The Life of the Learned Sir Thomas Smith, Kt. D.C.L., Principal Secretary of State to King Edward the Sixth, and Queen Elizabeth: Wherein are Discovered Many Singular Matters Relating to the State of Learning, the Reformation of Religion, and the Transactions of the Kingdom, During His Time. In All which He Had a Great and Happy InfluenceAt the Clarendon Press, 1820 - 286 pages |
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Page 37 - Pauls, desiring of him to have had some knowledg of things there to be done, because I thought it meet that my Sermon should somewhat have savoured of the same. From Mr. Dean I received a Letter, instructing me only, That the cause of the Visitation was, to abolish Statutes and Ordinances, which maintained Papistry, Superstition, Blindness and Ignorance, and to establish and set forth, such as might further God's Word and good Learning ; and else, the Truth is, he would shew me nothing, but...
Page 114 - That he might be sure it did as little cease in them ; calling to their remembrance, and laying before their eyes, the trouble, the uncertainty, the disorder, the peril, and danger, which had been like to follow, if at that time God had taken from them the stay of the Commonwealth, and hope of their repose : that lanthorn of their light, next to God : whom to follow, nor certainly where to light another candle...
Page 247 - how they all ran one way, like the hounds after the hare, " high and low, knights, and esquires, and burgesses, such " as were of the Privy Council, and others, far and near ? " Whom preferred they, I pray you, then, if they should " have had their wish ? The stranger, or the Englishman?
Page 168 - Eliz. 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.
Page 169 - The patent hare date the 30th of August 1547 ; in which whether Sir Thomas Smith was any ways serviceable to the college I know not, but suppose he might be. And this learning of his raised him to honour and His places, wealth : under King Edward VI. he was made Provost of Eton, where whether he were present or absent, there Was always a good house kept : Dean of Carlisle, and Master of Requests in the Duke of Somerset's family, after Cecil had left that place ; wherein he was most unjustly scandalized...
Page 112 - Madame," replied sir Thomas Smith, " I think if she were once married, all in England that had traitorous hearts would be discouraged, for one tree alone may soon be cut down ; but when there be two or three together, it is longer doing ; for if she had a child, then all these bold and troublesome titles of the Scottish queen, or of the others, who make such gapings for her death, would be clean choked up.
Page 192 - ... and promoters, as well th'one as th'other, throughly vexed. War we saw and felt, and other mischief was feared : which, whether it was to come or no, few know. Now, for war we have peace ; for fear, security. So, though even the Papists, although otherwise they lost for their stiffness, yet they be more sure of their lives now, by the clemency of the time, than they were then by the importune favour of the Prince. For scarcity, we have reasonable plenty; for brass-money, good silver; for servitude,...
Page 141 - ... reasons: so that, said he, whereas it is said, priusquam incipias, consulto, that had been maturely and deliberately done; and to which, as he subjoined, her Highness, by letters to the Lord Deputy and the Earl of Essex, had given her consent.
Page 23 - After this fellow was gone, there was peace, quiet, and silence concerning these matters, and in great fervour and industry the youth of Cambridge learned Greek, until the Bishop's decree, which we shall hear of by and by.
Page 151 - His monuright side in armour, a loose robe about him, with thement' arms of the knighthood of the garter upon the left arm of the said robe, denoting him Chancellor of the Garter ; mersetshire. But, instead of them, he went to Buxton's Well, which was more in vogue in these times, where the right noble Earl of Shrewsbury now was, with his royal charge, the Queen of Scots. But these waters no more than his physic could remote his disease.