ere this time But to let this matter of syr George Blage passe wee will now reduce our storie againe to Anne Askew and her fellowe Martyrs who the same weeke were burned and could finde no pardon Anno 1546. Then the Catholicke fathers when they had broughte this christian woman wyth the residue as aboue hath ben declared vnto theyr rest they being now in their ruffe and triumph like as the Phariseis when they hadde broughte Christ to his graue deuised w t themselues howe to keepe him down stil to ouertreade truth for euer Whereupon consulting with certaine of the Counsell they made oute a straight and harde proclamation authorised by the kinges name for the abolishing of the scripture al such English bookes which might geue any light to the setting foorth of Gods true word and grace of the Gospel the copie and tenour of which Proclamation is this as followeth A Proclamation for the abolishing of English bookes after the death of Anne Askew set forth by the king An. 1546. the 8. day of Iuly THe kings most excellent Maiestie vnderstanding howe vnder pretence of expounding and declaring the truthe of Goddes Scripture A proclamation for the abolishing of Englishe bookes diuers leud and euil disposed persons haue taken occasion to vtter and sow abroade by bookes imprinted in the English tongue sondry pernitious and detestable errours heresies not onely contrary to the lawes of this realme but also repugnant to the true sence of Gods law and his word Nay rather for the ignorance and lack of Gods Scripture many haue taken occasion of error heresies â—ntollerable by reason whereof certaine men of late to the destruction of their owne bodies soules and to the euill example of others haue attempted arrogaÌ„tly and malitiously to impugne the truth and therewith trouble the sober quiet and godly Religion vnited and established vnder the kings Maiestie in this his realme his highnesse minding to foresee the daungers that myght ensue of the sayd bookes is enforced to vse hys generall prohibition commaundement and proclamation as followeth First that from henceforth no man woman or person of what estate The new â—estament of Tindals of Couerdals translation in Englishe forbidden condition or degree so euer he or they be shal after the last day of August next ensuing receiue haue take or keepe in his or their possession the text of the newe Testament of Tyndalles or Couerdales translation in English nor any other then is permitted by the Acte of Parliament made in the Session of the Parliament holden at Westminster in the 34. or 35. yere of his maiesties most noble raigne nor after the sayd day shall receiue haue take or keepe in his or their possession any maner of bookes prynted or wrytten in the English tongue which be or shal be set forth in the names of Frith Tindal Wickliffe Ioy Roy Basil Bale Barnes Couerdale Englishe bookes in Scripture reâ—â—rayned Turner Tracy or by any of them or any other booke or bookes containing matter contrary to the sayde Acte made An 34 or 35. but shall before the last day of August next coÌ„ming deliuer the same English booke or bookes to his maister in that housholde if hee be a seruaunt or dwell vnder any other and the maister or ruler of the house suche other as dwell at large shall deliuer all such bookes of the sortes aforesaid as they haue or shal come to their haÌ„ds deliuered as afore or otherwise to the Maior Bailiffe or chiefe Constable of the towne where they dwell to be by them deliuered ouer openly within 40. daies next folowing after the said deliuerie to the Shiriffe of the shire or to the Byshops Chancellour Commissary of the same diocesse to the entent the said Bishop Chauncellour Commissary and Shiriffe and euery of them shall cause them incontinently to be openly burned which thing the kinges Maiesties pleasure is that euery of them shall see executed in most effectuall sort â—urning of â—cripture â—ookes and of their doings thereof make certificate to the kings Maiesties most honourable Councell before the 1. of October next comming And to the intent that no man shall mistrust any daunger of such penall statutes as be passed in this behalfe for the keeping of the sayd bookes the kings Maiestie is most graciously contented by this proclamation A baitâ— to bâ—ing in bookes to pardon that offence to the sayd time appoynted by this proclamation for the deliuery of the said bokes and commaundeth that no Bishoppe Chauncellor Commissarie Maior Bailiffe Shiriffe or Constable shall be curious to marke who bringeth foorth such bookes but only order burne them openly as is in this proclamation ordered And if any man after the last day of August next comming shall haue any of the sayde bookes in his keeping or be proued and conuinced by sufficient witnesse before 4. of the kings most honourable counsail to haue hidden theÌ„ or vsed theÌ„ or any copy of any of them or any parte of theÌ„ wherby it shuld appeare that he willingly hath offeÌ„ded the true meaning of this proclamation the same shall not onely suffer imprisonment and punishment of his body at the kings maiesties will and pleasure The penaltye limited but also shall make suche fine and raunsome to his highnesse for the same as by his Maiestie or 4. of hys graces said counsaile shal be determined c. Finally his Maiestie straightly chargeth and commandeth that no person or persons of what estate degree or condition so euer he or they be from the day of this proclamation presume to bring any maner of English booke concerning any maner of Christian religion printed in the parties beyonde the seas into this realme to sell geue or disâ—â—ibute any English booke printed in outwarde parties or the copie of any such booke or any part thereof to any persone dwelling within this his graces realme or any other hys maiesties dominions vnlesse the same shal be specially licenced so to doe by his highnesse expresse graunâ— to be obtained in writing for the same vppon the paines before limited and therewithall to incurre his maiesties extreeme indignation For so much as it is hath alwayes bene the common guise and practise of the popes church to extinct condemne and abolish all good bookes and holesome treatises of learned men vnder a false pretence of errors heresies The vntrue dealing of the Papistes in gathering heresies where none is wherof examples aboundantly maye appeare in this historie aboue Now for the better triall hereof to see and trie the impudent shamelesse vanitie of these Catholicke ClergimeÌ„ in mistaking falsifying deprauing blaspheming and slandering where they haue no cause against al right honest dealing yea against their own knowledge conscience and manifest verity of Gods worde I shall therfore desire the attentiue Reader before we passe any further to consider expend here 2. things by the way First what opinioÌ„s
shoulde haue borne the whole burthen Wherefore my brethren I charitably exhorte you to beare your partes of your liuelode salarie toward the paiment of this summe grauÌ„ted Then it was shortly sayde to the Byshop My Lorde twenty nobles a yeare is but a bare liuing for a Priest for now vittaile and euery thyng is so deare The priestâ— aunswer to the bish that pouertie in maner enforceth vs to say nay Beside that my Lorde we neuer offended in the Premunire for we medled neuer wyth the Cardinals faculties let the Byshoppes and Abbottes which haue offended pay Then the Bishops Officers gaue to the Priestes hygh wordes which caused them to be the more obstinate Also diuers temporall men whych were present comforted the Priestes and bade them agree to no paiment In tâ—ys rumour diuers of the Bishops seruaunts were â—uâ—â—ered and stricken so that the Bishop began to be afraide and wyth faire wordes appeased the noyse and for all things which were done or sayd there he pardoned them gaue to them hys blessing and prayed them to departe in charitie Then they departed thinking to heare no more of the matâ—â—â— but they were deceiued For the Byshop went to Sir Thom. More then being Lorde Chancellor which greatly fauoured the B. and the clergy and to him made a greeuous coÌ„plaint declared the fact very greuously B. Stokesly complaineth to Syr Tho. More Wherupon commaundement was sent to syr Tho. Pargitor Maior of the Citie to attache certaine priests and temporal men and so 15. priestes 5. temporall men were arrested of the whych Certayne priestes and temporall meÌ„ committed to priâ—â— some were sent to the Tower some to the Fleete and other prisons where they remained long after This being done in the yeare of our Lorde 1532. it followeth moreouer the same yeare that diuers preachinges were in the realme one contrary to another coÌ„cerning the kings mariage and in especiall one Thom. Abell Clerke Preaching against the kinges first mariage which was the Queenes Chaplaine to please her withal both preached and also wrote a booke in defence of the sayd mariage wherby diuers simple meÌ„ were persuaded Wherfore the king caused to be coÌ„piled and reduced into a boke the determination of the vniuersities with the iudgemeÌ„ts of great Clerkes which booke being printed set abroade did againe satisfie all indifferent and reasonable persones which were not too much wedded to their willes Mention was made a litle before of a parlameÌ„t begon the 15. day of Ianuary An. 1533. in the which Parlament the coÌ„mons had put vp a Supplication complaining of y e strait dealing of the Cleargie in their proceeding Ex officio The wilked acte Ex officio brokeÌ„ by the king Statut. an 25 Reg. Hen. 8. This coÌ„plaint although at the first it seemed not greatly to be tendered of the king yet in prorogation of y e parlament the time so wrought withall that the King hauing more cleare vnderstaÌ„ding of the abuses enormities of the clergye and in speciall of the corrupt authoritie of the Sea of Rome prouided certayne actes agaynst the same First as concerning the lawes decrees ordinaunces and constitutions made and stablished by the pretensed authoritie of the Byshops of Rome to y e aduauncemeÌ„t of theyr worldly glory y t who so did or spake any thing either agaynst their vsurped power or agaynst y e sayd lawes decrees or constitutioÌ„s of theirs not approued nor grouÌ„ded vpoÌ„ holy scripture or els being repugnant to y e kings prerogatiue royal An acte coÌ„cerning the popes lawes shuld therfore staÌ„d in no danger nor be impeachable of heresie And likewise touching such coÌ„stitutions ordinances canoÌ„s prouinciall or Synodall which were made in this realm in y e conuocation of bishops being either preiudicial to y e kings prerogatiue or not ratified before by the kinges assent or being otherwise onerous to the king and his subiects or in anye wise repugnant to the lawes and statutes of this realme they Decrees and constitutions prouinciall of this realme coÌ„mitted to examinatioÌ„ were committed to the iudgment of 32. persons chosen by the king out of that higher lower house to be determined either to stand in streÌ„gth or to be abrogate at their discretions and farther that all y e Clergy of this realme submitting themselues to the kyng should and did promise in verbo Sacerdotij neuer hereafter to presume to assemble in theyr conuocations without the kinges writte nor to enact or execute suche constitutions without hys royall assent c. Ex Statut. Henr. 8. Farther in the same Parliament was enacted and decreed that in causes and matters happening in contention no person should appeale pruoke or sue No man to appeale to Rome out of the kinges dominions to the Court of Rome vnder payne of prouisours prouision or Premunire Item in the same parliament was defined and concluded y t all exportation of Annates and first fruites of Archbishoprickes and Bishoprickes out of this Realme to the Sea of Rome for any bulles brieues or palles * Boner in his prologue before De vera obedientia saithâ— that this rauinous pray of the pope commeth to asmuch almost as the kings reuenues The maneâ—â— of Inuesting by the king or expedition of any such thing should vtterly cease Also for the inuesting of Archbishops Bishoppes or other of any Ecclesiasticall dignitie such order in the sayde Parlament was taken that the king should send a licence vnder the great seal with a letter missiue to the Prior and Couent or to the Deane and Chapter of those Cathedrall Churches where the Sea was vacant by the vertue of which liceÌ„ce or letters missiue they within 12. daies should chose the said person nominated by the king none other and y t election to stand effectuall to all intents which election being done then the partie elect making first his othe and fealty to the king if it were a Bish. that was elect then the king by his letters patents to signifie the sayd election to the Archb. of that prouince and 2. other Bishops or els to 4. bishops within this realme to be assigned to that office without any other suing procuring or obtaining any bulles breues or other things from the Sea of Rome Moreouer against al other whatsoeuer intolerable exactions and great summes of mony vsed to be paid out of this realme to the B. of Rome in pensions censures Peterpence procurations fruites suites for prouisions expeditions of bulles for Archb. and Bishops for delegacies and rescriptes in causes of contentions and appeales Peter pence stopped froÌ„ Rome iurisdictions legatiue also for dispensations licences faculties graunts relaxations writtes called Perinde valere rehabilitations abolitions canonizations and other infinit sorts of bulles breues and instrumeÌ„ts of sundry natures the number whereof were tedious particularly to be recited In the said Parlament it was ordained y t all such vncharitable vsurpations exactions
Laurence the Byshops Register of Caunterbury Edwarde Thwates Thomas Abell Of the which persons the sayd Elizabeth Berton Henry Gold Richard Master Edwarde Bocking Iohn Dering Hugh Riche Richarde Risby were attaynted of Treason by Acte of Parliament and put to execution The residue as Fisher Byshop of Rochester Thomas Golde Thomas Laurence Edwarde Thwates Iohn Adeson Thomas Abell being conuicte and atteynted of misprison were condemned to prison and forfayted theyr goodes possessions to the King Ex Statut an 25 Reg Hen 8. Edward Hall a writer of our Englishe Stories making mention of this Elizabeth Barton aforesayd adioyneth next in his booke A maruelous iudgement of god against Pauier an open enemye to his worde the narration of one Pauier or Pauie a notorious enemie no doubt to Gods truth Thys Pauier beyng the towne Clerke of the Citie of London was a man sayth he that in no case coulde abyde to heare that the Gospell shoulde be in Englishe In so much that the sayd Hall hymselfe heard hym once say vnto hym and to other by swearing a great othe that if he thought the Kings highnes would set forth the Scripture in English and let it be read of the people by his authoritie rather thē he would so long liue he would cut his owne throate but he brake promise sayth Hall for he dyd not cut his throate with any knife but with an halter did hang himselfe Of what minde and intent he so did God iudge My information farther addeth this touching the sayd Pauier or Pauie that he was a bitter enemie very busie at the burning of Richard Bayneham aboue mentioned Who hearing the sayd Baynham at the stake speakyng against Purgatory and transubstantiation Pauier a bitter eenemy against Rich. Baynham set fire sayd he to this hereticke and burne hym And as the trayne of gunpouder came toward the Martyr he lifted vp his eyes and hands to heauen saieng to Pauier God forgiue thee and shewe thee more mercy then thou doest to me The Lord forgiue Sir Thomas More and pray for me all good people and so continued he praieng till the fire tooke hys bowels and his head c. After whose Martyrdome the next yeare folowing this Pauier the towne Clerke of the Citie went and bought ropes Which done he went vp to an hygh garret in hys house to pray as he was wont to doe to a roode which he had there before whom he bitterly wept And as his own mayde comming vp found him so doyng he bad her take the rustye sworde and go make it cleane and trouble him no more and immediately he tied vp the rope and hoong himselfe The maydes hart still throbbed and so came vp and founde him but newly hanged Then she hauing no power to helpe him ranne crieng to the Church to her mistres to fetch her home His seruants and Clerkes he had sent out before to Finisbery Pauier a persecutor hāged him selfe and to Maister Edney Sergeant to the Lord Maior dwelling ouer Byshops gate to tary for him at Finisebery Court till he came but he had dispatched himselfe before so that they might long looke for him before he could come Which was an 1533. To this story of Pauier may also be added the lyke terrible example of Doctor Foxford Chauncellour to the Byshop of London a cruell persecutor and a common butcher of the good Saincts of God who was the condemner of all those aforenamed The terrible hād of Gods iudgement vpon Foxford the Byshops Chācellour The death of W. Warham Archb· of Cant. Tho. Cranmer Archb. of Cant. which were put to death troubled or abiured vnder Byshop Stokesley through all the dioces of London This Foxford dyed about this present yeare and time of whose terrible end it was then certainely reported and affirmed by suche as were of right good credite vnto certayne persons of whom some be yet aliue that he dyed sodenly sitting in his chayre his belly being brust and his guts falling out before him About the same time died also William Warrham Archbyshop of Canterbury in whose roume succeeded Thomas Cranmer which was the Kings Chapleyne and a great disputer against the vnlawful mariage of Lady Katherine Princesse Dowager being then so called by Act of Parliament Queene Catherine appealeth to Rome Ye heard before how the Parliament had enacted that no person after a certeine day should appeale to Rome for any cause Notwithstanding which Acte y e Queene now called Princesse Dowager had appealed to the Courte of Rome before that Acte made so y t it was doubted whether that Appeale were good or not This question was well handled in the Parliament house but much better in the Conuocation house and yet in both houses it was alledged yea and by bookes shewed that in the Councels of Calcedone Affrike Toletane and diuers other famous Councels in the primatiue Church yea in the tyme of S. Augustine it was affirmed declared determined that a cause rising in one Prouince Concluded by councells of the primitiue church that nōe should appeale out of their prouince should be determined in the same that neither the Patriarke of Cōstātinople should medle in causes moued in the iurisdictiō of the Patriarke of Antioch nor no Byshop should entermedle within an others Prouince or coūtrey Which thyngs were so clerkly opened so cūningly set forth to all intētes y t euery mā that had witte was determined to folow y e truth not wilfully wedded to his owne mynde might playnly see y t al appeales made to Rome were clearely voyde of none effect Which doctrines coūsailes were shewed to y e Lady Katherine Princesse Dowager but she as womē loue to lose no dignitie euer continued in her old song trusting more to the Popes partialitie then to the determination of Christes veritie Wherupon the Archbyshop of Cāterbury Cranmer aboue named accōpanied with y e Bishops of Lōdon Winchester Bathe Lincolne diuers other great Clerkes 〈◊〉 a great number road to Dunstable which is vi myle frō Ampthyl where the Princesse Dowager lay there by a Doctor called Doctor Lee she was ascited to appeare before the sayd Archbyshop in cause of Matrimony in the sayd towne of Dunstable at the day of appearaunce she would not appeare but made default so was called peremptorily euery day .xv. dayes together and at the last for lacke of appearaunce for contumacie by the assent of all the learned men there beyng present she was diuorced from the kyng Lady Catherine solemnly diuorced frō the king their Mariage declared to be voyde and of none effect which sentence geuen the Archbyshop and all the other returned backe agayne ¶ Where note that although this diuorce folowyng after the new Mariage needed not at all to be made the first Mariage beyng no Mariage at all before God A note yet to satisfie the voyce of the people more then for any necessitie the
kyng was contented through the persuasions of some so to doe For els as touchyng God and conscience what great neede was of any diuorce where before GOD no Mariage was to be accounted but rather an incestuous detestable adultery as the Act of ParliameÌ„t doth terme it But to our matter agayne After the dissolutioÌ„ of this first Mariage made betwen the king the Lady Princesse Dowager she neuerthelesse bearyng a stout mynde would not yet releÌ„t neither to the determination of the Uniuersities nor to the ceÌ„sure of the Clergy nor of the whole Realme but folowyng the couÌ„saile rather of a few Spanyardes to molest the kyng the realme by sute meanes made to the Pope procured certaine writynges first of monition and aggrauation theÌ„ of excommunication and interdiction to be sent downe from Rome Writinges set vp at Dunkirke against the king wherein the Pope had interdicted both the kyng the whole Realme But the Popes Cursor beyng not the hardyest maÌ„ belike that euer shewed his head thought it much more sure for him to discharge his Popishe carâ—age without the kynges reach so keepyng himselfe aloofe of like a prety man set vp his writynges in the Towne of Dunkirke in Flaunders In the which towne first vpon the Northdoore of the Church was set vp a monition Ioh. Butler of Calis tooke downe the writte at Dunkirke against the King that the kyng of EnglaÌ„d should surcease the sute of diuorce the which Iohn Butler Clerke theÌ„ Commissary of Calice by commaundement tooke downe in a night After that before Whitsonweeke there was set vp in the same place an excoÌ„munication aggrauation regranation interdiction For the which also the sayd Butler by commauÌ„dement was sent to Dunkirke to take it downe K. Henry the realme indicted by the Pope And because the couÌ„sell of Calice would be certified of his diligence therein they sent a seruauÌ„t of the Lord Lisle theÌ„ Deputie of Calice whose name was Cranuell and vpon Wensday in Whitsonweke at vij of the clocke in the mornyng he tooke it downe whole and brought it with hym deliuered the same to the Lord Deputie aforesaid Which was about the yeare .1533 This beyng knowne certified vnto the kyng he was motioned by his counsell that such as were about her and moued her thereto should be put froÌ„ her And therfore the Duke of Suffolke was sent to Bugden beside HuntyngdoÌ„ where y e sayd Lady Katherine lay who perceiuyng her stomacke to coÌ„tinue froward still in auÌ„sweryng him with high wordes The Lady Catherines court discharged sodenly so in a fury to part froÌ„ him into her priuy chamber shut the doore brake vp the doore of her Court discharged a great sort of her houshold seruauÌ„ts yet left her a conuenieÌ„t number to serue her like a Princesse They that remayned still were sworne to serue her as Princesse onely and not as Queene Of whome some sayd they were once sworne to serue her as Queene and otherwise would not serue and so were dismissed The other which were sworne to serue her as Princesse she vtterly refused for her seruants and so she remayned wyth the fewer liuing after this about the space of two yeares ¶ The abolishing of the Pope out of England THese thinges thus finished and dispatched concerning the mariage of Queene Anne and diuorce of Lady Katherine Dowager Anno. 1534. next followeth the yeare 1534. In the which was assembled the hye Court of ParliameÌ„t againe after many prorogations vpon the third day of February wherein was made an Acte of succession for the more suretie of the crowne to the which euery person being of lawfull age Preaching against the Pope should be sworne During this Parliament time euery Sonday preached at Paules crosse a Byshop which declared the Pope not to be head of the Church After this Commissions were sent ouer all England to take the othe of all men and women to the Act of succession Ex Edw. â—allo At which few repined except D. Iohn Fisher bishop of Rochester sir Tho. More late Lord Chancellor and D. Nicholas Wilson parson of S. Thomas Apostles in LoÌ„don Wherfore these 3. persons after long exhortatioÌ„ to theÌ„ made by y e Byshop of Canterbury at Lambeth The Byshop of Rochester Sir Tho. More sent to the tower Fysher byshop of Rochester Sir Tho. More refuse to be sworne refusing to be sworne were sent to the Tower where they rrmained were oftentimes motioned to be sworne but the Bishop and sir Tho. More excused theÌ„ by their writings in which they sayd that they had written before the sayd Lady Katherine to be Queene therfore could not well go froÌ„ that which they had written Likewise the Doctor excused that he in preaching had called her Queene and therefore now coulde not withsay it againe Howbeit at length he was well contented to dissemble y e matter so escaped but the other two stoode agaynst all the Realme in their opinion From the moneth of Marche this Parliament farthermore was proroged to the iij. day of Nouemb. abouesaid At what time amongst other diuers statutes most graciously and by the blessed wil of God it was enacted that the Pope and all his colledge of Cardinals with his pardoÌ„s Indulgences which so long had clogged this Realme of England to the miserable slaughter of so many good men which neuer could be remoued away before was now abolished eradicate exploded out of this land sent home againe to their owne countrey of Rome from whence they came God be euerlastingly praysed therefore Amen ¶ An Acte concerning the Kings highnes to be the supreme head of the Church of England and to haue authoritie to reforme and redresse all errours heresies and abuses in the same Cap. 1. ALbeit the Kings Maiesty iustly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England and so is recognised by the Clergy of this Realme in their Conuocations yet neuerthelesse for corroboration confirmation thereof and for encrease of vertue in Christes Religion within this Realme of England and to represse extirpe all errours heresies and other enormities abuses heretofore vsed in the same be it enacted by authoritie of this preseÌ„t ParliameÌ„t y t the king our soueraigne Lord his heires successours Kings of this Realme shal be taken accepted reputed y e only supreme head in earth of y e Church of England called Anglicana ecclesia and shall haue enioy annexed and vnited to the Imperial crowne of this realme as wel y e title style therof as all honours dignities preeminences iurisdictioÌ„s priuiledges authorities immunites profites and commodities to the sayd dignitie of supreme head of the same Church belonging apperteining and y t our sayd soueraigne Lord his heires successours Kings of this Realme shal haue full power and authority from time to time to visite represse
late mariage of the Ladie Anne of Cleue who in the beginning of the yere of our Lord. 1540. was maried to the king as also greued partly at the dissolution of the Monasteries The mariage of Queene Anne Cleue and fearing the growing of the Gospell sought al occasions how to interrupt these happy beginnings and to traine the king to their owne purpose Now what occasion this wilye Winchester found out to worke vpon ye shall heare in order as followeth It happened the same time that the Lorde Cromwell for the better establishing of sincere religion in this realm deuised a mariage for y e king to be concluded betwene him the Lady Anne of Cleue The occasiâ—â— which Winchester did worke by This Lady Anne of Cleue was maryed to the king 〈◊〉 1540. whose other sister was already maried vnto the duke of Saxony By this mariage it was supposed that a perpetual league amitie and ally shold be nourished between this realm and the princes of Germany so therby godly religion might be made more strong on both parts against the bishop of Rome and his tyrannical religion But the diuel euer enuying the prosperity of the gospell layd a stumbling blocke in that cleare way for the king to stumble at For when the parentes of the noble lady were commoned withall for the furtherance of y e sayd mariage among others of her frends whose good wil was required y e duke of Saxony her brother in law misliked y e mariage partly for that he wold haue had her bestowed vpon some prince of Germany more nigh vnto her sister partly for other causes which he thoght reasonable Wherupon it followeth that the slacknes of the Duke in that behalfe being espyed crafty Winchester taking good holdfast theron so alienated the kinges mind from the amity that semed now to begin and grow betwene the Duke and the king that by the occasion thereof he brought the king at length cleane out of credit with that religioÌ„ and doctrine which the duke had then mayntained many yeares before Thus wily Winchester with his crafty fetches partly vpon this occasion aforesayd partly also by other pestilent perswations creping into the kinges eares ceased not to seeke all meanes how to worke his feat to ouerthrow Religion first bringing him in hatred with the Germane Princes The king brought out of credite with the doctrine of the Germaynâ— Princes then putting him in feare of the Emperor of the French king of the Pope of the king of Scottes and other forraigne powers to rise agaynst him but especially of Ciuil tumultes commotions here within this realme which aboue all thinges he most dreaded by reason of innouation of religioÌ„ and dissoluing of Abbies and for abolishing of rites and other customes of the Church sticking so fast in the mindes of the people that it was to be feared least theyr hartes were or woulde be shortly styrred vp agaynst him The wicked councell of Steph. Gardiner and other about the king vnlesse some spedy remedy were to the contrary prouided declaring moreouer what a dauÌ„gerous matter in a common wealth it is to attempt new alterations of any thing but especially of Religion Which being so he exhorted the king for his owne safegard and publicke quiet and tranquility of his realme to see betime how and by what pollicy these so manifold mischiefes might be preueÌ„ted Agaynst which no other way nor shift could better be deuised then if he would shew himself sharp and seuere agaynst these new Sectaryes Anabaptistes SacrameÌ„taries as they called them would also set forth such Articles confirming the auncient Catholick fayth as wherby he might recouer agayne his credence with Christen Princes and whereby all the world besides might see and iudge him to be a right and perfite Catholicke By these such like crafty suggestions The king abused by wicked couÌ„cell the king being to much seduced and abused began to withdraw his defeÌ„ce from the reformation of true Religion supposing thereby to procure to himselfe more safety both in his owne realme and also to auoide such daungers which otherwise might happen by other Princes especially seing of late he had refused to come to the generall Councell at Uincence being thereto inuited both by the Emperor other forraigne poteÌ„tates as ye haue heard before And therfore although he had reiected the Pope out of this Realme yet because he woulde declare himselfe neuerthelesse to be a good Catholicke sonne of the mother Church and a withstander of new innouations and heresies as the blinde opinion of the world did then esteme them first he stretched out his hand to the condemning and burning of Lambert Anno. 1540. then after he gaue out those Iniunctions aboue prefixed now further to encrease this opinion with all men The Popes crafty factorâ— in England in the yeare next folowing which was of the Lorde 540. through the deuise and practise of certayne of the Popes factors about him he suÌ„moned a solemne ParliameÌ„t to be holden at Westminster the 28. day of Aprill of all the states and Burgeses of the Realme Also a Synode or conuocation of all the Archbishops Bishops and other learned of the Clergy of thys Realme to be in like maner assembled The Acte of the vi Articles In which ParliameÌ„t Synode or conuocation certein Articles maters and questions touching religioÌ„ were decreed by certein prelates The 6. Articles to the nuÌ„ber especially of 6. commonly called the 6. Articles or the whip with 6. stringes to be had receiued among the kings subiects in pretence of vnity But what vnity therof folowed y e groning harts of a great number and also the cruell death of diuers both in the dayes of K. Henry of Queene Mary can so well declare as I pray God neuer the lyke be felt hereafter The doctrine of these wicked articles in the bloudy act conteined although it be worthy of no memory amongest christen men but rather deserueth to be buried in perpetuall obliuion yet for that the office of history compelleth vs therunto for the more light of posterity to come faythfully and truly to comprise thinges done in the church as well one as another this shal be briefely to recapitulate y e suÌ„me effect of the foresayd 6. articles in order as they were geuen out and hereunder do folow The first Article THe first Article in this present Parliament accorded and agreed vpon was this that in the most blessed SacrameÌ„t of the aultar by the strength and efficacy of Christes mighty worde it being spoken by the priest is present really vnder the forme of bread and wine the naturall body and bloud of our Sauiour Iesu Christ conceiued of the virgine Mary and that after the coÌ„secration there remayneth no substaunce of bread or Wyne or any other substance but the substance of Christ God and man The 2. Article Secondly that the communion in both
