Volume 1

The history and antiquities of the University of Oxford ... / by Anthony ä Wood. Now first published in English ... by John Gutch.

  • Anthony Wood
Date:
1792-1796
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    Hieronymum, et fandlum Auguftinum, et S. Papae Gregorii Dodoris dog- mata, et etiam opera aliorum fandlorumto which Pecocke anfwered * Poenitet me fic fcripfilTe, fui enim non fufficienter videns in materiis.’ But at length, after divers examinations, and fearchings of, and into his books, he, 28 Nov. being then in the prefence of the Archbilhop at Lam- beth, feveral Biihops and Doctors, as alfo the Lord Thom. Stanley and the Lord Scalys, receded from and abjured his opinions and conclufions,(i) recalled alfo all his books which he had written, efpecially that about Bi- fhops not preaching, and then after a full examination, it troubled much the faid Bilhops, that he had written fuch profound matters in Englilh, which did rather draw the Laics from, than lead them to, good. After this was done, Pecocke was conveyed to Canterbury, (2) where repenting of his former actions, would fay to feveral that came to him: ‘ SSUtt gatS toontier, tBat IReafon cannot ffean l^otn a ^otier t0 a i^apti, anti <iDoti ^an,’ To which Thom. Gafcoigne, lately Chancellor of Oxford, thus pioufly anfwered: ‘ llene IReafon, faelcPe t§e ®2IIonticr, Bclef flats ^^alfrp, anti lUcafon nnticr.’ When the day appointed was come for the ending of [this] great affair, which was the fourth of Dec. this year, he, after another abjuration of all his opinions and books, was conducted to St. Paul’s Church-yard in his Bifhop’s habit; where being prefent the Archbifhop of Canterbury (at whofe feet Pecocke fate) Thom. Kempe Bifhop of London, J. Low Bifhop of Rochefter, and Lawr. Booth Bifhop of Durham, with thoufands of all forts of people, fourteen books by him written, viz. three great folios and eleven quartos, were there in a fire prepared, burnt and confumed to afhes before the author’s face. After which, when he had faid before them, that his pride and prefumption had brought him to thefe evils and reproaches, the Archbifhop commanded him to be carried to Maydeftone in Kent, there to remain to exped: further judgment; but where afterwards he was conveyed, or whether he remained all his life time at that place, (being (0 [Wilkins«-CoNC. vol. iii, p. 576 : ex Reg. Exon. Nevil, fol. 38.] (2) Qu. then