The history of the life and acts of the Most Reverend Father in God, Edmund Grindal, the first Bishop of London, and the second Archbishop of York and Canterbury successively, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth : To which is added, an appendix or original mss. faithfully transcribed out of the best archives; whereunto reference is made in the history. In two books

Front matter

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Strype, John.

History and the life and

Chap. I

Gkindals country ami parentage. Noted in the University -^"n" I6I9, for h is learning. Disputes before King Edward's Visitors. 1552. Becomes Ridley Bishop of London's Chaplain. Preferred. 1553. Martin Bucer, the King's Public Professor at Cambridge, applies to him. Preaches abroad. Becomes Chaplain to the King. Nominated for a Bishop. Flics beyond sea, and lives in exile under Queen Mary. P. I.

Chap. II

Some account of him in his exile. Concerned in the Frankfort Anno 1554.

business. Bishop Ridley's letter to him in relation thereto. His letter to that Bishop concerning the condition of the exiles. Aids Mr. John Fox in his Martyrological Histories. His letter of advice to him. Sends to Fox accounts of several late martyrdoms in England. Ridley sends Grindal a letter about his disputation at Oxford, and concerning the Frankfort contest. P. 13.

Chap. III

Grindal conies home. Employed in the reformation of reli- Anno 1558, gion ; and in a public disputation with some Popish Bishops. '^^9' Preaches at the Court, and at St. Paul's. He is one of the Queen's Visitors. Visitation of London. He and other eminent exiles preach at thfe Cross. Nominated for the see of London. His scruples. Consults with Peter Martyr about various usages in this Church. Martyr's answers and advice,

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Giindal elect, bis letter to the Queen about exchanges of Bishops' lands. His concern about the crucifix in the Queen's chapel. P. 32.

Chap. IV

Anno 1560. Made Bishop of London. Arms granted him from Garter King of Arms. His Officers. 8ome of his first cares in his high function. Ordains Ministers. Preaches in his habits. Reforms the perambulation in Rogation Week. Preaches at May Dean of St. Paul's funeral. In commission for regulating matters of the Church ; and for reforming the Lessons and Calendar. He and the Archbishop, their secret letter to the Queen about her marriage. P. 48.

Chap. V

The Bishop superintendent of the foreigners' churches in London. His assistance of them. His dealings with some of the members that were Anabaptists. Censures Hamstedius and Acontius. A form of a revocation for Hamstedius, drawn by the Bishop. The Spaniards desire a church. Corranus, the Spanish preacher. Acts in the Ecclesiastical Commission. More ordinations of Ministers. ' P. Gl.

Chap. VI

Anno 1561. The Bishop writes to Frankfort in behalf of the Dutch church there. Unites the parish of St. Mary at Axe to St. Andrew Undershaft. St. Paul's burnt. Some relation of it. The Bishop of Durham preaches there a suitable sermon the next Sunday. The Queen's order for the repair. The Archbishop's and Bishop's care for taxing the Clergy thereunto. Proclamation against profanation of that and all other churches. The Bishop visits St. Paul's, London, and the rest of his diocese. Injunctions given. Dr. Philip Baker, Rector of St. Andrew's Wardrobe, deprived. Application of certain Heads of Oxon, to the Bishop, concerning a disturbance in Queen's college. P. 74.

Chap. VII

Anno 1562. The Bishop's proceedings in the repair of St. Paul's. Ordered

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xiii to have the Queen's recovery declared at St. Paul's, Commends the service of Count Oldenburgli to the Queen. Looks after private Masses in London. The Queen's writ to the Anno 1563. Bishop, to cite the Clergy to a Synod. Certifies the state of his diocese. Appoints prayers and fasting in London for the plague. Urges the duty of fasting. His cares for the Queen's safety, and removal farther from London. P. 93.

CHAP. VIIL

The Bishop's charitable mediations for some foreigners. Zanchy. Professor of Divinity at Strasbingh, consults with him. His discreet answer. His letter to the Lord Robert Dudley about his excommunicating one Sebastian belonging to Paul's choir, being a Papist. The Bishop's discourse with Dr. Watson, harboured with him. His advice to the Secretary concerning his disease. Sampson, Dean of Christ's Church, Oxon, applies to him concerning statutes for their house. Prepares an Office for the plague abated. Appoints an Admonition to be read in the churches. Office upon the ceasing of the plague. P. 109.

