“To this recantation” (7. e. the fifth, witnessed by J. de Villa Garcina, and H. Sydall) “there is no date. But it was probably made immediately after the writ for burning him had been sent to Oxford, as Noailles, the French ambassador to Mary (whose character for veracity, however, is not spotless), mentions to his court, that with this fifth paper Cranmer sent a letter to Pole, begging the respite of a few days, that he might yet give to the world a more convincing proof of his repentance. Mary is said to have cheerfully granted what Cranmer asked; but, determined not to spare him, she only ordered the day of his approaching fate to be concealed from him. Meantime the sixth recantation was prepared. To a more laboured disavowal (more complete it could not be than what the fifth recites) of tenets he had maintained, to louder cries for mercy, to deeper expressions of self-abasement, he was now to be earnestly pressed under the fallacious persuasion that from the terror of the stake he might be wholly freed. That this outrageous composition was drawn up by Pole, Strype long since assumed, by comparing it with the tedious prolixity and style of the recantation, which the cardinal prepared for the friend of Cranmer, Sir John Cheke3.”—Id. Vol. II. pp. 479, 80.
[1d. ibid. o 51d. p.d.]
[? Vid. Strype’s Eccl. Mem. Vol. III. part 1. 9 Lingard, Hist. Eng. 8vo. VII. 276, n.]
[p.395. Ed. Oxon. 1822,:]
is flippantly pretended as his expression by the French ambassador; not a shadow of authority for which is any where to be found. That it was incorrectly printed is probable enough. - But Pole and Boner intended not merely to correct it, but to reprint it with the four preceding papers, and with the production of a sixth. Indeed this is the only recantation, to which historians formerly drew the attention of their readers. Hence Collier, after Foxe’, relates, that on the day of Cranmer’s execution the Spanish friar, (J. de Villa Garcina,) who was a witness to his recantation, proposed the reading his recantation to a public audience, and to this purpose desired him to subscribe the instrument with his own hand and sign it^ Of any new submission on the fatal morning, this historian seems to have entertained no belief. Burnet is alike silent. Thus too. the Romish biographer of Pole, with the printed submissions of the archbishop at his service, speaks apparently of none but that which is numbered the fifth by Boner; and after noticing the writ for burning him, says, Cranmer had again renewed his subscription, and transcribed a fair copy of the whole; but, having some misgivings of his approaching punishment, he secretly wrote another declaration, which contradicted, in every point, the doctrine he had before signed. What here is called a renewed subscription, is affirmed, however, in the recent history of our country, to be nothing less than the copy of a seventh instrument of abjuration. Is it improbable, however, that what the friar proposed was merely the fifth recantation more correctly written than the hastily printed copy had given it? To this the signature of Cranmer was requisite, and it was made together with that of the friar; but, it is especially to be observed, is undated. It would now be ready for Boner’s publication, as the fifth instrument; while a written abbreviation of the material parts of it would be sufficient for Cranmer openly to profess before the people;’ and accordingly Boner, without the statement of its being a new subscription, without the pretence of its being a seventh recantation, prints only what the martyr was to have spoken, but basely conceals the fact that he did not speak it. The faith that he was to assert was thus worded for him: First, I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, &c., &c. I believe every article of the catholic faith, every clause, word, and sentence taught by our Saviour Christ, and his apostles and prophets, in the new and old Testament, and all articles explicate and set forth in general councils. And now I come to the great thing that so much troubleth my conscience, more than any other thing that ever I did; that is, setting abroad untrue books and writings, contrary to the truth of God’s word, which now I renounce and condemn, and refuse them utterly as erroneous and for none of mine. But you must know also what books they were, that you may beware of them; or else my conscience is not discharged. For they be the books which I wrote against the sacrament of the altar since the death of king Henry the Eighth. But whatsoever I wrote then, now is time and place to say truth. Wherefore, renouncing all those books, and whatsoever is in them contained, I say and believe, that our Saviour Christ Jesus is really and substantially contained in the blessed sacrament of the altar under the forms of bread and wine.’
