[60] Aylmer is supposed to be represented anagrammatically in the Morell, and Grindal in the Algrind of Spenser's Shepherd's Calendar.
[61] Strype's Parker, i. 300-345. For measures adopted to enforce conformity, see Strype's Parker, i. 420-447. Parker had a hard time of it when engaged in this unpopular business. He did not receive the support he wished. The Puritans condemned him for doing too much, the Queen for doing too little. "An ox," he exclaimed, "can draw no more than he can."—Ibid., 451.
[62] It appears from Foxe that some of the early Protestants were very strong believers in predestination.—See the godly letters of John Careless. Foxe's Book of Martyrs, viii. 187-192. Catley's edition.
[63] Neal, i. 451. For his statement respecting bills for reformation he gives MS. authority. Strype's Whitgift, i. 391, contains the letter to the Queen, dated 24th of March, 1584-5. Parry says in Parliaments and Councils, 1584, December 14, "three petitions are read touching 'the liberty of godly preachers to exercise and continue their ministry, and for the speedy supply of able and sufficient men into divers places now destitute of the ordinary means of salvation.'" Cobbett supplies a brief account of the debate.—Parl. Hist., i. 824.
[64] Dr. Donne preached a sermon at Paul's Cross on the 14th September, 1622, in which he took occasion "for the publication of some reasons which His Sacred Majesty had been pleased to give, of those directions for preachers which he had formerly set forth."—Works, vi. 191. The preacher declared the King was "grieved with much bitterness, that any should so pervert his meaning as to think that these directions either restrained the exercise of preaching or abated the number of sermons."—Ib. 220. One is sorry to find such a man as Donne excusing James's despotic interference with preaching, and to read the absurd eulogium on his royal master's "books." "Our posterity shall have him for a father—a classic father—such a father as Ambrose, as Austin was."—Ib. 221. Such sycophancy on the part of Donne and others greatly tended to prejudice the people against them and their teaching.
[65] Fuller's Church History, iii. 362.
[66] See Cal. Dom., 1633-4, p. 298.
[67] Cal. 1633-4, p. 345.—The cases of Samuel Ward, Anthony Lapthorne, and George Burdett, noted Puritan ministers, are largely illustrated in the Cal. Dom. 1634-5, 361, 263, 537. Mr. Bruce notices that Ward, who suffered so much from the High Commission Court, appears himself as a complainant against certain persons at Ipswich holding Antinomian opinions, 1635-6, Pref. xxxvii.
Illustrations appear amongst the State Papers of the popularity of Puritanism. Dr. John Andrewes writes to the Chancellor of Lincoln, (dated June 5, 1634, Beaconsfield) acknowledging a request to preach a visitation sermon:—"He is contented to show his obedience, howbeit he knows that any other priest in those parts would be better accepted both of laity and the generality of the clergy; and the main reason is, because he is not of the new cut, nor anywise inclining to Puritanism, wherewith the greatest number (both of priests and people) in those parts are foully tainted, insomuch that he is called the most godly who can and will be most disobedient to the orders of the Church. He enumerates things out of order in his own parish. 1. No terrier of Church lands. 2. Elections held in the church. 3. Gadding on Sundays to hear Puritanical sermons in other parishes. 4. Few come to church on holidays. 5. Many sit at service with their hats on, and some lie along in their pews. 6. Many kneel not at prayers, nor bow at the name of Jesus, &c. 7. The churchwardens do not levy the 12d. from those who absent themselves from divine service."—Cal. Dom., 1634-5, June 5, p. 64.
Complaints were made of people forsaking the parish churches.—Ibid., p. 149.