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A07039	Hay any worke for Cooper: or a briefe pistle directed by waye of an hublication to the reverende byshopps counselling them, if they will needs be barrelled vp, for feare of smelling in the nostrels of her Maiestie [and] the state, that they would vse the aduise of reuerend Martin, for the prouiding of their cooper. Because the reuerend T.C. (by which misticall letters, is vnderstood, eyther the bounsing parson of Eastmeane, or Tom Coakes his chaplaine) to bee an vnskilfull and a beceytfull [sic] tubtrimmer. Wherein worthy Martin quits himselfe like a man I warrant you, in the modest defence of his selfe and his learned pistles, and makes the coopers hoopes to flye off, and the Bishops tubs to leake out of all crye. Penned and compiled by Martin the Metropolitane.	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17456; ESTC S112300	39,242	60

know not D. Bridges and Iohn Whitgift Yea but his grace also firmely beleeueth that Christ in soule descended into Hell This is the 3. point of his catholike perswasion but tell him from me that he shal neuer be saued by this beliefe and my finger in his mouth Let him tell what our sauiour Christ should do if he did not harrow Hell Where thou saiest M. Yong had onely the dealing with Thakwel the popish printer without his graces priuitie thou liest in thy throat M. Yong him selfe brought him to his grace who ordered the matter as it is set downe in my Pistle But did not I say truely of thee that thou canst cog face 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 Walde-graue its no matter how you deal 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 pitie to belye the diuell and therefore you shall not belye him and goe scotfree As for the presse that Walde-graue solde he did it by order vz. He solde it to an allowed printer I.C. one of his owne companie with the knowledge of his Warden Henry Denham c. And cal you this fauor in releasing him after long imprisonment But I will giue you a president of great fauour in deede wherein you may see what an vngrateful fellow Walde-graue is to his grace who hath bin so good vnto him from time time There being a controuersie betweene another printer and Walde-graue all matters of printing being committed by the LL. of the Counsell to his grace Walde-graue made one of his company his friende who could do much with his grace to deale for him who brake the matter to his worship being at Croydon in his Orcharde so soone as the partie named Walde-graue he sweetely aunswered him saying if it had bin any of the cōpany saue him he would haue graunted the suite but in no case to Walde-graue Well Walde-graue obtayned the R. H. Lord Treasurers letter in his behalfe to his grace who when he had read it said I wil answer my L. Treasurer with that Walde-graue intreated for his fauorable letter to the Wardens of his companie which in the end through D. Coosins he obtained though late yet went home at night thinking to deliuer it in the morning but before he was readie the Wardens were with him and rested him with a Purciuant vpon his graces commandement Walde-graue telling them there was a letter from his grace which he receiued late the last night at Croidon who answered they knew it well inough but this is his pleasure now so they caried Walde-graue to prison and in this his grace was so good vnto him as to help him with an hundred marks ouer the shulders A new reuenge for an old grudge If this be your fauour God keepe me from you ka M. Marprelate Bishops haue iustly receiued according to their desertes hauing found greater fauour at my worships hands thē euer they deserued being notorious disobedient godlesse persons vnthrifty spenders consumers of the fruits not of their own labors as you say Walde-graue was but of the possessions of the church persons that haue violated their faith to god his church hir maiesty this whol kingdom wittingly bring vs al without the great mercy of god to our vndoing so that our wiues children seruants haue cause to curse al L. Bb. Lo T.C. you see that I haue a good gift in imitation and me thinkes I haue brought your wordes into a marueilous good sense wher as before in the cause of Walde-graue they were ilfauoredly wrested and as for his wife children they haue iust cause to curse Iohn of London and Iohn of Canterburie for their tyrannizing ouer him by imprisoning and spoyling his goods and vexing his poore wife and children with continuall rifeling his house with their purciuants who in Nouember last violently rusht into his house breaking through the maine wall thereof after midnight taking away his goods for some of the purciuants solde his books vp and downe the streats to watchmen and others Ah you Antichristian prelats when will you make an ende of defending your tyrannie by the blood and rapine of her maiesties subiectes You haue bin the consumers of the fruits of Walde-graues labors for haue you not sent him so often to prison that it seemed you made a common