“So ends the tract, affirmed in the title page to have been seen and examined by Boner.” Upon him, therefore, rests the responsibility of the compilation, even if by any other hand than his own it had been compiled; upon him the shame also,
[7 Foxe calls it a paper with articles, which 1829.) But the most curious, and I believe hitherto]
[Cranmer should openly profess in his recantation unnoticed, mention in regard to this fifth recanta-]
[before the people, earnestly desiring him that he tion, and what was selected from it for Cranmer to]
[would write the said instrument (with the articles) avow before the people at his execution, occurs in]
[with his own hand, and sign it with his name: the continuation of the Chronicles of Fabian,”]
[which when he had done, the said friar desired Lond. 1559. Vol. II. p. 564. “In this year (1556)]
[that he would write another copy thereof, which in Lent, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishoppe of Can-]
[should remain with him, and that he did also.” terbury, after that he had recanted his supposed]
[(Vid. Foxe’s Acts and Monuments, p. 1885. Ed. recantation, was brent at Oxford.” Note, Todd’s]
[Lond. 1583.) Hence the interpretation of Burnet: Life of Abp. Cranmer, Vol. II. p. 486.]
[he was (now) dealt with to renew his subscription 5 Colliers Eccl. Hist. Vol. VI. p. 139. Ed.]
[and to write the whole over again.” (Burnet’s Lond. 1840, 1.]
[Hist. of Reformat. Vol. II. p. 670. Ed. Oxon.]
which, if not to other parts of it, at least to the conclusion, belongs, where what the sufferer really spoke is concealed, but what was prepared for him to have spoken is related, and by many of the compilers party was afterwards reported, as if indeed he did speak it.”—Id. Vol. IT. pp. 484—489. Vide also Todd’s Vindication of Archbishop Cranmer, pp. 116 et sqq. 2nd Ed. Lond. 1826. Soames’ Hist. of Reformat. Vol. IV. pp. 515, et sqq., who enters largely into an examination of this portion of the archbishop’s history. Wordsworth’s Eccl. Biog. Vol. IV. pp. 258—260. Ed. Lond. 1839. Original Letters relative to the English Reformation, Letter XC. p. 173, n. 1, Park. Soc. Ed. 1846.]
Index
A Becket, St Thomas, the imposture of his blood, Apostles, things alleged to be spoken by them, withat Canterbury, 378. See Becket. out writing, not to be believed, 52; did not, at Abergavenny, Lord, See Burgavenny. first, understand many things spoken to them by Administration under a will, 275; at Calais, 320, Christ, 54; Cranmer wishes the bishops to take Africans, sayings and fame of, 47, 8. the title of, 305. Agatha, St, her letters, 148. Aquinas, Thomas, says, that to try out the truth by A Lasco, John, a Polish reformer, Cranmer’s letter the scriptures requires long study and exercise, 35; inviting him over to give his advice in the refor- his words upon justification, 204 bis, 208, 9, 10, 11. mation of religion, 420, 1, 2, 5. Arches, Court of, Statute for regulating the number Aldington, the parson of, an abettor of the maid of of proctors in, 491. Kent, 272; a manor of Cranmer’s, 325. Articles of Religion, the Six, Cranmer’s opposition All-hallows’ day at night, ringing bells upon, to them, ix; he succeeds in procuring their mitiabolition of, 414, 15. gation, ibid.; obtains their repeal, on the accesAll Souls, Oxford, Cranmer’s letter to the Warden sion of Edward VI., x, 16, 168; inconsistent of, 279. with the decrees of General Councils, 16; fortyAltars, letter to bishop Ridley, to take down and two, of 1552, sent to be examined by Cecil, xiii, place communion tables instead of, 524; reasons 439; to the lords of the council, 440; mandates against the use of, ibid. for subscription to, 532. Alypius et Augustinus, de justificatione, 203. Artizans, private holydays kept by, 503. Ambrose, St, says that it is to be judged abominable Arundel, forest of, composition for game in, to the to preach any thing that Christ has not taught, 28; see of Canterbury, 255. that the word of God is the meat of our souls, ibid.; Arundel, Humphrey,leaderof the Devonshire rebels, that nothing is to be added to the word of God, 186 n.; 187 n. even for a good purpose, ibid.; that even the Arundel, Lord, Cranmer’s letter to, 255. apostles preaching beside the Gospel are not to be Ashes, holy, demanded by the people, 176; use of heard, 29; calls the washing of the disciples feet abolished, 417. a sacrament, 79; says that he that believes in Asten, Herts, manor and church, pertaining to the Christ shall be saved without works, 