contrary to your own othe writing With what countenaunce wil ye appeare before the Iudgement seate of Christ and aunswere to your othe made first vnto that blessed king Henry 8. of famous memorye and afterward vnto that blessed king Edward the 6. his sonne The bishop answered Tush tush Herodes othe Here the bishop confesseth vnlawfull othes ought not to be kept that was Herodes othe vnlawfull and therfore worthy to be broken I haue done well in breaking it and I thanke God I am come home agayne to our mother to the Catholicke Churche of Rome and so I would thou shouldest doe Doctor Taylor answered Should I forsake y e Church of Christ which is founded vppon the true foundation of the Apostles and Prophetes to approue those lyes erroures superstitions and Idolatries that the Popes and their company at this day so blasphemously do approoue Nay God forbid The true church of Christ wherunto all men ought to turne Let the pope and his returne to our sauioure Christ and his word and thrust out of the Churches such abhominable Idolatries as he maintayneth and then wil christen men turne vnto him You wrote truely agaynst hym and were sworne agaynst him I tell thee quoth the Bishop of Winchester it was Herodes oth vnlawfull and therfore ought to be broken and not kept and our holy father the Pope hath discharged me of it Then sayd D. Taylor Christ will require lawfull othes and promises but you shall not so be discharged before Christ who doubtles will require it at youre handes as a lawfull othe made to your liege soueraigne Lorde the king from whose obedience no man can assoyle you neither the Pope nor none of his I see quoth the Bishop thou art an arrogant knaue Gardiner agayne rayling Rayling wordes become not a magistrate Math. 5. and a very foole My Lord quoth Doctor Taylor leaue your vnseemly rayling at me which is not seemely for such a one in authoritie as you are For I am a Christian man and you know that He that sayeth to his brother Racha is in daunger of a Counsell and he that sayth thou foole is in daunger of hel fire The Bishop answered ye are all false and lyars all the sort of you Nay quoth D. Taylor we are true men and know that is written Os quod mentitur occidit animam agayne Perdes omnes qui loquuntur mendacium i. The mouth that lyeth slayeth the soule And agayne Lord God thou shalt destroy all that speake lyes And therefore we abide by the truth of gods word which ye contrary to your own conscience deny and forsake Thou art maryed quoth the B. Yea quoth Doctour Taylor that I thank God I am Maryage obiected to D. Taylour Mariage defended and haue had nine children and all in lawfull matrimony and blessed be God y t ordayned matrimony and commaunded that euerye man that hath not the gift of continency shoulde mary a wife of his owne and not liue in adultery or whoredome Then sayd the bishop thou hast resisted the Queenes Proceedinges One Idolater holdeth with an other and wouldest not suffer the Parson of Aldam a very vertuous and deuout Priest to say Masse in Hadley Doctor Taylor answered My Lorde I am Parson of Hadley and it is agaynst all right conscience and lawes that any man shall come into my charge presume to infect the flock committed vnto me The Masse with venome of the Popish Idolatrous Masse With that the Bishop waxed very angry said Thou art a blasphemous hereticke in deede that blasphemest the blessed sacrament and put of his cap and speakest agaynst the holy Masse which is made a sacrifice for the quick and the dead D. Taylor answered Nay I blaspheeme not the blessed sacrament which Christ instituted but I reuerence it as a true christian ought to doe The communiō and confesse that Christ ordayned the holy communion in the remembrance of his death and passion The true sacrifice for the quicke and dead what it is which◠when we keepe according to his ordinaunce we through fayth eat the body of Chryst and drinke his bloud geuing thanks for our redemption and this is our sacrifice for the quicke the dead to geue God thankes for his mercifull goodnes shewed to vs in that he gaue his sonne Christ vnto the death for vs. Propitiatory sacrifice offered neuer more then once Thou sayst well quoth the Bishop It is all y t thou hast sayd and more to for it is a propitiatory sacrifice for y e quick dead Thē answered D. Taylor Christ gaue hymselfe to die for our redemption vpon the Crosse whose body there offered was the propitiatory Sacrifice full perfect and sufficient vnto saluation for all them that beleeue in him And this sacrifice did our Sauiour Christ offer in his owne person himselfe once for all Our sacrifice is onely memoratiue Winchesters strong argument cary him to prison neither can any Priest any more offer him nor we neede no more propitiatory sacrifice and therefore I say with Chrysostome and all the Doctours Our Sacrifice is only memoratiue in the remembrance of Christes death and passion a sacrifice of thankesgeuing and therefore Fathers called it Eucharistia And other sacrifice hath the Church of God none It is true quoth the Byshop the Sacrament is called Eucharistia a thankesgeuing because we there geue thanks for our redemption and it is also a sacrifice propitiatory for the quicke and the dead which thou shalt confesse ere thou and I haue done Then called the Bishop his men and sayde haue this fellow hence and carry him to the Kings bench and charge the keeper he be straitly kept Then kneeled Doctor Taylour down and held vp both his hands and said Good Lord I thanke thee and from the tiranny of the Byshop of Rome D. Taylours prayer agaynst the pope and his detestable enormities and all his detestable errours Idolatries and abhominations good Lord deliuer vs And God be praysed for good King Edwarde So they caried him to prison to the Kings Bench where he lay prisoner almost two yeares ☞ This is the summe of that first talke as I sawe it mentioned in a Letter that Doctour Taylour wrote to a frend of his thanking God for his grace that he had confessed his truth and was founde worthy for truth to suffer prison and bands beseeching his frendes to pray for him that he might perseuere constaunt vnto the ende Being in prison Doctour Taylour spent all hys tyme in prayer reading the holy Scriptures and writing and preaching The godly behauiour and cōuersation of D. Taylour in the prison and exhorting the prisoners and such as resorted to him to repentance and amendement of life Within a fewe dayes after were diuerse other learned and godly men in sondry countreys of England committed to prison for Religion so that almost all the prisons in England were become right
the reward of xx pound by yeare to him to his heires who had least the other eight Counsailours vniustly charging them and the towne of sedition and heresie to say the Lord Lisle the Lord Sandes Sir Iohn Wallop sir Edward Rinsley Rob. Fowler Esquier vice treasurer Example how God turneth the malice of theyr enemies vpon 〈◊〉 owne 〈◊〉 sir Tho. Palmer knight called loÌ„g Palmer W. Simpson Esquier vndermarshall Ioh. Rockwod were either greatly out of their Princes fauour and in the Tower or els where prisoners either els by very desperat deathes in outward appearance taken out of this world For tediousnes I will rehearse but only the horrible ende of the said Rockwood the chiefe stirrer vp of all the afflictions afore spoken of who euen to the last breath staring raging cried he was vtterly damned and being willed to aske God mercy Example of 〈◊〉 iudge 〈◊〉 vpon a cruell persâ—câ—ter who was ready to forgeue all that asked mercy of him he braied cried out All too late for I haue sought malitiously the deathes of a number of the honestest men in the towne and though I so thought them in my hart yet I did that lay in me to bring theÌ„ to an euil death all too late therefore all too late Which same words he answered to one that at the departure of the xiij in yrons towards England said Sir I neuer saw men of such honesty so sharply corrected taking it so paciently and ioyfully Rockwod theÌ„ fetching a friske or two scoffingly answered All too late The vndermarshal sodenly fel downe in the Counsaile chamber and neuer spake word after nor shewed any token of remembraunce The plagues of the other also as I am credibly infourmed were little better The second apprehension and martyrdome of Adam Damlyp COncerning Adam Damlip Adam Damlip agayne apprehended otherwise called George Bucker ye heard before declared page 1223. how hee being conuented before the Bishops at Lambeth and afterwarde secretly admonished and hauing money geuen him by his freinds to auoide and not to appeare agayne before the Bishops after hee had sente his allegations in writing vnto them departed into the West countrey and there continued teaching a schoole a certaine space about a yeare or two After that the good man was againe apprehended by the miserable inquisition of the sixe articles and brought vp to London where he was by Steuen Gardiner commaunded into the Marshalsey and there lay the space of other two yeares or thereabout During the imprisonment of this George in the Marshalsey Io. Marbecke as partly ye heard before also was coÌ„mitted into the same prison which was the morow after Palme sonday The maner of that time so required that at Easter euery person must nedes come to coÌ„fessioÌ„ Wherupon Marbecke with the rest of the prisoners there was enforced to come vpoÌ„ Easter day to sir George aforesaid George Bucker confessour to the prisoners in the Marshalsey to be confessed who was then coÌ„fessor to y e whole house By this occasion I. Marbecke which had neuer sene him before entring into coÌ„ference w t him perceiued what he was what he had ben what troubles he susteined how long he had liue there in prison by whoÌ„ wherfore who declared moreouer his mind to Marbecke to y e effect as foloweth And now because said he I thinke they haue forgotteÌ„ me Acquaintaunce betweene Iohn Marbecke and George Bucker otherwise called Adam Damlip I am fully minded to make my humble sute to the Bish. of Winchester in an Epistle declaring therin mine obedieÌ„ce humble submission and earnest desire to come to examination I know the woorst I can but leese my life presente which I had leuer do then heere to remaine and not to be suffered to vse my talent to Gods glory Wherefore God willing I will surely put it in proofe This Damlip for his honest and godly behauiour was beloued of all y e whole house Adam Damlip well beloued among the prisoners specially of the keeper but specially of the keper him selfe whose name was Massy whoÌ„e he always called master and being suffred to go at liberty within y e house whether he would he did much good amoÌ„g the common rascal sort of prisoners in rebuking vice sin and kept them in such good order awe that the keeper thought himselfe to haue a great treasure of him And no lesse also Marbeck himselfe confesseth to haue found great coÌ„fort by him For notwithstanding y e straight precept geuen by the Bish. of Winchester that no man shoulde come to him Massy keeper of the Marshalsey nor hee to speake with any man yet the sayde Adam manye tymes would finde the meanes to come and comfort him Now when he had made and drawne out hys Epistle he deliuered the same to his maister the keeper Adam Damlip writeth to the Bishop of Winchester vpoÌ„ saterday in the morning which was about the secoÌ„d weeke before Whitsonday folowing desiring him to deliuer it at the Court to y e B. of Winchester The keeper said he woulde and so did The Bish. what quicke speede he made for hys dispatch I know not but thus it fel out as ye shall heare The keeper came home at night very late and when the prisoners which had taried supper for his comming sawe him so sad and heauie they deemed something to be amisse At last the keeper casting vp his eyes vpon Syr George sayd O George I can tell thee tidings What is that maister quoth he Upon Monday next thou and I must goe to Calice To Calice maister What to do I know not Stephen Gardiner sendeth out a precept for the execution of Adam Damlip quoth the keeper pulled out of his purse a peece of waxe with a little labell of parchmeÌ„t hanging out thereat which seemed to be a precept And when Sir George saw it hee sayde well well Maister nowe I knowe what the matter is What quoth the keeper Truely maister I shall die in Calice Nay quoth the keeper I trust it be not so Yes yes maister it is most true and I praise God for his goodnes therin And so the keeper they went together to supper with heauie cheere for sir George as they there called him Who notwithstanding was mery himselfe The cheerefull constancie of Adam Damlip did eate his meate as well as euer he did in all his life In so much that some at the boord sayd vnto him that they marueyled how he could eate his meate so well knowing hee was so neare his death Ah maisters quoth he do you thinke that I haue ben Gods prisoner so long in the Marshalsey and haue not yet learned to dye Yes yes and I doubt not but God will strengthen me therein Ex litteris Ioa. Marbecki And so vpon Monday early in the morning before day the keeper with in other of the Knight Marshalles seruaunts Adam
