"Is it not become a by-word among the common people, that they had rather send their children to the cart than to the University, being induced so to say for the abuse that reigneth in the Universities, who sending their sons to attain knowledge, find them little better learned, but a great deal worse lived than when they went, and not only unthrifts of their money, but also banquerouts of good manners."-Ibid.

benefit of a penal statute made in the eighth year of her reign, for the setting a-work the greater number of cloth workers. Which statute was, that whosoever should, after the making of that act, be licensed to carry cloth out of the realm undressed, should for every nine cloths undressed, carry also one cloth of like goodness dressed within the realm, upon pain of the forfeiture for every nine cloths so carried, of ten pounds, one moiety to the Queen and the other to the Master and Wardens of the Cloth Workers. But the cloth workers, being now most of them merchants, were offenders against this statute themselves, and would not punish any offenders or offence. Now Grafton desired that the Queen would grant to him and his assigns authority in her name to put in suit the offenders against the said statute, and for his pains to grant him the half of what he should recover in the Queen's name in any of her Majesty's Courts of Record, to her use. And this suit he besought the Lord Treasurer to countenance: and got his old friend, Dr. Wylson, to solicit it before his

1564. KECHYN, who held a benefice near to Bocking, "had in the Rogation Week gone the perambulation with his parishioners, and according to the old custom, and the Queen's injunctions, had said certain offices in certain places of the parish; and several women of the parish accompanied, as was wont, and joined in the prayers that were said; and all was ended in a good friendly dinner, wherein such poor women and others that attended were refreshed and relieved. The women said amen to the curses, (one whereof appointed by the injunctions to be said, was, Cursed is he that translateth the lordship."-STRYPE's Parker, p. 236. Bounds and Dolls of his Neighbour). The Curate of Bocking preached against this as unlawful. In his defence to the Archbishop, Kechyn said, that 'the poorer women (as God knew) that lacked work, were glad of the relief that was accustomably provided for them and that the substantial men took part with him in it.'"-STRYPE's Parker, p. 153.

OLD John Fox, in a letter to the Queen, to thank her for the Prebend of Skipton, and for her gracious answer to a petition of certain Divines concerning the habits, said "that he had divers monuments concerning her Majesty which he thought of compiling into her history: but he invited her to write her own life. . . and that none could do it better."-Ibid. p. 188.

"LENT was the only time in the year of her Majesty's hearing sermons, if we may believe a late writer" (?)-HOWEL's Ep. vol. 4, let. 12. Ibid. p. 201.

"TOUCHING the religion of the Court, she seldom came to Sermon but in Lent time: nor did there use to be any Sermon upon Sundays, unless they were festivals. Whereas the succeeding kings had duly two every morning: one for the household, the other for themselves, where they were always present, as also at private prayers in the closet.”—HowEL's Letters, vol. 4, let. 12.

GRAFTON in this reign "fell down stairs and broke his leg in two places, which made him lame to the day of his death. And by this and other mischances he was reduced in his last age to poverty. So that I find in fifteen hundred, seventy and odd, he petitioned the Queen for the

"MANY carry death on their fingers (a ring with a death's head) when he is never nigh their hearts."-ROBINSON, Bp. of Bangor, in a SerStrype's Parker, p. 234.

mon.

DECLINE of "the duty of hospitality" among the clergy.-Ibid. p. 343

"1572. SEVERAL families of Protestant exiles, mostly from the Low Countries, were about transplanting themselves out of London to Stamford, in Lincolnshire, there to follow their callings. And this by motion of the Lord Burleigh, to whom the town chiefly belonged, well knowing what good profit and benefit might redound unto the place and country, by the trades and business these men should bring along with them, by taking off the wools at a good price, and encouraging the sowing of flax and hemp, improving land, and such like. For they were for the most part weavers of such sorts of cloths as were not yet wove and made (or very rarely) in England, as bays and says, and stammets, fustians, carpets, linsey-wolseys, fringes, tapestry, silks, and velvets, figured and unfigured linnen; there were also among them dyers, rope makers, hatters, makers of coffers, knives, locks, workers on steel and copper, and the like, after the fashion of Nurenberg." In Strype's time, their last minister was remembered.-Ibid. p. 367.