130; his monks of Reading, 275. words upon justification, 204, 5, 6, 10, 11; says Athanasius, banished at the instigation of priests, that marriage with a niece is forbidden because 12; says that the holy scriptures are sufficient to that with a nephew is, 329; that polygamy was all instruction of the truth, 24; tells of the pride without sin under the old law, and yet is now con- and ambition that reigned in the councils of the trary both to law and morals, 405. clergy in his days, 53; answer to what he says Anabaptists, argument upon, 59, 60. about the authority of what St Paul delivered by Angels, oracles of, nothing touching religion can be word of mouth, 57. proved by them, 40; visions of, cannot establish Atkynson, sentenced to do penance at St Paul’s for anything in religion, 64. his errors about the Sacrament, 372. Anne of Cleves, presents to her, and her reception at Augustine, St, says, that dark places in scripture are Canterbury and elsewhere, 400. tobe expounded by those that are more plain, 17, Anoiling of sick persons enjoined, ( Institu- 32; that in the scriptures are found all things tion”) 99; to be deemed a sacrament, ibid.; the that concern faith, good living, and charity; and king a perfect monarch without anointing, 126; that if anything caunot be tried by theclear places the chief bishop the proper person to anoint the of scripture, man’s presumption is to stay itself king, but any other may, ibid. therein, ibid., 31; that we are bound to believe Anointing, See 4noiling. what the apostles wrote because Christ commanded Anselm says that God’s law forbids to follow the them what to write, 29; that what is to be retainsteps of the catholic or universal faith, any farther ed and what is to be shunned are to be found in than the judgment of the canonical truth com- scripture, ibid.; that the canonical scriptures only mands, 35; quoted upon justification, 209. are to be assented to, ibid.; that not every thing Antididagma, the, quoted upon justification, 210, of Christ was written, but all that seemed suffiand Addenda. cient for the salvation of the believers, 30; that Antiquity, not a test of the truth of religion, 62. what Faustus says upon the birth of Mary is not Antony, Robert, cellerar of Christchurch, Canter- to be held binding, because it is not canonical, bury, his journey to Rome, 373, 5. 30; that the balance to try the truth is the holy Apelles taught that the angels had a bodily sub- scripture, 30; that they that sit upon the chair of stance which they took of the stars, 29.” Moses, and teach their own doctrine, are not to be Apparel, ecclesiastical, controversy about, 428, 31. believed, ibid.; that all knowledge gathered out Apparitions of the dead, unsufficient to prove truth, of the books of Gentiles is little when compared 43; cannot establish new articles of faith, 64. to the knowledge of God’s scriptures, which conA pocrypha (books of the) how to be used, 23; some tain things that can be learned no where else, of them made canonical by the third Council of ibid.; that we may lawfully dissent from all docCarthage, 39. trines but those of scripture, ibid.; that in the
canonical books of scripture are contained all Bacon, Nicholas, afterwards lord keeper, recomthings that concern faith, manner of living, hope, mended by Cranmer to Crumwell for town-clerk and love, ibid.; that we should not hear, I say;” of Calais, 384. but, Thus saith the Lord,” 31; that the canoni- Balthasor, surgeon to Henry VIII., Cranmer’s cal books of the old and new Testament may not letter to him, 248. be doubted; but that the writings of later bishops Banns-asking, on a marriage, dispensed with, 260. may be reproved by the graver authority of other Baptism, abstaining from washing infants for a bishops or learned men, ibid.; that the scriptures week after, 56; pap of milk and honey after, would be plain upon every point that a man could ibid.; to be performed only at Easter and Whitnot be ignorant of without danger to his salvation, suntide, ibid., n.; other traditions relating thereto, ibid.; exhorts to feed on the Hill of the scriptures, ibid.; good in various forms, 58; one dipping only ibid.; says, that, the dark speeches of scripture decreed by the Council of Tollet, ibid.; of infants, are to be examined by the light of the clear places, argument upon its not being in the scriptures, 60; ibid., 32; that the holy scriptures may not be so proved by the old law of circumcision, ibid.; as freely canvassed as the writings