dissolvendo Henrici Regis cum Catherina matrimonio. In 1533 Hugh
Latimer cited him to Cromwell as Powell verbally attacked the bishop in
a disputation, and fell even further from favor with his condemnation of
Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn. In 1534 he was attained, along with
John Fisher of Rochester, and consigned to the tower. In all probability
that is where he would have remained, until the coup that brought down
Thomas Cromwell in July 1540. The Duke of Norfolk and Stephen
Gardiner pounced on Cromwell, who was attainted, and then executed
on 28 July. Powell, with Thomas Abel (Catherine’s chaplain) and
Richard Fetherstone, were drawn and quartered on 30 July for having
‘traitorously adhered themselves unto the bishop of Rome’. All three
had refused to take the oath of Supremacy, though it appears that their
deaths were effected by the ascendant party of Gardiner and Howard
ostensibly to make a show of loyalty to Henry.^13 Ironically, Powell and
the two other Catholics were each yoked to a Protestant who were
that day burned at the stake for heresy, Powell being yoked with the
notable Thomas Barnes.^14 Besides Harding and Powell was Harding’s
fellow Recusant Thomas Heskyns, whom Jewel deprived in 1559, and
who at that time was the chancellor of the Diocese of Salisbury.
Heskyns had been at Oxford from 1528 to 1540, but then went to
Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded MA (1540), BD (1548) and
DD (1557). By 1566 he became a Dominican and is remembered for
his The Parliament of Chryste. Like Harding he fled England for
Louvain.^15
Jewel, the cathedral chapter and the town of Salisbury
Jewel’s first encounter with Salisbury was on his 1559 visitation, at
which time he was elected bishop by the cathedral chapter, the congé
d’élirefor Jewel’s episcopal appointment having been issued 27 July
1559, just before he left London for the visitation. Upon his return to
London, with the royal assent given on 27 December, he was enthroned
by proxy on 6 March 1560.^16 It was on the visitation that Jewel enjoined
subscription to the Acts of Uniformity and Supremacy, and that Jewel
removed Harding for his failure to conform. After he had completed the
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(^13) Elton,Reform and Reformation, p. 393.
(^14) A dialogue was composed for the occasion: The Metynge of Doctor Barnes and Dr.
Powell at Paradise Gate and of theyre communicacion bothe drawen to Smithfylde from
the Towar(London, 1540).
(^15) Southern,Prose, p. 48.
(^16) John le Neve, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, 1541–1857. VI Salisbury Diocese, compiled
by Joyce Horn (London: IHS, 1986), p. 1.
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