the now B of Winchester be not perswaded that Reverend Martin hath sufficiently proved it to be vnlawfull for the civill Magistrate to abolish any lawfull church Officer out of the church Because it is vnlawfull for him to maime or deforme the body of Christ by displacing the members thereof But it may be your Coopers noddle profane T. C. doubteth for I know you to be as ignorant in these points as Iohn Whitgift or Deâ—…ne Iohn their selves Whether a lawfull Church officer in regard of his office be a member of the body of Christ which is the church Therefore looke Rom. 12. Uerse 4 5. c. and there you shall see that whosoever hath an office in the body is a member of the body There also you shall see that he that teacheth which is the Do or he yâ— exhorteth which is the Pastour he that ruleth which is the Elder hee that distributeth which is the Deacon as for him that sheweth mercy that is there spoken off hee is but a church servant and no church officer There I say you shall also see that these 4 Offices of Paâ—…tours Doctors Elders and Deacons are members of the body and 1 Cor. 12 8 28 you shall see that God hath ordained them Out of all which hitherto I have spoken T. C. I come vpon you your Bishoprickes with 4 or 5 yea halfe a dozen and need bee such dry soopes as Iohn of London with his two hand sword never gave the like For they answere your whole profane booke First that the platforme of government by Pastours Doctors Elders and Deacons which you say was devised you know not by whom is the invention of our Saviour Christ For God ordained them saith the Apâ—…stle 1 Cor. 12 8 28 And therefore vnlesse yoâ—… will shew yourselfe either to â—…e a blaspemer by terming Iesus Christ to be you cannot tell whom or else to be ignorant who is Iesus Christ you must needs acknowledge the platforme of government which you say was invented by you know not whom to have Christ Jesus for the author thereof Secondly that the word of God teacheth that of necessity the government by Pastours Doctors Elders c. ought to be in every Church which is neither maimed â—…or deformed Because that church must needs be maimed which wanteth those members which the Lord hath appointed to be therein vnlesse the Lord himselfe hath by taking those members away shewed that now his body is to have no vse of them But as hath beene sayd God hath ordained Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons to be in his Church proved out of Rom. 12 6 7 8. 1 Cor. 12. 8 28. Ephe. 4 12. And he hath not taken these officers away out of his church because the church hath continuall need of them As of Pastors to feed with the word of Wisedome Of the Doctors to feed with the Word of knowledge and both to build vp his body in the vnitie of faith of Elders to watch and oversee mens manners of Deacons to looke vnto the poore and church treasurie Therefore where these 4. Officers are wanting there the Church is imperfect in his Regiment Thirdly that this government cannot be inconvenient for any State or Kingdome For is it inconvenient for a State or Kingdome to have the body of Christ perfect therein Fourthly that every Christian Magistrate is bound to receive this government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons in the Church within his dominions whatsoever inconvenience may be likely to follow the receiving of it Because no likelihood of inconvenience ought to induce the Magistrate willingly to permit the church vnder his government to be maimed or deformed Fifthly that the government of the church by Lord Archbishops and Bishops is a government of deformed and vnshapen members serving for no good vse in the church of God Because it is not the government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons which as I have shewed are now the onely true members that is the onely true Officers of the visible body Sixtly and lastly That they who defend this false and bastardly government of Archbishops and Bishops and withstand this true naturall government of the church by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons are likely in a while to become Mar-prince Mar-state Mar-law Mar-Magistrate Mar-common wealth As for Mar-church and Mar-religion they have long since proved themselves to bee These sixe points doe necessarily follow of that which before I have set downe namely that it is not lawfull for any to abolish or alter the true and lawfull government of the church Because it is not lawfull for them to maime or deforme the body of the church And I chalenge you T. C. and you Deane Iohn and you Iohn Whitgift and you D. Coosins and you D. Copâ—…ot and all the rest that will or dare defend our established Church government to be tryed with me in a Judgement of