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A19465	Certain most godly, fruitful, and comfortable letters of such true saintes and holy martyrs of God, as in the late bloodye persecution here within this realme, gaue their lyues for the defence of Christes holy gospel written in the tyme of their affliction and cruell imprysonment.	Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.; Bradford, John, 1510?-1555, Exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse. Selections.; Cranmer, Thomas, 1489-1556. Copy of certain lettres sent to the Quene, and also to doctour Martin and doctour Storye. Selections.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Soveraigne cordial for a Christian conscience.; Hooper, John, d. 1555. Whether Christian faith maye be kepte secret in the heart, without confession therof openly to the worlde as occasion shal serve.; Ridley, Nicholas, 1500?-1555. Frendly farewel.	1564 (1564)	STC 5886; ESTC S108888	571,783	726

perceaue that you were deceaued and then your hyghnes may vse the matter as god shal put in your heart Furthermore I am kept here from company of learned mē from bookes from councel from penne and yncke sauyng at thys tyme to wryte to your Maiesty which all were necessary for a man in my case Wherfore I besech your maiesty that I may haue such of these as may stande wyth your maiesties pleasure And as for mine appearaunce at Rome if your Maiestie wyl geue me leaue I wyl appeare there I trust that god shall put in my mouth to defend his truth there aswell as here but I referre it wholly to your Maiesties pleasure Your poore oratour T. C. To the Lordes of the Counsaile IN most humble wise sueth vnto your ryght honourable Lordships Thomas Cranmer late Archbishop of Caūterbury beseching the same to be a meanes for me vnto the quenes hyghnes for her mercy and pardon Some of you know by what means I was brought trayned vnto the will of our late soueraigne lord king Edward the vi what I spake against the same wherin I refer me to the reportes of your honors Furthermore this is to sygnifye vnto your lordships that vpon Mūday Tuesday Wednisday last past were open disputations here in Oxford against me They put to him thre questions but they suffred him not to aunswere fully in one maister Ridley M. Latymer in three matters concernyng the Sacrament First of the real presence secondly of transubstantiation thyrdly concerning the sacrifice of the masse How the other two were vsed I cannot tell for we were separated so that none of vs knewe what the other sayde nor how they were ordered But as concernyng my selfe I can report that I neuer knew nor heard of a more cōfused disputation in al my life For albeit ther was one apointed to dispute against me yet euery mā spake hys mynd and broughte forth what him lyked with out ordre and such hast was made that no aunswer could be suffered to be geuen fully to anye argument and in such weighty and large matters there was no remedy but the disputations must nedes be ended in one day whyche can scantlye well be ended in three monethes And when we had aunswered them then they would not appoynt vs one day to bryng forth our profes that they mighte aunswere vs agayn beyng required of me therunto whereas I my selfe haue more to saye then canne be well discussed in .xx. dayes The meanes to resolue the truth had bene to haue suffered vs to aunswere fully to all that they could say and then they againe to aunswere to all that we could say But why they would not aunswere vs what other cause canne ther be but that either they feared that matter that they were not able to aunswere vs or els as by their hast might wel appeare they came not to speake the truthe Beholde Sathan slepeth not Theyr cruel desire to reuenge colde abide no delaye but to condemne vs in post hast before the truth might be thorowly tryed and heard for in all hast we were al thre condemned of heresy vpon fryday This much I thought good to signify vnto your Lordships that you may know the indifferent hādling of matters leauing the iudgemēt therof vnto your wisdomes and I besech your Lordships to remēber me a poore prisoner vnto the Quenes maiestye and I shall pray as I do dayly to god for the long preseruation of your good Lordships in al godlines and felicity ¶ A letter wherin he reproueth and condemneth the false and sclaunderous reportes of the papistes which said that he had set vp masse again at Canterburye AS the Deuel Christes auncient aduersary ●s a liar and the father of lyinge Euen so hath he sturred vp hys seruauntes and membres to persecute Christe and hys true woorde and Religion wyth lyinge whych he ceasseth not to doe moste earnestly at this present For wheras the prince of famous memory king Henry the viij seing the great abuses of the latin masse reformed some thing therin in his time also our late soueraign lord king Edwarde the vi toke the same whole away for the manifold