of your being here I pray you tell me what was the cause of your sending hither for I promise you I knew nothing thereof as yet neither I woulde you shoulde thinke that I was the cause thereof and I maruell that other men wyll trouble me with theyr matters but I must be obedient to my betters and ywis men speake otherwise of me then I deserue Phil. I shewed him the summe of the matter that it was for the disputation in the conuocation house for the which I was agaynst all right molested Boner I maruell that you shoulde be troubled therefore if there was none other cause but this But peraduenture you haue mainteyned the same since and some of your frendes of late haue asked whether you doe stande to the same and you haue said Yea and for this you might be cōmitted to prison Phil. If it shall please your Lordshippe I am burdened none otherwise then I haue tolde you by the Commissioners who haue sēt me hither because I would not recant the same Boner A man may speake in the parliament house though it be a place of free speech as he may be imprisoned for as in case he spake wordes of high treason against the king or queen so it might be that you spake otherwise then it become you of the Church of Christ. Phil. I spake nothing which was out of the articles whiche were called in question and agreed vpon to be disputed by the whole house and by the Queenes permissiō and the Counsell Boner Why may we dispute of our fayth Phil. Yea that we may Boner Nay I trow not by the law Phil. In deed by the Ciuill law I know it is not lawfull but by Gods law we may reasō therof For S. Peter saith Be ye ready to render accompt vnto all men of that hope whiche is in you that demaund you of the same Boner In deede Saynt Peter sayth so Why then I aske of you what your iudgement is of the Sacramente of the Aultar Phil. My Lord Saynt Ambrose sayth that the disputatiō of faith ought to be in the congregation in the hearing of the people and that I am not bound to render account therof to euery man priuately vnlesse it be to edify But nowe I cannot shewe you my minde but I muste runne vpon the pikes in daunger of my life therfore Wherfore as the said Doctor sayd vnto Ualentinian the Emperour so say I to your Lordship Tolle legem fiet certamen Take awaye the lawe and I shall reason with you And yet if I come in open iudgement where I am bound by the law to aunswere I trust I shall vtter my conscience as freely as any that hath come before you Boner I perceiue you are learned I would haue such as you be about me But you must come be of the church for there is but one Church Phil. God forbid I should be out of the church I am sure I am within the same for I know as I am taught by the scripture that there is but one catholick church Vna Colūba vna Sponsa vna Dilecta One Doue one Spouse one beloued Congregation out of the which there is no saluation Boner How chaunceth it then that you go out of the same and walke not with vs Phil. My Lorde I am sure I am within the boundes of the Church whereupon she is builded which is the word of God Boner What age are ye of Phil. I am foure and forty Boner You are not now of the same fayth your godfathers and godmothers promised for you in the which you were baptised Phil. Yes that I thank God I am for I was baptised into the fayth of Christ which I now hold Boner How can that be there is but one fayth Phil. I am assured of that by Saynt Paule saying That there is but one God one fayth and one baptisme of the which I am Boner You were xx yeare ago of an other fayth then you be now Phil. In deede my Lorde to tell you playne I was then nullus fidei of no fayth a neuter a wicked liuer neither hoat nor colde Boner Why doe you not thinke that wee haue nowe the true fayth Phil. I desire your Lordship to hold me excused for answering at this time I am sure that Gods worde throughlye with the Primitiue church and all the aūcient writers doe agree with this fayth I am of Boner Well I promise you I meane you no more hurte then to mine owne person I will not therfore burthē you with your conscience as nowe I maruell that you are so mery in prison as you be singing and reioysing as the prophet saith Exultātes in rebus pessimis reioising in your naughtinesse Me thinketh you do not wel herein you should rather lament and be sory Phil. My Lord the myrth that we make is but in singing certayne Psalmes according as we are commaūded by S. Paule willing vs to be mery in the Lord singing together in Hymnes and Psalmes and I trust your Lordship can not be displeased with that Boner We may say vnto you as Christ said in the Gospel Tibijs cecinimus vobis non planxistis Phil. Here my Lorde stumbled and coulde not bring forth the text and required his Chapleines to help and put him in remembrance of the text better but they were mumme and I recited out the text vnto him whiche made nothing to his purpose vnles he would haue vs to mourn because they if they laughe sing still sorrowfull thinges vnto vs threatning fagots and fire We are my Lord in a darcke comfortlesse place therefore it behooueth vs to be mery least as Salomon sayeth sorrowfulnesse eate vp our harte Therefore I truste your Lordship will not bee angrye for our singing of Psalmes since Saynt Paule sayth If any man bee of an vpright minde let hym sing And we therefore to testifye that we are of an vpright minde to God though wee be in misery doe sing Boner I will trouble you no further as nowe If I can doe you any good I will bee glad to doe it for you God be with you good Mayster Philpot and geue you good night Haue him to the Sellar and let him drinke a cup of wine Thus I departed and by my Lordes Register I was brought to his Sellar doore where I dranke a good cup of wine And my Lords Chapleine M. Cousin folowed me taking acquayntance saying that I was welcome wished that I would not be singular Phil. I am well taught the contrary by Salomon saying Vae soli Wo be to him that is alone After that I was caryed to my Lordes Colehouse agayne where I with my sixe felowes do rouse together in the straw as chearefully we thanke God as other do in theyr beds of Downe Thus for the third fitte ¶ The fourth examination of M. Philpot in the Archdeacons house of London the sayd moneth of October
Pope haue such power as he claimeth vntill such tyme as the lawes and customes of this Realme beyng contrary to his lawes be taken away blotted out of the law books And although there be many lawes of this Realme contrary to the lawes of Rome yet I named but a fewe as to conuict a Clarke before any temporall Iudge of this Realme for debt fellony murther or for any other crime which Clarkes by the Popes lawes bee so exempt frō the Kyngs lawes that they can be no where sued but before their ordinary Also the Pope by his lawes may geue all bishoprikes and benefices spiritual which by the lawes of this realm can be geuen but onely by the kyng and other patrones of the same except they fall into the lapse By the Popes lawes Ius patronatus shall be sued only before the Ecclesiasticall Iudge but by the lawes of the Realme it shall be sued before the temporall Iudge And to be short the lawes of this realm do agree with the Popes lawes like fire and water And yet the Kings of this realm haue prouided for their lawes by the premunire so that if any man haue let the execution of the lawes of this realme by any authority from the Sea of