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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

multitude to dyffame hym fayned false matter agaynste hym compelled the lawe and terrifyed the iudge to haue their full myschefe accomplished as our Bishoppes haue done in thys cruell acte and soche other Whan the prestes wolde haue blemished hys name by the ignomyniouse deathe whiche he suffred amonge theues on the crosse Pilate proclamed it gloriouse vnto all the worlde writinge his title in Hebrue Greke and Latine Iesus of Nazareth kinge of the Iewes and wolde not at their instaūt callinge on chāge it Ioā xvi Wrisleie Riche with their vngracyouse affynyte haue in euerye poynt folowed here the execrable affectes of the prestes Fauorablye Pilate licensed Ioseph of Arymathye to take downe Christes bodie and to burie it Math. xxvii Wrisleye cōmaunded thys martyr of God with her faythfull companyons to be brent to ashes Pylate was ignoraunt of Gods lawes and a pagane Wrisleye and Ryche know both the lawe and the Gospell and are christyanes the more is it to their dampnacyon to execute soch turkish tyrannye Now to conclude with Anne Askewe as the argument of thys boke requireth In the yeare of our lord a M.D.XLVI And in the moneth of Iulye at the prodygyouse procuremente of Antichristes furyouse remnaunt Gardyner Bonner and soch lyke she sufferd most cruell deathe ī Smythfelde with her iii. faithfull companyons Iohā Lassels a gentylmā whych had bene her instructour Iohan Adlam a tayler and a prest so constaunt in the veryte agaynst the sayd Antichristes supersticyons as they whose name at this tyme I had not Credybyle am I infourmed by dyuerse duche marchauntes whych were there present that in the time of their sufferinges the skie abhorringe so wycked an acte sodenly altered coloure and the cloudes frō aboue gaue a thōder clappe not al vnlyke to that is writtē Psa. lxxvi The elemētes both declared therin the hygh dyspleasure of God for so tyrānouse a murther of innocentes and also expreslye sygnyfyed his mightye hande present to the comfort of them whych trusted in hym besydes the most wonderfull mutacyon which wyll within short space therupon folowe And lyke as the Centuryon with those that were with hym for the tokens shewed at Christes deathe confessed hym to be the sonne of God Math. xxvii So dyd a greate nombre at the burnynge of these martyrs vpon the syght of thys open experymēt afferme them to be his faythfull members Full manye Christen hart haue rysen and wyll ryse from the pope to Chryste through the occasyon of their consumynge in the fyre As the saynge is of their ashes wyll more of the same opynyon aryse Manye a wone sayth yet both in Englande and Duchelande also O that woman that woman O those men those men If the popes generacyon and wycked remnaunt make manye more soch martyrs they are lyke to marre all their whole market in Englande It were best for thē now a dayes to lete men be at lyberte for their holye fathers gaudish ceremonies as they are for beare baytynges cocke fyghtynges tennys playe tables tombelinge daunsynge or hūtynge who list who maye for as little haue those tradiciōs of his of the worde of God in their prowdest out shewe as they haue Here wyll some tender stomakes be greued and report that in our headye hastinesse we refuse to suffre with our weake bretherne accordynge to the doctryne of Paule But I saye vnto them what so euer they be whyche are so scrupulouse wanderers that they most execrablye erre in so bestowynge the scryptures For abhomynable is that tolleraunce of our brethernes weakenesse where God is by ydolatrouse superstycyons dysobeyed dyshonoured and blasphemed A playne practyse were thys of Sathan in hypocresye to vpholde all deuylyshnesse On the other side was there an other sort at the deathe of these blessyd martyrs and they iudged of this alteracion of the ayre and thonder clappe as dyd the Iewysh Byshoppes with their peruerted multitude Whyche waggynge their heades rayled reuyled iangled iested scorned cursed mocked and mowed at Christes precyouse sufferynges on the crosse Mat xxvii and Luce xxiii These were the ydle wytted prestes at London and their beastlye ygnoraunt broodes with olde superstycyouse bawdes and brethels the popes blynde cattell These cryed there like madde me dye bedlemes as they hearde the thonder They are dampned they are dampned their wyse preachers outasynge the same at Paules crosse In dede full no