Part eight, page 123. The Legality of the New Measures, Enforcing Supremacy.” Lambeth Palace, c.1685, the London residence for the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Archbishop Parker by William Paul McClure Kennedy (London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1908).
Observations.
1. McClure chats over the legality of the new Prayer Book.
2. The Supremacy Act was acted upon quickly. All the Marian Bishops, except Kitchin of Llandaff, were deprived. Eleven bishops were deprived. Bp. Tunstall of Durham also. Tunstall did not persecute Protestants during Mary’s bloody rule. He was 85-years old.
3. Tunstall was sent to lodge with Parker at Lambeth Palace, a "fit place." He was well treated and Parker thought Tunstall might submit. Like many bishops before and after, Tunstall died at Lambeth Palace, 18 November 1559.
4. Dean Alexander Nowell, Calvinist, Reformer, Catechetist, and Dean of St. Paul's throughout Elizabeth's reign, preaches a funeral sermon “worthy of the occasion.” Parker sent Tunstall’s papers to Cecil.
5. A Royal Visitation was organized for the nation. This was to include examination for compliance to the new Prayer Book. The Elizabethan Injunctions belong to this period—in earlier reviews elsewhere, Roman jurisdiction was vigourously being driven from English soil; in the 19th and 20th century, Tractarians and Anglo-Catholics will disapprove.
6. Regular preaching was to be provided in the nation's parishes.
7. The people throughout the nation were to be taught the Creed and 10 Commandments in English. Divine worship would be in English, not Latin.
8. Each church was to possess the great Bible, Paraphrases of Erasmus, and registries for baptisms, weddings, and deaths.
9. Clergy were to be examined on pre-arranged studies. McClure does not mention anything further, but we are—tentatively, yet with some strength, the timeline being under inquiry—inclined to believe this included studies in Bullinger’s Decades with notebooks with notes by every clergyman on one chapter of the Bible daily. On information and belief, examiners were appointed to oversee clerical developments, theologically and biblically. They were to review notebooks. Also, Dean Nowell would later write catechisms for the nation's clerics.
10. All monuments of superstition were to be destroyed. McClure does not elaborate.
11. Simony was forbidden.
12. Clerical marriages were permitted but with Episcopal approval of the “ladies of choice.” Elizabeth never liked this and she never got her way on it.
13. School masters were to have an Episcopal license.
14. Parishes were to have an over-seer to ensure compliance with attendance upon divine worship. Fines were applied for the delinquent and obstinate.
15. Plainsong was to be continued, but hymns and anthems were permitted, provided the “sense of the words was not rendered obscure.”
16. Altars were to be removed.
17. Books collected for burning during Mary’s reign were to be collected.
2. The Supremacy Act was acted upon quickly. All the Marian Bishops, except Kitchin of Llandaff, were deprived. Eleven bishops were deprived. Bp. Tunstall of Durham also. Tunstall did not persecute Protestants during Mary’s bloody rule. He was 85-years old.
3. Tunstall was sent to lodge with Parker at Lambeth Palace, a "fit place." He was well treated and Parker thought Tunstall might submit. Like many bishops before and after, Tunstall died at Lambeth Palace, 18 November 1559.
4. Dean Alexander Nowell, Calvinist, Reformer, Catechetist, and Dean of St. Paul's throughout Elizabeth's reign, preaches a funeral sermon “worthy of the occasion.” Parker sent Tunstall’s papers to Cecil.
5. A Royal Visitation was organized for the nation. This was to include examination for compliance to the new Prayer Book. The Elizabethan Injunctions belong to this period—in earlier reviews elsewhere, Roman jurisdiction was vigourously being driven from English soil; in the 19th and 20th century, Tractarians and Anglo-Catholics will disapprove.
6. Regular preaching was to be provided in the nation's parishes.
7. The people throughout the nation were to be taught the Creed and 10 Commandments in English. Divine worship would be in English, not Latin.
8. Each church was to possess the great Bible, Paraphrases of Erasmus, and registries for baptisms, weddings, and deaths.
9. Clergy were to be examined on pre-arranged studies. McClure does not mention anything further, but we are—tentatively, yet with some strength, the timeline being under inquiry—inclined to believe this included studies in Bullinger’s Decades with notebooks with notes by every clergyman on one chapter of the Bible daily. On information and belief, examiners were appointed to oversee clerical developments, theologically and biblically. They were to review notebooks. Also, Dean Nowell would later write catechisms for the nation's clerics.
10. All monuments of superstition were to be destroyed. McClure does not elaborate.
11. Simony was forbidden.
12. Clerical marriages were permitted but with Episcopal approval of the “ladies of choice.” Elizabeth never liked this and she never got her way on it.
13. School masters were to have an Episcopal license.
14. Parishes were to have an over-seer to ensure compliance with attendance upon divine worship. Fines were applied for the delinquent and obstinate.
15. Plainsong was to be continued, but hymns and anthems were permitted, provided the “sense of the words was not rendered obscure.”
16. Altars were to be removed.
17. Books collected for burning during Mary’s reign were to be collected.
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