Rome he falleth into the premunire But to meete with this the Popes haue prouided for their lawes by cursing For whosoeuer letteth the Popes lawes to haue ful course within this realm by the Popes power standeth accursed So that the Popes power treadeth all the lawes and customs of this Realme vnder his feete cursing all that execute them vntil such tyme as they geue place vnto his lawes But it may be sayd that notwithstanding all the Popes decrees yet we do execute still the lawes and customes of this realme Nay not all quietly without interruption of the Pope And where we do execute them yet we do it vniustly if the Popes power be of force and for the same we stand excommunicate and shall do vntill we leaue the execution of our owne lawes and customes Thus we bee wel reconciled to Rome allowyng such authority wherby the Realme standeth accursed before God if the Pope haue any such authority These thynges as I suppose were not fully opened in the Parliament house when the Popes authority was receiued agayne within this realme for if they had I doe not beleeue that either the kyng or Queenes Maiesty or the noblest of this Realme or the Commons of the same would euer haue consented to receiue agayne such a forraine authority so iniurious hurtfull and preiudiciall as well to the crowne as to the lawes and customs and state of this Realme as whereby they must needes acknowledge themselues to be accursed But none coulde open this matter well but the Clergy and such of them as had red the Popes lawes whereby the Pope had made hymselfe as it were a God These seeke to maintaine the Pope whom they desired to haue their chiefe head to the intent they might haue as it were a kyngdome and lawes within themselues distinct from the lawes of the crowne and wherewith the crowne may not meddle and so being exempted from the lawes of the Realme might liue in this Realme lyke lordes and kings without damage or feare of any man so that they please their high and supreme hed at Rome For this consideration I weene some that knew the truth held their peace in the Parliament whereas if they had done their duties to the crowne whole realme they should haue opened their mouths declared the truth and shewed the perils and daungers that might ensue to the crowne and realme And if I should agree to allow such authoritie within this Realme whereby I must needes confesse that your most gracious highnes and also your realme should euer continue accursed vntill ye shall cease from the execution of your own lawes and customs of your realme I could not thinke myselfe true either to your highnesse or to this my naturall countrey knowyng that I do know Ignorance I know may excuse other men but he that knoweth how preiudiciall and iniurious the power and authoritie which he chalengeth euery where is to the crowne lawes and customes of this realme and yet wil allow the same I cannot see in any wyse how he can keepe his due allegeaunce fidelitie and truth to the crowne and state of this realme An other cause I alledged why I could not allow the authoritie of the Pope which is this That by his autoritie he subuerteth not onely the lawes of this realme but also the lawes of God so that whosoeuer be vnder hys authority he suffreth them not to be vnder Christes religion purely as Christ did commaund And for one example I brought foorth that wheras by gods lawes all christian people bee bounden diligently to learne his worde that they may know how to beleeue and liue accordingly for that purpose he ordeined holydayes when they ought leauyng apart al other businesse to geue themselues wholy to know and serue God Therefore Gods will commandement is that when the people be gathered together that Ministers should vse such language as the people may vnderstand and take profite thereby or els hold their peace For as an harpe or lute if it geue no certaine sounde that men may know what is striken who can dance after it for all the sound is in vayne so is it vayne profiteth nothyng sayth almighty God by the mouth of S. Paule if the priest speake to the people in a language which they know not For els he may profite hymselfe but profiteth not the people saith S. Paul But herein I was answered thus that Saint Paule spake onely of preachyng that the preacher should speake in a tong which the people did know or els his preaching auaileth nothing but if the preaching auaileth nothing beyng spoken in a language which the people vnderstand not how should any other seruice auaile them beyng spoken in the same language And yet that S. Paule ment not onely of preachyng it appeareth plainly by his owne words For he speaking by name expressely of praying singyng and thanking of God and of all other thynges which the priestes say in the Churches whereunto the people say Amen whiche they vse not in preaching but in other diuine seruice that whether the Priests reherse the wonderfull workes of God or the great benefites of God vnto mankynd aboue al other cretures or geue thanks vnto God or make open professiō of their fayth or humble confession of their sinnes with earnest request of mercy and forgeuenes or make sute or request vnto God for any thing then all the people vnderstāding what the priests say might geue their mynds and voyces with them and say Amen that is to say allowe what the priests say that the rehearsall of Gods vniuersall workes and benefites the geuyng of thanks the professiō of fayth the confession of sinnes
me to my Lord Chamberlaine that was then to the Queene Sir Iohn Gage shewyng him that I baptised children and married folks with many such lyes to bryng me into their hands agayne Then the Commissioners sent out certaine Citations to bring me to the Court My L. Chamberlain had directed out 4. or 5. Warrantes for me that if I had come there I should haue bene attached and sent to prisō straite way Which was not Gods will for I had warnyng of their laying await for me and came not there but sent my deputie he brought me word that the Bailifs waited for me there but they mist of their pray for that tyme wherevpon they were displeased Then within 3. dayes after my L. sent 3. of his men to take me whose names were Deane Ieffrey and Frāces I beyng at plough with my folkes right in the waye as they were commyng to my house least mistrusting thē of all other came to them and spake to them asking thē how they did And they sayd they arested me in the Kyng and Queenes name and that I must goe with them to their Maister the L. Chamberlaine Which wordes made my flesh to tremble and quake because of that sodayne But I answered them that I would go with them Yet I desired them that they would go to my house with me that I might breake my fast and put on some other geare and they said I should Then I remembred my selfe saying in my hart Why am I thus afraid they can lay no euill to my charge If they kill me for well doyng I may thinke my self happy I remembred how I was contented gladly before to dye in that quarell and so had continued euer since and should I now feare to dye God forbid that I should for then were all my labour in vayne So by and by I was perswaded I praise God considering it was but the frailty of my flesh which was loth to forgo my wife childrē and goods for I saw nothing but present death before mine eyes And as soone as I was perswaded in my mynd to die I had no regard of nothing in this