Damlip brought to Calice to suffer setting out of London conueyed the sayde Adam Damlyp vnto Calice vpon the Ascension euen and there committed him to the Maiors prison Upon whiche daye Iohn Butler the Commissary aforesayd and Syr Daniell his Curate of S. Peters were also committed to the same prison and commandement geuen no man to speake with Butler Upon Saterday next was the day of execution for Damlyp The cause whiche firste they layd to his charge was for heresie But because by an acte of Parliamente all suche offences done before a certayne daye were pardoned through which Acte he could not be burdened with anye thing that he had preached or taught before yet for the receiuing of the foresayd French crowne of Cardinall Pole as you heard before he was condemned of treason and in Calice cruelly put to death being drawne hanged and quartered The death and Martyrdome of Damlyp The daye before his execution came vnto hym one M. Mote The constant courage of Adam Damlip not caring for his death then person of our Lady Church of Calice saying your foure quarters shall be hanged at four partes of the towne And where shall my head be sayd Damlip Upon the Lanterne gate said Mote Then Damlip answeared Then shall I not neede to prouide for my buriall At hys death Sir Rafe Ellerker Knight then knight Marshall there would not suffer the innocent godly maÌ„ to declare either his faith or the cause he died for but sayd to the executioner dispatch the knaue haue done For sir Wil. Mote appointed there to preache declared to the people how he had bene a sower of seditious doctrine and albeit he was for y e pardoned by the generall pardon yet he was coÌ„demned for being a traytor against the king To the which wheÌ„ Adam Damlip would haue replied purged himselfe the foresaid Sir Rafe Ellerker would not suffer him to speake a word but commanded him to be had away And so most meckely Damlip falsly accused of treason innocently put to death patiently and ioyfully the blessed and innocent Martyr tooke his death sir Rafe Elerker saying that he would not away before he saw the traytors hart out But shortly after the sayd Sir Rafe Ellerker in a skirmishe or roade betweene the Frenchmen and vs at Bullayne was among other slayne An example of Gods iust reuengment Whose onely death sufficed not his enemies but after they had stripped him starke naked they cut off his priuie members and cut the hart out of his bodye and so leaft him a terrible example to all bloudy and mercilesse men For no cause was knowne why they shewed such indignation against the saide sir Rafe Ellerker more then against the rest but that it is written Faciens iustitias Dominus iudicia omnibus iniuria pressis As touching Ioh. Butler and sir Daniel his Curate imprisoned as ye heard the same day with Damlip vpon Sonday next following An other trouble of Iohn Buâ—leâ— and Syr Daniell his Curate they were coÌ„mitted to Io. Massy aforesayd keeper of the Marshalsey and his company and brought to the Marshalsey where he continued and his Curate nine moneths and more At last being sore laid vnto by Sir George Gage Sir Iohn Baker and Sir Thomas Arundell knightes but especially by Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester for y e reteining of Adam Damlip yet by friendes soliciting the Kings highnes for him namely sir Leonard Musgraue and his brother Baunster Ex scripto testimoniâ— Caletienâ—â—â—â— who were bounde for his appearance in a thousande pound he at length by great labour and long time was discharged and at last by licence permitted to returne to Calice againe Ex scripto testimonio Caletiensium Furthermore as touching William Steuens aboue mentioned who remained all this while prisoner in the Tower W. Steuens an earnest Protest are falsly condemned for Poperye the same was also condemned with Adam Damlip of treason which was for note and crime of Popery in lodging Adam Damlip which came from Cardinal Poole the traytor in his house at the Lord Deputies commaundement Notwithstanding the King afterwarde vnderstanding more of the said William Steuens how innocent he was from that crime W. Steuens with the rest pardoned by the king being knowne to all men to be an earnest and zelous Protestant gaue him his pardon and sent him home againe to Calice and so likewise all the other thirteene aboue mentioned The story of a poore labouring man in Calyce BY the credible information writing of the said Calyce men which were then in trouble A poore 〈◊〉 burned at Calice for the right faith of the Sacrament it is reported of a certaine poore laboring maÌ„ of Calice who after the preaching of Adam Damlyp being in certaine company said that he would neuer beleeue that a priest coulde make the Lordes body at his pleasure Wherupon he was then accused and also condemned by one Haruey Commissary there Which Haruey in time of his iudgement inueying against hym with opprobrious words sayd that he was an heretike should die a vile death The poore man whose name yet I haue not certainly learned answering for himselfe againe saide that hee was no hereticke but was in the fayth of Christ. A notable example of Gods iudgâ—â—ment vpon bloudy perâ—secuter And where as thou sayest said he that I shall dye a vile death thou thy selfe shalt dye a viler death and that shortly and so it came to passe for within halfe a yeare after the said Haruey was hanged drawne and quartered for treason in the sayd towne of Calice An other history of one Dodde a Scottish man burned in Calice AFter the burning of this poore man there was also an other certaine scholer counted to be a Scottish man One Dodâ—â— burned in Calice named Dodde who coÌ„ming out of Germany was there taken with certaine Germane bookes about him and being examined thereupon and standing constantly to the truth that hee had learned was therefore condemned to death and there burned in the sayd towne of Calice within the space of a yeare or thereabout after the other godly Martyr aboue mentioned And for so much as I am presently in hand wyth matters of Calice The story 〈◊〉 W. Crosbowmaker bearing a billet in Calice I can not passe from thence without memorie of an other certayne honest man of the same township named William Button aliâs Crosbowmaker although the time of this story is a litle more ancieÌ„t in yeares which story is this William Crosbowmaker a souldier of Calice and the kings seruant being a man as some natures be W. Crosbowmaker questions somwhat pleasantly disposed vsed when he met with Priests to demaund of them certayne merry questions of pastyme as these Whether if a man were sodenly taken and wanted an other thing he might not without offence occupy one of the Popes pardons in steede of a broken paper Another question was whether
the worlde their consciences For whē they were required to subscribe they refused and sayd that they would shewe good reasons whych mooued them that they coulde not with their consciences subscribe as they had partly alreadye done and were able to doe more sufficiently therefore quoth he it hath bene ill called a disputation they were worthy to be blamed that were the authours of that name For we meant not to dispute nor now meane not to answer before our argumēts quoth he which we haue to propounde be soluted according as it was appoynted For by answearing we shoulde but incumber ourselues and profit nothing since the matter is already decreed vppon and determined what soeuer we shall prooue or dispute to the contrary The acte of the sixte day The 6. Acte or Session ON Mondaye following being the 30. of October the Prolocutor demaunded of Iohn Philpot Archdeacon of Winchester whether he would answere in the questions before propounded to their obiections or no To whome he made this answeare that he woulde willingly so doe if according to theyr former determination they would firste aunswere sufficiently to some of hys argumentes as they had promised to do wherof he had a dozen not halfe of the first being yet decided And if they woulde aunswere fully and sufficiently but to one of his Arguments he promised that he would answere all the obiections that they shoulde bryng Then the Prolocutor bade him propounde hys Argument and it should be resolutely answered by one of them whereunto M. Morgan was appoynted Philpot. Upon Wensday last quoth he I was inforced to silence before I had prosecuted halfe of mine Argument the summe whereof was this as was gathered by the iust context of the scripture that the humain body of Christ was ascended into heauen and placed on the right hand of God the father wherefore it coulde not be situate vpon earth in the sacrament of the altare inuisible after the imagination of man The argument was denied by Morgan For the profe wherof Philpot sayd that this was it wherwith he had to confirme his first argument if they would haue suffred him y e other day as now he trusted they would Fe One selfe and same nature quoth he receiueth not in it selfe any thing that is contrary to it selfe Argument ri But the body of Christ is an humane nature distincte from the Deitie and is a proper nature of it selfe o. Ergo it cannot receiue any thyng that is contrarye to that nature and that varieth from it selfe But bodely to be present and bodely to be absent to be on earth and to be in heauen and al at one present time be things contrary to the nature of an humaine body Ergo it cannot be saide of the humaine body of Christ that the selfe same body is both in heauen also in earth at one instant either visibly or inuisibly Morgan denied the Maior that is Morgan the firste parte of the argument The which Philpot vouched out of Vigilius an auncient wryter Here is a new euasion inuented by Morgan who dare not plainely deny Vigilius authoritie but vnder a colour But Morgan cauilled that it was no scripture and bade him prooue the same out of scripture Philpot sayd he could also so do and right well deduce the same out of S. Paule who sayeth that Christ is like vnto vs in all poyntes except sinne and therefore like as one of our bodies cannot receiue in it selfe any thing contrarye to the nature of a body as to be in Paules churche and at Westminster at one instant or to be at Londō visibly at Lincoln inuisibly at one time for that is so contrary to the nature of a body One body can not be at once in diuers places and of all creatures as Didimus and Basilius affirme that an inuisible creature as an Angell cannot be at one time in diuers places wherfore he concluded that the body of Christ might not be in moe places then in one which is in heauen and so consequently not to be contained in the sacrament of the altare To thys the Prolocutor tooke vpon him to answeare Weston saying that it was not true that Christe was like vnto vs in all poynts as Philpot tooke it except sinne Christ after his incarnation was in al poynts like man sinne onely except For y t Christ was not conceiued by the seede of man as we be Whereunto Philpot againe replied that Christes conception was prophesied before by the Angel to be supernatural but after he had receiued our nature by the operation of the holy Ghost in the virgins wombe hee became in all poynts like vnto vs except sinne Then Morgan inferred that thys saying of Paule dyd not plainly proue his purpose Wel quoth Philpot Morgan I perceiue that you do answere but by cauillation yet am I not destitute of other scriptures to confirme my first argumēt Philpot. although you refuse the probation of so ancient and catholicke a doctour as Vigilius is Sainte Peter in the sermone that he made in the thirde of the Actes making mention of Christe sayth these woordes whome heauen must receiue vntill the consummation of all things c. Actes 3. Which words are spoken of hys humanitie If heauen must holde Christ then can hee not be heere on earth in the Sacrament as is pretended Then Morgan laughing at this Harpsfield steppeth in and geuing no direct answer at all Harpfield stoode vp being one of the Bishop of Londons chaplaines and tooke vpon him to answer to the saying of S. Peter demaunded of Philpot whether he would ex necessitate that is of necessitie force Christ to any place or no Philpot sayd that he would no otherwise force Christe of necessity to any place Philpot. then he is taught by the wordes of the holy Ghost which sounde thus that Christes humaine body must abide in heauen vntill the day of iudgement as I rehearsed out of the chapter before mentioned Why quoth Harpsfield do you not knowe that Christe is God omnipotent Yes said Philpot Harpsfield I know that right wel neither doubt I any thing at all of his omnipotencie But of Christes omnipotencie what he may do is not our question but rather what he doeth I knowe he may make a stone in the wall a manne if he liste and also that he may make moe worldes but doeth he therefore so It were no good consequent so to conclude hee maye doe this or that therefore he doth it Ba Only so much is to be beleeued of Gods omnipotencie as is in the woorde expressed ra That Christes body is both in heauen and heere also really in the sacrament is not expressed in the word co Ergo it is not to be beleeued that the body of Christe being in heauen is heere also really in the sacrament Why quoth the Prolocutor then you will putte Christ in prisone in heauen To
of D. Tresham who supplying the roome of y e Subdeane in Christes Church A Popish exhortatiâ—â— of Doct. Tresham after he had called all the Studentes of the Colledge together with great Eloquence art persuasory began to commend the dignity of the masse vnto them declaring that there was stuffe in Scripture enough to proue the masse good Then to allure them to the catholick seruice of the Church he vsed these reasons declaring that there were a goodly coÌ„pany of Copes The great reasons oâ— D. Treshâ—â— that were appoynted to Windsore but he had fouÌ„d the Queene so gracious vnto him that they should come to Christes church Now if they like honest men would come to Church they should weare them on holydayes And besides all this he would get them the Lady Bell of Bampton that should make the sweetest ring in all England And as for an holy watersprinckle he had already the fayrest that was within the realme Wherfore he thought that no man would be so mad to forgo these commodityes c. Which thinges I rehearse that it may appeare what want of descretion is in the fathers of popery into what idle follies such men do fall Whome I beseech the Lord if it be his pleasure to reduce to a better truth to opeÌ„ theyr eyes to see theyr owne blindnes To proceed now further in the course race of our story where as we left being before in the moneth of NoueÌ„ber it foloweth more that in the * Where note that the Prince of Queen Maryes Statutes doth erre his suppâ—â—tation which saith that this Parlâ—â—ment begâ—â— the 11. of this monâ—â—â— which daâ— was then Sonday xij day of the same month of Nouember being Monday beganne the Parliament holden at Westminster to the beginning whereof both the king and Queene rode in theyr Parliament robes hauing 2. swords borne before them The Earle of Penbroke bare his sword the Earle of Westmerland bare the Queenes They had ij cappes of maynteinaunce borne before them whereof the Earle of Arundell bare one and the Earle oâ— Shrewsbury the other Cardinall Poole landed at Douer vpon the Wednesday being the xxi day of Nouember on which day one Act passed in the parliameÌ„t for his restitution in bloud vtterly repealing as false most slaunderous that Act made against him in king Henry the eightes tyme and on the next day being Thursday and the xxij of Nouember the King and the Queene both came to the Parliament house to geue theyr royall assent to establish this Act agaynst his comming Cardinal Poole arâ—â—ueth in England Ex Statuâ—â— an 1. 〈◊〉 Regis Pâ—â—lip 〈◊〉 cap. 8. Nouembâ—â— 28. Upon the Saterday being the xxiiij of Nouember the sayd Cardinal came by water to London so to Lambeth house which was ready prepared agaynst his comming Upon the Wednesday folowing being the 28. of Nouember there was generall procession in Paules for ioy y t the Quene was conceiued and quick with child as it was declared in a letter sent from the counsell to the Byshop of London The same day at this procession was present ten Bishops with al the Prebendaries of Paules and also the Lord Maior with the Aldermen and a greate number of Commons of the City in theyr best aray The Copy of the CouÌ„cels letter here foloweth ad perpetuam rei memoriam * A Copy of a letter sent from the Counsell vnto Edmund Boner Byshop of London concerning Queene Mary conceiued with Childe AFter our harty commendations vnto your good Lordshippe whereas it hath pleased almighty God amongest other his infinite benefites of late most graciouslye poured vpon vs and thys whole Realme to extend his benediction vpon the Queenes maiesty in such sort as she is conceiued and quicke of childe Wherby her maiesty being our natural liege Lady queene vndoubted inheritor of this imperiall crowne good hope of certayn succession in the crowne is geuen vnto vs consequeÌ„tly the great calamities which for want of such succession might otherwise haue fallen vpon vs our posterity shall by Gods grace be well auoyded if we thankefully acknowledge this benefite of almighty God endeuoring our selues with earnest repentance to thanke honor and serue him as we be most bounden These be not onely to aduertise you of these good newes to be by you published in all places within your Dioces but also to pray and require you that both your selfe do geue God thankes with vs for this his especial grace and also geue order that thankes may be openly geuen by singing of Te Deum in all the churches within your sayde Dioces and that likewise all priestes and other Ecclesiasticall ministers in theyr Masses and other diuine seruices may continually pray to almighty God so to extend his holy hand ouer his maiesty the kinges highnes and this whole Realme as this thing being by his omnipotent power graciously thus begon may by the same be well continued and brought to good effect to the glory of his name Whereunto albeit we doubt not ye woulde of your selfe haue had special regard without these our letters yet for the earnest desire we haue to haue this thing done out of hand diligently continued we haue also written these our letters to put you in remembraunce and so bid your Lordshippe most hartily well to fare From Westminster the 27. of Nouember 1554. Your assured louing frendes S. Winton Chancel Arundell F. Shrewesbury Edward Darby Henry Sussex Iohn Bathon R Rich. Thomas Warthom Iohn Huddilstone R. Southwell Also the same day in the afternoone Cardinall Poole came to the Parliament house Cardinall Poole commeth to the Parlament which at that present was kept in the great Chamber of the Court at Whitehall for that the Queene was then sicke and could not go abroad where as the King and Queenes Maiesties sittyng vnder y e cloth of Estate the Cardinall sitting on theyr right hand with all the other Estates of the Parliament being present the Byshop of Winchester being Lord Chauncellor began in this maner ¶ The wordes of Winchester for receiuing of the Cardinall MY Lordes of the vpper house you my Maisters of the nether house here is present the right reuerend father in God my Lord Cardinall Poole come froÌ„ the apostolicke Sea of Rome 〈◊〉 words 〈◊〉 Cardâ—â—all Poole As Ambassador to the king and Queenes Maiesties vpon one of the weightiest causes that euer happened in this Realme whiche perteineth to the glory of God and your vniuersall benefite The which Ambassage theyr Maiesties pleasure is to be signified vnto you all by his owne mouth trusting that you will receiue and accept it in as beneuolent and thankefull wise as their highnesses haue done and that you will geue an attent and inclinable eare vnto him When the Lord Chauncellor had thus ended his talke the Cardinall taking the time then offered began hys Oration wherin he declared the causes of
tyme of weaknes Likewise when the king first came if it had bene done they might haue sayd it had bene by force violence But now euen now * Imo poâ—â—stas tenebrarum hora est the houre is come when no thing can be obiected but that it is the mere mercy and prouidence of God Nowe hath the Popes holynesse Pope Iulius the 3. sent vnto vs this most reuerend father Ste. Garâ—â—â—ner clawâ—eth the Cardinalâ— Cardinall Poole an Ambassadour from his side What to doe not to reueÌ„ge the iniuries done by vs agaynst his holines sed benedicere malediceÌ„tibus to geue his benedictioÌ„ to those which defamed and persecuted him And that we may be the more meete to receiue the sayd benedictioÌ„ I shall desire you that we may alway acknowledge our selues offeÌ„ders agaynst his holines Note hoâ— the meaning of Sâ— Paules wordes is here applâ—â—ed I do not exclude my selfe forth of the number I will flere cum flentibus gaudere cum gaudentibus that is weep with them that weep and reioyce with them which reioyce And I shall desire you that we may deferre the matter no longer for now hora est the houre is come The King and the Queenes Maiesties haue already restored our holy Father the Pope to his supremacy and the three estates assembled in the Parliament representing the whole body of the Realme haue also submitted themselues to his holines and his successors * For eueâ— Winchestâ—â— a false Pâ—â—â—phet S. Paule though 〈◊〉 was the fâ—â—ther of mâ—â—ny Churâ—ches in Christ Ieâ—â—â— yet was hâ— neuer so arragant 〈◊〉 take vpon him to be supreme head of 〈◊〉 church 〈◊〉 left that 〈◊〉 to Chriâ—â— laboure to bring 〈◊〉 vnder him for euer Wherefore let not vs any longer stay And euen as S. Paule sayd to the Corinthians that he was theyr father so may the Pope saye that he is our Father for we receiued our doctrine first from Rome therefore he may challenge vs as his owne We haue all cause to reioyce for hys holynesse hath sent hither and preueÌ„ted vs before we sought him such care hath he for vs. Therefore let vs say Haec est dies quam fecit Dominus exultemus laetemur in ea Reioyce in this day which is of the Lordes working that suche a noble man of byrth is come yea suche a holye Father I meane my Lord Cardinall Poole which can speake vnto vs as vnto brethren and not as vnto straungers who hath a long time bene absent And let vs now awake whiche so long haue slept and in our sleepe haue done so much naughtines agaynst the Sacramentes of Christ denying the blessed Sacrament of the Aultar and pulled downe the * So Ezechâ—â—as pulled downe thâ— hill Altâ—â— which Mâ—â—nasses afteâ—â—ward did vp and 〈◊〉 we commend thâ— doings oâ— Ezechias disproue the facte 〈◊〉 the other aultars which thing Luther himselfe would not doe but rather reproued them that did examining them of theyr beliefe in Christ. This was the summe of this Sermon before his prayers wherein he prayed first for the Pope Pope Iulius the 3. withall his Colledge of Cardinals the B. of LondoÌ„ with the rest of that order then for the king and Queene the nobility of this Realme and last for the commons of the same with the soules departed lying in the paynes of Purgatory This ended the time being late they beganne in Paules to ring to theyr Euening song wherby the precher could not be well heard whiche caused him to make a short end of this clerkly Sermon About this very time a Poste or Messenger was sent froÌ„ the whole Parliament to the Pope to desire him to coÌ„firme and establish the sale of Abbey landes and Chauntry landes For the Lordes and the Parliament would grauÌ„t nothing in the Popes behalfe before theyr purchases were fully confirmed Upon the Thursday folowing being the 6. day of december and S. Nicholas day Decemb. all the whole Conuocation both Bishops and other were sent for to Lambeth to the Cardinall The Châ—â—â—ter of Paules â—â—â—solued by the Carâ—â—â—nall Decembâ—â— 12. who the same day forgaue them all theyr perâ—urations schismes and heresies and they all there kneeled downe and receiued his absolution and after an exhortation and gratulation for theyr conuersion to the catholicke church made by the Cardinall they departed Upon the Wednesday being the 12. of December fiue of the 8. menne which lay in the Fleete that were of M. Throgmortons quest were discharged and set at libertye vpon their fine payed which was ccxx li a piece and the other â—oure put vp a Supplication therein declaring that their goods did not amount to the summe that they were appointed to pay and so vpon that declaration paying lx.li. a piece they were deliuered out of prison vpon S. Thomas day before Christmas beyng the xxi of December Upon the Saterday followyng beyng the xxij of December all the whole Parliament had strait commaundement that none of them should depart into their countrey this Christmas nor before the Parliament were ended Which commandement was wonderful contrary to their expectations For as well many of the Lords as also many of the inferior sort had sent for their horse and had them brought hither December â—8 Upon the Friday following being the 28. of December and Childermas day the Prince of Piedmont came to the court at Westminster Anno. 1555. Upon Newyeares day at night folowing certain honest men and women of the Citie to the number of xxx a minister with them named M. Rose were taken as they were in a house in Bow Churchyard at the Communion and the same night they were al committed to prison And on the Thursday following being the 3. day of Ianuary M. Rose was before the B. of Winchester beyng L. Chancellor and from thence the same day he was committed to the Tower after certaine communication had betweene the Bishop and him The acte of supremacy passed in the Parlament The same day the Act of the supremacie past in the parlament Also the same day at night was a great tumult betwene Spaniards English men at Westminster wherof was like to haue ensued great mischief through a Spanish Frier which got into the Church and rong Alarum The occasion was about two whores which were in the cloister of Westminster with a sort of Spaniards A styrre betweene the Spanyardes and English men at Westminster whereof whilest some playd the knaues with them other some dyd keepe the entry of the Cloister with Dags in harneis In the meane tyme certaine of the Deanes men came into the cloister and the Spaniards discharged their dags at them and hurt some of them By and by the noyse of this doyng came into the streetes so that the whole towne was vp almost but neuer a stroke was striken Notwithstandyng the noise of this doyng with the Deanes men and also the ringing of the Alarum made
and poyntes thereto belonging testified not by some sayes by heareseyes as M. More vseth but truely witnessed Doct. Parker Archb. of Canterbury present witnesse at the burning of Bilney and faythfully recordeth by one who as in a place and degree surmounteth the estate of M. More though he were Lord Chauncellour so beyng also both a spirituall person and there present the same time comming for the same purpose the day before to see his burning was a present beholder of things there done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Martyrdom whose credite I am sure will counterpease with the credite of M. More The order of which martyrdome was this as followeth Thomas Bilney after his examination and condemnation before Doct. Pelles Doctour of law and ChauÌ„cellour first was degraded by Suffragan Underwoode according to the custome of ther popishe maner by the assistaunce of all the Fryers and Doctours of the same sute Whiche done he was immediately committed to the â—aye power and to the two Sheriffes of the Cittie of whome Thomas Necton was one This Tho. Necton was Bilneys speciall good frend and sory to accept hym to such execution as followed But such was the tyrannye of y e tyme and dread of the Chauncellour and Fryers that he coulde no otherwise doe but needes must receiue him Who notwithstanding as he could not beare in his conscience himselfe to be present at hys death so for the time that he was in hys custody hee caused hym to be more friendly looked vnto and more holesomely kept concerning his dyet then he was before A description of the godly constancy of Thomas Bilney who being in prison oftentimes prooued the fire with his finger The Saterday next following when the Officers of execution as the maner is with their gleaues and halbardes were ready to receaue hym and to leade him to the place of execution without the Citty gate called Byshops gate in a low valley commonly called the Lollards pit vnder S. Leonards hyl enuironed about with great hylles whiche place was chosen for the peoples quiet sitting to see the executioÌ„ at the comming forth of the sayd Thomas Bilney out of the prison doore Constant Bilney exhorted to constancye one of hys frendes came to hym with few wordes as he durst spake to hym prayed him in Gods behalfe to be constant and to take his death as paciently as he could Whereunto the sayd Bilney aunswered with a quyet and milde countenance Ye see when the Mariner is entred hys shyp to sayle on the troublous Sea how he for a while is tossed in the byllowes of y e same but yet in hope that he shall once come to the quyet hauen he beareth in better comforte the perils whiche he feeleth So am I now toward this sayling what soeuer storms I shall feele yet shortly after shall my ship be in the haueÌ„ as I doubt not therof by the grace of God desiring you to help me w t your prayers to the same effect And so he going forth in the streetes geuing much almes by the way by the handes of one of his frendes accompanyed with one D. Warner Doct. of Diuinity and parson of WintertoÌ„ whom he did chuse as his olde acquayntaunce to be with him for his ghostly comfort came at the last to the place of execution and ascended downe from the hill to the same apparelled in a lay mans gowne with his sleues hanging downe his armes out his heare being pitiously mangled at his degradation a litle single body in person but alwaies of a good vpright countenaunce and drew neare to the stake prepared somewhat tarying the preparation of the fyre he desired that he might speak some wordes to the people and there standing thus he sayd Good people I am come hyther to dye and borne I was to liue vnder that condition naturally to dye againe and that ye might testify that I depart out of this present life as a true Christian man in a right beliefe towardes almighty God I will rehearse vnto you in a fast fayth the Articles of my Creede and then began to rehearse them in order as they be in the common Creede with oft eleuating his eyes and handes to almighty God and at the Article of Christes incarnatioÌ„ hauing a litle meditation in himselfe comming to the word Crucified he humbly bowed himselfe and made great reuerence and then proceeding in the Articles and comming to these wordes I beleue the Catholicke Church there he paused and spake these wordes Good people I must here confesse to haue offended the Church in preaching once agaynst the prohibition of the same at a poore Cure belonging to Trinity hall in Cambrige where I was felow Tho Bilney pâ—t to death 〈…〉 earnestly intreated thereunto by the Curate and other good people of the parish shewing that they had no Sermon there of loÌ„ng time before so in my conscieÌ„ce moued I did make a poore collation vnto them and therby ranne into the disobedience of certaine authority in the Church by whom I was prohibited howbeit I trust at the generall day charity that moued me to this acte shall beare me out at y e iudgement seat of God M. More proued a lyer by witnes present at Bilneys death so he proceeded on without any maner of wordes of recantation or charging any man for procuring him to his deth This once done he put of his gowne and went to the stake and kneelyng vpon a litle ledge comming out of the stake wheron he should afterward stand to be better sene he made his priuate prayer w t such earnest eleuation of his eyes and handes to heauen and in so good quiet behauior that he seemed not much to coÌ„sider the terror of his death and ended at the last Tho. Bilney praying at the stake Psal. 143. his priuate prayers with the 143. Psalme beginning Domine exaudi orationem meam auribus percipe obsecrationem meam c. That is Heare my prayer O Lord consider my desire the next verse he repeated in deepe meditation thrise Et ne intres in iudicium cum seruo tuo Domine i. And enter not into iudgement with thy seruaunt for in thy sight shall no man liuing be iustified and so finishing that Psalme he ended his priuate prayers After that he turned himselfe to the officers asking theÌ„ if they were ready and they answered yea Whereupon he put of his iacket and doublet and stoode in his hose shirt and went vnto the stake standing vpon that ledge and the chayne was cast about him and standing theron the sayd D. Warner came to him to bid him farewell D. Warner taking his faâ—ewell of Tho. Bilney which spake but few wordes for weeping Upon whom the sayd Tho. Bilney did most gently smile inclined his body to speak to him a few wordes of thankes and the last were these O Maister Doctor Pasce gregem
