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A22076	The first examinacyon of Anne Askewe lately martyred in Smythfelde, by the Romysh popes vpholders, with the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale.	Askew, Anne, 1521-1546.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.	1546 (1546)	STC 848; ESTC S100286	39,105	120

Gods wytnesses whan they are vexed by them Apoca. 11. Anne Askewe Then sayd my lorde There are manye that reade knowe the scripture yet do not folow it nor lyue therafter I sayd agayne My lorde I wolde wyshe that all men knewe my conuersacyon lyuynge in all poyntes For I am so sure of my selfe thys houre that there are non able to proue anye dyshonestie by me If yow knowe anye that can do it I praye yow brynge them fourth Iohan Bale I maruele that Byshoppes can not se thys in themselues that they are also no folowers of the scriptures But para uenture they neuer reade them but as they fynde them by chaunce in their popish portyfolyoms and maskynge bokes Or els they thynke all the scriptures fulfylled whan they haue sayd their mattens and their masses Christ sayd to the hypocryte Whye seist thu a moate in thy neybers eye and consyderest not the great beame that is in thyne owne eye Luce 6. Matth. 7. Christ forbode hys Byshoppes vndre payne of dampna cyon to take anye lordshyppes vpō them Luce ii How is thys folowed of our pre lates He comman̄ded them also to pos sesse neyther golde nor syluer Matth. 10. How is thys cōmaundemēt obeyed If we loked so ernest lye to Christes instytucyons as we loke to the popes to be obserued these wolde also be seane to by acte of parlement so we le as prestes marryage whom Christ neuer inhibyted I doubt it not but thys wyll also be one daye scane to Godly ded thys wo man in defendynge here her innocencye For S. Peter sayth j. Petri 4. Se that non of yow suffre as an euyll doer But in your harde sufferynges committ your sowles vnto God with wele doynge a● vnto your faythfull creator Anne Askewe Then my lorde went awaye and sayd he wolde entytle sumwhat of my meanynge And so he writte a great cyrcumstaun ce But what it was I haue not all in memorye For he wolde not suffre me to haue the cop pie therof Onlye do I remembre thys smal porcyon of it Iohan Bale Here wrote he serten artycles of the popes Romish faythe wyllynge her to subscrybe vnto thē so blaspheme God or els to burne Hys sekynge was here to make her to worshyp the first beast whose deadlye wounde is healed agayne Apoc. 13. But she wolde not so haue her name raced out of the lābes boke of lyfe Apoca. 20. Rather wolde she contende to the ende hopynge by the myght of hys sprete at the last to ouercome and so to be clothed wyth the promysed whyte aparell Apoca. 3. Anne Askewe Be it knowne sayth he to all men that I Anne Askewe do confesse thys to be my faythe and beleue notwithstandynge my reportes made afore to the contrarye I beleue that they whych are howseled at the handes of a prest whether hys conuersacyon be good or not do receyue the bodye and bloude of Christ in substaunce reallye Al so I do beleue it after the conse cracyō whether it be receyued or reserued to be no lesse than the verye bodye and bloude of Christ in substaunce Fynallye I do beleue in thys and in all other sacramētes of holye chur che in all poyntes accordynge to the olde catholyck faythe of the same In witnesse wherof I the seyd Anne haue subscrybed my name There was sumwhat more in it whych because I had not the coppie I cānot now remembre Iohan Bale All the worlde knoweth that neyther in Christes tyme nor yet in the dayes of hys Apostles was anye soche confession of faythe Neyther yet in the churche that folowed after by the space of moche more than a M. yeares What haue Christen mennes conscience than to do with soche a progydyouse confessyon Are not Christ and hys Apostles teachers suffycyent ynough for our Christē beleue and their holye doctrynes lawfull but we must haue these vnsauerye brablementes We must now beleue in the bawdrye of prestes or that their Sodometrye and Whoredome for want of marryage can be no impediment to their Godmakynge What is it els to be sworne vnto the beleue of soche artycles but to honour their abhomynable Iecherye O most swynish sacryfyers of Baal peor Psalme 105. Yow is it that the Apostle Iudas in hys canonycall epystle speaketh of Ye haue turned the grace of God into your Iecherie denyenge our onlye gouernour Ihesus Christ. The holye Ghost sheweth vs. Apoca. 