Robert Wisdom under Persecution, 1541–1543

Sherwin Bailey

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Robert Wisdom under Persecution, 1541–1543

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Among those who came into collision with the authorities during the latter part of the reign of Henry VIII was Robert Wisdom. Although one of the lesser figures among the English reformers, he was not without importance. In 1552 he was suggested by Cranmer as a person suitable and willing to fill die then vacant archiepiscopal see of Armagh, but eventually he was passed over. At the time of the Marian reaction he sought refuge on the Continent, and on his return was made archdeacon of Ely, in the enjoyment of which dignity he died nine years later, in 1568.

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Information: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 180 - 189

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046900035946 [Opens in a new window]
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^{page 180 note 1} Strype, J., Ecclesiastical Memorials…, Oxford 1822, I. i. 567–72Google Scholar.

^{page 180 note 2} C. H., and Cooper, T., Athenae Cantabrigienses, Cambridge 1858, i. 259–61.Google Scholar

^{page 180 note 3} Foxe, J., Acts and Monuments …, ed. Pratt, J., London 1870.Google Scholar

^{page 180 note 4} Wriothesley, C., Chronicle (Camden Society ed., London 1875)Google Scholar.

^{page 180 note 5} Strype, op. cit., 571; Cooper, op. cit., 260; D.N.B., lxii. 237.

^{page 180 note 6} Strype, op. cit, 572.

^{page 180 note 7} Cooper, op. cit, 260.

^{page 180 note 8} Cooper, op. cit, 260; D.N.B., loc. cit.

^{page 180 note 9} Strype, op. cit, 567, 570.

^{page 181 note 1} Cooper, op. cit., 260.

^{page 181 note 2} Cooper, ibid.

^{page 181 note 3} Strype, op. cit., 570; Cooper, loc. cit.; D.N.B., loc. cit.

^{page 181 note 4} All copies of this work seem to have perished; there is no reference to it in Pollard and Redgrave, Short Title Catalogue…

^{page 181 note 5} Strype, op. cit., 570.

^{page 181 note 6} Strype, op. cit., 570–1; cf. Cooper, loc. cit.; D.N.B., loc. cit.

^{page 181 note 7} Robert Wisdome, a prisoner in Lollard's Tower; his vindication of himself, against certain articles charged upon him, printed by Strype, op. cit., I. ii. 463–79, and cited hereafter as Vindication.

^{page 181 note 8} Foxe, op. cit, v. 448.

^{page 181 note 9} Strype, op. cit., 567 has ‘St. Katharine's’.

^{page 181 note 10} Foxe, loc. cit., and Cooper, op. cit., 260.

^{page 181 note 11} Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xviii. I. 313–4 (No. 538).

^{page 181 note 12} Wriothesley, op. cit., i. 142.

^{page 181 note 13} Cooper, op. cit., 260 and D.N.B., loc. cit.

^{page 181 note 14} See ‘A revocation of that shameful bill that Winchester devised and Wisdome read…’ (cited hereafter as Revocation), printed as Appendix XXII* in Foxe, op. cit., v.

^{page 181 note 15} Strype, op. cit., I. ii. 470.

^{page 181 note 16} Ibid., I. i. 571–2.

^{page 182 note 1} Foxe, op. cit., v. 448.

^{page 182 note 2} Ibid., v. 444.

^{page 182 note 3} Ibid., v. 448.

^{page 182 note 4} See his Revocation.

^{page 182 note 5} Wisdom was not, as is often stated, Vicar of Stisted (see Newcourt, Repertorium Eccl. Paroch. Lond., s.v. ‘Stisted’), though he may have been ‘curate’ there.

^{page 183 note 1} Revocation.

^{page 183 note 2} Strype. op. cit., I. ii. 473.

^{page 183 note 3} I.e., Rogation Wednesday—in 1541, 25 May. Wisdom does not say where the sermon was preached.

^{page 183 note 4} 17 July.

^{page 183 note 5} Revocation.

^{page 184 note 1} Strype, op. cit., I. i. 567, has ‘St. Katharine's’.

^{page 184 note 2} See Newcourt, op. cit., and G. Hennessy, Novum Rep. Eccl. Paroch. Land., Margaret's, Lothbury’.

^{page 184 note 3} See the somewhat vague accounts in Strype, op. cit., I. i. 570, and Cooper, op. cit., 260.

^{page 184 note 4} See D.N.B.

^{page 184 note 5} Printed in Foxe, op. cit., v. App. XII.

^{page 185 note 1} There is no mention of the matter in Acts of the Privy Council, 1542–1547, ed. J. R. Dasent.

^{page 185 note 2} It is not stated in what year this sermon was delivered.

^{page 185 note 3} See Strype, op. cit., I. ii. 464–70.

^{page 185 note 4} Ibid., I. ii. 470.

^{page 185 note 5} 19 April 1541.

^{page 185 note 6} Strype, op. cit., I. ii. 473.

^{page 185 note 7} I.e., Bonner, who was Bishop of Hereford before he was translated to London. ‘Harford’ here seems to be a slip for London.

^{page 185 note 8} Strype, op. cit., I. ii. 478.

^{page 185 note 9} See Foxe, op. cit., v. App. XII.

^{page 186 note 1} Revocation.

^{page 186 note 2} Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, xviii, I. 313–14 (No. 538).

^{page 186 note 3} Op. cit., i. 142. It is odd that D.N.B. cites Wriothesley as an authority for the date, 14 july!

^{page 186 note 4} I.e., as Gardiner.

^{page 187 note 1} A full account of Thomas Becon's activities at this time is given in the writer's study: Thomas Becon and the Reformation of the Church in England, now in the press.

^{page 187 note 2} Essays on Subjects connected with the Reformation in England, London 1849, 1–2Google Scholar; see the two essays on Puritan veracity.

^{page 188 note 1} The jewel of Joy, Works (Parker Society), ii. 423.

^{page 188 note 2} Foxe, op. cit., v. 696.

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