Tudalen:Diwygwyr Cymru.djvu/38

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drwydded a roddai iddo hawl i bregethu lle bynnag y medrai gael drws agored.^[1] Cododd Ty'r Cyffredin hefyd mewn gwrthwynebiad.^[2] Mewn gair yr oedd synwyr y wlad o blaid y Diwygwyr, a'r Diwygwyr o blaid diwygiad Eglwysig trwyadl ac nid ffug-ddiwygiad.^[3]

Cafodd gormes Elizabeth ganlyniad arall. Yr oedd y clerigwyr cydwybodol fethent gydffurfio a'i rheolau caethiwus hi, gan mwyaf yn bregethwyr galluog. Pan wrthododd y rhai hyn aberthu eu hegwyddorion er mwyn cadw eu bywiolaethau, cafwyd anhawster i gael personau cymhwys i lenwi eu lle. Penodwyd dynion hollol anghymwys i'r offeiriadaeth—yn grefftwyr, masnachwyr, ac arall. Mewn rhai rhannau o'r wlad nid oedd ond un o bob chwech o'r offeiriaid yn medru pregethu. Yn Llundain nid oedd ond hanner yr Eglwysi lle y cynhelid

↑ Warner, vol. ii. p. 436
↑ Pan yn ystyried cwestiwn Llys yr Uchel Ddirprwyaeth, dywedodd Syr Peter Wentworth yn Nhy'r Cyffredin :—
"There were but small hopes of a reformation. Banishing the pope and reforming true religion had its beginning from this house, but not from the bishops; few laws for religion had their foundation from them; and I do surely think, before God I speak it, that the bishops were the cause of this doleful message."
Gyrrwyd Syr Peter i garchar i'r Twr am siarad mor blaen.
James Morice, a lawyer of considerable eminence, wrote to Lord Burleigh, complaining of his imprisonment. The bishops and ecclesiastical judges were about this time accused in the House of Commons "As Dishonourers of God and her Majestie, violaters and perverters of law and public justice, and ronge doers unto the liberties and freedoms of all her Majestie's subjects by their extorted othes, wrongfull imprisonments, lawlesse subscription, and unjust absolucions Be it so, yet I hope her Majestie and you of her ho. privy counsell, will at lengthe thoroughly consider of these things, least as wher hearetofore we prayed from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome good Lord deliver us,' we be compelled to say from the tyranny of the clergy of England good Lord deliver us.' Pardon my playne speache, I humbly beseache your honr., for it proceedeth from an upright hart and sound conscience, although in a weake and sycklie bodie; and by God's grace whilest life doth last, I will not be ashamed in good and lawful sorte to stryve for the freedom of conscience, publicke justice, and the liberties of my country."—(Lodge's Illustrations of British History, vol. iii. no. 257.)
↑ Dywed Macaulay:—"It cannot be doubted if the general sense of the (Protestant) party had been followed, the work of reform would have been carried on as unsparingly in England as in Scotland."

[1] Warner, vol. ii. p. 436

[2] Pan yn ystyried cwestiwn Llys yr Uchel Ddirprwyaeth, dywedodd Syr Peter Wentworth yn Nhy'r Cyffredin :—
"There were but small hopes of a reformation. Banishing the pope and reforming true religion had its beginning from this house, but not from the bishops; few laws for religion had their foundation from them; and I do surely think, before God I speak it, that the bishops were the cause of this doleful message."
Gyrrwyd Syr Peter i garchar i'r Twr am siarad mor blaen.
James Morice, a lawyer of considerable eminence, wrote to Lord Burleigh, complaining of his imprisonment. The bishops and ecclesiastical judges were about this time accused in the House of Commons "As Dishonourers of God and her Majestie, violaters and perverters of law and public justice, and ronge doers unto the liberties and freedoms of all her Majestie's subjects by their extorted othes, wrongfull imprisonments, lawlesse subscription, and unjust absolucions Be it so, yet I hope her Majestie and you of her ho. privy counsell, will at lengthe thoroughly consider of these things, least as wher hearetofore we prayed from the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome good Lord deliver us,' we be compelled to say from the tyranny of the clergy of England good Lord deliver us.' Pardon my playne speache, I humbly beseache your honr., for it proceedeth from an upright hart and sound conscience, although in a weake and sycklie bodie; and by God's grace whilest life doth last, I will not be ashamed in good and lawful sorte to stryve for the freedom of conscience, publicke justice, and the liberties of my country."—(Lodge's Illustrations of British History, vol. iii. no. 257.)

[3] Dywed Macaulay:—"It cannot be doubted if the general sense of the (Protestant) party had been followed, the work of reform would have been carried on as unsparingly in England as in Scotland."

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