Chap. IX

His Christian concern for his own country. Uses his interest for the Bishop of Carlisle. Forwards the settling our merchants at Embden. In gratitude to Germany shews respects towards Count John of Frisia ; and towards the Duke of Wirtenburgh's agent. Punishes one Barton, a scandalous Minister of London. Collates Dr. Coverdale to St. Magnus. Confutes the book of one Velsius, a Dutch sectary, Nowel's Catechism. - P. 125.

Chap. X

The Bishop takes the degree of Doctor in Dvinity. Recom- Anno 1564. mends a servant of his, a German, to the Dutch church. Zanchy, of Strasburgh, presents a book to (he Bishop. Declares his case to him, why he left Strasburgh. The Bishop's proceedings with such as neglected wearing the habits. What was done in the Archdeacon of London's visitation at St. Sepulchre's church ; and by the Queen's Commissioners at xiv CHAPTERS

Lambeth. Preaches at the Emperor's funerals at St. Paul's. Lays the parish of the Strand to the Savoy. Boner writes to the Queen, and pretends conscience for not taking the oath of supremacy. P. 139.

Chap. XI

Anno i5b'5. Thanksgiving in St. Paul's for the deliverance of Malta. The Bishop deals again with his Clergy for conformity. The Book of Advertisements sent to the Bishop. BuUinger writes to him concerning the habits : and he to Bullinger : and to Zanchy, concerning the present dift'erences in the Church. Two of the Spanish church in London, in danger of the inquisition, apply for favour to the Bishop. Procures a letter in behalf of certain of the Dutch church clapt up in Flanders. Requires a catalogue of the members of the Dutch church. Reviews Nowel's book against Dornian. Licenseth a book of Calfliil's about the Cross, against Marshal. Beza sends him his Annotations. Moves him for a confession for all the churches to subscribe to. Argues with him about the contentions in England. P. 152.

Chap. XII

Anno 1567. The Bishop's concern with some separatists ; convented before him. Argues at large with them. Beza dislikes them. The Bishop's advice about a good Bishop for Armagh. The Bishop's letter, that none be suffered to preach without licence.

Chap. XIII

^ Anno 1568. Some Puritan Ministers go into Scotland to preach the Gospel;

but return again. Inquiry after strangers affected with heresies or other crimes. The Bishop's advice therein. Stow's study searched for Popish books. The Bishop's concern with Corranus, the Spanish Preacher, who appeals to Beza. Beza refers him to the Bishop. The miserable case of Geneva recommended to the Bishop. Propositions set forth by the Dutch church, to a<ljust and determine some differences among them. Allowed by the Bishop. Colleges in Oxford Popishly affected. The Bishop's advice thereupon. He interposeth for the strangers. P. 179.

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Chap. XIV

Separatists set at liberty by the Bishop : and why. The danger- Anno 1569. ous condition of the realm. The Dean of St. Paul's letter to the Bishop, upon the poisoning of D'Andelot in France, His care for checking Popery at the Inns of Court. Plotting of Papists at Bath. Southworth, a Lancashire Knight, and Papist, committed to the Bishop : and Milerus an Irishman, The Bishop's letter to Court about Boner's burial, A visitation of King's college in Cambridge by the Bishop's means. Articles against a Popish Provost : deprived. The Bishop recommends Mr, Goad to succeed him. Aspersed, upon his presenting the Queen with grapes from Fulham. P. 200.

Chap. XV

The Bishop further concerned in Corranus's business. The ground of the French church's complaint against him. The Bishop's behaviour in the nation's present dangers. The Bishop of Ross, Milerus, and Hare, Papists, in custody with the Bishop. Papists of the Inns of Court, before the Bishop in Commission, Interrogatories for them. His care of St, John's college, P, 217.