occupation thereof For assoon as any book is printed in the defence of Christs holy discipline or for that detecting of your Antichristian dealings but your rauening purciuantes flye citie countrie to seeke for Walde-graue as though he were boūd by statute vnto you either to make known who printed seditious books against my L. Face or to go to prison himselfe and threatned with the racke O the greatnes of his graces fauor And are you not ashamed to say that he euer violated his fayth you know wel inough 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 neuer eat bit of bread after he released him Nor at that time when you profane T.C. to●● him that all puritans had traiterous hearts Nor at that time Wald-graue tolde his grace that he was worse thē Boner in regard of the time Nor that time when he was straungely released by one of the Lorde 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 staciouers that if Walde-graue woulde come quietly to him cease printing of seditious bookes he would pardon what was past the wardens promised his wife that if he were committed they would lye at his graces gate til he were released and for al this yet he was committed to the white Lyon where he laye sixe weekes Nor it was not at that time when his grace allowed Watson the purciuant to take of Walde-graue 13. s. 4. pence for cariyng 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 comminaltie the Practize of prelats A learned mans iudgment c. Means being vsed for his liverty his freud who was bound for him told him his liberty was obtained in maner following You must be bounde saith he in a 100. pounds to print no more books herafter but such as shal be authorized by hir Maiesty or his grace or such as were before lawfully authorized wherunto he answered that it was not possible for him to containe himselfe within the compasse of that bond Whereby it may appeare he swore not to his friend neither should his consent

such notable pulpit men There is a neighbour of ours an honest priest who was sometimes symple as he nowe standes a vice in a playe for want of a better his name is Gliberie of Hawsteade in Essex he goes much to the pulpit On a time I think it was the last Maie he went vp with a full resolution to do his businesse with great commendations But see the fortune of it A boy in the Church hearing either the sommer Lord with his Maie game or Robin Hood with his Morrice daunce going by the Church out goes the boye Good Gliberie though he were in the pulpit yet had a minde to his olde companions abroad a company of merrie grigs you must think them to be as merie as a vice on a stage seeing the boy going out finished his matter presently with Iohn of Londons Amen saying ha ye faith boie are they there then ha with thee so came down among them hee goes Were it not then pittie that the dignitie of such a priest should decaie And I would gentle T.C. that you would take the paines to write a treatise against the boie with the red cap which put this Gliberie out of his matter at another time For Glibery being in the pulpit so fastened his eyes vpon a boye with a red cap that he was cleane dasht out of countenaunce in so much that no note could be hard from him at that time but this Take away red cap there take away red cappe there it had bene better that he had neuer bin borne he hath marred suche a sermon this day as it is woonderfull to thinke The Queene and the Counsell might well haue heard it for a good sermon so came down An admonition to the people of England to take heed of boi●…s with red caps which make them set light by the dignitie of their priests would do good in this time brother T.C. you know well Reuerend T.C. You may herby perceiue that T.C. is a bishop The cause why wee are so spighted is because we doe endeuor to maintaine the lawes which her Maiestie and the whole state of the Realme haue allowed and doe not admit a new platforme of gouernment deuised I know not by whom Reuerend Martin Why T.C. saye Eulojin for Eulogein as often as you will and I wil neuer spight you or the Bishop of Winchester eyther for the matter But doe you thinke our Churche gouernement to be good and lawfull because hir Maiestie and the state who maintaine the reformed religion alloweth the same Why the Lorde doth not allow it therefore it cannot be lawfull And it is the falt of such wretches as you bishops are that her Maiestie and the state alloweth the same For you should haue other wise instructed them They know you not yet so thorowly as I doe So that if I can prooue that the Lord disliketh our Church gouernement your endeuors to maintaine the same shew that thereby you cannot chuse but be traytors to God and his worde whatsoeuer you are to her Maiestie and the State Nowe T.C. looke to your selfe for I will presently make all the hoops of your bishoppricks flie assunder Therefore Our Churche gouernement is an vnlawfull Churche gouernment and not allowed in the sight of God Because That church gouernment is an vnlawful church gouernment the offices