ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



them to live in order ; but their zeal must not be slackened. He 

 thought the common sort of people could be easily brought to conform 

 themselves, but the better sort required constant pressure, and the 

 justices must be kept up to the mark. In conjunction with Sir Henry 

 Seymour and Mr. Foster, he had called together the constables of the 

 hundreds in their charge, and appointed days for their supplying lists on 

 oath of recusants in each parish and tithing. Through this civil pro- 

 cedure he had gained far more knowledge of religious disorders than 

 through the churchwardens at his visitation. By diligent action he had 

 driven out of the hundreds in his charge many idle and evilly-disposed 

 persons ; but they merely moved to other hundreds where there was not 

 such discipline. He complained that ' the great man that had rule the 

 last yeer in this shere being resyaunt here ' was bitterly opposing him. 1 



In his next letter to Cecil, dated 12 January, 1562, from Waltham, 

 he recites the great and diverse pains he had taken to reduce the 

 inhabitants of Winchester to a good uniformity in religion. The 

 churches had not been frequented as they ought for common prayer 

 since ' the massing tyme,' and he had difficulty in finding ministers to 

 preach sound doctrine. Many of the city livings were very small, and 

 he had arranged with the mayor for certain churches to be united 

 (' altho' the common sort be against it'), otherwise he could not get 

 them well served. Some of these livings were in the queen's gift, and 

 some in his ; and so he craved assistance from the Crown in this 

 amalgamation. As it was, some even of the cathedral priests were still 

 inculcating popery and superstition. He complains that he finds the 

 citizens of Winchester ' very stubborne, whose reformation wolde helpe 

 the greatest part of the shere.' 2 



In November, 1 567, a body of Walloons who had fled from the Low 

 Countries to escape the horrors of the Inquisition petitioned the mayor 

 of Southampton for leave to establish themselves in that town and to have 

 a church assigned to them ' where to learn to reverence God and the 

 Magistrates.' The mayor referred the latter question to the Bishop of 

 Winchester, before whom the refugees stated they were willing to make 

 a confession of their faith ; but he raised certain difficulties with regard 

 to their other requests, mainly with regard to servants and apprentices. 

 On receipt of the mayor's detailed reply the Walloons forwarded it to 

 Bishop Home, and he at once wrote strongly in their favour to Cecil, 

 with the result that the queen authorized the settling at Southampton of 

 twenty families of Low Country aliens, with ten menservants for each 

 household. 3 The bishop assigned to them for worship, with the sanction 

 of Queen's College, Oxford, the chapel of St. Julian or God's House. In 

 1712 this congregation conformed to the Church of England, and 

 still continues 4 to use its liturgy. 



1 Dom. State Papers, Eliz. ix. 36. Ibid. xxi. 7. 



3 Ibid, (addenda) xiii. 8o-z, xliii. 16 and xliv. 8. 



4 The registers of this Walloon church, which began in December, 1567, are peculiarly interesting. 

 The first baptism suivant La Liturgie Anglicane was on zi April, 1714. They were printed in extenso for 

 the Huguenot Society in 1890. 



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