the which Martin Luther first to stand against the Pope was a great miracle to preuaile against the Pope a greater so to die vntouched may seme greatest of all especially hauing so many enemies as he had Againe neither is it any thing lesse miraculous to consider what manifold dangers he escaped besides as when a certeine Iewe was appointed to come to destroy him by poison yet was it so the will of God that Luther had warning thereof before and the face of the Iewe sent to him by picture whereby he knew him and auoided the perill Another time as he was sitting in a certaine place vpon his stoole M. Luther miraculously preserued a great stone there was in the vault ouer hys head where he did sit which being stayd miraculously so long as he was sitting as soone as he was vp immediatly fell vpon the place where he sate able to haue crushed him all in peeces if it had light vpon him And what should I speake of his praiers which were so ardent vnto Christ that as Melancthon writeth they which stoode vnder his windowe where he stood prayeng might see his teares falling and dropping downe Againe with such power he prayed that he as himselfe confesseth had obteined of the Lord that so long as he liued the Pope should not preuaile in his countrey after his death sayd he let them pray who could M. Luther vehemeÌ„t mighty in prayer And as touching the maruelous workes of the Lorde wrought heere by men if it be true which is credibly reported by the learned what miracle can be more miraculous then that whiche is declared of a yong man aboute Wittenberge who being kept bare and needy by his father was tempted by way of sorcery to bargaine with the Diuell or a familiare as they call him to yeeld hymselfe body and soule into the Diuels power A miraculous worke of the Lorde in deliuering a young man out of the deuils daunger by Christian prayer vpon condition to haue his wish satisfied with money So that vpon the same an obligation was made by the yong man written with his owne bloud and geuen to the Diuell This case you see how horrible it was and how damnable now heare what followed Upon the sodeine wealth and alteration of this yong man the matter first being noted began afterward more more to be suspected and at length after long and great admiration was brought vnto Martin Luther to be examined The yong man whether for shame or feare long denied to confesse and woulde bee knowne of nothing Yet God so wrought being stronger then the Diuell that he vttered vnto Luther the whole substance of the case as well touching the money as the obligation Luther vnderstanding the matter and pitiing the lamentable state of the man willed the whole congregation to pray and he himselfe ceased not with hys praiers to labour so that the Diuell was compelled at the last to throw in his obligation at the window and bade him take it againe vnto him Which narration if it be so true as certeinely it is of him reported I see not the contrary but that this may well seeme comparable wyth the greatest miracle in Christes Church that was since the Apostles time Furthermore as he was mighty in his prayers so in his Sermons God gaue him such a grace that when hee preached they which heard him thought euery one hys owne temptations seuerally to be noted and touched Whereof when signification was geuen vnto him by hys frends and he demaunded how that could be mine owne manifold temptations said he and experiences are the cause thereof Ex Phill Melanct in orat funebri Ex Hierony Wellero For this thou must vnderstand good reader that Luther from his tender yeares was much beaten and exercised with spirituall conflicts as Melancthon in describing of his life doth testifie Also Hieronymus Wellerus scholer and disciple of the sayd Martin Luther recordeth that he oftentimes heard Luther his maister thus reporte of himselfe that he had bene assaulted and vexed with all kindes of temptations sauing onely one Luther â—â—â—uer in all his life tempted with coueteousneâ—s M. Luther how long he liued â— taught which was with couetousnes With this vice he was neuer said he in all his life troubled nor once tempted And hetherto concerning the life of Martin Luther who liued to the yeare of his age 63. He continued writing and preachyng about 29. yeares As touching the order of his death the words of Melancthon be these In the yeare of our Lord 1546. and the 17. of February Doctour Martin Luther sickened a little before supper of his accustomed maladie to wyt of the oppression of humours in the orifice or opening of his stomacke whereof I remember I haue seene him oft diseasid in this place The sickneâ— of Luther This sickenes tooke him after supper with the which he vehemently contending required secesse into a bye chamber and there he rested on his bed two houres all whych time his paynes encreased And as Doctor Ionas was lieng in his chamber Luther awaked and praied him to rise and to call vp Ambrose his childrens scholemaister to make fire in another chamber Into the which when he was newly entred Albert Earle of Mansfield The quiet death of Luther with hys wife and diuers other whose names in these letters for haste were not expressed at that instant came into hys chamber Finally feeling his fatall houre to approche before nine of the clocke in y e morning the xviij of February he coÌ„mended himselfe to God with this deuour praier ¶ The Prayer of Luther at his death MY heauenly father eternall and mercifull God thou hast manifested vnto me thy deare sonne our Lorde Iesus Christ. The prayer of Luther 〈◊〉 his death I haue taught him I haue knowne him I loue him as my life my health and my redemption whome the wicked haue persecuted maligned and with iniurie afflicted Draw my soule to thee After this he sayd as ensueth thryse I commend my spirit into thy hands thou hast redeemed me O God of truth GOD so loued the world that he gaue his only sonne that all those that beleeue in him shoulde haue life euerlasting Iohn iij Hauing repeated oftentimes his prayers he was called to God vnto whome so faithfully he commended his spirit to enioy no doubt the blessed societie of the Patriarks Prophets and Apostles in the kingdome of God the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Let vs now loue the memory of this man and the doctrine that he hath taught Let vs learne to be modest and meeke Let vs consider the wretched calamities and marueilous chaunges that shall follow this mishap and dolefull chance I beseech thee O sonne of God crucified for vs and resuscitated Emanuell gouerne coÌ„serue and defend thy Church Haec Melancthon Fridericus Prince Electour died long before Luther in the yeare of our Lord 1525. leauing no issue
in warlike aray toward the borders of Zuricke where as then was lying a garrison of the Zuricke menne to the number of a thousande and more Whereupon worde was sent incontinent to the Citie of Zuricke to succoure theyr men with speede but their enemies approched so fast that they coulde hardly come to rescue them For when they were come to the toppe of the hille whereby they muste needes passe they sawe their fellowes being in greate distresse in the valley vnder them whereupon they encouraging themselues made downe the hil with more hast then order who might goe fastest The Tigurines ouermatched ouercome but the nature of the hill was such that there could but one go down at once By reason wherof for as much as they could not keepe their rankes to ioyne all together it folowed that they being but few in number were discomfited and ouermatched of the multitude which was the 11. day of October the yeare abouesayde Among the number of them that were slayne was also Uldricus Zuinglius the blessed seruaunt S. of God Vldricus Zuinglius slaine Also the Abbotte of Capella and Commendator Kunacensis wyth 13. other learned and worthy men were slaine being as is thought falsly betraied and brought into the handes of theyr enemies As touching the cause which moued Zuinglius to goe out with his citizens to the warre as is sufficiently declared and excused both by Iohn Sleidan Ex Ioan. Sled lib. 8. and especially by Oecolampadius in his Epistle ad Mart. Frechtum and Somium Epist. Lib. 4. where first is to be vnderstande that it is an old receiued maner among the Zuricke men Ex epist. Ioan. Oecolampadij Lib. 4. that when they go foorth in warfare the chief minister of theyr church goeth with them Zuinglius also of him selfe beyng a man saith Sledanus of a stoute and bolde courage considering if he should remaine at home when warre should be attēpted against his citizens and if he which in his sermons did so encourage other should now faint so cowardly and tarye behinde at home when time of daunger came what shame and disdaine might worthily rise to hym thereby thoughte not to refuse to take suche parte as his brethren did Oecolampadius moreouer addeth that hee went not out as a captaine of the field but as a good citizen with his citizens Zuinglius excused for his going out to warre and as a good shepheard ready to die with his flocke And which of them all sayeth he that most cry out against Zuinglius can shew any such noble heart in him to do the like Againe neither did he go out of his owne accorde but rather desired not to goe foreseeing belike what daunger thereof woulde ensue But the Senate being importune vpon him would haue no nay vrging and enforcing hym most instantly to goe among whom were thought to haue bene some false betraiers saying and obiecting to him that he was a dastarde if he refused to accompany his brethren as well in time of daunger as in peace Moreouer the said Zuinglius among other seculare artes had also some skill in such matters of warfare Haec Oecolampad Whē he was slaine Zuinglius his dead body burned great crueltie was shewed vppon his deade corpes such was their hatred toward him that their malice could not be satisfied vnlesse also they shoulde burne hys bodie being dead Ex comment Ioan. Sled Lib. 8. The report goeth that after his body was cut first in 4. peeces Ex Oswaldo Miconio de vita et obitu Zuinglij The hart of Zuinglius foūd whole in the ashes The cruell handling of the Abbot Cappellensis Ex Epist. Oecola ad wolfgangū Capitonem lib 4. The age of Zuinglius of Luther reckned and then consumed with fire three daies after hys death his frēds came to see whether any part of him was remaining where they found his hart in the ashes whole and vnburned in much like maner as was also the hart of Cranmer Archbishop of Canterburie which in the ashes also was founde and taken vp vnconsumed as by credible information is testified Furthermore suche was then the rage of these 5. pages against the foresaid Abbot Capellensis that they tooke him being slain and putting out both his eies they clothed him in a monkes coule and so set him in the pulpite to preache railing and iesting vpon him in most despiteful maner Ez Epist. Oecolamp ad Wolfgangum Capitonem lib. 4. Uldericke Zuinglius was when he died of the age of 44. yeres yonger then M. Luther by 4. yeares The Bernates who were purposed the same time to atchieue warre against the Unterualdians bordering near vnto them when they heard of this discōfiture of the Tigurines to comfort them againe desired thē to be of good cheare and courage promising that they woulde not faile but come and reuenge their quarrell Againe when the Tigurines had assembled theyr power together whyche was the 8. day after the battell and had receiued aide from the Schaffusians Mullusians Sangalles and frō Basil the Bernates at this time were nothing hastie out of the whole number they chose out certaine ensignes whyche setting foorth in the night lay in the hil beside Mecinge intending when the moone was vp to take the town of Tugie lying neare at hand An other skirmish betweene the Tigurines the fiue Pagemen in Suitzerland vpon the sodain Which whē their ennemies had perceiued which were encamped not farre from them with all speede and moste secrete manner came vpō them being at rest the 24. day of October and putting them in more feare made a wonderful clamorous outcrie so it fell out in conclusion that many on both parties were slaine And all be it the 5. pagemen had the vpper hand yet would they of Zuricke nothing relent in theyr religion At the laste throughe mediation a peace was concluded and thus the matter agreed that the Tigurines Bernates and Basilians Peace concluded betweene the Protestants and the Papistes in Suitzerland shoulde forsake the league which they had lately made wyth the Citie of Strausburgh and the Lantgraue likewise shoulde the 5. Page men geue ouer theyr league and composition made wyth Ferdinandus and hereof obligations were made and sealed in the latter ende of Nouember Oecolampadius the preacher of the citie of Strausburgh aboue recorded The death of Oecolāpadius anno 1531. hearing of y e death of Zuinglius his deare frend tooke thereat inward griefe and sorrowe in so much that it is thought to haue encreased his disease and so hee also departed this life the same yeare and moneth of Nouember aboue mentioned being of the age of 49. yeres elder then M. Luther by one yeare The Commentaries of Oecolampadius vpon the Prophets Although this Oecolampadius then died yet his learned famous Commentaries vpon the Prophets with other worthy workes which he left behinde him liue still and shall neuer die
Franciscan Fryers of Paris caused him to be apprehēded layd in prison and so iudgement passed vpon hym that he shoulde be hanged but he to saue hys lyfe was contented to recant and so did The Fryers hearing of his recantation commended him saying if he continued so he should be saued and so calling vpon the officers caused them to make haste to the gallowes to hang hym vp while he was yet in a good way said they least he fall again And so was this marchaunt The iudgements of God notwithstanding hys recantation hanged for iesting against the Fryers Ex. Pantal. lib. 7. To this marchaunt may also be adioyned y e brother of Tamer who when hee had before professed the truth of the gospell and afterward by the counsel and instruction of hys brother was remooued from the same fell in desperation and such sorrow of mind that he hanged himselfe Ex Ioan. Manlio in dictis Phil. Melanct.  Tho. Galbergne a Couerlet maker At Tourney Ann. 1554. This Tho. had copied out certayn spiritual songes out of a book in Geneua whiche he brought wyth hym to Tourna lent y e same to one of hys felowes This booke beyng espied Thomas Galbergne martyr he was called for of the Iustice examyned of the book which he sayd contayned nothyng but y t was agreing to the scripture that he would stand by Then he was had to y e Castle and after xix dayes was brought to the towne house and there adiudged to the fire Whereūto he went chearfully singing psalmes As hee was in y e flame the Warden of the fryers stood crying Turne Thomas Thomas yet it is tyme remember hym y t came at the last houre To whom he cryed out of the flame with a loud voyce and I trust to be one of that sort and so calling vpon the name of the Lord gaue vp hys spirite Ex Crisp. lib. 4. Nicholas Paule martyr Adde also to this one Nicholas Paul beheaded at Gaunt These two should haue bene placed amōg the Dutch Martyrs in the table before Latrunculator or vnder Marshal or examiner of Dolphenie The Lieutenant His Attourney His Scribe Rich. Feurus a goldsmith At Lyons An. 1554. Feurus a Goldesmith borne at Rhoan first being in Englād Richard Feurus martyr and in London there receiued the taste and knowledge of Gods word as in hys owne Epistle hee recordeth Then he went to Geneua where he remayned 9. or 10. yeares From thēce returning to Lions there was apprehended and condemned Then he appealed to the hye court of Paris through the motion of his friends Where in the waye as hee was led to Paris he was met by certain whome he knew not and by them taken frō hys keepers and so set at libertie which was ann 1551 After the continuing at Geneua about y e space of iii. yeares he came vppon busines to the prouince of Dolphenie and there as he found faulte wyth the grace sayd in Latine he wak detected and taken in hys Inne in the night by the vndermarshall or him which had the examination of malefactours The next day he was sent to the Iustice from him to the bishop Who ridding their handes of him then was he brought to the Lieuetenaunt who sent his aduocate w t a notary to him in the prison The examination of Richard Feurus to examine hym of his fayth The whole processe of his examinatiōs w t his