worlde but was as mery and glad and ioyfull I prayse GOD as euer I was This battaile lasted not a quarter of an houre but it was sharper then death it selfe for the tyme I dare say So when I had my breakfast I desired them to shew me their warrant thinkyng thereby I should haue seene wherfore I was arested to the intent I might the better answer for my self whē I came before their maister And one of them answered they had not their warrāt there Which words made me astonied and it was put in my mynde by God that I neede not to goe with them vnlesse they had their warrant Then said I to them that is meruaile that you will come to take a man without a warrant It seemeth to me that you come of your owne mind to get thāke of your maister for in deed I heard say sayd I that there was 4. or 5. warrants out for me but they were called in agayne because I had certified my L. and the Commissary by a letter that I sent to the Commissaries court that I was not faulty in that they layd to my charge which was for baptising of children and marying of folks the which I neuer did for I was neuer minister appointed to do any such thyng wherfore set your hartes at rest I will not go with you said I vnlesse you will cary me by force and if you will do so at your owne aduentures And so I rose from the boord and stepped into my chamber meanyng to goe from them if I could possible seeyng God had made the way so open for me I ment to play Peters part with them but God would not it should be so but sent a feare amongst them that as soone as I was gone into my chāber ere euer I could come out againe they were gone out of my house When I saw that I knew it was Gods doyng to set me at liberty once againe Yet I was compelled to speake to them and said If you haue a warrant I desire you for Gods sake to shew it me and I wil go with you with all my hart if not I desire you to depart in Gods peace and the kings for surely I will not go with you without the order of the law for I haue bene too simple in such things already For before I was sent to prison first I went to the Iustices to two Sessions without any warrant or cōmandement but had word by one of their men I went gently to them they sent me to prison and kept me there almost a yere and thre quarters without all right or equitie as it is openly known not hearing my cause iustly debated And it semeth to me that I should be thus euil hādled and therefore I will not go to none of them all henceforth without the extremitie of the law Then one of them answered me and said we haue not the warrant here but it is at home at my house the worst is you can but make vs fetch it Then I said Fetch it if you wil but if you come in my house before you haue it at your owne aduenture So I shut my doore and went my way out of the other doore So they got helpe to watch my house while one of them fet the Constable and many moe thinking to haue had me in my house and to haue takē me in my house caried me away with a licence but I was gone before as god would haue it Notwithstanding they sought euery corner of my house but could not preuaile I mistrusted they would search it again that night and kept me abroad and in deed there came seuen of his men the Constable and searched my house And when they sawe that they could not meete with me they were redy to rent their coats that I had scaped them so knowing they should haue such a checke of their maister When I heard that they had sought so for me againe I perceiuyng that they were greedy of their pray came home and my wyfe told me all thyngs Then I supposed that they would lay all the countrey for me and the sea coast because I should not go ouer and thē I thought that they would not mistrust that I would dare bee nigh home So I tolde my wyfe that I woulde make my lodgyng in a woode not past a flight shotte from my house as I did in deede euen vnder a tree and there had my Bible my penne and myne inke and other necessaries and there continued a sixe or seuen weekes my wife bringing me meate daily as I had neede Yea I thought my selfe blessed of God that I was counted worthy to lye in the woodes for the name of Christ. Then there came word into the countrey that
friers and the studentes of Paris 328 Contention of the Archbyshoppes who should sit on the right hande of the Cardinall 228 Contention betwene the Friers of Fraunce the Prelates of Paris 392 Contention betweene Boner and Winchester 1089.1090 Contention betwene king Henry 1. Anselme Archbishop of Caūterbury about doing homage to the king 192 Contention betweene the Archb. of Caunterbury the Monkes about trifles 236.237.239 Contention betweene the Kyng of Englande and the Monkes of Caunterburye for choosing the Archbishop 238 Contention betwne the french king and king Iohn 255 Contention betweene the Pope and king Iohn about the consecrating of an Archb. 220.251.241 Contention betweene the Pope and Friderike the Emperour for the election and depriuation of Bishops 298. Contention of the Archb. of Cant. and Yorke who should sit on the right hand of th◠Cardinal 265 Contention and schisme in the popes church 272 Conspiracies of Pope Innocent against Frederike the Emperor 297. Concubines permitted of the Pope for money 862 Constantinople taken by the Turks 742 Conquests in England 171 Conradus Hager 390 Constantius his worthy commendations his fauour to the Christians 81 Constantinus Magnus borne in Englande .108 first christened Emperour his fauour to the christians 101.102.103 Constantine his donation prooued to be false .105 his liberalitie in geuing to the church .104 his liberalitie to schooles and pitie to the poore ibid. his graunt for the Popes supremacie prooued false .115 hee kisseth the woundes of them that suffered for Christes sake ibid. Constantines law for the Popes election suspected and examined 4 Constantinus imbracing christian bishops 781 Constantine writeth to Sapores in fauour of the Christians .99 his Epistle to his subiects in the East 102 Conuocation of S. Frideswide in Oxford 444 Conuocation in Paules in Londō 1410 Councel of Cloneshoe with the decrees there enacted 128 Councels of the Popes one burne an others decrees 146 Councel of Constance against Wicliffe his articles and bookes 449 Councell of Constance a sacrilegious councell 1150. Councell of the prelates of Prage agaynst the gospellers 589 Councell and the church aboue the Pope 671.672 674. Councell of Nice falsified by the Pope 4. Councels generall called by Emperours 1068 Councell at Thetford in England with the acts therof 125 Councels may and do erre 1117 Councell aboue the Pope 670. Councell of Basill dissolued 700 Councels called by the Emperors without the Pope 676 Councell of Nice constituted other bishops equall in authority to the Pope 10. Councel of Carthage .6.4 had great contention about the Popes supremacie 10.11.12 Councell wicked what harme it doth 68 Councell of Winchester 172. Councell of Laterane 168 Councell of Frankford 373. Councell of Pise 553 Councell of Brixia agaynst Pope Hildebrand 181 Councell of Ratisbone 865 Councell of priestes against Henry Sutphen 875 Councel of Laterane inuented trāsubstantiatiō and established the same for a true and infallible doctrine 1152.1149 Councell of London with the acts thereof 174 Councell of Trecas with the decrees of the same 196 Concilium Gangrense Constantinopolitanum 1135 Councell of Rome vnder