errors abuses therof restored in the place therof Christes holy supper according to christs own institutiō and as the apostles in the primatiue church vsed the same the deuil goeth about by lying to ouerthrow the lords holy supper to restore his latin satisfactory masse a thing of his own inuētiō deuise and to bring the same more easely to passe some haue abused the name of me Thomas Archb. of Canterbury bruting abroade that I haue set vp the masse at Canterb. that I offred to say masse at the burial of our late soueraigne prince king Edward the .6 also that I offred to say masse before the Quenes highnes at Paules church and I wote not where And although I haue bene well exercised these xx yeres to suffer beare euill reportes lyes haue bene much greued thereat but haue borne al thinges quietly yet whē vn true reports lies turne to the hinderāce of gods truth they be in no wise to be suffred Wherfore these be to signify vnto the world that it was a false flattering lying and dissēbling mōke which caused masse to be set vp there without This was D. Thornton afterward a cruell murderer of gods sainctes of whose horrible ende reade in the boke of martirs Fol. 1706. mine aduise or counsel Reddat illi dominus in die illo And as for offring my self to say masse before the quenes highnes or in any other place I neuer did it as her grace wel knoweth But if her grace giue me leaue I shal be ready to proue against al that wil say the cōtrary that al that is said in the holy cōmuniō set out by the most Innocēt godly prince king Edward the vi in his high court of parliamēt is conformable to the order which our soueraigne Christe did both obserue cōmaunded to be obserued which his apostles primatiue church vsed many yeres where as the masse in many things not only hath no foūdatiō of Christ his apostels nor the primatiue church but is manifestly cōtrary to the same cōtaineth many horrible abuses in it And although many vnlearned malitioꝰ do report the maister Peter Mattyr is vnlearned yet if the Quenes highnes wil graūte therunto I with the sayd mayster Peter Martyr other iiij or v. which I shal chose wil by gods grace take vpō vs to defend not only the cōmon praiers of the church the ministration of the sacramēts other rites ceremonies but also al the doctrine religion set out by our soueraigne lord king Edward the 6. to be more pure according to gods word than any other that hath bene vsed in Englād this M yeres so that gods word may be the iudge that the reasōs profes vpō

both parties may be set out in writing to the intent aswel that al the world may examine iudge theron as that no mā shal start back from his writing And wher they bost of the fayth that hath ben in the church this M. v. hundreth yeres we wil ioyne with them in this poynt and that the doctrine and vsage is to be followed whiche was in the churche a M. and fyue hundreth yeres past and we shall proue that the order of the church set out at thys presēt in thys realme by act of Parleamēt is the same that was vsed in the church .1500 yeres past so shal they be neuer able to proue theyrs An epistle to a certayn lawyer for hys aduise and counsel touchyng hys appeale NAturae lex hoc ab omnibus postulat vt quatenus citra didiuini numinis iniuriam fieri potest quisque vitam tueatur suam Quod cum tribus abhi nodiebus mihi in mentem venisset simulque memoriae occurisset appellatio Martini Lutheri a Leone decimo ad conciliū generale cōstitui ipse cōcilium generale legittimū liberū appellare ne temerè incōsulto vitā proderē meā Verū cū appellationis materia ad legisperitos spectet cuius ego ignarus sū cūque Lutheri appellatio ad manū mihi nō sit de creui amico alicui fido Iurisperito cōciliū meū hac in re pandere cuius opera in hoc negotio vterer ac tu quidem vnus occurristi qui mihi in hac Academia visus es ad hoc muuns idoneus Sed summam haec res taciturnitatem postulat vt antequā res fiat nemo refiscat Dies mihi dictus est vt respondeā Rhomae 16. huius mensis ante quem mihi prouocandū esse puto ac post sentētiā appellādum Sed an mihi primum prouocandum appellādūsit a iudice delegato ad ipsū pōtificē ac deinde ad cōciliū generale an omisso pontifice ad concilium primum appellandū sit cōcilio mihi opus est tuo Porro appellationis causae mihi multae sunt Primo quod iuramento astrictus sim nunquam me cōsensurum in authoritatem Romani Pontificis Deinde cum ego respondere omnino renuerem ad articulos mihi obiectos ab Episcopo Glocestrensi iudice delegato responderam tamē doctori Martino Storeo cum hac protestatione quod respōsio mea non datur iudici neque in iudicio sed extraiudicialis esset post responsum datum petebam responsionis meae copiam vt eandem mihi emendare liceret vel addendo vel mutando vel subtrahendo Quanquā haec m●hi promissa sunt a Glocestrensi a procuratoribus regis Reginae omnino tamē fefellerunt fidem non dantes emendandae responsionis meae copiam nihilomiuns vt audio