aduersaryes and the fryers in his story described is long y e principal contents come to this effect Inquisitour This Inquisitor was the Aduocate which the Lieutenant sent with the Notarie Doest thou beleue the Church of Rome The Martyr No I do beleue the Catholicke and vniuersall Church Inquisitour What Catholicke church is that The Martyr The congregation or communion of Christans Inquisitour The church What congregation is that or of whom doth it consist The Martyr It consisteth in the number of Gods elect whō God hath chosen to be the members of his sonne Iesus Christ of whome he is also the head Inquisitour Where is the congregation or how is it knowē The Martyr It is dispersed through the vniuersall world in diuers regions and is knowne by the spirituall direction wherwith it is gouerned that is to say both by thy word of God and by the right institution of Christes Sacramentes Inquisitor Do ye thinke the Church that is at Geneua Lausanna Berne and suche other places to be a more true Church then the holy church of Rome The Martyr Yea verily for these haue the notes of the true Church Inquisitour Difference betweene the church of Rome and the church of Christ. What difference then make you betweene those Churches and the Church of Rome The Marytr Muche for the Churche of Rome is gouerned onely with traditions of men but those are ruled only by the word of God Inquisitor Where learned you this doctrine first The Martyr In England at London Inquisitour How long haue ye bene at Geneua The Martyr About 9. or 10. yeares Inquisitor Doest thou not beleue the virgine Mary to be a mediatrix and aduocate to God for sinners The virgin Mary no aduocate The Martyr I beleue as in the worde of God is testified Iesus Christ to be onely mediator and aduocate for all sinners Albeit the virgine Mary be a blessed womā yet the office of an aduocate belongeth not vnto her Inquisitor The Sayntes that be in Paradice haue they no power to pray for vs Whether saintes doe praye The Martyr The church of Rome is not the church of christ No but I iudge thē to be blessed to be contēted with y e grace glory whiche they haue that is that they be counted the members of the sonne of God Inquisitor And what then iudge you of them which follow the religion of the Church of Rome think you them to be Christians The Martyr No for that churche is not gouerned with y e spirite of God but rather fighteth agaynst the same Inquisitor Do you then esteme all them which seperate them selues from the Churche of Rome to be Christians The Martyr Galat. 6. I haue not to aunswere for others but onely for my selfe Euery man sayth S. Paule shall beare hys owne burden And thus the aduocate when he had asked hym whether he would put his hand to that he had sayd and had obtayned the same departed to dinner At the next examination was brought vnto him a Franciscan fryer who first entring with hym touthing the wordes y t he spake in hys Inne asked him why that grace might not be said in Latine Because sayd he by the worde of God Christians are commaunded to pray with hart and with spirite and with that tongue which is most vnderstanded and serueth best to the edification of the hearers Then the Fryer bringing forth his Benedicite Agimus tibi gratias c. Laus Deo pax viuis requies defunctis
that he hath affirmed published taught diuers opinions of Luther and wicked heresies after that he was summoned to appeare before vs and our Councell That man hath no free will That man is in sinne so long as he liueth That childreÌ„ incontinent after their baptisme are sinners All Christians that bee woorthie to bee called Christians doo knowe that they are in grace No man is iustifyed by workes but by fayth onely Good workes make not a good man but a good man doth make good workes That fayth hope and charitie are so knit that hee that hath the one hath the rest and hee that wanteth the one of them wanteth the rest c. with diuers other heresies and detestable opinions and hath persisted so obstinate in the same that by no counsayle nor perswasion he may be drawne therefrom to the way of our right faith All these premisses being considered we hauing God and the integritie of our fayth before our eyes Wolues in â—ambes 〈◊〉 and following the counsayle and aduise of the professours of the holy Scripture men of law and others assisting vs for the tyme do pronounce determine and declare the said M Patrike Hamelton for his affirming confessing and mayntayning of the foresayd heresies and his pertinacitie they being condemned already by the Church generall Councels and most famous Vniuersities to be an hereticke and to haue an euill opinion of the fayth and therefore to be condemned and punished like as we condemne and define him to be punished by this our sentence definitiue depriuing and sentencing him to be depriued of all dignities honours orders offices and benefices of the Church M. patricke geuen to the secular power and therefore do iudge and pronounce him to be deliuered ouer to the secular power to be punished and his goodes to be confiscate This our sentence definitiue was geuen and read at our Metropolitane Church of S. Andrewes the last day of the moneth of February an 1527. being present the most reuerend fathers in Christ and Lords Gawand Byshop of Glasgow George Byshop of Dunkelden Iohn Byshop of Brecham William Byshop of Dunblane Patrike Prior of S. Andrew Dauid Abbot of Abirbrothoke George Abbot of Dunfermeling Alexander Abbot of Caunbuskyneth Henry Abbot of Lendors Iohn Prior of Pittyrweme the Deane and Subdeane of Glasgow M. Hugh Spens Thomas Ramsay Allane Meldrun c. In the presence of the Cleargy and the people After the condemnation and Martyrdome of this true Saint of God was dispatched by the Byshops and Doctours of Scotland the rulers and Doctours of the Uniuersitie of Louane hearing therof receaued such ioy consolation at the sheding of that innocent bloud that for the aboundance of hart they could not stay their penne to vtter condigne thanks applauding and triumphing in their letters sent to the foresaid Bishop of S. Andrewes Doctours of Scotland at the worthy famous deseruings of their aâ—chieued enterprise in that behalfe as by the tenour of their sayd letter may appeare which heere foloweth ¶ The copie of a letter congratulatorie sente from the Doctours of Louane to the Archbysh of S. Andrewes and Doctours of Scotland commending them for the death of mayster Patrike Hamelton A letter of thankes sent froÌ„ Louane to them of Scotland for shedding the bloud of Patricke Hamelton YOur excellent vertue most honourable Bishop hath so deserued that albeit we be farre distant both by sea and land without coniunction of familiaritie yet we desire with all oure harts to thanke you for your woorthy deede by whose workes that true faith which not long ago was taynted wyth heresie not only remayneth vnhurt but also is more confirmed For as oure deare friend M. Alexander Galoway Chanon of Aberdon hath shewed vs the presumption of the wicked hereticke Patrike Hamelton which is expressed in this your example in that you haue cut him off when there was no hope of amendement c. The which thing as it is thought commendable to vs so the maner of the proceeding was no lesse pleasaunt What ioy the Papistes make in spilling the bloud of Christians that the matter was perfourmed by so great consent of so many estates as of the Cleargy nobilitie and vulgare people not rashly but most prudently the order of law being in all poyntes obserued We haue seene the sentence which ye pronounced and alway do approue the same not doubting but that the Articles which be inserted are erroneous so that whosoeuer will defend for a truth any one of the same with pertinacitie shoulde be esteemed an enemie to the fayth and an aduersary to the holy Scripture And albeit one or two of them appeare to be without errour If ye coulde shew to what place of the scripture we would gladly beare you to them that wyll consider onely the bare words as for example good woorkes make not a good man but a good man worketh good workes yet there is no doubt but they conteyne a Lutherane sense which in a maner they signifie to wit that workes done after fayth and iustification make not a man the better nor are worthy of any rewarde before God Beleeue not that this example shall haue place onely among you for there shall be among externe nations which shall imitate the same c. Certaynly ye haue geuen vs great courage so that now we acknowledge your Vniuersitie which was founded according to the example of our Vniuersitie of Louane to be equall to ours or else aboue and would God occasion were offered of testifying our mindes towarde you In the meane time let vs labour wyth one consent that the rauening Wolues may be expelled from the sheepefold of Christ while we haue tyme. Let vs study to preach to the people more learnedly hereafter The vniuersity of S. Andrewes was founded about the yeare of our Lord 1416. in the reigne of kyng Iames the first who brought into Scotland out of other countreyes 2. Doctors of Diuinitie and 8. Doctors of decrees with diuers other Hect. Boet. Libâ— 16. cap. 17. and more wisely Let vs haue Inquisitours espyers of bookes coÌ„taining that doctrine especially that is brought in from farre countreys whether by a postatiue Monkes or by Marchauntes the most suspected kynde of meÌ„ in these dayes It is sayd that since Scotland first embraced the ChristiaÌ„ fayth it was neuer defiled with any heresie Perseuere therfore being moued thereunto by the exaÌ„ple of England your next neighbour which in this most troublous tyme is not chauÌ„ged partly by the working of the Bishops amoÌ„g the which * * He meaneth Fisher B. of Rochester who wrote against Oecolampadyuâ— and Luther and at length was beheaded for treason K. Henry 8. is here a Matthias when he maketh with you but when he put downe the pope and his Abbeyes theÌ„ ye make him an hereticke Roffensis hath sheweth himselfe an Euangelicall Phoenix and partly of the kyng declaring himselfe to be an other Mathias of the new law
me to write any more and I had rather to speak it in priuate talke vnto your selfe Wherunto if you would admit me I trust you should not repent you thereof and vnto me Christ I take to my witnes it would be a great comfort in whom I wish you with all your flocke hartily well to feare Your prisoner and humble beadman vnto God for you Tho. Bilney Thus haue you the letters the abiuration and articles of Thomas Bilney Bilney cast 〈…〉 with 〈…〉 After which abiuration made about y t yeare of our Lord. 1529. the sayd Bilney tooke such repentaunce sorrow that he was neare the poynt of vtter dispayre as by y e wordes of M. Latimer is credibly testified whose wordes for my better discharge I thought here to annex written in his seuenth Sermon preached before K. Edward which be these I knew a man my selfe Bilney litle Bilney y t blessed Martyr of God who what time he had borne his fagot was come again to Cambridge had such conflictes within himselfe beholding this Image of death that his friendes were afrayde to let him be alone They were fayne to be with him day and night and comfort him as they could but no comfortes would serue And as for the comfortable places of Scripture to bringe theÌ„ vnto him it was as though a man should runne him thorough the hart with a sword Yet for all this he was reuiued and tooke his death paciently and dyed well agaynst the tyrannicall sea of Rome Haec Latim Serm. 7. Agayn the sayd M. Latimer speaking of Bilney in an other of his sermons preached in Lincolnshyre hath these wordes following That same M. Bilney whiche was burnt here in England for gods words sake was induced and perswaded by his frendes to beare a fagot at the tyme when the Cardinall was aloft and bare the swinge Now when the same Bilney came to Cambridge again a whole yeare after he was in such an anguish and agony that nothing did him good neyther eating nor drinking nor anye other communication of Gods worde for he thought that al the whole Scriptures were agaynst him and sounded to his condemnation So that I many a time commoned w t him or I was familiarly acquaynted with him but all thinges whatsoeuer any man could allege to his comforte seemed vnto him to make agaynst him Yet for all that afterward he came againe God indued him with such strength and perfectnes of fayth that he not onely confessed hys faith in y e Gospell of our Sauiour Iesu Christ but also suffered his body to be burned for that same Gospels sake which we now preach in England c. Haec ille Ser. 8. fol. 132 Furthermore in the first sermon of the said M. Latimer before the Dutches of Suffolk fol. 5. he yet speaking more of Bilney inferreth as followeth Here I haue sayth hee occasion to tell you a story which happened at Cambridge M. Bilney or rather S. Bilney y t suffered death for gods words sake Latimer called 〈◊〉 â—â—â—â—uerted â—y Bilney the same Bilney was the instrument wherby God called me to knowledge For I may thanke him next to God for that knowledge that I haue in y e word of god For I was an obstinate papist as any was in Englande insomuch that when I should be made bacheler of Diuinitie my whole Oration went against Phillip Melancthon and agaynst his opinions Bilney heard me at that tyme and perceaued that I was zelous without knowlege and came to me afterward in my study and desired me for gods sake to heare his confession I dyd so and to say y e trueth by his confession I learned more then afore in many yeres So from that tyme forward I began to smell the word of God and forsake the Schoole doctors and such fooleries c. And much more he hath of the same matter which ye may see hereafter in the lyfe of M Latimer By this it appeareth howe vehemently this good man was pearced with sorow and remorse for his abiuration y e space almost of 2. yeares Bilney returneth agayne from his abiuration that is from the yeare 1529. to the yeare 1531. It followed then that he by Gods grace good counsayle came at length to some quiet of conscience being fully resolued to geue ouer his life for the confession of that truth which before he had renounced And thus being fully determined in hys minde and setting hys time he tooke his leaue in Trinitie hall at ten of the clocke at nyght of certayne of hys frendes and sayd that he would go to Ierusalem alluding belike to the words examples of christ in the Gospel going vp to Ierusalem Nam faâ—â—cius eâ—ats 〈◊〉 Hâ—â—â—osolyâ—â— Bilney â—â—â—eth vpoâ— Hâ—eâ—usaâ—â—â— what time he was appoynted to suffer his passion And so Bilney meanyng to geue ouer hys life for the testimony of Christes Gospell told his frends y t he woulde goe vp to Ierusalem and so would see theÌ„ no more immediately departed to Northfolk there preached first priuely in housholdes to coÌ„firm the brethren and sisterne and also to confirme the anchres whom he had conuerted to Christ. Then preached he opeÌ„ly in y e fieldes confessing his fact and preaching publickely y t doctrine which he before had abiured to be the very trueth willed all men to beware by hym and neuer to trust to theyr fleshly frends in causes of religion And so setting forward in his iourny toward the celestiall Ierusalem hee departed from thence to the Anchres in Norwiche there gaue her a new testament of Tindals translation and the obedience of a Christian man whereupon hee was apprehended and caryed to prison there to remayne till y t blynde bishop Nixe sent vp for a writte to burne hym In the meane season the Fryers and religious men with the residue of theyr Doctours Ciuill and Canon resorted to him 4. Orden of Fryers against Bilney busily labouring to perswade hym not to die in those opinions saying he shoulde be damned body and soule if he so continued Among whome first were sent to him of the byshop Doct. Call minister as they call him or Prouinciall of the graye Fryers and Doct. Stokes an Augustine Fryer Doct. Call and Doct. Stokes sent to dispute with Bilney Doct. Call called by Bilney who lay with hym in prison in disputation till the writte came that he should be burned Doctor Call by the word of God through the meanes of Bilneys doctrine good life wherof he had good experience was somewhat reclaymed to the Gospelles side Doct. Stokes remayned obdurate and doth yet to this day whose heart also the Lorde if it be hys will reforme open the eyes of his old age that he may forsake the former blyndnes of his youth An other great doer agaynst him was one Fryer Byrd with one eye Prouinciall of the white Friers This Byrde was a Suffragane in Couentry and after
