Henry Cole (priest)
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Henry Cole (c. 1500 – c. 1579 or 1580 in
Early life
Cole was born in
.Career
After his return from Italy, Cole began a rapid rise in the English church during the reign of
In July 1553, after the Catholic
Cole was one of the commissioners who restored
On 13 July 1554, Cole was appointed as
He was a delegate for the visitation of Oxford (1556), and Visitor of
Final senior clerical role
In 1558, just months before the death of Mary I, Cardinal Pole commissioned Cole (as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral) to suppress the heresy of Protestantism in Ireland. During his journey to Dublin, he spent the night at a hostelry in Chester where he was visited by Lawrence Smith, the Mayor of Chester. Cole showed the mayor a leather box, which contained his letters of authority from Cardinal Pole, saying "Here is what will lash the heretics of Ireland!" This was overheard by the hostelry owner, a Mrs Mottershead, who had a brother in Dublin. Concerned for his safety, she surreptitiously replaced the commission letter with a pack of cards with the Knave of Clubs on top. Cole only discovered the deception when he opened the box to much surprise at an assembly in Dublin Castle in front of the Lord Deputy of Ireland Thomas Radclyffe and members of his Privy Council. He was told to go back to London immediately and only return when he had the correct letters of authority. However. Mary I died on his journey back. The Protestant queen, Elizabeth I, was said to be so impressed by Mrs Mottershead's ingenuity, she awarded her an annual pension of £40 (£15,000 in 2023).[5]
Death
Cole returned to England from Ireland shortly after
Cole remained true to his Catholic faith despite the new queen immediately changing the country's religion back to Protestantism. He was part of the Catholic delegation which took part in the Westminster Conference in March 1559 which resulted in the authorisation of the 1559 Book of Common Prayer.[7]
However the
Works
He wrote:
- Letters to Dr. Starkey and Sir Richard Morison (or Morysin) from Padua, 1530, and Paris, 1537;
- "Disputation with Cranmer, Ridley and Latimer at Oxford", in Foxe's "Acts and Monuments";
- "Sum and effect of his sermon at Oxford when Archbishop Cranmer was burnt", in Foxe's "Acts and Monuments";
- "Answer to the first proposition of the Protestants at the disputation before the Lords at Westminster 1559", in Burnet's "Hist. Reform. Records";
- "Copie of a Sermon at Paule's Crosse 1560" (London, 1560);
- "Letters to John, Bishop of Sarum" (London, 1560);
- "Answers to certain parcels of the Letters of the Bishop of Sarum", in John Jewel's works.
References
- ^ "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Choke-Colepepper". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ISBN 9780300074482.
- ^ Mayer, T. F. (2008). Cole, Henry (1504/5–1579/80): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 28 August 2008.
- ^ "Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714". British History Online. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
- ^ Joseph Hemingway (1836). Panorama of the city of Chester. T. Griffith. p. 151.
- ^ Eamon Duffy (May 2009). "Fires of Faith: Catholic England under Mary Tudor". History Today. 59 (5). Yale University Press: 24–29.
- ISBN 978-0-85115-590-6. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
- ^ "Henry Cole: Confessor of the Faith (d. 1579 or 1580)". www.catholic.com. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Henry Cole". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.