1547. 1°. April. Deposui decanat. de Stoke ex vi statuti BOOK Parliam. 1548. 7. Februar. Secundò electus ad officium Vice-Can cell. Cantabrig. 1550. 1°. Octobr. Resignavi rectoriam de Birlingham Sti. 1552. 9. Julii. Installatus in præbendam prædictam. 1552. 30. Julii. Electus in decanatum Lincoln. 1552. 7. Octobr. Installatus in decanatum, in propriâ personâ. 1553. -Decembr. Resignavi officium Magistrat. C. C. C. Laurentio Moptye, quem ipse necessitate quadam 1554. 2. April. Privatus præbendâ meâ in Ecclesiâ Eliensi; 1554. 21. Maii. Spoliatus fui decanatu meo de Lincoln. Sic eodem die, præbendâ meâ de Coringham in eâd. Ecclesiâ. Ad quam præsentatus fuit Mr. Georgius Perpoint, vi advocationis ejusdem, inconcessæ per Episc. Lincoln. J. Tailor. Decanatus conferebatur Francisco Malet, D. Theolog. per Mariam Reginam. Postea privatus vixi, ita coram Deo lætus in consci entiâ meâ; adeoque nec pudefactus, nec dejectus; I. BOOK I. Anno dicissimam uxorem meam, cum duobus charissimis filiolis meis, commendo. Eundemque Deum optimum maximum precor, ut ita in posterum infractis animis portemus probrum Christi, quo semper meminerimus hîc non esse nobis civitatem manentem, sed inquiramus futuram, gratia et misericordia Domini mei Jesu Christi, cui cum Patre et Spiritu Sancto sit omnis honor et imperium. Amen. 26. Octobr. ann. Dni. 1554. Et adhuc [die] hoc 6. Augusti ann. Dom. 1557. [1555.] persto eâdem constantiâ, suffultus gratiâ et benignitate Domini mei, et Servatoris Jesu Christi. Quo inspirante absolvi Psalterium versu metricè linguâ vulgari; et scripsi defensionem conjugii Sacerdotum contra Thomam Martin, 3. Febr. ann. Dni. 1555. Hactenus coram Deo ita lætus, sorte meâ contentus vixi, ut nec superioribus inviderim, nec inferiores despexerim : huc omnes conatus meos dirigens, ut Deo servirem in purâ conscientiâ, ut nec major me despiceret, nec timeret minor. 14 Octobr. ann. Dni. 1556. Et adhuc lætus, sorte meâ contentus, testimonio conscientiæ meæ in Domino confisus, et fretus verbo ejus vivo; expectans redemptionem corporis mei per Christum Servatorem meum. [ann. Dni. 1557.] Conciones [habui] 1534. Coram Episcopo Eliensi in suâ visitatione Balsamiæ. 1539. Coram Edwardo Principe. 1540. Coram Dominâ Elizabethâ apud Hatefeld. 1548. Coram Edwardo Rege in aulâ Westmonast. in Qua- BOOK dragesima, dominica tertia. De Evangelio. 1551. Coram illustr. Rege Edwardo in Quadragesimâ, scil. alternis diebus Mercurii, viz. 9. et 23. diebus Martii; collegâ meo Magistro Harlæo Episcopo Herfordiæ. 1559. Coram Dominâ Elizabethâ Reginâ, bis in Quadra gesimâ. 1559. 17. Decembr. ann. 1559. Consecratus sum in Archi- Heu! Heu! Domine Deus, in quæ tempora servasti O Domine, vim patior, responde pro me, et Spiritu [Nuptiæ et progenies.] 1547. 24. Junii. Conjugatus sum cum Margaretâ filiâ 23. Junii. Quo anno dies corporis Christi fuit in 1548. Ex quâ suscepi filium Johannem anno Dom. 1548, 16 1550. Anno Dom. 1550. 27. Augusti, litera dominicali L. Matthæum. Qui è vitâ decessit 8. Januarii 1551. Anno Dom. 1551. 1. Septembr. inter horam secun- I. BOOK I. Anno 1556. Anno Dom. 1556. 12. Septembr. inter 7. et 8. pomeridian. suscepi quartum filium, Josephum. Et decessit eod. anno. 1570. Hæc Margareta uxor mihi charissima et castissima, mecum vixit annos plus minus 26. Et obiit Christianissime 17. Augusti, anno 1570. circa undecimam ante meridiem, et sepulta est in sacello Ducis Norfolciæ apud [Lambhith.] MSS. C. C. Synodal. Number X. Parker and other Bishops elect, their private address to the Queen against the exchange of Bishops' lands; and for other reasonable favours. "MOST humbly sheweth your excellent Majesty, your "lowly orators, and loving subjects, we underwritten: that "like as your most noble father of immortal memory, King Henry VIII. and your most godly and noble "brother King Edward VI. in their princely zele which 66 66 they bare to the estate of Christ's faith, did much tender "the advancement of learning, by cherishing of students, "and encouraging of Ministers; whereby they were the more able to do their duty to God, and to serve the "necessity of the realm; by which their royal and princely 66 affection, they purchased perpetual fame and praise, as “wel within their own realms, as throughout al Christen"dom: so we trust undoubtedly that your Grace, being "endowed with the benefits of knowledg far above any of "your noble progenitors, wil be enclined no less to the "maintenance of learning, for the setting forth of Christ's "true religion, now, for want of sufficient Ministers, in great jeopardy of decay. In respect wherof, we trust, "that your Highnes gracious disposition wil yet stay and "remit this present alteration and exchange, as we suppose ❝ in our consciences (under reformation of your great wis"dom) not meet to proceede for the inconveniencies therof, "now partly perceived like to ensue; and upon such good 66 66 I. "grounds and reasons as we could particularly describe in BOOK writing, if your Highnes plesure were to admit us to the "declaration of the same. 66 66 "And yet, lest we should appear not to consider your Highnes's manifold and great charges dayly sustained in "most honorable wise; we five underwritten, for us, the province of Canterbury, do offer to give unto the same yearly among us one annual pension of one thousand "marks, during our lives and continuance in the bishoprics, “for and in consideration of the exoneration of the said "exchange. 66 66 66 "Howbeit, most gracious Soveraign, as most obedient subjects, in true and lowly allegiance of our hearts, we sue and pray, that if this our said supplication shal not be "thought meet to take place, that yet your Highnes would "condescend favourably to peruse these our petitions follow"ing, which we be perswaded to be grounded upon natural "equity, godly conscience, and good conformity, for most 66 part of them, to the act passed. 66 "I. That the vicarages of impropriated benefices, ap-17 pointed in exchange, may be made just livings for the "incumbents of the same. And that the chancels and "mansion houses decayed, might be considered by survey "to some reasonable proportion of allowance in the ex❝change. "II. Item, That yearly pensions payable may be reprized "out of the parsonages set over in exchange; and that "yearly distributions with the charges of church books, &c. "may be allowed, such as the Injunctions bind the Rec"tors withal. “III. Item, That where the manred with the manors " is withdrawn from us, that we be not hereafter importably "charged with the setting forth of men to war. "IV. Item, That perquisites of courts and wood-sales, "and other such casual profits may be parcels of the extent "of the manors; and that consideration may be had for the "equivalent recompence of the same: and that allowance may be made of procurations and Synods, [Synodals,] 'payable at the visitation of parsonages impropriate; and 66 66 |