ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



before March 1553-4.'' The altar had to be 'made up,' the rood made, 

 two crosses, perhaps of wood, were bought, and a cross shaft painted. Both 

 a holy water stoup and a pix were provided, and also ' an elle of cloth 

 for the pixe ' ; an incense boat cost ibd., and two * staundes at the highe 

 aulter,' izd. Possibly the vicar himself had the necessary vestments,"" for 

 the only other purchase of stuff was of seven ells of hoUand for the priest's 

 surplice. The prices given for the various articles indicate that no attempt 

 was made to provide more than the cheapest materials, and the only adorn- 

 ment attempted was ' the coloring of the walle ' (6d.) and the providing of 

 4 yards of fringe ' and the sowing of y* apon the sacrament cloth.' Books 

 were, of course, an expensive item : i zs. were given to ' Mr. Vicar for a 

 mas bok,' 22s. for '3 bokes more,' and 4J. 6d. for a ' manuell and a 

 proossesioner.' " 



There was doubtless much to be done in the diocese of London before 

 it could be restored to any semblance of its old condition. In the diocese 

 of Lincoln Mary's advisers saw that their policy would be ineffective as long 

 as it remained under the guidance of Taylor, and he was accordingly deprived 

 on 15 March 1553—4.''' In this same month Mary issued her Injunctions'' 

 directing the bishops to declare deprived ' all such persons from their benefices 

 or ecclesiastical promotions who . . . have married'* ... or otherwise 

 notably and slanderously disordered or abused themselves.' The profits of 

 their promotions were to be sequestrated, but the bishops were desired to 

 use more lenity and clemency to widowers and to such as agreed to a 

 separation by mutual consent.'" This last would seem a somewhat precarious 

 arrangement, and it certainly proved so in the cases of John Yngvey and 

 Thomas Goldere, priests living at Kensworth in 1556. According to report 

 the separation was not complete ; they were accordingly suspended and fled." 

 It was perhaps under this rule that four more deprivations in Hertfordshire 

 parishes of the London diocese were made in the first half of 1554. John 

 Synge was deprived at Bushey ; his successor Thomas Bentley was instituted 

 on 5 May," but must have himself died, resigned, or been deprived before 

 the autumn, when George Chapman was rector.'^ At Broxbourne, also, 

 Thomas Banister, vicar since 1 549, was deprived, and the same fate, met 

 James Lodge, vicar of Braughing, and Richard Freman, rector of Stocking 

 Pelham." Before September Thomas Butler, M.A., vicar of Barkway, and 

 Alexander Stooks, vicar of Royston since 1540, had been deprived."" 

 Nicholas Browne, B.A., who had been rector of Little Hormead for thirty- 

 seven years, was deprived of this living and allowed to resign his vicarage at 

 Great Hormead.* In the diocese of Lincoln the same thing was going on ; 

 in May Robert Manners and John Smarte were admitted respectively to the 

 livings of Datchworth and Wallington, both vacant by deprivation.' In 

 August Richard Preston was instituted to Rushden, which was ' by lawful 



*' Glasscock, op. cit. 50-3. s" • A cloth for the pryst hed' was bought in 1554 (ibid. 53). 



^^ Ibid. 50-3. '2 Rymer, Foedera, xv, 370. '' Wilkins, Concilia, iv, 89. 



^ The marriage of the clergy was legalized in Feb. 1548-9 (Stat. 2 & 3 Edw. I, cap. 21). 



'' Wilkins, loc. cit. ^^ Strype, Eccl. Mem. ii (2), 404. "' Newcourt, Refert. i, 816. 



'8 Visit, of Archd. of Middlesex, 1554 (Lond. Epis. Reg.). 



^' Newcourt, op. cit. i, 812, 808, 867. Only one resignation is shown in this period (ibid. 864). 



lO" Ibid. 803, 867. This date is supplied by the Visitation of 1554. 



^ Newcourt, op. cit. i, 836, 838. ^ Line. N. and g. v, 228, 229. 



