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A16571	All the examinacions of the constante martir of God M. Iohn Bradforde before the Lorde Chauncellour, B. of Winchester the B. of London, [and] other co[m]missioners: whervnto ar annexed, his priuate talk [and] conflictes in prison after his condemnacion, with the Archbishop of york, the B. of Chichester, Alfonsus, and King Philips confessour, two Spanishe freers, and sundry others. With his modest learned and godly answeres. Anno. Domini 1561	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1561 (1561)	STC 3477; ESTC S116578	60,488	240

¶ All the examinacions of the Constante Martir of GOD M. Iohn Bradforde before the Lorde Chauncellour B. of Winchester the B. of London other cōmissioners Whervnto ar annexed his priuate talk conflictes in prison after his condemnacion with the Archbishop of york the B. of Chichester Alfonsus and King Philips confessour two Spanishe freers and sundry others With his modest learned and godly answeres Anno. Domini 1561 ¶ Cum Priuilegio ad imprimendum solum ¶ The Originall of his Lyfe IOhn Bradford borne in Lancastershire in Manchester a notable towne of that coūtrey was of his gētle parentes brought vp in vertue good learning euen from his very childhode among other praises of his good educacion he obtained as a chief gift the cōnynge redines of writing which knowledge was not onely an ornamēte vnto him but also an helpe to the necessary sustētaciō of his liuing About y e time was one sir Ihō Haringtō paymaster to king Henry the .8 which at Boloign by order of knighthode beīg muche renomed but yet by his own vertue a great deale more noble was ther suruier and paymaister of y e souldiers Who then had the seruice of master Bradford so kept him both in his family in his fauor that it can scarce be told whether liued to other ether more beloued or more profitable For Bradford both lerned many things of him also experience and practise of thinges more increased abounded On the otherside he whiche tried his seruice so faithful estemed him as a great treasure so loued him that in all his affaires he would alwaies bee coupled w t him In which trade of life when Bradford long time had bene cōuersāt y e way to riches semed not so farre of vnto him if he woulde haue set his mind to gathering of worldly riches but the immutable prouidēce of god drew him another way For after he was wery of this kind of life had made a diligēt and true accompt of his maisters affairs he desired licēce to depart and so wēt from him to the intent that he being rid of all other troubles he might serue Iesu Christe the secrete working of goddes calling so mouinge him which neuer suffred his minde to be at rest vntil it had fully wholy possessed him In so muche that after he had forsaken his master gotten him to the studye of the law his minde could not long abide in that trade of lawyers but that forsaking also that kinde of study in whiche he was not altogether ignorāt he departed from the temple where he studied y e cōmon and temporal lawes to Cābridge the temple of gods lawes to apply those studies which pertained more to the ministerye of gods church In the which with what vehemens and force he labored it is euident by this y t the first yere of his comimng thether he obteined degree of schole and was made maister of art gatte the fauour and admiration of all men that by and by he was chosē felowe of Penbrooke hall where he so daily profited by a certayn heauēly dexterite of his wit that as he was had in estimaciō of all good men so also he began to be welbeloued of Martin Bucer which hoped of no small fruit to procede from that his so godlye disposicion wherefore he counselled him to bestow his giftes and talent to the common profyte of instructynge Christes flock To whom when he had alledged hys weakenes and lack of learnyng Bucer answered that though he could not fede thē with fine cakes and white bread yet he should satisfye them with barly bread wer it neuer so course By whose often exhortacions Bradforde beynge boldened althoughe of his owne accord he was redy inough while he was altogether ī this thought it came happelye to passe that by D. Ridly bishoppe of London he was sent for from Cambridge to take vppon him ecclesiasticall orders and functiōs Of whom beyng first made deacon and afterward licensed to preach hauing a good stipēd out of the Cathedrall church of Poules he diligētly labored in the ministery of publike teching in y e church of god so lōg as kinge Edwarde liuinge there could be any place for godly teachers But when at lenght y e