of the godly prince. Consequently, he is lauded and blessed by both sides
of this English dilemma; a bipartisan Jewel appealed to by both Puritan
and conformist. Upon Jewel’s death, the Puritan sympathizer and bishop
of London, Edmund Grindal, wrote ‘The excellent Bishop Jewel, of
Salisbury, (the jewel and singular ornament of the Church, as his name
implies,) we lost, or rather I should say, sent before us, about the
beginning of October last’.^65 Grindal’s sentiments were echoed by the son
of the Zurich minister Rudolph Gualter, who was studying in
Cambridge: ‘Jewel had already departed this life, to the great loss both
of his country and myself.’^66 In the same vein, Richard Cox, the
chancellor of Oxford when Jewel was a student there, and the leader of
the English defenders of the Edwardian prayer book at Frankfurt, and
one of the defenders of the propriety of the queen to retain the crucifix
in her chapel (a position maintained in open debate against both Jewel
and Grindal), likewise lionized Jewel when he wrote to Heinrich
Bullinger that ‘the bishop of Salisbury (which I cannot relate without
tears, as he was the treasure of the church of England) departed this life
while on the visitation of his diocese, and hath gone from hence to
heaven, to his gain indeed, but to our exceeding and intolerable loss’.^67
Jewel’s preeminence among the disparate elements of English
Protestantism can be further attested by the thoughts of the several
English divines writing at times somewhat more removed from the
bishop’s death. That both the Laudians and the Puritans could find a use
for Jewel for their own polemical ends shows the equivocal theological
position our subject had attained.^68 This ambiguous position in which
the seventeenth century cast Jewel can be apprehended even in the
sixteenth.
Aspects of Jewel’s theology, or perhaps a cashing in on the use of
Jewel’s name, was as well employed by an overtly Presbyterian agenda
when in Cambridge, in 1586, a copy of the Harmonia confessionum fidei
(a tract owing its inspiration to Theodore Beza) was published with a
very Presbyterian gloss on Jewel’s teaching on the power of the keys as
contained in his Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae. This sort of frontal
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(^65) Archbishop Grindal to Neinrich Bullinger, 25 January 1572, in Zurich Letters, Vol. I,
p. 260. Jewel actually died 23 September 1571.
(^66) Rudolph Gualter the Younger to Josiah Simler, 29 July 1572, in Zurich Letters, Vol.
II, p. 260.
(^67) Bishop Cox to Heinrich Bullinger, 12 February 1572, in Zurich Letters, Vol. II, p.
- Bullinger had sent his son to England, and had placed him under the care of Cox and
Jewel.
(^68) In the eight volumes of Laud’s works, he only alludes to Jewel four times. Lancelot
Andrewes and John Cosin never refer to him, at least not in the editions of their works in
theLibrary of Anglo-Catholic Theology.