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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

me as they had before and I answered hym dyrectlye in all thynges as I answered the qweste afore Iohan Bale After thys sort was Christ ledde from the examinacyon of the clergye to Pylate Matth. 17. In that the examynacyon of the qweste and of the Mayre was all one ye maye wele knowe that they had both one scole mastre euen the brutysh byshopp of London The ignoraūt magy strates of Englāde wyll neyther be god lye wyse with Dauid Salomō nor yet enbrace the ernest instruccyons of God to be lerned in the scriptures Psa. 2. Sa piē 6. but styll be wycked mynysters and cruell seruaunt slaues to Antichrist and the deuyll Apoc. 17. More fyt are soche wytlesse mayres and gracelesse offycers as knoweth not whyght from blacke lyght frō darkenesse Esa. 5. to fede swyne or to kepe kaddowes than to rule a christen commynalte A terryble daye aby deth them whych thus ordereth the innocent Iaco. 2. Anne Askewe Besydes thys my lorde mayre layed one thynge vnto my charge which was neuer spokē of me but of them ▪ And that was whether a mouse eatynge the hoste receyued God or no Thys questyonded I neuer aske but in dede they asked it of me wherunto I made them no answere but smyled Iohan Bale Is not here thynke yow wele fauerd wele fashyoned dyuynyte to establysh an artycle of the Christen faythe Wylye wynchestre answereth thys questyon as folysh as it is in hys wyse detectyō of the deuyls sophystrye fo 16. Beleue sayth he that a mouse can not deuoure God Yet reporteth he after in fo 21. that Chri stes bodye maye as wele dwell in a mouse as it ded in Iudas Than foloweth fryre fynke fryre Peryn I shuld saye a bachelar of the same scole And he answereth in the ende of hys thirde sermon that the Sacrament eaten of a mouse is the verye and reall bodye of Christ. And whan he hath affermed it to be no derogacyon to Christes presens to lye in the mawe of that mouse He deuydeth me the one from the other the sacramēt frō Christes bodye cōcludinge That though the sacrament be digested in the mouses mawe yet ys not Christes bodye there cōsumed O blasphemouse beastes blynde bloderynge Balaamytes Bycause these ij workemen be scant wyttye in their owne occupacyon I shal brynge them forth h●re ij olde artyfycers of theirs to helpe thē Guimundus Auer sanus a byshopp to helpe byshopp Steuen Thomas walden a fryre to helpe fryre Peryn The sacramentes saye they both are not eaten of myce though they seme so to be in the exteryour symylytudes Forthe vertues sayth Guimundus of holye men are not eaten of beastes whan they are eaten of them li. 2. de c●●pore sanguine d●●i No marrye quoth walden nomore is the paynters occupacyon destroyed whan a picture is destroyed Marke thys gere for your lernynge But now cometh Algerus a monke more craftye than they both and he sayth li. 2 cap. 1. de Eucharistia that as wele is thys meate spirytuall as materyall because Dauid calleth it the breade of Angels and a breade from heauen Psa. 77. That whych is materyall in thys breade sayth he is consumed by dygestyon but that whych is spirytuall remayneth vncorrupted If we wolde attende wele vnto Chri stes dyuynyte and lete these oyled dyuynes dyspute amonge olde Gossypes we shuld sone dyscharge myce and rattes weake stomakes and parbreakynge dronkardes of a farre other sort thā thus he that eateth my fleshe sayth Christ Io. 6. and dryncketh my bloude dwelleth in me I in hym Thys eatynge is all one with the dwellynge is neyther for myce nor rattes brent chauncels not dronken prestes For as we eate we dwell and as we dwell we eate by a graunded and pe●fyght faythe in hym The substaunce of that most godlye refeccyon lyeth not in the mouth catynge nor yet in the bellye seadynge though they be necessarye but in the onlye spirytuall or sowle eatynge No wyse man wyll thynke that Christ wyll dwell in a mouse nor yet that a mouse can dwell in Christ though it be the doctryne of these doughtye dowsepers for they shall fynde no scriptures for it If these men were not enemyes to faythe and fryndes to Idolatrye they wolde neuer teache soche fylthye lernynge More of thys shall I wryte God wyllynge in the answere of their bokes Anne Askewe Then the Byshoppes chaunceller rebuked me sayd that I was moche to blame for vtterynge the scriptures