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A19567	The copy of certain lettres sent to the Quene, and also to doctour Martin and doctour Storye, by the most reuerende father in God, Thomas Cranmer Archebishop of Cantorburye from prison in Oxeforde: who (after long and most greuous strayt emprisoning and cruell handlyng) most constauntly and willingly suffred martirdome ther, for the true testimonie of Christ, in Marche. 1556	Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556.; Mary I, Queen of England, 1516-1558.; Martin, Thomas, d. 1584.; Story, John, 1510?-1571.	1556 (1556)	STC 5999; ESTC S116426	13,460	34

ecclesiae libertatem nisi ea de capitularibus suis intra duos menses post huiusmodi publicationem sententiae fecerint am●ueri Item excommunicamus statutarios scriptores statutorū ipsorū necnon potestates consules rectores conciliarios locorum vbi de caetero huiusmodi statuta cōsuetudines aeditae fuerint vel seruatae necnon illos qui secundum ea praesumpserint iudicare vel in publicam formam scribere iudicata That is to saye We excōmunicat all heretikes of bothe sexes what name so euer they be called by and their fauourers and receptours defendours and also them that shall hereafter cause to be obserued statutes and customes made against the libertie of the church except they cause the same to be put out of theyr bokes or recordes within two monethes after the publicacion of this sentence Also we excommunicate the statute makers and wrytours of those statutes and all the potestates cōsules gouernours counsaillours of places wher suche statutes and customes shall be made or kept also those that shall presume to geue iudgement according to them or to wryte in to publike forme the maters so iudged Now by these lawes if the bishop of Romes autoritie which he claymeth by God be lawfull all your graces lawes and customes of your realme being contrary to the popes lawes be naught And aswell your maiestie as your iudges Iustices and all other executours of the same stande accursed among heritikes which God forbidde And yet this curse can neuer be auoided if y e pope haue suche power as he claymeth vntil suche tymes as the lawes and customes of this realme being contrary to his lawes be taken awaye and blotted out of the lawe bokes And although ther be many lawes of this realme contrary to the lawes of Rome yet I named but a fewe as to conuicte a clearke before any temporall iudge of this realme for debte felonye murther or for any other tryme which clearkes by the popes lawes be so exempte from the kinges lawes y t they can be no wher sued but before their ordinarie Also the pope by his lawes maye geue all Bishoprikes and benefices spirituall which by the lawes of this realme cā be geuen but only by the king and other patrons of the same except they fall in to the lapse By the popes lawes Ius patronat●●● shalbe sued only before the ecclesiasticall iudge But by the lawes of this realme it shalbe sued before the temporal iudges And to be shorte y e lawes of this realme doo agree with the popes lawes like fyre and water And yet the kinges of this realme haue prouided for their lawes by the Praemunire so that if any man haue let the execucion of the lawes of this realme by any autoritie from the sea of Rome he falleth in to the Praemunire But to mete with this the popes haue prouided for their lawes by cursing For who so euer letteth the popes lawes to haue full course within this realme by the popes power standeth accursed So y t the Popes power treadeth al y e lawes customes of this realme vnder his fete cursing al that execute them vntil suche tyme as they geue place vnto his lawes But it maye be sayed that notwithstāding all the popes decrees yet we doo execute still the lawes and customes of this realme Naye not al quietly without interruption of the pope And wher we do execute them yet we doo it vniustely if the Popes power be of force and for y e same we stande excōmunicate and shall do vntill we leaue thexecucion of our owne lawes and customes Thus we be wel reconciled to Rome allowing suche autoritie wherby the realme standeth accursed before God yf the Pope haue any suche autoritie These thinges as I suppose were not fully opened in the parliament house whan the Popes autoritie was receaued agayne within this realme For yf they had I do not beleue that either the Kyng or Quenes Maiestie or the nobles of this realme or the cōmons of the same wolde euer haue cōsented to receaue agayne suche a forain autoritie so iniurious hurtful preiudiciall aswell to