ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



was a strong upholder of the royal supremacy, till the exercise of the 

 royal supremacy by the regency ran counter to his equally strong alle- 

 giance to medijeval sacramental doctrine. He was not opposed to all 

 reform ; he had a share in the translation of the Gospels for Cranmer's 

 Bible, was a prominent member of the Government which dissolved the 

 monasteries and put down relic worship and pilgrimages, and was a 

 reformer of manners. He was the kind of man who could be trusted to 

 enforce discipline, an important consideration touching deprivations in 

 his episcopate. 



On his deprivation, John Poynet, or Ponet, was translated from 

 Rochester to Winchester 23 March, 1551. He was an ardent reformer. 

 His character otherwise does not concern us here, but he was unlikely to 

 overlook disobedience to Edward's laws if he knew of it. When Mary 

 succeeded in July, 1553, Gardiner was almost immediately restored. 

 Poynet withdrew, and, after taking part in Wyatt's insurrection, went to 

 Germany, where he died. 



Gardiner died on 12 November, 1555. John White was translated 

 from Lincoln to Winchester in 1556. He had been consecrated to 

 Lincoln in the year 1554 in place of an Edwardian bishop deprived, and 

 was quite in agreement with the policy of Mary and of Pole. He has a 

 bad name from Fox as a persecutor, though as we have seen he had no 

 great number of victims in his own diocese of Winchester. On the death 

 of Mary he preached a funeral sermon, in which he said that ' a live dog 

 is better than a dead lion,' which was taken as an insult to Elizabeth. 

 He was sent to the Tower on 4 April and deprived on 26 June, 1559. 

 His successor Robert Home was not consecrated till 16 February, 1561. 

 White was not at all likely to institute any but supposed adherents of the 

 papal supremacy ; Home was certain to institute none but supporters of 

 the royal supremacy. 



Under these four bishops all the Surrey parishes changed their 

 rectors or vicars at least once. But in the great majority the changes 

 seem to have no connexion with the changes in the ecclesiastical laws, 

 being at dates marked by no revolution, and for the ordinary reasons, after 

 death and so on, and if after deprivation or resignation these are not more 

 numerous than the ordinary cases. After Elizabeth's accession the arch- 

 deacon was deprived, and Maurice Chauncey, the head of the restored 

 monastery at Sheen, went into exile with his Carthusian monks to 

 Bruges. There were forebodings as to what would happen among the 

 clergy, who were supposed to be in general strongly opposed to the 

 contemplated Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, and fears even of armed 

 resistance seem to have been entertained,' but after all nothing much 

 seems to have happened. 



Soon after his consecration in February, 1560-1, Home was 

 making a visitation of his diocese. He had passed through Surrey when 

 he wrote to Cecil as follows : — 



1 See V.C.H. Surrey, i. 378, ' Political History.' The government wanted an account of the arms, 

 etc., of the clergy (Loseley MSS. 31 Dec. 1558. The council to Sir Thomas Cawarden). 



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