life and death at any barre in England in this point Namely That you must needs be not onely traytors to God and his word but also enemies unto his Maiestie and the land in defending the established church government to be lawfull You see the accusation which I lay to your charge and here followeth the proofe of it They who defend that the Prince and state may bid God to battell against them they are not onely traitors against God and his word but also enemies to the Prince and state I thinke Iohn of Glocester himselfe will not be so sencelesâ—…e as to deny this But our Archbishops and Bishops which hold it lawfull for his Majestie and the state to retaine this established for me of government and to keepe out the government by Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons which was appointed by Christ whom you profane T. C. call you know not whom hold it lawfull for his Maiestie and the state to bid God to battell against them Because they bid the Lord to battell against them which maime and deforme the body of Christ viz. the church And they as was declared maime deforme the body of the church which keep out the lawfull offices apointed by the Lord to be members therof and in their steed place other woodden members of the invetnion of man Therefore you T. C. you Deane Iohn and you Iohn Whitgift and you the rest of the beastly defendors of the corrupt church government are not onely trayters to God and his word but enemies to her Maiesty and the state Like you any of these Nuâ—…Iâ—…hn Canterbury I am not disposed to jest in this serious maâ—…ter I am called Martin Mar-prelat There be many that greatly dislike of my doings I may have my wants I know For I am a man Bot my course I know to be ordinary and lawfull I saw the cause of Christs government and of the Bishops Antichristian to be hidden The most part of men could not be gotten to read any thing written in the defence of the one and against
be tryed and if they hold any other points in effect but these let them be hanged every man of them Now I demand whether they that hold the contrary in these points and cause the State to practize the contrary be not outragious wicked men and dangerous enemies of the state it cannot be denyed but they are Because the contrary practize of any the former points is a way to worke the ruine of the state Now our Bishops hold the contrary vnto them all save the 3. and 2. points wherevnto it may be they will yeeld and cause our estate to practize the cōtrary whence at the length our destruction is like to proceed For 1 They deny Christ Iesus to have set downe as exact and as vnchangeable a forme of Church government as Moses did For they say that the Magistrate may change the church government established by Christ so could he not doe that prescribed by Moses 2 In holding all offices of the church to be members of the body for if they be not members what should they do in the body they hold it lawfull for y◠Magistrate to attempt the making of new members for that body 3 The altering or abolishing of these members by the Magistrates they hold to be lawfull And therefore the maiming or deforming Now you wretches Archb. and L. Bishops I meane you Mar-state Mar-law Mar-Prince Mar-magistrate Mar-commonwealth Mar-church and Mar-religion Are you able for your lives to answere any part of the former Syllogisme whereby you are concluded to be the greatest enemies unto his Majesty and the State You dare not attempt it I know For you cannot deny but they who hold it and defend it lawfull yea enforce the Magistrate to maime or deforme the body of Christ are vtter enemies vnto that Magistrate and that state wherein this order is practized You cannot deny your selves to doe this vnto our Magistrate and State because you beare them in hand that a lawfull Church government may consist of those offices which the magistrate may abolish out of the Church without sinne and so that the Magistrate may lawfully cut off the members of Christ from his body and so may lawfully massacre the body You are then the men by whom our estate is most likely to be overthrowne you are those that shall answer for our blood which the Spaniard or any other enemies are like to spill without the Lords great mercy you are the persecutors of your brethren if you may bee accounted brethren you and your hirelings are not onely the wound but the very Plague and pestilence of our Church You are those who maime deforme vex persecute grieve and wound the Church Which keep the same in captivity and darkenesse defend the blind leaders of the blind ◅lander revile and deforme Christs holy government that such broken and woodden members as you are may bee still maintained to have the roomes of the true and