"1572. ARCHBISHOP PARKER, for the better accomplishment of this piece (Clerk's Answer to Sanders's book) and others that should follow, had spoken to Day, the printer, to cast a new Italian letter, which would cost him forty marks."-Ibid. p. 382.

"It was the care of the Bishops now a days to look after Charmers, and such as deceived the people by pretences to cure diseases, or to foretell or divine."-Ibid. p. 369.

ter of Barlow, Bishop of Chichester, and had with her "but an £100 value; that is to say, a gelding, for her apparel £10, of her own stock £12, of damask linen, a table cloth and a towel, two pillow-bears, two long cushions, a silver salt and standing cup, and £10 in money when they rode to see her mother, being a widow."-Ibid. p. 474.

LICENSES to have the church service performed at home "were usual in these times, when absenters from their parish churches used to be more strictly looked after by the parish officers, and presented at the spiritual courts. Thus such a license was granted by the Archbishop to a gentleman for absence from his par

"1572. THE state of the church and religion at this time was but low, and sadly neglected, occasioned in a great measure by these unhappy controversies about the churches government, and other external matters in religion; which so employed the thoughts and zeal of both clergy and laity, that the better and more substantial parts of it were little regarded. The churchmen heaped up many benefices upon themselves, and resided upon none, neglected their cures; many of them alienated their lands, made unreasonable leases, and wastes of their woods, granted re-ish church in winter time, because the ways versions and advowsons to their wives and children, or to others for their use. Churches ran greatly into dilapidations and decays, and were kept nasty and filthy and undecent for God's worship. Among the laity there was little devotion. The Lord's day greatly profaned and little observed. The common prayers not frequented. Some lived without any service of God at all. Many were mere heathens and atheists. The Queen's own court an harbour for epicures and atheists, and a kind of lawless place, because it stood in no parish."—Ibid. p. 395.

THE fashion of turning back the toupee was introduced by D. John of Austria, "quod ad lævam temporum partem erectum naturâ capillum haberet, omnem a fronte crinem revocare manu cœpisse (primum dicitur); quòdque placeret illud porrectæ frontis additamentum, inde usum derivatum esse retorquendi sustenendique capillamenti, adeo ut qui eo suggesto capitis utuntur, vulgo gestare Austriam alicubi dicantur."-STRADA, des. 1, 1. 10.

ARCHBISHOP PARKER had within his house "in wages, drawers (of pictures), and cutters (i. e. engravers), painters, limners, writers, and bookbinders."-STRYPE'S Parker, p. 415.

were extreme dirty, and the man infirm and sickly, and so not able to get to church. And, as it seemed, no minister dared to use public prayers in a private family without such license."-Ibid. p. 483.

"PARKER died at the age of seventy-two, and that was the number of the poor men that attended his funeral.”—Ibid. p. 494.

"HE would admit none to live under him, but such as truly and sincerely feared God; and beside their daily attendance, employed themselves at their leisure hours in some kind of laudable exercise; as in reading, making collections, transcribing, composing, painting, drawing, or some other application in learning or art."-Ibid. p. 502.