inter acta iudicialia adscripserunt Postremo cum causa defectionis a Romano ponttifice a papistica religone in ius vocor vt iam mibilis sit aduersus pōtificem Romanum nemo aequus iudex sit in causa ꝓpria aequum mihi videtur vt cōciliū appellē praesertim cū ius naturae vt aiūt appellationis remedium nemini negandū cēseat Iam cum ad hanc rem maxima taciturnitate opus sit si forsan ob rerum imperitiā aliorū consiliis tibi opus sit obtestor tum te per christianam fidem ac charitatem vt cuius causa sit nemini significes Et cum iam instet tempus mature opus sit facto hoc me sinas ate impetrare vt sepositis aliis studiis atque negotiis huic vni incumbas quousque perfeceris Potissima sane appellationis meae causa est vt si ita deus voluerit donetur eousque viuendi tempus quousque caeptum contra Marcum Antonium Constantium responsū absoluero Quod si veritatis hostes meae appellationi deferre nolint quod existmo fiat voluntas dei susque de que fero modo glorificetur Deus siue per vitam siue per mortem melius est enim multo mori pro Christo cum illo regnare quam in hoc carnis ergastulo concludi nisi in fratrum vtilitatem ad maiorē Dei gloriam propagandam liceat aliquamdiu militare Cui sit omnis gloria in aenū Amē Est alia appellationis causa quod cum Romā vocatus sim illic dictutus causam interim carcere de tineor vt comparêre mihi ad dictum diem non liceat Cum autem de statu vita mea agitur pro defensione mea Iurisperitorum consilio mihi opus esset quum id peterem negatum est omne aduocatorum proueratorum iurisconsultorum cōsilium auxilium Vale. The same in english THe law of nature requyreth of al men that so farforth as it may be done without offence to god euery one should seke to defend and preserue hys owne life Whiche thyng when I about three dayes ago bethought my selfe of and therewithall remembred how that Martyn Luther appealed in hys time from Pope Leo the tenth to a generall counsell least I shoulde seeme rashlye and vnaduisedly to cast away my self I determined to appeale in lyke sort to some lawful and free general counsel But seyng the order and forme of an appeale perteyneth to the lawyers wherof I my self am ignorant and seing that Luthers appeale cōmeth not to my hand I purposed to break my mind in this matter to some faithful frēd skilful in the law whose helpe I myght vse in thys behalf and you only among other came to my remembraunce as a man moste meete in this vniuersitye for that purpose But this is a matter that requyreth great silence so that no man knowe of it before it bee done It is so that I am sūmoned to make myne aunswer at Rome the .xvi. day of this moneth before the which daye I thynke it good after sentence pronounced to make mine appeale But whether I should fyrst appeale from the iudge delegate to the Pope and so afterwarde to the generall counsell or elles leauyng the Pope I shoulde appeale immediatly to the counsell herein I stand in neede of your counsell Many causes there bee for the whiche I thinke good to appeale First because I am by an oth boūde neuer to consēt to the receiuing of the bishop of Romes autority into this realme Besides this where as I vtterly refused to make aunswere to the articles obiected vnto me by the bishop of Gloucester appointed by the Pope to bee my iudge yet I was content to aunswer Martyn and Story with this protestation that mine answer should not be taken as made before a iudge nor yet in place of iudgement but as pertayning nothing to iudgement at al and moreouer after I had made mine aunswere I required to haue a copy of the same that I might either by addyng therunto by alteryng or takyng from it correcte and

like to be no lesse thā your lyfe for I beleue as Paul sayth that god hath appoynted vs in these latter daies lyke shepe to the slaughter Rom. 8 Antichrist is come agayne and he must make a feast to Beelzebub his father of many Christiā bodyes for the restoring againe of his kingdome let vs watche and pray that the same daye maye not fynde vs vnredy The peace of god be with you and remaine with you for euer Your louing brother in Christ in spirit your familier frende captiue in the Kynges Benche Iohn Philpot. To my dearely beloued Sister in the Lord Maistres Heath THe lyght of the Gospel of Christ which hath illigthned you with the true vnderstanding of fayth be dayly encreased in you my dearly beloued sister vnto the perfyte day of the Lord through the mighty operation of hys spirite Amen Where as you haue required of me a token at your departyng that myghte be a remembraunce with you of my brotherly loue toward you I mused of diuerse things what I might cōmend vnto you best among al other I found none so certayne a token either of the loue of God toward vs or els of the loue of vs one to an other as to beare the crosse together with Christ To beare the crosse is to be partaker of the afflictions of Christ which now he suffreth in his members for the accomplishmente