craftely crept into this your realme an other sorte not of impotent but of strong puisant and counterfeit holy and idle beggars and vagabondes which since the tyme of theyr first entry by all the craft and wylines of Sathan are now encreased vnder your sight not onely into a great number but also into a kingdome These are not the herdes but y e rauinous wolues going in herdes clothing deuouring the flock Byshops Strong valiant 〈◊〉 idle beâ—â—gars Abbots Priours Deacons Archdeacons Suffragaâ—es Priestes Monkes Canons Friers Pardoners Somners And who is able to number this idle rauenous sort which setting all labour aside haue begged so importunatly that they haue gotten into theyr hands more theÌ„ the third part of all your Realme The goodlyest Lordships manors landes and territories are theirs Besides thys they haue the x. part of all the corne medow pasture grasse wood coltes calues lambes pigs geese and chickins Ouer and besides the x. part of euery seruauntes wages More then the third part of the realme in the spiritual mens hands the x. part of wolle milke hony waxe cheese and butter yea they looke so narowly vpon theyr profites that the poore wiues must be countable to them for euery x. egge or els she getteth not her rightes at Easter and shal be taken as an hereticke Hereto haue they theyr foure offering dayes What money pull they in by probates of Testaments priuy tithes and by mens offrings to theyr pilgrimages and at theyr first Masses Euery man and childe that is buried must pay somewhat for Masses and Diriges to be song for him or els they will accuse theyr frendes and executors of heresy What money get they by mortuaries by hearing of confessions and yet they will keepe thereof no counsell by halowing of Churches altars superaltars Chappels and belles by cursing of men and absoluing them agayne for mony what a multitude of money gather the Pardoners in a yeare How much mony get the Somners by extortion in a yeare by asciting the people to the Commissaries Court and afterward releasing the apparaunâ—es for money Finally the infinite number of begging Friers what get they in a yeare * Peraduenture the common count of the pâ—â—â—shes of England among men and in sayd 〈◊〉 the olde time so went And albeit the 〈◊〉 do not amouÌ„t now to the same rate of 〈◊〉 yet neuerthelesse the number no doubt is great and therefore the quartarage of the Friers canâ—not be litle but riseth to a great penny throâ—â—â— the Realme Whereupon the scope of this 〈◊〉 reason soundeth to good purpose For 〈◊〉 he hit not perfectely on the iust summes 〈◊〉 cannot be denyed but the Fryers had very 〈◊〉 and much more then they deserued 〈◊〉 neyther caÌ„ it be denyed but the more they 〈◊〉 the lesse redouÌ„ded to the impotent needs â—â—â—â—gars in deede And what reason is it that 〈◊〉 beggars which may worke yet will 〈…〉 should reape any peece of the crop 〈…〉 no burden of the haruest but 〈…〉 serue to noyse necessary in the 〈◊〉 wealth Here if it please your grace to marke you shall see a thing far out of ioynt There are wythin your realme of England 52000. Parishe Churches And this standing that there be but x. housholdes in euery Parishe yet are there v.c. M. xx M. househoulds And of euery of these householdes hath euery of the fiue orders of Friers a peny a quarter for euery order that is for all the fiue orders fiue pence a quarter for euery house that is for all y e fiue orders 20. d. a yeare of euery house Summa * Admitte the Summa totalis came not to so 〈…〉 came to more then the Friers deserâ—â—â— which coulde well worke would not 〈…〉 begge needed not wherof read 〈◊〉 the storye of Armachanus v. C. and xx M. quarters of Angelles that is 260000. halfe Angels Summa 130000. Angelles Summa totalis 430333. pouÌ„des 6. s. 8. d. sterling Wherof not 400. yeares passed they had not one peny * Oh greuous c. these words sayth M. More 〈…〉 themselues did heare eueÌ„ into Purgatoâ—â— Belyke M. More himselfe stoode behinde 〈◊〉 doore the same time or els howe 〈…〉 tell that the soules did heare hym Oh grieuous paynfull exaction thus yearely to be payde from the which the people of your noble Predecessours the Kinges of the aunciente Britaines euer stoode free And this will they haue or els they will procure him that will not geue it to them to be taken as an hereticke What Tyranne euer oppressed the people lyke this cruell and vengeable generation what subiectes shall bee able to helpe theyr Prince that be after this fashion yearely poled What good Christen people caÌ„ be able to succour vs poore lepers blynde sore and lame that bee thus yearely oppressed Is it any meruayle that your people so complaine of pouerty Is it any meruaile that the taxes fiftenes and subsidies that your grace most teÌ„derly of great coÌ„passion hath taken among your people to defend them from the threatned ruine of theyr common wealth haue bene so slouthfully yea paynefully leuied seeing almost the vttermost peny that mought haue bene leuied hath bene gathered before yearely by this erronious insatiable generation Neither the Danes nor the Saxons in the time of the auncient Britons should euer haue bene able to haue brought theyr armies from so far hether into your land to haue conquered it if they had had at that time such a sort of idle glottons to finde at home He meaneth all this onely of idle Fryers The noble king Arthur had neuer bene able to haue caried his army to the foote of the mountaynes to resiste the comming downe of Lucius the Emperour if such yearely exactions had bene taken of his people The Greeks had neuer bene able to haue so long continued at the siege of Troy if they had had at home such an idle sort of cormorantes to finde The auncient Romaines had neuer bene able to haue put all the whole world vnder theyr obeysaunce if their people had bene thus yearely oppressed The Turke now in your time should neuer bene able to get so much ground of christendome if he had in his Empyre such a sort of Locustes to deuoure his substaunce Lay then these summes to the foresayd third part of the possessions of the realme that ye may see whether it draw nigh vnto the halfe of the whole substance of the Realme or not so shal ye finde that it draweth farre aboue An vnequal diuision that the Fryers should haue â—â—lfe with the mâ—â—ltitude they being 〈…〉 hundreth 〈◊〉 of the number Now let vs then compare the number of this vnkinde idle sort vnto the number of the lay people we shall see whether it be indifferently shifted or not that they should haue halfe CoÌ„pare them to the number of men so are they not the hundreth person Compare them to men womeÌ„
the truth which he defended before in his booke De obedientia to papistry Steuen Gardiner reuolteth to Papistry ioining part and side with suche as were knowne papists so he seemeth likewyse to beare a like secret grudge against the Lord Cromwell and all such whomsoeuer he fauoured Thirdly as concerning the forenamed D. Edmund Boner the author of this declaration heere is to be seene and noted that he all this while appeared a good man and diligent friend to the truth and that he was fauoured of the Lord Cromwell for the same Fourthly that the said D. Boner was not onely fauoured of the Lord Cromwell but also by him was aduaunced first to the office of Legation D. Boners comming vp onely by the Gospell then to the Bishoprike of Hereford and lastly to the Bishoprike of London whome the said D. Boner in his letters agniseth and confesseth to be his only Patron and singular Mecaenas Which being so we haue in this said D. Boner greatly to meruayle what should be the cause that he seing all his setting vp making and preferring came only by the Gospell and by theÌ„ of the Gospels side he being then so hated of Steuen Gardiner and such as he was being also at that time such a furtherer and defender of the Gospell as appeared both by his Preface before Gardinars booke De obedientia and by his writings to the Lord Cromwell also by helping forward the printed Bibles at Paris could euer be a man so vngratefull vnkind afterward to ioyne part with the said Steuen Gardiner against the Gospell without y t which Gospel he had neuer come to be bishop neither of Hereford nor yet of London and now to abuse y e same bishopricke of London to persecute y t so vehemently which before so openly he defended Wherin y e same may well be said to him in this case y t he himselfe was reported once to say to the french King in the cause of Grancetor to witte that he had done therein against his honour against iustice against reason against honesty Boners owne wordes retorted against himselfe against freÌ„dship against his own promise and his othe so often made against his owne doctrine and iudgement which then he professed against all truth against the treates and leagues betwene him and his setters vp and against all together and to conclude against the saluation of his owne soule But to referre this to the booke of his accomptes who shall iudge one day all things vprightly let vs proceede further in y e coÌ„tinue of this D. Boners legation Who being now Ambassadour in the court of Fraunce as he haue heard had geuen in commission from the king to entreate with the French King for sondry pointes as for the printing of the new Testament in English Printing the newe testament in English and the Byble at Paris and the Bible at Paris also for slanderous preachers and malicious speakers against the King for goods of merchaunts taken and spoiled for the kings pension to be paid for the matters of the Duke of Suffolke for certaine prisoners in Fraunce Item for Grancetor the traitour and certain other rebels to be sent into England c. Touching all which affayres the sayd D. Boner did employ his diligence trauaile to the good satisfaction and contentment of the kings minde The diligeÌ„ce trust of D. Boner in legatyon and discharge of his duetie in such sort as no default could be found in him saue only that the French King one time tooke displeasure with him for that the said Boner beyng now made bishop of Hereford and bearing himself somewhat more seriously and boldly before the king in the cause of Grancetor the traytour wherein he was willed by the aduertisement of the Kings pleasure The wordes of D. Boner 〈◊〉 to the French king to wade more deepely and instantly vsed these words to the French King as y e french king himself did afterward report them saieng that he had done in deliueraÌ„ce of that foresaid Grancetor being an Englishman The French king disâ—lesed with â—ishop Boner Bish. Boner 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 to the king his mâ—â—ster 3. thinges agaynst God agaynst his honor agaynst iustice agaynst reason agaynst honesty against friendship against all law against the treates leagues betwene him and his brother the King of England yea and against all together c. These words of Bishop Boner although he denieth to haue spoken them in that forme and qualitie yet howsoeuer they were spoken did stirre vp the stomack of the French King to conceiue high displeasure agaynst him in so much that he answering the Lord Ambassadour againe bad him write these three things vnto his maister First among other thinges that his Embassadour was a greate foole Secondarily that he caused to be done better iustice there in his Realme in one houre then they did in Englande in a whole yeare Thirdly that if it were not for the loue of his maister he should haue an hundreth strokes with an Haulbard c. And furthermore the sayde Frenche King beside thys sending a speciall messenger with his letters to the king of England willed him to reuoke and cal this Ambassadour home and to send him an other The cause why the french King tooke these wordes of Bishop Boner so to stomacke as the L. Chauncelour said was this for that the Kings of Fraunce standing chiefly and in maner only vpon theyr honour can suffer that in no case to be touched Otherwise in those wordes if they had bene well taken was not so much blame perchaunce as boldnes being spoken somwhat vehemently in his maisters behalfe Bishop coÌ„moÌ„ly boldder in Princes matters then in the cause of Christ. But this one thing seemeth to me much blameworthy both in this Byshop and many other that they in earthly matters and to please terrene Kings will put forth themselues to such a boldnes and forwardnes and in Christes cause the King of all kings whose cause they should onely attend vppon and tender they are so remisse cold and cowardly To these letters of the French King the King of England sent aunswer againe by other letters in which he reuoked and called home againe bishop Boner geuing vnto him about the same time the Bishopricke of London and sente in supply of his place Sir Iohn Wallop a greate frend to Steuen Gardiner Whiche was in February about the beginning of the yeare of our Lord 1540. Heere now followeth the othe of Boner to the King when hee was made Byshop of London ¶ The othe of Doctor Edmund Boner when hee was made Byshop of London agaynst the Pope of Rome YE shall neuer consent nor agree that the Byshop of Rome shall practise D. Boners othe against the Pope exercise or haue any maner of authority iurisdiction or power within this Realme or any other the Kings dominion but that you shall resist the same at all times to the vttermost
