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The Predicament of William Crashawe Preacher at the Temple, 1605—1613
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2011
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Much may be made of William Crashawe. As father of the poet, an editor of William Perkins's works, a publisher of rare manuscripts, the protagonist of catholicism, a devoted bibliophile, and a publicist for the Virginia Company, he merits recognition. Yet almost nothing has been written about his tenure at the Temple where, in the wake of Antonio de Corro and Walter Travers, he held one of the most lucrative lectureships in London.
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page 267 note 1 Larsen, Kenneth J., ‘The Religious Sources of Richard Crashawe's Sacred Poetry’ (Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge 1969)Google Scholar, ch. 1; Wallis, P. J., ‘The Library of William Crashawe’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, II (1956), 213–28Google Scholar; Wallis, P. J., ‘William Crashawe, the Sheffield Puritan’ 1963, (reprinted from Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society, VIII.ii–v, 1960–1963)—cited below as Wallis, WC.Google Scholar
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page 267 note 3 See Wallis, WC, passim.
page 267 note 4 As the archives of the Middle Temple are being reorganised, no fixed location can be given. Therefore items will be referred to as MT Crashawe MSS., followed by supplementary description. I am indebted to the librarians and societies of the Inner and Middle Temple for their assistance.
page 267 note 5 Crashawe's will, proved October 1626, and printed in Wallis, WC, 5. Unless otherwise stated, biographical details are from Wallis, the DNB, and John, and Venn, J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge 1922 i.Google Scholar
page 267 note 6 Perkins, William, A Faithfull and Plaine Exposition upon … Zephaniah, ed. WC, London TC for William Welby, 1605Google Scholar, dedicatory epistle, sig. A4; Wallis, WC, 22–3.
page 268 note 1 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT treasurer, 2 June 1614; ‘Epieikeia’, The Works … of William Perkins, Cambridge 1608–9, ii, dedicatory epistle by WC, sig. Vu4; Newes from Italy, ed. WC, London, PB for Richard Moore, 1608, sig. A2–4, dedicated to Sheffield on 12 January 1604; MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT under-treasurer, n.d.; Ibid., WC to MT 13 November 1613.
page 268 note 2 ‘Epieikeia’, dedicatory epistle by WC dated 10 September 1603. Cf. WC's edition of Perkins's Of the Calling of the Ministerie (1605), dedicated to certain lawyers and judges (Perkins, Works, iii).
page 268 note 3 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 13 November 1613.
page 268 note 4 Inner Temple Act Book ii, fol. 63 (also printed in A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, ed. Inderwick, F. A., London 1898, ii.9).Google Scholar Cf. MT Crashawe MSS., WC's salary receipts; Middle Temple Minute Book ii, fol. 391 (also printed in Minutes of Parliament of the Middle Temple, ed. Martin, Charles Trice, London 1904, ii.512).Google Scholar
page 268 note 5 As this information is derived from a comprehensive analysis of the orders and accounts of the Inns of Court, it cannot be documented here.
page 268 note 6 MT Crashawe MSS., preacher's roll receipts, Easter to Hilary terms, 1605–6. Concerning ranks of membership, see Prest, Wilfrid R., The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts, 1590–1640, London, 1972, ch. iii.Google Scholar
page 268 note 7 Prest, op. cit., 8–9.
page 269 note 1 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT under-treasurer, 10 March 1606.
page 269 note 2 See 268 n. 6; MTMB ii, fol. 391 (ii.512).
page 269 note 3 Prest, op. cit., 12–14.
page 269 note 4 ITAB ii, fol. 72v (ii.20).
page 269 note 5 MT Crashawe MSS., WC's letter and petition to the treasurer and benchers of MT, 13 November 1613.
page 269 note 6 Ibid. Cf. ITAB ii, fol. 82, 7 February 1608.
page 269 note 7 See Prest, op. cit., 88–90, chs. Viii–ix and my thesis ‘The Inns of Court and the Reformation, 1530–1580’ (Ph.D. thesis, Cambridge 1974), chs. iv and vii.Google Scholar
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page 269 note 9 MTMB ii, fol. 369 (ii. 492).
page 269 note 10 MTMB ii, fol. 371v (ii. 495).
