to Cecil, 18 Nov. 1569, ‘understanding that the mastership . . is likely to be very shortly vold,' to recommend ‘both for his experience in that howse, indifferencie toward all parties, and other aptness in government,' Dr Rog. Kelk, 'who, when Dr Longworth was admitted, was by the consent of the most part of the fellows elected, and yet, understanding your pleasure for the other, content to relinquish his interest. Hys mynde ys, to continue with them: of those that be talked of emong the Fellows of that college, and those also that be unprovided in the University, we think him one of the meetest' (Strype's Whitgift I. 15, 16). P. 162 l. 21. the College in great disorder. About the beginning of Dec. 1565, the fellows and scholars, chiefly the younger sort, to the number of near 300, some said, threw off the surplice with one consent. Longeworth the master being absent, the most Part of the College-Company came into the Chapel one Festival-Day without their Surplices and Hoods,.. and withal made some Diversity in the manner of the Administration of the Communion; and so continued to do: And this the said Master upon his Return allowed, without Complaint to any Magistrate, or Endeavour to Restore the former antient Usage.' Cecil wrote to the College (many Members whereof had humbly writ to him, That their Consciences might not be forced to receive the Ceremony they had laid aside'), charging them with Vain-Glory, and Affectation of Popularity, and Contempt of Laws.' To the v. c. he wrote, 10 Dec. 1565, saying that the queen required the misdemeanour to be severely punished: it was a 'leud Leprosy of Libertines:' these external things ‘of themselves were of none other Value but to make a Demonstration of Obedience, and to render a Testimony of Unity.' Those who had riotously railed against these orders, to be suspended from preaching. The Vantcurrors in private colleges, to have reasonable time to reform themselves, on pain of being excommunicated out of the university. The v. c. to warn the president of St John's, 'that those of that College, that would not reform themselves, should find no Comfort to persist in their Wantonness.' Cecil sent for Fulk and Longeworth, and compelled the latter 14 Dec., to confess himself faulty 'in suffering the Fellows and Scholars to continue in their Innovations'. Cecil also wrote, Westm. 13 Dec., to the bp. of Ely: 'He was very sorry of late to understand of a notable Disorder in the College of St John's; whereof his Lordship (he said) was by ordinary Authority the Visitor, and he by bringing-up an old Scholar.' Had written to the president 'both as Chancellor of the University, and as one affectionated to that House; that he should first attempt by ordinary Means, in the Absence of the Master, to reform the said Disorder: and that if he could not, then he should send these his Letters to him [the said Bishop]. With the which he did recommend unto him the afflicted State of that good and divine College; most earnestly requiring him, Per omnes charitates, with speed to send his Commission or other Direction thither, for understanding the Truth of the Disorders; especially of that which had been committed in the general wanton throwing away of Surplices in that College, and of the Singularity and Variety begun in the Administration one. of the holy Communion. And further to enjoin straitly, under sharp Pain, the Observation of the laudable Customs therein limited, and lately appointed by the Queen's Majesty's Injunctions.' Dr. Bart. Clerck, 12 Dec. 1565, writing to Cecil of the Fanatici Superpelliciani et Galeriani, mentioned a Sophister of one of the Colleges, that lately 5 came into the Quire, and placed himself among the thickest of the rest of the Company, all with their Surplices on, but he alone without And when the Censor of the College had called him, and questioned him for this Irregularity, he answered modestly, laying the Cause upon his Conscience, which would not suffer him to let loose the 10 Reins to such things: when at length the true cause was known to be that he had pawned his Surplice to a Cook with whom he had run in Debt for his Belly' (Strype's Annals I. c. 44, PP. 478-483). Beza to Bullinger (ibid. App. n. XXIX. p. 70): 'pauculi illi puri Evangelij Doctores, alij quidem exauctorantur, alij vero in carceres etiam detru- 15 duntur, nisi illa omnia se inviolabiliter polliceantur approbaturos, ut neque verbo neque scripto contradicere liceat, ac tandem pileis etiam quadratis, Collipendijs, Superpelliceis, Casulis, et cæteris id genus, sacerdotes Baalis referant.' Paule's Life of Whitgift (Wordsworth's Eccl. Biogr. ed. 4, III. 568, 569): Upon a Sunday (doctor Whitgift being 20 from home) master Cartwright with some of his adherents made three sermons in that one day; wherein they so vehemently inveighed.. against the surplice, as those of Trinity college were so moved therewith, that at evening prayer they cast off their surplices (though against the statutes of the house) and were all placed in the chapel 25 without surplices, three only excepted.' See indexes to Strype 3. v. Habits; and to Parker Soc. series s. v. Surplice. The most copious repertory of objections to the