burned and these heretikes after the sermon to goe thryse about the fire and to cast in theyr fagots Now while the sermon was a doing D. Barnes and the stilliard men were commanded to knele downe aske God forgeuenes the catholike church and cardinals grace and after that hee was commaunded at the ende of the sermon to declare that he was more charitablier hādled then he deserued or was worthy hys heresies were so horrible and so detestable and once againe kneeled downe on hys knees and desiring the people of forgeuenesse and to praye for him and so the cardinal departed vnder a canapie with all his mitred men with him till he came to the second gate of Paules and then he tooke his mule and the mitred men came backe againe Then these poore men being commanded to come downe from the stage whereon the sweepers vse to stande when they sweepe the Church the Byshops sate them downe againe and commanded the knight marshall and the Warden of the Fleete with theyr company to carie them aboute the fire and so were they brought to the bishops and there for absolution kneeled downe Where Rochester stode vp and declared vnto the people how many dayes of pardon and forgeuenes of sinnes they had for beyng at that Sermone Dayes of pardon geuen for hearing a Popishe Sermon and there did assoyle D. Barnes wyth the other and shewed the people that they were receiued into the church agayne This done the Warden of the Fleete and the Knyght Marshall were commanded to haue them to the Fleete againe and charged that they should haue the libertie of the Flete as other prisoners had and that theyr frends myght resort vnto them and there to remaine till the Lorde Cardinals pleasure was knowen After that Barnes there in the Fleete had cōtinued the space of halfe a yeare at length beyng deliuered was committed to be free prisoner at the Austen friers in London When those Caterpillers and bloudy beasts had there vndermined hym they complained againe to their Lord cardinall Wherupon he was remoued to the Austen Fryers of Northampton there to be burned Yet he himself vnder stāding nothing therof but supposing still y t he shuld there remaine and continue in free prison at last one M. Horne who had brought hym vp and was his speciall frende hauing intelligence of the writte which should shortly be sent downe to burne him gaue him counsaile to faine him selfe to be desperate and that hee shoulde wryte a letter to the Cardinal and leaue it on his table where he lay and a paper by to declare whether he was gone to drown hymself to leaue his clothes in the same place Doct. Barnes fayned himselfe to be drowned and there an other letter to be left to the Maior of the towne to search for hym in the water because hee had a letter written in parchment about hys necke closed in waxe for the Cardinall whyche would teach all men to beware by hym Uppon thys they were 7. dayes in searching for hym but hee was conueyed to London in a pore mans apparel and so taried not there but tooke shipping and went by long Seas to Antwerpe and so to Luther and there fell to studie till hee had made aunswere to all the Bishops of the Realme and had made a Booke intituled Acta Romanorum pontificum And an other booke wyth a supplication to king Henrie Immediatly it was tolde the Cardinall that he was drowned and he sayde Perit memoria eius cum sonitu But thys did lyghte vppon hymselfe shortly after whyche wretchedly dyed at Leicester In the meane season D. Barnes was made strong in Christ Doct. Barnes sent Ambassadour from the king of Denmarke to king Henry into England and got fauour both of the learned in Christe forreine Princes in Germanye and was great wyth Luther Melancthon Pomeran Iustus Ionas Hegendorphinus and Aepinus and with the Duke of Saxon and the king of Denmarke which king of Denmarke in the time of More and Stokesley sent hym wyth the Lubeckes as an Ambassadour to king Henry the viij He lay wyth the Lubeckes Chauncellor at the Stilliard Syr Tho. More then Chancelour woulde fayne haue entrapped him Syr Thomas More sought the death of Doct. Barnes but the king would not let him for Cromwell was his great frende And ere he went the Lubeckes he disputed wyth the Bishops of this realme in defence of the truth and so he departed agayne wythout restrainte wyth the Lubeckes After hys going againe to Wittemb to the Duke of Saxon and to Luther hee remained there to set forwardes hys workes in Printe that he had begon from whence hee returned againe in the beginning of the raigne of Queene Anne Doct. Barnes returned agayne into England in the tyme of Queene Anne as other did continued a faythfull preacher in this Citie being all her time wel entertained and promoted After that he was sent Ambassador by K. Henrye the 8. to the Duke of Cleue for the marriage of y e Lady Anne of Cleue betwene the king and her and was wel accepted in that Ambassade and in all hys doings Doct. Barnes sent Ambassadour by king Henry to the Duke of Cleue vntil the time that Ste. Gardiner came out of Fraunce but after he came neither religion prospered nor the Queenes maiestie nor Cromwell nor the preachers who after the marryage of the Ladie Anne of Cleue neuer ceased vntill hee had grafted the mariage in an other stocke by the occasion wherof he began his bloudy broyle For not long after Doctor Barnes with hys brethren were apprehended and caryed before the kyngs maiestie to Hampton courte and there he was examined Where the kynges maiestie seeking the meanes of his safety to bring Wintc and hym agreed at Wynchesters request graunted him leaue to go home with the bishop to cōferre with him and so he did But as it happened they not agreeing Gardiner and his cōpartners sought by al subtil meanes how to entangle and to entrappe them in further danger which not long after was brought to passe For by certaine complaintes made to the kinge of them they were enioyned to preache 3. sermones the next Easter folowing at the Spittle At the which sermones besides other reporters whych were thether sent Ste. Gardiner also was there present sitting with the Maior either to beare recorde of theyr recantation or els as the Phariseis came to Christ to trippe them in their talke if they had spokē any thing awry Whē these 3. had thus preached their Sermons among whome Barnes preaching the first sermon and seeing Ste. Gardiner there present humbly desired him in the face of al the audience if he forgaue hym to holde vp hys hande and the sayd Gardiner thereupon held vp his finger yet notwithstanding shortly after by the meanes of the sayd reporters they were sent for to Hampton Courte who from thence were caryed to the tower by Syr
discoursing how hardly and sore those poore meÌ„ were haÌ„dled that were committed to ward and close prison and that all men feared what through the malice of their Papisticall enemies and the great rigour and ignoraunt zeale of those that were in authoritie they should shortly for their faith and consciences being true men and suche as reuerently feared God be put to death but chiefly her husband who was yet more extremely handled then any other So that vnlesse his honour voutchsaued to be a meane to the Kings maiestie that they with their causes might be sente ouer into England they were but dead men Whereupon the said Lord Cromwell wrote speedely his letters vnto the Commissioners declaring the kings maiesties pleasure and commaundement was that the arrant traitour and hereticke Brooke The Lord Cromwels Letters to the Commissioners at Calice with a dosen or twentye complices should with their accusers be immediately sent ouer that heere in EnglaÌ„d they might receiue their iudgement and there at Calice to the great terrour of like offenders hereafter suffer according to their demerites Now by the tyme that the sayd Commissioners had receiued these letters they had made out precepts for 8. or 9. score honest men more to be cast in prison But these letters so appalled them that they stayde and afterwarde sent no moe to ward But making then as diligent inquisition as was possible to haue found some worthy matter againste those before named whereby there might haue bene some colour both of the Counsels greeuous complaintes and of the CoÌ„missioners rigorous dealing wheÌ„ no such thing could fall out because they would be assured y t they should not go vnpunished they first banished theÌ„ the towne and Marches of Calice with a Trumpet blowne vnder paine of death for a hundred yeare and a day if that one day had bene left out all had bene marde and then sent them backe to prison staying them there vpon hope that the L. Cromwell should come into captiuitie sooner then he dyd Tâ—e 13. prisâ—â—ers of Calice sent to London But at last to wit on May day they sente the xiij prisoners through the market the sayd Brooke going before wyth yrons on his legges as the chiefe captaine the rest following him two and two without yrons vnto shipbord then were they all coupled in yrons two two together Where because they were loth to go vnder the hatches Sir Iohn Gage with a staffe smote some of them cruelly 〈◊〉 cruelty 〈◊〉 popishe pâ—â—â—ecutor Whereupon Anthony Pickering sayd vnto him Syr I besech you yet be as good vnto vs as you would be to your horses or dogs let vs haue a litle aire that we be not smothered Yet that request could not be obtained but the hatches were put downe close and they garded and kept with a great company of men and so sailing forwarde by Gods mercifull prouidence were within 24. houres at ancker before the Tower of London And when the Lord Cromwell vnderstoode they were come he commaunded their yrons to be smit off at the Tower wharfe and the prisoners to be brought vnto him When he saw them he smiled vpon them stedfastly beholding each of them and then sayde Sirs you must take payne for a time Go your way to the Fleete and submit your selues prisoners there 〈◊〉 xiii priâ—â—â—ers put in the Fleet. and shortly you shall knowe more so in deede they did for that euening he sente them word they shoulde be of good cheere for if God sent him life they should shortly go home with as much honesty as they came with shame Whilest these xiij persecuted men lay in the Fleete and W. Steuens in the Tower to wit the xix day of Iuly an 1541. the foresaid Lord Cromwell for treason layd agaynst him was at Tower hill beheaded as is before specified in his story who made there a very Christian end Then had the poore Calice men great cause to feare if they had not altogether depeÌ„ded on the mercifull prouideÌ„ce of their heauenly father whose blessed will they knewe directed all things But he in the middest of their deepe troubles and miseries so comforted them that euen as the daungers and troubles increased so likewise did their consolation ioy in him so farre forth as Mathew de Hound one of those xiij who was in trouble onely for that he heard Copen de Hall reade a Chapter of the new Testament Mathew de Hounde a blessed martyr of God burned in Flaunders and was as deepe in punishment and in banishmente from his wife children and countrey as the rest got in shorte time suche instruction that hauing therewith a soule and conscience fraughted ful of godly zeale vnto Gods glory and the true doctrine of Christ within a few monethes after his deliueraunce out of the Fleete for inueying constantly against the wicked honouring of images praying vnto Saints departed was cruelly in a most coÌ„stant faith and patience burned in Flaunders Now therfore when all hope in man was past the right honourable L. Audeley lord Chancellor of EnglaÌ„d without further examination The Lord Audly good the perâ—â—â—uted members of Christ. discharged first the sayd 13. that were in the Fleete and at length two yeares after he deliuered W. Steuens also by the Kings owne motion out of the Tower saying at y e discharging of those 13. sirs pray for the Kings Maiestie his pleasure is y t you shall all bee presently discharged And though your liuings be taken from you yet despaire not God wil not see you lacke But for Gods sake sirs beware how you deale with popishe Priests for so God saue my soule some of them be knaues all Sirs said he I am commaunded by the counsayle to tell you The common saying of the Lord Audly concerning Popishe priestes that you are discharged by vertue of the kings generall pardon but that pardon excepteth and forbiddeth all sacramentaries and the most part or all of you are called sacramentaries Therefore I can not see how that pardon doth you any pleasure But pray for the Kings highnesse for his graces pleasure is that I should dismisse you and so I do and pitie you all Farewell sirs So geuing God most hartie thankes for his mightye and mercifull deliuering of them they departed dismissed as you haue heard Callice men dismissed being in deede in very poore estate but not in so miserable state as all those eight Counsailours of Calice were within one yere and a halfe after For wheras the other three Counsailers which semed more fauourable to them to wit the Lord Gray sir George Carow and sir Rich. Grinefield which purged the towne of those sclaunders that vntruely were raysed vpon it Example how God prospereth the fauourers and friendes to his Gospell and therfore for a time were in their princes high displeasure within y e yeare were al three in greater fauour then euer they were before and that not without
