The Burning Time by Virginia Rounding

Author:Virginia Rounding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-09-22T04:00:00+00:00

John Rogers was also present at this sermon and it was he, along with fellow reformer John Bradford, who played the chief role in calming the angry crowd, as the protestors knew and trusted them.

Following these stormy events at Paul’s Cross, Rogers was called for a second time before the Privy Council, meeting in the Tower of London, on 16 August 1553. He was not alone in being summoned before the Council, there being much anger against the City authorities too for having allowed matters to get so out of hand. The City was in crisis, as is clear from Wriothesley’s account:

This business was so heinously declared to the Queen and her Council, that my Lord Mayor and Aldermen were sent for to the Queen’s Council to the Tower the 14 and 15 of August, and it was sore laid to their charge, that the liberties of the City had like to have been taken away from them, and to depose the Lord Mayor, straightly charging the Mayor and Aldermen to make a direct answer to them on Wednesday the 16 of August whether they would rule the City in peace and good order, or else they would set other rulers over them, whereupon my Lord Mayor caused all the Commons of the Livery to be warned to appear at the Guildhall on Tuesday the 15 of August. And, they being assembled, Mr Recorder declared to the Commons the sore words and threatenings of the Queen’s Council, praying them to show their minds whether they would stick to my Lord Mayor and his brethren, to see such malefactors and rude people reformed, or else their liberties should be taken away from them; the Commons answering, that by the good help and means of my Lord Mayor and his brethren they would be so aiding and assisting to them, that they trusted the Queen’s Highness nor the Council should have no more such cause against the City, but that such malefactors and offenders should be punished; which answer was made by my Lord Mayor and Aldermen to the Queen’s Council, at the Tower, on Wednesday the 16 of August, and was well accepted and taken.

Also, my Lord Mayor caused a proclamation to be made in the City, that if any person could bring knowledge who threw the dagger at the preacher on Sunday, at Paul’s Cross, should have £5 for his labour.

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