of his body the church which are we that beleue in him sincerely which is the surest token of Gods loue towards vs that we can haue in thys world for whom god loueth he chasteneth and as it is written Heb. 12 he chasteneth euery sonne whō he receaueth Wherfore aboue all things loue the crosse of Christ vnder the which al the church of Christ in England nowe is be content to haue your fayth tried euery daye by some crosse or other as it pleaseth God to put on you and if God putteth no greuous crosse vppon you let your brethrens crosse be your crosse whiche is a certayn token of true brotherly loue If the church in England had learned with the Gospel to haue borne the crosse of Christ as all that be professours of the Gospel be called thereunto they woulde not so lightly at the commaundement of man haue turned from the wayes of saluation to their old vomite againe contrary to their conscience and al to auoide the crosse the mercifull signe of Gods loue towards vs. If the crosse were not the faythfull could not be knowen If the crosse were not God should not so manifestly appeare to be our deliuerer and cōforter as he doth shewe himselfe in the middest therof vnto al thē that put their trust in him Therfore beleue them verely to be in most happie estate that be vnder the crosse such as doe vtterly abhorre the same are cowards not fytte souldiers for the lord We haue al receaued the credit of faith from god in Christ that we should beautifie the same or rather god in the same 1. Cor. 4. We haue this treasure in brittel vessels let vs take hede that the britelnes of the vessels shee de not out our precious treasure on the earth as it is lamentable to see at this day many haue most vnfaythfully done Are they worthy of the heauenly kingdome which here esteeme more earth then heauen O palpable infidelity Wil not god require the credit of fayth which he hath committed vnto vs Yea verely Is thys the vsury of fayth to loue the world more then the Gospel and to feare mā more then god If men which coūt themselues stronger worthyer vessels haue thus vnfaythfully dealt in the thinges of god let the weakenes of womē be more fyrme in their fayth to the glory of God whose might appeareth in weakenes There is no exceptiō of person before god both man and woman be on in god and that persō in al sortes of people is acceptable to him that striueth to do hys will Wherfore contend in these crosse dayes whiche be the loue dayes of god towardes vs to shew your self faythful to him that calleth you and to be redy to do his will according to true knowledge and that vnder the crosse God hath geuen you a faythful guide whom see you loue with al humilitie pacience and obedience as it becommeth a holy woman to be subiect to her faythful head in the Lord comfort him in our common crosse and bid him cherefully take vp the one end and you will beare the other a double string knit together As you in your godly matrimonye do represent the mysterye of Christ and his churche so continue you liuely members of fayth in the same and learne daily more and more to beare the crosse of Christ that other seing your strength may be comforted and be ashamed of their weakenes in their maisters cause The faythful seruaunt the Lord loueth which bringeth his talent to his table with encrease Now is the time to encrease to the lord and not to decrease to multiply our fayth vnder the crosse not to diminysh it Ose 6 Gene. 9. The waies of the iust do encrease as the dauning of the day Embrace therfore the crosse as the raynebow of gods merciful couenaunt pray that we may together end our course therin with ioy Take my token in good worth vntil we be made partakers of the glory of the crosse Out of my Lorde of Londons Colehouse The .xi. of Nouember Yours Iohn Philpot. To my brother Iohn Careles prisoner in the Kinges Benche THe grace of God the father through his deare sonne Christ our Sauiour with perseuerance in all godly verity be with thee my deare brother Careles and with al my prison fellowes Amen Ah my own loue in Christ These were certeyne free-wil mē arrogant frowerd and vnquiet spirites I am sory to heare of thy great trouble which these shismatiks do daily put thee to I wold I were with thee in part to releue thy greefe but since that it hath pleased God otherwise take my aduice in thys your conflict be pacient what soeuer your aduersaryes can saye or do against you Know that you are appoynted for the defence of the gospel for the which you god be praysed do suffer yet you must vnderstand that you are but a voyce in the wildernes a planter that it is god which must geue the encease And therefore if there come not suche fruite of your good labours as you would wyshe be content know that a stony groūd can not fructifye yet shal not god forget your labour but you shal reape as plētiously in the day of reward as though it had encreased after your expectatiō Haue patience therfore in your labour and let not care eate out your hart Committe the successe to God and cease not with charitye to be earnest in the defence of the truth agaynste these arrogant and self will blynded scatterers These sectes are necessary for the

