tice; a resolution which led them to
commit still greater iniquities and severities. But the violence of
the reformers did not stop here. Day, bishop of Chichester, Heathe of
Worcester, and Voisey of Exeter, were deprived of their bishoprics, on
pretence of disobedience. Even Kitchen of Landaff, Capon of Salisbury,
and Samson of Coventry, though they had complied in every thing, yet,
not being supposed cordial in their obedience, were obliged to seek
protection, by sacrificing the most considerable revenues of their see
to the rapacious courtiers.[**]

These plunderers neglected not even smaller profits. An order was
issued by council for purging the library at Westminster of all missals,
legends, and other superstitious volumes, and delivering their garniture
to Sir Anthony Aucher.[***]

* Fox, vol. ii..p. 734, et seq. Burnet. Heylin. Collier.

** Goodwin de Praesul. Angl Heylin. p. 100.

*** Collier, vol. ii. p. 307.

Many of these books were plated with gold and silver, and curiously
embossed; and this finery was probably the superstition that condemned
them. Great havoc was likewise made on the libraries at Oxford. Books
and manuscripts were destroyed without distinction: the volumes of
divinity from the council books, suffered for their rich binding: those
of literature were condemned as useless: those of geometry and astronomy
were supposed to contain nothing but necromancy.[*] The university had
not power to oppose these barbarous violences: they were in danger of
losing their own revenues; and expected every moment to be swallowed up
by the earl of Warwick and his associates.

Though every one besides yielded to the authority of the council, the
lady Mary could never be brought to compliance; and she still continued
to adhere to the mass, and to reject the new liturgy. Her behavior was,
during some time, connived at; but at last her two chaplains, Mallet and
Berkeley, were thrown into prison;[**] and remonstrances were made to
the princess herself on account of her disobedience. The council
wrote her a letter, by which they endeavored to make her change her
sentiments, and to persuade her that her religious faith was very ill
grounded. They asked her what warrant there was in Scripture for prayers
in an unknown tongue, the use of images, or offering up the sacrament
for the dead; and they desired her to peruse St. Austin, and the other
ancient doctors, who would convince her of the errors of