page 270 note 1 Edward Cardwell, Synodalia, Oxford 1842, ii. 591.
page 270 note 2 Wallis, WC, 30.
page 270 note 3 Henry Briggs to James Ussher, in The Life of the Most Reverend Father in God, James Usher, late Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, ed. Richard Parr, London 1686, ii. 12.
page 270 note 4 See Wallis, WC, passim.
page 270 note 5 WC to Robert Cotton, 19 July 1609: BM. Cotton MS. Julius C. III, fol. 126.
page 270 note 6 MT Crashawe MSS. WC to MT under-treasurer, 1606 and n.d., and a bond for £20, 26 June 1607.
page 270 note 7 Ibid., WC to MT, 13 November 1613.
page 270 note 8 Rabb, Theodore K., Enterprise and Empire, Harvard 1967, 273.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
page 270 note 9 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 9 February 1610; Edward Coke, A Booke of Entries, London 1614, 494–6.
page 270 note 10 WC to James I, n.d., BM. Royal MS. 17. b. ix, fol. 5.
11 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, n.d. (c.1613).
12 Cf. Sears Jayne, Library Catalogues of the English Renaissance, Berkeley and Los Angeles 1956, and my articles on Crashawe's globes and library in The Geographical Journal (February 1974) and The Library (forthcoming).
page 271 note 1 MTMB ii, fol. 391 (ii. 512).
page 271 note 2 MT Crashawe MSS, ‘The utterbarresters petition … in Michaelmas Tearme 1609 concerning Mr. Crashawe’ presented to MT parliament, 24 November 1609.
page 271 note 3 The largest number of utter barristers who paid the termly preacher's tax in the year 1605–6 was ninety: MT Crashawe MSS., preacher's roll receipts.
page 271 note 4 MTMB ii, fol. 395 (ii. 514).
page 271 note 5 MTMB ii, fol. 396v (ii. 516).
page 271 note 6 E.g. ITAB ii, fol. 64v, 65V, 72v, 83, 85v, 90, 90v.
page 272 note 1 WC, Romish Forgeries and Falsifications, London 1606, dedicatory epistle.
page 272 note 2 Wallis, WC, 38–45.
page 272 note 3 Romish Forgeries, sig. P3.
page 272 note 4 ITAB ii, fol. 91v (ii. 46).
page 272 note 5 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 9 February 1610.
page 272 note 6 MTMB ii, fol. 398 (ii. 517).
page 272 note 7 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 23 November 1610.
page 273 note 1 MTMB, iii, fol. 5v–6 (ii. 524).
page 273 note 2 MT Crashawe MSS., WG to MT, 23 November 1610.
page 273 note 3 Ibid., WC to MT treasurer, 12 April 1611.
page 273 note 4 ITAB ii, fol. IO7v (ii. 65).
page 273 note 5 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 13 November 1613.
page 274 note 1 Larsen, op. cit., 72; Wallis, WC, 37.
page 274 note 2 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 13 November 1613.
page 274 note 3 MTMB iii, fol. 54. (ii. 565).
page 274 note 4 The Dialogue Betwixt the Soule and the Body of a Damned Man, trans. WC, London 1613, dedicatory epistle.
page 274 note 5 MT Crashawe MSS., statement and receipt for Sir Henry Montagu's loan to WC, 17 August 1613; Ibid., WC to MT, 16 November 1613.
page 274 note 6 Ibid., WC to the MT treasurer, benchers and fellows, n.d. [1613].
page 274 note 7 Ibid., WC to MT, 13 November 1613.
page 275 note 1 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT treasurer and benchers, 28 January 1614.
page 275 note 2 MTMB iii, fol. 69v (ii. 578).
page 275 note 3 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT treasurer, 2 June 1614.
page 275 note 4 General Account Book, 1612–13 (ITAB ii. 76). Because of war damage, the original account book was not available.
page 275 note 5 Four letters of WC to Dr. Owen Gwyn, Master of St John's College, Cambridge, March 1615 to June 1618: St John's College Muniments, Drawer 105, 187, 188, 189, 190, and printed in Wallis, LWC, 223–6.
page 275 note 6 MT Crashawe MSS., WC to MT, 21 November 1615.
page 276 note 1 Wallis, WC, 45.