christen man his highnes therfore like a most gracious christian Prince onely entending the sauegarde of this his realme the preseruation of his subiectes and saluation of their soules willeth to put now in execution with all diligence possible all good lawes statutes and ordinaunces concerning the premisses before this time prouyded made and ordeyned by hys most noble progenitors kings of England for that purpose entent Which lawes and statutes by our soueraigne Lorde and hys most honourable counsaile by long and deliberate aduise for the extirpation suppressyng withstanding of the sayd heresies haue bene seene examined by them in euery part thought good necessary to be put in execution Wherefore his highnesse chargeth and straightly commauÌ„deth all and euery his Lordes spirituall and temporal Iudges Iustices of peace Shiriffes Mayors Baylifs Constables and all other hys Officers Ministers and all his true and louing subiectes that all fauour affection and partialitie layd apart they effectually with all diligence and study endeuour themselues substantially for the executing of al and euery of the articles hereafter ensuyng without dissimulation intermission or excuse as they wil auoide hys high indignation and displeasure First that no man within the kinges realme or other his domynions subiect to his highnes hereafter presume to preach teache or informe any thing openly or priuily or coÌ„pile and write anye booke or hold exercise or kepe any assembles or schooles in any maner of wise contrary to the Catholike faith or determinatyon of holy church nor that any person within this his sayd realme domininions do presume to preach openly or secretly withoute they haue first obtained liceÌ„ce of the Bishop of the diocesse where they entend to preach curates in their parishes persons priuiledged and other by the law of the church onely except Also that no maÌ„ wittingly hereafter fauour support or maintain any person which preacheth in forme aforesayd or maketh anye such or like conuenticles and assembles holdeth or exerciseth any schooles maketh writeth or publisheth anye suche booke teacheth infourmeth or stirreth the people or any of them in anye maner of forme to the said errours Moreouer that al euery person and persons hauing any bookes or writinges of any suche errors erroneous doctryne and opinion do deliuer or cause to bee deliuered effectually and actually all and euerye such bookes and writings to the Bishoppes of the dioces or to the ordinary of the place within 15 daies after this proclamation pronounced And in case any person or persons of what estate condition or degree soeuer they be do or attempt any thing contrary to this Act and proclamation or doe not deliuer or cause to bee deliuered suche bookes within the time aforesaid that euery bishop in his dioces or ordinary shal cause that person or persons and euery of them to be arested in that behalfe diffamed or euidently suspected and detayne kepe theÌ„ vnder safe custody in their persons Penâ—ltye vntil such time that the said persons euery of theÌ„ either haue purged theÌ„selues of the said errors or els do abiure the said erròneous sects preachings doctrines or opinions as the law of holye Churche doth require Furthermore if any person by the law of holy Church be coÌ„uicted before the bishop of the dioces or his CoÌ„missary in any case aboue expressed that the said Bishop may kepe in prison the sayd person or persons so conuicted as it shal seeme best to his discretioÌ„ after the greuousnes or qualitie of the crime and further may set a fine to be paid to the behoufe of the king by the persoÌ„ or persons conuicted as it shal bee thought conuenient to the saide Byshop hauing respect to the greuousnes of the effence of the sayde persoÌ„ or persoÌ„s the said fine to be certified by the Bishop into the kings Eschequer ther to be leuied to the kings vse except in such cases in which by the lawes of holy church the said persons conuict of heresies ought totally to be left to the secular iurisdictioÌ„ Also if any person within this his realme of England or other his dominions be by sentence iudicial conuicted of the said preaching and doctrines prohibited erroneous opinions schooles informations or any of them and before the Bishop or his Commissary do abiure according to the fourme of the lawes of holye churche the foresaid erroneous sectes doctrines schooles or informatioÌ„s or els be pronounced by the bishops or their coÌ„missaries after their abiuration by theÌ„ before made to bee relapsed so that after the lawes of holy church they ought to be relinquished to the iurisdiction secular wherin faith is to be geuen to the Bysh. or his CoÌ„missaries in that behalf then the Shiriffe of the CouÌ„tie Maior Shirifes or Maior and Baylifes of the same citie towne or borough next vnto the said Bishop or Commissaries shal bee personally present in the sentence geuing by the said Bishop or CoÌ„missaries thereunto required and after the said sentence geueÌ„ shal receiue the said persons and euerye of them and put them to further excution according to the lawes of this realme Also the Chauncellor treasurer of England the Iustice of the one Bench and the other Iustices of peace Shirifes Maiors and Bayliffes of cities and townes and other Officers hauing gouernance of the people which now be or for the time hereafter shall be shal make othe in taking their charge and ministration to put their whole power and diligence to put away and to make vtterly to cease and destroy all maner of heresies and errours coÌ„monly called Lollardies within the precinctes of their offices and administrations from time to time with all their power Also they shal assist the Bishoppes and their Commissaries and them shall fauour and mayntaine as oftentymes as that to do they or any of them shal be required by the said Byshops or their commissaries so that the Bishops or their commissaries shall beare pay the reasonable costes of the said officers and ministers when and as often as they shall trauaile or ryde to arrest heretickes and Lollardes or to assist the said Bishops or Commissaries by vertue of the kings lawes and statutes Moreouer the Iustices of the kings Bench Iustices of peace and Iustices of Assise shal inquire at their Sessions and sittings of all those that holde any errours or heresies and who be their mayntainers receptors fauourers and supporters common wryters of bookes as also of their sermons schooles conuenticles congregations confederacies Furthermore if any person be endicted of any of the poynts abouesayd the Iustices of the peace haue power to awarde agaynst them Acapias and the shriues be bound to arrest such persons so endicted as sone as they may be found by themselues or by their Officers And forsomuch as cognisaunce of heresie errours and Lollardies appertayneth to the Iudge of holy church and not to the Iudge secular the persons so indicted to bee deliuered to the bishoppes of
a knotte so fast tyed and folded so many wayes that as the saying was whosoeuer could loose it should haue all Asia So Alexander comming to it when he could not loose it with his haÌ„ds he cutte it a â—uÌ„der with his sworde Gordian knotte would not be loosed at rome he was driueÌ„ against his wil as God would to play the noble Alexander himselfe and with the sword of his princely authority knapt the knot at one stroke clean a sunder loosing as it were with one solutioÌ„ infinite questions For where the Doctours and Canonistes had loÌ„g disputed and yet could neuer throughly discusse the largenes and fulnes of the popes two swordes both temporall and spirituall the king with one sword did so cut of bothe cleane out of England as ye shall see more anone But first the king like a prudent prince before he would come to the head of the sore thought best to pare away such rank fleshe and putrified places as were about it and therefore following his owne prouerbe like as one goyng about to cast downe an olde rotten wall will not beginne with the foundation first but with the stones that lye in the toppe so he to prepare his way better vnto the Pope The kinges proâ—â—uerbe Looke before first beganne with the Cardinall castinge him by the lawe of Premunire out of his goods possessions and so at leÌ„gth by poysoning himselfe he procured his owne death which was in the yeare 1530. Thys done shortly after about the the yeare 1532. the King to prouide by time agaynste mischiefes that might come from Rome gaue foorth eftsoones this proclamation as followeth THe kings highnes straightly chargeth and commandeth that no maner of person what estate degree A restraynte of the king that nothing should be purchased from Rome or condition so euer hee or they be of doe purchase or attempt to purchase from the Court of Rome or els where nor vse and put in executioÌ„ diuulge or publish any thing heretofore wâ—thin this yeare passed purchased or to be purchased heereafter containing matter preiudiciall to the highe authoritie iurisdiction and prerogatiue Royall of thys hys sayde realme or to theÌ„ lette hinderaunce or impeache ment of his graces noble and vertuous intended purposes in the premises vppon paine of incurring his highnes indignation and imprisonment and further punishment of their bodies for their so doing at his graces pleasure to the dreadful exâ—mple of all other After this was done the king then proceeding farther caused the rest of the spirituall Lordes to be called by proces into the kinges benche to make their appearaunce Ex Edw. Hallo for so much as the whole Clergie of Englande in supporting and maintaining the power Legatiue of the Cardinall The whole clergy of England in the Premunire by the reason thereof were all entangled likewise in the Premunire and therefore were called into the kings benche to aunswere But before the day of theyr appearaunce the Prelates together in theyr conuocation concluded among themselues an humble submission in wryting and offered the king for a subsidie or contribution that hee woulde be their good Lord and release them of the Premunire by Act of Parliament first to be gathered in the prouince of Caunterbury a C.M. poundes And in the Prouince of Yorke xviij hundreth and xl pound x. pence The whyche offer with much labour was accepted and their pardon promised The Clergy geueth to the king 11840 pound to be released from the Premunire In this submission the clergie called the kyng supreme head of the Churche of Englande whych thing they neuer confessed before wherupon many things folowed as after God willing ye shall heare But first forsomuch as we are in hand nowe wyth the matter we wil borow by the way a few words of the reader to speake of this clergie money of a 118840. pounds x. pence to be leuied to the king as is aboue touched For the leuying of which summe an order was taken amonge the prelates that euery B. in his Dioces should call before him all the Priestes Parsons Uicars amongst whome D. Stokesley B. of London a man then counted to be of some witte and learning but of litle discretion and humanitie which caused him to be out of the fauour of the common people called before him all the Priestes wythin the Citie of London whether they were Curates or Stipendaries the first day of Sept. being Friday in the Chapter house of S. Paule At which day the priests appeared and the Bishops policie was to haue onely 6. or 8. priestes together and by perswasions to haue caused them to graunt some portion toward the paiment of the foresaid hundreth M. pound But the number of the Priestes was so greate for they were 6. hundreth at the least and with them came many temporall men to heare the matter that the Bishop was disapoynted of his purpose For when the Byshops Officers called in certaine Priests by name into the chapter house The bishops policy with the Priests for payment of the kinges money wyth that a great number entred for they putte the Bishops Officers that kept the doore a side After this the Officers got the dore shut againe Then the Priestes without sayde we will not be kept wythout and our felowes be within we know not what the bishop will do with them The temporal men being present comforted and encouraged the priestes to enter so that by force they opened the doore and one strake the Bishops Officer ouer the face and entred the Chapter house and many teÌ„porall men with them and long it was ere any sileÌ„ce could be made At last wheÌ„ they were appeased the bishop stode vp and sayd Brethren I maruell not a litle why you be so heady and know not what shal be sayd to you therefore I pray you to keepe silence and to heare me paciently My frendes all you knowe well that we be men fraile of condition and no Aungels and by frailtie and lacke of wisedome wee haue misdemeaned oure selfe towarde the king our soueraigne Lord and his lawes The bishops perswasion to the priestes to helpe theÌ„ to pay there forfaite so that all we of the Cleargie were in the Premunire by reason whereof all our promotions landes goodes and cattels were to hym forfaite our bodies ready to be imprisoned yet his grace moued with pitie and compassion demaunded of vs what we could say why he should not extend his lawes vpoÌ„ vs. Then the Fathers of the Cleargye humbly besought hys grace of mercy To whom he aunswered that he was euer enclined to mercy Then for all our great offences we had litle penaunce For where he might by the rigour of hys law haue taken all our liuelode goods and cattels he was contented with one hundreth thousand pounds to be payd in 5. yeres And although that this summe be more then we may easely beare yet by the rigor of his lawes we
and bringer vp of the Secte of the Nazarens which was also minded to haue polluted our temple c. Truth taken for falshode Christ taken for a seducer In what causes men forbidden ought not to cease from preaching This is to call by peruerse iudgement trueth falsehoode And thus did theyr predecessours speake of the Prophets yea and of Christ himselfe calling him a seducer and preacher of heresy which is written for our instruction And men thus being suspected as I woulde none were ought in no wise therefore to cease neither from preaching ne teaching Ensample of this we haue in the Actes of the apostles where is shewed that whē Peter Iohn had done a myracle vpon a man that had bene lame frō his natiuity whō by the power of Christ they healed Act. 4.5.6 caused to go where he pleased the people hearing of this came running about Peter Iohn Peter seeing this did exhort the people in a sermon that they should not thinke him his felow S. Iohn to haue done this wōderfull thing by their own power or holynes but by the vertue of Christ whom they theyr head rulers had slayne While they were thus speaking with the people there came vpō them the priestes officers of the temple accompanyed with the Saduces being sore displeased that they should enterprise to teach the people and preace that men should arise from death by the name of Christ whom they had caused to be crucified and therewith they layd handes vpon them and put them in warde vntill next day The next day they sent for the Apostles before them demaunding by what power and in whose name they did this myracle Peter made aunswere Act. 4. If you quoth he that are head rulers ouer the people lust by examination to knowe by what meanes we did it we woulde you should all know that we did it throvgh the name of Christ Iesu of Nazareth whom you did crucify but God did cause him to arise agayne In the vertue of hys name doth this man that afore was lame now stand before you here both whole and found For Christ is that high corner stone whō you cast away which should haue builded the peoples fayth vpon him neither is there any saluation without him These great men seing that Peter spake so freely and that he with his felow Iohn were simple men without any pompous apparel or great garde of seruaunts being like ideots and men vnlearned wondred therat At the last they did commaunde them to depart out of theyr Councell house whiles they should cōmon more largely of y e matter Peter and the Apostles prohibited by the Phariseis to preach Christ. Afterward they called y e Apostles afore them agayde commaunding them that they should no more preach ne teache in the name of Iesus But the Apostles aunswered saying I beseeche you iudge better ought we to obey you more then God or no For certaynely we must needes testify of those thinges which we haue both heard and seene Then the head Priestes threatning them sore did geue them strait charge Act. 4. not to breake theyr precept and so did let them goe not knowing any cause why they might punish them for they feared least the people would haue taken part with the Apostles for the people gaue glory to God for the myracle shewed by them Notwithstāding al these great threats Peter wrought miracles still amongst the people Peter disobeyed the precepte of the Phariseis doing thē to know that glory therfore ought to be geuē to Iesus by whose power and name they were done Wherwith the harts of the people melted for ioy so that they folowed after the Apostles whyther soeuer they went The primate of the priestes hearing of this and all that were about him repleate with indignation layd handes vpon the Apostles putting them in the common Prison But the Aungell of God in the night opened the Prison dores and brought them out saying Peter deliuered out of prison Goe you into the Temple and stand there preaching vnto the people all the wordes of life That is to say Christes doctrine and so they did earely in the morning Then came foorth the chiefe Priest and they whom he vsed to haue about him and called a Councell in which were all the Priestes of Israel or auncientes of Israel So they sent vnto the prison house for to haue the apostles brought forth before them When theyr seruaunts came to the prison house found the apostles gone thence they returned to theyr maisters saying we found the prison fast shut round about in euery part the keepers watching at the dores without full diligently But when we had opened the prison we could find no body within Then as the high priestes officers of the temple heard this they were in a great perplexity doubting what wold therof come Act. 5. Then came one vnto them shewed thē saying Behold the men that ye put in prison are standing in the temple preaching vnto the people Then wēt they thither and brought the apostles with thē without any violence but they were afrayd lest the people would haue beaten them downe with stones Then they caused the apostles to be brought into their Councell house the high priest beginning his proposition agaynst the apostles in this forme Haue we not straytly commaunded you sayd he that you should not preach in the name of Christ And see you haue filled all Hierusalem with your doctrine Will you bring this mans bloud vpō vs God to be obeyed more then men Act. 5. that we should vnrighteously haue caused him to suffer death Then aunswered Peter and the other Apostles saying We ought to obey God more then any man The God of our fathers hath raysed Iesu from death whom you did slay hanging him vpon a tree Him notwithstanding hath GOD raysed and by his power aduaunced to be our king and Sauiour by whom shal be geuen to all Israel that will take repentaunce forgeuenes of sinne These great rulers hearing this their harts were therwith clouen a sunder and they coūselled together for to slay the apostles But one good man amōg theyr multitude aduised them otherwise whose aduise they did approue Thē they called the apostles againe afore them causing them to be scourged charged them no more to preach in the name of Iesu and so did let them depart Then went they away out of the Councell reioycing that God had made thē worthye to suffer such rebukes for his name sake The counsell of Gamaliell But yet they neuer ceased to teach preach of Iesus Christ euery day in the temple and in all houses that they came into This is written in the 4.5 and 6. of the Actes of the apostles for our instruction doubt you not for such practise is shewed in all ages So that hereby you may set Act. 4.5.6 when men be wrongfully suspect or infamed
so were they baptised Vicar of Christ. Thus may you see that if Peter were the Uicare of Christ euen so likewise was Paule and all the other Apostles And I do not thinke contrary but that Peter and all other of the Apostles were Christes Uicares if you meane by this word Uicar a deputie or such like for to preach his Euangelie which is an office of al other most soueraigne to minister Sacramentes and to do other such diuine seruice in Gods Church And thus were they worthy to be called as the Scripture nameth them Christs true Apostles Bishops Priestes Legates or any such like Which authority was giuen theÌ„ by Christ after his resurrection when he sayd vnto them these wordes Luke 24. Peace be amongest you Like as my father hath sent me so do I sende you Take you the holy Ghost whose sinnes soeuer you shall forgiue are forgiuen them and whose sinnes you shall retayne are retayned And the same authoritie did they receiue when Christe spake vnto all the Church Ioh. 21. after the mind of Saint Augugustine and other in Peter saying Peter feede my sheepe ¶ In the xliiij where you aske whether I beleeue that the Pope ordinaâ—ly chosen for a time his proper name being expressed To the 44. artycle be the successour of Peter I say that it seemeth to me a thing of no great valew whether a man beleue so or no I can not see y t it should be numbred amongst the Articles of our faith Succession of Peter How the Pope may be a successour of Peter Notwithstanding I will shewe my rude thought in it which is this The Pope may succeede in S. Peters steade or office and do the same duly diligently feeding Christes flocke and shewing vertuous ensample of liuing to the same so doing he may and ought to be thoght and named a true successour of S. Peter Euery good Bishop may be successour of Peter And thus is your Lordship S. Peters successour performing the conditions aforesaid with otherlike properties requisite to your order and duety yea and as many other as do truly their duty and duely the office of a Byshop And otherwise may not the Pope be called the successour of Peter for because he is entred into S. Peters office not regarding to do that is requisite for the same not folowing y e trace of vertue but the coÌ„trary And then is he wrongfully named if at any time such be which is not vnpossible For what should men cal those Peters successors that play the pageants and folow with the conditions of Caiphas Symon Magus or Iudas Such verely if any be cannot rightwilly claime to be Peters successors The Pope rather 〈◊〉 be Peters aduersary then his â—â—â—cessouâ— no more then the night may claime to be successour of the day for Peter was neuer so minded ne taught them so Yea they ought rather to be called Peters aduersaries for so much as they do not his will that is shewed by his owne actes and writing but worke against the same Of such may be saide Non Sanctorum filij sunt qurtenent loca Sanctorum sed qui exercent opera eorum That is to say Hierome As the 〈◊〉 is succesâ—â—â— of the day â—o is the Pope successor of Peter except he follow the steppeâ— of Peter they are not all Saintes children that occupy the rowms of Saintes but they are their children that exercise their works Yea of such may be said that is written of S. Hierome Al Byshops quoth he are not Byshoppes marke you well Peter but marke also Iudas Behold Stephen but behold Nicholas Ecclesiastical dignitie maketh not a Christen man Cornelius the Centurion being yet a pagan was made clean through the benefit of the holy ghost Contrariwise Daniel being a child condemneth Priestes or auncient men It is no easy thing saith he to stande in the rowme of Peter and Paul to kepe the seate of them now reigning with Christe For vnsauery salt is nought els worth but to be throwen out of the doores August and troden downe of hogges This sayth S. Hierome Wherunto agreeth wel S. Augustine Euery one quoth he that saith vnto you Pax vobis ought not to be heard or to be beleeued as a doue Crows be fedde of dead carion so is not a doue but liueth by the fruites of the earth Let vs marke not how the byrde speaketh but how he feedeth The Crow feedeth vpoÌ„ carion the Doue not so Her liuing is pure innocent and hurtlesse Whereby you may see that ill Bishops are no Byshops and that they which folow no Saints in vertuous liuing are not the successors of Saints but vnsauery salt that is neither of the church ne shal come in heauen to reigne there with Peter Paul but be thrown out with great conteÌ„pt For God knoweth a doue from a crow and an innocent liuer from a deuourer of carion But such as declare and shew good deeds as the Saints did be their childreÌ„ and successours and shal with them reigne in heauen So that to conclude I say How the Pope is sucsessour of Peter and how not Zach. 11. that the Pope ordinatly chosen is the successour of S. Peter folowing S. Peters godly liuing And els except he study to do diligently that he may be so called worthily it shal be but a vaine name For rather may he els be reputed an Image of a Pope or of a Bishop according as such be called of the Prophet O Pastor Idolum O Idoll shepheards ¶ In the xlv where you aske To the last article whether euer I haue promised as any time by an othe or made any confederacie or league with any person or persons that I would alway hold and defend certain conclusions or articles seeming to me and to my complices right consonant vnto the faith Ioh. Lambert required to detect his fellowes and will that I should certifie you of the course and forme of the said opinions and conclusions by row of y e names and surnames of them that were to me adherent promised to be adhereÌ„t in this behalf I say that I doe not remeÌ„ber that euer I made pact or confederacie w t any person or persons ne made any promise by oth that I would alway hold and defend any conclusions or articles seming to me and other right and consonant to the faith vnlesse it hath chanced me to say in this forme that I would neuer with the ayde of God forsake ne decline from the truth neither for feare nor yet for loue of man or men Thus I haue perhaps sayd in some time or some place because I haue in deed so intended and doe entend Gods grace assisting me But I can not yet tell you whether I haue so said or no nor to what persoÌ„s ne at what time neither in what place Neither I do reckeÌ„ me to haue any coÌ„plices but such as
And secondly that he was lift vp that is to witte from beneath or from a lowe And thirdly that a cloud receaued him Where as no cloud nor cloudes can receiue or embrace the Deitie c. I am â—aine to leaue out other euident Argumentes for the same purpose least I shoulde be ouer prolixe and tedious It doeth there also further followe in like forme how the Aungels made aunswere to the Disciples saying Yee menne of Galile why stande yee gasing into heauen Thys Iesus which is taken vppe from you into heauen shall so come agayne as you haue seene him going vppe into heauen Here we see againe that Iesus is assumpte or taken away into heauen And then it must be from oute of the worlde Iohn 16. accordinge to that we read Iohn 16. I went foorth from the father I came into the worlde I leaue the worlde againe and I go vnto the Father That is not els but as hee came from the father of heauen into thys worlde in that he was incarnate made man for hys Godhead was neuer absent either from heauen or yet from earth euen so shoulde his manhoode leaue the worlde againe to go to heauen Moreouer in that it is sayde So shall he come is plainly testified that hee is away and nowe corporally absent Finally it is shewed further after what maner he shal come againe by these woordes Euen as you haue seene hym going vp into heauen Which is not els but as you did visibly see him ascend or go away to heaueÌ„ a cloud embrasing him and taking him from among you euen so shal you visibly see hym to come againe in the cloudes as wee reade Math. 26. Math. 26. Math. 24. You shall see the sonne of man to come in the clouds of heauen And againe Math. 24. And they shall see the sonne of man Such other textes haue we full many declaring my sentence to be Catholicke and true Of which I heere shall brieflye note some places and passe ouer them knowing that a litle rehearsall is sufficient to youre noble wisedom The places be Marke 16. Luke 24. Iohn 13.14.16 and 17. Rom. 8. Ephes. 1. and 2. and 2. Cor. 6. Hebr. 8.9.10 and 12. and 1. Thess. 4. and 1. Pet. 2. which all do testifie that Christ hath bodily forsaken the world departed from it vnto hys father ascended into heauen sitting still vppon the ryghte hand of the father aboue all dominion power and principalitie where he is present aduocate and intercessor before hys father and that he shall so bodely come againe lyke as he was seene to depart from hence Nothing can better or more clearely testifie and declare what is contained in the Sacrament of Christes holy body and bloud then do the words of Scripture The Gospell of Marke is as an abridgement of Mathew wherby it was institute Marke doth agree wyth Mathewe so that in a maner he reciteth his very wordes And no maruaile it is For as the Doctours doe say the Gospell of Marke is a very Epytome or abridgement of Mathew I shall therefore write the relations of them touching the institution of this sacrament together The relation or testimonie of Mathewe is this As they were eating Iesus tooke bread and when hee had geuen thankes he brake and gaue to hys disciples and sayde Take eate this is my body And taking the cup and geuing thankes hee gaue it to them Math. 2â— saying drinke yee all of this for this is my bloud of the new TestameÌ„t which is shed for manye for the remission of sinnes And I say vnto you I will not drinke hencefoorth of this fruite of the vine vntill that day that I drinke it new with you in the kingdome of my father The testimonie or relation of Marke is this And as they did eate Iesus tooke the breade Mark 14. and when hee hadde geuen thankes he brake it and gaue it to them and sayde Take eate thys is my body And hee tooke the cuppe and when hee hadde geuen thankes he gaue it to them and they all dranke of it and hee sayd vnto them This is my bloud of the new Testament which is shed for many Verely I say vnto you I wil drinke no more of the fruit of the vine vnto that day that I drinke it newe in the kingdome of God Luke being the companion of Paule as appeareth in the Actes 2. Tim. 4â— and 2. Timothie 4. doth so next agree with him in making relation of thys Supper and holy institution of the Sacrament Hys relation or reporte is thys When he had taken breade and geuen thankes hee brake it and gaue to them saying This is my bodye which is geuen for you doe thys in remembraunce of me Likewise also after Supper Luke 22. he tooke the cuppe saying This cuppe is the newe Testament in my bloude which is shedde for you Paules testimonie doeth followe nexte agreeablye to Luke it is thus For I haue receiued of the Lorde that which I also haue deliuered to you 1. Cor. 11. That oure Lorde Iesus Christe in the same night wherein he was betraied tooke breade and when hee had geuen thankes he brake it and said Take eate this is my body which is broken for you this doe ye in the remembraunce of mee After the same maner also he tooke the cup when he had supped saying This cuppe is the newe Testament in my bloude thys doe as oft as yee drinke it in the remembraunce of me for as often as ye shall eate this breade and drinke this cuppe ye shall shewe the Lordes death till he come By these testimonies shall I declare my sentence to your grace whiche I conceyue of the holy Sacrament of Christes blessed body and bloude and in all poyntes of difficultie shall I annexe the very interpretation of the olde holy Doctours and Fathers to shew that I doe not grounde any thing vpon my self Thereafter shall I adde certaine arguments whiche I truste shall clearely prooue and iustifie my sentence to be true Catholike and according both with God and his lawes and also with the minde of holy Doctours My sentence is this that Christ ascended into heauen and so hath forsaken the worlde and there shall abide sitting on the right hande of hys Father wythout returning hether againe vntill the generall dome at what time hee shall come from thence to iudge the dead and liuing This all do I beleue done in his natural body which he tooke of the blessed virgine Marie hys mother in the which he also suffered passion for our safetie redemption vpon a crosse which died for vs was buried in which he also dyd arise againe to life immortall That Christe is thus ascended in his manhode and natural body so assumpt into heauen we may soone proue for as much as the godhead of him is neuer out of heaueÌ„ but euer replenishing both heauen and earth and al that is besides being