naturall members of the body Tell me I pray whether the true and naturall members of the body may be lawfully cut off by the Magistrate If you should say they may I know no man would abide the speech What May the Magistrate cut off the true and naturall members of the body of Christ Oh impudency not to be tolerated But our magistrate that is his Maiesty and our state may lawfully by your owne confession cut you off that is displace you and your Offices out of our church Deny this if you dare Then indeed it shall appeare that Iohn of Canterbury meaneth to be a Pope indeed and to have the soveraignty over the civill Magistrate Then will you shew your selfe indeed to be Mar-prince Mar-law and Mar-state Now if the Magistrate may displace you as he may then you are not the true members Then you are as indeed you ought to be thrust out unlesse the Magistrate would incurre the wrath of GOD for maiming and deforming the body of the Church by joyning unnaturall members thereunto Answer but this reason of mine and then hang those that seeke reformation if ever againe they speake of it if you doe not I will give you little quiet I feare you not If the Magistrate will be so overseene as to beleeve that because you which are the maime of the church are spoken against therefore they namely our Prince and state which are Gods Lieutenants shall be in like sort dealt with this credulity will be the Magistrates sinne But I know their wisedome to be such as they will not For what reason is this which you profane T. C. have used page 103. The sinfull the unlawfull the broken unnaturall false and bastardly governours of the church to wit Archb. Bishops which abuse euen their false Offices are spoken against Therefore the true naturall and lawfull and just governours of the Common wealth shall bee likewise shortly misliked Ah senslesse and undutifull beasts that dare compare your selves with our true Magistrates which are the ordinances of God with your selves that is with Archbishops and Bishops which as you your selves confesse I will by and by prove this are the ordinances of the Divell J know I am disliked of many which are your enemies that is of many which you call Puritans It is their weaknesse J am threatned to be hanged by you What though I were hanged doe you thinke the cause shall be the better For the day that you hang Martin assure your selves there will 20 Martins spring in my place I meane not now you grosse Beasts of any commotion as profane T. C. like a senslesse wretch not able to understand an English phrase hath given out upon that which he calleth the threatning of fistes Assure your selves I will prove Marprelat ere I have done with you I am alone No man under Heaven is privy or hath bin privie unto my writings against you J used the advice of none therein You have and do suspect divers as Master Pagget Master Wiggington Master Vdall and Master Penri c. to make Martin If they cannot cleare their selves their sillinesse is pittifull and they are worthy to beare Martins punishment Well once againe answer my reasons both of your Antichristian places in my first Epistle unto you and these now used against you Otherwise the wisedome of the Magistrate must needes smell what you are And call you to a reckoning for deceiving them so long making them to suffer the Church of Christ under their government to be maimed and deformed Your reasons for the defence of your Hierarchie and the keeping out of Christs government used by this profane T. C are already answered They shew what profane Beasts you are I will heere repeate them But heere first the Reader is to know what answere this T. C. maketh unto the syllogismes whereby I prove all L. Bishops to bee petty Popes and petty Antichrists I assure you no other then this he flatly denyeth the conclusion wheras he might ◅f he had any learning in him or had read any
Hay any worke for Cooper OR A BRIEFE PISTLE DIRECTED BY WAY OF an Hublication to the Reverend Byshops counselling them if they will needes bee Barrelled up for feare of smelling in the nostrills of his Majesty and the state that they would use the advise of Reverend Martin for the providing of their Cooper because the Reverend T. C. by which mysticall Letters is understood either the bounsing Parson of Eastmeane or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine to be an unskilfull and a Beceitfull Tub-trimmer WHEREIN WORTHY MARTIN QVITS Himselfe like a Man I warrant you in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned Pistles and maketh the Coopers hoopes to flye off and the Bishops Tubs to leake out of all cry Penned and Compiled by MARTIN the METROPOLITAN Printed in Europe not farre from some of the Bounsing Priests A man of worship