religiō changed by death of y e prince and he neuerthelesse exercised his office of preching an occasō was foūd and yet most vniust because that by the lawes it was not yet concluded that his mouth being stopped he was thruste into prison the occasion was this The xiii day of August one of the Popish sect called Bourn afterward bishop of Bathe railed with many wordes most shamefully vpō king Edward and the pure doctrine of the gospel in his time preched whoso behaued himself y t he had muche a doe to escape but y t the multitude of hearers would haue laide hande vpon him and pulled him out of y e pulpit which thīg they declared by manifest tokens For so great was the indignacion of al men kindled against him that neither with y e reuerence of the place nor by the aucthoritie of the bishop of London then present nor at the lawful commandement of the Maire this commocion of the people could be pacyfied But as for Bourn he was so stricken with feare bothe by the greatnes of the tumulte chieflye for a dagger whyche was throwne from the middes of the company against the pulpit that he durst not make an ende of hys sedicious sermond much like the Oracions that the Tribunes in Rome wer wonte to make nether would y e people suffer him he hūbly desired Bradford which stode behind his backe in the pulpit y t he would take his place speake to the people remembringe perchaunce and not vnwiselye vyrgils counsel That when among a people stoute It chaunceth to betide The multitude to make a fraye Of wit ful often wide That stones wepons flies a brode and what come first to hande Some sadman cōmeth that for his right Is loned of all the land Anon thei ceaste and silence make And doune thei laie there rage To harke at him and he with speche their woode minds doth aswage Neyther was his purpose disappointed for as sone as Bradford stode forth in y e middest al the tumulte was easilye appeased the people at the first sight of him wished him lōg helth crying Bradforde Bradforde god preserue thy life Bradford After y t with much attenciō thei heard him entreat of quiet christiā obedience Finally after his sermond ended the most part of thē went quietlye peasably home to their houses In the meane time amonge the residew which resisted for it could not bee that in so great offence of y e multitude al thinges could so quickly be quieted there was a certayn gētleman with his two seruants whiche comming vp the pulpytte staires rushed against the doore desyring to enter vpon Bourn I know not what he minded Than Bradforde

whiche seemed to knowe hym and perceyuyng his entente resysted as muche as he coulde in the meane tyme priuelye geuynge Bourne warnynge by hys Seruaunte that hee shoulde auoyde the presente daunger as soone as he could Bourne streight waie flying vnto the Maior once againe escaped death yet not thinking himselfe safe ynoughe he desired Bradford that he woulde vouchsafe to be present and help him til he mighte hide himselfe in some house that he might be safe from all feare and daunger which gētlenes he willingly perfourmed that is to saie he couered him behinde with his gowne till by the Maior and the Sherifes he was safely brought into Poules scole On this wise the railing preacher against king Edward by Bradfordes helpe escaped death which for his raylinge he had deserued whiche thing thei whiche woulde haue bene reuenged of him dyd not dissemble for one of them opēly testifying to Bradford said Ah Bradforde Bradforde dooest thou saue his lyfe whiche will not spare thyne goe too I geue thee his lyfe but if it were not for thy sake I woulde thrust thys beast through with my sworde Mayster Bradforde the same daye after dinner preaching to the Londoners in the chiefe streate of the citie did sharply rebuke them for this sedicious and tumultuouse behauiour waytinge afterwarde at London what should be thend of this businesse Thou hast now reader y e whole discourse of Bradfordes facte whereby thou dooest vnderstande what reward he deserued of equall Iudges for so godly seruice Nowe heare what rewarde he receiued Thre daies after this was done he was sente for by the counsell bishoppes to the towre where the Queene than laye and was compelled before them to purge hymselfe of sedicion and heresy surely by the same reason that y e lambe sometyme was accused by y e wolfe for troubling the water in which he dronke a greate deale lower than the woolfe not that he had offended but that the woolfe was an hungred not that hee hadde troubled the water but that he was not hable to resyste the other whiche troubled it in deede After the same sorte