kindes The sacrament in both kindes excluded is not necessary ad salutem by the law of God to all persons and that it is to be beleued not doubted of but that in the flesh vnder forme of bread is the very bloud with the bloud vnder forme of wine is the very flesh as well aparte as they were both together The 3. Article Thirdly that priestes after the order of priesthoode receiued as afore may not mary by the law of God The 4. Article Fourthly that the vowes of chastity or widowhead Aduisedly that is made aboue the age of 21. yeares priestes onely excepted by maÌ„ or woman made to God aduisedly ought to be obserued by the law of God and that it exempteth them from other libertyes of christen people which without that they might enioy The 5. Article Fiftly that it is meete and necessary that priuate Masses be continued and admitted in this english Church and congregation as whereby good ChristeÌ„ people By these benefites of priuate masses is ment the helping of soules in Purgatory ordering themselues accordingly do receiue both godly goodly consolations and benefites And it is agreable also to Gods law The 6. Article Sixtly that auricular confession is expedient and necessary to be retayned and continued The 6. Article vsed and frequented in the Church of God After thâ—se Articles were thus concluded and coÌ„sented vpon the Prelates of the Realme craftely perceiuing that such a foule violent act could not take place or preuayle vnlesse straight and bloudy penalties were set vpon them they caused through theyr acustomed practise to be ordeyned and enacted by the king and the Lordes spiritual and temporall and the commons in the sayd Parliament as foloweth The penalties vpon the 6 Articles That if any person or persons within this Realme of England or any other the kings dominions The penaltyes vpon the 6. articles after the xij day of Iuly next comming by word writing imprinting ciphring or any otherwise shuld publish preach teach say affirme declare dispute argue or holde any opinion that in the blessed Sacrament of the Altar vnder forme of bread and wine after the consecration therof there is not preseÌ„t really Transubstantiation the naturall body and bloud of our Sauiour Iesus Christ conceiued of the virgin Mary or that after the sayd consecration there remayneth any substaunce of bread or wine or any other substance but the substaÌ„ce of Christ god and maÌ„ or after the time abouesayd publish preach teach say affirme declare dispute argue or hold opinion that in y e flesh vnderforme of bread is not the very bloud of christ or that with the bloud of Christ vnder the forme of wine is not the very flesh of Christ aswell aparte as though they were both together or by any of y e meanes abouesayd or otherwise preach teach declare or affirme the said sacrament to be of other substance then is abouesayd or by any meane contemne depraue or despise the sayd blessed sacrament that then euery such person so offeÌ„ding their ayders comforters counsellers consenters and abâ—eters therein being therof conuicted in forme vnder written by the authority abouesayd should be deemed and adiudged heretickes Suffering without any abiuration and euery of such offence should be adiudged manifest heresy that euery such offender and offenders should therfore haue suffer iudgemeÌ„t execution payn paynes of death by way of burning without any abiuratioÌ„ benefite of the cleargy or Sanctuary to be therfore permitted had allowed admitted or suffered Losse of goodes and also should therfore forfeit and loose to the kinges highnesse his ayres and successors all his or theyr honors manors castles landes tenementes rentes reuersions seruices possessions all other his or theyr hereditaments goods and cattell Opinion against the Sacrament of the aultar made treason termes and freeholdes whatsoeuer they were which any such offence or offeÌ„ces committed or done or at any time after as in any cases of high treason The penalty of the last v. Articles And as touching the other v. articles folowing the penalty deuised for them was this The penalties of the last 5. articles That euery such person or persons which do preach teach obstinately affirme vphold mainteine or defend after the 12. day of Iuly the sayd yeare any thing contrary to the same or if any being in orders or after a vow aduisedly made did mary or make mariage or contract matrimony in so doing should be adiudged as felones and lose both life and forfeit goodes as in case of felony without any benefite of the clergye or priuiledge of the Church or of Sanctuary c. Item that euery such person or persons which after y e day aforesayd by word writing printing cyphring or otherwise did publish declare or holde opinion contrary to the 5. articles aboue expressed being for any such offeÌ„ce duely conuict or attainted for the first time besides the forfayt of all his goodes and cattell and possessions what so euer should suffer imprisonment of his body at the kings pleasure for the second time being accused presented therof conuict should suffer as in case aforesayd of felony Item if any within order of pristhood before the time of the sayd Parliament had maryed or contracted Matrimony or vowed widowhead the sayd matrimony should stand vtterly voyd and be dissolued Item that the same daunger that belonged to priestes marying theyr wiues shuld also redound to the womeÌ„ maryed vnto the Priestes Inquisition vpoÌ„ the 6. articles Furthermore for the more effectuall execution of the premises it was enacted by the sayd Parliament that full authority of Inquisition of all such heresyes fellonies and contemptes should be committed and directed down into euery shyre to certayn persons specially therunto appointed of the which persons three at least prouided alwayes the Archbishop or bishop or his Chauncellor or his Commissarie to be one should sitte foure times at least in the yeare A bloudy inquisition hauing full power to take information accusation by the depositions of any two lawfull persons at the least as well as by the othes of xij men to examine and inquire of all and singuler the heresyes fellonyes and contempts aboue remeÌ„bred hauing also as ample power to make proces agaynst euery person or persons indited presented or accused before them also to heare determine the foresayd heresyes fellonyes contempts and other offences as well as if the mater had bene presented before the Iustices of peace in their Sessions And also that the saide Iustices in theyr Sessions euery Steward or vndersteward or his Deputy in theyr law daies should haue power by y e othes of xij lawfull men to enquire likewise of all singular the heresyes fellonyes contemptes and other offences and to heare and determine the same to all effectes of this present Acte c. Prouided withall that no person nor persons therupoÌ„
be these In Kent Raculfe Sandwich Rateburch Wodetun the Abbay of Limming with the lands and customes vnto the same monasterye belonging Saltwude c. Stocke and Denentun because they belonged of olde time to the Churche of S. Andrewe S. Andrewes Church in Rochester them he restored to the same Churche In Sutherey Murtelac the Abbay of S. Mary in London with the landes and houses which Liuingus Priest and his wife had in London All these Lanfrancke restored agayne for the health of his owne soule freely and without money Liuingus Priest maried man c. * A note for the legitimation of Priestes children ex termino Michael Anno 21. Henr. 7. fol. 39. page 2. NOte that in the xix yeare of this King in an Assise at Warwicke before Syr Guye Fairfax and Syr Iohn Vauisour it was found by Verdite M. 21. H. 7. that the father of the tenaunt had taken the order of Deacon and after married a wife and had issue the tenaunt dyed and the issue of the tenaunt did enter Vpon whome the pleyntife did enter as next heyre collaterall to the father of the tenaunt A Deacō taketh a wife hath issue dyeth the issue adiudged not Bastarde Vpon whome he did reenter c. and for difficultie the Iustices did adiourne the Assise And it was debated in the Escheker chamber If the tenaunt shall be a Bastard c. And heere by aduise it was adiudged that he shall not be bastard c. ¶ Frowicke chiefe Iustice sayd to me in the xix yeare of Henry the vij in the common place that he was of counsayle in this matter and that it was adiudged as before which Vauisour did graunt ¶ And Frowicke sayd that if a Priest marry a wife and hath issue and dyeth his issue shall inherite for that the espousals be not voyde but voydable ¶ Vauisour if a man take a Nunne to wife this espousall is voyde ☞ Note that in the latter Impression of Henry the vij yeares of the lawe this word Priest in this case aforesayd in some bookes is left out whether of purpose or by negligence I leaue it to the Reader to iudge * Another note for legitimation of Priestes children AD Curiam generalem D. Philippi D. Mariae Dei gratia c. xvj die Iulij Anno Reg. dict Regis Reginae primo tertio irrotulatur sic Praesentatum est per totum homagium quòd Symon Heynes * Clericus diu antè istam Curiam vid. per duos annos iam elapsos fuit sesitus secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij in dominio suo vt de feodo de in duabus acris terrae percellis de xxxv acris dimidij terrae nuper in tenura Ioannis Heynes Ac. de in vno tenemento vocat Bernardes nuper in tenura Ioannis Cotton Ac de in lvij Acris iij. rodis terrae pasturae siue plus siue minus prout iacent in campis de Myldenhall praedicta in diuersis pecijs vt patet in Curia hic tenta die Iouis proximo post festum Sancti Lucae Euangelistae An. regni Regis Henrici viij xxxviij Necnon de in xij acris terrae natiuae iacentibus in Townefield Twamelfield in diuersis pecijs Ac de in quatuor Acris dimidio terrae iacentibus in Myldenhall praedicta Ac de in quinque rodis terrae iacentibus in Halywelfield Qua propter praemissa idem Symon nuper habuit ex sursum redditione Willielmi Heynes prout pater in Curia hic tenta die Martis proximo post Dominicam in Albis Anno regni Regis Edwardi vj. primo Et sic sesitus idem Symon de omnibus supradictis praemissis inde obijt solus sesitus Et quòd Ioseph Heynes est filius haeres eius propinquior modo aetatis quinque annorum amplius Qui quidem Ioseph praesens hic in Curia in propria persona sua petit se admittie ad omnia supradicta praemissa tanquam ad ius haere ditatem suam Et D. Rex D. Regina ex gratia sua speciali per Clementum Heigham militem Senescallum suum concesserunt ei inde sesinam tenendam sibi haeredibus assignatis eius per virgam ad voluntatem dict D. Regis D. Reginae secundum consuetudinem huius Manerij per seruitia redditus inde debita c. Saluo iure c Et dat Domino Regi D. Reginae v. lib. de fine pro ingressu suo habendo fidelitas inde respectuatur quousque c. Et vlterius consideratum est per Curiam quòd dict Ioseph est infra aetatem vt praefertur Ideo determinatum est concessum est per consensum Curiae quòd Ioanna Heynes nuper vxor praedicti Simonis ac mater predicti Ioseph habebit custodiam eiusdem Ioseph quousque idem Ioseph peruenerit ad suam legitimam aetatem Concerning these vj. Articles passed in this Acte aforesayd in the 21. yeare of King Henry sufficiently hetherto hath bene declared first what these Articles were secondly by whom and from whom chiefly they proceded thirdly how erroneous pernicious repugnant and contrarious to true doctrine christian religion and the word of God to nature also it selfe all reason and honesty and finally to the auncient lawes customes and examples of our forcelders during the daies of a thousande yeares after Christe they were Fourthly yee haue heard also what vnreasonable and extreme penaltie was set vpon the same that a man may deeme these lawes to be written not wyth the inke of Steuen Gardiner but with the bloud of a Dragon or rather the clause of the Diuell The breach whereof was made no lesse then treason and felony and no lesse punishment assigned thereto then death Besides all this the wordes of the Acte were so curious and subtile that no man could speake wryte or cyphar against them without present daunger yea scarcely a man might speake any word of Christ and his Religion but he was in perill of these vj. Articles Ouer besides the Papistes began so finely to interprete the Act that they spared not to indite men for abusing their countenance behauiour in the Church So great was the power of darkenesse in those dayes And thus much concerning this Acte Besides these vj. Articles in this foresaide Acte concluded there was also another constitution annexed withall not without the aduise as may seeme of the Lord Cromwell which was this that Priestes and Ministers of the Church seing now they would needes thēselues be bound from all Matrimony should therefore by law likewise be bound to such honesty and continencie of life that carnally they should vse accustome no maner of woman maried or single by way of aduoutrie or fornication the breache whereof for the first tyme was to forfaite goodes to suffer imprisonment at the Kings pleasure and
to reuoke one sillable of these Articles which they haue condemned And now as they doe curse and excommunicate me for their damnable heresie so I againe likewise doe curse and excommunicate them for the holy veritie of God Christ which is only the Iudge of all iudge and determine this matter betwene vs whether of these two excommunications hys or mine shall stande and preuaile before him Amen In storying the life of Luther Rea◠〈◊〉 pag. 849. before pag. 849. it was declared how the sayd Luther in the beginning first being reiected of the Cardinall Caietanus appealed from y e cardinall vnto the Pope When that would not serue neither could not any tollerable submission of Luther to y e pope be receiued but that the P. with his Cardinals contrary to all equity and conscience wold nedes procede against him and against the expresse truth of Gods word thinking by meere authoritie to beare downe the veritie as he had vsed before to do Luther folowing the iustnes of his cause Read afoâ—â— pag. 812. was then compelled to appeale from the Pope to the next generall councell and so did as before you may read pag. 812. Which was 2. yeares before the Popes Bull agaynst Luther came out The tenour of which appellation before omitted I thought here to exhibite wherby the reader considering the great change of religion and state of the church which since hath ensued may also perceiue y e true originall cause and occasion howe it first began by what order degrees it after encreased what humility and submission first on Luthers part was shewed and again what insolencie wrong and violence on the Popes part was declared And further where Pope Leo in his Bull aboue prefixed seemeth to pretend certaine conditions of fauour charity and money offred to Luther in the beginning how false vain that is by this present appeale may appeare The copie wherof as it was drawen by the publike notarie and exhibited is this as in forme here followeth The tenour and forme of the Appeale of Martine Luther from Pope Leo to the next generall Councell IN nomine Domini Amen The appeale of 〈◊〉 Luther 〈◊〉 the pope 〈◊〉 the next â—â—â—nerall coâ—â—â—cell Anno a natiuitate eiusdem .1518 indictione sexta die vero solis vigesima octaua mensis Nouemb. Pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris Domini nostri Domini Leonis diuina prouidentia Papae decimi anno sexto in mea Notarij publici testiumque infra scriptorum ad hoc specialiter vocatorum rogatorum praesentia constitutus c. The effect of the sayd Appeale of Luther in English THe effect of the appeale aforesayde is this Luthers aâ—â—peale from the pope English That for somuche as the libertie of appealing is prouided for a remedie to relieue the oppressed from iniurie and violence of the superiour it was therefore lawful for Martine Luther so to do especially being manifold waies iniuried and molested by the See of Rome and other the Popes confederates as hee in the sayde appeale declareth For at firste whereas he modestly disputing of the errors and abuses of the Popes pardons did somwhat withstand the impudeÌ„t rauen and blasphemies of them that come about with the Popes pardons to poll and rob the people he was therefore openly railed vpon and defamed by them in their publike sermones to be an heretike and consequently vppon the same accused to Pope Leo for an heretike by Marius the Popes Proctor and others Then was obteined of the Pope a commission to cite vp the sayde Luther to appeare at Rome before the Cardinalles by Hieronymus and Syluester Prieras hys mortall ennemies where as he could by no way appeare wythout manifest danger of his life both by the way and also in the citie of Rome For the consideration whereof Duke Ih. Fridericke Prince Electour and the Lantgraue entreated for hym to haue his cause indifferently to be heard and to be committed to two parties that were equall and not partiall yet notwithstanding the sute of these princes and the contrary labour of the Cardinals whiche were his capitall aduersaries so preuailed at Rome that the cause of Luther was still detained in their owne handes and contrary to all indifferencie was committed to the hearing of the Popes Legate then in Germanie called Cardinalis Sancti Sixti Who being no lesse enemie against Luther then the other and notwithstanding that Luther obediently appeared at his call and with humble protestation submitted himselfe to be aunswered by the Scriptures and referred himselfe to the iudgement of the Sea of Rome and of four Uniuersities to witte Basill Friburge Louane and Paris yet contrary to all equitie shewing forth no Scripture nor reason reiecting his gentle protestation submission and honest offer with all other his requests and sutes he would needes forthwith haue him to reuoke his errours threatning and menasing him most cruelly and commanded him no more to come in his sight Whereupon Luther being thus proudely reiected of the Cardinall Luther appeal 〈◊〉 the Câ—â—dinall to the pope made his appeale from the sayde Cardinall to Pope Leo being better informed This appellation also being contemned of the Pope who would neither come to any agreement nor take any reasonable condition nor shew Luther his errours by the scripture nor yet referre the matter by learning to be decided but would needes perforce proceede against him by meere authoritie and oppression at Rome Luther then seeing there was no other refuge or remedie for his owne defence and seeing moreouer the truth of Gods worde to lie vnder foote by might and authoritie oppressed so that none durst almost confesse the same M. Luther appealeth from the pope to the next generall Councell and that the poore flock was so misled in errours and vaine opinions to the seduction of their soules for these and other such causes he being necessarily thereunto compelled commensed thys Appeale from the Pope misinformed to the nexte generall Councell that should be calling for the helpe of the publick notarie and testimonie also of sufficient witnesses requisite in that behalfe accordingly ¶ The death of K. Henry the viij with the maner thereof ANd thus closing vp this eight booke with the death of King Henry the 8. I will now the Lorde Christ assisting me with his grace proceede next to the time reigne of King Edward his sonne The 〈◊〉 and maner of the kings death after that first I shall intermitte a few wordes touching the death of the sayde Kyng Henry his father and the maner of the same Who after long languishing infirmitie growing more and more vppon him lay from S. Steuens day as is aboue mentioned to the latter end of Ianuary His Phisicians at length perceiuing that he would away Of the Act that â—one shoulde speake of the kinges death Vid. Stat. 〈◊〉 Henr. 8. and yet not daring to discourage him with death for feare of the Act past before
men beyng of the Diocesse of Worcester Westminster Couentrie Lichfield and Glocester and specially requested to be witnesse of the same And I Fraunces Harward of the Diocesse of Worcester and publicke Notary by the Kings regall authoritie forsomuch as I was present when the foresayd Protestation Appellation and other the premisses were done the yeare of our Lord the yere of the raign of the kyng the day of the moneth and place aforesayde the witnesses abouenamed beyng present and for so much as I did enact the same therefore to this present publicke instrument written faithfully with myne owne hand I haue put to my marke beyng specially requested vnto the same Which thyng after he had read he dyd vnder his protestation first intimate vnto the Archbishop Boner requireth his appeale recusation protestation to be entred in Register the Byshop of Rochester and Doctor May and then protestyng also not to receede frō hys recusation dyd likewyse intimate the same vnto Maister Secretarye Smyth requiryng the Register to make an Instrument as well thereupon as also vppon hys recusation wyth witnesse to testifie the same Then the Delegates did agayne proceede to the examination of the last aunswers The last answer of Boner to the articles examined and found vnperfect and findyng the same imperfect they demanded of hym according to the first Article what speciall day of August he was sent for by the L. Protector To whom he obstinately aunswered that hee was not bound to make other aunswere then he had already made vnlesse they did put theyr Articles more certayne neyther would he otherwyse aunswer as long as Maister Secretary Smith was there present whome he had before recused and therefore would not receede from his recusation Boner commaunded to the Marshalsey The Secretary seeyng him so wilful and peruerse said sharply vnto hym My L. come of and make a full perfect answer vnto these Articles or els we will take other order with you to your payne In fayth Sir then sayd the Bishop agayne I haue thought ye had bene learned but now before God I perceiue well that eyther ye be not learned in deede or els ye haue forgotten it for I haue so oftē answered lawfully sufficiently and haue so oft shewed causes sufficient reasonable why thereunto I ought not by lawe to be compelled you shewyng nothyng to the contrary but sensualitie and will that I must needes iudge that you are ignorant herein Well sayd M. Secretary ye wyll not then otherwyse aunswer No sayd the B. except the law compell me Then sayd the Secretary call for the knight Marshal that he may be had to Ward With that all the rest of the Commissioners charged the B. that he had at that tyme sundry wayes very outragiously and irreuerently behaued hymselfe towards them sitting on the Kings Maiesties Commission and specially towards Sir Thomas Smith his graces Secretary therefore and for diuers other contumelious words which he had spoken they declared they would commit hym to the Marshalsey By this time the Marshals deputy came before them whom M. Secretary commanded to take the B. as prisoner and so to keepe hym that no man might come vnto hym for if he dyd he should sit by hym hymselfe When the Secretary had ended his talke the B. sayd vnto him Well sir it might haue becōmed you right well that my Lordes grace here present beyng first in commission and your better should haue done it Then the Commissioners assigning hym to be brought before them on monday next before noone betwene 7. and 9. of the clocke in the Hall of that place there to make full answer to these last Articles or els to shew cause why he should not be declared pro confesso did for that presēt break vp that Session 〈…〉 hart 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 but 〈…〉 vtter 〈…〉 Nowe as the Bishop was departing with the vndermarshall he in a great fury turned himself again towards the Commissioners and sayde to Sir Thomas Smyth Sir where ye haue committed me to pryson ye shall vnderstand that I will require no fauour at your handes but shall willingly suffer what shall be put vnto mee as boltes on my heeles yea and if ye wyll irons about my middle or where ye will Then departing againe he yet returned once more fomyng out his poison said vnto the Archbishop Boner threatneth to accuse the Archbishop before God Wel my Lord I am sory that I beyng a Bishop am thus handled at your graces hand but more sory that you suffer abhominable heretickes to practise as they doe in London and els where infecting and disquieting the Kings liege people and therfore I do require you as you will answer to God and to the king that ye will from henceforth abstaine thus to do for if ye do not I will accuse you before God the Kings Maiestie answer to it as well as ye can And so he departed vsing many reprochful words against sundry of the common people which stoode and spake to hym by the way as he went ¶ The sixt Action or processe vpon Monday the 23. of September had agaynst Boner Byshop of London before the Commissioners in the great hall at Lambeth IT was assigned as ye heard in the 4. Acte prosecuted the 18. of September The 6. Sessiō or appearaunce of Boner that vpon Monday then next followyng beyng the 23. of the same moneth the B. should again appeare before the Commissioners within the great Hall at Lambeth then to shew a finall cause why he should not be declared pro confesso vpon all the Articles wherunto he had not fully answered According to which assignement the same 23. day of September the B. was brought before them by the Undermarshall to whome for his disobedient and obstinate behauiour he was before that tyme committed and there dyd first declare vnto them that hys appearaunce at that tyme and place was not voluntary but coacted for that he was agaynst his will brought thether by the keeper of the Marshalsey and therewithall also vnder hys former protestation recusation and appeale did then again intimate a generall recusation of all the Commissioners alledging in the same that because the Archbishop with all his Colleagues had neither obserued the order of their Commission A generall recusation of Boner agaynst all the Commissioners neyther yet proceeded agaynst hym after any laudable or good fashion of iudgement but contrarywise had sundry tymes as well in his absence as in his presence attempted many things vnlawfully against his person dignity and estate especially in committing him to strait prison and yet commaunding him to make aunswere further because that he with the rest had proceeded in Commission with Sir Thomas Smith Knight supportyng and maintainyng all his euill doings notwithstandyng that he the same Bishop had before iustly recused and declined from him he therfore did also there refuse declyne from the iudgement of
the one nor the other And as for tumult none could reasonably be feared of any thing spoken agreable to the kings maiesties lawes as there did folow none nor the people or any man did offer my person any wrong or make tumult against me not withstanding players iesters rimers ballademakers did signify me to be of the true catholike faith Winchesâ—â—â— agaynst Players 〈◊〉 bâ—llademâ—â—kers which I according to my dutie declared to the kings maiesty from whoÌ„ I may hide no truth that I thinke expedient for hym to know And as the name of God cannot be vsed of any creture agaynst God no more can the kings name beyng vsed of any subiect against his highnes Wherfore seyng the abuse of this holy sacrament hath in it a danger assured by scripture of body soule whosoeuer is perswaded in y e catholike faith as I am findeth himself so burdened to vtter that vnto his maiesty as no worldly losse caÌ„ let him to do his duty in that behalfe and much lesse my Lordes priuate letters written without other of the counsails hands The 11. Article Item that after the premisses viz. in the month of May or Iune or one of them in the 3. yeare of his hyghnes raigne 11. 〈◊〉 his maiestye sent eftsoones vnto you to know your conformitie towards hys sayd reformations and specially touchyng the booke of common prayer then lately set foorth by hys maiestie whereunto you at the same tyme refused to shew your selfe conformable Winchester To the xi article for answer and declaration thereof he sayd The next day at after noone after he had preached Answeâ—â— the 11. 〈◊〉 when he looked for no such matter came to his house the right worshipfull Sir Anthony Wingfield and Sir Rafe Sadler knights accompanied wyth a great nomber of the gard and vsed themselues for their part according to theyr worships and I doubt not as they were appoynted Sir Rafe Sadler begaÌ„ thus w t me My L. said he ye preached yesterday obedience but ye did not obey your selfe went forth w t his message very soberly as he can and discretely I asked him wherein I obeied not He sayde touching my L. of Somersets letter Maister Sadler quoth I I pray you say to my Lords grace I would he neuer made mention of that letter for the loue I beare him And yet quoth I I haue not broken that letter I was mineded quoth I to haue wrytten to my L. vpon the receipt of it and loe quoth I ye may see how I begaÌ„ and shewed him because we were then in my study the beginning of my letter and reasoned with him for declaration of my selfe and told him therwith I wil not spend quoth I many wordes w t you for I caÌ„ not alter this determination And yet in good faith quoth I my maner to you and this declaration may haue this effecte that I be gently handled in the prisone and for that purpose I pray you make sute on my behalfe Wynchester 〈◊〉 Wynchester committed 〈◊〉 the tower Maister Wingfield laide his hand on my shoulder and arested me in y e kings name for disobedience I asked them whether I shoulde They sayde to the Tower Finally I desired them that I might be spoken wyth shortly heard what I could say for my selfe and praied them to be suters in it and so they saide they would After y t I was once in the tower vntill it was within 6. dayes of one whole yere I could heare no maner word message comfort or relief sauing once when I was sicke and me thought some extremity towardes me my Chaplaine had licence to come to me for one time then denied againe being aunswered that my feuer was but a tertian which my said Chaplaine tolde me when he came to me at the Easter followinge and there beinge wyth me from the morning till night on Easter day departed and for no suâ—e could neuer haue him since To M. Lieftenant I made diuers sutes to prouoke the duke of Somersets grace to hear me And if I might haue the liberty of an English man I would plainly declare I had neither offended law statute acte proclamation nor his own letter neither but al wold not help I shal report me to M. LieftenaÌ„t whether in al this time I maligned grudged or vsed any vnsemely wordes euer demanding iustice to be heard according to iustice When I had bene thus in the tower one whole yeare within 6. daies or 7. as I remember The Lord Chauncellour and Secretary Peter commeth to Wynchester in the tower came to the Tower the Lord Chancellor of England now being the L. Treasurer and master Secretarye Peter who calling me vnto them as I remember entred this They sayde they hadde brought with them a booke passed by the parlament which they would I should looke on and say my minde to it and vpon my conformitie in it my Lord of Somerset would be suter to the kings maiestie for mercy to be ministred to me Wherunto I answered that I trusted if I might be heard the kings Maiesties iustice would releue me which I had longsued for and could not be heard And to sue for mercy quoth I when I haue not in my conscience offended and also to sue out of thys place Wynchester denyeth to sue for mercy wher asking of mercy emploieth a further suspition then I woulde be for all the worlde touched in it were not expedient And therefore quoth I not guiltie is and hath bene allowed a good plee for a prisoner Then my Lord sayd why quoth he were ye not commaunded to preache of the kings authoritie in his younge age yet did not I told him I was not commaunded Is not quoth he that Article in the papers yee had deliuered you I assured him no. And after communication of the kings Maiesties authority wherein was no disagrement Take betweene the Lord ChauÌ„cellour and Wynchester in the tower then my lord Chancellor said I had disobeied my Lordes graces letter I told him I thought not and if the matter came to iudgement it should appeare And then I sayd to him my Lord howe many open iniunctions vnder Seale and in open Courte haue bene broken in this Realme the punishment wherof hath not ben handled after this sort yet I would stande in defence y t I had not broken his letter waying the words of the letter wherein I reasoned with M. Peter Secretarie what a controuersie was and some part what I could say further But what so euer I canne saye quoth I you must iudge it and for the passion of God do it and then let me sue for mercy when the nature of the offence is known if I will haue it Wynchester will acknowledge no offence But when I am quoth I declared an offender I will with humilitie of suffering make amendes to the kings Maiestie so farre as I am able for I shoulde neuer