to the men of worship that is Martiâ—… Mar-prelate gentleman Primate and Metropolitane of all the Maâ—…tins wheresoever To the Iohn of all the Sir Iohns and to the rest of the terrible Priests saith have among you once againe my clergie masters For O Brethren there is such a deale of love grown of late I perceive betweene you and me thaâ—… although I would be negligent in sending my Pistles unto you yet I see you cannot forget me I thought you to be very kind when you sent your Pursivaunts about the Country to seeke for me But now that you your selves have taken the paines to write this is out of all cry Why it passes to thinke what loving and carefull Brethren I have who although I cannot be gotten to tell them where I am because I love not the ayre of the Clinke or Gatehouse in this cold time of Winter and by reason of my businesse in Pistle-making will not withstanding make it known vnto the world that they have a moneths mind towards me now truly brethren I find you kind why ye doe not know what a pleasure you have done me My worships bookes were vnknowne to many before you allowed T. C. to admonish the people of England to take heed that if they loved you they would make much of their Prelates and the chiefe of the Clergie Now many seeke after my bookes more then ever they did Againe some knew not that our brother Iohn of Fulham was so good vnto the porter of his gate as to make the poore blind honest soule to be a dum Minister Many did not know either that Amen is as much as by my faith and so that our Saviour Christ ever sware by his faith or that bowling and eating of the Sabboth are of the same nature that Bishops may as lawfully make blind guydes as David might cate of the Shew bread or that father Thomas Tub-trimmer of Winchester good old student is a master of Arâ—…s of 45. yeares standing Many I say were ignorant of these things and many other pretty toyes vntill you wrote this pretty booke besides whatsoever you overpasse in my writings and did not gainsay that I hope will be iudged to be true and so Iohn a Bridges his treason out of the 448 page of his booke you grant to be true Your selves you deny not to be petty Popes the Bishop of fir Davids in Wales you deny not to have two wives with an hundred other things which you doe not gain say so that the reader may judge that I am true of my word and vse not to lye like Bishops and thiâ—… hath greatly commended my worships good dealing But in your confutation of my book you have shewed reverend Martin to be truepeny indeed for you have confirmed rather then confuted him So that brethren the pleasure which you have done vnto me is out of all scotche and notche And should not I againe be as ready to pleasure you Nay then I should be as vngratefull towards my good brethren as Iohn of Caâ—…t is to Thomas Cartwright The which Iohn although hee hath beene greatly favoured by the said Thomas in that Thomas hath now these many yeares let him alone and said nothing vnto him for not answering his bookes yet is not ashamed to make a secret comparison betweene himselfe and Thomas Cartwright As who say Iohn of Lambehith were as learned as Thomas Cartwright What say you old deane Iohn a Bridges have not you shewed your selfe thankefull vnto his Majestie in overthrowing his supremacie in the 448 page of your book I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon And I will have my penyworths of all of your brethren ere I have done with you for thiâ—… paines which your T. C. hath taken with me This is the Puritans craft in procuring me to be confuted I know I le be even with them to a crafty whoresons brethren Bishop did you thinke because the puritans T. C. did set Iohn of Cant. at a non-plus and gave him the overthrow that thereforâ—… your T. C. alias Thomas Cooper Bishop of Winchester or Thomas Cooke his Chaplaine could set me at a nonplus simple fellowes me thinkes he should not J gesse your T C. to bâ—…Thomas Cooper but I doâ—… not peremptorily affirme it because the modest old student of 52 yeares standing setâ—…eth Winchester after Lincolne and Rochester in the contâ—…ts of his booke which blasphemy would not have beene tollerâ—…ted by them that saw and allowed the booke vnlesse Mistresse Coopers husband had beene the author of it Secondly hecuase this T. C the author of this booke is a Bishop and therefore Thomas Cooper he is a Bishop because hee reckonâ—…th himselfe charged â—…mongst others with those crimes whereof none are accused but Bishops alone pag. 101. lin. 26. Ha olde Martin yet I see â—…hou hast it in thee thou wilt enter into the bowels of the cause in hand I perceive Nay if you will commend me I will give you more reasons yet Thâ—… stile and the phraâ—…e is very like her