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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04488	A proper dyaloge, betwene a gentillman and a husbandma[n] eche complaynynge to other their miserable calamite, through the ambicion of the clergye. An A.B.C. to the spiritualte.	Barlow, William, fl. 1527.; Ullerston, Richard, d. 1423. Compendious olde treatyse, shewynge howe that we oughte to have ye scripture in Englysshe.; Purvey, John, 1353?-1428?, attributed name.; Barlow, Jerome, fl. 1527.; Tyndale, William, d. 1536.; Roy, William, fl. 1527-1531.	1530 (1530)	STC 1462.5; ESTC S109533	31,374	66

Almaynye that y e same tyme was a flēmyng wh●…se name was Iames Merland which tra●…flated all the bible into flemysh For whiche dede he was semonned before the Pope of great malyce And the boke was taken to examinacion And truely he approued it And then it was delyuerd to him agayn vnto confusion of all his enemyes Worshupfull Bede in his first boofe called de ges●…s Anglo●…m chapter iij. telleth that saynt Oswolde the Kyng of Northumber lande asked of the skottes an holy bisshoppe Ai dan to preache to his people and the kyng him selfe interpreted it in englishe to the people Sythen this blessed deade of this Kynge is alowed of all holy churche whye not nowe ought it as well to be alowed a man to reade y e gospell in Englishe to the people sythen that seynt Paule saith yf oure gospell be hidde it is hidde in thē that shall be dampned And he saith also he that knoweth not shall not be knowen of god And therfore venerabilis Bede ledde by the spi rite of god translated a greate parte of the bible into Englishe whose originalles ben in many Abbeyes in England And Cisterciensis libro v. chaptre xxiiij saythe that the Euangely off Ihon was drawen into Englishe by the forsayde Bede whiche Euangelye off Ihon and other Gospels ben yet in many places of so olde englishe that skant can anye englishe man reade them For this Bede reygned in the yere off oure lorde god vij hundred and. xxxij Also Cistercien libro vi chaptre i. saythe that kyng Al red ordyned open scoles of diuerse artes in Orforde and he turned the bestlawes into hie me ther tounge and the Psalter also he reygned in the yere of oure lorde god viij hundred lxxi●… And saynt thomas sayth super librū politic●… expounding this worde barbarus that barba rus is he that vnderstondyth not y ● he readeth in his mother tonge Wherforethe apostle saith If I knowe not the vertue of the voice to whome I speake I shalbe to him barbarus that is to saye he vnderstandeth not what I saye nor I what he saith And so all tho prestes that vn derstonde not what they readyn by ther mother tonge be called barbarus and therfore Bede did drawe into englishe liberall artes leste englishe men shuld be come barbarus hee Thomas Also Lincoln sayeth in a sermon that begynnith Scriptum est de leuitis Yf any prieste saye he can not preache one remedye is resigne he vppe his benefyce Another remedy yf he will not thus recorde he in the meke the naked texte of the sondaye gospell that he haue the grosse storye and tell it to the people that is yf he vnderstonde latyn and do he this euery weke in the yere he shall profyt moch For thus pre ched oure lorde sayenge Ihon̄ vi The wordes that I speake to you be spirit and lyfe Yf he do not vnderstonde latyn go he to one of his neigh boures y t vnderstondeth which will charitably expoune it to him thus ●…difye he his flocke Vpō this argueth a great clerke faithe yf it be laufull to preache y ● naked texte to y e people it is also lefull to write read it to thē Also sir Williā Thoris by archebishop of Yorke did do draw a treatyse in englishe by a worshipfull clercke whose name was Gatryke in the whiche were conteyned the articles of belene the seuen dedly synnes the seuen workes of mercy the. x. commaundmētes And sent them in small pagines to the cōmyn people to learne it and to knowe it of which yet many a copye be in england Also Richard the heremyte of Hampole drewe into englishe the Psalter with a glose ād the lessons of dirige and many other treatices by the whi che many engleshemen haue ben greatly edifyed And they bē cursed of god y t woldēlet y e people to be lewder thē they ber But many mē nowe be lyke vnto y e frēdes of Hiob y t whiles they enforced to defende god they offended in hi gre uously And though suche as be slayne do myracles neuertheles they bē stynkynge marters This saieth Richerd y ● heremyt expouning this verse Ne auferas de ore meo verbū veritatis vsquequaque And Christ saieth y e mē shuld deame thē self to do great plesaunt seruice to god in kil ling of his people Arbitretur se obsequiū pres●…a redeo c. Also a mā of londō whose name was Wyrynge had a bible in english of northē spea che whiche was seyne of many mē it ●…yd to be CC. yeres old Also it is knowē to many mē in y e tyme of king Richerd y e. ij y t into a parlemēt was put a bible by thassent of ii archbisshops and of the clergy to adnusse the bible that tyme translated into Englishe with other Englishe bookes of thex posicion off the gospells whiche whē it was harde and seyn of lordes and of the comones The duke of Lancaster Thou answered thereto ryght sharpely sayenge this sentence we will not be refuse of all other nacions For sythen they haue goddes lawe whiche is the lawe of oure belefe in there owne langage we will haue oures in Englishe whosoeuer say naye And this he affermyd with a greate othe Also Thomas Arundell Archebisshoppe off Canterbury sayde in a sermon at wes●…mester at the buryenge of Quiene Anne that it was more ioye of here than of any woman that euer he knewe For she an alien borne hadde in enhlishe all the. iiij gospels with the doctours vpō them And he said that she had sent them to him to examen and he saide that they were good trewe And he blamyd in that sermon sharpely the negligence of the prelates and other men In so moche that he saide that he wold leaue vp the office of Chaunceler and forsake worldly bu synes and gyue him to fulfyll his pastorall of fyce for that he had seyn and redde in tho bokes And after this promyse he became y e moste cruell enemye that mighte be againste englishe bokes And therfore as many men sayne God smo●…e him with a cruell dethe as he didde also Richard flemyng bisshoppe of Lincolne And yet oure bisshops ben so indurate so ferre strayed frō god that they haue no grace one to beware of another but proudely against all reasons euidence of gods lawes doctours sentences they brenne gods worde the whiche hathe brought thy 〈◊〉 realme to vndoynge for euer but if godes grace be the more for thys cruell deade is cause of pestilēce hungers warres ād that also this realme shalbe conqueryd in short tyme as saynct Edward y e kyng cōfessor prophesyethe in his booke y ● beginnith thus Sāctus Edwardus rex vidit spiritualibus oculis And therfore it were good to the Kyng and to other lordes to make some remedy agaynst this cōstitucion of Antechrist that saythe it is vnlawfull to vs