning some things mentioned in the first edition thereof. [NUMBER 6 .] Dr. Thomas Wylson to sir William Cecil, kt. when he sent him the copy of his translation of certain orations of Demosthenes, for his patronage thereof.

NUMBER 7 . Mr. Walsingham, the queen’s ambassador, his letter from Paris to the lord Burleigh. His discourse with the queen-mother, concerning her majesty’s matching with the duke of Anjou.

NUMBER 8 . A motion in parliament, 13 Elizab. about the succession to the crown; according to K. Henry VIII. his will.

NUMBER 9 . A letter of Mr. Randolph, the queen’s agent inScotland, to the lords Graunge and Lyddington: exciting them to leave the Scottish queen’s party.

NUMBER 10 . Dr. Stories last will and testament, made at Lo-vain, anno 1552.

NUMBER 11 . Two letters of Jewel from Oxford, to Parkhurst soon after the access of queen Mary to the crown.

NUMBER 12 . Certain puritans, taking offence against a sermon preached by the bishop of Norwich, digested their exceptions thereto under certain articles, sent to him by way of letter.

NUMBER 13 . A true report of the words and confession of Thomas late duke of Norfolk, at his death on the Tower-hill, June 2, 1572. [NUMBER 13 .] Mr. Dering and Mr. Hansby, the duke of Norfolk’s chaplains; their epistle to him concerning a book of prayers, that they had composed by his command, for the use of his children.

NUMBER 14 . Five causes shewed against the queen of Scots, anno 1572.

NUMBER 15 . Whether it be lawful for a protestant to marry with a papist?

Which question was occasioned by a motion of a match between the queen and the French kings brother.

NUMBER 16 . A tract of the lawfulness of marrying with a papist.

NUMBER 17 . Whether a protestant prince may tolerate mass. Both the argument and the answer.

NUMBER 18 . Another discourse upon the same argument.

NUMBER 19 . An extract out of the Admonition to the Parliament: containing such slanderous and unseemly terms, as there, by the authors thereof, against the orders of the church of England, and the state of the realm, that now is, are uttered. [NUMBER 19 .] Field and Wilcox, from Newgate, to the lord treasurer; for their liberty: cast into prison for a book of reformation, written by them, presented to the parliament.

NUMBER 20 . The lord treasurer Burghley to Mr. Dering:who had excited him to restore Mr. Cartwright; and accused him somewhat rudely of his want of religion.

NUMBER 21 . Mr. Edward Dering, the puritan, to the lord Burghley: justifying of a former letter, wherein he had made some severe reflections upon that nobleman.

NUMBER 22 . Coverdale’s epistle dedicatory to his edition of the Holy Bible, by him translated into the English tongue, anno MDXXXV.

NUMBER 23 . Parkhurst, bishop of Norwich, to Mr. Thomas Fowle, Mr. John Handson, and Mr. John Grundye: for setting on foot the exercise of prophesy at Bury S. Edmonds.

NUMBER 24 . Notices and characters of divers persons of eminence, living in the reigns of king Henry VIII. king Edward VI. and queen Mary; given by Parkhurst in his Epigrams.

NUMBER 25 . The examination of one Blosse, alias Mantel; that reported king Edward VI. was alive, and queen Elizabeth was married. Taken by Fleetwood, recorder of London: sent with his letter to the lord treasurer Burleigh.

NUMBER 26 . An extract of the estate of certain mines in Cumberland, an. 1576, NUMBER 27 . Occurrents at the siege of Rochel: and of the election of monsieur king of Poland: sent from Dr. Dale, the queen’s ambassador in France, to the earl of Sussex; in a letter dated May 30, 1573. ibid. [NUMBER 27 .] The consecration of Dermic O Clier, bishop of Maion, in the province of Tuam in Ireland. The instrument of cardinal Sanctorius; declaratory of the same, and of the oath of the said O Clier, of fidelity taken to pope Gregory XIII.