For S. Paule he sayd forbode women to speake or to talke of the worde of God I answered hym that I knewe Paules meanynge so well as he whych is j. Corinthiorum xiiij that a woman ought not to speake in the congregacyon by the waye of teachynge And then I asked hym how manye women he had seane ●go into the pulpett and preache He sayde he neuer sawe non Then I sayd he ought to fynde no faute in poore women except they had offended the lawe Iohan Bale Plēteouse ynough is her answere here vnto thys quarellynge and as apereth vnlerned chancellour Manye godlye wo men both in the olde lawe and the newe were lerned in the scriptures and made vtteraūce of thē to the glorye of God As we reade of Helisabeth Marye and An na the wydowe Lu. 1. 2. yet were they not rebuked for it yea Marye Christes mother retayned all that was afterwar de written of hym Luc. 2. yet was it not imputed vnto her an offence Christ bla med not the woman that cryed whyls he was in preachynge happye is the wombe that bare the Luce 11. The women whych gaue knowlege to hys dyscy ples that he was rysen from deathe to ly fe dyscomfyted not he but solaced them with hys most gloryouse aperaūce Mat. 28. Io. 20. In the prymatyue churche specyallye in Saynt Hieromes tyme was it a great prayse vnto women to be lerned in the scriptures Great commendacyōs ●eueth our Englysh Cronycles to Hele●a Vrsula and Hilda women of our na ●yon for beynge lerned also in the scrip●ures Soche a woman was the seyd Hil ●a as openlye dysputed in them agaynst ●he superstycyons of certen byshoppes But thys chancellour by like chaunced ●pon that blynde popysh worke whych ●alter Hunte a whyte fryre wrote iiij ●core yeares a go Contra doctrices mu●ieres agaynst scole women or els some ●ther lyke blynde Romysh beggeryes Anne Askewe Then my Lorde mayre commaunded me to warde I asked hym if suretees wolde not serue me And he made me short an swere that he wolde take non Then was I had to the Coūtre and there remayned xij dayes no frynde admytted to speake with me Iohan Bale Here is Christ yet troden on the hele by that wycked serpent whych tempted Eua. Gene. 3. Hys faythfull membre for beleuynge in hym is here throwne in pre son And no maruele for it

vessell of the holye Ghost not onlye to replye than agaynst them at Oxforde in the open scooles but also to write a great nombre of bokes agaynst that pestylent popysh kyngedome of theirs lyfe as Martyne Luther hath done also in our tyme with manye other godlye men And lyfe as those false prophetes the fryres ded than attribu te vnto the popes pardons the remyssyon of synnes the deliueraunce from dāp nacyon and the fre enteraunce of heauē whych peculyarlye belongeth to the precyouse payment of Christes bloude i. Petri 1. 1. Ioā 1. So do these false anoyn ted or blasphemouse Eyssoppes and prestes now attrybute them agayne ●n to theyr pryuate and publique Masses the popes owne wares as prowlynge and pelferynge as the pardons with no lesse blasphemye The deuylyshnesse of thys newe doctryne of theyrs shall be re felled in my bokes agaynst fryre Peryn and Wynchestre and therfor I write the lesse here Anne Askewe Then I tolde my lorde that there was a prest whychded hea re what I sayd there before my lorde mayre and them with that the chaunceller answered whych was the same prest So she spake it in verye dede sayth he before my lorde the mayre and me Then were there serten prestes as doctor Standysh and other whych tempted me moche to knowe my mynde And I answered them alwayes thus That I haue sayd to my lorde of London I haue sayd Iohan Bale By thys ye maye se that the Byshoppes haue euery wher ther wachmē least the kynges offycers shuld do anye thynge contrarye to their bloudye behoue Thys Chauncellour wolde not haue thus answered hardelye so agreablye to her tale had it not bene to their aduauntage agaynst her as here after wyll apere Marke here the fashyon of these temptynge serpentes Standysh and hyssellawes And tel me if they be not lyke vnto these rypers whelpes whych came to Iohans Baptym Matthei 3. and to Christ Iesus preachynge Luce 11. I thynke ye shall fynde them the same gegeneracyon Anne Askewe And then doctor Standish desyered my lorde to byd me saye my mynde concernynge that same text of S. Paule I answered that it was agaynst saynt Paules lernynge that I beynge a woman shuld interprete the scriptures specyallye where so manye wyse lerned men were Iohan Bale It is not yet halfe a score of yeares a go sens thys blasphemouse Idyote Standish compared in a lewde sermon of hys the dere pryce of our redemp cyon or precyouse bloude of Christ to the bloude of a fylthye swyne lyke hymselfe a swyne And for hys good doynge he is now becomen a dawe a doctor I shuld saye of the popes dyuynyte and a scolas● cal interpretour of the scriptures to hys behoue Here wolde the swynysh gē tylman haue proued both that S. Steuen dyed an heretyke and S. Paule 〈◊〉 scysmatyke for teachynge that God dwelleth not in tēples made with hādes Act. 7. 