Mancuniensis; Or, an History of the Towne of Manchester, and What Is Most Memorable Concerning It (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839. Excerpt: ... of the parish of Manchester had bin high sheriffes of the county before, yet I could find no record ancienter then Edward the Sixth, in whose first yeare Sir Alexander Radcliffe, of Oardsall, Knight, was high Sheriffe. Queene Mary refounded the Colledge, restored alhnost all the lands, (the Earle of Derby still keeping the Collegiate house, and some other small things), appointed one master or keeper, eight fellowes chaplames, foure clerkes, and sixe choristers, and did allso confirme and reestablish the statutes of the first foundation, and placed George Collier in his wardenship againe. This George Collier came along with Dr. Pendleton to Mr. Bradford to dispute with him, anno 1555. The sayd Dr. Pendleton was, in King Henries dayes, a Papist; in King Edward's clayes, hee recanted in Manchester, (being one of the preachers there, mainteined out of the revenues of the then dissolved colledge) and became an earnest assertor and preacher of the gospell: in Queene Maries dayes, meeting with Mr. Saunders in the country, (about Coventry it's like, where Mr. Saunders lived, and Dr. Pendleton went that very way to London), and discoursing of the persecutions then arising, Saunders complaining that though Ms spirit was ready to suffer, his flesh was weake, and loth to tast of that bitter cup. Pendleton being a fat bigg man, ouer-selfe-confidently sayd, I will see the vtmost dropp of this grease of mine molten away, and the last gobbet of this flesh consumed to asshes, before I will forsake God and his truth, but the issue prooued otherwise when they came to London. Saunders bouldly preached Christ, opposed antichrist, and sealed his doctrine with his blond at Coventry.. Pendleton, sayth Mr. Fox, changed his tippet, preached popery, and, being learned, was a great...