that came after in the Institution of a Christian Man,” 95; them, ibid.; that there is a difference to be made most convenient on holy days, for the sake of between the writings of the bishops, or fathers, publicity, 175; only administered at Easter and and the canonical scriptures, ibid., 33; that if Whitsuntide in old times, ibid.; how ordained by anything apparently contrary to truth is found in Christ, 176; water of, called the water of regenethe canonical writings, it is to be attributed to an ration, ibid.; what it declares to us, ibid. error in the copy or to its being misunderstood, Barber, Dr, Cranmer’s official of his court of Can-ibid.; did not account Cyprian’s writings as ca- terbury, treacherous to him, 360, n.; to be sent to nonical; but weighed them by the scriptures, 33; Canterbury to examine into the imposture of St confesses that many things may be reproved in his Thomas’ blood, 378; letter in his behalf to Crum-own writings, and says that they are not to be re- well, 386. lied on like the scriptures, ibid.; says, that we Barnack, Northamptonshire, letter of Cranmer for should seek no farther than is written of God our the advowson of, 239, 269, n. Saviour, lest a man would know more than the Barton, Eliz. (the maid of Kent), account of her scriptures witness, ibid.; that former councils impostures, 65, 271, 2, n.; letter of Cranmer to ought to be reformed by later ones, if they err, bring her before him, 252; consulted about the 36; that weare not bound by the Council of Nice king’s marriage and impedes its progress, 273; any more than that of Arimine, ibid.; that the spirit confesses her impostures, 274. raised by the witch of Endor was not the soul of Baschirche, Mr, 255; sir Thomas, his insane proSamuel, but the devil in his likeness, 45; that we ceedings, 319. should beware of false miracles, 46; that false Basilides and Photinus, their heresy, 217. miracles shall attend the presence of Antichrist, Basilius says, that every word and deed that makes ibid.; that the true church ought to be shewn by for the certainty and surety of good men, must be things appointed in the law, and not by sayings confirmed by the scriptures, 24; teaches that a or visions that any man may understand as he lists, man may not do what he thinks good, without the 47, 485 that custom is to give place to truth, 51; testimony of the holy scriptures, ibid.; answer to that what is universally observed, but not writ- what he says about traditions and the customs of ten in the scriptures, nor coming from general the church, 58; his words on justification by faith councils, is tradition from the apostles, 56 n.; alone, 130; his words upon justification, 205. answer to what he says about the authority of tra- Beads, order for bidding of, and preaching, in all ditions, 58; about the proof of a doctrine by use sermons, 460. and custom, 59; about the authority of thechurch, Becket, Thomas à, his name and service to be obibid.; about the ordinances of elders, ibid.; made literated from church-books, 157. great difference between the holy scriptures and Beda says, that if any man speak, he is to speak the other writings, 77; declares it to be wickedness will of God, lest he say any thing besides that to put an image of God in a church, 101; says which is commanded, 35; quoted upon justificathat the precept of the Sabbath pertained only to tion, 208. the Jews, but that the other commandments were Bedyll, Thomas, clerk of the council, 242 zn, 4 n., general to all mankind, 102; that we should think 601, 71, 2. any adversity that comes to be of God’s sending, Bekisbourne,belongingto Christ Church, exchanged, 107; that good living cannot be separated from true 458. faith, 137; that we must set no good works before Bell, Dr, two letters from Cranmer to him, 254. faith, 141; that there is no light in good works Bell-ringing on All-hallows’ day at night abolished, not done with a godly intent and true faith, 142; 414, 15; the same, in church-service, 502. that that work which comes not of faith isnaught, Benefices, mandate for a return of, 489. ibid.; that all the life of them that lack the true Benet, Dr, patron of Barnack, Northampton, 239; faith is sin, ibid.; that Jews, heretics, and pagans, prebendary of Southwell, and ambassador at lose the fruit of good works, because they are not Rome, 261, 275, 290. done in the true faith, ibid.; his words on justifi- Benger, Dr, depositions against him for speaking cation, 203, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 bis, 211 bis; says that for the pope, 300, 1. concubinage is now contrary both to law and Bernard, St, his verses, 148. morality, though without sin under the old law, Bernardus, his words upon justification, 206, 10. 