day Then the B. of Winchester would haue made that text to haue serued nothing for his purpose he said he might be in heauen and in the sacrament also M. Hooper would haue sayd more to haue opened the text but all men that stood next about the Bishop allowed so his saying with clamours and cryes that M. Hooper was not permitted to say any more agaynst the Byshop Whereuppon they bade the Notaries write that hee was married and sayd that he would not goe from hys wyfe Articles taken agaynst M. Hooper and that he beleeued not the corporall presence in the Sacrament wherfore he was worthy to be depriued from his bishoprike This is the truth of the matter as far as I can truely remember of the confuse and troublesome talke that was betweene them and except it were hasty and vncharitable words this is the whole matter of their talk at that time Atque haec ille hactenus ¶ The true report of M. Hoopers entertainment in the Fleete written with his owne hand the seuenth of Ianuary 1554. THe first of September 1553. M. Hoopers report of his imprisonment in the fleete I was committed vnto the Fleete from Richmount to haue the liberty of the prison and within sixe dayes after I payd for my liberty v. pounds sterling to the Warden for fees who immediately vpon the payment therof complayned vnto Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester This good gentlewoman is thought to be Mistres Wilkinson and so was I committed to close prison one quarter of a yeare in the Tower chamber of the Fleete vsed very extremely Then by the meanes of a good Gentlewoman I had liberty to come downe to dinner and supper not suffered to speake wyth any of my friends but as soone as dinner supper was done to repaire to my chamber agayne NotwithstaÌ„dyng whilest I came downe thus to dinner and supper the Warden and his wyfe picked quarels with me and complayned vntruely of me to their great friend the bishop of Winchester After one quarter of a yeare and somewhat more Babington Warden of the fleet a wicked Tyrant to Gods people Babington the Warden and his wife fell out with me for the wicked Masse and thereupon the Warden resorted to the B. of Wint. obteyned to put me into the wardes where I haue continued a long tyme hauing nothing appointed to me for my bed but a little pad of straw and a rotten couering with a tike and a few fethers therein the chamber being vile and stinking vntill by gods meanes good people sent me bedding to lye in Of the one side of which prison is the sinke and filth of the house and on the other side the towne ditch so that the stinch of the house hath infected me with sundry diseases During which tyme I haue bene sicke the doores The barbarous cruelty of the Warden of the Fleete barres haspes and chaines being all closed and made fast vpon me I haue mourned called and cried for helpe But the Warden when he hath knowen me many tymes redy to dye and when the poore men of the wardes haue called to helpe me hath commanded the dores to be kept fast and charged that none of his men should come at me saying let him alone it were a good riddance of hym And among many other tymes he did thus the 18. of October 1553. as many can witnes I payed alwayes like a Baron to the sayd Warden as well in fees as for my boord which was xx s. a weeke besides my mans table vntill I was wrongfully depryued of my bishoprike and since that tyme I haue payed hym as the best gentleman doth in his house yet hath he vsed me worse and more vilely then the veriest slaue that euer came to the hall Commons The said Warden hath also imprisoned my man William Downton W. DowntoÌ„ M. Hoopers man stripped him out of his cloths to search for letters could find none but only a little remembrance of good peoples names that gaue me their almes to relieue me in prison and to vndoe them also the Warden deliuered the same bill vnto the said St. Gardiner Gods enemy and myne I haue suffered imprisonment almost eighteene monethes my goods liuyng friends M. Hooper 18. monethes in prâ—son Queene Maâ—y indâ—bted to M. Hooper and comfort taken from me the Queene owing me by iust account 80. poundes or more She hath put me in prison and geueth nothyng to finde me neither is there suffred any to come at me wherby I might haue reliefe I am with a wicked man and woman so that I see no remedy sauing gods helpe but I shall be cast away in prison before I come to iudgement But I commit my iust cause to God whose will be done whether it be by life or death Thus much wrote he hymselfe of this matter ¶ Another examination of M. Hooper THe xxij of Ianuary followyng 1555. Babington the Warden of the Fleete was commaunded to bryng M. Hooper before the Bishop of Winchester M Hooper againe conuented before the bishop of Winchester with other Bishops and Commissioners at the sayd Winchesters house at S. Mary Oueries where as in effect thus much was done The Bishop of Winchester in the name of hymselfe and the rest mooued Maister Hooper earnestly to forsake the euill and corrupt doctrine as he termed it preached in the dayes of K. Edward the sixt Gardiner exhorteth M. Hooper to returne to the Popes church and to returne to the vnitie of the Catholique Church and to acknowledge the Popes holynesse to bee head of the same Churche accordyng to the determination of the whole Parliament promising that as he hymselfe with other his brethren had receyued the Popes blessyng and the Queenes mercye euen so mercy was ready to be shewed to him and others if he would arise with them and condescend to the Popes holynesse M. Hooper aunswered that for as much as the Pope taught doctrine altogether contrarye to the doctrine of Christ The Pope not worthy to be a member of Christs church he was not worthy to be accounted as a member of Christes Church much lesse to be head thereof wherefore he would in no wyse condescend to any such vsurped iurisdiction neither esteemed he the Church whereof they call hym head to be the Catholicke Church of Christ for the Church onely heareth the voyce of her spouse Christ flieth the straungers Howbeit saith he if in any point to me vnknowen I haue offended the Queenes maiestie I shall most humbly submit my selfe to her mercy if mercye may be had with safetie of conscience and without the displeasure of God Aunswer was made that the Queene would shew no mercy to the Popes enemies Queene Mary will shew no mercy but to the Popes friendes Whereuppon Babington was commanded to bring him to the Fleete againe who did so and shifted him from his former chamber into another nere vnto
the truth beyng at all tymes and in all such places not without y e company of his litle boy whom as I haue said he vsed as an assistance to this hys good purpose And to this his great industry and indeuor in holy scripture God did also adde in him a singular gyft of memory so that by the benefite therof he would could do that in vouching and rehersing of the text The gift of memory in Rawlins which men of riper and more profound knowlege by their notes and other helpes of memory could very hardly accomplish In so much that he vpon the alledging of scripture very often would cite the booke the leafe yea and the very sentence such was the wonderfull working of God in this simple and vnlearned father Nowe when he had thus continued in his profession the space of fiue yeares K. Edward died vpon whose decease Queene Mary succeeded and with her all kynde of superstition and Papistrie crepte in Which thing beyng one perceyued Rawlins did not altogether vse open instruction and admonition as before he was woont and therfore ofteÌ„times in some priuate place or other he would call his trusty friends together with earnest prayer and great lamentation passe away the time so that by his vertuous instructions being without any blemish of errour he conuerted a great number which number no doubt had greatly encreased had not the cruel storme of persecution bene The extremitie and force whereof at the last so pursued this good father Rawlins that hee looked euery houre to goe to prison whereupon many of those which had receyued comfort by his instructions did resort vnto hym and by all meanes possible began to perswade him to shift for hymselfe and to dispose hys goods by some reasonable order to the vse of his wyfe and children Rawlins exhorted to shifte for himselfe by that meanes he should escape that daunger which was imminent ouer his head But Rawlins nothyng abashed for hys owne part through the iniquity of the tyme at all nothyng mooued with these their fleshly perswasions thanked them most hartily for their good will and told them plainely that hee had learned one good lesson touching the confessing denial of Christ Rawlins promiseth to be constant to the death aduertising them that if he vpon their persuasions should presume to deny his maister Christ Christ in the last day would deny and vtterly condemne hym and therfore quoth he I will by hys fauourable grace confes and beare witnes of him before men that I may find him in euerlastyng lyfe Notwithstandyng which aunswer his friends were very importunate with hym Howbeit father Rawlins continued still in his good purpose so long till at the last he was taken by the Officers of the towne as a man suspected of heresie vpon which apprehension he was conuented before the B. of Landaffe that then was Rawlins apprehended and conuented before the B. of Landaffe named Anthony Kechin the sayd B. lying then at hys house besides Chepstow by whome after diuers combates and conflicts with him and his chaplains this good father Rawlins was committed to prison in Chepstow But this hys kepyng whether it were by the Bishops meanes because he would rid hys handes of hym or through the fauour of hys keeper Rawlins might esâ—cape and would 〈◊〉 Rawlins whole yeare in prison A godly woman styrred 〈◊〉 to relieuâ— Rawlins was not so seuere and extreme but that if he had so listed hee myght haue escaped oftentymes But that notwithstandyng hee continued still in so much that at the last he by the aforenamed Bishop was remooued from Chepstow to the castle of Cardiffe where he continued by the space of one whole yeare Duryng which tyme this reporter resorted to him very often with money and other reliefe from this reporters mother who was a great fauourer of those that were in affliction in those dayes and other of hys friends which he receyued not without great thanks and prayses geuen to the name of God And albeit that he was thus troubled and imprisoned as ye haue heard to hys owne vndoyng in this world and to the vtter decay of his poore wyfe children yet was hys heart so set to the instruction and furtherance of other in the way of saluation that he was neuer in quiet but when he was perswading or exhorting such of hys familiar frends as commonly came vnto him Exhortatâ—â—â— of Rawlâ—â—â— to his friendes In so much that on the Sondayes and other tymes of laisure when his friends came to visite hym hee would passe away the tyme in prayer and exhortations admonishyng them alwayes to beware of false Prophets which come in sheeps clothyng Now when hee had continued in Cardiffe Castle by the space of one whole yeare as I haue sayde the tyme of hys further triall was at hand Whereupon Rawlins 〈◊〉 no meaneâ— could be râ—â—duced to râ—â—turne to Popery the aforenamed Bishop of Landaffe caused him to be broughte agayne from the castle of Cardiffe vnto his owne house besides Chepstow whilest he continued there y e Bishoppe assayed many wayes howe to reduce him to some conformitie But when all meanes eyther by theyr threatning wordes or flattering promises were to no purpose the Byshoppe willed him to aduise and be at a full poynte with hymselfe eyther to recant hys opinions or els to abide the rigor of the lawe and thereupon gaue him a day of determination Which day beyng come the Bishop with hys Chaplaynes went into his chappell Rawlins brought before thâ— B. of Lanâ—daffe in oâ— iudgemeâ—â— not without a great number of other by dwellers that came to behold the manner of their doyngs When the Bishop with his retinue were placed in order poore Rawlins was brought before them The Bishop after great deliberation in addressyng hymselfe as it seemed and silence forewarned to the rest that were there present vsed a long kynd of talke to him declaring the cause of hys sendyng for which was for that hee was a man well knowen to hold hereticall opinions and that through his instruction many were led into blynd errour In the end he exhorted hym to consider hys owne estate wherein he stood for said the B. Rawlins you haue bene oftentymes since your first trouble both here in my house The worâ— of the B. Rawlins and els where bene trauailed withal touching your opinions and that notwithstandyng ye seeme altogether obstinate and wilfull Now hereupon we thought good to sende for you to see if there were any conformity in you so that the matter is come to this poynt that if you shall shew your selfe repentant for that which you haue done both agaynst God and the princes law we are ready to vse fauour towards you but if by no meanes we can perswade with you touching your reformation we are minded at this time to minister the law vnto you and therfore aduise your self what you
others to be brought before the honourable Earle of Darby to be examined in matters of Religion c. I knowing by this relatioÌ„ of diuers of my frends was diuersly affected my mother and other my frendes aduertising me to flee and to auoid the perill which thing I had intended afore after a weeke then nexte ensuing if thys in the meane while had not chaunced seeing that if I were takeÌ„ and would not recant in matters of religion as they thought I would not and as God strengthening and assisting me with his holy spirit I neuer wyll it woulde not onely haue put theÌ„ to great sorow heauines losses with costes and charges to theyr shame rebuke in this world but also mine owne selfe after troubles and paynfull prisonment vnto shamefull death This considered G. Marsâ— in a peâ—plexitye whether flye or to tarry they aduised me couÌ„selled me to depart flie y e couÌ„try as I had entended to haue done if this had not happened To whose couÌ„sel my weak flesh would gladly haue coÌ„sented but my spirit did not fully agree thinking and saying thus to my selfe that if I fled so away it would be thought reported and sayd that I did not onely flie the countrey and my nearest and dearest frendes but much rather from Christes holy worde according as these yeares past I had with my hart or at least with mine ouâ—ward liuing professed and with my mouth word taught according to the small talent geuen me of the Lord. I being thus with theyr aduise couÌ„sell and the cogitations counselles of mine owne minde drawne as it were diuers wayes went trom my mothers house saying I woulde come agayne at euening In the meane time I ceased not by earnest prayer to aske and seeke counsell of God who is the geuer of al good gyftes and of other my frendes whose godly iudgemeÌ„tes and knowledge I much trusted vnto After this I mette with one of my sayd frends on Deane Moore about sunne goyng downe and after we had consulted together of my busines not without harty prayer kneeling on our knees we departed I not fully determinyng what to doe but taking my leaue with my frende sayde I doubted not but God according as our prayer and trust was would geue me such wisedome and counsell as should be most to hys honor and glory the profite of my neighbors and brethren in the worlde and obâ—eining of mine eternall saluation by Christ in heauen This done I returned to my mothers house agayne where had bene diuers of M. Bartons seruantes seekyng after me who when they could not finde me G. Marsh consulted with 〈◊〉 straitly charged my brother and William Marsh to seek me that night and to bring me to Smethehilles the next day who beyng so charged were gone to seeke me in Adderton or elswhere I know not Thus intending afore to haue bene all night with my mother but theÌ„ coÌ„sidering that my tarying there would disquiet her with her householde I departed from thence 〈◊〉 â—â—ethren â—â—arged to 〈◊〉 him â—he marueâ—â—â—â— prouiâ—ence