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A22106	The first examinacio[n] of Anne Askewe latelye martired in Smythfelde, by the Romyshe popes vpholders, wyth the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale.	Askew, Anne, 1521-1546.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Askew, Anne, 1521-1546. Latter examynacyon of Anne Askewe latleye martyred in Smythfelde. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 851; ESTC S114741	83,394	227

Askewe My faythe breuelye wrytten to the kynges grace I Anne Askewe of good memorye although God hath geuen me the breade of aduersyte and the water of trouble yet not so moche as my synnes haue deserued desyre thys to be knowne to your grace That for as moche as I am by the lawe condempned for an euyll doer Here I take heauen and earthe to recorde that I shall dye in my innocencye And accordynge to that I haue sayde firste and wyll saye laste I vtterlye abhorre and detest all heresyes And as concernynge the supper of the Lorde I beleue so moche as Christe hathe sayde therin Whyche he confyrmed wyth hys mooste blessed bloude I beleue also so moch as he wylled me to folowe and beleue and so moch as the catholycke churche of hym dothe teache For I wyll not forsake the commaundemente of hys holye lyppes But loke what God hath charged me wyth his mouth that haue I shutte vp in my hart And thus breuely I ende for lack of lernynge Anne Askewe Iohan Bale In thys she dyschargethe her selfe to the worlde agaynst all wrongefull accusations iudgemētes of heresye what though it be not accepted to that blynde worlde vnto whome the lorde sayde by hys prophete Your thoughtes are not my thoughtes neither yet are your wayes my wayes But so farre as the heuēs are hyer than the earthe so farre do my wayes excede youres my thoughtes yours Esa. lv Heresye is not to dyssent frō the churche of Rome in the doctryne of fayth as Lāfrācus in his boke de Eucharistia aduersus Berengariū Thomas waldē in his worke of sermōs Ser. xxi Dyffyneth it But heresy is a voluntarye dyssētyng frō the veryte of the scriptures of God and also a blasphemous deprauyng of them for the wretched bellyes sake to mayntene the pompes of thys worlde Thus is it dyffyned of S. Hierome in cōmentariis Hiere S. Augustyne and Isidorus agreynge to the same Cōsidre thā whether he be the thefe that sytteth vpō the bēche or he that standeth at the barre The popyshe clergye that condempneth or the innocent that is condempned Athanasius in hys boke de fuga aduersus Arrianos calleth them the heretykes whyche seketh to have the Christē beleuers murthered as dyd the sayd Arryanes Thys godlye woman hyr innocencye to clere laboureth not here to an inferiour membre of the realme but to the heade therof the kynges owne persone Whome she beleueth to be the hygh minister of God the father of the lande and vpholder of the people Sapi. vi that he might faythfullye and rightlye iudge her cause But who can thynke that euer it came before hym Not I for my part Anne Askewe The effect of my examynacyon and handelynge sens my departure from New gate On twesday I was sēt from new gate to the sygne of the crowne where as mastre Ryche and the Byshoppe of London wyth all their power flatterynge wordes wente aboute to persuade me from God But I dyde not exteme their glosynge pretenses Then came there to me Nicolas Shaxton and counselled me to recāt as he had done Then I sayde to hym that it hade bene good for hym neuer to haue bene borne with manye other lyke wordes Iohan Bale Afer that Chryst had ones ouercommen Sathan in the desert where he had fasted longe tyme Math. iiii We reade not in the scriptures that he was moch assaulted or vexed of the worlde the fleshe and the fyende whyche are reckened the common enemyes of man But yet we fynde in the Gospell that these iii. ghostlye enemyes the prelates the prestes and the lawers or the Byshoppes pharysees and scrybes neuer lefte hym afterwarde tyl they had throughlye procured hys deathe Marke it I desyre yow if it be here anye otherwyse with his dere membre What other enemyes tempteth here Anne Askewe thā the Byshop of London mastre Ryche and doctor Shaxton besydes the great Caiphas of Winchestre with his spightfull I shulde saye spyrytuall table or who els procureth her deathe Ye wyll thynke parauenture concerning mastre Ryche that though he be an enemye yet is he no spirytuall enemye bycause he is not anointed with the popes grese But than are ye moch deceyued For it is the sprete of blasphemye auaryce and malyce