husbands that was sometimes wont to write vnto Doctor Day of Welles You see I can doe it indeed Againe none would be so groshead as to gather because my reverence telleth Deane Iohn that hee shall have twenty fists about his â—…ares more then his owne whereby J meant indeed that many would write against him by reason of his bomination learning which otherwise never meant to take pen in hand that J threatned him with blowes and to deale by stafford law whereas that was farre from my meaning could by no meanes be gathered out of my words but onely by him that prononâ—…ced Enlogeni for Eâ—…login in thâ—… pulpit and by him whom a Papist made to beleeve that the Greek word Eulogein that is to give thankes signifieâ—…h to make a crosse in the forhead py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh py hy hy hy I cannot but laugh to thinke that an old soaking student in this learned agâ—… is not ashamed to be so impudâ—… as to preâ—…me to deale with a Papist when he hath no grue in his pocket But
thereof he deformeth the same Because the Magistrate hath neither the skill nor the commission to make the members of the body of Christ Because hee cannot tell to what vse the members of his making may serve in the Church Doe you thinke T. C. that the Magistrate may make an eye for the visible body of the Church For you must vnderstand that we all this while speake of the visisible body can he make a foot or a hand for that body I pray you in what place of the body would you have them placed If our Saviour Christ hath left behind him a perfect body surely he hath left therein no place or no vse for members of the Magistrates making and invention if an vnperfect and maimed body I am well assured that the magistrate is not able to perfect that which he left vnfinished But I hope T. C. that thou wilt not be so mad and wicked as to say that our Saviour Christ left behind him heere on earth an vnperfect and maimed body If not then where shall these offices namely these members invented by the Magistrate be placed therein Would you have the naturall eyes put out as your brethren the bishops have done in the church of England euer since Iohn of Canterbury vrged his wretched subscription and vnnaturall squint gogled eyes put in their stead when the body cannot see with any eyes but with the naturall eyes thereof displace them howsoever you may seeme to helpe the matter by putting others in their stead yet the body shall be still blind and maimed What say you T. C. may the Magistrate cut off the true and naturall legges and hands of the body of Christ under a pretence to put woodden in their stead I hope you will not say that he may How then commeth it to passe T. C. that you hold Iohn of Canterbury his office and Iohn Mar◅elmes to be true and naturall members of the body that is true officers of the Church and yet hold it lawfull for his Majesty to displace them out of the church J cannot tell brother what you hold in this point Me think J have disturbed your sences Doe you thinke that the magistrate may displace the true members of the body of Christ and place woodden in their stead Why this is to hold it lawfull for the Magistrate to massacre the body Doe you thinke he may not Then may not his Maiesty displace Iohn of Canterburies office out of our church if hee may not displace his office then either he by vertue of his office is a lawfull Pope aboue all civill magistrates or else the Church government is so prescribed in the word as it is not lawfull for the magistrate to alter the same But Iohn of Canterbury as the Puritans themselves confesse is no Pope Then either the church government is so prescribed in the word as it may not be altred or else the maiestrate may abolish a lawfull church government and place another in stead thereof If the Church government be so prescribed in the word as it cannot be altered then either our government is the same which was therein prescribed or our Church government is a false Church government If ours be the same which is mentioned in the word Then Paul and Peter were either no true Church governours or else Paul and Peter and the rest of Church governours in their time were Lords for all our Church governours are Lords But Paul and Peter c. were no Lords and yet true church governours Therefore our church government is not that which is prescribed in the word and therefore a false and vnlawfull church government If you thinke that the Magistrate may displace the lawfull Offices of the body then as I said before you hold it lawfull for the Magistrate to maime or deforme the body Because what soever hee putteth in the roome of the true and right members must needs be a deformitie and what place soever he leaveth vnfurnished