[1257] Ibid., 367: Statutes at Large, II, 283. On the debates and controversial writings connected with this act see Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, I, 354-58. By the Injunctions of 1548, in the visitations inquiry is to be made whether any "do condemn married priests, and for that they be married will not receive the communion or other sacraments at their hands."—Cardwell, Doc. Annals, I, 51.
[1258] Summary of the statute by Makower, op. cit., 222. Cf. Statutes at Large, II, 305; Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, I, 432.
[1259] See the "Articles of Queen Mary, 4th March, 1553," in Cardwell, Doc. Ann., I, 112, 113; also Makower, op. cit., 222 n. 26. Such married priests, "after deprivation of their benefice, or ecclesiastical promotion," are to "be also divorced every one from his said woman, and due punishment otherwise taken for the offence therein." But the bishops are to "use more lenity and clemency with such as have married, whose wives be dead, than with others whose women do yet remain alive;" as also with those who, with their wife's consent, in the bishop's presence, promise to "abstain." Cf. Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, I, 490, who says "many were set to write against the marriage of the clergy."
[1260] See 1 Mary, stat. 2, c. 2, 1553: Gee and Hardy, Documents, 377-80.
[1261] Parker's Correspondence, 66.
[1262] Ibid. (Cecil to Parker, Aug. 12, 1561), 148. Parker replies: "I was in an horror to hear such words to come from her mild nature and christianly learned conscience, as she spoke concerning God's holy ordinance and institution of matrimony;" and he complains that she holds that the English clergy "alone of our time" are "openly brought in hatred, shamed and traduced before the malicious and ignorant people, as beasts without knowledge to Godward, in using this liberty of his word, as men of effrenate intemperancy.... Insomuch that the Queen's Highness expressed to me a repentance that we were thus appointed in office, wishing it had been otherwise."—Correspondence, 156, 157. Marriage of priests was defended by Cox, ibid., 151.
[1263] Gee and Hardy, Documents, 431, 432; Prothero, Statutes and Documents, 184 ff.; Cardwell, Doc. Ann., I, 192, 193; Makower, op. cit., 223 n. 27; Burnet, Hist. of Reformation, I, 577. These regulations of marriage are mentioned by Percival Wiburn in Zürich Letters, II, 359. Cf. ibid., II, 61 n. 129; I, 164, 179, 358. Compare the hostile "Articles of Visitation" of Bishop Bonner, 1554: Cardwell, op. cit., I, 125, 126; and compare ibid., 153, 171, 172.
[1264] Makower, op. cit., 223 n. 28; Cardwell, Doc. Ann., I, 273.
[1265] See the extract from the thirty-second article in Makower, op. cit., 223 n. 29.
[1266] Makower, op. cit., 223, 71. The Millenary Petition is in Gee and Hardy, Documents, 508-11; Prothero, Statutes and Documents, 413-16; according to Makower, in Perry, Hist. Eng. Church, II, 372, c. 22, notes and illustrations; Collier, Eccles. Hist., ed. 1852, VII, 273.