Hildebrand against priests 1164 Councell of Winchester agaynste priests mariage 1167 Councels in the primitiue Churche concluded that none should appeale to Rome out of their owne prouinces 1055 Councell of Constance .593 Prelates there assembled ibid. their orders and decrees .593 they deny the communiō in both kynds .596 their outrage against Iohn Hus. 606 Concilium Lateranense 205 Councell of the nobles agaynst the bishop of Ely he is deposed clothed in womens apparell bayted of women complaineth of the K. and the nobles 247 Councell of Rhemes with the acts thereof 198. Councell of Laterane hatched the egge of transubstantiation 253 Councel of Constance decreed that the Pope should be subiect to the Councell 673 Councell of king Henry the 8. deuided in religion 1201 Councell of Rome where an Oule appeared before the Pope 592 Councell of Constance condemneth Iohn Hus burneth his bones 464. Councell of Basill with the determinations therof 668 Councell of Luserne with the constitutions thereof 867 Councels fathers and histories their testimonies agaynst Images 2130.2131 Cooe martyr his story and martirdome 1707.1708 Cope aunswered for reprouing this booke of Actes Monumentes 580.582.583 Cooper of Watsam in the Countye of Suffolke Carpenter falselye slaundered of certeyne wordes accused thereof arrayned condemned and put to death for the same by the bloudy Papistes 2099.2100 Cornelius a Romayne first baptised of all the Romaynes 20 Cornelius Martyr Byshoppe of Rome his story constancy accusatiō for writing to Cyprian his martyrdome 64.65.66 Cornelius Bongey Martyr 1714 Corneford Martyr his story and martyrdome 2053 Corne vpon the grounde tythed to the Pope 273 Cornemonger his trouble and persecution 642 Cornewall a Tanner murthered for the Gospell by the bloudsucking Papistes 1669 Corruption growne in the Church by much peace 76 Corpus Christi feaste inuented by whom 507.351 Coronation of Pope Felix the fifte 690 Cotes Bishop of Chester a cruell persecuter of Christ in his members 1565 Cotten martyr his story and martyrdome 2042 Couentry Martyrs 975 Couentry persecuted for the Gospell 776.777.778 Couētry how and by whom made free with libertyes aperteyning thereto 165 Cowle of S. Fraunces remitting the 4. part of penance 1001 Court of the pope translated to Auion in Fraunce 351 Court of the king aboue the Popes Court or Bishops consistory 473 Couerdale writ for into Englande by the king of Denmarke 1529 1530 Couering of the aulters 1404 Coxe a popishe Promoter sodenly dyed 2101 C R. Cranmer sent Ambassadour to dispute aboute the mariage of the king 1121. made Archb. of Canterbury ibid. Cranmer withstandeth the sixe articles in the Parliament house 1136 Cranmer with the Lady Iane arreigned of treason in the Guilde Hall Cranmer quit of treason .1418 Cranmer Ridley Latimer sent to Oxforde to dispute .1428 condemned all three together 1403. Cranmer charged wrōgfully with falsifying the Doctors and Fathers his answere in clearing of himselfe 2135 Cranmer Godfather to king Edward Lady Elizabeth 1054 Crampe ringes of Winchesters 1350 Craishfield Martyr his story examination condemnation and Martyrdome 2009.2010.2011 Cradle for Queene Maryes child with verses therupon 1597 Creame and oyle 53.60 Creed who brought into the masse 1402 Cressens a Philosopher procurer of Iustinus death 44 Crescentius Cardinall President of the Councell of Trent hys terrible and fearefull end 2106 2107 Crome committed to the Fleete 1467 Crowne of Englande not of suche great reuenewes as the Popes were out of the same 289.389 Croniclers reproued of errours in theyr Cronologies 577 Crompe his story 443 Crow miraculously preserued vpon the seas with his new Testament 1913 Crosse appeared to Cōstantine the great in the ayre 85 Crosse of golde borne before the Pope 137 Crosse how to be honored 567 Crosse not to be worshipped 85 Crosse bearing cause of great strife betwene the Arbishop of Caunterbury and the Archbishoppe of Yorke 227.228 Crokhay a Godly woman troubled
Smith Ye falsify the worde and racke it to serue your purpose For the wine was not onely the shewing of his passion but the bread also for our Sauiour sayth So oft as ye do this do it in remembraunce of me And S. Paule sayth So oft as ye eate of this bread and drinke of this cup ye shall shewe the Lordes death till he come And here is as much reuerence geuen to the one as to the other Wherefore yf the bread be his body the cuppe must be his bloud and as wel ye make his body in the cup as his bloud in the bread Then vp rose my Lorde and went to the table where my Lorde Maior desired me to saue my soule To whome I answeared I hope it was saued thorow Christ Iesus desiring him to haue pity on his owne soule and remember whose sword he caryed At which I was caryed into the Garden and there abode vntill the rest of my frendes were examined and so were we sent away with many foule farewelles to Newgate agayne my Lord Bishop geuing the keeper a charge to lay me in limb◠¶ An other examination of Robert Smith before the sayd Bishop VPon Saterday at eight of the clocke I was brought to his chamber agayne and there by him examined as foloweth Boner Thou Robert Smith c. sayst that there is no catholicke Church here on earth Smith Ye haue heard me both speake the contrary and ye haue written it as a witnes of the same Boner Yea but I must aske thee this question how sayest thou Smith Must ye of necessity beginne with a lye it maketh manifest that ye determine to end with the same But there shall no Lyers enter into the kingdome of God Neuerthelesse if ye will be aunsweared aske mine articles that were written yesterday and they shall tel you that I haue confessed a Church of God as well in earth as in heauen and yet all one Church one mans members euen Christ Iesus Boner Well what sayest thou to auriculer confession is it not necessary to be vsed in Christes Church and wilt not thou be shriuen of the priest Smith It is not needefull to be vsed in Christes Church as I aunswered yesterday But if it be needefull for your Churche it is to picke mens purses And such pickepurse matters is all the whole rabble of your ceremonies for all is but mony matters that ye maynteyne Boner Why how art thou able to proue that confession is a pickepurse matter Art thou not ashamed so to say Smith I speake by experience For I haue both hearde and seene the fruites of the same For firste it hath bene we see a bewrayer of kinges secretes and the secretes of other mens consciences Who being deliuered and glad to be discharged of theyr sinnes haue geuen to Priests great summes of mony to absolue them sing Masses for theyr soules health And for ensample I beganne to bring in a pageant that by report was played at saynt Thomas of Acres and where I was sometime a childe waiting on a Gentleman of Northfolke which being bounde in conscience through the perswasion of the Priest gaue away a great summe of his goodes and forgaue vnto M. Gressam a great summe of money and to an other as much The priest had for his part a summe and the house had an annuitie to keepe him the which thing when his brother heard he came down to London after declaration made to the Counsayle how by the subtilty of the Priest he had robbed his wyfe children recouered a great part agayne to the value of two or three hundred poundes of Maister Gressam and his other frende but what he gaue to