the confirm. of Grindal Dec. 18, 1559 (fol. 12. a). The MS. note alluded to in § 10 of the same note is as follows," Iste Matthe nat fuit 6 Augusti 1604" (sic).—“Consecratur Archiep 17 Decemb. 1559.-Ultima Volu'tas facta 5 Aprilis 1575.-Moritur Lamheti (qo sepilit). 17 Maij 1575.-funera'ia i. Lamh: Eccl'ia-Testament: probatio p', ex: 1o Oct. 1575." It is in John Parker's handwriting, as appears by other entries in the same hand; c.g. by one attached to Parker's name in the list of Cambr. Vice-Chancellors in the same volume, viz. "hoc anno nat fui Joh'es Parker fili' p'ca'cell." The abstract alluded to in the same §, gives the dates of Royal Assent and Consecration, the names of the consecrators, witnesses, and lawyers who signed the certificate, correctly (unless that the Suffr. of Bedf. is once called Richard); and is headed "Ex Archivis Archie'pi Cant." &c. It seems to be in John Parker's handwriting. The evidence of the Zurich Letters alluded to in § 13 is as follows; "Quidam ex nostris designati sunt Episcopi, Parkerus Cantuariensis, Coxus Norvicensis, Barlovus Cicestrensis, Scoræus Herefordensis, Grindallus Londinensis (nam Bonerus jussus est cedere): qui quando adituri sint possessionem, nescio” (Jewel to Peter Martyr, London, no date but fixed by Letters VII and XVI to July 20, 1559,-Epist. ix. p. 13. Originals, ed. Park. Soc.); "Audivi ex Episcopo Cantuariensi" (same to same, Lond. Nov. 2, 1559.Epist. xix. p. 26. ibid.); "Episcopi adhuc designati tantum sunt; interim prædia pulchre augent fiscum" (same to same, Lond. Nov. 16, 1559,-Epist. xxiv. p. 32. ibid.); "Cum nuper essem Londini, D. Parkerus Cantuariensis,” &c. (Parkhurst to Simler, Bishop's Cleeve, Dec. 20, 1559,-Epist. xxvi. p. 35. ibid.); "Consecratio Episcoporum aliquorum jam habita est; D. Parkerus Cantuariensis, D. Cox Eliensis, D. Grindal Londiniensis, D. Sandus Vigorniensis; notos tibi nomino: unus alius Wallus etiam est Episcopus, sed tibi ignotus: sequentur brevi D. Pilkintonus Vintoniensis, D. Benthamus Coventrensis, et tuus Juellus Sarisburiensis: brevi, inquam, ut audio, sunt isti consecrandi, ut nostro utar vocabulo" (Sampson to Peter Martyr, Jan. 6, [1559-60],--Epist. xxvii. p. 36. ibid.; Burnet, Records, Pt. III. bk. vi. num. 63.). Of these and the other letters the originals have been, and still are, preserved in either the archives of the state of Zurich or the library of that city; and with the exception of Cox's, F. Bedford's, and the Duke of Norfolk's, are wholly in the handwriting of their respective writers, the signatures only being so in the three cases excepted (Pref. to edit. of Park. Soc.). Their existence and (partially) their contents were first made known in England by Burnet (Letters &c. p. 53, and Hist. Ref.) in 1685. Add to the above evidence;-1. Royal Letters Patents presenting John Pilkington to the prebend of Mapesbury in the Cath. of St. Paul's, dated Nov. 20 (year not given) and addressed “Dec. et Capitulo Cantuar. sede vacante Episcopatus London." (Rym. xv. 584), which implies the see of Canterbury to be likewise vacant, fixed to Nov. 20, 1559 by Reg. Grindal (ap. Newcourt, vol. i. p. 175), dating Pilkington's installation into the same prebend Feb. 10, 155960; compared with similar Letters Patents presenting David Pade to the prebend of Sueating in same Cathedral dated Dec. 18 (Rym. ibid.) but addressed to Matthew "permissione divina Cantuar. Archiepiscopo, sede vacante Episcopatus London.," and fixed in the same way to the year 1559 by the installation of David Pade in the same pre