the crowne as to the lawes and customes and state of this realme as wherby they muste nedes acknowlege them selues to be accursed But none could opē this mater wel but y e cleargie that suche of them as had redde the Popes lawes wherby the Pope hath made himself as it were a God These seke to mayntene the pope whom they desyred to haue their chief head to thintent they myght haue as it were a kingdome lawes within them selues distincte from the lawes of the crowne wher with the crowne may not medle And so being exēpt frō y e lawes of the realme myght lyue in this realme lyke lordes kynges w tout damage or fear of any mā so y t they please their highe and supreme head at Rome For this consideracion I wene some y t knewe the truthe helde their peace at the parliament wher as yf they hade done their dueties to the crowne and hole realme they should haue opened their mouthes declared the truthe and shewed the periles and daungers that myght ensue to the crowne and realme And yf I should agree to allowe suche autoritie within this realme wherby I must nedes confesse that your most gracious hyghnes and also your realme should euer continue accursed vntyll you shall ceasse from thexecucion of your owne lawes and customes of your realme I coulde not thynke my selfe true eyther to your hyghnesse or to this my natural countrey knowing y e I do knowe Ignoraunce I knowe may excuse other men but he that knoweth howe preiudicial and iniurious the power autoritie which he chalengeth euery where is to the crowne lawes and customes of this realme and yet wyl allowe the same I can not see in any wyse how he can kepe his due allegeaūce fidelitie and truth to the crowne and state of this realme An other cause I alleged why I could not allowe the autoritie of the pope which is this That by his autoritie he subuerteth not only the lawes of this realme but also y e lawes of god So that who soeuer be vnder his autoritie he suffreth them not to be vnder Christes religiō purely as Christ did commaūde And for one example I brought furthe that wher as by Goddes lawes all christian people be boūden diligētly to learne his worde that they maye knowe howe to beleue lyue accordingly And for that purpose be ordayned holy dayes whā they ought leauyng aparte all other businesse to geue them selues holly to knowe serue God Therfore Goddes will cōmaūdement is that whā the people be gathered together y e ministers shoulde vse suche language as the people may vnderstāde take profite therby or elles holde their peace For as an harpe or lute yf it geue no certain sounde that me maye knowe what is striken

the sacrament in two kyndes the one seperated from the other to be a representacion of his deathe wher his blood was separated from his fleshe which is not represēted in one kynde alone So that the laye people receaue not the hole sacrament wherby Christes deathe is represented as he commaunded Moreouer as the pope taketh vpō him to geue the temporall sworde or royall and Imperiall power to kynges and princes so dothe he likewise take vpon hym to depose them from their Imperiall states yf they be disobedient to him and commaundeth the subiectes to disobeye their princes assoiling the subiectes aswell of their obedience as of their laufull othes made vnto their true kynges princes directly contrary to Goddes commaundement who cōmaundeth all subiectes to obey their kinges or their rulers vnder them One Iohan Patriarke of Constātinopole in the tyme of saint Gregorie claymed superioritie aboue all other bishoppes To whom Saint Gregorie writeth that therin he did iniurie to his three brethren which were equal with hym y t is to saye the Bishop of Rome the bishop of Alexandria and of Antiochia which three were patriarchal seas as well as Constantinopole and were brethren one to an other But sayeth saynt Gregorie Yf any one shall exalte him self aboue all the rest to be the vniuersal bishop the same passeth in pride But now the Bis. of Rome exalteth him self not only aboue al bishoppes but also aboue all kinges and Emperours and aboue all the hole worlde taking vpon him to geue and take awaye to set vp and put downe as he shall thinke good And as the Deuil hauing no such autoritie yet toke vpō him to geue vnto Christ all the kingdomes of y e world if he wold fal down worship him in like maner the pope taketh vpon hym to geue empires kingdomes being non of his to suche as will fall downe and worship him and kysse his fete And moreouer his lawers and glosers so flattre him that they feyne he maye commaunde emperours