not perfectly know You haue had the pure worde of God plentifully preached amōgest you yea and the same sealed praysed be god therfore wyth good store of bloode You haue also the blessed Bible and al other good bokes of godly mens doings among you so that I thynke you are ignoraunt of nothyng that perteineth to the life of a perfect christian Therfore I wyl not here take vpon me to teache you any thing syth I know that the most part of you perceiueth of the mind of God as much or more then I do But I wil now most hūbly pray you hartely besech you that by the mercifulnes of god in Iesus Christ and as we shal al assemble shortly before him that you will in no wise do contrary to your knowlege least your owne conscience become also a swifte witnes at the great day against you I wyl not meddle with secret maters but speak of those things which be to much apparant and yet not of all but namely of one the which as it semeth to be least regarded amongest you so am I sure the same is yet most horrible odious in the sight of god that is to say the beyng present wyth the papistes at any of their Antichristian and idolatrous seruice whiche is not only a wicked dissemblyng of your fayth and a verye outward deniall of the gospell of God but also a manifest committyng of idolatry wyth the wycked and doth depely deserue gods heuy wrath and displeasure which is not farre of vnlesse you hartelye repente in tyme and turne to the Lord comming cleane away from the filthines aforesaid as he doth louingly call you Ah my dere hartes what shal I say to you or how shall I temper my pen to persuade you Al the godly preachers that in tymes past haue taken paines amongest you haue fully agreed and wholy concluded yea and by the holy scriptures plainly proued that it is not lawful for any of you to be personally present with the papistes at any part of their Antichristiā seruice This haue they truly taught you this haue they largely and learnedly written vnto you and this haue they most godly confirmed with their blood before you What wold you haue more Yea many a faithful hart hath folowed them and to their power done the lyke and yet alas all wil not now serue Howe happeneth this my dere frendes of Londō that neither the louing admonitiōs of al gods good Prophets nor the earnest warnings of hys deare witnesses and worthy Martyrs wil take no place amongest you Do you thynke that they haue not told you the truthe but some dreame or vayne tale that shal not so come to passe Do you thinke that they did but dallye with you to delude you and to make you afraid of a flea bityng or vayne shadow wher no nede of fear is Certainly you shal find it otherwise shortly if you so thinke as you maye see if you wil by experience of that which is already come to passe euen as they did truly tel you in their preachyng or rather prophesye for youre for warning Be you sure the Lorde is no lesse myghtye to-performe his word pronounced by these his fore runners before his latter comming then he was true to poure forth his plagues vpō the Iewes prophecied both by Iohn Baptist other hys forerūners before hys first comming Latymer Rydley Hoper Rogers Bradforde Saunders wyth the rest of their blessed bretherne that are fled or burned are as well to be beleued in this pointe as Helias Esay Ieremy or Iohn Baptist in those thinges that they warned the world of It is al one word which they al haue preached in the power of one spirit that they haue ministred And as verely as they were the lordes messengers to Israel for that age so surely were these later sort the lordes ministers to warne England for this age I feare the last that euer shal be sent vnto it But I aske againe how hapneth it that you pretending to be of the flocke of Christ do not now harken to the voyce of your head pastour Christ pronounced by hys seruauntes to obey follow it Verely I feare me because you be but wilde goates none of christes true elect shepe For if you were Christes shepe in dede you woulde surelye geue more regard to the voice of your shepeharde speakyng in his godly preachers and not presume to follow straungers as I here say you do which entise you to lewdnes and backeloking from the plough on which you had once layd hand Luke 17 but Christ byddeth you remember Lottes wife I here saye that there is amongest you nowe adaies a sort of worldly wise men whose doinges will proue folishnes before god one day wtout doubt which haue so diligently sought the scripture that they haue found out that whiche none of our good preachers euer coulde doe thoughe their whole studye was only therin day and nighte And what is that Forsoth as some say they haue found there that it is