London bishop sought to deprive him for non-conformity. See Thomas Fuller, The sermons
of Mr. Henry Smith ... learned treatises: all now gathered into one volume. Also, the life
of the reverend and learned authour. London, 1675. Unpaginated.
(^94) ‘inauspicatissima illa causa et contentio Francofordiana.’ Jewel, Works, IV, pp.
1192–93.
(^95) Goodman, as a consequence of his writings would become persona non gratain
Elizabeth’s England, though in April of 1571 he would swear fealty to Elizabeth, declaring
she was his only liege. He took his oath before Jewel. Strype, Annals, II.1.
(^96) Jewel,Works, IV, p. 1254. ‘
autem illam sibi vestram et Genevensium non
placere. Est in ea re, ut mihi quiden videtur, iniquior D. Calvino, nimium fortasse memor
veteris simultatis.’
(^97) Donald Nugent, Ecumenism in the Age of the Reformation. The Colloquy of
Jewel’s own assessment of Geneva and the English Genevans seems far
from bellicose, and certainly not unfavorable, let alone hostile. Mention
has already been made of the letter Jewel wrote during his time in Zurich
to Whittingham and Goodman in Geneva, asking that they forgive him
for any ‘dicto insolentius’, that any injury he had caused them arising
from ‘that most inauspicious and contentious affair in Frankfurt’ would
be set aside.^94 The editor of Jewel’s works places this letter before
Goodman’s publication of How Superior Persons are to be obeyed,
based on Jewel’s April 1559 letter to Martyr in which Jewel noted that
only Goodman’s obstinance kept him from being able to show his face
in England, as he was ‘homo est satis acer, et ... nimium pertinax’,^95
sentiments hardly commensurate with those expressed in the former
letter. Yet Jewel’s language implies an extended period of time had passed
since the controversies in Frankfurt: he saw those contentions as
something that occurred in the long past, hoping that any ill will among
them had been set aside ‘diuturnitate’ and that for his part, any bitterness
he had fostered he long since had discarded. He had not written, he
maintained, because he entertained hope of seeing them face to face, but
so much time had elapsed that he now thought it best to write, especially
as a mutual friend was going from Zurich to Geneva. But whether he
wrote before or after Knox and Goodman published their ill-timed
polemics, Jewel was certainly not inclined to anathematize all things
Genevan.
In the last letter he wrote to Peter Martyr (14 August 1562) Jewel
makes a rather odd statement: ‘Your preciseness (Greek, accuracy) and
that of Geneva, however, does not please him [François Baudouin]. He
is in this matter, it seems to me, unjust to Master Calvin, probably from
the memory of their old dispute.’^96 The bulk of Jewel’s letter concerns the
recent affairs of the Church in France, affairs with which Martyr was
very familiar, as he, along with Beza but not Calvin, had been at the
Colloquy of Poissy representing the interests of the Reformed Church in
France.^97 Martyr, just before leaving for the Colloquy, had written Jewel
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