405. Berthelet or Barthelet, Thomas, Cranmer’ssecretary, Authority, the possession of, shews what a man is, 270, 300. 195. Bible, enjoined to be used in English as well as in A xholme, the prior of, 299; condemned for treason, Latin, viii, 81, 155, 161; one chapter of it to be 303; the lands of, 337; Cranmer purposes to get studied and compared in the two languages, every him to resign his priory, 363. day, 81; laymen to be encouraged to study it,
ibid.; Tyndale’s, sanctioned by Henry VIIL, viii, ecuted as one of the Devonshire rebels, by sir 345, 6; abuse of the injunctions for reading it, Anthony Kingston, 186 nat Calais, 391; Henry VIIL’s vacillating conduct Bread, in the Lord’s Prayer, the word of God, (^ In-respecting, ix; the declaration to be read by stitution’), 109. curates upon the publishing of it in English, Brenchley, friar, his preaching against the Reforma- 391 n.; price fixed for Cranmer’s bibles, and pro- tion, 302. posed exclusive privilege for printing them, 395, Brokes, bishop of Gloucester, the pope’s sub-de- 6. See Scriptures. legate, sits in examination upon Cranmer, 212, Bigamy, to be inquired into, 157. 446n.,7; Ant. Wood’s account of him, 214a.; Bingham, Henry, a kinsman of Cranmer’, 265. asserts that Cranmer made him forsake the pope, Bishops, their agreement about doctrines proves 214; rebukes Cranmer for examining his exnothing, 48; not to meddle with worldly things, aminers, 215; causes Cranmer to be cited at 56; bolsterers of idolatry, 65; may alonebe;udges ^ Oxford, 225. of the clergy, 72; to be judged of no laymen, 73; Brooke, Thomas, accused of heresy, 392. ought not to be set beneath kings and princes, Bruno says that the scriptures are sufficient for ibid.; though they have the power of excommu- matters of instruction and salvation, 34; his words nication, yet they are not bound to use it, 97; upon justification, 206, bis. have the jurisdiction of ordaining holy days, rites Bucer, Martin, invited over by Cranmer to confer and ceremonies, &c., 98; are not to prescribe any upon uniformity of faith, 421 n., 3; paid a salary thing prejudicial to their flocks, ibid.; are to be from England, 427, 34; Cranmer’s letter to his overlooked by Christian kings and princes, 98; widow, 434, 5. questions and answers concerning theappointment Bucker, George. See Damplippe. and power of bishops and priests, 115; bishops Buckingham college (now Magdalene), Cranmer a and clergy are ministers of God under the king reader at, vii. and appointed by him, 116; solemnities in their Bull, the pope’s, on Maunday Thursday, 74; eleven appointment not necessary, ibid.; no promise of bulls for Cranmer’s promotion, 237 n. God that grace is given by their appointment, Bullinger, Henry, Cranmer’s letter to him on formibid.; bishops and priests were one in the begin- ing a protestant synod, 430, 3. ning of Christianity, 117; were elected by the Burckhardt, vice-chancellor to the elector of Saxony, people before there were any Christian princes, solicits Cranmer in favour of one sentenced to do ibid.; need no consecration by the scripture, ibid.; penance for an error on the sacrament, 371; one article on the order and ministry of, 484; enjoined of the envoys from Germany, 377 n. to preach personally once a quarter, at the least, Burgavenny (Abergavenny), lord of, and the holy 500. See Clergy. maid of Lymster, 64; Cranmer’s letter to, 253, 70; Bishops’ Book, the, 83 n. commissioner for the king’s subsidy, 301; his paBoar of Rome and bulls of Basan tear up God’s tronage in the see of Canterbury, 387, 9. vineyard, 9; compel men to worship images, 10. Butler, John, Cranmer’s commissary at Calais, 277, Board, the Lord’s, reasons why it should have the 348; his letter to Cranmer on the religious disform of a table rather than of an altar, 524. putes there, 373; sent to the Fleet, 391 n. Bocher, Joan, burnt for heresy, x. n. Butts, Dr, physician to Henry VILI, 293. Bokkynge, Dr, his novices, and the nun of StSepul- chre’s, 271, 2n., 5n. Calais, jurisdiction of the see of Canterbury there, Boleyn, Anne, the succession of her children op- 975 7, 345 48, 9; the religious blindness and posed by sir Thomas More, and Fisher, bishop of ignorance of the people there, 310; purchasing of Rochester,viii; Cranmer’s