Chap. XVI

The Bishop's dealings with Bonham and Crane, separatist preachers. That party make complaint of the Bishop to the Council. The Council writes to the Bishop concerning them. His account of them to the Council ; and vindication of himself. His advice concerning them. Bonham's promise read and declared before the Bishop ; which he brake. P. 226.

Chap. I

Grindal's nomination for York. His concern for the reform- Anno 1570. ation of abuses at the Savoy. His confirmation. His advice

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CHAPTERS about Cartvvright, and his lectures at Cambriilgc. Goes clown into Yorkshire. The qualities of the people tliere. Confirms the Bishop SufiVagan of Nottingham, Bishop of Carlisle. Visits his diocese. P. 233.

Chap. II

Anno 1571. His metropolitical visitation. A book of Canons sent him from the Archbishop of Canterbury. His fears of a premunire. His injunctions to the province. Clergy, and Laity, and to the Church of York. Whittingham, Dean of Durham, cited before the Archbishop. BuUinger answers the Pope's bull against the Queen. Contest about a prebend in York. Excuses himself to Cecil about Broxborn parsonage. The Archbishop's demesnes at Battersea. A Bishop of Man confirmed. Exercises set up at Northampton, for the interpretation of Scripture. P. 246.

Chap. III

Anno 1.572. The Archbishop's letter to the Lord Treasurer, in commenda- ' tion of the Earl of Huntingdon, now Lord President of the

north. Writes for an Ecclesiastical Commission. Writes to the Lord Treasurer against concealments, in behalf of his Clergy ; and concerning an High Sheriff for Cheshire. His informations against Sir Rowland Stanley. His thoughts of a proclamation for Orders in the Church ; and the Council's letters thereupon. Some innovators enjoined prebends and livings in the Church. His judgment thereof. Seasonably interposes in the behalf of some poor Commoners. P. 262.

Chap. IV

Anno 1-574. His and the President's good government. Decrease of Papists in the north. Rejects an ignorant Clerk. The Archbishop oppressed with the stone and strangury. Sherborn hospital : Lever, Master thereof. The Archbishop's letter to the Court in behalf of it. One Lowth, a Puritan, slanders the Archbishop's doings in commission. His advice about answering a book of Discipline set forth by the Puritans. Reports of various sects risen up trouble him. Correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury and him. Con-

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xvli suits with him about entertainment of the Queen. An earthquake in the north. His thoughts of it. Visits his church of Anno 1575. York. Confirms the Bishop of Norwich. The Lord President mentioned by him with honour for his good service : particularly about pacifying a broil upon the borders. Prefers Ramisdenj the Lord Treasurer's Chaplain. His discreet letter to the Archbishop concerning the jurisdiction of Archdeacons. P. 272.

Chap. V

Nominated for the see of Canterbury. The Lord President's Anno 1576. character of him upon his remove. Sandys, Bishop of London, his successor. Their contest about dilapidations. Grindal's election and confirmation. Makes a feast at Lambeth. A Convocation. Articles then framed and agreed to. Restores a silenced preacher in the diocese of Chichester ^ but imposed upon. Intercedes for St. John's college. Bucer's Scripta Anglicana dedicated to him. His wonderful escape of death by an arrow, mentioned in the dedication ; and the omen thereof. P. 282.

Chap. VI

Looks after his Courts. Court of Faculties. His regulation of dispensations. The advices of his learned lawyers for reformation of abuses ; viz. Jones, Harvey, Aubrey, Yale. Two of his officers, his Vicar General, and his Official of the Arches, contend for precedency. A new Ecclesiastical Commission. P. 300.

Chap. VII

Redmayn, the Archbishop's Chaplain, becomes Archdeacon of Canterbury. Consecrates a Bishop of Rochester, and a Bishop of Man. The Queen's letters for the Bishop of Man. Begins a metropolitical visitation. Commissions for visiting of the several dioceses. Injunctions for Gloucester ; and for Bangor. Articles for the Visitations. Puritans set up their discipline. His course with them. P. 312.