permitted lawful for christian men that know the truth to be presente with the papistes at their Anitchristian and idolatrous seruice and that they maye cloke their knoweledge and dissemble their faythe seeke what shiftes they can to saue their life lādes goodes so that they do not vtterly deny the truth in their hartes or by expresse wordes in the way of recanting Ah sirrha haue they so Yea Syr I warrant you they haue not had the Bible in their houses al this while for naught They haue found one tricke to serue their turne whē the time of trial cōmeth that al our folish preachers coulde not perceaue for had they knowē that knacke they would not fo hedlong haue runne into the fire as they haue done But with your leue I wil now a while talke with these worldly wise Diuines which haue found out this hyd mystery I myght say of iniquitie wel inough I praye you my Maisters Massemongrel gospellers where do you find that any faythful christiā may dissemble the profession of his Maisters religion to frame and fashion hym self lyke vnto the wicked world where out the Lord hath chosen hym to serue hym in spirit truth You finde it be like in the bottome of your bagges of gold siluer for in gods Bible boke I am sure you finde it not but altogether the contrary You here there how god doth byd you not to beare a straūge yoke with the vnbeleuers but to come out frō amongest them to seperate your selues frō thē but many mens hearing wil not serue them on that syde You here there also that God wyll spue out suche luke warme gentlemē as be neither hote nor colde forth of his mouthe Apo. 3. but I weene you doe not beleue it well I saye no more but marke the ende of thys geare I will not denye but that you maye wryng and wrest some places of the holy scripture

if you will not speake then I besech you let these my letters speake vnto M. Gates to M. Wrothe to M. Cicill whom all I doe take for men that doe feare God It was sayd here constantly my Lord Chamberlaine to haue bene departed Syr though the day be delayed yet he hath no pardon of long life therfore I do besech his good Lordship so many as shall read these letters if they feare God to helpe that neither horse neither yet dogge be suffered to deuour the poore liuings appointed founded by godly ordinance to the ministers of gods worde The causes of consciēce which do moue me to speake write thus are not only those whiche I declared once in the cause of this Prebend before the Kings Maiesties Counsell which now I let passe but also now the man M. Grindal vnto whō I would geue this Prebend doth moue me verye muche for he is a man knowen to be both of vertue honestie discretion wisedome learning And besides al this I haue a better opinion of the Kings Maiesties ▪ honourable Counsel thē although some of them haue subscribed at this their Clarkes craf●ie vngodly sute to such a letter then I say they wil let not suffer after request made vnto them the liuing appoynted founded for a preacher to bee bestowed vppon so honest and well a learned man Wherfore for gods sake I besech you al helpe that with the fauour of the Counsel I may haue knowledge of the kings maiesties good pleasure to geue thys preachers liuing vnto M. Grindall Of late there haue bene letters directed from the Kinges Maiestie and his honourable Counsell vnto all the bishops wherby we be charged commaūded both in our own persons and also to cause our preachers ministers especially to crie out against the insatiable serpēt of couetousnesse whereby is sayd to be suche a gredynes amonges the people that eche one goeth about to deuour other and to threaten thē with Gods greuous plagues both now presently throwē vpon them and that shal be likewise in the worlde to come Syr what preachers shall I gette to open and set forth suche matters and so as the Kings Maiestie and the Counsel do commaunde them to be set forth if either vngodlye men or vnreasonable beastes bee suffered to pull awaye deuoure the good and godlye learned preachers liuings Thus I wyshe you in god euer wel to fare to helpe Christes cause as you would haue helpe of him at your most nede From Fulham this present the 23. of Iulie 1551. Yours in Christe Nicholas London A letter of Cutbert Symson to certayne of hys frendes concernyng hys Rackyng and other cruell tormentes which he suffred in the Tower THe .13 daye of December I was sente to the Tower and on the Thursdaye after I was called into the warehouse before the Constable of the Tower and the Recorder of London Maister Cholmeley They commaunded me to tel them whom I dyd wil to come to the Englyshe seruice I aunswered I woulde declare nothyng Thys Engine is called Skenyngtons Giues wherin the body standeth double the head being drawē towardes the seete The forme maner of these Gyues and of his Rackyng you may see in the booke of Martyrs Folio 1631. Then was I set in an engine of Yron for the space of .iij. houres as I iudged After