billie are they ouerseane in the Bible that iudge the thonders to signifie dāpnacion Thonder saith the scripture is the voice of god Eccle. xliii Thonder is the helpinge power of the lorde Iob. xxvii and no dampnacion Christe called Iohan and Iames the sonnes of thonder Marci iii. Whiche betokened that they shuld be ernest preachers and no chyldren of dampnacion The lorde by thonder sheweth hys inscrutable workinge Iob. xxxviii Moses receiued the lawe Helias the sprete of prophecie the Apostles the holye Ghost all in thonder What wicked sole will saye they receiued so dampnacion As the lambe had opened the first seale of the boke the voice that went forth was as it had bene thonder Apoca. vi whiche is no dampnacion but a sharpe callinge of people to Godwarde The thonderynges that apered whan the Angell filled his censer Apoc viii were no dampnacions but Gods crueste wordes rebukinge the worlde for sinne The best interpretours do cal those thōderinges which came from the trone of God Apocal. iiii soch verites of the scripture as terrifieth synners and no dampnacions Neyther were the vii thonderynges whyche gaue their voices Apoc. x. anye other than mysteryes at their times to be opened Eucherius Lugdunensis other moralisers call thonders in the scripture the voyces of the Gospell and their lighteninges the clere openinges of the same If thōder be a thretteninge or a fearfull iudgement of God as in Psal. ciii it is to them that abyde here and not to them that depart frō hens A token is it also that the horrible tirauntes shall be as the meledust that the winde taketh awaye sodenlie Esaie xxix If Plage do folow of thōder as it dyd in Egypt whan Moses stretched forth his rodde Exodi ix It shal light vpon them which hath shewed the tirānouse vyolence on the people of God as it dyd vpon pharao and his cruell minysters At the mightye voyce which was both sensyble hearde and understandyd of the Apostles from heauen that the father was wolde be glorified by Christ the people said nothinge but It thondereth Ioan. xii For nothinge els they vnderstode therof What Anne Askewe and her companyons both hearde and se in thys thonder to their sowles cōsolacyon in their paynefull sufferinges no mortall vnderstandinge can discerne Onlye was it Steuen and paraduenture a fewe dysciples that se the heauens open whan he suffered and not the cruell multitude which ranne vpon him with

therof I sayde also that soche vnaduysed and hastye iudgemente is a token apparent of a verye slendre wytte Then I opened the boke and shewed it him He sayde he thoughte it had bene an other for he coulde fynde no faulte therin Then I desyred hym no more to be so swyfte in iudgemēt tyl he throughly knewe the truth And so he departed Iohan Bale Here sendeth he fourth an other Iudas of hys to betraye this true seruaūt of god Marke the good workemanshypp hardely and tel me yf they be not the of sprynge of the serpent Moche are they offēded with bokes for that they so playnlye do many feste theyr myschefes Iohan Frith is a great moate in their eyes for so turnynge ouer theyr purgatorye and heauynge at theyr most monstruose Masse or mammetrouse Mazon whyche sygnyfyeth breade or feadynge Notwithstandynge Daniell calleth it Maozim betokenynge strēgth or defence Dani. xi because the false worshyppynges therof shuld be so myghtelye defended by worldly autoryte and power No newe thynges is it that good men theyr bokes ar destroyed now a dayes whā they touch the mischefes of that generaciō For Ioakim the kyng of Iuda cut Hieremies prophecies in peces with a penne knyfe in his madnesse threwe them into the fyre commaundyng both Hieremye whych taught them and Baruch that wrot them to be put to death Hiere xxxvi Whan kynge Antiochus had set vpon the aultre of God the abhomynable Idoll of desolacion which is now the popysh masse Mat. xxiiii the bokes of Gods law cōmaunded he to be torne in peces and brent in the fyre sendynge fourth therupon thys cruell proclamacyon That what so euer he was whych had a boke of the Lordes Testament founde aboute hym or that endeuoured them selues to lyue after the lawes of God the Kynges commaundement was they shulde be put to deathe i. Mach. i. Anne Askewe Immedyatlye after came my cosyne Bryttayne in wyth dyuerse other as Master Hawe of Graies inne and suche other lyke Then my lorde of London perswaded my cosyne Bryttayne as he had done oft before which was that I shuld vtter the bottom of my hart in