"In their daily eating, this was the custom. The steward, with the servants that were gentlemen of the better rank, sate down at the tables in the hall on the right hand, and the almoner, with the clergy and other servants, sat on the other side. Where there was plenty of all sorts of wholesome provisions, both for eating and drinking. The daily fragments thereof did suffice to fill the bellies of a great number of poor hungry people, that waited at the gate. And so constant and unfailing was this large provision at my lord's table, that whosoever came in either at dinner or supper, being not above the degree of a knight, might here be entertained worthy of his quality, either at the steward's or at the almoner's table. And moreover it was the Archbishop's command to his servants, that all strangers should be received and treated with all manner of civility and respect, and that places at the table should be assigned them according to their dignity and quality, which redounded much to the praise and commendation of the Archbishop. The discourse and conversation at meals was void of all brawling and loud talking; and for the PARKER'S second son married Frances daugh- most part consisted in framing men's manners

"THE number of preachers bred at Cambridge from the beginning of Elizabeth's reign to the year 1573, was at least four hundred and fifty, besides those who had been called to that office after their departure thence-and the number then remaining in the University was one hundred."-Ibid. p. 448.

"WHITGIFT said he knew by experience many of the ill willers to the church devised and practised by all means possible to stir up contention in the University, on purpose to dissuade men from the ministry."-Ibid.

"From these accounts it is evident that the in the Roman Catholic countries, as being sup- commonest garden vegetables were, in 1595, posed to be infected with heresy, and so not to brought from Holland."-WHITAKER's Craven, be read."-Ibid. p. 541.

The Registers of Almonbury Church contain some curious and affecting particulars says WHITAKER. They begin Nov. 1, 1557.

"THE memory of Sir Thomas Smith is highly societies. They generated controversy instead to be honoured, for promoting the act in 18 of increasing piety. Elizabeth, whereby it was provided that a third part of the rent upon leases made by Colleges should be reserved in corn, payable either in kind or money, after the rate of the best prices in Oxford or Cambridge markets, on the next market day before Michaelmas and Lady Day. This worthy knight is said to have been engaged in this service by the advice of Mr. Henry Robinson, soon after Provost of Queen's College, Oxon, and from that station advanced to the See of Carlisle. And tradition goes, that this bill passed the Houses before they were sensible of the good consequences of it."-Ibid. vol. 2, p. 295.

LAW concerning Wednesday fast, which was so contrived as to be no law.-J. TAYLOR, vol. 13, p. 239.

"In the memory of the father of an old man lately deceased," says THORESBY (p. 184, which carries the fact to this or the succeeding reign), "there was so thick a wood, that a person was employed for directing travellers over that very place where now is the full road betwixt Leeds and Wakefield."

"BEERTON, in the parish of Leeds, is the chief place within the prescribed limits for the manufactures of bone lace and straw hats. 'Twas called bone lace, because first made with bone (since wooden) bobbins.—The use of this sort of lace in England is modern, not exceeding the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. But though English lace be brought to great perfection, yet it is less esteemed by some since that of Flanders, and Points de Venice, in Italy, came into fashion."-THORESBY, p. 210.

"SLEEVES of black velvet, which Srow tells us were first made by Mr. John Tyce, an Englishman, near Shoreditch, in Queen Elizabeth's time.-Cuffs of cambric and lawn, which in Queen Elizabeth's time were so rare that all the merchants in London had not so much as may be had now in one linen-draper's shop, (STOW, p. 86,) when Mrs. Dinghen Van der Pass, a Flemish knight's daughter, was the first professed starcher in London."-MUS. THORESB. P. 42.

WHITAKER says, the Exercises were a species of Lectures, which, in the hands of judicious clergymen, well affected to Church and State, needed not to have excited the jealousy which they did."-Loidis and Elmete, p. 31.

"The plague began at Woodsome Mill, in the house of Thomas Scamonden, whereby, in some few days, the said Thomas, with Robert, Ralph, Elizabeth, and Dorothy, his sons and daughters, died, and were buried as follow: Robert buried 26th, at ten o'clock at night, by William and Beatrix, his brother and sister. Ralph, buried 27th, at nine at night, by the said William and Beatrix. Thomas, and Elizabeth, his daughter, buried together, the 30th, at nine at night, by his wife, and the said William and Beatrix. Dorothy buried 10th August, at seven at night, by her mother, and her brother William!"

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