and officers whereof the ciuil maiestrate may lawfully abollish out of the church marke my craft in reasoning brother T.C. I say the offices and officers for I grant that the maiestrate may thrust the officers of a lawful church gouerment out of the church if they be Diotripheses Mar-elmes Whitgifts Simon Maugustes Coopers Pernes Kenoldes or any such like Iudases though the most of these must be packing offices and al but their offices must stand that the same may be supplied by honester men But the offices of Archbishops and bishopps and therefore the officers much more may be lawfully abollished out of the church by her Maiestie and our State And truely this were braue weather to turne them out it is pitty to keepe them in any longer And that would do me good at the hart to see Iohn of London and the rest of his brethren so discharged of his busines as he might freely runn in his cassocke and hose after his bowle or florish with his 2. hand sword O t is a sweete trunchfiddle But the offices of Archbishops and bishops may be lawfully abollished out of the church by her Maiestie and the state As I hope one day they shal be Therefore marke now T.C. and cary me this conclusion to Iohn O Lambehith for his breakefast our church gouerment by Arch. and bishops is an vnlawful church gouerment You see brother Cooper that I am very courteous in my minor for I desire therein no more offices to bee thrust out of the church at one time but Archb. and Bishops As for Deanes Archdeacons and Chancellors I hope they wil be so kind vnto my Lords grace as not to stay if his worship and the rest of the noble clergie Lords weare turned out to grasse I wil presently proue both maior and minor of this sillogisme And hold my cloake there sombody that I may go roundly to worke For I se so bumfeg the Cooper as he had bin better to haue hooped halfe the tubbes in Winchester then write against my worships pistles No ciuil maiestrat may lawfully either maime or deforme the body of Christ which is the church but whosoeuer doth abollish any lawful church officer out of the church gouernment he doth either maime or deforme the church Therefore T.C. no ciuil magistrate no prince no state may without sinn abollishe any lawfull officer together with his office out of the gouernement of the church and per consequence the offices of Archbishops and Lord bishops which her Maiestie may without sinn lawfully abollish out of the church are no lawful church officers and therefore also the church gouernment practised by Iohn Whitgift Iohn Mar-elme Richard Peterborow William of Lincolne Edmond of Worcestor yea and by that olde stealecounter masse priest Iohn O Glossester with the rest of his brethren is to be presently thrust out of the church And me thinks this geare cottons in deed my masters And I tould you T.C. that you should be thumped for defending bishops Take heed of me while you liue The minor of my last sillogisme that whosoeuer doth abollish the office of any lawfull thurch officer out of the church he either maimeth or deformeth the church I can proue with a wet finger Because euery lawful Churche officer euen by reason of his office is a member of the bodye of Christe Iesus whiche is the church and being a member of the body If the maiestrate doth displace him by abollishing his office and leaueth the place thereof voide then the maiestrate maimeth the body If he put another office vnto an officer in stead thereof he deformeth the same Because the

of the Bishops Antichristian dealing to be hidden The most part of men could not be gotten to read any thing written in the defence of the 〈◊〉 and against the other I bethought mee therefore of a way whereby men might be drawne to do both perceiuing the humors of men in these times especialy of those that are in any place to be giuen to mirth I tooke that course I might lawfully do it I for iesting is lawful by circumstances euen in the greatest matters The circumstances of time place and persons vrged me thereunto I neuer profaned the word in any iest Other mirth I vsed as a couert wherin I would bring the truth into light The Lord being the authour both of mirth and grauitie is it not lawfull in it selfe for the trueth to vse eyther of these wayes when the circumstances do make it lawful My purpose was and is to do good I know I haue don no harme howsoeuer som may iudg Martin to mar al. They are very weake one that so think In that which I haue written I know vndoubtedly that I haue done the Lord and the state of this kingdom great seruice Because I haue in som sort discouered the greatest enemies thereof And by so much the most pestilent enemies because they wound Gods relligion and corrupt the state with Atheism and loosnes and so cal for Gods vengance vppon vs all euen vnder the coulor of relligion I affirm them to be the greatest enemies that now our state hath for if it were not for them the trueth should haue more free passage herein then now it hath All states thereby would be amended and so we should not be