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A05571	A copye of a verye fyne and vvytty letter sent from the ryght reuerende Levves Lippomanus by shop of Verona in Italy, and late legate in Polone, from the moste holy and blessed father Pope Paule the Fourth, and from his moste holy sea of Rome translated out of the Italyan language by Michael Throckmerton.	Lippomano, Luigi, 1500-1559.; Throckmorton, Michael, d. 1558.	1556 (1556)	STC 15693.5; ESTC S107973	7,348	17

make it suche a Councel as he counsailed laboured to be don at Trēt that is not to here the other parte Your honour with your noble brethern M. Francisce the light of the common welth of Venece and M. Paule made so much of and gaue so muche honor vnto our holy fathers holynes when he was a barefooted Frier at Venece that his holynes beyng most myndfull and thankfull I knowe is desirous also to requite and doo you pleasure agayne Wherfore I hartily beseche your honour let it stande with your pleasure to bestowe one droppe of the fauor that ye are in and cause me to bee rydde out of these troubles and daungers And it may please his holynes to vnderstand that it is to no purpose for me to haue the doyng of thynges here any longer for the greate hatred that I haue already purchased me Let his holynes consyder whether it be better to send one to supply my place or to leue this realme without any Legate which in myne opinion were best bicause he can not be here any longer with honor estimation Moreouer I think that when that shal be done and is done yet these men wil haue it after their owne fantasy and there wyll be a great scisme so that the nobilitie will folow one way and one doctrine and the byshops an other And yet I can tell you not all the byshops for one part of them begyn to halte and a lyttel thyng will make them agree with the Counte Palatine of whom I write and the others But lette his holynes doo as it pleaseth hym in sendynge or not sendyng an other Legate to supply my place so he dispatche me hence that quickly Who can see who can suffer that at the Shroftide disguysynges maskes mummeries of monkes fryers and Cardinals shulde be openly made to the open shame reproche of all the hole order of the Churche as there hath ben here in my time And who can disgest these troubles these villanies and not thynke vppon the daunger of his lyfe Muche good doo it hym surely I aknowlage my selfe to be a manne that can not doo it And I haue no hope that I shal be hable hereafter to do any good here To be playn I haue done as muche as was possible for me to doo to lette the diet and parliamēt that shal be kept at Bartilmew tide But yet notwithstandynge it will procede Neither shal it auaile to wast my braines destroy my body suffring my self to be tost from place to place in Couche in company of the said most reuerende Archbishop thorough all the greater and the lesse Polone and so to haue brought to passe that the noble kyng hath geuen cōmandemēt contrary to the determinacion conclusion of the last parliamēt as I aduertised our holy fathers holynes to the great grudging of the aduersaries Besides I fear lest these felowes shal cause men to come out of Germany specially out of Schwitzerland half a dosin of the greatest clerkes most famous diuines that be ther bicause it is bruted abrode that the Pope mynded to sende of his diuines to this parliament to defend our cause And all be it I haue bothe sayd and earnestly affirmed in euery place that they shulde not thinke that his holynes will euer sende or consent to any such parliament which shal be none other but a nationall councell Yet neuertheles as farre as I can vnderstand they mynd to cause of our enemies diuines of other contreys to come hither Your honour may consider what confections these men wil make and what cōsultations and conclusions they wyll determyne agaynsts vs. God helpe vs for I se the matters be in a very euyll case I recommende me vnto your honor Frō Louitz the .20 of Iuly 56. Your honours seruant Ludouicus Lippomanus byshop of Verona the vnvvorthye Legate Postscripte I Am aboute to make a Conuocation of all the byshoppes and prelates of this Realm and wyll begyn it now in Petricouia Two thinges I hope I shall obteyn there the one to gather a great summe of money and I trust the popes holynes wyll be a contributour vnto it for so hath he put me in hope wherby we may be better able to defend our matters aboue all thynges contentyng theim and stoppynge their mouthes which be importunately busy and make muche troub●●us adoo And we haue ofte proued that this practise is a very good way The seconde that there be some correction of lyfe of the cleargy who to be playne are a very euyl example But the mischief is that the reformation of maners is at this present to lyttell purpose to preserue our high estate and authorite For those cursed Heretikes pretende and crye that the doctrine must be corrected As for example they be not contente that the priestes shulde be honest wyse and discrete but they wyll haue the masse al togither hurled awaye Nother are they contented that the Pope shuld be a modest man and of a vertuous lyfe and that he shuld not receyue money for spiritual thyngs but they wyl that there shoulde be no Pope nother good nor hadde This is the pricke this is the marke they shoote at I say we are in an euyl case The xxij of Iulye The same L. Lippomanus Legate I Haue this daye receaued lettres frō Venece whiche haue encreaced sorowe vpon sorowe For one my very frends wryteth vnto me that the brute of the seruice which I haue don here and of the contencions that I haue founde in these partes chiefly with the sayd Counte Palatine comming to the eares of myne honorable lordes of Venece their honours be very sory complaine and lament of me sayeng that they be afraid least I beyng a Venecian and of the bloud I am of the Alemaines and poleakes will beleue that the lordes of Venece them selues consent to al my doinges wherby thei may hereafter bee partakers of the same hatred that they goe about to stere against the Pope and perhappes at one tyme or at an other of the self same daungers And to saye the truth these men spread abroade very much how because I am a venecian all thynges please the venecians that I do and that I would not doo it if I knewe it shoulde displease their honours To conclude for all respectes for the aduancement of the cause and maters of our holy fathers holynes for not encombring of my lordes of Venece with these mē and for the suretie of my life it shal be wel done to call we away hence I wold gladly haue ben called away by som other meanes and with some other honour but pacience thinges be at such a poynte that I must thinke vpon my lyfe and not vpon honour I shall lacke none hereafter if I can escape hence with life Yet eftsones I commende me vnto your honour The xxii of Iulye The same Levvis Lippomaous Legate