of a member must needes bee a maime And this is the onely and sole office of Christ onely to place and displace the members of his body to wit the Officers of his Church he may lawfully doe it so cannot man And therefore the sots of which number you T. C. and you Iohn Whitgift and you Deane Iohn and you D Coosins and you D. Copcot with the rest of the ignorant and wretched defenders of our corrupt Church government are to be accounted which thinke that the Offices of Pastors Doctors Elders and Deacons or the most of them may be aswell now wanting in the Church as the Offices of Apostles Prophets and Evangelists doe notably bewray their vile ignorance but the cause they doe not hurt For the beasts doe not consider that the Offices of Apostles Evangelists and Prophets were removed out of the church not by man but by the Lord because he in his wisdome did not see any vse of such members in his body after the time of the first planting of the Church I say they were removed by the Lord himselfe and not by man because partly the gifts wherewith they were endued partly the largenesse of their commission with certaine other essentiall properties to them belonging were by him abrogated and taken away which no man could doe againe the Apostolicall Evangelicall and Propheticall callings were either lawfully or vnlawfully abolished out of the Church if lawfully then they were abolished by the Lord and therfore they are neither to be called backe vntill he sheweth it to be his pleasure that it should be so neither can the church be truly said to be maimed for want of them because he which could best tell what members were fit for his Church did abolish them If vnlawfully then those callings may bee lawfully called backe againe into the Church and the Church without them is maimed that is wanteth some members For if their callings were injuriously abrogated they are as iniuriously kept out of the Church and being members of the church the church is maimed without thē vnlesse the Lord hath shewed that the time of their service in the body is expired But they are not injuriously kept out for so his Maiestie should be said to injury the Church vnlesse hee would see Apostles prophets and Evangelists planted therein neither can the church be said to bee maimed for want of them because the Lord by taking them away hath declared that now there can be no vse of them in the body therefore the Lord abrogated them Therefore also they may be wanting and the Church neither maimed nor deformed thereby Whereas the keeping out of either of the former offices of Pastors Doctors elders and Deacons is a maiming of the Church the placing of others in their stead a deforming Now reverend T. C. I beseech you entreat mistresse Cooper to write to M D. Day sometimes of Magdalins that he may procure D. Cooper to know of him that was the last Thomas of Lincolne whether
third point of his Catholike pe◅swasion but tell him from me that he shall never bee saved by this beliefe and my finger in his mouth Let him tell what our Saviour Christ should doe if hee did not harrow Hell Where thou sayest Mr. ◅oung had onely the dealing with Thakwel the Popish Printer without his graces privity thou lyest in thy throat M. Young himselfe brought him to his grace who ordered the matter as it is set downe in my Pistle But did not I say truly of thee that thou canst cog face and lye as fast as a dog can trot and that thou hast a right seasoned wainscoate face of ti nowne chwarnt tee ti vorehead zaze hard as horne Concerning Waldegrave it s no matter how you deale with him heez a foolish fellow to suffer you to spoyle his presse and letters an a had bin my worships Printer I de a kept him from your clouches And yet it is pitty to belye the Divell and therefore you shall not belye him and goe sco◅free As for the presse that Waldegrave sold hee did is by order viz. He sold it to an allowed Printer I. C. one his owne company with the knowledge of his Warden Henry Denham c. And call you this favour in releasing him after long imprisonment But I will give you a president of great favour indeed wherein you may see what an ungratefull fellow Waldegrave is to his grace who hath bin so good unto him frō time to time There being a controve◅e betweene another Printer and Waldegrave all matters of Printing being committed by the Lords of the Counsell to his grace Waldegrave made one of his Company his friend who could do much with his grace to deale for him who brake the matter to his worship being at Croydon in his Orchard so soone as the party named Waldegrave he sweetely answered him saying if i◅ had bin any of the company save him he would have granted the suite but in no case to Waldegrave Well Waldegrave obtained