ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



also fell to Gardiner's lot on i October to crown the queen at West- 

 minster, the archbishop having now taken his place in the Tower on the 

 charge of high treason. As a statesman he took the patriotic view of 

 the queen's marriage with a British subject, which he strongly urged 

 upon her ; but the circumstances of his diocese almost necessitated his 

 taking the leading part in the queen's unhappy alliance with Spain. On 

 20 July, 1554, Philip landed at Southampton with 160 sail. Thence he 

 proceeded to Winchester, and became the bishop's guest at Wolvesey. 

 On the 25th this ill-fated marriage was celebrated in the cathedral 

 church of Winchester, the bishop officiating. There is much con- 

 troversy as to Gardiner's share in the severity of the earlier part of 

 Mary's reign ; but at all events he did his best to save Cranmer's life, 

 and prevented the committal of Peter Martyr to prison. 



In 1556, under Philip and Mary, warrants were issued by the 

 Crown for the restoration throughout Hampshire of the ornaments 

 seized by Edward VI. 's commissioners, or the return to the church- 

 wardens of their money value when the ornaments were not forth- 

 coming. These returns prove that in some cases the church goods 

 that had been sent up to London at the end of the young king's reign 

 were not sold or melted down to provide ' the masse of money ' so much 

 needed, but remained docketed with the name of the parish from which 

 they had been purloined. Among the restorations in kind were : 

 Alresford, two chalices and patens and a cross of silver ; Alton, ' one 

 swete of vestment of blewe velvet ' ; Andover, a suit of vestments 

 of white damask ; Basingstoke, vestments and copes, valued at 

 )Ti2 1 3-f. od. ; Beaulieu, 'one oyle box of silver' ; Christchurch, a 

 pax of wood covered with silver ; Fordingbridge, a cross, a pyx, a 

 pair of censers and ship, a sacring bell, and a pax, all of silver ; Mil- 

 brook, a silver cross ; Nether Wallop, a pyx of silver and a suit of 

 vestments of blue velvet ; Newton, a pyx of silver ; Ringwood, a cross, 

 two candlesticks, a pyx, a pair of censers and ship, a sacring bell, two 

 cruets and a pax, all of silver ; Romsey, a chrismatory and a little bottle 

 and cup of silver ; and Whitchurch, two chalices and patens, a pair of 

 censers, a pair of cruets, and a pax, all of silver. 



A far larger number of Hampshire churches, however, received the 

 money value of the goods of which they had been spoiled, ranging from 

 26 Ss. od., the sum paid to the wardens of Winchfield, down to 3^. \d.^ 

 which was obtained by those of St. Bartholomew's, Winchester. The 

 commissioners' charge for this work of partial restoration was 8 1 3^. 4^., 

 which included the sum of 3 ys. od. for riding up to London to bring 

 back the money. 1 Hampshire is the only county of which any trace of 

 restored church goods remains at the Public Record Office. This 

 restitution was not generally carried out throughout the country ; the 

 results in Hampshire were probably brought about through the in- 

 fluential position of Bishop Gardiner. He died of gout at Whitehall 



1 Land Revenue Records (Church Goods), 1392/60, 445/1. 



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