y e sayd Byshop as wel in the kings maiesties late visitation w tin your Diocesse as at sondry other times haue ben complained vpon sundry informations made against you for your doings sayings preachings against sundry Iniunctions orders and other procedings of his maiestie set foorth for reformation of errors superstitions and other abuses in religion 7 Item that after and vppon the occasion of those other many complaints and informations you haue ben sundry times admonished commanded and enioyned to conforme your selfe as to your duetie appertaineth 8 Item that after the premisses and for that those former admonitions commaundements notwythstanding you did yet still shewe your selfe not conformable The manifold transgressions of Wint. worthy of punishment for that also by your example the people were much animated therby occasion of muche vnquietnesse ministred you were called before the kings maiesties counsell in the moneth of Iune the 2. yeare of his maiesties raigne by them on his highnes behalfe commaunded to preache a Sermon before hys maiestie and therin to declare the iustnes and godlines of his Maiesties father and his proceedings vppon certaine matters partly mentioned in certaine articles to you deliuered in wryting and partly otherwise declared vnto you The effecte whereof was touching the vsurped authoritye of the B. of Rome and that his pretensed authoritie was iustly godly taken away in this realm other the kings maiesties dominions Touching the first suppression and taking away of Monasteries Religious houses Pilgrimages Reliques Shrines and Images the superstitious going about of S. Nicholas bishop S. Edmund S. Katherin S. Clement and such like for taking away of ChaÌ„treis Obites and Colleges touching hallowing of Candels water ashes palme holy breade beades creeping to the crosse and suche like touching the setting foorthe of the kings maiesties authoritie in his yoÌ„g yeres to be as great as if his highnesse were of many more yeres touching auricular confession touching the procession common praier in Englishe and that things done in generall Councels against the woorde of God may be iustly reuoked in particular Councels Winchesters coÌ„temptuous disobedience to the king 9 Item that you receiuing the same and promising to declare them in a sermone by you made before his Maiestie for that purpose on the feast of S. Peter in the sayd second yere of his highnesse raigne did then and there contemptuously and disobediently omit to declare and set foorth many of the sayd matters to the great contempt of his Maiestie and daungerous example of others 10 Item that you being also commanded and on his maiesties behalf for the auoyding of tumult for other great considerations inhibited to treate of any matter in controuersie concerning the Masse or the communion then commonly called the Sacrament of the aultar did contrary to the sayd commandement inhibition declare diuers your iudgements opinions in the same in manifest contempt of hys Maiesties sayd inhibition Winchester stubbernely refused to conforme himselfe to the booke of the kinges proceedinges to the great offence of the hearers and disturbaunce of the common quiet and vnity of the realme 11 Item that after the premisses videlicet in the moneths of May or Iune or one of them in the thirde yeare of hys highnesse raigne his Maiestye sent eftsoones vnto you to know your conformity towards his said reformation and specially touching the booke of Common praier then lately set foorth by hys maiestie whereunto you at the same time refused to shewe your selfe conformable 12 Item that after that videlicet the 9. day of Iuly in the fourth yeare of his Maiesties raigne his highnes sent vnto you hys graces letters wyth a certaine submission and articles wherunto hys grace willed and commanded you to subscribe to the whyche submission you contemptuously refused to subscribe 13 Item that you hauing eftsoones certaine of the kyngs most honorable Councell sent vnto you the 12. of Iulye Wynchesâ—â—â— standeth in iustificatioâ— of himselfe in the sayd fourth yeare with the same submission and beyng in his maiestyes behalfe required and commanded to consider agayne better the sayd submission and to subscribe the same stoode in iustification of your selfe and woulde in no wise subscribe thereunto 14 Item that after all thys the 14. daye of Iulye in the sayde fourth yeare the sayd kings Maiestie sent yet againe vnto you certaine of his maiesties most honorable councel with an other submissioÌ„ and diuers other articles willing and commaunding you to subscribe your name thereunto whych to do you vtterly refused 15 Item that after all thys videlicet the 19. of Iulye in the sayde fourth yeare you being personally called before the whole counsaile Fantasticaâ—â— consideraâ—â—â—ons of wyâ—â—chester and hauing the sayde submission and articles openly and distinctly read vnto you and required to subscribe the same refused for vniust and fantasticall considerations by you alledged to subscribe the same 16 Item that for your sundry and manifolde contemptes and disobediences in this behalfe vsed the fruites of your benefice were then by speciall commission of hys Maiestie iustly and lawfully sequestred 17 Item that after this you had intimation and peremptorie monition with communication that you shuld within 3. monethes next following the sayde intimation reconcile and submit your selfe vpon paine of depriuation 18 Item that the saide 3. moneths are nowe fully expired and runne 19 Item that you haue not hetherto Wyncheâ—â—â—â— sworne 〈◊〉 aunswereâ— truely according to the sayd intimation and monition submitted reconciled nor reformed your self but contemptuously yet still remaine in your disobedience Whereupon they required the B. of Winchester then and there personally present to be sworne faithfully and truely to make answere After these articles were exhibited vnto him and he hauing leaue to say for himself wherin he vsed al the cautels shiftes and remedies of the law to his most aduantage by way of protesting recusing and excepting against the commission and requiring also the copies as well of the Articles as of his protestation of the Actuaries which wer W. Say and Tho. Argall time and respite was assigned vnto hym to aunswer to the sayd Articles in wryting But he so cauilled and dalied from day to day to answer directly Time 〈◊〉 to Wincâ—â—â—ster to aâ—â—swere by wryting For the 〈◊〉 positions 〈◊〉 these and â—â—ther witnesses against 〈◊〉 read in thâ— first editiâ—â— of Actes 〈◊〉 MonumeÌ„â—â— pag. 816. although he was sufficiently laboured and perswaded to the same by sondry callinges and Actes and also aboundantly conuicted by depositions and witnesses especially by matter induced by the L. Paget and Andrewe Beynton M. Chalenor pag. 816. all which I referre to my first booke that at the last he appealed from them reputing them not to be competent and indifferent iudges to heare and determine his cause vnto the kings royal person notwithstanding by protestation alwaies reseruing to himselfe the benefite of his appellation And so
as his death is present Ambros. de Sacram lib. 4. cap. 4. o. Ergo the precious bloud of Christ is not present really in the Sacrament The Minor of this argument is proued before by the wordes of Ambrose The second question Whether the body and bloud of Christ be in the bread and wine The second conclusion or vnder the formes of bread and wine carnally and corporally ¶ Argument Di The true natural body of Christ is placed in heauen sa The true naturall body of man can be but in one place at once where he is mis. Ergo the true naturall body of Christ can be in no place at once but in heauen where he is The Maior is playne by the Scriptures Iesus was taken vp to heauen and sitteth at the right hand of God Math. 26. Iohn 12. Math. 26 The poore ye haue alwayes with you but me you shall not alwayes haue Iohn 12. I leaue the world and go to my Father Ioh. 16. Many shal say in that day Loe here is Christ Iohn 16. Math. 24. and there is Christ beleue theÌ„ not Mat. 24. WhoÌ„ the heaueÌ„s must receiue for a time vntill the restitution of all Actes 3. Seeke those things that are aboue where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God c. Col. 3. The Minor likewise is euident by S. Austen who speaking of the glorified body of Christ Actes 3. Col. 3. August ad Dardanum affirmeth the same to be in one certayne place Propter veri corporis modum that is for the maner of a true body ¶ Argument Da Euery true naturall body requireth one certaine place August ri Christes body is a true naturall body j. Ergo Christes body requireth one certayne place ¶ Argument Comparatio a Maiori Austen giueth not to the soule of Christ to be in mo places at once but one August ad Dardanum Ergo much lesse is it to be giuen to the body of Christ to be in mo places at once but in one ¶ Argument The nature of the Aungels is not to be in diuers places Comparison betweene Aungels and the body of Christ. but they are limited to occupy one certaine place at once Basilius de spirit sanct cap. 22. Ergo the body of Christ being the true naturall body of a man can not fill diuers places at one time ¶ Argument Ba Whatsoeuer is in many diuers places at once is God ro The body of Christ is not God but a creature co Ergo the body of Christ can not be in moe places together ¶ Argument Fes We must not so defende the Diuinitie of Christ that we destroy his humanitie August ti If we assigâ—e to the body of Christ pluralitie of places we destroy his humanitie no. Ergo we must not assigne to the body of Christ pluralitie of places ¶ Argument Fes Whatsoeuer thing is circumscribed that is to say conteined in the limits of any peculiar place can not be dispersed in mo places at once ti The body of Christ is a thing circumscribed no. Ergo the body of Christ is not dispersed in mo places at one time ¶ Argument Da Euery quantitie that is euery body hauing magnitude length and other dimensions is circumscribed in one peculiar place ri The bodye of Christe hathe his dimensions and is a quantitie j. Ergo the body of Christ is circumscribed Cyrillus The Maior is proued by Cyrillus Whatsoeuer is vnderstanded to be a body Cyrillus De crenit Lib 2. pag. â—â—5 the same is verely in a place and in magnitude and in quantitie And if it be in quantitie it can not auoyd circumscription that is to haue his place ¶ Argument Ba If Christ had giuen his body substantially and carnally in the Supper then was that body either passible or impassible ro But neither can you say that body to be passible or impassible which he gaue at Supper co Ergo he did not giue his body substancially and carnally at Supper August The Minor is proued thus For if ye say it was passible August in Psal. 98. Austen is against it which sayth Ye shall not eate thys body which you see nor drinke the same bloud which they shall shed that shall crucifie me c. And if ye say it was impassible that may not be admitted by the words of the Euangelist which sayth Eate this is my body which shall be geuen for you So that that body was passible and not impassible wherein Christ was geuen Vigilius One creature can not receaue in it selfe two contrary or diuers thynges together Vigilius contra Eutichen lib. 4. But these two thyngs be diuers and farre vnlike that is to say to be conteyned in a place and to be euery where For the word is euery where but the fleshe is not euery where ¶ Argument Fe Bodyes origanicall without quantitie be no bodies ri The Popes doctrine maketh the body of Christ in the Sacrament to be without quantitie o. Ergo the Popes doctrine maketh the body of Christ in the Sacrament to be no body ¶ Argument Da All things which may be deuided haue quantitie ri The body in the Popes Sacrament is deuided in iij. partes j. Ergo the body in the Popes Sacrament hath quantitie which is against their owne doctrine ¶ Argument Fe No naturall body can receaue in it selfe and at one time contrary or diuers qualities Vigilius ri To be in one place locall and in another place not locall in one place with quantitie in another place without quantitie in one place circumscript in another place incircumscript is for a naturall body to receyue contrary qualities o. Ergo the body of Christ can not be in one place locall and in another not locall in one place with quantitie and in another without quantitie as our aduersaries do affirme ¶ Argument Fe The wicked receaue not the body of Christ. ri The wicked do receaue the body of Christ if transubstantiation be graunted son Ergo transubstantiation is not to be graunted in the Sacrament ¶ Argument for probation of the Maior Ca To eate Christ is for a man to haue Christ dwellyng and abiding in him Augustine mes The wicked haue not Christ dwelling in them tres Ergo the wicked eate not the body of the Lord. Cyprian Cyprianus de Coena Domini The eating of Christ is our abyding in hym Cyprian De Coenâ— Domini ¶ Argument Bo The holy Ghost could not come if the body of Christ were really present car That the holy Ghost is come it is most certayne do Ergo it can not be that Christ himselfe should be heere really present For proofe of the Maior Iohn 16. Vnlesse I go from you the holy Ghost shall not come It is expedient for you that I go hence Iohn 16. ¶ Argument of Peter Martyr Ba If the wicked and infidels doe receaue the bodye of Christ they receaue him either with sense or reason or
that it should be an occasion of Idolatry And long after the Apostles time as Tertullian wryteth womeÌ„ were suffered to take it home with them and to lap it vp in their châ—stes And the priest many times sent it to sicke persones by a childe which no doubt would haue geuen more reuerence therto if they had taken it for their God But a great while after about 300. yere agone Honorius 3. the Bishop of Rome tooke him and hanged him vp and caused men to kneele and crouch downe and all to bâ—god him Futhermore Pope Honorius 3. first author of worshipping the Sacrament An 1220. if the bread be turned and altered into the body of Christ doubtles it is the greatest miracle that euer God wrought But the Apostles saw no myracle in it Nazianzenus an olde wryter and Augustine entreating of al the myracles that are in the scripture number the Sacrament for none As for the apostles it appeareth wel that they had it for no maruel for they neuer mused at it Apostles olde Doctours make no miracle nor maruell at the Sacrament neither demanded how it might be whereas in other thinges they euermore were ful of questions As touching S. Augustine he not only ouerhippeth it as no wonder but by plaine expres words testifieth that ther is no maruel in it For speaking of the Lords supper and of the other sacraments he sayeth these words * That is to say Sacraments here may haue their honour as things religious but they are not to be woÌ„dred at as miracles Hic SacrameÌ„ta honorem vt religiosa habere possunt stuporem autem vt mira non possunt Moreouer a little before the institution of the sacrament Christe spake of hys ascension saying I leaue the world I tary but a litle while wyth you Let not your hearts be troubled because I go from you I tell you truthe it is for your profite that I goe from you for if I goe not the spirite of comfort cannot come to you Ihon 14. wyth many other like warnings of his departure S. Steuen sawe hym sitting at the right hand of his Father and thought it a speciall reuelation of God but he neuer said that he sawe him at the Communion or that he made him Actes 3. euery daye himselfe And in the Actes of the Apostles S. Peter sayeth that Christ must needes keepe the heauen till all be ended Esay Salomon and S. Steuen Actes 17. saye that God dwelleth not in temples made with mans hand S. Paule wysheth that he were dissolued and dead and were with Christ not in the aultar doutlesse where he might be daily but in heauen And to be briefe it is in oure Credo we do constantly beleeue that Christe is ascended into heauen and sitteth at his fathers right hande and no promise haue we that he will come iumping downe at euery priests calling Hereof I gather this reason Christes body can not both be gone and be heere If Christ were both gone and tarried then he should seme to haue left himselfe behinde him But he is gone and hath left the world Therefore it is follie to seeke him in the world Cust. Fie you be farre deceiued I can not in no wise brooke these words You shut vp Christ too straitly and imprisone hym in one corner of heauen not suffering hym to goe at large No doubtlesse he hath deserued more gentlenesse at your hande then to be tied vp so shorte Veri I do neither locke vp neither imprison Christ in heauen The body of Christ imprisoned by the Papistes in a boxe and afterward burned when he is mouldye but according to the Scriptures declare that hee hath chosen a blessed place moste worthy to receiue his maiestie in which place who so is inclosed thinketh not himself as I suppose to be a prisonner but if you take it for so hainous a thing y t Christ should sit resident in heauen in y e glory of his father what thinke you of them that imprison him in a litle boxe yea and keepe him in captiuitie so long vntil he be mouldy ouergrowne with vermine when he is past mans meat be not contented to hang him till he stincke but will haue him to a newe execution and burne hym too This is wonderfull and extreme cruell imprisoning But to returne to the matter wee are certainely perswaded by the worde of God that Christ the very sonne of God vouchsaued to take vppon him the body and shape of man that he walked was conuersant amongst men in that same one not in many bodies and that hee suffered death rose againe and ascended to heauen in the selfe same body and that he sitteth at his fathers ryght hande in hys manhode in the nature and substance of the said one body This is our beliefe this is the very word of God Wherefore they are far deceiued which leauing heauen wil grope for Christes body vpon the earth Cust. Nay sir but I see now you are farre out of the way For Christ hath not so grosse fleshly a body as you think Christes body iâ— spirituall in thâ— Sacrament say the Papistes but a spirituall and a ghostly body and therefore without repugnaunce it may be in many places at once Veri You say right wel and do graunt that Christes body is spiritual But I pray you answer me by the waye Can any other body then that which is spirituall be at one time in sondry places Cust. No truely Veri Haue we that same selfe sacrament that Christe gaue to his Disciples at his Maundie or no Cust. No doubtlesse we haue the same Veri When became Christes body spirituall was it so eueÌ„ from his birth Cust. No for doubtles before he arose from death his bobody was earthly as other mens bodies are Veri Well but when gaue Christe the Sacrament to hys Disciples before he arose from death or after Cust. The Popes doctrine repugnant to it selfe You know your selfe he gaue it before his resurrection the night before he suffered hys Passion Veritie Why then me thinketh he gaue the Sacrament at that time when his body was not spirituall Cust. Euen so Veri And was euery portion of the Sacrament delt to the Apostles and receaued into their mouthes the very reall and substantiall body of Christ Cust. Yea doubtles Veri Marke well what ye haue said for you haue graunted me great repugnance First you say that no body being not spiritual can be in sundry places at once Then say you that at the maundy Christes body was not spirituall and yet hold you that he was there present visible before the Apostles eyes and in ech of theyr handes and mouthes all at one time which graunts of yours are not agreeable But I will gather a better and a more formall reason of youre wordes The Papistes though they be conuicted yet they will not beleue in this sort Fe
disputation he desired that the Prolocutor would bee a meane vnto the Lords that some of those that were learned setters forth of the same Catechisme might be broght into the house to shew their learning that mooued them to set forth the same Request to haue Doct. Ridley M. Rogers at the disputation Aunswere of the Bishops vnto the request and that D. Ridley M. Rogers with two or three mo might be licenced to be present at this disputation and to be associate with them This request was thought reasonable and was proposed vnto the Bishops who made this aunswer that it was not in them to call such persons vnto our house since some of them were prisoners But they sayd they would be petitioners in this behalfe vnto the Counsayle and in case any were absent that ought to bee of the house they willed them to bee taken in vnto them if they listed After this they mindyng to haue entred into disputation there came a Gentleman as messenger from the Lord great master signifiyng vnto the Prolocutor that the L. great maister and the Earle of Deuonshire would be present at the disputations and therfore he deferred the same vnto monday at one of the clocke at after noone ¶ The Acte of the third day Upon Monday the xiij of October at the time apointed The third SessioÌ„ October 23. in the presence of many Erles Lordes Knights gentlemen and diuers other of the Court and of the Citie also the Prolocutor made a Protestation that they of the house had appoynted this disputation not to call the truth into doubt to the which they had alredy all subscribed sauing v. or sixe but that those gainsayers might be resolued of their arguments in the which they stood as it shall appeare vnto you not doubting but they will also condesceÌ„d vnto vs. M. Haddon and M Elmar refusâ— to aunswere except their request were graunted Then he demanded of M. Haddon whether he would reason against the questions proposed or no. To whom he made answer that he had certified hym before in writyng that he would not since the request of such learned men as were demaunded to be assistent with them would not bee graunted M. Elmar likewyse was asked Who made the Prolocutor the like aunswer addyng moreouer this that they had done too much preiudice already to the truth to subscribe before the matter was discussed and little or nothyng it might auayle to reason for the truth since all they were now determined to the contrary After this he demaunded of M. Cheyney whome the Prolocutor sayd allowed the presence with them M. Cheyny the Archdeacon of Herford now B. of Glocester but he denyed the transubstantiation by the meanes of certayne authorities vppon the which he standeth and desireth to be resolued as you shall heare whether he will propose his doubtes concernyng Transubstantiation or no. Yea quoth he I would gladly my doubts to be resolued which mooue me not to beleeue Transubstantiation The first is out of S. Paule to the Cor. who speakyng of the Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ M. Cheynyes doubtes about transubstantiation calleth it oft tymes bread after the consecration The second is out of Origene who speaking of this sacrament sayth that the materiall part therof goeth down to the excrements The third is out of Theodoretus who making mention of the sacramentall bread and wine after the consecration saith that they go not out of their former substance forme and shape These be some of my doubts among many other wherein I require to be answered Then the Prolocutor assigned D. Moreman to answer him Moremans aunswere to S. Paule who to Saint Paule answered him thus That the Sacrament is called by hym bread in deede but it is thus to be vnderstood that it is the sacrament of bread that is the forme of bread Then M. Cheyney inferred and alledged that Hesychius called the sacrament both bread and flesh M. Cheyny replyeth to Moremans aunswere Yea quoth Moreman Hesychius calleth it bread because it was bread not because it is so And passing ouer Origen he came to Theodoretus sayd that men mistooke hys authoritie by interpreting a general into a special as Peter Martyr hath done in y e place of Theodoret interpretyng 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for substance Moremans auÌ„swere to Theodoreâ—tus which is a special signification of y e word whereas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a general word as well to accidence as to substane and therefore I answer thus vnto Theodoret y t the sacramental bread and wine do not go out of their former substance forme and shape that is to say not out of their accidentall substance and shape After this M. Cheyney sat him downe by and by M. Elmar stood vp as one that could not abide to heare so foÌ„d an answer to so graue an authoritie M Elmar argueth aâ—gaynst D. Moremans aunswere reasoned vpon the authoritie of Theodoret alledged before by M. Cheyney declared that Moremans aunswer to Theodoret was no iust nor sufficient answer but an illusion and a subtill euasion contrary to Theodorets meaning For said he if 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should signify an accident in the place alledged as it is answered by M. Moreman then were it a word superfluous set in Theodoret there where do follow two other wordes which sufficiently do expound the accideÌ„ces of y e bread y t is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signify in English shape and forme so prooue out of the same author by diuers allegations Moremans shift is ouâ—â—throwen y t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Greek could not be so generally taken in that place as Moreman for a shift would haue it But Moreman as a man hauing no other salue for that sore affirmed stil that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth substance must needes signify an accidental substance properly To whose importunity since he could haue no other answer Elmar as a man wearied with his importunity gaue place After this stood vp Iohn Philpot and sayd Philpots replicatioâ— to Moremans shifâ— y t hee could prooue that by the matter that Theodoret intreateth of in the place aboue alledged and by the similitude whiche hee maketh to prooue his purpose by no meanes M. Moremans interpretation of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 might be taken for an accideÌ„tall substaunce as he for a shift would interprete it to be For the matter which Theodoret intreateth of in y t place The place of Theodâ—â—ret openeâ— is against Eutiches an hereticke whiche denied two natures of substance to remayne in Christ beyng one person and that his humanitie after the accomplishment of y e mysterie of our saluation ascendyng into heauen The arguâ—ment of Theodoreâ— a simili being ioined vnto the Diuinitie was absorpt or swalowed vp of y e same so that Christ should bee no more but of one deuine substance
Christ to be now on earth but onely his diuine presence and touching his humanitie to bee in heauen we ought to confesse and beleeue the same But if we put a third presence of Christ that is corporally to bee present always in the sacrament of the aultar inuisibly according to your suppositions whereof S. Augustine maketh no mention at all in all his works you shal seeme to iudge that which S. Augustine did neuer comprehend Why quoth Watson S. Augustine in the place by me alledged maketh he not mention how S. Steuen beyng in this world saw Christ after his ascension It is true said Philpot but he saw Christ as the scripture telleth in the heauens beyng open standyng at the right hand of God the father Further to this Watson answered not Then the Prolocutor went about to furnish vp an answere to S. Augustine saying that he is not now in the world after that maner of bodily presence â— Weston but yet present for all that in his body To whom Philpot answered that the Prolocutor dyd grate much vpon this worde Secundum in S. Augustine Philpot replyeth to Weston which signifieth after the maner or in forme but he doth not answer to id quod which is that thyng or substance of Christ in the which Christ suffred arose and ascended into heauen in the which thing and substance he is in heauen and not on earth as S. Augustine in the place specified most clearely doth define To this nothing els beyng aunswered the Deane of Rochester proceeded in the maintenance of his argument The Deane of Rochester and read out of a booke of Annotations sundry authorities for the confirmation therof To the which Moreman who was appointed to answer him made no direct aunswer but bade him make an argument Moreman saying that maister Deane had recited many wordes of Doctors but he made not one argument Then said the Deane the authorities of the doctors by me rehersed be sufficient arguments to proue mine intent to the which my desire is to be answered of you But still Moreman cried make an argument to shift of the authoritie which he could not answer vnto After this y e Deane made this argument out of the institution of the sacrameÌ„t Do this in remembraunce of me and thus ye shall shew foorth the Lordes death vntill he come The sacrament is the remembrance of Christ Ergo Argument the sacrament is not very Christ for yet he is not come For these words Vntill he come do plainly signify the absence of Christes bodye Then the Prolocutor went about to shew that these wordes Vntill he come Weston answereth to the Argument Donec in Scripture M. Deanes questions did not import any absence of Christ on the earth by other places of scripture where Donec vntill was vsed in like sense but directly to the purpose he answered nothing In conclusioÌ„ the Deane fel to questioning with Moreman whether Christ did eate the Paschal lambe with hys disciples or no He answered Yea. Further he demanded whether he eate likewise the Sacrament with them as he did institute it Moreman aunswered Yea. Moreman affirmeth that Christ did eate his owne body Then he asked what he did eate and whether he eate his owne naturall body as they imagine it to be or no Which when Moreman had affirmed then said the Deane it is a great absurditie by you granted and so he sate downe Against this absurditie Philpot stood vp and argued Philpot. saying he could proue it by good reason deduced out of scripture that Christ eat not his owne natural body at the institution of the sacrament and the reason is this Ba Receiuing of Christes body hath a promise of remission of sinnes with it annexed Argument ro Christ eating the sacrament had no promise of remission of sinne co Ergo Christ in the Sacrament did not eate his owne body To this reason Moreman answered Moreman denieth the Sacramen to haue a promise of remission of sinnes annexed vnto it Philpot. deniyng the former part of the argumeÌ„t that the sacrament had a promise of remission of sinnes annexed vnto it Then Philpot shewed this to be the promise in the sacrament Which is geuen for you which is shed for you for the remission of sinnes But Moreman would not acknowledge that to be any promise so that he droue Philpot to the 6. of S. Iohn to vouch this saying with these words The bread which I will geue is my flesh which I will geue for the lyfe of the world Moreman aunswering nothing directly to this argument Harpesfield affirmeth that which his fellow denyed Harpsfield start vp to supply that which wanted in hys behalfe and thinking to haue answered Philpot confirmed more strongly his argumeÌ„t saying Ye mistake the promise which is annexed to the body of Christ in the Sacrament for it pertained not to Christ but to his Disciples to whom Christ said This is my body which is geuen for you and not for Christ hymselfe You haue sayd well for me quoth Philpot Philpot. for that is myne argument The promise of the body of Christ tooke no effect in Christ Ergo Christ eate not his owne body Then the prolocutor to shoulder out the matter sayd the argument was naught Weston also is contrary to Moreman For by the lyke argument he might go about to proue that Christ was not baptised because the remission of sinne which is annexed vnto Baptisme tooke no effect in Christ. To the which Philpot replied that like as Christ was baptised M. Philpots argument not soluted so he eate the sacrament but he tooke on hym Baptisme not that he had any neede thereof or that it tooke any effect in hym but as our maister to geue the church an example to folow him in the ministration of the sacrament and therby to exhibite vnto vs himselfe and not to geue himselfe to himselfe No more was said in this But afterward the Prolocutor demanded of Philpot whether he would argue against the naturall presence or no To whom he answered Yea if he would heare hys Argument without interruption and assigne one to aunswer him and not many which is a confusion to the OpponeÌ„t specially for him that was of an ill memory By this time y e night was come on wherfore the Prolocutor brake vp the disputatioÌ„ for that tyme and appointed Philpot to be the first that should begin the disputation the next day after The conuocatioÌ„ continued to the next day concernyng the presence of Christ in the sacrament ¶ The Acte of the fourth day M. Philpot not sâ—ffered by the Prolocutor to make his declaration ON the Wednesday the xxv of Octob. Ioh. Philpot as it was before appointed was redy to haue entred the disputation mynding first to haue made a certaine Oration and a true declaration in Latine of the matter of Christes presence which was