the K. H Lord Treasurers Letter in his behalfe to his grace who when he had read it said J will answer my Lord Treasurer with that Waldegrave intreated for his favourable Letter to the Wardens of his Company which in the end through D. Coosins hee obtained though late yet went home at night thinking to deliver it in the Morning but before he was ready the Wardens were with him and rested him with a Pursivant upon his graces Commandement Waldegrave telling them there was a letter from his grace which hee receiued late the last night at Croydon who answered they knew it well enough but this is his pleasure now so they carryed Waldegrave to prison and in this his Grace was so good unto him as to helpe him with an hundred marks over the shoulders If this be your favour God keepe mee from you ka M. Marprelate Bishops have justly received according to their deserts having found greater favour at my Worships hands then ever they deserved being notorious disobedient and godlesse persons unthrifty spenders and consumers of the fruits not of their owne labors as you say Waldegrave was but of the possessions of the Church persons that have violated their faith to God his Church his Majesty and this whole Kingdome and wittingly bring us all without the great mercy of God to our undoing so that ou◅ wives children servants have cause to curse all L. Bp. Lo T. C. you see that I have a good gift in imitation and me thinkes I have brought your words into a marvailous good sence where as before in the cause of Waldegrve they were illfavouredly wrested and as for his wife and children they have just cause to curse Iohn of London and Iohn of Canterbury for their tyrannizing over him by imprisoning and spoiling his goods and vexing his poore wife and children with continuall rifeling his house with their Pursivants who in November last violently rusht into his house breaking through the maine wall thereof after midnight taking away his goods for some of the Pursivants sold his bookes vp and downe the streets to Watchmen and others Ah you Antichristian Prelates when will you make an end of defending your tyranny by the bloud and rapine of her Majesties subjects You have bin the consumers of the fruits of Waldegraves labours for have you not sent him so often to prison that it seemed you made a common occupation thereof For assoone as any booke is printed in the defence of Christs holy Discipline or for the detecting of your Antichristian dealings but your ravening pursivants flye city and country to seeke for Waldegrave as though he were bound by statute unto you either to make known who printed seditious bookes against my L. Face or to goe to prison himselfe and threatned with the racke And are you not ashamed to say that he ever violated his Faith you know well enough that he is neither Archb. nor L. B. The case thus stood after he had remained a long time in Prison not that time when Hartwell his graces secretary wisht that his grace might never eat bit of bread after hee released him Nor at that time when you profane T. C. told him that all Puricans had trayterous hearts Nor at that time Waldegrave told her grace that hee was worse then Bo◅er in regard of the time Nor that time when hee was strangely released by one of the Lord of good Londons Swans Neither was it at that time when his grace good conscionable Noble man violated his promise in that he told the Wardens of the Stationers that if Waldegrave would come quietly to him and cease printing of seditious bookes he would pardon what was past and the Wardens promised his wife that if he were committed they would lye at his graces gate till he were released and for all this yet hee was committed to the white Lyon where he lay 6 weeks Nor it was not at that time when his grace allowed Watson the Pursivant to take of Waldegrave 13◅ 4 pen◅c f◅r carrying of him to the white Lyon But it was that time when his grace kept him 20 weekes together in the white Lyon for printing the complaint of the Comminalty the practise of Prelates a learned mans judgment c. Meanes being used for his liberty his friend who was bound for him told him his liberty was obtained in manner following You must be bound faith he in a 100 pounds to print no more bookes hereafter but such as shall be authorized by her Majesty or his grace or such as were before lawfully authorized whereunto he answered that it was not possible for him to containe himselfe within the compasse of that bond neither should his consent ever goe to the same the same will D Coosins witnesse that maidenly Doctor who sits cheeke by joll with you if he will speake a truth which words Waldegrave uttered to him going in the old Pallas at Westminster with his Keeper before hoe