and not the oyle that maketh them spirytuall And where as they are anointed in the hande with oyle he is in the hart anointed with the sprete of Mammon betraynge with Iudas at the Bishoppes malycyouse callynge on the poore innocente sowles for moneye or at the least for ambycyouse fauer O Shaxton I speake now vnto the I thynke in the voice of God What deuyll by wytched the to playe this most blasphemouse part as to become of a faythfull teacher a temptynge sprete Was it not ynough that thou and soch as thou art had forsakē your lorde God and troden hys veryte most vnreuerentlye vndre your fete but with soch feates as this is thou must yet procure the a more deper or double dāpnaciō Ryghtlie sayd this true seruaunt of God that it had bene better for the and thy fellowes that ye neuer had bene borne Ye were called of God to a mooste blessyd offyce If ye had bene worthye that vacacyon as ye are but swyne Mathei vii ye hade perseuered faythfull and constaunte to the ende Mathei x. and so haue worthelye receyued the crowne therof Apoca. ii But the loue of your beastlye fleshe hath verye farre in yow ouer wayed the loue of the lorde Iesus Chryste Ye now shew what ye are in dede euen wauerynge reedes with euerye blast moued Luce vii Yea verye faynte harted cowardes and hypocrytes Apo. iii. Ye abyde not in the shepe folde as true shepeherdes but ye flee lyke hyrelynges Iohan. x. Had ye bene builded vpon the harde rocke as ye were on the fyckle sande Math. vii neither Romish stoodes nor Englysh wyndes hade ouerthrowne yow But now loke onlie after your deseruinge for this terrible iudgement of God For them saith S. Paule whiche volūtarylye blaspheme the truthe after they haue receyued the Gospell in fayth and in the holye Ghost remayneth no expyacyon of synne but the fearfull iudgement of hell fyre For a mocke haue they made of the sonne of God Hebrew vi and x. Anne Askewe Then mastre Riche sent me to the tower where I remayned tyll thre of the clocke Then came Ryche and one of the counsell chargynge me vpon my obedyence to shewe vnto them if I knewe man or woman of my secte My answere was that I knewe none Then they asked me of my ladye of Sothfolke my lady of Suffer my ladye of Hertforde my ladye Dennye and my ladye Fizwyllyams I sayde if I shulde pronounce any thynge agaynste them that I were not hable to proue it Iohan bale Neuer was there soche turmoylynge on the earthe as is now

for non other myracle but that onelye they perseuer faythfull to the ende Mathe. x. And neuer denye his verite afore men Luce. xii For that worthye vyctorye of the synnefull worlde standethe in the inuyncyblenesse of fayth and not in myracles and wonders as those waueringe wittes suppose i. Ioan. v. Ryght wonderfullye wyl this apere in the. ii myghtye conflyctes here after folowynge whych the faytfull seruaunt of Iesu Anne Askewe a gentylwoman verye yonge dayntye and tender had with that outragynge Synagoge in her ii examynacions about the xxv yeare of her age whom she sent abroade by her owne hand writynge The handelynges of her other iii. companyons shall be shewed in other seuerall treatyses at layser For the glorye and greate power of the lorde so manifestlye aperynge in hys elect vessels maye not nowe perysh at al handes be vnthankefullye neglected but be spred the worlde ouer as we le in Latyne as English to the perpetuall in famye of so willfully cruel and spyghtfull tyrauntes Nothynge at all shall it terryfye vs nor yet in anie point lete vs of our purpose that our bokes are nowe in Englande condempned and brente by the Byshoppes and prestes with their frantick affinite the great Antichristes vpholders whyche seke by all practises possyble to turne ouer the kynges most noble and godlye interpryse But it wyll from hens forth occasyon vs to set fourth in the Latine also that afore we wrote onlie in the English and so make theyr spirytuall wyckednesse and treason knowne moche farther of What auayled it Ioakim to burne Hieremies proyhecye by the vngracyouse counsell of his prelates Hiere xxxvi Either yet Antiochus to set fyre on the other scriptures i. Macha i. After the Apostles were brought afore the counsell and strayghtlye cōmaunded to cease from preachynge they preached moch more thā afore Acto iiii In most terrible persecucions of the primatiue churche were the examynacions answers tormentes and deathes of the constaunt martyrs written and sente abroade all the whole worlde ouer as testyfyeth Eusebius Cesariensis in his ecclesyastyck hystorye Their coppyes haboūde yet