any wyse Iohan Bale This is the fourth tēptacyon or craftye callyng vpō to vtter her mynd that he myght saye of her as Cayphas sayde of Christ. Mat. xxvi what nede we anye more witnesses Lo now ye haue herde a blasphemye or an heresye How say ye now to it which are her frindes Is she not gyltye of deathe Yf they shuld haue sayd nay vnto thys they shuld haue bene so in as depe daūger as she This serpentyne practise was as wel to trappe them as her let it not be vnmarked Anne Askewe My lorde sayde after that vnto me that he wolde I shuld credyte the counsell of my fryndes in his behalfe whyche was that I shoulde vtter all thynges that burdened my conscyence For he ensured me that I shulde not nede to stāde in doubte to saye anye thynge For lyke as he promysed thē he sayd he promysed me and wolde perfourme it Which was that neyther he nor anye man for him shoulde take me at aduauntage of anye worde I shuld speake And therfore he bad me saye my mynde withoute feare I answered him I had noughte to say For my cōscyence I thanked god was burdened with nothynge Iohan Bale Styll foloweth this ghostly enemye his former temptaciō and calleth vpon mortall vtteraunce or vtteraunce full of deathe that he myght crie wyth Cayphas Luc. xxii what nede we further testymonye Her owne mouthe hath accused her We are able wytnesses therof for oure owne eares haue hard it Thus laye they wayte for bloude saythe Salomon and lurke pryuelye for the innocente wythout a cause Prouerbiorū i. Consent not sayth he vnto soche tyrauntes yf they entyce the. For though their worde apere as honye Prouerbiorum xvi Yet shalt thou fynde thē in the ende so bytter as wormewode Prouerbiorum v. Though that whory she generacion pretendeth a coloure of gentelnesse yet byte the it at the latter lyke a serpent and styngeth lyke an adder throwynge forthe poyson Prouer. xxiii Anne Askewe Then brought he fourthe thys vnsauerye symylytude That yf a man hadde a wounde no wyse surgeon woulde mynystre helpe vnto it before he hadde seane it vncouered In lyke case saythe he can I geue yow no good counsell vnlesse I knowe where wyth youre conscyence is burdened I answered that my conscyence was clere in al thynges And for to lai a pliaster vnto the whole skinne it might apere moch folye Iohan Bale Hath not he thynke yow moch nede of helpe which seketh to soch a surgeon Vncircumspect is that pacyente and mooste commonlye vnfortunate which goeth to the commē murtherer to be healed of his disease Christe had vs euermore to be ware of all suche vnlesse we wolde be woryed Matth. vii The nature of these Lorde sayth Dauid is not to make whole but to persecute them whom thou hast smytten to adde woūdes vnto wounde Psalm lxviii Their owne boches are insanable Esa. i. for the multitude of their myschefes Hie. xxx The prest and the Leuyte which trauayled betwine Hierusalem and Hierico healed not the wounded man yet were they no wounders Lu. x. Who can thynke that he wyll vnburden the cōscyence wych studyeth nothynge els but to oute loade it with most greuouse and daūgerouse burdens Math. xxiii Anne Askewe Then ye dryue me saythe he to laye to your charge youre owne report whyche is thys Ye dyd saye he that dothe receyue the sacrament by the handes of an yll prest or a synner he receyueth the deuyll and not God To that I answered that I neuer spake soch wordes But as I sayde a fore both to the qwest and to my lorde Mayte so saye I nowe agayne that the wyckednesse of the preste shuld not hurte me but in sprete and fayth I receyued no lesse the bodye and bloud of Christ. Then sayd the byshoppe vnto me what a saynge is this In sprete I wil not take you at that aduauntage then I answered my lorde with out fayth and sprete I can not receyue him worthelye Iohan Bale Now sheweth thys Cayphas where about he goeth for all his false flatterynge colours afore And seynge he can winne none aduaūtage to his cruel purpose of her owne cōmunycacion he shaketh the bougettes of his prouyded Iudases and betrayers of innocent bloud He bryngeth fourth suche stuffe and store as that wycked qwest had gathered of her answer to them to flatter and to please his tyranny therwith It is to be feared that as farre was the feare of God here from thē as from him Psa. xiii for as wel practised they thys myschefe agaynst her as he Marke here the natural workynge of a very ful Antychrist He defēdeth sinne in his owne generaciō and condēneth vertue in Christes dere mēbre Malice pryde