ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



St. Andrew's, Norwich ; ^ Richard Crashfield of Wymondham ; ^ Thomas 

 Carman, who pledged Richard Crashfield at his burning ; ' John Noyes of 

 Laxfield, shoemaker ; Cecily wife of Edward Ormes of St. Lawrence's 

 parish ; * and Thomas Hudson of Aylesham, glover.' Thomas Rose, priest, 

 was arraigned before Michael Dunning in 1556, for having preached and 

 taught in the graveyard near the cathedral, and in other places in the city of 

 Norwich,* against the doctrine of the Real Presence. He had been sent by 

 the lieutenant of the Tower to the sheriff of Norfolk, who had orders to 

 deliver him to the bishop that he might ' travayle to reduce him from his 

 heresyes to the truth, otherwise to proceed against him according to the 

 order of the laws.' ^ But he was committed to the care of Sir William 

 Woodhouse, and escaped beyond seas, to return in Elizabeth's reign.' 



In October, 1553,' Sir William Fermour with others received orders 

 * to redeliver such church goods as by them by virtue of a commission were 

 taken from the parishes within the county of Norfolk, to such parishes from 

 whence they were taken, and to send up such sums of money to the council 

 for such goods as they have sold.' 



That all these changes were not accepted in Norfolk without a murmur 

 is shown in the committal to the gatehouse of Thomas Cobbe*" of Binham, 

 for his movin* of a seditious tumult in Norfolk. In the same month Sir 

 Christopher Haydon, knt., was thanked ' for his diligent paynes taken in the 

 trial out of a certain lewd talk in Norfolk';" and in July, 1556, Sir John 

 Shelton is directed to advertise the earl of Sussex, now resident in Norfolk, 

 of all things tending to the disquiet of the sheriff which he shall hear.^' 

 Strype says that the earl of Sussex stirred up Hopton's zeal against heresy, 

 and directed him to establish a system of espionage over those who propa- 

 gated unsound doctrines.'^ In August, 1556, the earl was thanked for his 

 diligence in apprehending such as spread abroad lewd and seditious reports.'* 



Six months after Queen Mary's death. Bishop Hopton died, heavily in 

 debt. The dean and chapter elected Dr. Richard Cox to succeed him, 

 29 June, 1559, but on 28 July he was appointed to the see of Ely, and 

 Bishop Parkhurst was not consecrated until i September, 1560. The choice 

 of the dean and chapter had fallen on one of the most active of the minor 

 English reformers, who, as one of the royal visitors in 1549, had swept the 

 schools and colleges with destructive zeal, but Bishop Parkhurst was also a 

 thoroughgoing supporter of the Reformation. On the accession of Queen 

 Mary he had found it necessary to take refuge in Zurich, and the letters • 

 written after his return show that a warm friendship existed between him 

 and Rudolf Gualter and other Calvinistic divines. He found the see 

 thoroughly disorganized, and many livings without incumbents. But his 

 strong Calvinistic views were accompanied by a certain indolence of tempera- 

 ment, and the laxity of his administration, as much as his encouragement of 

 Nonconformist practices, brought upon him more than once the displeasure 

 of Queen Elizabeth and of Archbishop Parker. He was hospitable and 

 extravagant, and in 1572 lost so much money by the dishonesty of a servant, 



' Foxe, Acts and Monuments, viii, 381. ' Ibid. 398. ' Ibid. 463. 



' Ibid. 427. ' Ibid. 464. ' Harl. MSS. 42 1, fol. 188 (B.M.). 



' Acts P.C. vi, 123. * Blomefield, iii, 276. ^ Acts P.C. iv, 354-5. 



"Ibid. V, 371, 22 Nov. 1553. " Ibid. V, 365. "Ibid.vi,3i6. 



"Cranmer, 525. " Acts P.C. vi, 333. 



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