subiect vnto Gods displeasure as now we are by reason of them Nowe let me deale with these that are in authority I do make it knowne vnto them that our bishops are the greatest enemies which we haue For they do not only go about but they haue long since fully perswaded our state that they may lawfully procure the Lord to take the sword in hand against the state if this be true haue I not said truly that they are the gretest enemies which our state hath The papistes work no such effect for they are not trusted The Atheistes haue not infected our whol state these haue The attempts of our forraine enemies may be pernicious But they are men as wee are But that God which when our bishops haue and doe make our prince and our gouernors to wadge war who is able to stand against him Wel to the point many haue put her maiestie the parliament counsell in minde that the church officers now among vs are not such as the Lord aloweth of because they are not of his owne ordaininge They haue shewed that this falt is to be amended or the Lords hand to be looked for The bishops on the otherside haue cried out vpon them that haue thus dutifully mooued the state They with a loud voice gaue out that the maiestrat may lawfully maintaine that church gouerment which best fitteth our estate as liuing in the time of peace What do they else herein but say that the magestrat in time of peace may maime and deforme the body of Christ his church That Christ hath left the gouerment of his own house vnperfect and left the same to the discretion of the magestrate wheras Moses before whome in this point of gouernment the Lord Christ is iustly preferred Heb. 3.6 made the gouernment of the legal politie so perfcet as he left not any parte thereof to the discretion of the magestrate Can they deny church officers to be members of the church They are refuted by the expresse text 1. Cor. 12. will they affirme Christ to haue left behinde him an vnperfect body of his church wanting members at the lest wise hauing such members as were only permanent at the magestrates pleasure Why Moses the seruant otherwise gouerned the house in his time And the sonne is commended in this point for wisdome and faithfulnes before him Heb 3.6 Either then that commendation of the sonn before the seruant is a false testimony or the sonne ordained a permanent gouernment in his church If permanent not to be changed What then do they that hold it may be changed at the magestrates pleasure but aduise the maiestrate by his positiue lawes to proclaime that it is his will that if there shal be a church within his dominions he will maime and deforme the same He wil ordaine therein what members he thinketh good He will make it knowne that Christ vnder his gouernment shal be made lesse faithfull then Moses was That he hath left the placing of members in his body vnto the magestrate O cursed beastes that bring this guilt vppon our estate Repent Caitifes while you haue time You shal not haue it I feare when you wil. And looke you that are in authority vnto the equity of the controuersie betwene our wicked bishops and those who woulde haue the disorders of our Churche amended Take heed you be not caried away with slaunders Christs gouerment is neither Mar-prince Mar-state Mar-law nor Mar-magistrate The liuing God whose cause is pleaded for will bee reuenged of you if you giue eare vnto this slander contrary to so many testimonies as are brought out of his word to prooue the contrary He denounceth his wrath against all you that thinke it lawfull for you to maim or deform his church he accounteth his Churche maimed when those offices are therein placed whiche hee hath not appointed to be members thereof he also testifieth that there be no mēbers of his appointment in the Churche but such as he himselfe hath named in his word and those that he hath named man must not displace for so he shoulde put the bodie out of ioynt Nowe our bishops holding the contrary and bearing you in hande that you may practize the contrary do they not driue you to prouoke the Lorde to anger against your owne soules And are they not your enemies They hold the contrary I say for they say that her Maiestie may alter this gouernment now established and thereby they shew either this gouerment to be vnlawfull or that the magistrat may presume to place those members in Gods Church which the Lord neuer mentioned in his word And I beseech you marke howe the case standeth betweene these wretches those whom they call puritans 1 The puritans falsely so called shew it to be vnlawfull for the magistrate to goe about to make any members for the bodie of Christ 2 They hold all officers of the Church to be members of the bodie Rom. 12.6 1. cor 12.8.28 3 And therfore they hold the altering or the abolishing of the offices of church gouernment to be the altering abolishing of the members of the Church 4 The altering abolishing of which members they holde to be vnlawfull because it must needs be a maime vnto the bodie 5 They hold Christ Iesus to haue set downe as