bend Dec. 28 of that year (Reg. Grind., ap. Newcourt, ibid. p. 211);-and similar Letters Patents for three benefices in St. David's Dioc. dated Dec. 10 (without year), addressed "Decano et Capitulo Cantuar. sede vacante Episcopatus Meneven." (Rym., ibid.), which implies also the vacancy of the see of Canterbury, and fixed to the year 1559 by the fact, that no vacancy of the see of St. David's after the consecration of Thomas Young Jan. 21, 1559-60, and prior to the death of Parker (within which period these writs are dated), included the month of December, Young being translated to York Feb. 25, 1560-1, and Davies of St. Asaph his successor confirmed in St David's May 21, 1561, and holding the see until his death in October 1581 (Reg. Park.-Le Neve).-2. Letters in C.C.C.C. MSS. (vol. 109. pp. 61, 65, 67; vol. 114. pp. 55, 77, 81), six in number, from Cecil or the Privy Council, addressed to the Archbishop of Canterbury "elect," dated severally Sept. 27, Oct. 5, Oct. 2, Nov. 9, Sept. 7, Sept. 23, 1559, and upon the subject of Bp. Tunstall and other "recusants;" another Letter in same MSS. (vol. 114. p. 53), to their "Lordships," Parker and Grindal, from the Privy Council, dated Aug. 24, 1559, about a Dr. Smith, with the reply of "your m. humble orator, Matth. P.-Lambheth, Aug. 27" (ibid. vol. 119. p. 110-see also Strype, Parker, bk. i. c. 10); and another Letter in same MSS. (vol. 114. p. 741), from Tho. Wotton of Bocton-Malherb (nephew of Dean Wotton), July 30, 1559, congratulating Parker on his promotion, and desiring to be his highsteward. There is a letter also in the same MSS. (vol. 114. p. 83), dated Nov. 2, 1559, endorsed merely for the "Archebyshop of Cant." 3. Writ in State Paper Office, Oct. 26, 1559, setting forth, that "whereas the Archebysshoppe elect of Canterbury and the other elect Bisshoppes of London, Ely, Hereford, and Chichester, remayne unconsecrated by reason that the exchange is not finished betwixt" the Queen "and them for certayn temporalties," and that "one whole year's rent" of the Ab'prie of Cant, and of the B'prics of Hereford and Chichester is due to the Queen, it is expedient that the exchange should be hastened. The reason here assigned for the delay of consecration might possibly be the true reason at the date of the writ; which is inaccurate however in another point, viz. in applying the term unconsecrated to the Bps, of Hereford and Chichester (Scory and Barlow).

Chapter to appoint day of election July 22;— certif. of elect. made to Queen Aug. 1; proxy of Dean and Chapter Aug. 3; consent of Elect Bishop Aug. 6; proxy of Elect Bishop Dec. 7. 1559 (Reg. Park., above pp. 180-183, 189–199). • Mandate also to confirm and consecrate.

d Mandate of confirmers to Archdeacon of Cant. (Edm. Gest) to inthrone Abp., Dec. 31, 1559;— Proxy of Archdeacon, to inthrone in his stead, Jan. 1, 1559-60;-Proxy of Abp., to be inthroned in his stead, Jan. 2, 1559-60 (Reg. Park., above). Edm. Gest presented to the Archidiaconate of Canterbury (Rym. xv. 543) Oct. 13, 1559 (BattelyLe Neve; but apparently by a mistaken inference from Rymer), on the deprivation of Harpsfield.

See also Strype, Parker, bk. ii. c. 1; Collier, Ch. Hist., vol. ii. Records num. lxxxi. In the document in the State Paper Office there is a blank for the day of the month, and there are no signatures. The latter are given in the original document, which Strype copied.

* Corrobor. Evidence;-1. Reg. Park. vol. i. fol. 146. a. Vacatio Sedis London p. depriv. Edm. Bonner, first and only institution by Parker as Abp., Dec. 14, 1559, of Rich. Coton to Vicarage of Braughyn (so also Reg. Bonner, ap. Newcourt i. 808); therefore Grindal was not then confirmed; 2. Reg. Grind., first Commission (viz. to Thomas Huick, LL.D., to be his Vicar-general in Spirituals) Dec. 22, and first ordination Dec. 28, 1559; therefore he was then both confirmed and consecrated; 3. Letters from Society of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, pressing him to accept the Mastership of the Hall although elected to a Bishopric, between July 21, when he was chosen Master, and Aug. 3, when he accepted the office (from MS. Life of Grindal among the Masters of Pembroke Hall, by Bp. Wren, quoted by Strype, Grindal, bk. ii. c. 16);— 4. Zurich Letters, speaking of him as "designatus Episcopus," and to see of London, but not yet consecrated, July 20, Aug. 1, and Nov. 16, 1559 (see above, note a to Parker's name; and Zurich Letters, Epist. xvi. pp. 22, 23. orig.,-"Aliquot nostrorum designamur Episcopi; Coxus Eliensis, Scoreus Erfordiensis, Alanus Roffensis, Grindallus Londinensis, Barlovus Chichestrensis, et ego. . Sarisburiensis," Jewel to P. Martyr, Lond. Aug. 1, 1559; and again Epist. xxiv. p. 33. orig. "Grindallus Londinensis"), as already consecrated to that see Jan. 6, 1559-60 (see same note a.). 5. Stow, Descript. of London, p. 491, ed. 1603; assigning Dec. 21, 1559, as the day of Grindal's consecration to London. Stow (Chron. p. 640. ed. 1615) speaks of " Doctor Grindall Bishoppe of London" Sept. 9, 1559, and seemingly as already in possession of his palace, as Parker was also, although not yet confirmed