and kinges to holde his styrrop whan he lighteth vpō his horse and to be his fotemen And that if any emperour or king geue hym any thīg they geue him nothing but that is his owne And that he maye dispense against Goddes worde against bothe the olde and newe testament against saynt Paules epistles and against the Gospel And furthermore whatsoeuer he dothe although he drawe innumerable people by heapes with him selfe in to hell Yet maye no mortal man reproue him bicause he being iudge of all men maye be iudged of no man And thus he sytteth in the temple of God as he were a God and nameth him self Goddes vicare And yet he dispenseth against God If this be not to playe Antichristes parte I can not tel what is Antichrist which is no more to saye but Christes enemy aduersary who shall syt in the temple of god aduaunceing hym self aboue all other yet by hipocrisie and feyned religion shall subuerte the true religiō of Christ. And vnder pretense and colour of christian religion shall worke against Christ and therfore hathe the name of Antichrist Now if any man lifte him selfe higher than the Pope hathe done who lifteth hym selfe aboue all the world or can be more aduersarye to Christ ●an to dispense against Goddes lawes wher Christ hathe geuē any commaundement to commaunde directly the contrary y t mā must nedes be takē for Antichrist But vntill the tyme that suche a persō may be foūde mē maye easily coniecture wher to fynde Antichrist Wherfore seing the pope thus to ouerthrowe bothe Goddes lawes mannes lawes taketh vpon hym to make emperours and kynges to be vassailes and subiectes vnto hym specially the crowne of this realme with the lawes and customes of the same I see no meane how I maye cōsente to admyt this vsurped power within this realme cotrary to myne othe myne obediēce to Goddes lawe myne allegeaunce duetie to your maiestie my loue affection to this realme This that I haue spoken against the power and autoritie of the pope I haue not spoken I take God to record and iudge for any malice I owe to y e popes persō whom I knowe not but I shal praye to God to geue him grace that he maye seke aboue all thinges to ꝓmote Goddes honour and glorie and not to folowe y e trade of his p̄decessours in these later daies Nor I haue not spoken it for feare of punishemēt to auoide y e same thinkīg it rather an occasiō to aggrauate thā to diminish my trouble but I haue spokē it for my most boūdē duety to y t crowne liberties lawes customes of this realme of Englād but most specially to discharge my cōsciēce in vttering y e truthe to goddes glorie casting awaye al feare by y e comfort which I haue in Christ who sayeth Feare not them that kill the body and can not kill the soule but feare him that can cast bothe body soule in to hell fyre He that for feare to lose this life will forsake the truthe shall lose the euerlasting life And he that for the truthes sake will spende his life shal fynde euerlasting life And Christ ꝓmyseth to stāde fast with thē before his father which will stande faste w t him here Which cōfort is so great y t whosoeuer hathe his eies fixed vpon Christ can not greatly passe on this life knowing that he maye be sure to haue Christ stande by him in the presence of his father in heauen And as touching y e Sacrament I sayed Forasmuche as the hole mater standeth in y e vnderstanding of these wordes of Christ This is my body This is my blood I sayed that Christ in these wordes made demonstracion of y e bread wyne and spake figuratiuely calling bread his bodye wyne his blood bicause he ordayned them to be sacramētes of his body blood And wher y e papistes say in those two pointes cōtrary vnto me y t Christ called not bread his body but a substaūce vncertayn nor spake figuratiuely Herein I sayed I wolde be iudged by the olde churche And which doctrine could be proued the elder that I wold stāde vnto And forasmuche as I haue alleged in my boke many olde autors bothe Grekes latines which about a thousaunt yeares after Christ continually taught as I doo if they could bring furthe but one olde autor that sayeth in these two poyntes as they saye I offred vj. or vij yeares agoo doo offre yet still y t I will geue place vnto them But whan I bring furthe any autor that sayeth in most playne termes as I doo yet sayeth the other partie that the autors ment not so as who shoulde saye that y e autors spake one thing and ment cleane contrary And vpon the other parte whan they can not fynde any one autor that sayeth in wordes as they saye yet saye they that the autors mēt as they saye