Chap. VIII

Zanchy's letter to the Archbishop, congratulatory. Johannes

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Sturmius of Strasbuvgh, the Archbishop's mediation for him. Inhibitions issued from his Courts complained of; his letters to his officers for regulation thereof. New trouble about his Comt of Faculties. Exercises or prophesyings. The Queen likes them not. The Archbishop regulates them. Dr. Julio, the physician ; the Archbishop's judgment in his cause. His excellent letter to the Queen concerning the exercises. Whether the Earl of Leicester were ofiPended with the Archbishop for Julio's business. The exercises put down by the Queen. The Council's letter to the Archbishop for iseeping Ember days and Lent. The Archbishop's letter for observation of the same. Collection for Colliton Haven, Sandys confirmed for York ; Elmer^ or Aylmer, consecrated for London. P. 321.

Chap. IX

Anno 1577. Dr. Whitgift consecrated Bishop of Worcester. The Bishops commanded to put down the exercises : and unlawful Ministers forbid. The Archbishop confined and sequestered. The metropolitical visitation goes on. Popish recusants increase. Orders to the Archbishop for inquiry after them. Consultation for punishing them by pecuniary mulcts. Faculties in Ireland, whether still to issue out of the Archbishop's Court. The Lord Treasurer's advice to the Archbishop concerning his submission. His humble address to the Star-chamber. The judgment of the learned concerning prophecies. The inconveniences of the Archbishop's sequestration. Remains sequestered. Two Civilians appointed to officiate for him : who commits to them the office of Vicar General j yet sometimes, and on some occasions, acts in his own name. P. 340.

Chap. X

Anno 1678, Prevents taking timber out of his woods. Commends a contri- 1579.

bution for Chard : and for Bath. The Archbishop's officers. Norwich diocese visited. Consecrates Wolton Bishop of Exon. Stubbes's book against the Queen's marriage with Monsieur. The Council's letter to the Archbishop relating thereto. His order to the Preachers hereupon : and to some Preachers that would not administer the Sacraments ; whom

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xix the Council had notified to him. Difference between Sandys, ' now Archbishoi) of York, and Archbishop Grindal, about the demesnes of Battersca. His declaration about the state of Battersca. P. 357.

Chap. XI

The Archbishop calls his diocese to prayers and humiliation. Anno 1580. occasioned by an earthquake. The Council orders the same prayers throughout all the dioceses. Decides a difference in Merton college j and in the University of Cambridge, between the Doctors and Heads. His judgment and opinion herein signified to that University's Chancellor. Sends out articles of inquiry for backsliders in religion. Popish emissaries multiply. Consecrates Watson and Overton for Winton, and Coventry and Litchfield. Goes on with his metropolitical visitation. A Convocation. What was done therein. They petition the Queen for the Archbishop's restoration. Excommunication to be reformed. He deviseth a solemn form of penance to be used. P. 368.

Chap. XII

The Council's letter to the Archbishop in behalf of Nicols, a Anno 158J. Jesuit, that recanted ; and concerning the recusants that refused conference. His directions of inquiry to his Archdeacon and Commissary for that purpose. Visits Merton college. The metropolitical visitation proceeds. Consecrates Bullingham Bishop of Gloucester. Grants a licence to the Lord Cheney, to remove his ancestors' bodies to the church of Minster. Dr. Aubrey and Dr. Clark acting for the Archbishop. Grants a commission in his own name for the Commissaryship of Canterbury. P. 390.

Chap. XIII

Orders to the Archbishop to certify the dwellings of recusants. Anno 1582. Middleton confirmed Bishop of St. David's. The sad condition of that diocese. Licenseth a Scotch Preacher. Metropolitical visitations. His submission and declaration. His sequestration taken off. His letter to Bishop Whitgift to visit

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CHAPTERS the diocese of Litchfield ; and there to decide a controversy wherein the Bishop of Litchfield was concerned ; relating to a contest between Babington and Beacon for the office of Chancellor. The Archbishop's instructions therein. Dr. Beacon (who was of St. John's college) commended. The Archbishop, by his instrument, causeth the visitation of this church to cease. And why. P. 399.