the house could not be recouered This tale began I to tell But when my Lord saw it sauored not to his purpose he began to reuile me sayde By the Masse if the Queenes maiesty were of his mynde I should not come to talke before any man but should be put into a sacke â—ogge tyed vnto the same so should be throwen into the water Smith To which I answered againe saying I know you speake by practise as much as by speculation for both you your predecessors haue sought all meanes possible to kyll Christ secretely record of M. Hunne whom your predecessor caused to be thrust in at the nose with hot burning needles and then to be hanged sayde the same Hunne to haue hanged himselfe and also a good brother of yours a Byshop of your professioÌ„ hauing in his prison an innoceÌ„t maÌ„ whom because he saw he was not able by the scriptures to ouercome he made him priuily to be snarled his flesh to be torne and plucked awaye with a payre of pinsers and bringing him before the people sayd the Rattes had eaten him Thus according to your othe is all your dealing and hath bene and as you taking vpon you the office doe not without othes open your mouth no more do you without murder maynteyne your traditions Boner Ah ye are a generation of lyers there is not one true word that commeth out of your mouthes Smith Yes my Lorde I haue sayde that Iesus Christ is dead for my sinnes and risen for my iustification and thys is no lye Boner Then made he his man to put in my tale of the gentleman of Northfolke and would haue had me recite it agayne which when I would not doe he made his man to put in suche summes as he imagined At the ende of thys commeth in M. Mordant knight and sate downe to heare my examination Then sayd my Lord. Howe sayest thou Smith to the seuen sacramentes Beleeuest thou not that they be Gods order that is to say the sacrament of c. Smith I beleue that in Gods Church are but two Sacramentes that is to say the sacrament of regeneration the sacrament of the Lordes supper and as for the Sacrament of the aultar and all your sacraments they may wel serue your church but Gods church hath nothing to do with them neither haue I any thing to do to aunswere them nor you to examine me of them Boner Why is Gods order chauÌ„ged in baptisme In what poynt do we dissent from the word of God Smith First in halowing your water in coniuring of the same in baptising children with annoynting and spitting in their mouthes mingled with salt and with many other lend ceremonies of which not one poynt is able to be proued in Gods order Boner By the masse this is the vnshamefast heretique that euer I heard speake Smith Well sworne my Lord ye keepe a good watch Boner Well M. Controller ye catche me at my wordes but I will watch thee as well I warrant thee Mordant By my troth my Lord quoth M. Mordant I neuer heard the like in all my life But I pray you my lord marke well his aunswere for Baptisme He dissalloweth therin holy
daunger for the Scriptures to be in English as the Frier pretended at lest this requiryng that the scripture might be so long in English tongue tyll English men were so madde that neyther the Ploughman durst looke back nor the Baker would leaue hys breade vnleauened And proceedyng moreouer in hys Sermon he began to discourse of the mysticall speaches and figuratiue phrases of the Scripture which phrases he sayd were not so diffuse and difficult as they were common in the Scripture and in the Hebrue tongue most commonlye vsed and knowen and not onelye in the Hebrue tongue But also euerye speach sayeth he hath hys Metaphors and lyke figuratiue significations so common and vulgar to all men that the very Painters do paynt them on walles and in houses As for example sayeth he lookyng toward the Frier that sate ouer agaynst hym when they paynt a foxe preachyng out of a Friers coule none is so madde to take this to be a Foxe that preacheth but knowe well enough the meanyng of the matter which is to paynte out vnto vs what hypocrisie craft and subtile dissimulation lyeth hid many tymes in these Friers coules willyng vs thereby to beware of them In fine Frier Bucknham wyth this Sermon was so dashed that neuer after hee durst peepe out of the pulpit agaynst M. Latymer Besides this Bucknham there was also another rayling Frier not of the same coate but of the same note and faction a gray Frier and a Doctor an outlandishman called D. Uenetus who likewyse in his brawling sermons rayled and raged agaynst M. Latymer calling him a mad and braynelesse man and willyng the people not to beleue hym c. To whome M. Latymer aunsweryng agayne taketh for hys ground the wordes of our Sauiour Christ Math. 5. Thou shalt not kyll c. but I say vnto you who so euer is angry with hys neighbour shall bee in daunger of iudgement and who so euer shall say vnto hys Neighbour Racha or any other lyke wordes of rebukyng as braynelesse shall be in danger of counsayle And who so euer shall say to his neighbour foole shall be in daunger of hell fire c. In discussing of which place first hee deuideth the offence of killyng into three branches One to be with hand an other with hart the third with word With hand when we vse any weapon drawen to spill the lyfe of our neighbor With hart when we be angry with hym With word when in word or countenance we disdainfully rebuke our neighbour or despitefully reuile hym Wordes of rebukyng are when we speake any opprobrious and vnseemly thyng whereby the pacience of our neighbour is mooued as when we call hym mad sayd he or braynelesse or such lyke which are guiltie of Counsaile Wordes of spite or reuilyng are whē we call hym foole which Christ saith is guilty of hell fire c. Thus M. Latimer in handlyng and trimmyng this matter after that with the weight of Christes words and the explanyng of the same hee had sufficiently borne the Frier cleane downe then he turned to the v. chapter of the booke of Wisdome Out of the which chap. hee declared to the audience how the true seruauntes and Preachers of God in this world commonly are scorned and reuiled of the proud enemies of Gods word which count them here as mad men fooles brainelesse and drunken so did they sayed he in the Scripture call them which most purely preached and set foorth the glory of Gods word But said he what will be the ende of these iolly fellowes or what will they say in the ende Nos insensati nos insensati c. We mad men we mad fooles We we our selues c. And that will be their end except they repent And thus endyng his Sermon he so confounded the poore Frier that hee droue hym not onely out of countenaunce but also cleane out of the Uniuersitie But what should I here stand deciphryng the names of his aduersaries when whole swarmes of Friers doctours flockt against hym on euery side almost through the whole Uniuersitie preachyng likewyse barking against hym Amongest whome was Doct. Watson Maister of Christes Colledge whose scholer Latimer had bene afore D. Notaries Maister of Clarehall D. Philo Maister of Michael house D. Metecalfe Maister of Saint Iohns D. Blithe of the Kyngs hall D. Bullocke Maister of the Queenes Colledge D. Cliffe of Clement house Doctor Donnes of Iesus Colledge Doctor Palmes Maister of S. Nicholas Hostle Bain Rud and Greenewood Bachelor of Diuinitie all three of Saint Iohns Colledge Also Brikenden Bachelor of Diuinitie of the same house and Scholer sometyme to the sayd Latimer Briefly almost