was Bradforde sette a fyer wyth the flame of that Sedicion whyche hee alone dyd quenche and so commaunded to prysone where abydynge almoste twoo yeares together hee sustayned manye conflictes with the Papistes and other sectes he confirmed manye weake and coumforted the afflycted he wrote also manye thynges as hee hadde leysure and got opportunitye by stealth And among other thynges hee sente manye Epistles the copies whereof are extante to the Citizens of London to the Vnyuersite and towne of Cambridge to the townes of Walden and Manchester also to hys twoo brethren theyr wyues and famylyes in whiche Epistles the syncere zeale of hys Christyan heart and godlines doth marueilously appeare At lengthe after long labours sorowes he was priuily ledde from the counter by night to Newgate The next daie earlye in the morninge he was brought foorth into Smithfield with an other younge manne called Ihō Lyefe being eightene yeres olde he was there burnte At London the firste of Iulii Anno M.D.LV. ¶ The effect of M. Iohn Bradfordes examinacion before the Lord Chanceller B. of Winchester the B. of London and others in commission the .22 of Aprill Anno. Domini .1555 AFter the Lord Chancellor and the residew of the Queenes councel in commission with him had ended their talke with master Farrar late bishop of S. Dauies the vndermarshal of the kings Bench was commaunded to bring in maister Bradford who being come in to the presence of the counsel sitting at a table he kneling down on his knee but immediately by my lord Chauncelor was bidden to stand vp and so he did Whē he was risen the lord Chauncelor earnestly loked vpon him to haue be lyke ouerfaced him but he gaue no place that is he ceased not in like maner to loke on the lorde Chancelor stil and continuallye saue y e once he caste his eyes to heauen warde sighing for gods help and so outfaced him as they say Thē the Lorde Chauncelor as it were amased and some thing troubled spake thus to hym in effecte that of long tyme he had bene imprysoned iustly for his behauioure at Poules crosse the .xiii. of Auguste Anno. 1554. for his false prechinge and arrogancye takinge vppon hym to preache withoute aucthoritie But nowe quoth hee the tyme of mercye is come and therefore the Queenes highnesse myndyng to offer vnto you mercy hath by vs sente for you to declare and geue the same if so bee ye will with vs retourne And quoth he yf you wyll dooe as we haue done you shall finde as we haue founde I warraunte you These were the summe and euen in maner the words he spake To these woordes maister Bradford spake after reuerent obeysaunce made in thys maner My Lorde and Lordes all I confesse that I haue beene longe prisoned and with humble reuerence be it spoken vniustlye for that I dyd nothynge sediciouslye falselye or arrogantlye in worde or fact by preching or otherwise but rather sought peace al godly quietnes as an obedient faithful subiecte bothe in going aboute to saue the bishoppe of Bathe now the● M. Bourne the preacher at y e crosse and in preaching for quietnes accordingly At these wordes or rather before he had fullye finished them the lorde Chauncellor some thing snuffed and spake with an admiracion y t there was a loude lie For quoth he the fact was sedicious as you my lord of Londō can beare witnes you saye trewe my lorde quoth the bishop of Lōdon I sawe him with mine owne eyes when he tooke vpon him to rule and leade the people malypertly therby declaring y t he was the authour of the sedicion Heare Iohn Bradforde replied sayd that notwithstandinge my lorde bishops seyng sayinge y t he had tolde was the trueth as one daye quoth he my lord god almightye shall reueile to all the world whē we all shall come and appeare before him In the meane season because I cannot be beleued of you I must and am ready to suffer as now your sayīgs so whatsoeuer God shall licence you to doe vnto me I know quoth my lord Chācellor then thou haste a gloriouse tonge godlye shewes thou makest but all is lyes that thou doest And againe I haue not forgotten how stubburne thou wert when thou werte before vs in the Towre whether thou wast committed to prison concerning relygion I haue not forgotten thy behauiour and talk wher through worthely thou hast bene kepte in prison as one y t would haue done more hurt then I wil speake of My Lorde quoth Bradforde as I sayd I say again that I stād as before you so before god one day we shall al stand before him The trueth then will be the truth though you wyl not now so take it Yea my lorde quoth he I dare saye that my lorde of Bathe M. Bourne will witnes with me y t I