Chap. XIV

The Archbishop blind. Desires to resign. The Queen grants it. His care of a contribution for Geneva. Their distressed case signified from the English Ambassador at Paris. Letters of the Council and Archbishop to the Bishops in behalf of that city. The Archbishop founds a freeschool in St. Begh's. The state of the foundation. The Queen sends the Archbishop a new year's gift. His petitions to her in order to his resignation. The pension he required for his life ; left to the Lord Treasurer to despatch. P. 411.

Chap. XV

Anno 1583. Moves for his resignation. Makes his last will. His bequests, and charitable gifts. His death. His burial. His monument and epitaph. The state of his school. His care of repairs of his houses and fabrics. Nevertheless his executors troubled for dilapidations. The Archbishop's relations. His Chaplains and Officers. P. 425,

Chap. XVI

Observations upon this Archbishop. His temper. His aflfection for true religion. His abilities in preaching. His government of the Church. His labours to furnish the Church with learned Ministers. His zeal for the exercises on that account. Some things observed concerning them. His constancy. His plainness and freedom. His humility in his high station. His dealing with Puritans, His free and notable counsel to the Queen, P, 437.

Chap. XVII

What Camden, Holinshed, Stow, Godwin, Rogers, and other historians have related concerning this Archbishop. Unfairly

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xxi represented by Dr. Fuller. A passage of Dr. Heylin concerning him considered. Some further account given of him, from a MS. history in Pembroiie hall, Cambridge. A dialogue written by him against transubstantiation. The conclusion. P. 452.

THE

HISTORY

OF

OF THE

MOST REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

EDMUND GRINDAL,

The first Bishop of London after Queen Elizabeth's Access to tlie Crown, and the second Archbishop of Canterbury.

BOOK I.

Chap. I

Grindafs country and parentage. Noted in the University for his learning. Disptites before the Kin^s Visitors. Becomes Bishop Ridlefs Chaplain. Bucer applies to him. Preaches abroad. Becomes Chaplain to the King. Lives in exile.

have but little to say of the earlier part of this Pre- CHAP. late*'s life. He was born about the year of our Lord 1519, ^' in a little angle of the county of Cumberland called Cowp- Anno isig. land, or Copland, from the hills in those southern parts of Qy^*^]^","*"^ the county, which cope in the old English language im-i^n<iporteth. And though, as he himself in one of his letters gave the character of it, Cowpland, of all that shire, was the ignorantest part in religion, yet brought it forth this shining light of learning and religion : and however bar-

BOOK barous the place of his birth was, yet it obtained a great ^' share in his tender affection and love towards it. It had la-

Aniio lois.jjoured not only under great ignorance, but under great oppression of covetous landlords, most of any one part of tlie realm. For the redressing of which, in the month of May, anno 1563, when he was Bishop of London, he betook himself to Sir William Cecil, Secretary of State, his cordial and constant friend; discovering at large to him the state of the place, and discoursing and consulting with him about a remedy of the evils it suffered under : having often thought, as he said, to make a general suit to him for a regard to it. Which, no question, had a good effect. The gentry The like conccrn this reverend and pious Bishop had for there. ^.j^^ good education of the gentry there ; whose influence he knew would be so considerable upon the whole country. And heai-ing of the decease of one Mr. Skelton, a gentleman that had lived very near his own native town, leaving a young son and heir behind him, he speedily informed the said Cecil, master of the wards, of it ; adding, that he knew his countrymen would make good speed for the wardship. And therefore he earnestly desired the said master, " that " he would take order for the good education of the ward ; " and not leave the poor tenants subject to the expilations of " those counti y gentlemen, without some choice."" Wherein he offered, if it pleased him to understand his opinion, to utter it simply according to his understanding. His family As for the Bishop's own family and relations, to them he ti'ons^^'^ bore an hearty affection, as well as to his country. He was born in the parish of St. Begh's, (so called from a certain Irish virgin saint, named St. Bega, who retired here, and had a cell afterwards founded here to her memory.) Yet a Haiph Tho- Very inquisitive learned gentleman in the north hath in- Leeds Es ^o'""!^'^ that this Bishop was not born at St. Begh's, but at Hensingham, a mile south of Wliitehaven, three miles distant from St. Begh's, but in the said parish.