NUMBER 28 . Mr. Derings answer to certain articles of matters that he had spoken at some public dinner: presented to the lords of the Starchamber NUMBER 29 . A letter of the lords of the privy-Council to the Dutch church: upon occasion of such as found fault with the customs of this church.

NUMBER 30 . Answer of the Dutch congregation to the aforesaid letter.

NUMBER 31 . Mr. William Heydon’s Christian letter to the bishop of Norwich, for a reconciliation, after some falling out with him at his house, about admitting a layman into orders [NUMBER 31 .] The same bishop’s fatherly and friendly answer to the former letter.

NUMBER 32 . A discovery of the present estate of the bishopric of St. Asaph, in the year 1587. [NUMBER 32 .] The bishop or S. David’s to secretary Cecil concerning the filling two Welsh bishoprics vacant.

NUMBER 33 . Lands of the bishopric of Durham, sometime detained, but restored to bishop Pilkington; and sold away again in the years and 1649; with the names of the purchasers, and at what values.

NUMBER 34 . A note of the particulars of lands of the bishopric of Durham demised to queen Elizabeth, chiefly by bishop Barnes.

NUMBER 35 . Dr. Gardiner to the bishop of Norwich: in answer to an angry letter of the bishop’s to him, about the archdeaconry of Norwich.

NUMBER 36 . Dr. Gardiner to Mr. Roberts; concerning the archdeaconry of Norwich: which he sheweth him was apsed to the queen: and so became his by her grant. [NUMBER 36 .] Some heads of the university of Cambridge, to the lord Burleigh, their high chancellor: acquaint, ing him with the case of Mr. Aldrich, master of Bene’t college, as to his breach of a college statute NUMBER 37 . A description of the queen’s progress, anno 1573; with a particular account of her magnificent entertainment at Canterbury, by the archbishop: and of her return home. Omitted in the editions of that archbishop’s Life, entitled, Mathmus NUMBER 38 . The direction of the ecclesiastical exercise in the diocese of Chester.

NUMBER 39 . A copie of the authorite gyven by the bis-shop of the said dioces to the moderators of every several exercise: with the names of the moderators throughout thedioces; and other orders to be observed in the exercises.

NUMBER 40 . Littleston’s declaration, November 1574, of certain English gentlemen, that have entertainment of the king of Spain.

NUMBER 41 . Scory, lord bishop of Hereford, to the lord treasurer: against some clerks of the exchequer, intending to suppress, under the name of colleges, divers parsonages in his diocese. [NUMBER 41 .] Mr. Rafe Lane’s account of his offer to go into the Levant in the king of Spain’s service, against the Turk, from his own pen.

NUMBER 42 . A true certificate and perfect note of fees and duties paid heretofore, and now be paid at this present, for citations, and all other ecclesiastical instruments, in the bishop of Norwich’s consistory court.

NUMBER 43 . Sir Thomas Smith, and the earl of Leicester, to the lord treasurer Burleigh, members of the society of the new art, for transmuting iron into copper: Medley, the chymist, undertaker.

NUMBER 44 . Sir Thomas Smyth to the lord treasurer Burleigh; upon the same business NUMBER 45 . Mr. John Dee to the lord treasurer: offering to discover to the queen where treasures of gold, silver, &c. were hid in the bowels of the earth.

NUMBER 46 . A proclamation for the redress of inordinate apparel, anno NUMBER 47 . Cox, bishop of Ely, to the queen: upon her requiring his house in Holborn for Mr. Hatton, her vice-chamberlain.

NUMBER 48 . Cox, bishop of Ely, to the queen: who had wrote to him to demise the manor of Somersham to her, for the lord North. [NUMBER 48 .] Reasons drawn up by Cox, bishop of Ely, and sent to the lord treasurer: to tender the state of God’s ministers.

NUMBER 49 . The substance of the complaints of the lord North against the bishop of Ely, in his letter to him. With the bishop’s answer to each.

NUMBER 50 . More objections to the said bishop by the said lord, in another letter to him: with the bishop’s answers.

