Affaires of the Church in her time.
IN the first yeere of this Queenes reigne, all Bishops which had beene de∣prived in the time of King Edward the sixth, were restored to their Bishop∣riks, and the new removed; also all Benefized men that were married, or would not forsake their opinion, were put out of their Livings; and other of a con∣trary opinion put in their roomes. Also this yeere, on the seven and tweeti∣eth of August, the Service begun to be sung in Latine in Pauls Church. Also this yeere the Popes authority was by Act of Parliament restored in England; and the Masse commanded in all Churches to be used. In her second yeer, the Realme is Absolved, and reconciled to the Church of Rome, by Cardinall Poole; and first Fruits and Tenths are restored to the Clergy: but this was soone revoked, the Councell finding the necessity of it for the Queenes sup∣port. In her fourth yeere, Monasteries were begun to be reedified; of which number were that of Westminster, that of Sheene and Sion, that of the Black-fry∣ers, and the Fryers of Greenwich. Of the number of those that dyed for Reli∣gion in her time, there are recorded five Bishops, one and twenty Divines, and of all sorts of men and women, two hundred threescore and seventeene.