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EDWARD VI. AND QUEEN MARY 45
journeys, in good fare, in viewing of fair countries,
and rather have sought to fortify our own, than to
spoil another man’s.” Edward goes on to relate
how he has visited Waltham and Portesmouth
toune, where he inspected the haven and bulwarks,
and “ how marvellously, not to say excessively,” Sir
Anthony Browne feasted him at his goodly house
of Cowdray.
On the 7th of October, he wrote again from Hamp-
ton Court, approving highly of Barnaby’s resolve not
to ask leave to return home till the war between
the French king and Emperor should be at an end.
“ Peradventure you may see more things in this
short journey (if so be it that the Emperor doth
march toward you) than you have seen all the while
you have been there. Nevertheless, as soon as this
businese is once overpast, you may take some
occasion to ask leave for this winter to come home,
because you think there shall few things more be
done than have been already. More we have not
to advertise you, and therefore we commit you
to God.” 1
On the last Sunday which Edward spent at
Hampton Court, a certain preacher, a Scotsman by
birth, chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland,
whose influence was paramount at Court since
Somerset’s execution, delivered a sermon before the
King, in which he inveighed with great freedom
against kneeling at the Lord’s Supper, a practice
still retained in England. This was no other than
John Knox, who had lately been appointed one of
1 Nichols, i. 80, 87,
journeys, in good fare, in viewing of fair countries,
and rather have sought to fortify our own, than to
spoil another man’s.” Edward goes on to relate
how he has visited Waltham and Portesmouth
toune, where he inspected the haven and bulwarks,
and “ how marvellously, not to say excessively,” Sir
Anthony Browne feasted him at his goodly house
of Cowdray.
On the 7th of October, he wrote again from Hamp-
ton Court, approving highly of Barnaby’s resolve not
to ask leave to return home till the war between
the French king and Emperor should be at an end.
“ Peradventure you may see more things in this
short journey (if so be it that the Emperor doth
march toward you) than you have seen all the while
you have been there. Nevertheless, as soon as this
businese is once overpast, you may take some
occasion to ask leave for this winter to come home,
because you think there shall few things more be
done than have been already. More we have not
to advertise you, and therefore we commit you
to God.” 1
On the last Sunday which Edward spent at
Hampton Court, a certain preacher, a Scotsman by
birth, chaplain to the Duke of Northumberland,
whose influence was paramount at Court since
Somerset’s execution, delivered a sermon before the
King, in which he inveighed with great freedom
against kneeling at the Lord’s Supper, a practice
still retained in England. This was no other than
John Knox, who had lately been appointed one of
1 Nichols, i. 80, 87,