as many as were heds there of houses so many impugners did this worthy Standerd bearer of Christes gospell sustayne Then came at last D. West B. of Ely who preachyng agaynst M. Latimer at Barwell Abbey forbade him with in the Churches of that Uniuersitie to preach any more Notwithstandyng so the Lord prouided that D. Barnes Prior of the Augustine Friers did licence Maister Latymer to preach in hys Church of the Augustines he himselfe preached at the church by called S. Edwards church which was the first Sermon of the Gospell which doctor Barnes preached beyng vpon Christenmas euen vpon a Sonday Wherupon certayne Articles were gathered out of his Sermon and were commenced against hym by M. Tirell fellow of the Kyngs hall and so by the Uice chancellor presented to the Cardinal as in his story before hath bene declared This M. Latimer as you haue heard beyng bayted by the Friers Doctors and maisters of that Uniuersitie about the yeare aforesaid 1529. notwithstandyng the maugre and malice of these malignant aduersaries continued yet in Cambridge preaching the space of 3. yeres together with such sauour and applause of the godly also with such admiration of hys enemies that heard hym that the Bishop himselfe commyng in and hearyng his gilt wyshed hymselfe to haue the lyke and was compelled to commend hym vpon the same So M. Latymer with M. Bilney after this continued yet in Cambridge a certayne space where he with the sayde Bilney vsed much to conferre and companye together in so muche that the place where they most vsed to walke in the fieldes was called long after the Heretikes hill The societie of these two as it was much noted of many in that Uniuersitie so it was full of many good examples to all such as would follow their doyngs both in visityng the prisoners in relieuyng the needy in feeding the hungry whereof somewhat is before mentioned in the history of M. Bilney In a place of hys Sermons M. Latymer maketh mention of a certaine history which happened about this tyme in Cambridge betweene them two and a certayne woman then prisoner in the Castle or tower of Cambridge which I thought here not vnworthy to be remembred The historie is this It so chaunced that after Maister Latymer had bene acquaynted
then or no Therefore we wyll propose vnto you the same articles which we did then and require of you a determinate aunswere without farther reasoning and eftsones recited the first article Lati. Alwayes my protestation saued that by these mine answeres it should not be thought that I did condescend and agree to your Lordshippes authority in that you are legased by authoritie of the Pope so that thereby I might seeme to consent to his iurisdiction to the fyrst article I aunswere now as I did yesterday that in the Sacrament the worthy receyuer receiueth the very body of Christ and drinketh his bloud by spirite and grace But after that corporall being which the Romish Church prescribeth Christes body bloud is not in the Sacrament vnder the formes of bread and wine The Notaries toke his aunswere to be affirmatiuely For the seconde article he referred hymselfe to his aunsweres made before Linc. After this the Bishop of Lincolne recited the third article and required a determinate aunswere Lat. Christ made one oblation and sacrifice for the sinnes of the whole worlde and that a perfecte sacrifice neyther needeth there to be any other neyther can there be any other propitiatory sacrifice The Notaries tooke his aunsweare to bee affirmatiuely In like maner did he aunswere to the other articles not varying from his aunsweres made the day before After his aunsweres were penned of the Notaries and the Bishop of Lincolne had exhorted him in like sort to recant as he dyd M. Ridley and reuoke his errours and false assertions and M. Latimer had aunswered that he ne could ne would deny his maister Christ and his veritie the Bishop of Lincolne desired M. Latimer to harken to him and then maister Latimer harkening for some new matter and other talke the Byshop of Lincolne red his condemnation after the publication of the which the sayd three Bishops brake vp their Sessions and dimissed the audience But M. Latimer required the Bishop to performe his promyse in saying the daye before that he shoulde haue licence briefly to declare the causes why he refused the Popes authoritie Lincol. But the Byshop sayde that now he coulde not heare hym neither ought to talke with hym Then M. Latimer asked hym whether it were not lawfull for him to appeale from this his iudgement And the Byshop asked hym againe to whom he would appeale To the next generall Counsell quoth M. Latimer whiche shal be truely called is Gods name With that appellation the Byshop was content but he sayd it woulde be a long season before suche a conuocation as he ment would be called Then the Byshop committed M. Latimer to the Maior saying now he is your prisoner maister Maior Because the presse of people was not yet diminished ech man lookyng for farther processe the Byshop of Lincolne commaunded auoydance and willed M. Latimer to tary tyl the presse were diminished lest he shoulde take hurt at his egression as he did at his entraunce And so continued Byshop Ridley and M. Latimer in durance till the .16 day of the sayd moneth of October ¶ A communication betweene D. Brokes and D. Ridley in M. Irysh his house the xv day of October at which tyme he was degraded IN the meane season vpon the 15. day in the mornyng and the same yeare aboue sayd the Byshop of Glocester Doct. Brokes and the Uicechauncelour of Oxford Doct. Marshall with diuerse other of the chiefe and heades of the same Uniuersitie and many other moe accompanying with them came vnto M. Irish his house then Maior of Oxforde where D. Ridley late Byshop of London was close prisoner And when the Byshop of Glocester came into the chamber where the sayde D Ridley did lye he told him for what purpose their comming was vnto him saying that yet once agayne the Queenes Maiestie did offer vnto hym by them her gracious mercy if that he woulde receiue the same and come home agayne to the fayth which he was Baptised in reuoke his erroneous doctrine that he of late had taught abroad to the destructioÌ„ of many And further said that if he would not recant and become one of the Catholicke Churche with them then they must needes against their willes proceede according to the lawe which they would be very loth to do if they might otherwise But sayth he we haue bene often timâ—s with you and haue requested that you would recant this your fantasticall deuilish opinion where hytherto you haue not although you might in so doing winne many and do much good Therefore good M. Ridley consyder with your selfe the daunger that shall ensue both of body and soule if that you shall so wilfully cast your selfe away in refusing mercy offered vnto you at this time My Lord quoth D. Ridley you know my mynd fully herein and as for the doctrine which I haue taught my conscience assureth me that it was sounde accordyng to Gods word to his glory be it spoken the which doctrine the Lord God beyng my helper I wyll mayntaine so long as my tongue shall wagge and breath is within my body and in confirmation thereof seale the same with my bloud Brok. Well you were best M. Ridley not to do so but to become one of the Church with vs. For you know this well enough that whosoeuer is out of the Catholike