of the Conuocation neuer heard one worde of this Catechisme Cran. I was ignorant of the setting too of that title and as soone as I had knowledge therof I did not like it Therefore when I complained therof to the Councel it was answered me by them that the boke was so entituled because it was set foorth in the time of the Conuocation West Moreouer you haue in Duns translated in Romana Ecclesia pro Ecclesia Catholica i. In the Churche of Rome for the Catholicke Church Cran. Yea but he meant the Romish Church West Moreouer you haue depraued S. Thomas namely where he hath these wordes D. Cranmer charged with mistranslating Tho. Aquinas In quantum vero est sacrificium habet vim satisfactiuam Sed in satisfactione attenditur magis affectio offerentis quà m quantitas oblationis Vnde Dominus dicit apud Lucamde vidua quae obtulit duo aera quòd plus omnibus misit Quamuis ergo haec oblatio ex sui quantitate sufficiet ad satisfaciendum pro omni poena tamen fit satisfactoria illis pro quibus offertur vel etiam offerentibus secundum quantitatem suae deuotionis non pro tota poena That is In as muche as it is a sacrifice it hath the power of satisfaction But in satisfaction the affection of the offerer is more to be waied then the quantity of the oblation Wherfore the lord sayde in Lukes Gospell of the widowe which offered two mites that she cast in more thē they al. Therfore although this oblation of the quantitie of it selfe wil suffice to satisfie for all paine yet it is made satisfactorie to them for whom it is offered or to the offerers according to the quantitie of their deuotion and not for all the paine You haue thus turned it Quod sacrificium Sacerdotis habet vim satisfactiuam c. That is That the Sacrifice of the priest hath power of satisfaction c. And therefore in thys place you haue chopped in this word Sacerdotis of y e priest wheras in the translation of all the newe Testament you haue not set it but where Christ was put to death And again where s. Thomas hath pro omni poena for all paine your booke omitteth many things there Thus you see brethren the truth stedfast and inuincible you see also the craft and deceit of hereticks Weston triumpheth before the victory the truth may be pressed but it cannot be oppressed therefore crye altogether Vincit veritas i. The truth ouercommeth This disordered disputation sometime in latine sometime in English continued almost till 2. of the clock Which being finished and the arguments wrytten and deliuered to the handes of M. Say the prisonner was had away by the Mayor and the Doctors dined together at the vniuersitie Colledge Disputation at Oxford betweene D. Smith with his other Colleagues and Doctors and Bishop Ridley Aprill 17. Aprill 17. THe next day folowing which was the 17. of April was brought forth D. Ridley to dispute against whom was set D. Smith to be principall opponent Touching whych D. Smith D. Smith sent to dispute agaynst B. Ridley for so much as mention heere happeneth of hys name first the reader is to be aduertised what is to be attributed to his iudgement in religion which so oftentimes before hath turned and returned to and froe grounded as it seemeth vpon no firme conscience of doctrine as both by hys articles by him recanted may appeare and also by hys owne letter sent a little before in king Edwardes dayes to the Archbishop of Caunterbury from Scotlande Which letter I thought heere to exhibite as a certaine Preface before his own arguments or rather as a testimonie against him selfe whereby y e reader may vnderstand how deuoutly he magnified them and their doctrine a little before agaynst whome he nowe disputeth so busely Reade I beseeche thee his Epistle and iudge The true copie of a certaine Epistle of Doctor Rich. Smith declaring his affection to the setting forth of Gods sincere woorde MOst honorable I commend me vnto your Lordship doing the same to vnderstand A letter of D. Smith to Doct. Cranner Archbishop of Cant. that I wrote letters to your grace in Ianuarye last and the 10. day of Februarie declaring the causes of my sodaine vnaduised departyng from your grace ouer the sea and desiring your good lordship of your charitye towarde them that repent of theyr ill Acts to forgeue me your selfe all that wrōg I did towards your grace and to obtaine in wryting the kings maiesties pardon for me in all poyntes concerning his lawes D. Smith purposing to write for the mariage of Priestes vpon the receit wherof I would returne againe home wythin halfe a yeare at the vttermost afterwarde wryte de Sacerdotum connubijs c. a Latine booke that should be a iust satisfaction for any thing that I haue wrytten agaynste the same Reliqua què omnia dogmata vestra tum demum libenter amplexurum vbi Deus mentem meam vt ea citra cōscientiae laesionem agnoscam doceamquè I wrote not this that I want any good liuing heere but because mine absence oute of the realme is dishonour to the Kings highnes and Realme and because I must needes if I tarie heere a quarter of a yeare longer wryte an aunsweare to your Graces booke of the Sacramente and also a Booke of common places against all the doctrine sette foorth by the kinges Maiestie which I cannot do wyth good conscience Wherefore I beseeche your Grace helpe me home assoone as yee may conueniently for Gods sake and ye shal neuer I trust in God repent that facte Ex vrbe diui Andreae 14. Feb. Richardus Smithaeus And thus much touching the forenamed Doctor Rich. Smith being set heere as is sayde to dispute against Byshop Ridly Disputer◠against D. Ridley who was brought now y e next day after to the Archb. to aunswer in the diuinitie schoole Against whome also besides D. Smith disputed D. Weston D. Tresham D. Oglethorpe D. Glin D. Seton D. Cole M. Warde M. Harpsfielde D. Watson M. Pye M. Hardinge M. Curtop M. Fecknam To all them hee aunsweared very learnedly Hee made a preface to these questions but they woulde not let him goe forth in it but caused him to make an end of the same and sayde it was blasphemie and some saide he droue of the time in ambiguous things nothing to the purpose so they wold not suffer him to say his mind D. Smith coulde get nothing at his hand in so muche that other did take his argumēts and prosecuted them He shewed himselfe to be learned a great clearke They coulde bring nothing but he knew it as well as they The disputation beginneth West Prolocutor Good Christen people and brethren we haue begon this day our schoole by Gods good speede I trust and are entring into a controuersie whereof no question ought to be mooued concerning the veritie of the
out of the same Catechisme to Iulianus Apostata and the booke for a Dialogue set out by the sayd Iulianus Apostata wherein Christ and Pilate were the speakers Westons sermon confuted by M. Couerdalle with many other things Which Sermon with al the poynts therof maister Couerdall the same time learnedly confuted by wryting which remaineth yet in my handes to be seene In the weeke following began the disputations in the conuocation house in Paules Churche whereof sufficient hath bene before declared pag. 1342. The 26. day of October the Uicechauncellour of Cambridge went to Clarehall and in the presence of Doctoure Walker displaced Doctour Madewe and placed Maister Swynborne in the Maistership there by force of the Lorde Chauncellours letters for that he was as they termed it Vxoratus that is maried The 28. day of October Running before the law the Papistes in the kings colledge in Cambridge not tarying the making of any lawe but of their blinde zeale had their whole seruice againe in the Latin tong contrary to the law then in force The last of October the Uicechauncelloure of Cambridge did sharpely reprooue and threaten one M. Thrackold for that he challenged the sayd Uicechauncellor who had suffered maister Bouell contrary to the statutes then in force quietly wythout punishment to depart notwithstanding that he refused to sweare to the supremacie of the Queene and the abrogation of the bishop of Rome The third day of Nouember The Queenes proceedinges maintained in Cambridge before the law the Uicechauncellor sent for the Curate of the rounde Parish in Cambridge commaunding hym not to minister any more in the English toung saying he would haue one vniforme order of seruice throughoute the Towne and that in Latine wyth Masse which was established the xij day of this moneth The 6. day of Nouember M. Pollarde preached at S. Michaels and in his Sermon approoued Purgatorie The 28. day of Nouember the Archdeacons Officiall visited in Hynton where hee gaue in charge to present all suche as did disturbe the Queenes proceedings in letting the Latine seruice the setting vp of their altars and saying of Masse or any parte thereof whereby it was easie to see how these good fellowes ment to proceede hauing the law once on their side that thus readely against a manifest law would attempt the punishment of any man The 15. day of December K. Edwardes Actes repealed there was two Proclamations at London the one for the repealing of certaine actes made by kynge Edwarde and for the setting vppe of the Masse for the 20. day of December then next folowing the other was that no man should interrupt any of those that would say Masse The Parliament beginning aboute the v. daye of October continued till the fifth of December In the whyche Parliament were dissolued as well all Statutes made of Fremunire in the time of King Henrie viij c. as also other lawes and statutes concerning religion and administration of Sacraments decreed vnder king Edwarde the 6. as is partly aboue touched In the which Parliament moreouer was appoynted the 20. day of December next ensuing the same yeare .1553 that all the olde forme and manner of Church seruice vsed in the last yere of king Henry should now againe be restored On Newyeares euen being the last of December the Lorde Marques of Northampton was deliuered oute of the Tower About this time a Priest at Caunterbury sayde Masse on the one day A priest of Canterbury repenting his saying Masse the next day after he came into the pulpit and desired all the people to forgeue him for he said he had betraied Christe but not as Iudas did but as Peter did and there made a long Sermon against the Masse The day after Newyeares day being the seconde daye of Ianuary in the yeare of our Lord. 1554. foure Ambassadours came into London from the Emperour and were honorably receiued Their names were these Le Countie de Egmont Le Countie de Lalen Mounsieur Corire Le Chauncellour Nigre About this time a great number of newe Byshoppes Deanes c. were chosen more then were made at one time since the Conquest Theyr names are these D. Holyman B. of Bristow D. Coates B. of Westchester New Bishops made D. Hopton Byshop of Norwiche D. Bourne B. of Bathe D. White B. of Lyncolne D Mores B. of Rochester D. Morgan Bishop of S. Dauies D. Poole B. of S. Asse D. Brookes Bish. of Glocester D. Moreman coadiutour to the Byshop of Exceter after his decease Byshop of Exceter D. Glin B. of Bangor Maister Fecknam Deane of Paules D. Rainoldes Deane of Bristow with others The 12. day of Ianuarie the Uicechancellour of Cambridge called a congregation generall wherein amongste other things he shewed that the Quene would haue there a Masse of the holy Ghost vppon the 18. day of Februarie then next following for that it was her birthe day whyche was fulfilled the day appoynted and that very solemnely Upon the Saterday being the 13. of Ianuarie Doctour Crome was committed to the Fleete Also vpon the Sonday following one M. Addington was committed to the Tower D. Crome committed to the Fleete Also this same Sonday knowledge was giuen in the Court openly by the B. of Winchester that the marryage betweene the Queenes maiestie the king of Spaine was concluded and the day following being monday and the 15. of Ianuary The mariage of Q. Mary the Maior with the Aldermen and certaine Commoners were at the Court and there they were commanded by the Lord Chauncellor to prepare the Citie ready to receiue the said king of Spaine who declared vnto them what a Catholicke mighty prudent wise prince the said king is with many other commendations of him Upon the Saterday folowing being the 20. of Ian. the Court of the first fruites and tenthes was dissolued Upon the Thursday at night following the 25. day of Ianuarie the Lorde Marques of Northampton was againe committed to the Tower and sir Edward Warnar with him Who were brought to the Tower by the Maior Uppon the Saterdaye followinge being the 26. of Ianuary Iustice Hales was committed to the Marshalsee and the same day maister Rogers was cōmitted to Newgate Iustice Hales committed to the Marshalsey M. Rogers committed to Newgate Upon this Saterday Sonday and Monday folowing the Londiners prepared a number of souldiors by the Queenes commaundement to goe into Kent against the Commons whereof were chiefe Captaines the Duke of Northfolke the Earle of Wormewood sir Harry Iernyngham sir George Haward and 10. other captaines Which soldiors when they came to Rochester bridge where they should haue set vpon their enemies most of them as it is sayde lefte theyr owne Captaines and came wholy to the Kentishmen and so the foresaid Captaines returned to the Court both void of men and victory leauing behind them both 6. peeces of ordinance and treasure Aboute the latter ende of Ianuarie the Duke of
broughte in the Bishop of Rome and sette him in his olde authoritie beginneth to set vp abbeis againe hath made the mariage of priestes vnlawfull hath tourned the English seruice into Latine againe hath set vp the Masse againe w t like baggage and pulled downe the holy Communion and all this is done by consente of Parliament If the Acts of Parliament made in king Henries time in K. Edwards had theyr foundatioÌ„ vpon Gods word where vpon all positiue lawe ought to be grounded then these which are stablished in the Quenes time being cleane contrary to the others as they are not warranted by gods woorde so are they wicked and therfore to be both spoken and wrytten against of all menne as well of priuate as of publique persons If your Actes my Lord Chancellour which you haâ—e lately coyned I call them yours because ye only beare the swinge deuise and decree what yee list all other men are forced to followe be good and according to Gods woord then the former Actes were naught whych thing ye seeme to say in vtterly taking of them away and setting vp of the contrary if the former were nought why then did ye consent vnto them and confirme them to be good by your voluntarie and aduised wryting as it appeareth and will to the worldes ende in your Booke de vera Obedientia where you prooue the Queene a Bastard and the bishop of Rome to be an vsurper and to haue no authoritie in the Realme of Englande Yee must needes confesse that the moste parte of your Actes of Parliament in these latter dayes haue bene according to the fantasies of a fewe King Henry in his time established by Parliament in a manner what he listed and many thinges that might well haue bene amended In Kinge Edwardes dayes the Duke of Somersette and Northumberlande bare a great stroke in thyngs and did not all things syncerely Euen so since the Quene that nowe is came to the gouernement of the realme al things are ordered by your deuise and head and the whole Parliament house is ledde as you list by reason whereof they are compelled to condescende to thinges both contrarye to Gods manifest woorde and also contrary to theyr owne consciences so great is your crueltie For to bryng youre wicked purposes to passe and to establish your Antichristian kingdome whych I truste the Lorde wyth the breathe of hys mouthe will spedely blowe ouer yee haue called three Parliamentes in one yeare and an halfe that what you coulde not compasse by subtill perswasion ye might bring to passe by tyrannical threatning for if yee hadde not vsed cruell force in your doinges yee had neuer broughte to passe suche thinges as this daye yee haue to the vtter defacing and abolishing of Gods true religion and to the casting away and destruction of your naturall Countrey so much as in you lieth And as it is moste true that Actes of Parliament haue in these latter dayes bene ruled by the fantasies of a fewe and the whole Parliament house contrary to their minds was compelled to consent to such things as a few had conceiued So it muste needes be graunted that the Papistes at all times were moste readie to apply them selues to the present worlde and like menne pleasers to follow the fantasies of suche as were in authoritie and turne with the estate which way so euer it tourned Yea if the estate should chaunge ten times in one yeare they woulde euer be ready at hande to chaunge with it and so folowe the crie and rather vtterly to forsake God and be of no religion then that they would forgoe lust or liuing for God or for religion King Henrie by Parliamente accordinge to Goddes woorde putte downe the Pope the Clergie consented and all men openly by othe refused this vsurped supremacie knowing by Gods worde Christ to be head of the churchâ— and euery Kinge in hys Realme to haue vnder and nexte vnto Christe the chiefe Soueraigntie King Edward also by Parliament according to Gods woorde sette the marriage of Priestes at libertie abolished the Popish and idolatrous masse chaunged the Latin seruice and sette vp the holy Communion the whole Cleargie consented heereunto many of them set it foorth by then preaching and all they by practising confirmed the same Notwythstanding now when the state is altered and the lawes chaunged the Papisticall cleargie wyth other like worldlinges as menne neither fearing God neyther flying worldly shame neither yet regardinge their consciences othes or honestie like wauering weather Cockes tourn rouÌ„d about putting on harlots foreheades sing a newe song and crie wyth an impudent mouth Come a-againe come againe to the catholicke churche meaning the Antichristian church of Rome which is the Synagogue of Sathan and the very sincke of all superstition heresie and Idolatrie Of what force I pray you may a man think these Parliamentes to be which scantly can stand a yere in strength Or what credite is to be geuen to these law makers which are not ashamed to establish contrary lawes and to condempne that for euill which before the thing in it selfe and the circumstances remaining al one they affirmed and decreed to be good Truelye yee are so readye contrarye to all ryghte to chaunge and turne for the pleasure of manne that at the lengthe I feare GOD wyll vse you lyke chaungelings Anno 1554. Aprill and both tourne you foorth of his kingdom and out of your owne countrey Yee charge the Gospell preachers with the vndoyng of thys realme nay it is the turning papists whych haue not onely sette a sale theyr Countrey like Traitours but also troubled the simple people so that they canne not tell what they may beleeue For that which they affirmed and preached to be newe doctrine in King Edwardes dayes nowe they crie against it as it were moste abhominable heresye This fault I trust yee shall neuer finde at our hands Therefore to conclude that whiche I purposed for somuche as the Actes of Parliament of these latter times are one contrary to an other and those which yee nowe haue stablished in your time are contrary to Gods most manifest woorde as is the vsurped supremacie of the Byshoppe of Rome the Idolatrous Masse the Latine Seruice the prohibiting of lawfull marriage which Sainte Paul calleth the Doctrine of Deuilles wyth many suche other I say it is not onely lawfull for any priuate man which bringeth Gods woorde for hym and the authoritie of the primatiue and best Churche to speake and wryte against such vnlawfull lawes but it is hys duetie and he is bounde in very conscience to doe it Which thyng I haue prooued by diuers examples before and nowe will adde too but one other which is wrytten in the fifth of the Actes where it appeareth that the high Priestes the Elders Scribes and Pharisies decreed in their Councell and gaue the same coÌ„maundement to the Apostles that they should not preache in the name of Christe as yee haue also forbidden
the circumstances before diuers persons to the forenamed Byshop Who notwithstanding did institute and cause to be inducted one Harry Goddart vnto the same personage making no mention of the kinges maiesties authority nor supremacie in contempt and derogation of the same hys hignes crowne and dignitie and in extolling the forreine vsurped aucthoritye contrary to the fourme of the statute c. Item the sayde Bishop immediately after the vnlawfull institution and induction of Goddart aforesayde molested the sayd I. Gough lawfully instituted inducted as before citing him frō place to place obiecting no matter vnto him of long season till at the length hee articled Emong which Articles was contayned Item Interrogatur quo titulo tenet rectoriam de Haskard So taking vppon him the cognition of the title of the hole fruites and patronage in contempte of the kinges highnesse regall crowne and dignitie and in derogation of the lawes and statutes of this Realme Item hee hath commonly made his collations and institutions as hee did his first commission in hys owne name and authoritie without expressing the kinges supremacie Item hee hath made vnder his seale one collation two institutions and three mandates inducte in one vocation of one benefice to three seuerall persons wythout order of law or reuocation of anye of them geuing to euery one like authoritye title and right Whereby except good foresight aswell of Iustices of the peace as of the frendes had not bene there had ensued much inconuenience amonges the partakers of the intituled incumbentes in that behalfe Item the sayde Bishop decreeing Caueates to be made in benefices thereby knowing the titles litigious instituted and causeth to be inducted without tryall of anye title or due order of lawe Item hee directeth hys mandates of induction vnto priuate men and not to Tharchdeacons nor theyr Officialles contrary to the lawe and custome vsed in that behalfe Notwithstanding he hath bene counsayled to the contrary of men that be learned Item hauing no maner of knowledge nor practise in the lawe he sitteth euery day in haruest and other times vpon causes without assistaunce of learned in the law hauing with him onely an vnlearned boy which is no Notary to his scribe neither obseruing the law nor yet reasonable order And therefore doth no good but tryfeleth the time as may appeare by his actes if he haue them to be shewed Item hee and his officers by his knowledge vseth to dispense with mariages to be solemnized without banes contrarye to the lawes and ordinaunces in that behalfe Item where as one Thomas Pricharde a Chapleine of his solempnized matrimony in a priuate house wythout banes that betwixt a priest and a sister of hers that was appointed to be maryed with the said priest that day hee also being a parson and leauing his cure vnserued that day being sondaye notwithstanding that one of the kinges counsell in the marches of Wales enformed the sayd bishop of the same misdemeanours requiring due reformation therof he hath done nothing therein but put the same Chapleine in office and made him his Commissary generall since that tyme bearyng a speciall fauour to the rest of the offendours Item whereas one Meredith ap Thomas his housholde seruaunt was accused of one Sage Hugh for to haue bene father of her chylde the sayde Byshop wythout purgation of his seruaunt caused hym to sue the parentes of the sayde Sage of infamie first in hys principall consistory and from thence before a commissary of hys being his housholde Chaplaine and at the last tooke the matter before hymselfe so rayling agaynst all his officers because they proceeded not after hys parciall affection and agaynst the lawe that honest men of Carmarththē where he then satte vppon the cause iudged him to be or at the least to haue bene distracte of his witte and by his partial handling the cause remayneth vnfinished and the childe without father Item wheras one Ienkin Ph. accused William Chābers a seruaunt of the Bishoppes that founde this William in adulterouse maner with his wife by reason wherof the Byshop expelled the wife out of his house and the said infamie not purged the parties haue bene both agayn in the Bishops house and seruice since that time to the euill example of other Item by his vnlawfull sequestration of the fruites of the benefices of Langattocke and Lamyhangell by the vndiscreete handling of the same there were raysed the number of foure hundred people or more which bickered sondry times together to the great daunger of thinhabitauntes thereabout had it not bene pacified by the discreete meanes of syr Roger Uaughan Knight Item by his like vnlawfull collation of the Prebend of Lambister to one Stephen Grene a Chaplayne of his by couenaunt and promise to mayntayne the sute by whose crafty and vndiscreete handling of the same there was raysed in the countie of Radner the 19. day of August last yast about three or foure hundreth men to like daunger but that the matter was stayed by Iohn Bradshaw Rice ap Glin and Stephen ap Rice Iustices of the same countie Who with great daunger to them selues and theirs pacified the matter committing an hundred of the offendours to warde Item such as he oweth displeasure vnto he citeth from place to place and daye to daye onely for their vexation laying no matter agaynst them and being diuers tymes required the copye of his proceedinges agaynst them to thintent they might aunswere accordingly and be at their lawfull defence he denyeth to all such persons the copies of his proceedinges Item he and his officers winke at the manifest and open crimes of his fautours and adherentes to the euil example of the whole Dioces and abuseth the censures of excommunication and suspension making it an instrument of reuenging agaynst such as they do not fauour Item hauing receiued payment of the kinges maiesties subsidie due in October the fourth yeare of his graces reigne of the foresayde Chaunter of the Cathedrall Church of Saint Dauids and Rowland Meyrike two of the Residentaries there before Christmas last he vniustly of a prepensed minde and purpose afterward certified them for recusantes to their vndoyng if they had not bene admonished of his cruell purpose and prouided lawfull defence for the same Item the sayd Bishop celebrating matrimony in his owne person dispensed contrarye to the booke of ordynaunce with the parties maryed for not receauing the holy communion the parties both bring young and lusty persones hauing no reasonable cause wherefore they should abstayne At whiche celebration the Byshoppe communicated not himselfe And further the communion was celebrated by a Chapleyne of hys with superstitious blowynges kneelynges and knockinges both of the Chaplayne that ministred of all the company onely one other Priest communicating for the maner * Mayntenaunce of superstition contrary to the kinges ordinaunce and Iniunctions ITem where the Officiall of Tharchedeacon of Carmarthen in his visitation within Carmarthen founde contrary vnto the sayde ordinaunce
will do When the B. had made an ende of his long tale this good father Rawlins spake very boldly to him and sayd Rawlins aunswere to the Byâ—shop My Lord. I thanke God I am a christian maÌ„ and I hold no opinions contrary to the word of God if I do I desire to be reformed out of the worde of God as a christian maÌ„ ought to be many mo words in like sort wer betwene the B. Raulins which this reporter doth not wel remeÌ„ber But in the end when Rawlins would in no wyse recant his opinions the B. told him plainly y t he must proceed against him by y e law condemn him as an heretike Proceed in your law a Gods name said Rawlins but for an heretike you shal neuer condemn me while y e world standeth The B. Landaffâ— proceedeâ— with praâ— in condeâ—â—nation oâ— Rawlins which câ—â—monly 〈◊〉 popish pâ—â—â—secutors not woâ—â— doe But said the B. to his company before we proceed any further with hym let vs pray vnto God that he would send some sparke of grace vppon him meanyng Rawlins it may so chance that God through our prayer will here turne and conuert his heart When Rawlins heard the B. say so Ah my Lord quoth he now you deale well and like a godly Bish. and I thanke you most hartily for your great charity and gentlenes Christ saith where as two or three be gathered in my name I will be in the middest of them and there be moe then two or three of you Now if it be so that your request be godly and lawfull and that that you pray as ye should pray without doubt God will heare you And therefore my Lord goe to doe you praye to your God Anno 1555. Aprill and I wil pray to my God I know that my God will both heare my prayer and performe my desire By and by the B. with his company fell to praier And Rawlins turning himselfe to a pew that stood somewhat neare him The Bishop â—ayeth to 〈◊〉 God Rawlins to 〈◊〉 fell downe vpon his knees couering hys face with his handes and when they had praied a while the B. with his company arose from prayer And then also arose Rawlins and came before the Bishop Then said the B. Now Rawlins how is it with thee wilt thou reuoke thy opinions or no Surely said Rawlins my Lorde Rawlins you lefte me and Rawlins you finde me and by Gods grace Rawlins I will continue Rawlins conâ—â—nued in his doctrine Poâ—ish Bishâ—ps pray to a false god therefore 〈◊〉 not heard A Masse sayd for conuersion of Rawlins Certainly if your petitions had bene iust and lawefull God woulde haue hearde them but you honor a false God and pray not as ye should pray and therfore hath not God graunted your desire But I am one poore simple man as you see and God hath heard my complaint and I trust he will strengthen me in his owne cause The Bishop when he perceiued that this hipocrisye of theirs tooke none effect then with hot wordes he reproued him and forthwith was ready to read tht sentence Howbeit vppon some aduise geuen to him by his Chapleynes that were there present hee thought best firste to haue a masse thinking that in deed by so doing some wonderfull worke should be wrought in Rawlins and thereuppon a priest began Masse In the meane tyme poore Rawlins betooke himselfe to prayer in a secret place therby vntill such time as the priest came to the Sacring as they terme it whiche is a principall poynt of theyr Idolatry When Rawlins hearde the Sacring bell ring as the vse was he rose out of hys place and came to the Quâ—ere doore and there standing a while turned himselfe to the people speaking these wordes good people The woâ—des of Rawlins to the people at tâ—e sacring time if there be any Brethren amongest you or at the least if there be but one Brother amongest you the same one beare witnesse at the daye of iudgement that I bowe not to this Idoll meaning the Host that the Priest held ouer his head The Masse being ended Rawlins eftsoones was called for agayne Rawlins still conâ—taÌ„t in the profession of Gods truth Sentence read agaynst Rawlins Rawlins seâ—t to prisoÌ„ to Cardiffe caâ—tle To whom the Bishop vsed many perswasions but the blessed man continued stedfast in his former profession that the Bishops talke was altogether in vayne and to no purpose Wherupon the Bishop caused the definitiue senteÌ„ce to be read Which being ended Rawlins was dismissed and from thence he was by the bishops commaundement caried agayn to Cardiffe there to be put into the prison of y e towne called Cockmarell a very darck lothsome and most vile prison Rawlins in the meane while passed away the time in prayer and chiefly in singing of Psalmes which kynde of godly exercises he alwayes vsed both at Cardiffe Castle in all other places Nowe after hee hadde thus continued as Prisoner in Cockmarell Prison at Cardiffe as is aforesayde a good space about three weekes before the daye wherein hee suffered the head Officers of the Towne that had the charge of his execution were determined to burne hym because they woulde be sooner ryd of hym hauing not in deede a writ of executioÌ„ awarded as by the law they should haue Whereuppon one Henrye Lewes the Recorder of the Towne that then was seeyng that they wente aboute to burne hym without any warrant by writ came to them and told them that if they did burne hym before they had the writte De haereticis comburendis the Wyfe of the sayde Rawlins would vpon iust cause by law call theyr doings into question Immediately vppon this aduertisement they sent to London for the writ aboue named vpon the receipt wherof they made some speede to the execution of the sayd Raulins The writte awarded for burning of Rawlins Nowe when the daye was come wherein the good father should performe and accomplish the last Act of thys his worthy conflict he was the night before wylled to prepare himselfe Now when he perceiued his time no lesse neare then it was reported vnto hym he sent forthwith to hys Wyfe and willed her by the messeÌ„ger that in any wise she should make readye Rawlins wedding 〈◊〉 and send vnto him his wedding Garment meaning a Shyrt whiche afterwarde hee was burned in Which request or rather commaundement of his his wife with great sorow and griefe of hart did performe and early in the morninge did send it him whiche he receiued moste gladly and ioyfully Nowe wheÌ„ the houre of his execution was come this good and constant father Raulins was brought out of prison hauing on his body the long Shyrt Whiche as you heard before he called his wedding garment and an olde Russet coate whiche he was wont to weare Besides this he had vpon his legges an olde payre of leather Buskins which he