judgment confirming her wine there for Cranmer, 316, 18, 411; jurisdiction marriage, 244 n.; ceremonies at her coronation, on wills there, 320; a seditious book published 245; pregnant at her coronation, 246; Cranmer’s there, 334; removal of images there, 372; perseletter to the king on the reports against her con- cutions there, ibid., 373, 5, 6; the prior of, in duct, 323. Cranmer’s custody, 377; Crumwell sends for the Bond given to secure spiritual promotion, 266. examinations, &c. relating to this town, 395; the Boner, Edmund, bishop, his tergiversation, 17 n.; governor has the Common Prayer translated into a paper written by him, 152 n.; Cranmer’s letter French, 439. to, on his appeal against the pope, 268; to give Calvin, invited to a conference for establishing uniadmonition for abolishing candle-bearing, ashes, formity of faith, by Cranmer, 431, 3; his answer and palms, 417; sanctions the publication of the to this invitation, 432 n. pretended recantations of Cranmer, 563; quota- Candace, her eunuch, and reading the scriptures, 121. tion from his register on this subject, 567.! Candlemas-day, bearing candles upon, abolished, Boniface VIIL., his decree against the adversaries 417. of any religious man of the pope’s family, 71 Canon law, Romish tenets extracted from, 68; act Booth, Charles, bishop of Hereford, Cranmer’s ad- — for revising, 68 n; contains many truths purposely morrition to him about a dispute between a cler- misplaced by the court of Rome, 76. gyman and the receiver of the see, 263. Canon Row, Westminster, Cranmer’sresidence when Boston, last abbot of Westminster, Cranmer’s letter archbishop elect, 237. to him, 240, 251; his pliability, 240 n. Canonical books of the bible to be believed, but Bouchier, Henry, earl of Essex, his letter to Cran- nothing not agreeable with them, 18, 19, 21, 23; mer, as to his dispossessing Richard Stansby of to be preferred above all other writings, 30, 31; his lands, 266; Cranmer’s reply, recommending a a difference to be made between them and the reference to arbitration, ibid.; Henry VIIIL.s pe- writings of the bishops or fathers of the church, remptory order to him to restore the lands, 267 »., 32; alone to be used by laymen in church, 39. Boughton under the Blayne, farmed of the convent Canons of the apostles and councils not kept or of Feversham, 374, 400. used, 37. Bray, Henry, mayor of Bodmyn, treacherously ex- Canterbury, bishops of, in crowning the king, had
no power to reject, or impose conditions on him, demption, 129; oblation and sacrifice of, why so 126; Gray Friars there, suppressed, 330. called, 150; his presence in the sacrament, spiriCanterbury tales, 198. tual, 176 n. Capito, Wolfgang, sends a treatise to Henry VIII. Christ’s church, Canterbury, trepidation of the prior 340, 1. and convent of, through the nun of St Sepulchre’s, Cardinals, boys raised to this dignity, 39; have they offer the king money, 271; its cellerar, the always been pernicious to England, 184; cardinal weightiness of his office, 312; dispute about the of the pit, 225. office of their physician, 357; proceedings of the Catherine, queen, Cranmer’s letter declaring her subcellerar, Antony, 373, 5; new establishment contumacious, 241, 5; his fears lest she should of, 398; alienation of the lands of the cathedral, appear at her sentence, 242; his sentence of di- 416; prebendaries may change their lands for life, vorce against her, 243 »; his account of his pro- 417; Cranmer solicits their messuage of Bekis-ceedings against her, 244. bourne, in exchange, 458. Cato, his lending his wife to Hortensius, cited, 406. Christianity, complaints of the heathens of the disCavalier, Rafe, account of him, 436. quiet introduced by, 198. Cecil, secretary, Cranmer’s letter to him in behalf of Christmas game, the reformed service compared to bishop Coverdale, 429; for an imprimatur for his one, by the Devon rebels, 179; the popish service answer to Gardiner, ibid.; detailing the poverty more like one, 180; the tales of the monks likened of himself and other prelates, &c., 437; with names to Christmas games, 180, 181. of persons likely to accept the see of Armagh, Chrysostom, St, exiled by priests who seduced the and details of his illness, 438; on the peace with empress Eudoxia thereto, 12; says, that he who the emperor, and on the printing the Common applies with fervent desire to the scriptures, Prayer in French, ibid.; on Turner’s taking the cannot be neglected of God, 17; that we must ask see