NUMBER 51 . A large book of sundry articles of complaints against the bishop of Ely: with his answers to each. Many of those articles false, and matters in all of them misrepresentedCauses of complaints against the bishop of Ely, by Hasyl of Cambridge, who had been his servant seven years; of the same spiteful nature with the former. A bill of complaints exhibited by Charles Balam, gent. of the Isle of Ely. Also, articles exhibited against the bishop by one Radcliff, gent. Laurence Johnson, (the bishop’s under-keeper,) against the bishop.

BOOK 2.

NUMBER 1 . Jan. 29, 1576. The names of all such, as be certified into the exchequer, to be fugitives over the sea, contrary to the statute of an. Eliz. &c. And in what countries they inhabited. [NUMBER 1 .] A prayer composed by Pilkington, afterwards bishop of Durham, suited to the beginning of the reformation of religion under queen Elizabeth.

NUMBER 2 . Another prayer by the same reverend person; for faithful preachers to be sent out by God, to preach the gospel at this needful time.

NUMBER 3 . Another prayer by the same; against error and popery.

NUMBER 4 . Richard, bishop of Carlisle, to the lord treasurer; upon his remove to Durham. ibid.

NUMBER 5 . The lord treasurer to the queen: in relation to his daughter, and the earl of Oxford her husband, unkind to her. Written March the 3d, 1576.

NUMBER 6 . The inscriptions upon the monument of sir Anthony Cook, kt. in the chapel of Rumford, in Essex.

NUMBER 7 . Sir Nicolas Bacon, lord keeper, to the queen; shewing her three great enemies, France, Spain, and Rome: and the remedies to be used against each of them.

NUMBER 8 . Cox, bishop of Ely, to the lord treasurer Burgh-ley: upon the queen’s command for the suspension of Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury.

NUMBER 9 . The queen’s letter to the bishop of Lincoln, to cause the exercises, called prophesyings, to cease in his diocese. P. 612.

NUMBER 10 . The order of the government of the colledge of Westminster, syns the last erection, begonne by D. Byll, and contynued by me [Dr.

Goodman] with the assent of the chapiter: as appeareth by divers decrees, recorded in the chapiter-book.

NUMBER 11 . Edward Phaer, condemned for counterfeiting coin, his letter from the Tower to the lord treasurer: offering to make great discoveries of coiners, such as used magic, &c.

NUMBER 12 . George Buchanan to Mr. Randolph, concerning publishing his history: and his distemper.

NUMBER 13 . Sandys, archbishop of York, to the lord treasurer, concerning his inquiry into the holy orders of Whittingham, dean of Durham: for which some complaint was made of him at court.

NUMBER 14 . Cox, bishop of Ely, to the queen: his letter congratulatory to her, now in her progress, and excusing himself for not waiting upon her.

NUMBER 15 . Gilbert, bishop of Bath and Wells, to the lord treasurer: to hinder a design to impropriate a benefice; or to get a lease of it for years.

NUMBER 16 . Wilsford denyes the queen to be supreme head of the church: better informed, writes to the lord treasurer to obtain her majesties pardon.

NUMBER 17 . A decree for the restraint of the excess of apparel, both for the unreasonable costs and the unseemly fashions of the same; used by scholars and students in the university of Cambridge.

NUMBER 18 . The vice-chancellor and heads of the university of Cambridge, to their high chancellor; complaining of theimpeaching of their free suffrages in their election of fellows, by letters procured from the queen [NUMBER 18 .] Articuli propositi pro parte et nomine illus-trissimi ducis Andegavensis, fratris unici regis Gallorum, se-renissimae reginae Angliae; de et super matrimonio interipsius majestatem, et praefati ducis celsitudinem, 16 Junii, 1579. Responsum ex parte serenissimae reginae exhibitum, 17 Junii, 1579. ibid.