tenor and maner of wordes to wit And moreouer confesseth and sayth that where as he strake the priest on Easter day last past in S. Margarets church in Westminster he hath since that tyme yet doth mislike hymselfe in that doyng and doth now iudge and beleue that the same his act was euill and naught Howbeit he saith and beleueth that as for the matter and cause wherfore he so stroke the said priest which was for ministring of the sacrament of the aultar â—â—â—wer â—â—â—liked his 〈…〉 Priest which he taketh and iudgeth abhominable he did nor doth not mislike hymself at all therein Moreouer he desireth of the said B. licence to be granted him to alter and take out somewhat of the ix Article in place therof these words to be placed to wit Herein he referreth himselfe to the lawes custome and ordinance specified in this article â—â—â—wer 〈◊〉 his â—â—swere to 〈◊〉 9. 〈◊〉 c. At which request Boner granted to the altering of both the articles according as he desired and so put in the actes After this the B. turning agayne to his old maner of exhorting went about with words and words onely to perswade him to submit himselfe to the Catholike church and to the faith therof Which all his perswasioÌ„s notwithstanding Wil. remained stil in the constancy of his senteÌ„ce saying that he would not be remooued from that hee had spoken to die therfore Whereupon the Bish. assigned him the next day being the xx day of Aprill to appeare in the same day and place betwene the houres of 8. and 9. before noone there and then to heare the sentence pronounced in case he would not relent c. ¶ The last appearance of William Flower before Bishop Boner IN the which day houre and place the said Wil. Flower as he was appoynted The last appearance 〈◊〉 W. â—lower beâ—â—re B. Boâ—er was brought by his keeper belonging to the Warden of the Fleete before Boner who after his woonted maner of perswasion goyng about to reduce hym to his catholike church and the vnitie thereof that is from Christ to Antichrist sometimes with fayre promises alluring sometyme with manasses and terrors fearing hym â— Flowers â—â—â—stancie c. To this Wil. answering said on this wise Do what ye will I am at a point for the heauens shal as soone fall as I will forsake myne opinion c. Wherupon the B. after he had commaunded these wordes to be registred called for the depositions of certaine witnesses producted for the better information of this matter Witnes â—roduced â—gaynst W. â—lower y e names of which witnesses were these Wil. Genings I. Bray Rob. Graunt Richard Dodde William Pampion Rob. Smalwood the parish Priest of S. Margarets at Westminster The summe and effect of whose depositions here insueth ¶ The depositions or attestations producted vpon the aunswers of Wil. Flower RObert Grant of Westminster examined vpon the said answers of Wil. Flower sayth and deposeth That he did heare and see the sayd Flower acknowledge recognise the sayd answers and subscribe to the same with hys own hand and also was present in the church of S. Margarets in Westminster when the sayd Wil. Flower dyd smite and wound the Priest when as he sayth hee was ministryng the Sacrament and how this examinate amongst other preased towards him to take him and was hurt therby vpoÌ„ his chin after he was takeÌ„ this examinate holp to conduct him to the gatehouse at Westminster RIchard Dod of Westminster examined vpon the sayd answers sayth and deposeth that he did heare and see the sayd Flower acknowlege and recognise the said answers subscribe to the same with his owne hand also did see was present when the sayd Flower vpoÌ„ Easter day last past drew his woodknife and strake the priest vpon y e hed hand and arme who beyng wounded therwith and hauyng a chalice with consecrated hostes therin in his hand sprinkled with the sayd priests bloud was holpen rescued by this examinate and the sayde Flower caried to the Gatehouse at Westminster and his woodknife takeÌ„ away by this Examinate WIlliam Pampion one of the churchwardens of the sayd parish church of S. Margaretes in Westminster examined vpon the said answers of the sayd Flower sayth and deposeth that the same answers be true in hys sight were subscribed with the hande of the sayde Flower And that vpon Easter day last past about xj of the clocke in the forenoone in the parish church at S. Margarets in Westminster among a great number of the people ready to be houseled the priests backe beyng turned toward the sayd Flower he the sayd Flower sodenly drewe forth hys woodknife and strake sir Iohn Cheltham the priest both vpon his head hand and arme whereby he was wounded and bled aboundantly and the chalice with consecrated hosts beyng in his hand were sprinkled w t hys bloud and the people in great feare cried out lamentably and thought they should presently haue bene killed RObert Smalwood of Westminster examined vpon the said answers saith and deposeth that he did heare and see the sayd Flower acknowledge and recognise the sayde answers and subscribe the same with his owne hand and sayth further touching the striking and woundyng the priest in S. Margarets church in Westminster vpon Easter day last this examinate sayth he was not there when y e fact was done but immediately after he came to church and found sir Iohn hurt and wounded in the head hand and arme by the sayd Flower and the people in great heuines by reason therof Also the people did report as this examinate saith that Flower did the deed as the priest had the chalice in his hande ministring the Sacrament to the people WIlliam Ienings of Westminster beyng examined vpon the answers of the sayd Wil. Flower sayth deposeth by vertue of his oth that he did heare and see the sayd Flower acknowledge and recognise the sayde aunswers and subscribe to the same with his owne hande in the consistory place and further deposeth that he vppon Easter day last past was present in the church of S. Margarets in Westminster where Flower strake the sayd Sir Iohn Cheltham priest first vpon the head and afterward vpon his arme two sore strokes whereby the sayd priest is lyke to loose his hand Also this Iurate deposed that the sayd sir Iohn Cheltham had a chalice with certaine consecrated hosts therein in his hand which were sprinckled with the bloud of the sayd priest and after the sayd Flower was apprehended by this examinate and others they caried hym immediately to the gatehouse in Westminster IOhn Bray one of the churchwardeÌ„s of the parish church of S. Margarets in Westminster sworne and examined vpon the sayd aunsweres sayth and deposeth that he did heare and see the said Flower acknowledge and recognise the sayd answers also subscribe vnto the same And further deposeth of Flowers strikyng the priest in effect
their beliefe afore by them confessed they are not to bee reputed taken or iudged for wilfull and obstinate heretikes nor to be punished therefore as is declared in that article The other aunswered nothyng ¶ Scholies vpon the foresayd articles THese articles in the same forme maner of words are commonly obiected to all other that follow after Notes or Scholies vpon the Articles vsed to be ministred to the poore Christians by the Popes Church with the same aunsweres also thereto annexed In which articles thou mayest note Reader the crafty and subtile handlyng of these Lawyers and Registers who so deceitfully frame theyr articles and positions that vnlesse a man doe aduisedly consider them it is hard for a simple man to aunswer to them but he shall be snared and intangled So they paynt their Churche with such a visage of vniuersall whole holy catholike as who should saye Hee that denieth Rome denieth the holye Churche of Christ here in earth Likewyse in examinyng them and specially the simple sorte in the matter of the Sacrament to the materiall breade in the Sacrament they put this worde onely very captiously and fraudulently to take them at the worst auauntage makyng the people beleeue that they take the holy Sacrament to bee no better then onely common bread The crafty and captious dealing of the Papisteâ— in propounding their articles when they doe not so but make a difference betweene the same both in the vse honour name thereof Agayne when the Examinates hold but only agaynst the erroneous poyntes of Romish Religion these bishops in theyr Interrogatories geue out the matter so generally as thogh the said Examinates in generally spake against all the articles of fayth taught in Rome Spayne England Fraunce Scotland c. Moreouer concernyng Latin seruice in such crafty forme of words they propound their article that it might appeare to the people these men do deny any seruice to be lawfull in any place countrey or language but onely in English And as these articles are crafty captiously and deceitfully in forme of words deuised by the bishops and their Notaries so the aunswers agayne to the same be no lesse subtilly framed after the most odious manner put downe in the name of the Examinates which beyng read vnto them thus without further aduise they were constrayned vpon a sodaine to subscribe the same with their hands Wherby if any word escaped their hand peraduenture not considerately subscribed there the Papists take their aduantage agaynst them to defame them and to bryng them into hatred with the people These Articles thus propounded and aunswered they were vntil the after none dismissed At what tyme they did agayne appeare and there were examined and trauayled with by fayre and flattering speaches as well of the Bish. as of others his assistance to recant and reuoke their opinions who notwithstandyng remayned constant firme and therefore after the common vsage of their Ecclesiasticall lawes Sentence against Osmund Chamberlayne Bamford Iune 14. Iune 15. were sent away agayne vntill the next day beyng Saterday and the xviij day of May. Then in the fore noone the Bishop vsing his accustomed maner of proceedyng which he hath vsed before as well with them as w t others did likewyse dismisse them and at last in the after noone condemned them as heretikes and so deliuered theÌ„ to the Shirifes in whose custodye they remayned vntiâ—l they were deliuered to the shiriffe of Essex by hym were executed Chamberlayne at Colchester the 14. of Iune Thomas Osmund at Maningtree the 15. of Iune William Bamford aliâs Butler at Harwich the same 15. day in the month of Iune ¶ The history of the worthy Martyr and seruaunt of God M. Iohn Bradford with his lyfe and actes and sundry conflicts with his aduersaries and Martyrdome at length most constantly suffered for the testimony of Christ and hys truth AS touching first the country and education of Iohn Bradford Iuly 1. The history of M Iohn Bradford Martyr he was borne at Manchester in Lancastershire His parents did bring hym vp in learnyng from his infancie vntil he attained such knowledge in the Latin tong and skill in writing that he was able to gaine his own liuyng in some honest condition Syr Iohn Harrington Knight Then he became seruaunt to sir Iohn Harington knight who in the great affaires of K. Henry the 8. and K. Edward the 6. which he had in hand when he was Treasurer of the kings campes buildyng at diuers times in Bullonois had such experieÌ„ce of Bradfords actiuity in writyng of expertnes in the arte of Auditors and also of his faythfull trustines The trusty seruicâ— of Iohn Bradâ—ford vnder M. Harringâ—ton that not onely in those affaires but in many other of his priuate busines he trusted Bradford in such sort that aboue all other he vsed his faythfull seruice Thus continued Bradford certayne yeares in a right honest and good trade of life after the course of this world lyke to come forward as they say if his mynde could so haue liked or had ben giueÌ„ to the world as many other be But the Lord which had elected him vnto a better function and preordeined him to preach the gospell of Christ in that houre of grace which in his secret counsell he had appointed called this his chosen chyld to the vnderstandyng and pertakyng of the same Gospell of lyfe In which call he was so truely taught that forthwith his effectuall call was perceyued by the fruites For then Bradford did forsake his worldly affaires forwardnes in worldly welth Bradford callâ—d to the Gospell and after the iust accompt geuen to his Maister of all hys doyngs he departed from hym and with meruailous fauour to further the kyngdome of God by the ministery of his holy word Bradford geueth him selfe to the study of Scripture he gaue himselfe wholy to the studye of the holy scriptures The which his purpose to accomplish the better he departed from the Temple at London where the temporall law is studied and went to the vniuersitie of Cambridge to learne by Gods law how to further the building of the Lordes Temple In Cambridge his diligence in study his profiting in knowledge and godly conuersation so pleased all men that within one whole yeare after that he had bene there the Uniuersitie did geue hym the degree of a M. of Arte. Immediately after the Maister and fellowes of Penbroke hal did geue him a felowship in their Colledge with them yea that man of God Martin Bucer so lyked him Bradford M. of art 〈◊〉 fellow in Pembrooâ—â— Hall that he had him not onely most deare vnto him but also often tymes exhorted him to bestow his talent in preaching Unto which Bradford aunswered alwayes that he was vnable to serue in that office through want of learnyng To the whiche Bucer was wont to reply saying If thou haue not fine manchet bread yet geue
the poore people barly bread M. Buceâ—â— saying or whatsoeuer els the Lord hath committed vnto thee And whiles Bradford was thus persuaded to enter into the ministry Doctour Ridley that worthy Byshop of LoÌ„don and glorious Martyr of Christ accordyng to the order that then was in the Churche of England called hym to take the degree of Deacon Iohn Braâ—â—ford madâ— Deacon by Bishop 〈◊〉 withâ—â—â— any superâ—stitious abuse there Iohn Braâ—â—ford madâ— Prebendaâ—â— in Paules 〈◊〉 licensed 〈◊〉 preach Which order because it was not without some such abuse as to the whiche Bradford would not consent the Byshop yet perceauyng that Bradford was willing to enter into y e ministery was content to order him Deacon without any abuse euen as he desired This beyng done he obteyned for him a licence to preache and did geue him a Prebend in his Cathedrall Church of Saint Paules In this preaching office by the space of three yeares how faithfully Bradford walked how diligently he labored many partes of England can testify Sharply he opened and reproued sinne sweetely he preached Christ crucified pithily he impugned heresies and errours earnestly he persuaded to godly life After the death of blessed yong King Edward the sixt when Queene Mary had gotten the crowne still continued Bradford diligent in preaching vntil he was vniustly depriued both of his office libertie by the Queene and her Councell To the doyng whereof because they had no iust cause they tooke occasioÌ„ to do this iniurie for such an acte as among Turkes and Infidels would haue bene with thankfulnes rewarded and with great fauour accepted as in deed it did no lesse deserue The fact was this The xiij day of August in the first yere of the raigne of Queene Mary M. Bourne then B. of Bath made a seditious sermon at Paules crosse in LoÌ„don as partly is declared before pag. to set popery abroch in such sort that it mooued the people to no small indignation beyng almost ready to pull hym out of the pulpit Neither could the reuerence of the place nor the presence of the B. Boner who then was his maister nor yet the commandement of the Maior of London whoÌ„ the people ought to haue obeied stay their rage but the more they spake the more the people were inceÌ„sed At length Bourn seyng the people in such a moode and himselfe in such peril whereof he was sufficiently warned by the hurlyng of a drawen dagger at hym as he stoode in the pulpit and that he was put from endyng his sermon fearing least against his will hee should there ende his wretched lyfe desired Bradford who stood in y e pulpit behynd him to come forth and to stande in his place and speake to the people Bradford 〈…〉 of 〈◊〉 people â—â—gardeth Papistâ—◠〈◊〉 Good Bradford at his request was content and there spake to the people of godly and quiet obedience Whome as soone as the people saw to beginne to speake vnto them so glad they were to heare him that they cried with a great shout Bradford Bradford God saue thy life Bradford well declaring not only what affectioÌ„ they bare vnto him but also what regard they gaue to his words For after that he had entred a little to preach vnto them 〈◊〉 reuereÌ„t and 〈◊〉 of people 〈…〉 and to exhort them to quiet pacience eftsoones all the raging ceased and they in the end quietly departed ech man to his house Yet in the meane season for it was a long tyme before that so great a multitude could all depart Bourne thought and truely himselfe not yet full sure of his lyfe till he were safely housed notwithstanding that the Maior Shirifes of London were there at hand to helpe him Wherfore he desired Bradford not to depart from him till hee were in safetie Bradford â—ureth Bournes 〈◊〉 which Bradford according to his promise performed For while the Maior and Shiriffes did leade Bourne to the Scholemaisters house which is next to the pulpit Bradford went at his backe shadowyng him from the people with his gowne and so to set him safe Let the Reader now consider the peril of Bourne the charitie of Bradford and the headines of the multitude also the grudging mynds of certaine which yet still there remayned behind greeued not a little theyr mindes to see that so good a man should saue y e life of such a popish priest so impudently and openly rayling against K. Edward Among whoÌ„ one gentlemaÌ„ sayd these words Ah Bradford Bradford thou sauest him y t wil help to burne thee I geue thee his life if it were not for thee I would I assure thee tâ—â— him through with my sword Thus Bourne for that tyme through Bradfordes meanes escaped bodily death but God hath his iudgement to be shewed in the tyme appoynted The same sonday in the after noone Bradford preached at the Bow church in Cheapside and reproued the people sharply for theyr seditious misdemeanor After this he did abide still in London with an innocent conscience to try what should become of his iust doing Within three daies after he was sent for to the Tower of London where the Queene then was to appeare there before the counsell There was he charged with this act of sauing of Bourne which act they there called seditious also obiected agaynst him for preaching and so by them he was coÌ„mitted first to the Tower then vnto other prisons out of the which neither his innocency godlines nor charitable dealing could purchase him liberty of body till by death which he suffred for Christes cause he obteyned the heauenly liberty of which neither Pope nor papist shall euer depriue him From the Tower he came to the kinges Benche in Southwarke and after his condemnation he was sent to the Counter in the Poultry in London in the which two places for the time he did remayne prisoner he preached twise a day continually vnlesse sicknes hindered him where also the sacrament was often ministred thorow his meanes the keepers so well did beare with him such resort of good folkes was dayly to his lecture and to the ministration of the sacrament that commonly his chaÌ„ber was well nigh filled therewith Preaching reading praying was all his whole life He did not eate aboue one meale a day which was but very little when he took it his continuall study was vpon his knees In the middest of dinner he vsed often to muse with himselfe hauyng his hat ouer his eyes from whence came commonly plenty of teares droppng on his trencher Uery gentle her was 〈◊〉 man and childe and in so good credite with his keeper y t at is desire Bradford came into London without his keeper and returned that night to prison agayne The description of Bradford Bradford content with a little sleepe Bradfordes recreation The holy lyfe of Bradford in an euening beyng prisoner in the kinges Bench in Soutwarke he had licence vpoÌ„ hys
by meanes which meanes is faith in Christ Iesus crucified For so much as by hys faith in Christe a man is iustified and thereby made the childe of saluation reason must needes lead the same to be then the childe of election chosen of God vnto euerlasting life For howe can a man be iustified but he must needes be saued and howe can a man be saued but by consequence it foloweth that he must also be elected And therefore of Election it is truely sayd De electione iudicandum est à posteriore that is to say Fayth is the meanes wherby we be certified of our Election wee must iudge of election by that which commeth after that is by oure faith and beliefe in Christ which faith although in time it followeth after election yet is it the proper and immediat cause assigned by the scripture which not onely iustifieth vs but also certifieth vs of thys election of God Whereunto likewise well agreeth thys present letter of M. Bradford wherein he sayeth Election allbeit in God it be the first yet to vs it is the last opened And therefore beginning first sayth he wyth creation De electione iudicandum est a posterâ—ore Election fiâ—st knowen to God and last opened to man I come froÌ„ thence to the redemption and iustification by faith and so to election Not that faith is the cause efficient of election being rather the effect thereof but is to vs the cause certificatory or the cause of our certification wherby we are brought to the feeling and knowledge of our election in Christe For all be it that election first be certaine in the knowledge of God yet in our knowledge Faith onely that wee haue in Christe is the thynge that geueth to vs our certificate and comfort of thys election Wherefore who soeuer desireth to be assured that he is one of the electe number of God lette hym not clyme vp to heauen to knowe but let hym descende into hym selfe and there searche hys Faith in Christe the sonne of God whyche if hee finde in hym not fained by the working of Gods holy spirite accordingly thereuppon let hym staye Euery man to stay himsâ—lfe vpon Gods generall promise and so wrappe hym selfe wholely both body and soule vnder Gods generall promise and cumber hys heade wyth no further speculations knowing thys that who so euer beleueth in him shall not perish Ihon. 3. shall not be confounded Ro. 9. shal not see death Ih. 8. shal not enter into iudgemeÌ„t Ih. 5. shall haue euerlasting life Iâ— 3.7 shall be saued Mat. 28. Act. 16. shal haue remission of al his sinnes Act. 10. shal be iustified Rom. 3. Ga. 2. shal haue flouds flowing oute of him of water of life Iohn 7. shall neuer die Iohn 11. shal be raised in the last day Iohn 6 shal finde rest to hys soule and shal be refreshed Math. 11. Now then for so much as we see faith to be the ground wherupon depeÌ„deth the whole coÌ„dition of our iustifying let vs discusse in like maner what is this faith whereof the scripture so much speaketh What fayth is Diuers kindes of fayth for the more plaine vnderstanding of the simple For many kindes there be of faith as a man maye beleeue euery thing that is true yet not euery truth doeth saue neither doth the beleeuing of euery truth iustifie a man Euery truth hath his fayth but euery truth iustifieth not no more doth euery fayth He y t beeleueth that God created all things of nought beleueth truely He that beleueth that God is a iust God that he is omnipoteÌ„t that he is mercifull that he is true of promise beleeueth well and holdeth the truthe So hee that beleeueth that God hath his election from the beginning and that he also is one of the same electe predestinate hath a good beliefe and thinketh wel but yet this beliefe alone except it be seasoned with an other thing wil not serue to saluation as it auailed not the olde Iewes which so thought of them selues and yet thinke to this day to be only Gods elect people Fayth the action Christ the obiect of fayth Fayth Christ correlatiues Onely the faithe whiche auaileth to saluation is that whose obiect is the body and passion of Iesus Christe crucified So that in the act of iustifying these two fayth and Christ haue a mutual relation and must alwaies concurre together faith as the action which apprehendeth Christe as the obiect which is apprehended For neither doeth the passion of Christe saue wythout faith Christ without faith saueth not Fayth without Christ helpeth not neither doeth faith helpe except it be in Christ As we see the body of man sustained by bread drinke not except the same be receiued and conueied into the stomacke and yet neither doeth y e receiuing of euery thing sustaine mans body except it be meate and drinke whych haue power to geue nourishment In like sort it is with faith for neither doth the beleuing of euery thing saue but onely faith in the bloud of Christ neither again doth y e same bloud of Christ profite vs except by faith it be receiued And as the sunne being the cause of all lighte shineth not but to them onely which haue eyes to see nor yet to them neither vnlesse they will open their eyes to receiue the light so the Passion of Christ is the efficient cause of saluation but faith is the coÌ„dition wherby the sayd passion is to vs effectuall Grace Election Vocation Christes death causes externe of our saluatioÌ„ Fayth the onely interne cause of mans saluation Fayth is an action in man but not of man Vertues and workes of charitye though they be good giftes of God in man yet they serue not to iustification Fayth taketh his dignitye of his obiect Looking vp to the brasen Serpent and beleeuing vpon the body of Christ compared The error of the Papistes peruerting the mind of Gods testament how and wherin And that is the cause why we say with the Scripture that faith only iustifieth vs not excluding thereby al other externe causes that goe before faith as grace mercy election vocation the death of Christe c. all whiche be externe causes working our saluation through faith But when we say that faith only iustifieth vs the meaning thereof is thys that of all internall actions motions or operations in man geuen to him of God there is none other that contenteth pleaseth God or standeth before hys iudgement or can helpe any thing to the iustifying of man before him but only this one action of faith in Iesus Christ the sonne of God For although the action of praying fasting almes pacience charity repentance the feare and loue of God be hie giftes in man and not of man geuen of God to man yet be none of al these actions in man imputed of God to saluation but only this one action of faith in maÌ„ vpon Christ Iesus the sonne
not to be bodyly in the Sacrament Ioh 19. Iohn 17. whom he raysed from death euen Iesus which deliuered vs from the wrath to come c. Also Iohn 16. I went out from the father and came into the world Again I leaue the world and go to the father c. Iohn 17. Now I am not in the world and they are in the world and I come to thee And these places of the Scripture with other mo prooueth plainly to them that haue eares to heare that Christes body that was borne of the Uirgin Mary is in heauen and not in the Sacramentall bread and wyne and therefore it is idolatry to worship them c. Agaynst auricular confession To this fift Article I aunswer that I do beleue as I haue aforesayd that auricular confession is not good as it is now vsed Touching my sinnes wherein I haue offended God I must seeke to hym for remission therof for our Sauiour Christ sayth in the xj of S. Mathew Come vnto me all ye that labour and are laden Mathew 11. I will ease you c. The riotous sonne Luke xv sayth I will arise and go to my Father and will say to him Luke 15. Father I haue sinned agaynst heauen and before thee and am no more worthy to bee called thy sonne c. Psal. 31. Psalme 31. I sayd I will knowledge myne offences and accuse my selfe vnto the Lord and so thou forgauest me the wickednesse of my sinne c. Iob. 13. But I will reproue myne own wayes in hys sight Iob. 13. He shal make me whole and there may no hypocrite come before hym Syrach 34. sayth Who can be clensed of the vncleane Sirac 34. And there was but one of the x. Lepers that were clensed that came to Christ to geue hym thanks He asked for the other ix But if I haue offended my neighbour I must reconcile my self to my neighbour Remission of sinnes to be sought onely at the handes of Christ. and if I be a notorious sinner after the first second admonition it ought to be declared to the congregation and the Minister of the congregation hath power by the word to excommunicate me and I am to bee taken as a Heathen person not for a day or xl dayes but vnto such tyme as I do openly in the congregation knowledge my fault then the minister hath power by the word to preach to me or them the remission of our sins in the bloud of Iesus Christ as it is written in the 13. of the Acts of the Apostles Math. 18. Other confession I know none To this 6. Article I the sayd Iohn Denley haue aunswered in the fift c. To this 7. Article I answer that as touchyng the sacrament of Baptisme which is the christenyng of childreÌ„ as it is altered and chaunged for S. Iohn Baptist vsed nothyng but the preachyng of the word and the water as it doth appeare wheÌ„ Christ required to be baptised of him and others also which came to Iohn to be baptised as it appeareth Math. 3. Mark 1. Luke 3. and Act. 8. the chamberlaine sayd See here is water Act. â— what letteth me to be baptised It appereth here that Phillip had preached vnto him for he sayd here is water We do not read that hee asked for any creame or oile not for spettle nor coniured water nor coniured waxe nor yet crysome nor salt for it semeth that Phillip had preached no such thyngs to hym for he would as wel haue asked for them as for water the water was not coniured but euen as it was afore Also Act. x. TheÌ„ answered Peter Acteâ— â— Acteâ— â— Can any man forbid water that these shold not be baptised c. Actes 16. And Paule and Silas preached vnto hym the word of the Lord and to all that were in his house he took them the same houre of the night and washed their wounds so was he baptised and al they of his houshold straight way Where ye see nothyng but preachyng the word the water The lyke also is to be sayd of the rest of the ceremonies of your Church To the 8. Article I answer shortly The Râ—â—â—â—bow as good a Sâ—â—crameâ—◠〈◊〉 some of 〈◊〉 Popish â—â—â—cramentâ— that there bee Sacraments no mo but two Baptisme and the Sacrament of the body bloud of Christ except ye will make the rainbow a sacrament for there is no sacrameÌ„t but hath a promise annexed vnto it To the 9. Article I doe aunswer you that ye haue my mynd written alredy For it was found about me wheÌ„ I was taken and also ye know my mynd in the 4. Article plainly expressed concernyng the bodily presence for christes body is in heauen will not be conteyned in so small a piece of breade And as the wordes which Christ spake are true in deede so must they also bee vnderstanded by other of the Scriptures whiche Christ spake hymselfe and also the Apostles after hym And thus I make an ende c. By me Iohn Denley The Martyrdome of Maister Iohn Denley Then cruell D. Story beyng there present commanded one of the tormentors to hurle a fagot at hym whereupon beyng hurt therewith vpon the face that hee bled agayne he left his singyng and clapt both his hands on his face Truly quoth D. Story to him that hurled the fagot thou hast mard a good old song The sayd Iohn Denley beyng yet still in the flame of the fire put his hands abroad and sang againe yelding at the last his spirit into the hands of God through his sonne Iesus Christ. After the Martyrdome of M. Denley at Uxbridge which was the 8. of August suffered also not long after Patrike Pachingham at the same towne of Uxbridge about the 28. of the sayd moneth This Pachingham was charged of Boner as ye heard in the x. article before for hys behauiour shewed in the Bishops chappell who at y e masse tyme there staÌ„ding would not put of his cap which was taken for an haynous offence The said Pachingham also beyng much laboured by Boner to recant protested in these wordes to the B. that the church which he beleeued was no catholike church but was the church of Sathan therfore he would neuer turne to it c. Furthermore as touching the other which was Ioh. Newman Pewterer dwellyng at Maidstone in Kent he was burned the last of August at Saffron Walden in the Countie of Essex whose examinatioÌ„ and confession of his fayth and beliefe for the which he was cruelly burnt and persecuted here vnder followeth ¶ The examination of Iohn Newman Martyr IOhn Newman first was apprehended in Kent dwellyng in the towne of Maidstone and there was examined before Doctor Thornton Suffragane and others at Tenterden From thence he was brought to Boner and there condemned with M. Denley and Pachingham and burned at Saffron Walden as is before storied But because his
