GARDINER. 
eile the remark Ma ; foreigner, « that in En ngland there 
twas a ftra ange m of managing matters, for thofe that 
were the pope’s naherest were hanged, and thofe who were 
inft him were burnt.’ 
Upon the fall.of Cromwell, in 2 540, Gardiner was elected 
chancellor of the univerfity of Cambridge, in which fituation 
he was the conftant opponent of whatever was propofed to 
be introduced in favour of improving the plans of education: 
he was the advocate for old cuftoms and pratices, becaufe 
they were old, though at the fame time they might be vicious 
and abfu e even charged fir John Clar ke with endea- 
ee to remove ‘an evil well place 
1542 .a CO — was ei to examine the met rits of 
: " the Penton se 
eas ated it a 
obtain nrae sea it they offe red to 
eace 
reen the prince of 
ih queen; but in all his public 
employments he: never loft fight of a favourable opportunity 
of impeding the progrefs of freedom and inquiry in religious 
concerns. With this view he probably employed perfons as 
{pies upon the condu& of thofe attached to the reformed 
principles ; and, having been informed that feveral fuch were 
to be foun at Windfor, he moved the king in council that a 
in perfon in the prefence of his fovereign, contri in 
a pardon before any fleps could be taken to prove his guilt. 
In the yeara545 he ae a defeated a defign which 
- Cranmer had formed, by a revifion and reformation of the 
canon laws, to adapt them to the new order of eccletiattical 
mployed in 
ne the French king, and w e was ab ent from the 
kingdom Cranme  ewomed: re obtain t ing’s confent 
for the abolifhing of feme of the pre valing ay iti ie 
ardiner was apprifed of the plan, fad wri the king 
to eH that his bufinefs was in a. 506d train, he an that op- | 
portunity of earn neftly entreating him not to fuffer any inno- 
vation in religion, J for if he did there would be no hope I eft of 
—— with the emperor. Soon after Gardiner’s return 
m the continent he contrived to fet on foot a perfecution i 
agent the proteltants upon the ftatute of the fix — 
A. charge was firft brought againft Mrs. Anne Afcough, 
lady of unbiémifhed manners, exemplary piety, ready vt 
and who had enjoyed the advantages of an excellent educ 
By making her the ae of their perfecution, hey 
extort from her confeflions whic h would furnifh 
3 "the ey eal her to ae flames, in w “hich je fuffered, 
with three others, for fpeaking againft the real ieee Sir 
George Blage, one of the gen ntl emen 0 ing’s privy 
chamber, was likewife varie to be Cae but the king 
inter agi a fet him at li 
The attempt Gardiner to crufh the fae 
vourers af the ac nipr on, ees failed in its defign, and 
which irrecoverably alienated the king’s mind from him, was 
direéted againft Catherine Parr, to whom the king had been 
married three years. After this, Henry never admitted 
the bifhop into his prefence, excepting once, when he was 
informed that he came to sds bim a benevolence, granted 
nim by the clergy. that occa ion he barely fuffered him 
to approach, to , deliver his eels and when he had received 
it went into another apartment 
aa caier him one of his e ae to weer 
ordy ae a new will to be aa in which 
his name was ery 
r the death of Henry, Gardiner, though the power. 
was ae out of his hands, objected, as violently as ever, 
againft the meafures = reform which Cranmer was defirous 
i i this account he was imprifoned in 
the Fleet, where hee was siaaer a wit he much feverity. 
this ftate of confinement he contin 
fion of parliament, when he wa d ing’s 
pardon, suse gh he Ped never been formally cvuled of any 
particular fet at liberty he repaired to his 
iHocele, ae : ad himfelf, outw 2 at leaft, to 
the orders of the council, fo that it was impoffible to take 
any advantage againft him; but no doubt was entertained 
that he did all that lay in his power, pier to oppofe the 
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principles of the reformation. He even preathed againtt 
them, and exhorted his people to beware ecelving any 
other do¢trine than that which he had taught them. Of 
this conduct a laint was made nit him, in the 
council, before whom he was fummoned in the year 1548, 
and, having been feverely reprimanded, was ordered to keep 
his houte till he had given fatisfattion, which was to be by 
preaching before pa ang: according to certain directions 
to be given him. ay appointe he did ali but 
his difcourfe made he Beal till wider, ail e was com- 
mitted a clofe prifoner to t wer s de- 
n fe where 
ne 
was informe 
judge him, and that he was required to fub{fcribe 
cles which had Hae fent to him. eon was «inflexible, 
and refuted ; and, n confequence 0 
e 
indulgences, which ha been before eae him in his S con- 
finement, and he was kept prifoner in the Tower during the 
Sie of king. mal ard’s reign. Jere he fpent his time 
mpofing av Latin poems, tranflated into Englifh 
verfe feveral of | a ‘poetical a ef the Old Teitament, and 
] tracts. E 
5° 
change o 
ra 
piesa which fhould put ae in poo of the degree 
‘ef influence and profperity that he = erly enjoye In the 
year 1553 his hopes were realize te ie. of Mary to 
the throne of thefe realms. On the 8th of July, he was ap- 
pointed to perform the Romith obfequies for the late king, 
who was — . bilasee sana with the Englith fervice, by 
-archbifhop Cranmer : and on the following ‘day he refurmed 
‘the poffeffion of "Winckel houly after an abfence of five 
ye 
ars, 