There was an intimate friendship and familiarity from Kdwin their youths continued between him and Edwin Sandys, st."Be"u'l succeeded him also in London and York, which sprang,

OF ARCHIUSHOP GRINDAL as it seems, from their acquaintance in this town of St. CHAP. Begh"'s; Sandys being from the said place, and his father a |l justice of peace there. For from twelve years old (except Anno i. si 9. from Sandys''s thirteenth to his eighteenth, when perhaps their parting was occasioned by one of them going to the University before the other; Sandys being three or four years elder than Grindal) they had lived in the University, and out of it, through all fortunes, (both in adversity, for the sake of the Gospel, and in prosperity,) as brothers together. And therefore, in the year 1563, when Sandys's former vid. Amiai. life and innocency had been imhandsomely traduced by Sir "l^^^'^"^ John Bourn, of Worcester, knight, in an apology of his toss. the Privy Coimcil, he earnestly prayed them, that Bishop Grindal, who had known him so well from his young years, might be called to give his testimony of his behaviour.

In an house here, in St. Begh's parish, held by his fa- Procures ther, he fetched his first breath. The lease of this house, i,^s*f^n|j'iv wdth the land pertaining thereto, being under twenty shillings rent, but well built at the charges of his father and brother, he obtained of Sir Thomas Chaloner; together with another lease of certain tithes of the parsonage of St. Begh's, 3 himself paying the fines, and conferring it upon his brother and his children ; intending thereby to advance his family. But God disappointed him ; the males of the family dying soon after ; and, by some unlooked-for misfortune, the leases being in danger of a forfeiture. For his brother, whose name was Robert, and his wife Elizabeth, and Edmund his only son, all three died anno 1567, in the space of three weeks, to the good Bishop's no small grief : his said brother leaving four daughters orphans ; and by his testament he made his second daughter Anne sole executrix : w hereby she had the possession of those two leases. She had been willed in her father's last testament to be directed in all things by her uncle the Bishop. But, clean contrary to his mind, and utterly against his will, she bestowed herself in marriage with one William Dacres, son of Richard Dacres, iiis niece gent, who dwelt beside CarUsle: which William had combined '^"[^^^ himself with Leonard Dacres and others in that traitorous

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BOOK rebellion, moved in the year 1569, in Cumberland. Now tJie Bishop's fear was, that if William Dacres, who married his

Aimo 1519. niece, should forfeit his goods and chattels by reason of his being in rebellion, he having the two leases in his hand, they might all be swallowed up in the forfeiture; and so his other three nieces be utterly deprived of tlieir portions therein. His leases Tliis put the Bishop upon suing to the Secretary his forfeited"^ friend, in the month of February the said year, that he would be a means to the Queen aforehand, (for avoiding the being prevented,) that she would grant, that the portion and interest which the other three sisters orphans had, or ought to have had, in the said two leases, might be reserved unto them : and also, that whatsoever might accrue to her Majesty by forfeiture or attainder of the said William Dacres, concerning those leases of the house and tithes aforesaid, he {the Bishop) might have the preference before another for the purchasing thereof ; being willing to pay as much as the thing was worth, or more : leaving the Secretary, as he said, to consider how much he was bound in nature and charity to make this request. Or in case the forfeiture fell not to the Queen, but to Sir Thomas Chaloner's executors, (which was the common opinion at St. Begh's, by reason of the charter of liberties which the abbey there had, and Sir Thomas purchased,) then he prayed the said Secretary, who was one of the said Chaloner's executors, that he would permit him to compound with him: though his judgment, as he added, was, that no such liberty could pretend to a title in the goods of traitors.

