Notice of Dr. John Caius and the sweating sickness / [Thomas Joseph Pettigrew].

  • Thomas Pettigrew
Date:
1861
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Credit: Notice of Dr. John Caius and the sweating sickness / [Thomas Joseph Pettigrew]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    services of the Roman Catholic church. Dr. Sandys, bishop of London, hearing of this, wrote to Dr. Byng, the vice-chancellor of the university; and in 1572 the matter was reported to lord Burghley, then lord chancel- lor, Dec. 14, 1572: I am further to geve your honor advertisement of a greate oversight of D. Caius, who hath so long kept superstitious inonumentes in his college that the evill fame thereof caused my lord of London to write very earnestly unto me to see them abolished. I could hardly have been persuaded that such thinges by him had been reserved. But causing his owne company to make serche in that college, I received an inventory of muche popishe trumpery, as vestments, albes, tunicles, stoles, manicles, corporas clothes, with the pix and sindon and canopie, beside holy water stoppes, with sprinkles, pax, sensars, superalteries, tables of idolles, masse bookes, portuises, and grailles, with other suche stufFe as might have furnished divers massers at one instant. It was thought good, by the whole consent of the heades of houses, to burne the bookes and such other thinges as served most for idolatrous abuses, and to cause the rest to be defaced; whiche was accomplished yesterday with the willing hartes, as appeared, of the whole company of that howse. Dr. Caius complained of this proceeding as a scandalous outrage and an outbreak of fanaticism. Cooper' gives the following as the record of Caius in relation to this matter: An. 1572, 13 Decembr. Discerpta, dissecta, et lacerata prius, combusta sunt omnia ornamenta coUegii hujus privata authoritate Tho. Bynge, procan. (ut ipse dicebat) nec seque invisum erat illi quicquam, quam nomen et imago Christi crucifixi, B. Marise, et S. Trinitatis, nam has indignis modis tractavit dissecando, et in ignem projiciendo, et abominandi titulis et epithetis prosequendo. Nec hoc factum est, nisi instigantibus quibusdam male affectis sociis, quorum alii rem procuraverunt convivio, alii, ne conserventur, aut noctu sustoUantur, pervigiles extiterunt. Sed ex his alios Deus morte sustulit alios aliis modis subduxit, non sine ignominia. Ut celarent tamen cul- pam suam, dissimularunt sedulo, et omnem culpam in Dimsdallum quen- dam pensionarium collegii nostri transtulerunt, cum tamen ipsi omnis male authores extiterunt. Ad hsec prsefuerunt foco, ut multum defati- gati comburendo ab hora 12 ad tertiam, idem Tho. Bynge, Joan. Whit- gift, pr£efectus Coll. Trin., et Gul. [Rog.] Goade, prsefectus Coll. Regalis. Postremo, quae corabuere nequiverunt, malleis contuderunt et violarunt et tantus erat illis fervor in religionem, ut nec beneficia personarum, nec gratia in academiam, sedificio et aeditis libris suadere potuit moderatio- nem. On the 27th June, 1573, he resigned the mastership of the college in favour of Thos. Legge, M.A., of Jesus College,—a power he enjoyed by a grant from this college, obtained Sept. 1, 1572,—and in anticipation ^ Athenas Cantabrigienses, p. 314.