NUMBER 19 . The prayer of Mr. John Fox, after his Good-Friday sermon, preached at St. Paul’s Cross, about the year 1578.. [NUMBER 19 .] Sir Philip Sidney’s letter to queen Elizabeth, concerning her marriage. Printed entire from Cabala, p. 363.

NUMBER 20 . A letter to the queen from some person of quality upon the subject of her marriage, and the succession moved to her by her parliament.

NUMBER 21 . Cox, bishop of Ely, to the lord treasurer: upon the queen’s leave to resign his bishopric. [NUMBER 21 .] A list of papists imprisoned, anno 1579, in divers places in the realm. Their names, qualities, and ages.

NUMBER 22 . Prowde, parson of Burton upon Dunmore, to the lord treasurer: exciting him to speak freely to the queen in behalf of religion, (as professed by some,) discountenanced.

NUMBER 23 . Mr. Hugh Broughton, of Christ’s college, Cambridge, to the high chancellor of that university; complaining of his being wrongfully deprived of his fellowship, being that founded by king Edward VI.

Desiring justice against Dr. Hawford, the master.

NUMBER 24 . The fellows of Christ’s college, Cambridge, to the chancellor of that university in behalf of Mr. Hugh Broughton, against the master of the college; who had declared his fellowship void.

NUMBER 25 . The lord treasurer to the earl of Sussex. News at court, concerning the French ambassador, and the prince of Conde from the king of Navar: both together in private conference with the queen.

NUMBER 26 . Thomas Randolph, esq.; late the queen’s ambassador to Scotland, to the lord chancellor: concerning the Scots king; Daubigny; and Scottish matters.

NUMBER 27 . The bishop of Ely to the lord treasurer: informing him of intelligence he had received of 12000 Italians to be sent by the pope and Spaniard against the realm.

NUMBER 28 . Rodolphus Gualter, minister of Zurich, to Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury: informing him of many copies of the excommunication of pope Pius V. against the queen, printed at Home; to be dispersed: and of the pope’s and Spaniard’s preparation for invading England. [NUMBER 28 .] The content of a letter written by one Solomon Aldred, (sometime a hosier in Birchin-lane, London,) from Lions or Rhemes, to Robert Downes, esq. prisoner in the gaol of Norwich. An account of the abovesaid letter, given by Roger Martin, esq. and the occasion of his hearing it read, and of the burning of it.

NUMBER 29 . A trewe note of certen artycles, confessed and allowed by Mr. D. Feckenam, as well in Christmas holiedays last past, as also at divers other tymes before that; by conference in lerning before the reverend father in God, the bi-shoppe of Elye, and before D. Perne, dean of Elye, master Nicolas, master Stanton, master Crowe, Mr. Bowler, chap-leines to my lord of Elye: and divers others, whose names be here subscribe. [NUMBER 29 .] Radulphus Gualter to Grindal, archbishop of Canterbury; concerning a purpose in the synod at Frankford, of framing a general confession of all the protestant churches; and an harmony of confessions.

NUMBER 30 . The apology of Mr. Robert Horn, (afterward bishop of Winchester,) giving the reasons of his flight abroad in the beginning of the reign of queen Mary. Set before his translation of two sermons of Mr. Calvin.

NUMBER 31 . The answer of AElmer, bishop of London, to divers objections made to him, for felling and sale of the woods belonging to the see.

NUMBER 32 . A form of government by rural deans, or superintendents; exhibited by the chancellor of Norwich, from the bishop.

NUMBER 33 . A letter from the lord Burghley, high chancellor of the university of Cambridge, to the vice-chancellor, and the heads of the said university: sending them his determination of two graces: whereof there had been great debate, between the heads and the other doctors: sent by Dr. Barrow.

NUMBER 34. A part of a letter of the bishop of Ely to the lord Burghley; of the ill state of St. John’s college: for want of statutes.

NUMBER 35. The names of all the noblemen and great officers of the queen, from the beginning of her reign till about the year 1580. Drawn up by the lord treasurer Burleigh’s own hand.