21. 22. that nō are of the newe hallowed cytie or congregation of the lorde whych worketh abhomynacyon or maynteyneth lyes as ye do them both here Anne Askewe Then he redde it to me and asked me if I ded agre to it An● I sayd agayne I beleue so moche therof as the holye scri pture doth agre to Wherfor I desyre yow that ye wyll adde that therunto Then he answered that I shuld not teache hym what he shuld write With that he went forth in to hys great chamber and redde the same byll afore the audyence whych enuegled and wylled me to sett to my hande saynge also that I had fauer shewed me Iohan Bale In euerye matter concernynge our Christen beleue is the scripture reckened vnsuffycyent of thys wycked genera cyon God was not wyse ynough in settynge the order therof ▪ but they must adde therunto their swybber swylle that he maye abhorre it in vs as he ded the Iewes ceremonyes Esa. 1. Hiere 7. Zacha. 7. Amos 5. Michee 6. But thys godlye woman wolde corrupt her fayth● with no soche beggerye least she in so doynge shuld admitt them and ●ir po pe to sytt in her conscyence aboue the eternall God whych is their daylye stodye 2. Thes. 2 A vyrgyne was shein that behalf redemed frō the earthe folowynge the lambe hauynge in her fore head the fathers name written Apocalypsys 14. Anne Askewe Then sayd the Byshopp I myght thanke other no● my selfe of the fauer I founde at hys hande For he consydered he sayd that I had good fryn des and also that I was come of a worshypfull stocke Then answered one Christofet a seruaunt to mastre Dēnye Rather ought ye my lorde to haue done it in soche case for God● sake than for mannys Iohan Bale Spirytuall wyll these fathers be named and yet they do all to be seane of men Math. 23. Their olde condycyons wyll they change whan the blacke moreane change hys skynne and the catte of the mountayne her spotres Hieremyc 13. If I sought to please mē sayth S. Paule I were not the seruaunt of Christ. Gala. 1. Whan thys tyrannouse Byshopp can do nomore myschefe than flattereth he the worlde sekynge to haue thankes where he hath non deserued And as concernynge the loue or true feare of God as is herelayed vnto hym he hath non at all Psal. 13. Anne Askewe Then my lorde sate downe and toke me the wrytynge to sett therto my

nede we anye more witnesses Lo now ye haue hearde a blasphemye or an heresye How saye ye now to it whych are her fryndes Is she not gyltye of deathe If they shuld haue sayd naye vnto thys they shuld haue bene so in as depedaunger as she Thys ser pentyne practyse was as wele to trappe them as her ●ete it not be vnmarked Anne Askewe My lorde sayd after that vnto me that he wolde I shuld cre dyte the coūsell of my fryndes in hys behalfe whych was that I shuld vtter all thynges that burdened my conscyence For he ensured me that I shuld not ne de to stande in doubt to saye anye thynge For lyke as he promysed them he sayd he promy sed me wolde perfourme it Whych was that neyther he nor anye man for hym shuld ta ke me at aduauntage of anye word I shuld speake And therfor he bad me saye my mynde without feare I answered hym that I had nought to saye For my conscyence I thāked God was burdened with nothynge Iohan Bale Styll foloweth thys ghostlye enemye hysformer temptacyon and calleth vpon mortall vtteraunce or vtteraunce full of deathe that he myght crye with Cayphas Luc. 22. what nede we further testymonye Her owne mouthe hath accu sed her We are able withnesses therof sea our owne eares haue hearde it Thus laye they wayte for bloude sayth Salomon and lurke payuelye for the innocent without a cause Prouerbierū 1. Consent not sayth he vnto soche tyrauntes if they entyce the. For though their wordes apere as honye Prouerbio rum 16. Yet shalt th● fynde them in the ende so ●ytter as wormewode Prouerbio●um 5. Though that whorysh generacyen pretendeth a coloure of gentylnesse yet byteth it at the lattre lyke a serpent and styngeth lyke an adder throwynge fourth poyson Prou. 23. Anne Askewe Then brought he fourth thys vnsauerye symylytude That if a man had a wounde no wyse surgeon wolde mynystre helpe vnto it before he had seane it vncouered In lyke case sayth he can I geue yow no good counsell vnlesse I knowe wher with your conscyence is burdened I answered that my cō science was clere in all thynges And for to laye a