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made Lord

Chancellor,

his back (which was as much as one man could well undergo, confidering the troubles with fo many Sectaries that were then sprung up) defired to be spared, and befought her Highness to make Sir Chrifto- choice of Sir Chriftopher Hatton, who pher Hatton fhortly after was made Lord Chancellor in the Archbishop's Houfe at CroyAp.29. 1587. don, thereby the rather to grace the Archbishop. His advancement did much ftrengthen the Archbishop and his Friends, and withal, the Earl of Leicefter and his Defignments, came foon after to an end. For, the Year following, taking his Journey to Kenelworth, he died in the way at Cornbury Park, whereby the Archbishop took himself freed from much oppofition.

The Earl of
Leicefter died
Sept. 4. 1588.

60. Upon the death of the faid Earl, Oxford defire the Chancellorship of Oxford being the Archbishop void, divers of the Heads and others of for their Chancellor in the University, made known unto the

the Earl's

room.

Archbishop their defire to chufe him their Chancellor, although he was a Cambridge man. To whom he returned this Answer, That he was already their Friend, whereof they might reft affured; and therefore advised them to make choice of fome other in near place about the Queen, that might affift him on

pher Hatton,

their behalf: And both at the Council-
board, and other Places of Juftice,
right them many ways, both for the
benefit of the Univerfity, and their par
ticular Colleges. And therewithal re-
commended unto them Sir Chriftopher He recommends
Hatton, being fometime of that Uni- Sir Chrifto-
verfity; whom accordingly they did who is chofen
chufe for their Chancellor, and whom He is the Arch-
the Archbishop ever found a great Af
fiftant in bridling and reforming the in
temperate Humour of thefe Novelifts,
who by the Countenance of the afore-
faid Great Perfonages (E. Leicester,&c.)
were now grown to a strong head.

bishop's con

ftant Affiftant

in bridling the
Puritan Fa-

Etion.

other Libels

61. For, in the Year 1588. came Martin Marforth thofe hateful Libels of Martin prelate, and Marprelate, and much about the fame published, time, the Epitome; the Demonftration of 1588. Difcipline; the Supplication; Diotrephes; the Minerals; Have you any work for a Cooper; Martin Junior, alias Thefes Martiniana; Martin Senior; More work for the Cooper; and other fuch like Baftardly Pamphlets, which might well be Nullius filii, because no man durft father their Births. All which were Puritan Prefs erected at

A Private

printed with a kind of wandring Prefs, Kingston, and which was firft fet up at Moulfer, near afterwards reKingston upon Thames, and from thence moved to fe

con

veral Places..

1

covered at Manchester.

conveyed to Faufly in Northamptonshire, and from thence to Norton, afterwards to Coventry, from thence to Welftone in Warwickshire, from which place the Letters were fent to another Prefs in or The Prefs dif- near Manchester, where (by the means of Henry, that good Earl of Derby) the Prefs was discovered in printing of More work for a Cooper. Which fhamelefs Libels were fraughted only with odious and fcurrilous Calumniations against the Established Government, and fuch Reverend Prelates as deferved honour with uprighter Judgments.

The Printers apprehended,

profecuted and

fined in the Star-chamber. On their fubmiffion, and the Archbi

tion, were re

62. Some of the Printers, whilft they were bufied about the laft Libél, were apprehended; who, with the En tertainers, and Receivers of the Press, were proceeded against in the Starchamber, and there Čenfured; but upon fhop's Media- their fubmiffion (at the humble Suit of leafed, and the Archbishop) were both delivered Fines remitted, out of Prison, and eafed of their Fines. The Authors and Penners of fome of thefe Libels were, John Penry and John Udall; the chief Disperser of them was Newman a Humphrey Newman, a Cobler, a choice Broker for fuch fowterly Wares, and in regard of his Hempenly Trade, a fit Perfon to cherish up Martin's Birds,

Penry and

Udall Authors of the Libels.

Cobler, Di Sperfer.

who

who (as Pliny writeth) do feed fo gree dily upon Hemp-feed, that they be oftentimes choaked therewith. Such was the unfortunate end of fome of his Martin Birds, as appeareth upon Record in the King's Bench, against John Penry, Clerk, John Penry Termino Pafch. 1593. and at an Affize condemned, in Surrey against John Udall, whofe Par- Udall pardondon the Archbishop afterwards ob. ed. tained.

1593.

63. Thus the factious Minifters, zealous of pretended Difcipline, having with these feditious Libels (as the Forerangers and Harbingers of their further Defigns) made way in the hearts of the Vulgar (who ever are apt to entertain Novelties, though it be with danger and detriment to themselves; and specially if it have a fhew of reftraining the Authority of their Superiors) they thought it the fitteft time to profecute their Projects. And while one fort of them were malicioufly bufied in flan- Cartwright dering the State of the Church already (with others) fetled, the other were as feditiously im- proceeded with ployed in planting the Difcipline which chamber for they had newly plotted. Whereupon their Convenfhortly after Thomas Cartwright, and ticles, 1591. Edmund Snape, with others, were called lighing their in queftion, and proceeded withal in Book of New the Difcipline,

Thomas

in the Star

and for pub

the Star-chamber, for fetting forth, and putting in practice (without Warrant or Authority) a new Form of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments and Presbyterial Difcipline. The particularities of which their dangerous Plots, and Pofitions (though most fecretly carried amongst men only of their own combination) were by Doctor Bancroft firft discovered, and by the Archbishop and the Lord Chancellor farther brought to light, as the Records themselves in the Star-chamber do teftify, and may at large appear in Dr. Bancroft Doctor Bancroft's Survey of the Pretended Difcipline; and dangerous Pofitions under the Difciplina pretence of Reformation: Wherein allo rians, and you fhall fee thefe Difciplinarians to their dange exceed other Minifters, from whom they have their Presbyterial Platform, in Threatning, Railing, and undutiful Speeches, against their Sovereign, the High Court of Parliament, the most Honourable Privy Council, the Archbishops and Bishops, the Reverend Judges of the Land, and Lawyers of both Profeffions: And generally against all Magiftrates, and other inferior Minifters of Justice, and Officers under them, that do maintain the present

writes two

Books against

rous Practices

and Pofitions,

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