of 〈…〉 and went beyond Deane Church and there taried all night with an old frend of mine taking ill rest and consulting much with my selfe of my trouble So at my first awaking one came to me from a faythfull frend of mine with letters which I neuer read nor yet looked on who sayd this My frendes aduise was that I should in no wise flie but abide boldly confesse the fayth of Iesus Christ. At whose wordes I was so confirmed established in my conscience that from thenceforth I consulted no more whether was better to flie or to tarye but was at a poynt with my selfe that I woulde not flye but go to maister Barton who did seeke for me and there present my selfe and paciently beare suche crosse as it shoulde please God to lay vpon my shoulders WherupoÌ„ my mind and conscience afore being much vnquieted and troubled was now mery and in quiet estate So betimes in the morning I arose and after I had sayd the English Letany as my custome was with other prayers kneeling on my knees by my frendes beddeside I prepared my selfe to goe towarde Smethehilles and as I was going thitherward I went into the houses of Harry Widdowes G. Marsh 〈◊〉 his leaue of his 〈◊〉 of my mother in law of Rafe Yeton and of the wife of Thomas Richardsonne desiring them to pray for me and haue me commended to all my frendes and to comfort my mother and be good to my litle children for as I supposed they should not see my face any more before y e last day so tooke my leaue of theÌ„ not without teares shed on both parties G. Marsh of his owne voluntary minde offereth himself to his enemies and came to Smethehilles about 9. of the clocke presented my selfe afore M. Barton who shewed me a letter from the Earle of Darby wherin he was commaunded to send me with others to Lathum Wherupon he charged my brother and William Marsh to bring and deliuer me the next day by x. of the clocke before the sayd Earle or his Counsell I made earnest sute with other speciall frendes which I had there at the same time to M. Barton that he woulde take some one of them or them all bound by recognisaunce or otherwise for mine appearing before the sayd Earle or his sayd Counsell that my brother William Marsh might be at home because it was the chiefest time of seding their ploughes could not go if they wer not at home but nothing could be obteined G. Marsh taketh his leaue of his mother So we went to my mothers and there I dyned shifted part of my clothes and so praying took my leaue of my mother the wife of Richard Marsh and both theyr householdes they and I both weping so departed from them and went toward Lathum and were al night a mile and a halfe on this side Lathum So the next daye whiche was Wednesday we arose prayd came to Lathum betimes and taryed there till foure of the clocke at afternoone TheÌ„ was I called by Roger Mckinson to come to my Lord and his counsell so I was brought into the chamber of presence where was present Syr William Nores Syr Pierce Alee G. Marsh brought before the Earle of Darby Mayster Shereburne the Parson of Grapenhall mayster More with others Where when I had taryed a litle while my Lord turned him toward me and asked what was my name I aunswered Marsh. Then he asked whether I was one of those that sowed euill seed and dissention amongest the people Which thing I denied desiring to know mine accusers and what could be layd agaynst me G. Marsh examined before the Earle of Darby but that I could not know Then sayd he he would with his counsell examine me themselues asked me whether I was a priest I sayd no. Then he asked me what
promise to returne agayne that night to go into London without any keeper to visite one that was sicke lying by the Stilyard Neither did he fayle his promise but returned vnto his prison againe rather preuenting his houre then breaking his fidelitie so constant was he in word in deede Of personage he was somewhat tall and slēder spare of body of a faint sanguine colour w t an Awburne beard He slept not commonly aboue foure houres in the night in his bedde till sleep came his booke went not out of his hand His chief recreation was in no gaming or other pastime but onely in honest company comely talke wherin he would spend a little time after dinner at the bourde and so to prayer and his booke agayne He counted that houre not well spent wherin he did not some good Bradford visited the theeues pickpurses c. either with his pen study or in exhorting of others c. He was no niggard of his purse but would liberally participate y t he had to hys fellowe prisoners And commonly once a weeke he visited the theeues pickpurses and such others that were with him in the prison where he lay on the other side vnto whō he would geue godly exhortation to learne the amendment of their liues by their troubles and after that so done distribute among them some portion of money to theyr comfort By the way this I thought not to conceale While he was in the kinges Bench The meeting conference betwene Laurence Saunders and Iohn Bradford and Mayster Saunders in the Marshalsey both prisoners on the backside of those two prisons they mette many times and conferred together when they would so mercifully did the Lorde worke for them euen in the middest of theyr troubles and the sayde Bradford was so trusted with his keeper Bradford refusing to escape out of prison though be mighte and had such libertie in the backeside that there was no day but that he might haue easily escaped away if he would but that the Lord had an other worke to doe for him In the sommer tyme while he was in the sayd Kinges Benche he had libertie of his keeper to ryde into Oxfordshyre to a Marchauntes house of his acquayntaunce and horse and all thinges prepared for him for that iourney and the partie in a readines that should ride with him but God preuented him by sicknes that he went not at all One of his old friends and acquaintaunce came vnto him whilest he was prisoner and asked hym if he sited to get hym out what then he would do or whether he would go Unto whom he made answer as not caring whether he went out or no but if he did he said hee would marry Bradford would not flye out of England though he mighte and abyde still in England secretly teaching the people as the tyme would suffer him and occupy himselfe that way He was had in so great reuerence and admiration wyth all good men that a multitude which neuer knew him but by fame greatly lamented his death yea Bradford beleued and a number also of the Papistes themselues wished hartily hys lyfe There were fewe dayes in which he was thought not to spend some tears before he went to bed Bradfordes teares neyther was there euer any prisoner with hym but by his company he greatly profited as all they will yet witnes and haue confessed of hym no lesse to the glory of God whose societie he frequented as among many one speciall thyng I thought to note which is this Bishop Farrer beyng in the kynges Bench prisoner as before you haue hard was trauailed withall of the Papists in the end of Lent to receiue the sacrament at Easter in one kind who after much perswading yelded to them Byshop Farrat confirmed in the truth by Iohn Bradford and promised so to do Then so it happened by gods prouidence the Easter euen the day before hee should haue done it was Bradford brought to the Kings Benche prisoner where the Lord making him his instrument Bradford only was the meane that the said B. Farrer reuoked his promise and word and would neuer after yeeld to bee spotted with that papisticall pitch so effectually the Lord wrought by this worthy seruaunt of his Such an instrument was he in gods church that few or none there were that knew him but estemed him as a precious iewell and Gods true messenger Bradford dreameth of his burning according as it came to passe The night before he was had to Newgate which was the saterday night he was sore troubled diuers tymes in his sleepe by dreams how the chaine for his burning was brought to the Counter gate and how the next day beyng Sonday he should be had to Newgate and on the Monday after burned in Smithfield as in deed it came to passe accordingly which hereafter shal be shewed Now he beyng vexed so often tymes in this sort with these dreames about 3. of the clocke in the morning hee waked hym that lay with hym and told him his vnquiet sleepe what he was troubled withall Then after a little talke Maister Bradford rose out of the bed and gaue hymselfe to his olde exercise of readyng and prayer as alwayes he had vsed before and at dinner according to his accustomed maner he did eat his meat and was very mery no body being with hym from mornyng till night but he that lay with hym with whom he had many tymes on that day communication of death of the kingdome of heauen and of the ripenes of sinne in that tyme. In the after noone they two walking together in the keepers chamber sodainly the keepers wife came vp as one halfe amazed Bradford hath word of his burning seeming much troubled beyng almost wyndles said Oh M. Bradford I come to bring you heauy newes What is that said he Marry quoth she to morow you must be burned your chaine is now a buying soone you must go to Newgate With that M. Bradford put of his cap and lifting vp his eyes to heauen sayd I thanke God for it I haue looked for the same a long time and therfore it commeth not now to me sodainly but as a thing waited for euery day and houre the Lord make me worthy therof so thanking her for her gentlenes departed vp into his chamber and called his friend with hym who when he came thither he went secretly himselfe alone a long tyme and prayed Which done he came agayne to him that was in his chamber and tooke him diuers writings and papers shewed him his mind in those things what he would haue done and after they had spent the after noone till night in many and sundry such things at last came to him halfe a dosen of his friends more with whom all the euening he spent the tyme in prayer and other good exercises so wonderfully that it was meruailous to heare and see his doyngs A
they which hate me may see it and be ashamed because thou Lord hast helped me and comforted me Neare vnto the stake was a litle hill vpon the top wherof were pitched vp foure staâ—es quadrangle wise with a couering round about like a pulpit into the which place as Wade was thus praying at y e stake entred a Frier wyth a booke in his hand whoÌ„ when Wade espied he cried earnestly vnto y e people to take hede of the doctrine of the whore of Babilon exhorting them to imbrace the doctrine of the gospel preached in K. Edward his daies Whom the sheriffe thus speaking to the people often interrupted saying be quiet Wade and die pacieÌ„tly I am sayde hee I thanke God quiet Maister Sheriffe and so trust to die All this while the Frier stoode still looking ouer the couerlet as though he woulde haue vttered somewhat but Wade very mightily admonished y e people to beware of that doctrine whiche when the Frier perceiued whether he were amased or coulde haue no audience of the people withdrewe himselfe oute of the place immediately wythoute speaking anye woorde and went awaye downe to the Towne Then the Reedes being sette about hym he pulled them and imbraced them in his armes alwayes with his handes making a hole against his face that his voyce might be heard which they perceiuing that were hys tormentours alwaye caste fagottes at the same hole whych notwythstanding he still as he coulde put off his face being hurte with the ende of a fagotte cast thereat Then sire being putte vnto him he cried vnto God often Lorde Iesus receiue my soule wythout any token or signe of impaciencie in the fire till at lengthe after the fire was once throughly kindled he was hearde no man speake still holding hys handes vp ouer hys head together towardes heauen euen when he was dead and altogether rosted as though they had bene stayed vppe wyth a proppe standing vnder them Thys signe did God shewe vppon hym whereby his very ennemies might perceiue that God had according to hys prayer shewed such a token vppon hym euen to their shame and confusion And this was the order of this godly Martyrs execution thys was his ende Whereby God seemed to confound and strike with the spirit of dumbnes the Frier that Locuste which was risen vp to haue spoken against hym and also no lesse woonderfully susteined those handes which he lifted vp to him for coÌ„fort in his torment Spectatores praesentes Richardus Fletcher pater nunc Minister Ecclesiae Crambroke Richardus Fletcher filius Minister Ecclesiae Riensis The apprehension examination condemnation and burning of Diricke Caruer and Iohn Launder who suffered martyrdome for the testimonie of Christes Gospell THe 22. day of this moneth of Iuly was burned at Lewes within the Countie of Sussex one Diricke Caruer late of the parish of Brighthamsted in the same Countie And the next day being the 23. day of the same moneth was also burned at Steuing an other named Ihon Lander late of Godstone in the Countie of Surrey Whych 2. men were w t others about the ende of the moneth of October An. 1554. apprehended by Edwarde Gage Gentleman as they were at prayer within the dwelling house of the said Diricke and by him were sent vp vnto the Queenes Counsaile Who after examination sent them as prisoners to Newgate there to attende the leisure of Boner Bishop of London From whence vpon the Bishops receipte of a letter from the Lorde Marques of Winchester now Lord Treasurer they were brought by the keeper of the prison the 8. of Iune next after into the bishops chamber at his house in LoÌ„don and there being examined vpon diuers poynts of religion they made their seueral confessions subscribing and signing them with theyr owne hands Which being read the Bishop obiected vnto them certaine other Articles causing them to sweare truely and directly to aunswere thereunto whiche Articles they confessed to be true referring them selues chiefly to theyr former confessions This done after long perswasions and faire exhortations they were demaunded whether they would stand to their aunsweres To whom Launder sayde I will neuer goe from these answeres so long as I liue The other also confirmed the same and therfore they were commanded to appeare againe before the Bishoppe in the Consistorie at Paules the 10. day of the same moneth nexte followynge Which articles and confessions wyth the afore mencioned letter do here ensue A letter sent from the Marques of Winchester Lord Treasurer vnto Boner B. of London touching the examination of the said prisoners AFter my right harty commendations to your good Lordship I shall not forget your liuerie of blacke against this time no more I shall maister Deane to whom I wrote to make the sermon who must now assuredly do it for my L. of Chichester cannot attend it To whom I haue geuen like knowledge by my letter now sent and your Lordshippe must commaund the Sextens of youre church to be in readines for ringing in the time of seruice And if ye be not furnished with blacke apparell for the aultar and for the Priest Deacon and Subdeacon I must haue knowledge therof that it be taken of the Queenes stuffe whereof I pray you let me be aduertised And ye haue sent Bradford to Newgate as a man determined of heresie before you but as I perceiue ye haue not sent me a Significauit and therfore you must send me one that I may procede with him and that shal I do assone as I am answeared of you There be diuers like prisonners that came from Sussex that be not yet examined before you lying nowe in Newgate whych must be examined by you since they be come to London and so I pray you they may be and I certified of your proceedings that I may follow which I shall doe thanking your Lordship heartely for my Conies trusting to recoÌ„pence your Lordship again shortly with twise as many From my house this 7 of Iune 1555. Your louing friend Winchester The Confession of Diricke Caruer before Boner Bishop of London DIricke Caruer bearebrewer of Brighthamsted Diricke Caruer his confession in the countie of Sussex where he hathe dwelled by the space of 8. or 9. yeares borne in the village of Dilson by Stockome in the land of Luke 40. yeres of age or thereabout and nowe prisoner in Newgate where he hath remained and continued at the Counsailes commaundement since Alhollowne day last past being examined concerning hys faith and beliefe in the sacrament of the altar The materiall substance of the Sacrament denyed to be the body of Christ really sayeth that he hath doth beleue that the very substance of the body and bloud of Christ is not in the sayd Sacrament that there is no other substaunce remaining in the said sacrament after the woordes spoken by the Priest but onely the substance of bread and wine Item being examined concerning the Masse in Latin now