euery where Great slaughter burnynge hath bene here in Englande for Iohan wycleues bokes euer sens the yeare of our lorde M. CCC LXXXII Yet haue not one of them throughlye perysheth I haue at thys houre the tytles of a C. and XLIIII of them which are many more in nombre For some of thē vndre one title comprehendeth ii bokes some iii. some iiii Yea one of them contayneth xii I thinke not the contrary but ere the worlde be at a full ende God wyll so gloryfye that twentye tymes condempned heretyke execrated cursed spitted and spatled at that al your popish writers before hys tyme and after wyll be reckned but vyle swyne heardes to hym for the good fauer he bare to Chrystes holye Gospell A very madnesse is it to stryue agaynst God whā he wyll haue the longe hydden inyquytees knowne As the godlye wyse man Gamaliel sayd Acto v. If this enterpryse that is now taken agaynst yow be of God ye shal neuer be able with all your tirannouse practyses to dyssolue it Now concernynge that blessed woman Anne Askewe which latelye suffered the tyrannye of this world for right wisnesse sake In Lyncolneshyre was she borne of a verye auncyent and noble stocke Sir William Askewe a worthy knyght beynge her father But no worthynesse in the fleshe neyther yet anye worldlye noblenesse auaileth to god warde afore whome is no acceptacyon of persone Actorum x. Onlye is it faythe with his true loue and feare which maketh vs the accepte noble and worthye chyldren vnto God Ioan. i. Whereof by hys gyfte she had wonderfull habundaunce Soch a wone was she as was Lydia the purple sellar whose harte the lorde opened by the godlye preachynge of Paule at Thiatira Acto xvi For dylygent hede gaue she to his worde whan it was ones taught wythoute supersticion would no lōgar be a false worshipper or ydolatour after the wicked scole of Antichrist But became frō thens forth a true worshipper worshipping her lorde God whych is a sprete not breade in sprete in veryte accordinge to the worde of his Ioan. iiii The Gospell of Christ bare she in her harte as ded the holye mayde Cecilia neuer after ceased frō the study therof nor frō godlye cōmunycacion prayer tyll she was clerlie by most cruel tormentes taken from thys wretched worlde By her do I here dere fryndes in the Lord as ded the faithfull Bretherne in Fraunce at the cities of Lions and Vicuna by a lyke faythfull yonge woman called Blandina Whyche was there put to deathe with iii. myghtye companyons more amonge other as thys was for her Christē beleue about the yeare of our lorde C. and. lxx in the primatiue sprynge of their Christyanyte They wrote vnto their Bretherne in the landes of Asia Phrygia verye farre of her mightie stronge sufferinges for Christes faith which the knewe nothing of afore I write here vnto yow in Englād the double processe of this noble woman wherof ye are not ignoraunt for so moch as it was there so manyfestly done amonge yow Coupled I haue these ii examples togither bycause I fynde them in so manye pointes agree Blandina was yonge and tender So was Anne Askewe also But that which was fraile of nature in thē both Christ made most stronge by hys grace Blandina had iii. ernest companions in Christ. Maturus Sanctes and Attalus so feruently faythfull as her selfe So had Anne Askewe iii. fyre fellowes a gentylman called Iohan Lassels her instructour a preste and a tayler called Iohan Adlam men in Chrystes veryte vnto the ende most cōstaunt With Blādina were in preson to the nombre of x. whych denyed the truthe and were clerelie forsakē of God for it How manye fell frō Christ besydes Crome Shaxton whan Anne Askewe stode faste by hym I am vncerteyne But I counsell them as saynte Iohan counselled the Laodycyanes in the myserable estate they are now in to hye them through tryed golde of Christ least they perysh all togither Apoca. iii. If they had not styll remayned in that chauncell whome Christe commaunded Iohan in no wyse to measure Apoc. ii They had neuer so shamefullye blasphemed lyke as Bedas also toucheth in hys former prophecye Prompt was Blandina and of most lustye corage in renderynge her lyfe for the lyberte of her faythe No lesse lyuelye and quyck was Anne Askewe in all her enprisoninges and tormētes Great was the loue Blandina had to Christ. No lesse was the loue of Anne Askewe Blandina neuer faynted in torment No more ded Anne Askewe in sprete whan she was so terrybly racked of the chaūceller and Ryche that the strynges of her armes and eyes were peryshed Blādina deryded the cruelte of the tyrauntes So ded Anne Askewe