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A HISTORY OF NORFOLK that to refund it he moved from the bishop's palace to an episcopal grange at Ludham. One of his greatest friends was John Foxe, the martyrologist, who is said to have Hved with him for a time, and to have preached in his diocese.' A commission was issued to administer the Oath of Supremacy, 23 May, 1559, and sessions were held in the following September at Norwich Cathedral ; St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich ; North Walsham, Walsingham, Kino-'s Lynn, Swaffliam, and Thetford.^ The signatures for the diocese seem to show a ready acceptance, but the impression left is that no great diligence was used to enforce subscription.' Norwich is one of the eleven dioceses in which complete lists of the deprivations that resulted can be obtained from the registers ; among the Norfolk clergy deprived were the dean of Norwich, John Harpsfield, and one Harcourt, a canon.* The queen's speech at the opening of her first Parliament desired that such laws should be passed as would prevent both the danger of idolatry and superstition, and the opposite peril of irreverence and irreligion. Her first progress through the eastern counties convinced her, according to Strype,^ that ' there was little or no order observed in the public service, few or none wearing the surplice, and the bishop of Norwich was thought remiss, and winked at schismatics.' It would be no recommendation to Elizabeth that he conspicuously favoured the Genevan party, and was a married man.* That there were many abuses existing was shown in the bishop's first visitation, begun 2 May, 1561, and that the inconoclasm in his diocese had been very widespread is clear from his own injunctions, which are of very o-reat value, not only for the light they throw on the condition of the churches, but for their testimony as to church customs at the time.' ' John Foxe was appointed tutor, by the influence of the duchess of Richmond, to the orphan children of Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, executed 9 Jan. 1546-7 : two boys, Thomas, afterwards duke of Norfolk, and Henry Howard, afterwards earl of Northampton, and three girls. He taught them at the castle of Reigate for five years, and their subsequent careers testify that he did not interfere with their religious views. But when, on the accession of Mary, the old duke of Norfolk, grandfather of his pupils, was released from the Tower, he was dismissed. The elder boy, Thomas, had a great aflectlon for him, and Foxe attended him on the scaffold at his execution ; he had written a strong protest to him against his proposed marriage with Mary queen of Scots. ' Gee, Elizabethan Clergy, 96. ' Ibid. 102. ' Ibid. 237, 225. ^ Life of Parker, i, 212. ° In August, I 561, an order was issued excluding women and children from residence in the enclosures of colleges and cathedrals. ^ Injunctions exhibited by John by God's sufferance bishop of Norwich in his first visitation beginning the second dale of Maye in the 3rd yeare of our Sovereign Lady Elizabeth. First, y' every parson, vicare and Curate, doo so order the coiiion service within the City of Norwich & other lyke places where be dyvers parish churches in one toune, that it may be doon on y' Sondaie by nine of the clok, before the beginning of the sermon, where any is appointed, y' all the people after comon prayers be doon in their parish churches may resort thether to heare the sermon. 2. Item, that as many of them as be entred into orders do sale the morning and evening prayers daily in English or Latten, either openly or privatelie, that they may be the more ready in the Scriptures. 3. Item, that they see unto their Clerks and Sextons, if they doe ring at the buriall of the deade, noone or curphue, they ring but one peall, & that very shortt, omitting all other unnecessarie ringings as it is prescribed by order taken therein. 4. Item, that they neither suffer the Lordes table to be hanged and decked like an aulter, neyther use anv oestures of the popish masse in y* time of ministracion of the communion, as shitting of the boke, washing, breathing, crossing or such like. 5. Item, that they baptize not children on the working dales, or when the congregation is not come together, except it be thought that evident jeopardie require the contrarie. 6. Item, that they marie no yonge folkes, except they examin them before, whether they can save the articles of the Xtian faithe, the Lordes Prayer, and the ten commandments : and if they cannot then to stay them from going forward till they can say them. Likewise that they examin the godfathers and the god- 262