With that he went foorth into his great chamber and read the same Bil before the audience which enueigled and willed me to set to my haÌ„d saieng also that I had fauour shewed me Then sayd the B. I might thaÌ„ke other and not my selfe of the fauour that I found at hys hand for he considered he sayd that I had good frendes and also that I was come of a worshipfull stocke Then answered one Christopher a seruant to M. Dennie Rather ought you my L. to haue done it in such case for Gods sake then for mans Then my L. sate down and tooke me the writing to set therto my hand and I writ after this maner I Anne Askew do beleue all maner things conteined in the faith of the catholike church And for as much as mention here is made of the writyng of Boner The wordes of the Registers which this godly woman sayd before she had not in memory therefore I thought in this place to inferre the same both with the whole circumstance of Boner and with the title thereunto prefixed by the Register and also with her owne subscription to the intent the Reader seyng the same subscription neyther to agree with the tyme of the title aboue prefixed nor with the subscription after the writing annexed might the better vnderstand thereby what credite is to be geuen hereafter to suche Byshops and to such Registers The tenour of Boners writyng proceedeth thus The true copy of the confession and beliefe of Anne Askew otherwise called Anne Kime made before the B. of London the xx day of March in the yere of our lord God after the computation of the Church of England 1545. and subscribed with her owne hand in the presence of the â—ayd B. and other whose names hereafter are recited set foorth and published at this present to the entent the world may see what credence is now to be geuen vnto the same woman who in so short a tyme hath most damnably altered and changed her opinion and beliefe Ex Regist. therfore rightfully in open court arrained and condemned Ex Regist. BE it known to all faythfull people that as touching the blessed sacrament of the aultar I do firmely vndoubtedly beleue that after the wordes of consecration be spoken by the Priest according to the common vsage of thys Church of England The copy of the Byshops reporte vpon the confession of Anne Askew as it staÌ„deth 〈◊〉 the Registers there is present really the bodye and bloud of our Sauiour Iesu Christ whether the minister which doth consecrate be a good man or a bad man that also whensoeuer the sayd Sacrament is receiued whether the receiuer be a good man or a bad man he doth receiue it really corporally And moreouer I do beleue that whether the said Sacrament then receiued of the Minister or els reserued to be put into the pixe or to be brought to any person that is impotent or sicke yet there is the very bodie and bloud of our sayd sauiour so that whether the Minister or the receiuer be good or bad yea whether the Sacrament be receiued or reserued alwayes there is the blessed body of Christ really And this thing with all other things touching the Sacrament other sacraments of the Church and all things els touching the christian beliefe which are taught and declared in the kings Maiesties booke lately set forth for the erudition of the christiaÌ„ people I Anne Askew otherwise called Anne Kyme do truely and perfectly beleeue and so here presently confesse and knowledge And here I do promise that henceforth I shall neuer say or doe any thyng agaynst the premisses or against any of them In witnesse whereof I the sayd Anne haue subscribed my name vnto these presents Written the xx day of March in the yere of our Lord God 1545. Ex Regist. Ex Reg. Lond. By me Anne Askew otherwise called Anne Kyme Edmund Bish. of London Iohn Bish of Bathe Owen Oglethorpe Doct. of Diuinitie Witnesses Rich. Smith Doct. of Diuinitie Ioh. Rudde Bacheler of Diuinitie Wil. Pie Bacheler of Diuinitie Iohn Wymsley Archdeacon of London Iohn Cooke Rob. Iohn Frances Spilman Edward Hall Alexander Bret. Edmund Buts With diuers other mo beyng then present Here mayest thou note gentle Reader in this confession both in the B. and his register a double sleight of false conueiaunce For although the confession porporteth the words of the bishops writing Bonner and hys Register reproued with an vntruth whereunto she did set her hand yeâ— by the title prefixed before mayest thou see that both she was arraigned condemned before this was registred and also that she is falsly reported to haue put to her hand which in deed by this her owne booke appeareth not so to be but after this maner and condition I Anne Askew doe beleeue all maner thinges conteyned in the fayth of the Catholike Church and not otherwise It followeth more in the story Then because I did adde vnto it the catholike church he â—ang into his chamber in a great fury With that my cosin Britaine followed him desiring him for Gods sake to bee gooâ— L. vnto me Bonner Byshop of London in a chafe agaynst Anne Askew He answered that I was a woman and that â—e was nothing deceiued in me Then my cosine Britayne desired him to take me as a woman and not to set my weake womans wit to his lordships great wisdome Then went in vnto him Doct. Westen and sayd that the cause why I did write there the catholike church Doct. Westen was that I vnderstoode not the Church written afore So with much adoe they perswaded my Lord to come out agayne and to take my name with y e names of my sureties which were my cosin Britaine and Maister Spilman of Graies Inne This beyng done we thought that I should haue bene put to bayle immediatly according to the order of the law Howbeit he would not suffer it but committed me from thence to prison agayne Anne Askew brought to the Guilde Hall vntill the next morrow and then he willed me to appeare in the Guild hall so I did Notwithstanding they would not put me to bayle there neyther but red the B. writing vnto me as before and so commanded me againe to prison Then were my sureties appointed to come before theÌ„ on the next morrow in Paules Church which dyd so in deede Notwithstandyng they would once agayne haue brokeÌ„ of with them because they would not be bound also for another woman at their plesure whom they knew not nor yet what matter was laid vnto her charge Anne Askew bayled at last vnder sâ—ertyes with much adoe Notwithstanding at the last after much ado and reasoning to fro they toke a bond of them of recognisance for my forth comming And thus I was at the last deliuered Written by me Anne Askew The latter apprehension and examination of the worthy Martyr of
God Anne Askew Martyr Mistres Anne Askew Anno. 1546. Anno 1546. I Do perceiue deare friend in the Lord that thou art not yet perswaded throughly in the truth A declaration of Anne Askew of these wordes of our Sauiour this is my body concernyng the Lords supper because Christ said vnto his Apostles Take eate this is my body which is geuen for you In geuing forth the bread as an outward signe or token to be receiued with the mouth he mynded them in perfect beliefe to receiue that body of his which should dye for the people and to thinke the death therof to be the only health and saluatioÌ„ of their soules The bread and the wine were left vs for a sacramentall communion or a mutuall participation of the inestimable benefites of his most precious death and bloudsheading and that we should in the ende therof be thankfull together for that most necessarie grace of our redemption For in y e closing vp therof he said thus This doye in remembrance of me Yea so oft as ye shall eat it or drinke it Luke xi and i. Cor. xi Els should we haue bene forgetfull of that we ought to haue in daily remembraunce Luke 11. 1. Cor. 11. also bene altogether vnthankful for it therfore it is meeâ—â— that in our prayers we call vnto God to graft in our foreheds the true meaning of the holy Ghost concerning this Communion For S. Paul sayth The letter slayeth the spirit is it onely that geueth lyfe ij Cor. iij. Marke well the sixt chap. of Iohn where all is applied vnto fayth note also y e 4. chap. of S. Paules first Epistle to the Corin. 2. Cor. 3. and in the end therof ye shall find that the things which are seene are temporall but they that are not seene are euerlastyng Yea looke in the 3. chap. to the Hebrues 1. Cor. 4. and ye shall finde that Christ as a sonne and no seruant ruleth ouer hys house whose house are we and not the dead temple If we holde fast the confidence and reioysing of that hope to the end Heb. 3. Wherfore as sayd the holy Ghost To day if ye shall heare his voice harden not your harts c. Psalm 99. The summe of my examination Psal. â—5 before the Kings Councell at Greenewich YOur request as concerning my prison fellowes I am not able to satisfie because I heard not their examinations but the effect of myne was this Concerniâ—â— that which they here demaundeâ— as touching M. Kyme read in the censure of Iohn Bale wryting 〈◊〉 this place I beyng before the Councell was asked of M. Kyme I aunswered that my Lord Chauncellor knew already my mynd in that matter They with that aunswer were not contented but sayde it was the kings pleasure that I should open the matter to them I answered them plainly I would not so doe But if it were the Kinges pleasure to heare me I would shew hym the truth Then they sayde it was not meete for the Kyng to be troubled with me I answered that Salomon was reckoned the wysest kyng that euer lyued yet misliked he not to heare two poore common womeÌ„ much more hys grace a simple woman and hys faythfull subiect So in Conclusion I made them none other aunswer in that matter Then my Lord Chancellour asked me of my opinion in the sacrament My aunswer was this I beleue that so oft as I in a christian congregation This Lord Chancellâ—â—â— was 〈◊〉 do receiue the breade in remembrance of Christes death and with thankes geuyng according to his holy institution I receiue therwith the fruits also of his most glorious passion The bishop of Winchester bad me make a direct answer I said I would not sing a new song of the Lord in a strange lande Then the B. said I spake in parables I aunswered Parables best for Winchesteâ— it was best for him for if I shew the open truth quoth I ye will not accept it Then he sayde I was a Parret I told hym agayne I was readie to suffer all thyngs at hys handes not onely his rebukes but all that should follow besides Wynchestâ—â— beginneâ—â— to scolde yea and all that gladly Then had I diuers rebukes of the counsayle because I woulde not expresse my mynde in all thynges as they would haue me But they were not in the meane time vnanswered for all that which now to reherse were to much for I was with them there about fiue houres Then the Clearke of the Counsaile conueyed me from thence to my Lady Garnish The next day I was brought againe before the Councell Then would they needes know of me what I sayd to the sacrament I answered Anne Askew 〈◊〉 agayne beâ—fore the Councell that I already had said that I could say Then after diuers words they bad me goe by Then came my L. Lisle my L. of Essex and the B. of Winchester requiring me earnestly that I should confesse the sacrament to be flesh bloud and bone Then sayd I to my L. Parre and my L. Lisle that it was great shame for theÌ„ to counsayle contrary to their knowledge Whereunto in few words they did say that they would gladly all things were well Then the B. sayd he would speake with me familiarlye I sayde so did Iudas when he vnfriendlye betrayed Christ. Then desired the Bishop to speake with me alone Wyncheâ—â—â—â— aunswerâ—â— home But that I refused He asked me why I sayde that in the mouth of two or three witnesses euerye matter shoulde stand after Christes and Paules doctrine Mathew xviij ii Cor. xiij Math 1â— 2 Cor. 1â— Then my L. Chancellour began to examine me again of the sacrament Then I asked hym how long he woulde halt on both sides Then would he needes knowe where I found that I sayd in the scripture iij. Reg. xviij Then he went his way â— Reg. 18. 〈…〉 Then the B. sayd I should be burnt I answered that I had searched all the scriptures yet coulde I neuer finde that either Christ or his Apostles put any creature to death Well well sayd I God will laugh your threatnings to scorne Psalm iâ— Then was I commanded to stand aside Psal. 2. D. Coxe D. RobinsoÌ„ Then came to me D. Coxe and D. Robinson In conclusion we could not agree Then they made me a bill of the Sacrament willyng me to set my hand thereunto Anne Askew desired to speake with M. Latimer but I would not Then on the sonday I was sore sicke thinking no lesse then to dye Therfore I desired to speake with Maister Latimer but it would not be Then was I sent to Newgate in my extremitie of sickenes for in all my life afore was I neuer in such payne Thus the Lord strengthen vs in the truth Pray pray pray The confession of me Anne Askew for the tyme I was in Newgate concerning my beliefe I Finde in the Scriptures sayd she that