London's Lamentation for Her Sins - William Crashaw (1572 - 1626)
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00:00x:00 01 Title Page
00:01:08 02 To the Right Honourable, the Lord Mayor of London, the Right Worshipful the Sheriffs and Aldermen, and the Rest of the Godly Citizens and Offiers, Who Have Either Stayed in Their Places and Duties During This Visitation: or Sent Their Large and Comfortable Benevolence for the Poor the Blessings of This and a Better Life
00:11:50 03 London's Lamentable Complaint to Her God Containing, a Prayer for the Time of Infection: Afore Confession of Sin a Meditation upon the Causes and Remedy of This Plague: a Thanksgiving for God's Mercy Even in This Cross
00:49:31 04 A Sovereign Medicine for and Against the Plague: Being an Ancient and Approved Antidote, and the Sure and Infallible Way How to Escape the Plague, or at Least the Plague of the Plague
London's Lamentation for Her Sins
William Crashaw (1572 - 1626)
London's lamentation for her sins and complaint to the Lord her God out of which may be picked a prayer for private families, for the time of this fearful infection and may serve for a help to holiness and humiliation for such as keep the fast in private: together with a sovereign receipt against the plague - Summary from Subtitle
Life
The son of Richard Crashaw of Handsworth, South Yorkshire, by his wife, Helen, daughter of John Routh of Waleswood, he was born at Handsworth, and baptised there on 26 October 1572. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge, admitted a sizar there on 1 May 1591. Two years afterwards the bishop of Ely's fellowship at St John's became vacant by the death of Humphrey Hammond; and as the see was then unoccupied, the right of nomination became vested in Queen Elizabeth, who recommended Crashaw.[1][2]
After being ordained Crashaw became a preacher, first at Bridlington and then at Beverley in Yorkshire. He commenced M.A. in 1595, and proceeded to the degree of B.D. in 1603. In 1604 he was collated to the second prebend in Ripon Minster, and he held it till his death. He was appointed preacher at the Inner Temple.[1]
When Crashaw was presented by Archbishop Edmund Grindal to the rectory of Burton Agnes, Adrian Stokes denied the title of the archbishop to the advowson, and presented William Grene, who was admitted and instituted to the rectory. Sir Edward Coke as attorney-general, took up the dispute on behalf of the Queen, and the result was that Crashaw was removed from the living.[1] He later managed to have this intervention reversed, in 1608.[3] He became prebend of Osbaldwick in York Minster on 2 April 1617, and on 13 November 1618 was admitted to St Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, London, on the presentation of Sir John North and William Baker.[1]
Crashaw died in 1626, and his will was proved on 16 October of that year.
Crashaw was twice married. His first wife was the mother of the poet Richard Crashaw. He married secondly, at All Hallows Barking on 11 May 1619, Elizabeth Skinner, daughter of Anthony Skinner of the parish. He commemorated her in a privately printed tractate, The Honovr of Vertve, or the Monument erected by the sorowfull Husband, and the Epitaphes annexed by learned and worthy men, to the immortall memory of that worthy gentlewoman, Mrs. Elizabeth Crashawe, who died in child-birth, and was buried in Whit-Chappell, October 8, 1620. In the 24 yeare of her age; James Ussher preached her funeral sermon, at a funeral noted for its large attendance. Crashaw placed a monument to her memory in the chancel of Whitechapel Church.
Crashaw was known as a scholar and preacher, and a strong Protestant. His main works were:[1]
Romish Forgeries and Falsifications, together with Catholike Restitutions, London, 1606.
Newes from Italy, of a second Moses, or the life of Galeacius Caracciolus, the noble Marquesse of Vico, translated, London, 1608. Other editions appeared, some of which have the title The Italian Convert. On 4 July 1609 Crashaw was "convented" before the convocation of the province of Canterbury for publishing an erroneous book, seemingly this translation of the Life of Galeazzo Caraccioli. He agreed to retract it.[1] The Life was originally written in Italian by Niccolo Balbani; Theodore Beza made a Latin version.[4]
The Sermon preached at the Crosse, Feb. xiiij. 1607. Justified by the Authour, both against Papist and Brownist, to be the truth: Wherein this point is principally followed; namely, that the religion of Rome, as now it stands established, is worse than ever it was, London, 1608.
A Sermon preached before the right honorable the Lord Lawarre, Lord Governour and Captaine Generall of Virginea, and others of his Maiesties Counsell for that Kingdome, and the rest of the Adventurers in that Plantation, Feb. 21, 1609, London, 1610. Alexander Balloch Grosart wrote that "there is no nobler sermon than this of the period".