church can not be saued therefore I say once agayne that whiles you haue time and mercy offered you receiue it and confesse with vs the Popes holynes to be be the chiefe head of the same Church Rid. I marueyle that you wyll trouble me with any suche vayne and foolysh talke You know my mynd concerning the vsurped authoritie of the Romishe Antichrist As I confessed openly in the Scholes so do I nowe that both by my behauiour and talke I do no obedience at all vnto the Byshop of Rome nor to his vsurped authoritie and that for diuers good and godly considerations And here Doct. Ridley would haue reasoned with the sayde Brokes Byshop of Glocester of the Byshop of Romes authorities but could not be suffered and yet he spake so earnestly agaynst the Pope therein that the Byshop told hym if he would not hold his peace he should be compelled agaynst his wyll And seeyng sayth he that you wyll not receiue the Queenes mercy now offered vnto you but stubburnly refuse the same we must against our wils proceede according to our Commission to disgradyng takyng from you the dignitie of Priesthode For we take you for no Byshop and therefore we will the sooner haue done with you so committing you to the secular power you know what doth follow Rid. Do with me as it shall please God to suffer you I am well content to abide the same with all my hart Brok. Put of your cap M. Ridley and put vppon you this surples Rid. Not I truly Brok. But you must Rid. I wyll not Brok. You must
the Sacrament of the aultar Phil. Sir I am not come now to dispute with your maistership and the tyme now serueth not thereto but to answer to that I may be lawfully charged withall Story Wel since thou wilt not reuoke that thou hast done thou shalt be had into the Lollards Tower Phil. Sir since you will needes shew me this extremitie and charge me with my conscience I do desire to see your Commission whether you haue this autority so to do and after the view therof I shal according to my duety make you further answer if you may by the vertue therof burthen me with my conscience Roper Let hym see the Commission is it here Story Shall wee let euery vyle persone see our Commission Cholm Let him go from whence he came and on Thursday he shall see our Commission Story No let hym lie in the meane while in the Lollardes Tower for I will sweepe the Kings Bench all other prisons also of these heretikes they shall not haue that resort as they haue had to scatter their heresies Phil. You haue power to transferre my body from place to place at your pleasure but you haue no power ouer my soule And I passe not whether you commit me for I can not be worse entreated then I am kept all day in a close chamber wherfore it is no maruell that my flesh is puft vp wherewithall M. Doctor is offended Story Marshall take him home with you agayne and see that you bring him againe on Thursday and then we shal ridde your fingers of him and afterward of your other heretikes Philpot. God hath appointed a day shortly to come in the which he will iudge vs with righteousnesse how so euer you iudge of vs now Roper Be content to be ruled by M. Doctor shew your selfe a catholike man Phil. Sir if I should speake otherwise then my conscience is I should but dissemble with you why be you so earnest to haue me shew my self a dissembler both to God and you which I cannot do Roper We do not require you to dissemble with vs but to be a Catholike man Phil. If I do stand in any thing against that wherein any man is able to burthen me with one iote of the Scripture I shall be content to be counted no Catholike man or an heretike as you please Story Haue we Scripture Scripture and wyth that he rose vp saying who shal be Iudge I pray you This mā is lyke his fellow Woodman which the other day woulde haue nothyng els but scripture And this is the beginning of this tragedie ¶ The second examination of Iohn Philpot before the Queenes Commissioners M. Cholmley Roper D. Story D. Cooke and the Scribe the 24 day of Octo. 1555. at Newgate Sessions Hall AT my comming a man of Algate of myne acquaintāce said vnto me God haue mercy on you for you are alredy condemned in this world for D. Story said that my L. Chancellor hath commaunded to do you away After a little consultation had betwene them M. Cholmley called me vnto him saying Cholm M. Philpot shew your selfe a wise man be not stubburne in your owne opinion but bee conformable to the Queenes proceedyngs and lyue and you shall be wel assured of great fauour and reputation Phil. I shall do as it becommeth a Christian man to do Story This man is the rankest heretike that hath bene in all my L. Chancellors Dioces and hath done more hurt then any man els there therfore hys pleasure is that hee should haue the law to proceede against him and I haue spoken with my L. herein and he willeth him to be committed to the B. of London there to recant or els burne He houled and wept in the Conuocation house and made such adoe as neuer man did as all the heretikes doe when they lacke learnyng to aunswer He shall go after hys fellowes How sayst thou wilt thou recant Phil. I know nothyng I haue done that I ought to recant Story Well then I pray you let vs commit him to the Lollards Tower there to remaine vntil he be further examined before the B. of London for he is to fine fedde in the kings Bench and he hath too much fauour there For hys keper said at the doore yesterday that he was the finest fellow and one of the best lerned in England and with this he rose vp and went his way Cooke This man hath most stoutely mainteined heresies since the Queenes comming in as any that I haue heard of therfore it is most meete he should be adiudged by the B. of London for the heresies he hath mainteyned Phil. I haue mainteined no heresies Cooke No haue Did ye not openly speake against the sacrament of the aultar in the Conuocation house Call you that no heresie Wilt thou recant that or not Phil. It was the Quenes Maiesties pleasure that we should reason thereof not by my seeking but by other mens procuring in the hearyng of the Counsaile Cooke Did the Queene geue you leaue to be an heretike You may be sure her grace wyl not so do Wel we wil not dispute the matter with you my L. of London shall proceed by inquisition vpon thee and if thou wilt not recant thou shalt be burned Phil. My L. of London is not myne Ordinary in this behalfe and I haue already answered vnto myne Ordinary in this matter and therefore as I haue sayd before you shall do me great wrong to vexe me twise for one matter since I haue sustained this long imprisonment besides the losse of my liuyng Roper You were a very vnmeet man to be an Archdeacō Phil. I know I was as meet a mā as he that hath it now Cooke A meete man quoth he He troubled M. Roper and the whole countrey Phil. There was neuer poore Archdeacon so handled at your handes as I am and that without any iust cause ye be able to lay vnto me Cooke Thou art no Archdeacon Phil. I am Archdeacon still although another be in possession of my liuyng for I was neuer depriued by any law Cooke No sir that needeth not for a notorious heretike should haue no Ordinary proceeding about his depriuation but the B. may vpon knowledge thereof proceed to depriuation Phil. M. Doctor you know that the common law is other wise and besides this the statutes of this Realme be otherwyse which geueth this benefit to euery person thogh he be an heretike to enioy his liuyng vntill he bee put to death for the same Cholm No there thou art deceyued Phil. Upon the liuyng I passe not But the vniust dealing grieueth me that I should bee thus troubled for my conscience contrary to all law Cholm Why wyll you not agree that the Queenes Maiestie may cause you to be examined of your fayth Phil. Aske you M. Doctor Cooke and he will tell you that the temporall magistrates haue nothing to doe with matters of fayth for determination
