Before them al went the Bedels, cryinge to such as they met, that they should bowe them selues humblye before the hoste. If anye refused so to do, they threatned to send him foorth to the Tolbooth. Their God being led wyth this pompe, and pacified with great hostes of Bucer and Phagius, at length setled him self agayne in his accustomed roume. Scotte of Westchester prayed with many wordes, that that daye myght be lucky and fortunate to him selfe, and to all that were present, & that from that day forward (now that Gods wrath was appeased, and al other things set in good order) al men would make them selues conformable to peace and quietnesse, inespecially that appertayned to religion. MarginaliaCertain of thuniuersity amerced & punishedAfter this, they bestowed a few dayes in punishing and amercing such as they thoughte had deserued it. Some they suspended from geuinge voyces eyther to theire owne prefermente, or to the prefermente of any other. Some they forbad to haue the charge of pupilles, leaste they should infect the tender youth (being pliable to take what print soeuer is layd vpon them) with corrupte doctrine and heresy. Others they chastised wrongfully, without any desert and many a one they punished, contrary to al righte and reason. Laste of all they sette fourth certayne statutes, by the which they would haue thuniuersity hereafter ordered. Wherin they enacted many thinges as concerning the election of theyr officers of thuniuersity, of keping & administryng the goods of thuniuersity, & of many other thinges. But inespecially they handled the matter very circumspectly for religion. In the which they were so scrupulous, that they replenished all thinges, eyther with open blasphemy, or with ridiculous superstition. For they prescribed at how many masses euery man should be day by daye, MarginaliaThe decrees of the inquisitors.and how many masses euery man should saye when hee shoulde enter into the church, and in his enterance after what sorte he should bowe hym selfe to the altar, & how to the maister of the house: what he should do there, and how long he should tary, how many and what prayers he should saye: what and howe he should syng: what meditacions other should vse while the priest is in his Memento mumbling secretly to hym selfe: what time of the Masse a man should stand, and when he should sit downe: when he should make courtesy, when exclusiuely, when inclusiuely, and many other supersticious toyes they decreeed that it was a good sporte to behold thē. Moreouer, these Maysters of good order, for fashion sake. ordayned that euery man should put on a Surplyce, not torne nor worne, but cleane forbidding them in any wyse to wype theyr noses theron. And these are the thinges which we told you before, that some noted Ormanet

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how deuoutly he obserued them in the kings chappell. Al the which (vnder a great penalty to such as omitted them) were enioyned commonly to al men alike.

Al thinges being thus set at a staye, when they were now ready to go theyr wayes, the Vniuersity for so great benefites (which she could not suffer to fall out of remembraunce many yeres after) coueting to shew some token of couertesy towards them agayne, commēced MarginaliaOrmanet & Cole proceded Doctours.Ormanet and Cole doctors, for al the residue sauing Christophorson, who nowe by reason he was elected byshop, had preuented that degre, wer chosē into that order before, the which they shewed them selues to receiue thankefully at theyr handes, thinking much gentlenesse in so doing. Thus at length wer sent away these peace makers, that came to pacyfye strifes and quarelles, who through prouoking euery man to accuse one another lefte such gappes and breaches in mens harts at their departure, that to this day they could neuer be closed & ioyned agayne together.

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MarginaliaThe departure of thinquisitours.These Commissioners, before they departed out of the vniuersity, gaue commaundement, that the maysters of euery house shulde copy out their statutes, the which beside common ordinances, conteined in thē certain rules of the priuate ordring of euery house particularly. MarginaliaSwinebornes saynge as concerning the decrees of the inquisitorsSwineborne (who as I sayde was maister of Clare hal) being demaunded whether he woulde haue those thinges engrossed in partchment or in paper, aunswered that it made no matter wherein they were written. For the paper, or a slighter thinge that were of lesse continuaunce then paper, wold serue the turne well inough: For he sayde aslenderer thing then that, would last a great deale lenger, then those decrees should stand in force: Neyther was the man deceiued in his coniecture. For within two yeares after God beholding vs wyth mercy, called MarginaliaThe death of Queene Mary.Quene Mary, (the which princes the Cardinal and the rest of the Byshops of England, miserably abused to the vtter destructiō of Christes churche) out of thys life the. xvii. day of Nouember, in the yeare of our Lord. 1558. Vnto whom her Sister MarginaliaQuene Elizabeth sucedeth.Elizabeth (succeding in the kingdom) the like of which princes a man shall not lightly finde, in perusinge the chronicles, to haue reygned in manye hundred yeares before, 

MarginaliaThe true religion is restored.raysed to life agayne the true religion, beinge not onely sore appalled, and commaunded to seeke her a newe dwellinge place, but in maner burnte vp and consumed to ashes. The which after the tyme it ones beganne to recouer strength agayne, and by litle and litle to lifte vp her heade, the filthy dregs þ^t of Romishe iugling casts began forth with to melt away. Whereupon the church of God began to be edified agayn in Englād,

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