[1241] Bishop Poynette wrote a book entitled “An Apologie on the Godly Marriadge of Priestes,” in rejoinder to Martin’s “Traictise declaryng and plainly prouyng that the pretensed marriage of priestes and professed persones is no marriage,” which was a reply to Poynette’s previous work. Bale also issued a bitter attack on Bonner’s Articles (Cardwell’s Documentary Annals, I. 135) and Dr. Parker, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, published a voluminous rejoinder to Martin.
[1242] Wilkins IV. 96-7.
[1243] Burnet II. 276; III. 225-6.
[1244] A specimen of the form of restitution subscribed by those who were restored on profession of amendment and repentance has been preserved—“Whereas ... I the said Robert do now lament and bewail my life past, and the offence by me committed; intending firmly by God’s grace hereafter to lead a pure, chast, and continent life ... and do here before my competent judge and ordinary most humbly require absolution of and from all such censures and pains of the laws as by my said offence and ungodly behavior I have incurred and deserved: promising firmly ... never to return to the said Agnes Staunton as to my wife or concubine, &c.”—(Wilkins IV. 104).
[1245] Strype’s Memorials of Cranmer, Bk. III. chap. 8.—Nov. 14th, 1554, we find a record of four priests doing penance in white shirts and holding candles at Paul’s Cross, London, while Harpsfield preached a sermon.—Strype’s Eccles. Memor. III. 203.
[1246] Parl. Hist. I. 616.
[1247] The Bull is dated December 24, 1554 (Wilkins IV. 111).—Parliament repealed the attainder of Cardinal Pole, November 22d, and on the 24th he arrived in London as legate (Burnet II. 261-2).
[1248] 1 and 2 Phil. and Mary c. 8 (Parl. Hist. I. 624). The title of the bill shows that, though the Parliament was almost exclusively Catholic, it was disposed to make its obedience to Rome the price for obtaining confirmation of the abbey lands—“A Bill for repealing all statutes, articles, and provisoes made against the See Apostolique of Rome, since the 20th of Henry VIII., and for the establishment of all spiritual and ecclesiastical possessions and hereditaments conveyed to the laity.”
[1249] 2 and 3 Phil. and Mary, c. 4 (Parl. Hist. pp. 626-8).
[1250] Mag. Bull. Roman. T. I. p. 809.