MarginaliaAnno 1556. Ianuary.to Religion. MarginaliaCertayne of the Vniuersity amerced & punished.After this they bestowed a few dayes in punishing and amercyng such as they thought had deserued it. Some they suspended from geuyng voyces eyther to their owne preferment, or to the preferment of any other. Some they forbade to haue the charge of pupils, least they should infect the tender youth (being pliable to take what print soeuer should be layd vpon them) with corrupt doctrine and heresie, others they chastised wrongfully without any desert, and many a one they punished, contrary to all right and reason.

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Last of all they set forth certayne statutes, by þ^e which they would haue the vniuersitie hereafter ordered. Wherin they enacted many thynges MarginaliaThs decrees of the Inquisitors.as concernyng the election of their Officers of the Vniuersitie, of keepyng and administryng the goods of the Vniuersitie, and of many other thyngs. But especially they handled the matter very circumspectly for religion. In the which they were so scrupulous, that they replenished all thyngs, eyther with opē blasphemy, or with ridiculous superstition. For they prescribed at how many Masses euery man should be day by day, and how many Pater nosters and Auies euery manne should say when he should enter into the Church, and in his entrance, after what sort he should bow hymself to the aultar, and how to the maister of the house, what he shuld do there, and how long he should tary, how many, & what praiers he should say, what, and how he should sing, what meditations other shoulde vse while the Priest is in hys Memento, mumbling secretly to himselfe, what time of the Masse a man should stand, and when he should sit down, when he should make curtesie, when exclusiuely, when inclusiuely, and many other superstitious toyes they decreed that it was a sport then to behold their superstitions, and were tedious now to recite them.

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Moreouer, these maisters of good order, for fashions sake, ordained that euery man should put on a surples, not torne nor worne, but cleane, forbiddyng them in any wyse to wipe their noses thereon.

These thyngs thus set at a stay, when the Commissioners were now ready to goe their wayes, the Vniuersitie for so great benefits (which she should not suffer to fal out of remembraunce many yeares after) couetyng to shewe some token of curtesie towardes them agayne,  

dignified  MarginaliaOrmanet & Cole proceeded Doctours.Ormanet and Cole with the degree of Doctorship for all the residue, sauyng Christopherson, who now, by reason he was elected Bishop, preuentyng that degree, had receyued that order before. Thus at length were sent away these peacemakers that came to pacifie strifes and quarels, who through prouokyng euery mā to accuse one another left such gaps and breaches in mens harts at their departure, that to this day they could neuer be closed nor ioyned together agayne.

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MarginaliaThe departing of the Inquisitors.These Commissioners, before they departed out of the Vniuersitie, gaue commaundement, that the Maisters of euery house should copy out their Statutes, the which beside common Ordinaunces, conteined in them certayne Rules of priuate Order, for euerye House particularly. Swinborne (who as I sayd, was M. of Clarehall) being demaunded whether he would haue those thyngs engrossed in parchment or in paper, aunswered MarginaliaSwinebornes saying as concerning the decrees of the Inquisitors.that it made no matter wherein they were written: For the Papers, or a sleighter thing that were of lesse continuance then Paper, would serue the turne well enough: For he sayd, a slenderer thyng then that, would last a great deale longer then those dercees should stand in force. Neither was the man deceiued in his coniecture: For within two yeares after, God beholdyng vs with mercy, called Queene Mary out of this life, the 17. day of Nouember, an. 1558. After whom her sister ELIZABETH succedyng in þ^e kingdome, raised to life agayne the true religion. Whereupon as the church of Christ began by little & little to florish. So the memory of Bucer and Phagius (although their bones were burnt by Cardinall Poole) was restored agayne by this godlye Queene ELIZABETH, who gaue then in Commission to Math. Parker then Archbishop of Canterbury, and to Edmund Grindall then Bishop of London, to Maister Gualter Haddon and others: For the performaunce of whiche Commission, the sayd Reuerend Bishoppes addressed their Letters to the Vicechancellor, &c.