that they asked me if I woulde tell them I aunsweared as before Then was I losed and caryed to my lodging agayne On the Sundaye after I was broughte into the same place agayne before the Lieutenant being also Constable and the Recorder of London and they examined me As before I hadde sayd I aunsweared Then the Lieutenaunt sware by god I shoulde tell Then dyd they bynde my two forefyngers together and putte a small arrowe betwixt them and drew it through so faste that the bloode followed and the arrowe brake Then they racked me twyse After that was I caryed to my lodging agayne and tenne dayes after the Lieuetenaunt asked me if I woulde not confesse that whi●he before they had asked me I sayde I had sayde as muche as I woulde Then fyue weekes after he sent me vnto the hyghe priest where I was greatlye assaulted and at whose hande I receaued the Popes curse for hearyng witnesse of the resurrection of Iesus Christe And thus I commend you vnto God and to the woorde of his grace with all them that vnfaynedly call vppon the name of Iesus desiring GOD of his endles mercy through the merites of hys deare sonne Iesus Christ to bryng vs al to his euerlastyng kingdome Amen I prayse God for hys great mercy shewed vpon vs. Syng Osanna vnto the hyghest with me Cutbert Symsō God forgeue me my sinnes I aske al the world forgeuenes I do forgeue al the world and thus I leaue this worlde in hope of a ioyfull resurrection Cutbert Symson A briefe admonition wrytten by M. Bradford in a newe testament of a frend of hys THis boke is called sermo crucis the word of the crosse 1. Cor. 2 because the crosse doth alwais accompany it so that if you wil be a student hereof you must nedes prepare your self to the crosse which you began to learne before you learned your Alphabet and Christ requireth it of euery one that wyll be his disciple therin not swaruing from the common trade of callings or vocations for no profession or kind of life wanteth hys crosse So that they are farre ouerseene whyche thynke that the profession of the gospel whiche the deuyll most enuieth the world most hateth the flesh most repineth at can be without a crosse Lette vs therfore pray that god would enable vs to take vp our crosse by denying our selues E carcere 18. Februarij 155● Iohn Bradford A letter of Maister Thomas Leauer beyng then in exile for the testimonye of gods gospell to M. Bradford prisoner in the tower of London THe grace of god be vnto you wyth my harty commendations I haue sene the places noted the doctrine and discipline and talked wyth the learned men of Argentine Basyll Zurich Berne Lausan and Geneua and I haue had experience in all these places of syncere doctryne godly order and great learnyng and especially of suche vertuous learning diligence and charitie in Bullinger at Zurich and in Caluine at Geneua as doth much aduaunce gods glory vnto the edifying of Christes church with the same religiō for the which you be now in prison And as I dout not but you in readyng of their bookes haue foūd much godly and comfortable knowledge so I am sure that they in hearyng of your constancy patiēce take occasiō greatly to reioyce wyth thankes geuing vnto God whiche doth testifye his truth vnto the worlde not onely by their writyng but also by your suffering The lord therefore which vseth thys your suffering ioyned wyth godly learnyng to set forth his glory not onely vnto the comfort of simple soules in

England but also vnto the great reioycing encouraging of the most godly learned men in al coūtreis wil as I desire and trust geue you suche comforte in conscience as shall easely beare the paines of your imprisonmēt If you desire to suffer or do that thing whiche mighte testifye the truth aduaunce the glory edifye the church of Christ truly you haue your desire yea and I ensure you very many godlye men in diuers places geue daily thankes vnto god in praier for you You know your cause is good your frendes be in fauour your aduersaries in displeasure wyth the almightye god your heauēly father your sufferyng for the truth shall not be vnrewarded your hope in Christ shall neuer be confounded For although your bodies bee kepte within prysons yet your testimony vnto the truth shyneth farre abroad in the world and your faythfull prayers in charitable vnitie ioyned wyth many others be continually presented afore the throne of god God graunt you grace to finde vse comfortable meditation of his worde in diligent obedience vnto hys wyl Christ be your keper in comfort Amen From Zurich the .52 of Octob. by yours faithfully in Christ Thomas Leauer Sap. 3. They are punished in few things but in many things shall they be rewarded He trieth them as the golde in the fornace receiueth them as a hurnt offring Gratia sancte pater tua det quò in firma ferendae Hee caro victrici nostra sit apta cruci Thy holy spirite grace graunt vs O father deare wherby we may be strōg thy crosse alway to beare ❧ A