in the see nor restored formally to its temporalties. It is perhaps hardly worth saying, that the expression was used by Stow several years after Grindal had been in the full sense of the words Bishop of London; just as, e. g., in the Life of Jewel publ. in 1685, the same Grindal is styled "Archbishop of York" in speaking of the year 1554 (in Wordsw. Eccl. Biogr., vol. iv. p. 336. 3rd edit.).

b Chapter to appoint day of election July 14;Certif. to Queen of election made July 26;-Commission of Abp. Parker to Bullingham, Yale, and Leedes, to confirm, Dec. 18; Proxy of elect Bishop Dec. 16, 1559 (Reg. Park.-Reg. Capit. London). William Mey, Dean (Reg. Park.), restored to his Deanery by fresh election thereto June 23, 1559 (Newcourt, vol. i. p. 49).

• Mandate also to confirm and consecrate :-not printed in Rymer.

d Before Bullingham, Yale, and Leedes, by commission from Abp. Parker, in Bow Church; by proxy, viz. Thomas Huick, LL.D., afterwards his Vicar-General-see note a above.

Lambeth Chapel;-by M. Cantuar., assistentibus W. Barlow quondam Bathon. et Wellen. Ep'o &c., J. Scory quondam &c., J. Hodgskin Bedf. Suff.

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f Mandate of Archbp. to Archdeacon of Cant. (Edm. Gest) to inthrone, Dec. 21 (Reg. Park.).Proxy of Archdn. Gest to Wm. May Dean of St. Paul's and others to inthrone in his stead Dec. 23 (Reg. Grind.).-Proxy of Bp. Grindal to Thos. Young, LL.D. and Rich. Alney, S.T.P. to be inthroned in his stead Dec. 22, 1559 (ibid.).

Except for manors reserved, under author. of 1 Eliz. c. 19. §2.

Elected in the first instance to Norwich (see below num. xiv). Corrobor, evidence of his election &c. to the see of Ely;-1. Reg. Park. vol. i. fol. 146. b. Vacatio sedis Elien. p. depriv. T. Thirlby, two inductions by Parker as Abp., the first Dec. 19, the second Dec. 21, 1559, of John Ebden, and John Pory, to prebendal stalls in Ely Cathedral (see Br. Willis).-2. Reg. Cox, ap. Couray., Déf. de la Diss., liv. iii. c. 3, marking Oct. 23, 1562 as "anno cons. 3tii;"-3. Zurich Letters, speaking of Cox as "designatus" to the see of Norwich July 20, 1559, to Ely Aug. 1, 1559, as (among the rest) "designatus tantum" Nov. 16, 1559, and to Ely, and as actually consecrated to Ely Jan. 6, 1559-60 (see above notes a upon Parker's and Grindal's names, and Epist. xxiv. p. 33. orig.).

b Congé d'Eslire received July 22;-Certif. to Queen of Election made July 28;-Proxy of Dean and Chapter Aug. 3;-Consent of Bishop

rities as

Parker's).

elect Dec. 10; Proxy of Bishop elect Dec. 12, 1559 (Reg. Park.). Andrew Pearne, Dean (Reg. Park.), held that office from 1557 to 1589 (Wood, Fasti).

Dated by some mistake July 21, by Br. Willis, Cathedr.

d Mandate also to confirm and consecrate ;--misdated Dec. 28 in first edit. of Rymer (xxviii for xviii), but dated correctly Dec. 18 in the Roll itself, and in Rymer's own Table of Contents.

Same place, persons, and authority as Grindal; by proxy, viz. Edward Gascoine, LL.D. (Reg. Park.), Prebendary of Ely in 1559 and Master of Jesus Coll. Cambr. (Br. Willis, Ely Cathedr.-Le Neve).

Same place and persons as Grindal.
The first leaves of Cox's

Ely are wanting (Couray.).

own Register at

h Except for reserved manors, as before.