17. if he myght haue reasoned out the matter with thys woman But she toke a swyne for a swyne and wolde laye no pearles afore hym as Christ had charged her afore Matthei 7. for all their interrogacyons are now about the temple and the temple wares Matthei 26. Anne Askewe Then my lorde of Londō sayd he was infourmed that one shul de aske of me if I wolde receyue the Sacrament at Easter and I made a mocke of it Then I desyered that myne accuser myght come fourth whych my lorde wolde not But he sayd agayne vnto me I sent one to ge ye yow good counsell and at the first worde ye called hympa pyst That I denyed not for I perceyued he was no lesse yet made I non answere vnto it Iohan Bale No confortable scriptures nor yet anye thynge to the sowles consolacyon maye come out of the mouthes of these spyrytuall fathers But dogges rhetoryck and curres curtesye narrynges brawlynges and quarellynges Whan she was in the myddes of thē she myght wele haue sayd wyth Dauid Delyuer me lorde from the quarelouse dealynges of men that I maye kepe thy cōmaundemētes I deale with the thynge that is lawfull and ryght O geue me not ouer to these oppressers lete not these proude quarellers do me wronge Psalm 118 But amonge all these quarellynges her accusers myght not be seane whych were the grounders of them Anne Askewe Thē he rebuted me and sayd that I shuld report that there were bent agaynst me thre score prestes at Lyncolne In de de quoth I I sayd so for my fryndes tolde me if I ded come to Lyncolne the prestes wolde assault me and put me to great trouble as therof they had made their boast And whā I hearde it I went thydre in dede not beynge afrayed be cause I knewe my matter to be good More ouer I remayned there vi dayes to se what wolde be sayd vnto me And as I was in the mynster readynge vpon the Byble they resorted vnto me by ij and by ij by v. by vi myndynge to haue spokē to me yet went they theyr way es agayne with out wordes speakynge Iohan Bale Rebukes in that generacyō are moch more redye at hande than eyther Christen admonyshmentes or gentyll exhortacyons though they be all spyrytuall● And that cometh by reason of their lo●de shyppes whych wāteth due fournyshynge out vnlesse they haue tyrannouse bragges and braulynges Herin folowe they the examples of their naturall pre decessours the Iewysh byshoppes pharysees and prestes Ioan. 7. and 9. She myght full wele saye that the prestes were agaynst her Forhypocresye Ido latrye were neuer yet with hym whose blessed quarell she toke Marke the fort chaptre of Iohan and so fourth almost to the ende of hys Gospell Beholde also how 〈◊〉 Apostles disciples were han deled of the prestes after hys gloryouse as●yon Acto 4. and all that boke folo wynge ye shall fynde it no new thynge The seruaūt is no better than her mastre whych suffred of that malygnaunt gene racyon lyke quarellynges and handelynges Ioan. 15. Se here how they wondered vpō her by couples for readynge the Byble as their fore fathers wondered vpon Christ for preachynge and doynge miracles Anne Askewe Then my lorde asked if there were not one that ded speake vnto me I tolde hym yeas that there wa● one of them at the last whych ded speake tome in dede And my lorde thait asked me what he sayd And I tolde hym hys wordes were of so small effecte that I ded not now remembre them Iohan Bale So farre was not Lyncolne from London but the Byshopp there had knowlege of thys tragedye Hereby maye ye se their spirytuall occupyenge agaynst Christ and hys faythfull membirs God is the stody sayth S. Iohan of that congregacyon whych is a spirytualte called Sodome and Egypte They reioyce in myschefes amonge thē selues and sende massenges one to an other agaynst