Table of the letters conteyned in thys booke declaryng by whome and to whome they were written Letters of D. Cranmer Archb. of Cant. A Letter to Quene Mary 1 An other letter to Quene Mary 3 To the Lordes of the Councell 16 A letter wherin he reproueth the slaunderous reportes that he had sette vp Masse agayne at Caunt 17 To a certaine Lawyer 19 To Mistres Wilkinson 23 Letters of D. Ridley B. of London TO the brethren dispersed abroad in sundry prisons c. 28 To the bretherne which constantly cleaue vnto Christ c. 34 To Quene Mary 38 An aunswer to West 40 To maister Hoper 45 A letter sent vnto him by maister Grindal beyng in exile 49 An answer writē by him to the former letter 15 A letter to D. Cranmer D. Latymer 56 Viii. seueral letters to M. Bradford 58 iii. letters to Augustine Berneher 70 To mistres Mary Glouer 74 To a frend that came to visit him in the prisō 75 A letter of his cruel hādling in Oxford 76 To D. Weston 78 To a Cosin of hys 79 A letter written to all hys faithfull frends as hys last farewel 80 An other farewel to the prisoners in the cause of christes gospel 103 A letter of his cruel handling in the scholes at Oxford and of his condemnation c. 112 Letters of M. Hoper B. of Glocester TO certayne godly persons enstructing them how to vse themselues at the chaunge of religion 114 To certain of his relieuers and helpers in the City of London 117 An aunswer to a letter wherby he was certified of them that were taken at Bowe 120 To the prisoners in both Coūters which were taken at Bowe 121 To certaine of his frendes exhorting thē to sticke to the truth 123 An other letter to the same effecte 125 To a merchant man by whome he had receiued comfort in the Flete 127 A letter of his cruell handlyng in the Flete 128 A letter againste false reportes that he had recanted 130 To mystres Wilkinson 131 To mistres A. W. 132 To maister Farrar D. Taylor M. Bradford M. Philpot. 134 To M. Hall and hys wyfe 136 To one that was fallē frō the truthe of the Gospell 137 To the faithful in the city of Lōdon 140 To a certaine woman teaching her how to behaue her self in her widowhode 142 A letter concerning a woman that was troubled wyth her husband in matters of religion 143 To hys beloued W.P. 146 To M. Iohn Hall 146 An exhortation to hys wyfe 147 To the christian congregation 157 A letter of M. Bullinger to M. Hoper 166 Letters of D. Taylor TO D. Cranmer D. Rydley and D. Latymer 171 To a frend of his concerning hys talke with the commissioners 172 A letter concerning the cause of hys condemnation 175 To his wife and children 178 Another letter to hys wyfe 641 Letters of M. Laurence Saunders TO D. Cranmer D. Ridley and D. Latymer 179 To the professours of the gospell in the towne of Lichfield 182 To mystres Lucie Harrington 191 An other to mistres Harrington 192 To his wyfe M. Harrington and M. Hurland 193 An other letter to them 195 A letter concernyng D. Westons comming to him to the Marshalsee 197 To hys wife and certayne other of hys frendes 197 ii other letters to his wife 200 To S. Gardiner B. of Winchester 201 To his wife other of his frendes 204 An other letter to his wyfe and certayne other of his frendes 205 ii letter to M. Robert Glouer Iohn Glouer 205 To a certayne backeslider frō the truth of gods worde 208 To M. Ferr●r D Taylour M. Bradforde and M. Philpot. 211 A letter to mistres L. Harrington 212 Letters of M. Iohn Philpot. A Letter written to the christian congregation 216 To Iohn Careles prisoner in the kings Benche 224 An other letter to Iohn Careles 226 An answer of I. Careles to the former letter 230 To certayne godly women goyng beyond the seas 234 An exhortation writē to a Sister of his 236 To M. Robert Harrington 239 To M. Robert Glouer prisoner in Couē 241 To mistres Heath 243 To Iohn Careles 245 To mistres A. Hartipole 247 To a faithful woman exhorting her to be patient vnder the crosse 249 To certain of his frēds as his last farewel 645 Letters of M. Iohn Bradford To the faythful professours of gods worde in the City of London 251 To the true professours of gods worde in the vniuersitie and towne of Cambridge 257 To the professours of the true religiō of christ in Lankeshyre and Chesshire 263 To the vnfayned professours of the truth dwellyng at Walden 269 To the honourable L. Russell 275 An other letter to the L. Russell 278 To Maister Warcup mistres Wilkinson and other his frendes 280 To Sir Iames Hales 286 To hys Mother 290 To D. Hill Phisition 294 To Mistres M. H. 298 An other letter to her 303 To his beloued W. P. 305 To mistres I. H. 306 To M. Humphrey Hales 309 An other letter to maister H. Hales 312 To certayne of his frendes encouraging to be ioyful vnder the crosse 314 To M. Laurence Saunders prisoner in the Marshalsee 319 An other letter to M. Saunders 321 A letter of comfort to a faithful woman in her heauines and trouble 322 To hys louing brethren B.C. 330 To the Lady Vane 334 ii other letters to the L. Vane