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MarginaliaThe Oration of Acworth.I Am in doubt whether I may entreate of the prayse and commendation of so great a Clarke (for the celebratyng whereof, this assembly and concourse of yours is made this day) or of the vices and calamities, out of the whiche we bee newly deliuered, or of them both, consideryng the one cannot be mentioned without the other. In the which tymes ye felt so much anguish and sorrow (my right dere brethren) that if I should repeat them and bryng them to remembraunce agayne, I feare me, I should not so much worke a iust hatred in vs towardes them, for the iniuries receyued in them, as renew our olde sorrow and heuines. Agayne, men must needes account me vnaduised and foolish in my doyng, if I should thinke my selfe able to make him which hath lyued before our eyes  

in prayse and estimation, more famous and notable by my Oration, which he by his liuyng and conuersation hath oftentymes polished. But the wickednes of the tymes which endeuoured to wipe cleane out of remembrance of men the name that was so famous and renoumed in euery mans mouth, did much profite hym. In so much, that both in his life tyme all thyng redounded to hys continuall renowme, and in especially,  after hys decease nothing could be deuised more honourable, then w^t so solemn furniture & ceremonies, to haue gone about to haue hurt þ^e memorial of such a worthy man, & yet could not bryng to passe the thyng that was so sore coueted, but rather broght that thing to passe, which was chiefly sought to be auoyded. For the desire that men haue of the dead, hath purchased so many men euerlasting fame, and hath not taken away immortalitie, but rather amplified and increased the same. By meanes whereof it commeth to passe, that he þ^t wil intreat of those things that pertaine to the prayse of Bucer after hys death, can not chuse but speake of the crabbednesse of the tymes past, vpō the which riseth a great encrease and augmentation of his prayse. But his lyfe so excellently set foorth, not onelye by the writyngs of the learned Clarkes, Cheeke and Carre, and by the liuely voyce of the right famous D. Haddon, vttered in this place to the great admiration of all the hearers, when his body should be layd into his graue to bee buried, and after his buriall by the godly and most holye preachings of the right Reuerend father in Christ þ^e Archbishop of Caunterbury that now is, and of D. Redman, the which for the worthinesse and excellencie of thē, ought to stick longer in our mynds vnwrittē, then many things that are penned and put in print, but also by the great assembly of all the degrees of the Vniuersitie the same daye, in bringyng hym to his graue, and the nexte day after by the industry of euery man that was endued w^t any knowledge in the Greeke or Latine tongs: of the which, there was no man but set vp some Verses as witnesses of hys iust and vnfeined sorrow, vpon the wals of the Churche: that neither at that tyme any reuerence or duety which is due to the dead departyng out of this lyfe, was then ouerslipped, or now remayneth vndone that may seeme to pertaine either to the celebratyng of the memoriall of so holy or famous a person, or to the consecrating of hym to euerlastyng memory. We at that tyme saw with our eyes this Vniuersitie flourishyng by his institutions, the loue of sincere religion, not onely engendred, but also confirmed and strenghthened through his continuall and daily preachyng. In so much that at such tyme as hee was sodainly taken from vs, there was scarse any man that for sorrow could find in his hart to beare with the present state of this life, but þ^t either he wished with al his hart to depart out of this lyfe w^t Bucer into another, & by dieng to follow hym into immortality, or els endeuoured hymselfe with weepyng and sighyng to call hym agayne, beyng dispatched of all troubles into the prison of this body, out of þ^e whiche he is escaped, lest he shuld leaue vs as it were standyng in battaile ray without a Captayne, and he hymselfe as one casshed,  depart with hys wages, or as one discharged out of the Campe, withdraw hymselfe to the euerlasting quietnesse and tranquillitie of the soule. Therefore all men euidently declared at that tyme, both how sore they tooke hys death to hart, and also, how hardly they could away with the misture   of such a man. As long as the ardēt loue of his religion (wherewyth we were inflamed) florished, it wrought in our hartes an incredible desire of hys presence among vs. But after the tyme that the godly man ceased to be any more in our sight, and in our eies, that ardent and burnyng loue of religion by little and little waxed cold in our myndes, and according to the times þ^t came after (which were both miserable and to our vtter vndo-

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