surplice, mark of the 'linigeri calvi of Isis,' is supplied by Prynne. By the king's order for subscriptions before degrees, 3 Dec. 1616, 30 art. 7, it was required 'that all scholers both at chapell and at the schooles keep the scholastical habits' (Heywood and Wright Camb. Univ. Trans. II. 269; Cooper III. 104). By the king's further injunctions, circa 1619, n. 4, it was ordered: "That all the communicants do take the communion kneeling;...and 35 that the laudable custome of coming to the chappell in surplices and hoods, according to their degree, upon the accustomed days, be observed by the master and fellows, scholers and studentes, of all colleges, and that they so continue in their surplices and hoods at all times during the time of common prayer, the sermon and the administration 40 of the sacrament' (Heywood and Wright 275; Cooper 130). On a petition read in the house of commons 23 Jan. 1643, it was declared by the house 17 Febr. following, that the statute made in the university of Cambridge, which imposeth the wearing of surplices upon all graduates and students, under several pains, and reinforced by the 45 canons made 1603, ought not to be pressed or imposed upon any student or graduate, it being against law and the liberty of the subject. And it is therefore ordered, that it shall not, for time to come, be pressed or imposed upon any student or graduate whatsoever' (Heywood and Wright 455; Cooper 336). 50 5 IO P. 163 1. 25. Jo. Knewstub. See p. 514 1. 46. P. 164. On 4 May 1570 abp. Parker wrote to Cecil (Parker Corresp. 365): the warden of Manchester college desired to relinquish it to be converted to some College in Cambridge who might hereafter send out some preachers to inhabit that quarter, and also by the rest of the revenue maintain some students. If it please your honour to move her Highness to this alteration, I think you should do a good deed; and where you were brought up for the first beginning of your study in St. John's college, I think you should shew yourself a good bene. factor to turn this land thereto.' P. 164 1. 19. statutes. See Peacock, Observ. on the Statutes. They are printed in Stat. Acad. and, with many papers relating the opposition to them, in Lamb 315-402; Heywood and Wright Cambr. Univ. Trans. I. I-122. 15 P. 165 l. 15. Petition dated 6 May 1572. See MS. C. C. C. C. CXVIII. arts. 36-41; Lamb 357-359. 20 25 P. 165 1. 17. See The grevances of the body of the university (MS. C. C. C. C. CXVIII. 45. Lamb 363). On c. 34. 'The free election of the Vicechancellor was the especiall meanes to cause Mrs. of howses to favour learning, vertue' etc. 'It is brought from a general election to a small and slender choise of tow whom the Mrs. of howses shall put up. And in their putting up of tow their dealing is such,...that of this small choise they leave in effect no choise at all, ether the one of them which is putt up dealing earnistly against himselfe, and most of the Mrs. of Colleges with him labouring importunately for the other: or els putting up such an one, as some of them have not doubted immediately after in requesting voices for the other to saye him of all men to be most unfitt for that office.' P. 165 1. 18. the master's veto in colleges (c. 50): ibid. 368: 'It is an 30 intollerable injurie to establish the M tyrannie, to cause him to contemne all his fellows' etc. P. 163 l. 20-25. These words do not appear in the papers printed by Lamb. P. 165 1. 34. Jo. Beacon incurred Burghley's displeasure. See Burghley's 35 letter, 15 June 1572 (Lamb 361, 362): 'yf Beacon or any other did report that i had already made an ordre,...I do directly affirme that the saide reporte is untrue....I may be moved indede to revoke my disposition, and to lett Mr Procter taste of the frute of his rashnesse and untrue reporte of me...' The evidence against Beacon in Heywood & Wright 1. 115-120. The college some time before (27 Nov. 1570) lamented the loss of Burghley's favour, p. 468 1. 32. 40 P. 165 1. 36. objections answered, Lamb 377-391. P. 166 1. 2. P. 166 1. 5. they were of opinion, 31 May 1572, Lamb 360. a letter. MS. C. C. C. C. cxvIII. n. 41, Lamb 361, 362. 45 P. 166 1. 10. censure of Cartwright. See two petitions to the chancellor in favour of Cartwright; the first signed by Jo. Still and Ri. Howland with many others (Strype's Ann. II. App. bk. 1. n. 2 and 3). 'Since Mr Baker wrote the above, Mr Strype's volumes have been printed. In abp. Grindal's Life p. 152 is given the reason of Mr Shepherd's election, against Dr Kelk and Mr Fulk in order to check the growth of puritanism: and at p. 304 of his Annals vol. ii. is IO the account of his deprivation for nonresidence according to statute, and for other irregularities: among which his encouragement of the precise party is one which one would not have expected, as the choice of him was to put a stop to that faction.' WM. COLE. The articles against Shepherd were 'his unsatiable getting to his 15 own Use from the College and Society therof, by Fraud and Deceit. Secondly, his sowing of Contention, and maintaining of Factions. Thirdly, his Tyranny, in taking al Authority in elections to himself, contrary to the Order of their Statutes. ... Under the second