of Armagh, and on an examination of the the ancient writers, and divers priests, if we would articles of religion, 439; on the delay of the com- know the truth of scripture, ibid.; that all things mission on chauntry plate, &c., 440; on his dis- are plain and manifest iu the divine scriptures, 18; pute with the lord warden, 441; on the indictment tells us to resort to the scriptures when we see of sir John Cheke, ibid.; is brought before queen heresy in the church, 24; says, that every preacher Mary’s council, 4427.; his letter for Cranmer’s is a servant of the law, and must neither take common-place book, 459. away from, nor add to it, 25, 27; tells us not to Celibacy of the clergy, Cranmer’s efforts to abolish believe him that says he has the Holy Ghost, but it opposed, viii; abrogated, x. speaks not from the gospel, ibid.; says, that he Ceremonies may be altered or abolished, 54; abuse is a true christian whose confession agrees with of, 158; query whether the popish priests encourage the scriptures, 26; that we ought to confute false superstitious ceremonies for fear of losing the offer- interpreters and instruct them that search for ings, 465; not to be omitted unless forbidden, knowledge, ibid.; that to teach anything beside the 508. doctrine and learning of the apostles is to bring in Chalcedon, canons of the council of, 465. dissensions and slanders, 26; that all things may Champion, one of Cranmer’s chaplains and confi- be determined by the scriptures, ibid.; that whatdential medium between him and Crumwell, 304, ever is required for our salvation is contained in 17, 21; Cranmer’s letter to Crumwell in his behalf, the scriptures, ibid.; that the apostles did not write for the living of one Crofts, likely to be attainted, all things because of their multitude, and because 385. he that believed what they did write needed to Charles V., the emperor, Cranmer sent ambassador believe no more, 27; that the scripture expounds to him, x; his proceedings, 231, 2; devastations itself, ibid.; that not man’s wisdom but the committed by his army, 233. Holy Ghost is the true expositor of the scripCharmers and sorcerers, 44. ture, ibid; that the scriptures are of more force Chastity of the religious orders, 147. than the revelations of ghosts and apparitions Chauntries, embezzlement of the property of, 440. of the dead, 43; asks how dead men’s souls can Cheke, sir John, secretary to Cecil, 429, 38, 9, 40; work with sorcerers and charmers, 44; says, that indicted and sent to the Tower, 441. in past times it was known which were true and Cheving, or Chevening, benefice of, in exchange for which false Christians by miracles, 46; that we that of Curremalet, 255, 7; Cranmer’s letter to the are not to use false worship though it be supported parson of, complaining of his asking too much for by miracles, ibid.; that the faithful need no mithe farm of the benefice, 260; the parson required racles, ibid.; that Christ promised not to reward to reform a bad husband, 278. miracle-workers, but those that keep his commandChildericus deposed by the pope and his churchmen, ments, 49; that good counsel is to be followed 12. though it be contrary to custom, 51; answer to Children made cardinals, archdeacons, and deans, 39. what he says about traditions, 57; his injunctions Chrisma, this sign not mentioned in scripture, 80, for reading the scriptures, 119; says, that faith is 116. full of good works, 137; that many have no fruit Christ, condemned and crucified by the visible of their works because they lack faith, 143; that church, 15; sends his hearers to the scriptures, they that glister in good works, without faith, be and not to the church, 18; left no new things to like dead men with precious tombs, that avail them be taught by his disciples, 54; the things which nothing; but yet faith may not be without works, he did, but which are not written, were miracles, but with, and yet above them, ibid.; that faith not works of faith and charity, ibid.; named no without works saved the thief on the cross; but head to govern the church, 76; refuses those who that if he had lived, and not regarded faith and its have faith and love only in their mouths, 85; his works, he would have again lost his redemption, victory over death, 92; made satisfaction for all ibid.; that works by themselves never justified our sins, 93; never gave St Peter authority to any man, ibid.; his words upon justification, 206, depose princes, 98; the ransom paid for our re- bis, 207.