playstre vnto the whole skynne it might apere moche folye Iohan Bale Hath not he thynkeyow moche nede of helpe whych seketh to soche a surgeon Vncircumspect is that pacyent and most commonlye vnfortunate whych goeth to a commen murtherer to be hea led of hys dysease Christ had vs euermore to be ware of all soche vnlesse we wolde be woryed Matth● 7. The nature of these Lorde sayth Dauid is not to make whole but to persecute them whom thu hast smytten and to adde woū des vnto wounde Psalmo 68. Their owne botches are insanable Efaie 1. for the multytude of their myschefes Hiere 30. The prest and the Leuyte whych trauayled betwin Hierusalem and Hierico healed not the wounded man yet were they no wounders Lu. 10. Who can thyn ke that he wyll vnburden the cōscyence whych stodyeth nothynge els but to ouer loade it with most greuouse and daūgerouse burdens Math. 23. Anne Askewe Then ye dryue me sayth he to laye to your charge your ow ne report whych is thys Ye ded saye he that doth receyue the sa crament by the handes of an yll prest or a synner he receyueth the deuyll not God To that I answered that I neuer spake soche wordes But as I sayd afo re both to the qwest and to my Lorde Mayre so saye I now agayne that the wyckednesse of the prest shuld not hurte me but in sprete and faythe I receyued no lesse the bodye and bloude of Christ. Then sayd the byshopp vnto me what a saynge is thys In sprete I wyll not take yow at that aduauntage Then I an swered My lorde without faythe and sprete I can not receyue hym worthelye Iohan Bale Now sheweth thys Cayphas where about he Goeth for all hys false flatterynge colours afore And seynge he can winne non aduaūtage to hys cruel purpose of her owne cōmunycacyon he shafeth the howgettes of hys prouyded Iu dases and betrayers of innocent bloude He bryngeth fourth soche stuffe and store as that wycked qwest had gathered of her answere to them to flatter and to please hys tyrannye therwith It ys to be feared that as farre was the feare of God here from thē as from hym Psal. 13. for as wele practysed they thys myschefe agaynst her as he Marke here the natural workynge of a verye full Antichrist Be defendeth synne in hys o●w ge neracyō and condēneth vertue in Chri stes dere mēbre Malice pryde whoredome sodometrye with other most deuylysh vyces reckeneth he not to hurte the mynystracyon of a prest yet iudgeth it he an heresye no lesse worthye than deathe to beleue that Christes fleshe and bloude is receyued in faythe and sprete What though it be Christes most ernest doctryne Ioan. 6. what a sa●nge sayth thys Bishopp is thys In s●te I wyll not take yow at the worst sayth he As though it were a most haynouse heresye But most dyscrete and godlye was the womannys answere declarynge her a ryght membre of Christ. where as those prestes whō he here de fendeth are vnworthye receyuers and members of the deuyll Ioan. 13. i. Co rin 11. Thus is an Antichrist here know ne by hys frutes For he vttereth blasphemyes agaynst God Daniel 7. Apoc. 13. he calleth euyll Good and Good cuyll Esa. 5. Prouerbiorum 3. Anne Askewe Then he layed vnto me that I shuld saye that the sacrament remaynynge in the pixte was but breade I answered that I neuer sayd so But in dede the qwest asked me soche a qwestion wherunto I wolde not answere I sayd tyll soche tyme as they had assoyled me thys questiō of myne Wher for Steuen was stoned to deathe They sayd they knewe not Then sayd I agayne nomore wolde I tell them what it was Iohan Bale O Idolouse shepehearde sayth Zach. thu sekest not to heale the wounded but to eate the fleshe of the fatte Zach. 11. The watche men of Israel sayth the lorde are verye blynde beastes and shamelesse dogges They haue no vnder standynge but folowe their owne beastlye wayes for couetousnesse Esaie 56. Whoeuer redde in the scripture or autorysed Chronycle that breade in a boxe shuld be Christes bodye Where or whā commaunded he hys most holye bodye so to be bestowed What haue ye to laye for thys doctryne of yours Are ye not yet ashamed of your vnreuerent and blasphemouse beastlynesse wyll ye styll pluc ke our Christen beleue from the ryght hande of God the eternall father and sende it to a boxe of your braynysh deuysynge The first boxer of it was pope Honorius the thyrde in the yeare of our lorde M. CC. XVI after the many foldereuelacyons of dyuerse relygyouse w●men Neyther was there anye great honour geuen