Iacob and the rest of the faythfull vntil Christes tyme as S. Paul sayth they did all eate of one spirituall meat did all drinke of one maner of spirituall drinke They did drinke of that spirituall rocke that followed theÌ„ which rocke was Christ that saueth vs. 1. Cor. â— And when the tyme was ful come God sent his sonne made of a woman that is he tooke flesh of the virgin Mary became man not the shadow of a man nor a fantasticall maÌ„ Gala. 4. as some falsly faine but a very natural man in all points sinne onely excepted which God man is Christ the promised womans seed This Christ was here conuersant among men for the space of 30. yeres more Luke 22. and when the tyme was come that he should goe to hys father he gaue vnto vs the mistery of our redemption that we thorough fayth should eate his body and drinke hys bloud that we myght feed on hym through fayth to the end of the world After this Christ offred vp hys body on the crosse 1. Cor. â—â— to pacify his father to deliuer vs from the thraldome of the deuill in the which we were through sinne original actuall And with that one sacrifice of his body once offered on the crosse Heb. 1â— hee hath made perfect for euer all them that are sanctified He descended into hell the third day he rose agayne from death was conuersant at certaine tymes w t his disciples for the space of 40. dayes after he rose from death Then in the sight of all his disciples he ascended into heauen as hys disciples stood lookyng vpward Actes 1. beholding hym how he went into heauen two men stood by them in white apparell which also sayd ye men of Galilie why stand ye gasing vp into heauen This same Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come euen as ye haue seene hym goe into heauen Actes 3. S. Peter also sayth that the heauens must receiue hym vntill the tyme that all thynges whith God hath spoken by the mouth of all hys prophets since the world began be restored again which is the latter day when he shall come to iudge the quicke and the dead I do beleeue in the holy ghost which is the spirite of God proceedyng from the father and the sonne which holy spirit is one God with them I beleeue that there is an holy church which is the company of the faythfull elect people of God dispersed abrode throughout all the world Math â—â— which holy church or congregation doth not looke for Christ here nor Christ there neither in the desert nor in the secret places whereof Christ warneth vs but as S. Paule sayth in heauen where he sitteth on the right hand of GOD the father Coloss. â— they set their affection on thyngs that are aboue and not on thyngs which are on earth For they are dead concernyng the thynges of this world and their lyfe is hid with Christ in God and when Christ which is their lyfe shall shew hymselfe then shall they also appeare with hym in glory I beleeue that there is a communion of saints euen y e fellowship of the faythfull people which are dispersed abrode throughout all the whole world and are of one mynde they followe Christ their head they loue one an other as Christ loued them are knit together in one euen in Christ which Church or congregation hath forgeuenes of sinnes thorough Christ and shall enter without spotte before the face of God into his glory For as Christ being their head hath entred pure and cleane so they entering by hym shall be lyke hym in glory And I am certaine and sure that all they which doe dye shall rise agayne and receiue their bodies In theÌ„ shal they see Christ come in his glory to iudge the quicke and the dead At whose commyng all men shall appeare and geue a reckoning of their doyngs he shall seperate y e good from the bad he shall say to theÌ„ which are hys elect come ye blessed of my father inherite the kingdome prepared for you froÌ„ the beginning but to the other that haue always resisted his will he shall say depart from me ye cursed into euerlastyng fire which is prepared for the deuil and his aungels Thus haue I briefly declared my fayth which were no fayth at all if I were in doubt of it This fayth therefore I desire God to encrease in mee Prayse God for his gyftes ⧠And thus haue you the Martyrdome with the confession of this blessed man and witnes of the Lords truth who for that gaue his lyfe as is before declared ¶ Richard Hooke LIkewise Richard Hooke about the same season for the same matter gaue his like at Chichester ¶ The examinations aunswers and condemnation of William Coker William Hopper Henry Laurence Rich. Colliar Rich. Wright William Stere before the Byshop of Douer and Harpsfield Archdeacon of Caunterbury MEntion was made a little before in the story of M. Bland and Nich. Sheterden of certaine other Kentish men who beyng the same tyme with them called forth and examined by Thornton Bish. of Douer N. Harpesfield Rich. Faucet and Rob. Collins yet notwithstandyng because the condemnation and execution of theÌ„ was differred a little longer till the latter end of the moneth of Aug. commyng therfore now to the tyme of their suffryng we will briefly touch some part of their examinations and aunswers as we find them in the Registers The names of these were Wil. Coker Wil. Hopper Henry Laurence Rich. Colliar Rich. Wright W. Stere. What the articles obiected to M. Bland and them were ye heard before To the which Articles they answered for themselues seuerally in effect as followeth FIrst Wil. Coker sayd he would aunswer no otherwise then he had already answered beyng offered to haue longer respite of 6. dayes after he refused to take it and so vpon the same senteÌ„ce of condemnation was read against hym the 11. of Iuly WIl Hopper first seemed to graunt to the fayth determination of the Catholike church after callyng hymselfe better to mynd constantly stickyng to the truth he was condemned the next weeke after the 16. of Iuly HEnry Laurence examined the sayd 16. of Iuly partly differred to the 2. of August aunswered to the Articles obiected against hym first denying auricular confession and that he had not nor would receiue the Sacrament because sayth he the order of the holy Scriptures is changed in the order of the Sacrament Moreouer the sayd Laurence was charged for not puttyng of his cap when the Suffragan made mention of the sacrament did reuerence to the same the sayd Laurence answering in these words what said he ye shal not need to put of your cap for it is not so holy that you need to put of your cap thereunto Further beyng apposed concernyng the
be all these fantasies for if you perseuer in these erroneous opinions ye wil repent it when you may not mende it Thomas saide I trust my cause be iust in the presence of God Thomas Forret Fryer Iohn Kelow fryer Benerage Dunkane Simpson Priest Rob. Foster gentleman with 3. or 4. other of Striueling Martyrs and therefore I passe not muche what doe followe thereupon and so my Lorde and he departed at that tyme. And soone after a Summons was directed from the Cardinall of S. Andrewes and the sayde Bishop of Dunkelden vpon the saide Deane Thomas Forret vpon 2. blacke Friers called frier Iohn Kelowe and an other called Benarage and vpon one priest of Striueling called Duncane Sympson and one Gentleman called Robert Foster in Striuelyng with other three or foure wyth them of the towne of Striuelyng who at the day of their appearaunce after their summoning were coÌ„demned to the death without any place of recantation because as was alleged they were heresiarkes or chiefe heretikes and teachers of heresies and especially because manye of them were at the bridall and marriage of a Priest who was vicar of Twybodye beside Striuelynge and did eate fleshe in Lent at the said bridal and so they were altogether burnt vpon the castle hill of Edenbrough where they that were first bounde to the stake godly and marueilously did comfort them that came behinde Heere foloweth the manner of persecution vsed by the Cardinall of Scotland against certaine persons in Perth Persecuters Martyrs Theyr Causes Dauid Beton Byshop and Cardinall of S. Andrewes Robert Lambe William Anderson Iames Hunter Iames Raueleson Iames FouÌ„leson Hellen Stirke hys wife FIrst there was a certaine Acte of Parlamente made in the gouernement of the Lorde Hamleton Earle of Arran Anno. 154â— and Gouernour of Scotlande geuinge priuiledge to all men of the Realme of Scotlande to reade the Scriptures in their mother tongue and language secluding neuerthelesse all reasoning conference conuocation of people to heare the Scriptures reade or expounded Proclamation in Scotland permitting the priuâ—te â—eading of Scripture Which liberty of priuate reading being granted by publike proclamation lacked not hys owne â—ruite so that in sondrie partes of Scotland therby were opened the eies of the elect of God to see the truthe and abhorre the Papistical abhominations Amongest the which were certaine persones in S. Iohnston as after is declared At thys time there was a Sermone made by Fryer Spense Blasphemous doctriâ—e of a Papist Robert Lambe Martyr in saint Iohnston aliâs called Perth affirmynge prayer made â—o saintes to be so necessarye that wythoute it there coulde be no hope of saluation to man Whyche blasphemous doctrine a Burges of the sayd towne called Robert Lambe could not abide but accused hym in open audience of erroneous doctrine and adiured hym in Gods name to vtter the trueth The which the Frier being striken with feare promised to doe but the trouble tumulte and sturre of the people encreased so that the Frier coulde haue no audience and yet the sayde Roberte wyth greate daunger of his life escaped the handes of the multitude Robert Lambe in great daunger namely of the women who contrary to nature addressed them to extreme cruelty against him At this time in the yeare of our Lorde 1543. the ennemies of the truth procured Iohn Chartuous who fauoured the truthe and was Prouost of the saide citie towne of Perth to be deposed from his office by the sayde Gouernours authoritie A papist set in office and a Papist called Maister Alexander Marbecke to be chosen in his roume y t they myght bring the more easily their wicked enterprise to an ende Robert Lambe Will. Anderson Iames Hunter Iames Raueleson Hellen Styrke his wyfe cast in prison After the deposing of the former Prouost and election of the other in the moneth of Ianuary the yere aforesayde on saint Paules day came to sainte Iohnston the Gouernour the Cardinall the Earle of Argile Iustice sir Iohn Campbell of Lunde knighte and Iustice Deâ—orte the Lorde Borthwyke the Bishop of Dumblane and Orkeney with certaine other of the Nobilitie And althoughe there were manye accused for the crime of heresie as they terme it yet these persones were onely apprehended vppon the sayde sainte Paules day Robert Lambe William Anderson Iames Hunter Iames Raueleson Iames Founleson and Hellen Stirke his wife and cast that night in the Spay tower of the sayde Citie the morowe to abide iudgement Uppon the morrowe when they appeared and were brought foorth to iudgement in the towne was said in generall to all their charge the violating of the Acte of Parliament before expressed and their conference and assemblies in hearing and expoundinge of scripture againste the tenour of the sayde Acte Robert Lambe was accused in speciall for interrupting of the Frier in the pulpit whyche he not onely confessed but also affirmed constantly that it was the duetie of no manne whych vnderstood and knewe the trueth to heare the same impugned wythoute contradiction and therefore sundry which there were presente in iudgement who hidde the knowledge of the truth shoulde beare their burden in Gods presence for consenting to the same The sayde Robert also wyth William Anderson and Iames Raueleson were accused for hanging vp the image of S. Fraunces in a corde Lambe Anderson Raueleson for hanging S. Fraunces in a corde Iames Hunter for vsing suspect company nailing of Rammes hornes to his head and a Cowes rumpe to hys taile and for eatinge of a goose on Alhalow euen Iames Hunter being a simple man and wythout learning and a Fletcher by occupation so that hee coulde be charged wyth no greate knowledge in Doctrine yet because he often vsed the suspect companye of the rest he was accused The woman Hellen Stirke was accused for that in her childbed she was not accustomed to cal vpon the name of the virgine Mary Hellen Styrke for calling vpon Iesus and not our Lady in childebed being exhorted thereto by her neyghbours but onely vpon God for Iesus Christes sake and because she said in like maner that if she her selfe had beene in the time of the virgin Mary God might haue looked to her humilitie and base estate as hee did to the virgines in making her the mother of Christe thereby meaninge that there was no merites in the virgine whyche procured her that honour to be made the mother of Christe and to bee preferred before other women but Gods only free mercy exalted her to that estate Whiche woordes were counted moste execrable in the face of the Clergie and whole multitude Iames Raueleson aforesayde building a house set vppon the round of his fourth staire the 3. crowned diademe of Peter carued of tree which the cardinal tooke as done in mockage of his Cardinals hat and this procured no fauor to the sayd Iames at theyr handes These forenamed persones vppon the morrowe aftâ—â— sainte Paules day were condemned and iudged
to deathe and that by an Assise for violatinge as was alleaged the Acte of Parliament in reasoning and conferrynge vppon Scriptures for eating flesh vppon dayes forbidden for interrupting the holy frier in the pulpitte for dishonouryng of Images and blaspheming of the virgine Mary as they alleaged After sentence geuen theyr handes were bounde and the men cruelly entreated Which thing the woman beholding desired likewise to be bounde by the sergeantes with her husband for Christes sake There was great intercession made by the Towne in the meane season for the lifâ— of these persones aforenamed to the Gouernour who of him self was willing so to haue done that they myght haue bene deliuered But the Gouernour was so subiect to the appetite of the cruel priestes that he could not do that which he would Yea they manaced to assist his ennemies and to depose him except he assisted their crueltie There were certaine priestes in the Citie who did eate and drinke before in these honest mens houses to whoÌ„ the priestes were much bounden These priestes were earnestly desired to entreate for their hostesse at the Cardinalles handes but they altogether refused desiring rather theyr death then preseruation So cruell are these beastes from the lowest to the highest Then after they were caried by a great band of armed men for they feared rebellion in the towne except they had theyr men of warre to the place of execution whych was common to all theeues that to make their cause appeare more odious to the people Robert Lambe at the gallowes foote made his exhortation to the people desiring them to feare God and leaue the leauen of Papisticall abominations The Marâ—tyrdome 〈◊〉 these 〈◊〉 manifestly there prophesyed of the ruine and plague whych came vpon the Cardinall thereafter So euerye one comforting an other and assuring them selues to sup together in the kingdome of heauen that night commended themselues to God and died constantly in the Lord. The woman desired earnestly to die with her husband but shee was not suffered yet folowing him to the place of execution shee gaue him comfort exhorting hym to perseueraunce and pacience for Christes sake and parting from him with a kisse sayd on this maner Husband reioyce for we haue liued together many ioyful dayes but this day in which we must die ought to be most ioyfull to vs both because we must haue ioy for euer Therefore I will not bid you good night for we shall sodainely meete with ioy in the kingdome of heauen The woman after was taken to a place to be drowned and albeit she had a child sucking on her brest yet this moued nothing the vnmercifull hearts of the enemies So after she had commended her children to the neighbors of the towne for Gods sake and the sucking barne was geuen to the nurse she sealed vp the truth by her death Ex Registris instrumentis à Scotia missis * The condemnation of M. George Wiseheart Gentleman who suffered Martyrdome for the faith of Christ Iesus at saint Andrewes in Scotland An. 1546. Marche 1. wyth the Articles obiected againste him and his answeares to the same WIth most tender affection and vnfained heart consider gentle Reader the vncharitable manner of y e accusation of M. George Wiseheart Anno 1546 made by y e bloudy enemies of Christs faith Note also the articles whereof he was accused by order digested and hys meeke answeares The exaâ—â—ation of George 〈◊〉 so farre as he had leaue and leisure to speake Finally ponder with no dissembling spirite the furious rage and tragicall cruelnes of the malignant Church in persecuting of thys blessed man of God and of the contrary hys humble pacient and most godly answeres made to them sodainly without all feare not hauing respect to their glorious manasings and boysterous threats but charitably and wythout stop answearing not moouing his countenaunce nor changing his visage as in his accusation hereafter folowing manifestly shall appeare But before I enter into his Articles I thoughte it not impertinent somewhat to touche concerning the life and conuersation of this godlye man according as of late came to my handes certified in wryting by a certaine scholler of hys sometime named Emerey Tylney whose wordes of testimoniall as he wrote them to me here folow Aboute the yeare of oure Lorde a thousande fiue hundreth fortie and thre there was in the vniuersitie of Cambridge one maister George Wiseheart commonlye called maister George of Bennettes Colledge who was a man of talle stature polled headed and on the same a rounde Frenche cappe of the best Iudged of Melancholye complexion by his Phisiognomie blacke heared long â—earded comelye of personnage well spoken after his countrey of ScotlaÌ„d courteous lowly louely glad to teach desirous to learn was wel traueled hauing on him for his habit or clothing neuer but a mantell friese gowne to the showes a blacke Millian fustian dowblet and plaine blacke hosen course newe canuesse for his Shirtes and whyte fallinge Bandes and Cuffes at the handes All the whych Apparell hee gaue to the poore some weekelye some monethly some quarterlye as hee liked sauing hys Frenche cappe whyche hee kepte the whole yeare of my being with hym Hee was a manne modest temperate fearinge God hatinge Couetousnesse For his Charitie had neuer ende nyghte noone nor daye hee forbare one meale in three one daye in foure for the moste parte except somethyng to comforte nature Hee lay harde vppon a pouffe of straw course newe canuesse Sheetes whyche when hee chaunged hee gaue awaye hee hadde commonly by his beddes side a tubbe of water In the whyche hys people being in hedde the candell puâ—te out and all quiet he vsed to bathe hymselfe as I being very yong being assured often heard him and in one light nighte descerned hym hee loued mee tenderly and I him for my age as effectually He taught wyth great modestie and grauitie so that some of his people thought hym seuere and woulde haue slaine hym but the Lorde was hys defence And hee after due correction for their malice by good exhortation amended them and he went hys way O that the Lord hadde left hym to me his poore boye that hee might haue finished that he hadde begonne For in his Religion he was as you see heere in the rest of hys life when he went into Scotland with diuers of the Nobilitie that came for a treatie to kinge Henry the eighte Hys learning no lesse sufficient then his desire alwayes prest and readye to doe good in that hee was able bothe in the house priuately and in the Schoole publikely professing and reading diners authours If I shoulde declare hys loue to mee and all menne hys Charitie to the poore in geuinge relieuinge caringe helpinge prouidinge yea infinitelye studyinge howe to doe good vnto all and hurte to none I shoulde sooner wante woordes then iuste cause to commende All thys I testifie wyth my whole heart and trueth of thys Godly manne
sayd in the time of the rebellion that you liked wel the doings and proceedings of the sayde rebelles and traitors and sayde that the couetousnes of the gentlemen gaue occasion to the common people to rise sayinge also that better it were for the Commons to die then pearish for lacke of liuing 16 Also you saide that the Lordes of the parlamente were loth to encline themselues to reformatioÌ„ of enclosures and other things therfore the people had good cause to reforme the things them selues 17 Also you after the reporte and declaration of the defaultes and lackes reported to you by suche as did suruey Bulleine and the Peeces there woulde neuer amende the same defaultes 18 Also you would not suffer the kings peeces beyoÌ„d the seas called Newhauen Blacknest to be furnished wyth men and vitailes although you were aduertised of the defaults therin by the captaines of the same peeces others were thereto aduertised by the kings Counsaile wherby the French king being the kings open enemy was encouraged and comforted to inuade and win the sayd peeces to the kings great losse and dishonor of his realme 19 Also you declared and published vntruely as well to the kings maiestie and other the young Lordes attendant vpon his graces persone that the Lordes of the Counsaile at London minded to destroy the king you required the king neuer to forget it but to reuenge it and likewise you required the yong Lordes to put the king in remembrance therof to the entent to make sedition and discord betwene the king and his Lordes 20 Also where the kinges Maiesties priuie Counsaile of their loue and zeale that they did beare vnto the king his Realme did consulte at London to haue communed wyth you to the entent to mooue you charitablie to amend your doings and misgouernment you hearing of their sayd assembly did cause to be declared by letters in diuers places the said Lordes to be high traitors to the king to the great disturbance of the realme And thus muche hitherto concerning the first trouble of the Lorde Protectoure Duke of Somersette The mercifull working of the Lord for the Lord Protector wyth the crimes and articles obiected against him with his prisonment also in the Tower and the terrible proclamatioÌ„ geuen out against hym All which purposes of man thoughe they seemed fully entended to no lesse but to the spilling of his life yet the Lorde aboue the onely disposer of all mens purposes The Lord Protectour deliuered out of the tower so ordered the matter by the meanes of the kinge labouring for his Uncle that in short while after hee was lette out of the Tower and the Proclamation whyche before had made hym a traitor wythin three dayes was called in agayne a Domino factum est istud wyth commaundement geuen none of them to be solde And so the Duke of Somerset gratiously escaping thys aduersitie was againe restored though not to his former office yet vnto libertie wherein he continued the space of two yeares and two dayes After the which time of respite being expired the sayde Duke of Somerset was apprehended committed againe to the Tower The second trouble of the Duke of Somerset and wyth him also Sir Michaell Stanhop sir Raufe Uane sir Miles Partrige other c. At length the time being come of his arrainment the foresayde good Duke being conueied from the Tower was brought thorow London with the axe of the tower before him wyth great preparance of bils halbardes pikes and polaxes in most forcible wise a watch also sette and appoynted before euery mans doore through the hie streat of London The Duke of Somerset agayne brâ—ught to the toweâ— and so was he brought into Westminster hal where the Lords of the counsaile sitting as his iudges in the middle of the hal vpon a newe scaffolde he was there before them arrayned and charged both with treason and felonie In the whiche iudgement I passe ouer the vnseemely speach the vile taunts and despiteful rebukes without all modesty or honesty The vile tauntes of certayne Iustices and others sitting in iudgement against the good Duke of Somerset vsed by certaine of the Sergeants and Iustices and some other sitting there Al which notwythstanding he patiently quietly did suffer neither storming inwardly in stomacke nor reuiling them with woordes againe but like a lambe folowing the true lambe example of all meekenes was conteÌ„ted to take al things at their handes and with no lesse patience to beare now theyr vngentle and cruell railings The great patieÌ„ce of the Duke of Somerset in taking rebukes then hee did before their glauering wordes and flatterings in time of his high estate and prosperitie And as the patience of this good Duke was marueilous in forbearing his ennemies so also was his discretion and temperance no lesse seene in answearing for himself to the articles to him obiected wherunto he wisely and substantially replied The discrete behauiour of the Duke in aunswering for himselfe putting himselfe in the ende to be tried by his Peeres Who then at length after consultation had did frame and temper their verdicte thus that as concerning y e case of treason wherewith he was charged they discharged him but they accounted him guiltie of fellonie When the people which were there present to a great noÌ„ber hearde the Lordes say Not guiltie meaning by the case of treason supposing no lesse but y t he had bene clearly acquited by these woordes The harty affection of the people toward the Duke of Somerset and especially seeing the Axe of the Tower to be carried away for great ioy and gladnesse made an outcrie well declaring theyr louing affection and hearty fauour vnto the Duke whose life they greatly desired But thys opinion of the people was deceiued and the innocent Duke condemned to die for fellonie Which act of fellonie had bene made a litle before against the rebels and vnlawfull assembles suche as shoulde seeke or procure the death of any Counsailour The Duke of Somerset condemned of felony so that euery suche attempt and procurement according to the act should be iudged felony By the vertue of whych Act the Duke being accused with certaine other hys complices to intende and purpose the death of the Duke of Northumberlande and of certayne beside Statut. an 5. Reg. Edw 6. was therfore caste and condemned of felonie and so was returned toward the Tower againe At whose passage throughe the Citie greate exclamations and outcries were made againe of the people The Duke of Somerset accused for seeking the death of the Duke of Northumberland some reioycing y t hee was acquited some bewayling that hee was condemned Thus the good Duke passing through a great parte of the Citie landinge at the Crane of the Uinetrie was conueyed vnto the Tower where hee endured till the 22. of Ianuary Upon the which day at the comminge downe of the
letter of execution from the Kinge and the Counsaile the foresayde Duke and Uncle to the Kyng beinge founde no traitour onely being caste by the Acte of Fellonye was deliuered vnto the Sheriffes and so brought to the place of execution Touching which execution a few words here woulde be bestowed in describing the wonderful order and maner thereof according as it hath faithfully ben suggested to vs vppon the credite of a certaine noble Personage who not onely was there present at the deede doing but also in a maner next vnto him vpon the scaffolde beholding the order of all things with his eies and with his penne also reporting the same in order and maner as here foloweth In the yeare of our Lorde 1552. the 22. day of Ianuary in the sixte yeare of the raigne of king Edward the sixte he being yet vnder age and gouernaunce of Tutours the noble Duke of Somersette vncle to kynge Edwarde was brought out of the tower of London and accordinge to the maner deliuered to the Sheriffes of the Citie and compassed round about w t a great number of armed men both of the garde and others he was brought vnto the scaffolde on Tower hill where as hee nothing chaunging neyther voyce nor countenance but in a maner with the same gesture whych he commonly vsed at home kneeling downe vppon both his knees and lifting vpp his handes commended himselfe vnto God After that he had ended a fewe short prayers standing vp againe and turning him selfe towarde the East side of the Scaffold nothing at all abashed as it seemed vnto me standing about the middest of the Scaffold and diligently marking all things neither with the sight of the axe The cheaâ—â—â—full counteâ—nance of 〈◊〉 Duke of Somerset his death neyther yet of the hangman or of present death but wyth the like alacritie and chearefulnesse of minde and countenance as before times he was accustomed to heare the causes and Supplication of other and especially the poore towardes whom as it were with a certaine fatherly loue to his children he alwaies shewed himselfe moste attentiue he vttered these wordes to the people Dearly beloued frendes The worâ— of the Duke of Somerset peopâ—â— the peopâ—â— at his deaâ—â— I am broughte hither to suffer death albeit that I neuer offended against the king nether by word nor dede and haue bene alwaies as faithful true vnto this Realme as any man hath bene But for somuch as I am by a lawe condemned to die I do acknowledge my selfe as well as others to bee subiecte thereunto Wherefore to testifie my obedience whiche I owe vnto the lawes I am come hither to suffer death wherunto I willingly offer my selfe with most hearty thankes vnto God that hath geuen me this time of repentaunce who myght thorowe sodaine death haue taken away my life that neyther I should haue acknowledged him nor my selfe Moreouer dearly beloued frendes there is yet somewhat that I must put you in minde of as touchinge Christian religion which so long as I was in authoritie I alwayes diligently sette foorth and furthered to my power Neither I repent me of my doinges but reioyce therein sith that now the state of Christian religion commeth most neare vnto the forme and order of the Primitiue Churche The 〈◊〉 the Dukâ— Somerseâ— setting forth truâ— religion Which thing I esteeme as a great benefite geuen of God both vnto you and me most hartily exhorting you all that this which is most purely set forth vnto you you wil with like thankfulnesse accept and embrace and set out the same in your liuing Which thing if you do not wythout doubt greater mischiefe and calamitie wil folow When he had spoken these wordes A sodeinâ— noyse and feare of people 〈◊〉 the deatâ— the Duâ—â— Somersâ—â— sodainely there was a terrible noise heard whereupon there came a great feare on al men This noise was as it had bene the noise of some great storm or tempest which vnto some semed to be heard from aboue like as if a great deale of gunpouder being inclosed in an armorie and hauing caught fire had violently broken out But vnto some againe it seemed as though it had ben a great multitude of horsemen running together or comming vppon them Suche a noyse was then in the eares of all men albeit they saw nothing Whereby it hapned that all the people being amased wythout any euident cause wythout any violence or stroke striken or any man seene they ran away some into y e ditches and puddles and some into the houses thereabout other some being afraide with the horrour and noyse fell downe groueling vnto the ground w t their polaxes and halbards most part of them cried oute Iesus saue vs Iesus saue vs. Those whyche tarried still in their places for feare knewe not where they were And I my selfe which was there present among the rest being also afraid in this hurly burly stoode stil altogether amased looking when any man woulde knocke me in the head It hapned heere as the Euangelists write it dyd vnto Christ when as the officers of the high Priestes and Phariseis comming wyth weapons to take him being astonied ran backwardes and fell to the ground In the meane time The lyke story you shall reaâ— Caius Mâ—â—rius in Vâ—â—lerius Mâ—â—â—imus the booke chapter whilest these things were thus in doing the people by chance spied one sir Anthony Broune riding vnto the scaffold which was the occasion of a new noise For when they saw him comming they coniectured that which was not true but notwithstanding which they all wished for that the king by that messenger had sent hys vncle pardone and therfore with great reioysing casting vp their cappes they cried out Pardon pardone is come God saue the king Thus this good Duke although hee was destitute of all mans helpe The greaâ— fauour of the peopâ—â— to the 〈◊〉 of Somerâ—set yet he sawe before hys departure in how great loue fauour he was with all men And truely I doe not thinke that in so great slaughter of Dukes as hath bene in England within these few yeares there was so many weeping eyes at one time and not w tout cause For all men did see in the decay of this Duke the publike ruine of al england except such as in dede did perceiue nothing But now to returne from whence we haue strayed the Duke in the meane time standing stil in y e same place modestly and with a graue couÌ„tenance made a signe to the people w t his hand that they woulde kepe themselues quiet Which thing being done silence obtained he spake vnto them in this maner Dearely beloued frendes The word of the Duâ—â— agayne to the peoplâ— there is no such matter heere in hande as you vainely hope or beleeue It seemeth thus good vnto almighty God whose ordinance it is meete and necessary that we all be obedient vnto Wherefore I pray you all to be