Church, two sorts of, the perfect and holy, and false more to be had in reverence than baptism, ibid.; and ungodly, 11; we should never be certain of no man a Christian without it, ibid.; queries conour faith, if it rested upon the outward and glister- cerning, with Cranmer’s answers, 80; no scriping church, ibid.; the outward and visible has ture declares this sacrament to be instituted of never continued the same a long time, ibid.; its Christ, ibid,; its efficacy, ibid.; with chrism, not practices, 12; if we allow the outward and visible in scripture. to be true, we make Christ the head of ungodly Consecration, in a place not hallowed, 74; of members, 13; what it has been in all ages, 15; a bishop or priest not required by scripture, declared it heresy, by a general council, to call 11. Christ the Son of God, ibid.; the papists say Constantine I., the true religion first set forth and dark passages in scripture are to be settled by the publicly preached when he was christened, yet the church, which cannot err, 17; was represented by church of God existed before, though not visibly, the scribes, priests, and Pharisees, in their time, 15. 18; the true, only to be known by the scriptures, Constantine IV., his eyes put out by his mother, at 25; must stay itself upon the word of God, 52; the instigation of the pope, 12. Christ will not remain with it unless it preach his Constantinus, the son of Constantine, decreed that gospel only, 54; is but as a public office for re- Christ was not God, but man only, 15. cords, &c., 59; its goods not to be alienated nor QCorell’s wood, 261. its lands sold, 73; except chargeable houses in Cornish-men, reject the reformed service because cities, ibid.; origin of the christian church, 514; they do not understand English, 179, 183. individual teachers set themselves up for the whole Cortbeke, or Corbet, Henry ad, a Dutch priest, rechurch, 515. commended to Crumwell, 386; kept by Cranmer, Church militant, 94. 395. Church service, leaving without cause, 158. Coronation oath, ancient, did not permit the resigCimmerian darkness pleasant to some, 118. nation of the crown to the pope or his legates, 126; Clement VII, pope, his finesse about the king’s end and utility of, ibid.; is proper to be performed marriage, 461, 2. by the chief bishop, ibid.; anointing only a cereClergy, according to the canon law, ought to give mony that might be omitted, ibid. no oath of fidelity to their temporal governors, Cost of church-books to be divided between the parexcept for temporalities, 73; all causes, spiritual son and the parishioners, equally, 499. or temporal, ought to be determined and judged Cotes, Geo., 382. by them, ibid.; no judge ought to refuse thetesti- Council of Carthage (the third), papists cling to it mony of a bishop, although alone, ibid.; no pro- tooth and nail, to support purgatory and other mise of God that grace is given with the eccle- errors, 39. siastical office, 116; how they were appointed in Council of Constance, unjustly condemned John the apostles’ time, ibid.; their jurisdiction accord- Hus and Hierome of Prague, 37; also coning to the Romish decretals, 166; to be put out of demned of heresy the article, that the two natures the church for not communicating, when present, of Christ were one Christ, ibid. 171; not to resort to taverns nor ale-houses, 500. Council, Elebertine, ordained that no images should See Bishops. be used in churches, 179. Cleves, Anne of, attempt to reconcile the king to, Council of Nice, kept by the authority of Constan- 409, 10. See Anne of Cleves. tine, 15; the common creed set forth there, CIyff, Dr, withholds the records of the see of Ely, ibid. 204. Councils, general, have erred in matters not trifling, Cobham, Lord, governor of Calais, 330, 5; Cran- 11, 37, 39; one has condemned another of heresy, mer’s letter to him on a cause there, and to buy 11, 164; without the word of God, are not suffihim wine, 411. cient to make articles of our faith, 36; the chief Cobham college, 411. and oldest like cobwebs to catch small flies only, Cocks, Dr, Cranmer’s chancellor, 283. 39; only maintain such laws as make pro pane Cologne, Herman, bishop of, his letters on religious lucrando, ibid.; many good men may have been in matters, 423, 37; his reformation, xv. them, and yet their decisions may have been erroComets, appearance of in 1531 and 1532, 235. neous, 33; described by Cranmer, 76; their power Commandments, the Ten, as in the Institution,” did not extend to princes, dominions, or secular 100; exposition of, ibid. to 106; ought not to be matters, nor were their decrees laws till enacted altered from the words of scripture, 100; declara- by princes, 77; some have rejected others, ibid.; tion of the fifth commandment ( Institution’), the Paris divines held that they could not make a 103, 104; declaration of the tenth commandment, new article of faith, that wasnot in the scriptures, 105. ibid.; the judgment of the convocation concernCommons, complaints of taking them from the ing, in 1536, 463; the opinions of Cranmer and poor, 195, ibid. n., 196, 197. several others of the clergy touching them, 467; no Communion, holy, to be received by all the people, one prince may by his authority call one, ibid.; 171, 172; all people to be put out of the church not all gathered together in the Holy Ghost, 515; who do not communicate, ibid. laws made by them may be lawfully doubted, Communion tables, to be put up instead of altars, 5106. x, 524; reasons for the use of instead of altars, Counsel, to be asked of men well learned in the ibid. scriptures, 18. Concubinage, Cranmer’s letter to Osiander against, Courtop-street (Kent), our lady of, 272; see Eliz. 404. Barton. Confession, secret, what is to be taught in it, 81; Coverdale, bishop, Cranmer’s letter to Cecil in his auricular, expedient, 95; no man bound to confess behalf, 429.