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 ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY ' It was pity the great lamentation that the poor people made for them.'^"' At the end of April, however, the king ordered the preachers to avoid new opinions except as regards the primacy of the pope ; '""' relying upon this support, Stokesley endeavoured to prevent some of the more extreme reformers from preaching, but they declared that they were authorized by Cromwell.""' ' Virtue and holiness ' were diminished, it was said, in consequence of the religious controversy ; the people, taught to despise purgatory, were begin- ning to disregard heaven and hell, and they were so exasperated by foolish contentions that 'the quietness of the City' was endangered.^"' The Ten Articles, drawn up by the bishops and on the whole conservative in tone, were issued in July ; "" and the king directed the bishops to allow no preaching till Michaelmas except by persons for whom they could themselves be answerable, recalling all previous licences.^^^ Stokesley, thus enabled to regain partial con- trol over the pulpit at Paul's Cross, sent to Cromwell, with whom he seems to have kept outwardly on good terms, a list of those he thought fit to occupy it, at the same time interceding with him on behalf of Rowland Philips, the aged rector of St. Michael Cornhill, who had probably got into trouble for preaching against the new doctrines."' Cromwell accepted the nominations, to the disgust of the more zealous reformers, who described men like Philips as ' seditious preachers.' ^" The first set of royal Injunctions was issued in September ; the London chronicler Wriothesley specially notices those enjoining ' virtuous living ' on the clergy, and commanding them to teach their parishioners the Lord's Prayer, Ave Maria,"* Creed, and Ten Commandments in English.*^' The rector of St. Michael Wood Street was accused of speaking of them con- temptuously ; "° the rector of St. Margaret Lothbury, being asked, ' What is this that is set up on the church door ?' answered, 'A thing to make fools afraid withal,' and scornfully smiled and went away. He also kept the feast of St. Margaret in spite of its abrogation that year."^ It appears from Hall's account of the murder of Robert Packington as he was going to the ' morrow mass ' at the church of St. Thomas of Aeon in November that the clergy were still unpopular. The murderer confessed his crime many years later as he was about to be hanged for felony ; but Hall says that since Packington, who was one of the members for the City, had denounced the ' covetousness and cruelty of the clergy, he was had in contempt with them, and therefore most like by one of them, thus shamefully murdered, as you perceive that Master Hun was.'"' In 1536 the chief matters of controversy were the ancient customs and ceremonies of the Church ; examples of the attitude of both parties in London on one such point, the use of special lights, occur during '<« Chnn. i, 43. '" L. and P. Hen. Fill, x, 752, 831, 922, 929 (2). '"' Ibid, xi, 52 ; cf. x, 1201. *" Ibid, xi, 156 ; Strype, Mem. i (i), 452. "» Wilkins, Conci/ia/m, 817 (cf. 825) ; L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xi, 376 ; Wriothesley, Chron. (Camd. Soc), i, 54. For the Articles and the Injunctions cf. Gairdner, Lollardy and the Reformation, li, 310-19 ; The EngL Ch. in xdth Cent. 177-8. "' Wilkins, Concilia, iii, 807. "' L. and P. Hen. Vlll, xi, 186 ; cf viii, 600, 602. '" Ibid, xi, 325. "* This is not mentioned in the copy of the Injunctions in Cranmer's Register ; Gee and Hardy, Documents. "' Wriothesley, Chron. (Camd. Soc), i, 55. "« L. and P. Hen. Fill, xi, 1425. "" Chron. 28 Hen. VIII ; Wriothesley, Chron. (Camd. Soc), i, 59 ; Stow, Annals; L. and P. Hen. Fill, xi, 1097 ; cf 1419 an"d ix, 346, 382, and Narratives of the Reformation (Camd. Soc), 296-7. I 265 34
 * " Ibid, xiii (l), 1492 ; Wilkins, Concilia, iii, 823.