Will. Grin- I Cannot trace his family any farther ; only, that I find dai, Lady ^ WiUiam Grindal, a dear and intimate friend, colleague,

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tutor. and pupil of Roger Ascham, Fellow of St. John's college in Cambridge : who was removed from the college to the court by Cheke, King Edward's tutor, and dwelt with him, and assisted him, probably for a time, in the instructingof that prince. He was chiefly employed as a tutor to the Lady Elizabeth in her studies. Ascham, in a letter to the said lady, commending her proficiency in learning, and rendering her fortunes and higli birth thereby more noble, by joining good literature

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thereunto, assigned several things to be the causes thereof; CHAP, as her reading of Plato, her own excellent judgment, the ^'

counsel of an accomplished lady, the Lady Champernoun, -^nno 1519. who it seems had some charge over her; and among the"* rest, the precepts of his dear fi'iend Grindal. And she made very notable progress in Greek and Latin, by the cares and method that this Grindal took in her instruction. And what further advances she was likely to make in those languages, in case she proceeded in the same course that the said Grindal took with her, Ascham signified in one of his letters to Cheke^. " It can scarce be credited, to what degree of - Vix credi " skill in the Latin and Greek she might arrive, if she shall Hatbsinie " " proceed in that course of study wherein she hath begun ciiece, ad " by the guidance of Grindal.'" But she had a great loss in per'itiam' losing soon this her ingenious and learned instructor: for^''*'"^ he died young, in the year 1548, of the plague, and made a linguae iiia very pious end; and left this character: mores, ^^^^^*"w*5 poterit"^si memoriam, Judicium tale habuit, quale vix cuiquam in eo quo, Angiia continffit. The Lady Elizabeth, to recruit herself with another instructor, sent for the afore-mentioned As- cursu, cham from Cambridge, to supply his place; and he accord- esT.""^!^"'* ingly came up, and was with her at Cheshunt. But what relation the said Grindal was to our Prelate, besides that of his ingenuity, piety, and learning, I know not. There was also one James Grindal, a clergyman, on whom the Bishop JamesGrinbestowed a prebend in PauFs; and another of his name, whom he retained in his family, when Archbishop of Canterbury. I meet also with one of this name, or very like it, in the reign of King Richard II. I dare not say the Bishop was of his family; but yet I will mention him here; viz. Thomas Grendal, of Fenton in the county of Hunting- camden's don; who, being cousin and heir to John Beaumeys, of^""""ps- Sautre, of the same county, granted his coat (tliat is, of dai. " Beaumeys) to Will. Moigne, knt. wliich was argent, upon a cross azure, five garbs, or.

Our Edmund Grindal, in his tender years, addicted him- He escapes self to liis studies. And even while he was a child books ''^'"^"f were his delight and recreation, carrying them about with

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BOt)K him: wliich, as it shewed the pleasure he took in learning, so it fell out once very fortunately to him. For when he

Anno 1519. was a boy, walking somewhere in the fields, and having his book in his bosom, an arrow accidentally came, that light with its point just in the place where the book was ; whicli, if tile book had not been there, must have certainly slain him. AVhich passage Conrad Hubert, the publisher of Bucer's Scripta Anglicana, (which he dedicated to him when he was Archbishop,) would make to be a special piece of God^s providence; by saving his life in such a remarkable manner, who was afterwards to do him such great service in his Church.

Sent to He was sent up to the University of Cambridge ; where am jrupC. ^^^^^ colleges may boast of him. Magdalen college first entertained him, and gave him his earliest seasoning. Thence he became a member of Christ's college; drawn thither, I suppose, upon the account of some encouragement and exhibition. His third remove was to Pembroke hall, where he was first Fellow, and President in King Edward''s time, while Bishop Ridley was Master: afterwards, in the begin- 5 ning of Queen Elizabeth''s reign, he became Master of the Anno 1549. college. And to all these colleges he shewed his gratitude: to each assigning certain Uberal benefactions by his last will, as shall be told hereafter.

Disputes Before he came to be taken notice of in the Church, he Ki^ng's vi- ^ figure in the University, as one of the ripest wits

sitors. and learnedest men in Cambridge. And when an extraordinary act was commenced, anno 1549, for the entertainment of King Edward's visitors there, viz. Goodrich Bishop of Ely, Ridley Bishop of Rochester, Sir WiDiam Paget, Sir .Thomas Smith, Su* John Cheke, Dr. Mey, and Dr. Wendy, all very learned men ; and the questions to be disputed were.

Whether transubstantiation could be proved by plain and