Article... they brought these instances, 1. His chusing an unlearned and precise 20 President, out of his Order and Place, having six his Seniors to be preferred, and before speaking openly against the Communion Book. Item to another Office,...the Deanship, he chose another, who for the like Fantasies was in the Town among Men of that Profession of most Account; to him he committed the Government of the Youth, 25 who by his Countenance were so corrupted, that there was almost never a Boy in the College which had not in his Head a Platform of a Church. Wheras also the same Party did in open Pulpit pretend to confute Dr. Whitgift and was rebuked by one of his Seniors, the Master did not (as he was bound by Duty) take part with the Senior, 30 but rather justified the other in his inconsiderate and disorderly Attempt. Item, that he preferred Mr. Faucet, and that against the consent of six Seniors: who not long before, in the Presence of the Master and al the Seniors, did inveigh against the Authority of Bishops. Item, that he punished one of the Fellows in the defending 35 the Estate, and suffered one other to confute his Defence, without any manner of Punishment. Item, that he suffered one to proceed Master of Art, who before him had been convinced of speaking against the Communion Book, and Master Whitgift his Book.' Follows some account of the bp's visitation and a letter of Tho. Byng v. c. to 40 Burghley, 26 Sept. 1573. The only point which the bp. thought 'tended to Amotion', was non-residence, which he thought not proved. So 'calling the whole Company into the Chapel, he sharply and openly rebuked them al' (Strype Ann. II. 304—306). In the assessments of the colleges for the bedells' salaries by Whit- 45 gift's statutes of 1570, Trinity was charged 268. Sd. King's 208, St. John's 138. 4d., Queens' and Christ's each 68. 8d. (c. 32, Heywood and Wright, Cambr. Univ. Trans. 1. 39). 15 20 25 'See a pedigree of him in my vol. 21 p. 135'. Add to Cooper's Ath. P. 168. JOHN STILL. P. 169 1. 3. Mr. Aldridge. Thomas Aldrich. Cant. 1. 360: MSS. Baker vL 188 b = B 195; XXIX. 356. 5 P. 169 1. 5. Still raised up to root out puritanism in St John's. See (Hey. wood and Wright, Cambr. Univ. Trans. I. 197-201) 'The contents of a sermon made by [Mauryce] Faulkener in the chappel, the 24 of Julye [1576], by occasion wherof the master D. Still findeth himself greaved, and woulde have the partye punished'... 'Let us examyne our owne doinges. From whence have byn, ar, and wilbe.. so manye broyles, such strife and contentions, but that we ar leade with our owne wisdome? All with Abraham saye.. I pray you let their be no strife betwcene us. The master he will saye to the seniours, I praye you; and the seniours they will saye, We beseache you; and thus either part with Abraham is contente to saie, I pray you; but for to cut of thoccasyon they strayne courtesye who shoulde begine; neither will willinglie with Abraham yelde. ... We have good ordinances and statutes, which oughte to rule and overrule us all; and by them it is carefullye provided that our strifes and controversyes shoulde be wiselye ordred and taken up at home. But we will not be counseled at home by statute; but, evin to our owne discredytt, we will disclose and uncover our broyles to others, and we nothinge care or regarde howe manye be made privye to our doinges... I maye saye unto you, thoughe not in such brode speache and plaine maner as the apostle speakethe to the Corynthians, Is there not anye wise man amongst you to take up your controversyes, but that you must goe to others? But here some man maye saye unto me, that I speake more boldelye then wyselye. Trulie, I easely graunte and confesse it, if tyme be as it hathe byn, and men be as thei have byn; but if tyme be as it oughte to be, and men reformed as men shoulde be, then I nothinge doubte but that I speake no less wyselie then boldelie; and I truste I shall easelie finde pardon: si hominibus placere studerem, etc. I speake as a frende, and not as an illwiller; therfore to be borne with......Augustus Cæsar...on a tyme...satt in judgment seate, and, beinge moved with coller and anger, was aboute to condemn manye: quod cum animadvertisset Maecenas, nec posset ad cum accedere, he tooke a peece of paper, and wrote these twoe wordes surge, carnifex.' On the seniors requiring an interpretation, 'because the master toke himselfe discredited by that I sayed, surge, carnifex', Faulkner states, ' had not my memorye failed me,' [thus these private exercises were not read, but spoken] 'I woulde have stoode longer, and have dilated, after my homelye maner, this doinge of Mæcenas and Augustus...that I, speakinge with no lesse frendlye mynde, might not be accused, or, at the hardest, be so delte with as I shoulde be arreigned for geveing, as I then was, and yet am, inwardlie perswaded, as profitable warninge'. The sermon continues: A heathen man saide, worldlie wiselye, thoughe heathenlye folishlye, qui nescit dissimulare, nescit vivere; a lesson practised of dyvines. It was wonte to be called courte hollye water: I would it were further removed from colledges. There ought to be no diffidence, mistruste, or suspicion in 30 35 40 45 |