all right in your prison Boner Why the Queenes Commissioners sent you hither vnto me vpon you examination had before them I know not well the cause but I am sure thhy would not haue sent you hither to me vnles you had made some talke to them otherwise then it becommeth a christian man Phil. My Lorde in deede they sent me hither without any occasion then ministred by me Onely they layd vnto me the disputation I made in the Conuocation house requyring me to aunswere the same and to recant it The which because I would not do they seÌ„t me hither to your lordship Boner Why did you not aunswere them thereto Phil. For that they were temporall men ought not to be iudges in spiritual causes wherof they demaunded me wtout shewing any authority wherby I was bound to aunswere them hereupon they committed me to your prisoÌ„ Boner In deed I remember now you maynteined open heresy in my Dioces wherfore the CoÌ„missioners sent you vnto me that I shoulde proceede agaynst you for that you haue spoken in my Dioces Phil. My Lord I stand still vpon my lawfull plea in this behalfe that though it were a great heresy as you suppose it yet I ought not to be troubled therefore in respect of the priuiledge of the Parliament house wherof the Conuocation house is a member where al men in matters propouÌ„ded may franckly speake theyr mindes and here is preseÌ„t a Gentleman of the Queenes Maiesties that was preseÌ„t at the disputation and can testifye that the questions whiche were there in controuersy were not set forth by me but by the Prolocutor who required in the Queenes Maiestyes name all men to dispute theyr mindes freely in the same that were of the house The Queenes Gentleman Though the Parliament house be a place of priuiledge for men of the house to speak yet may none speake any treason agaynst the Queene or maintein treason agaynst the crowne Phil. But if there be any matter whiche otherwise it were treason to speake of were it treason for any persoÌ„ to speak therin specially the thing being proposed by the speaker I thinke not The Queenes Gentleman You may make the matter easy enough to you yet as I perceiue if you wil reuoke the same which you did there so stubbernely mainteine S. Asse This man did not speake vnder reformatioÌ„ as manye there did but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whiche is earnestly and perswaâ—bly as euer I heard any Phil. My Lordes since you will not cease to trouble me for that I haue lawfully done neither will admit my iust defence for that was spoken in the conuocation house by me contrary to the lawes and custome of the Realme I appeale to the whole Parliament house to bee iudged by the same whether I ought thus to be molested for that I haue there spoken Rochest But haue you spoken and maynteyned the same since that time or no Phil. If any man can charge mee iustly therewith here I stand to make aunswere Rochest How say you to it now will you staÌ„d to that you haue spoken in the Conuocation house and do you thinke you sayd then well or no Phil. My Lorde you are not mine ordinary to proceede ex officio agaynst me and therfore I am not bound to tell you my conscience of your demaundes S. Asse What say you now Is not there in the blessed sacrameÌ„t of the aultar with that they put of al their caps for reuerence of that Idoll the presence of our Sauiour Christ really and substantially after the wordes of consecration Phil. I do beleue in the Sacrament of Christes body duely ministred to be such maner of preseÌ„ce as the word teacheth me to beleue S. Asse I pray you how is that Phil. As for that I will declare an other time when I shall be lawfullye called to dispute my minde of this matter but I am not yet driuen to that point And the scripture sayth All thinges ought to be done after an order An other Bish. This is a froward a vayneglorious man Boner It is not lawfull for a man by the ciuill lawe to dispute his fayth openly as it appeareth in the title De summa trinitate fide catholica Phil. My Lorde I haue aunswered you to this question before Boner Why I neuer asked thee of this before now Phil. Yes that you did at my last examination by that token I aunswered your Lordship by S. Ambrose that the church is congregated by the word and not by mans law Wherfore I adde now further of this saying Quôd qui fidem repudiat legem obijcit iniustus est quia iustus ex fide vivit i. That he which refuseth the word and obiecteth the lawe is an vniust man because the iust shall liue by fayth And moreouer my Lord the title which your Lordship alledgeth out of the law maketh it not vnlawfull to dispute of all the articles of the fayth but of the Trinity Boner Thou lyest it is not so and I will shew you by the Booke how ignoraunt he is And with that he went with all haste to his study and fet his booke and openly read the texte and the title of the lawe and charged mee with suche wordes as seemed to make for his purpose saying howe sayst thou to this Phil. My Lord I say as I sayd before that the law meaneth of the catholicke fayth determined in the Councell of Calcedonia where the articles of the creed were onely coÌ„cluded vpon Bon. Thou art the veriest beast that euer I heard I must needes speake it thou compellest me thereunto Phil. Your Lordship may speake your pleasure of me But what is this to the purpose which your lordship is so earnest in You know that our fayth is not grounded vpoÌ„ the ciuill law therfore it is not materiall to me whatsoeuer the law sayth Boner By what lawe wilt thou bee iudged Wilt thou bee iudged by the common law Phil. No my Lord our fayth depeÌ„deth not vpon the lawes of man S. Asse He will be iudged by no law but as he list himselfe Worcest The common lawes are but abstractes of the scriptures and Doctors Phil. Whatsoeuer you do make them they are no grounde of my fayth by the which I ought to be iudged Boner I must needes proceed agaynst thee to morow Phil. If your Lordship so do I wil haue Exceptionem fori for you are not my competent Iudge Bon. By what law canst thou refuâ—e me to be thy iudge Phil. By the Ciuill law De competente Iudice Boner There is no such title in the law In what booke is it as cunning a Lawyer as you be Phil. My Lorde I take vpon me no great cunning in the law but you driue me to my shiftes for my defence and I am sure if I had the books of the law I were able to shew what I say
tractable as I would wish Wherfore now I haue desired these honorable Lordes of the temporaltie and of the Queenes Maiesties Counsayle who haue taken paynes with me this day I thanke them therefore to heare you what you can say that they may be iudges whether I haue sought all meanes to do you good or no and I dare be bold to say in theyr behalfe that if you shew your selfe conformable to the Queenes Maiesties proceedinges you shall finde as much fauour for your deliueraunce as you can wishe I speake not this to fawne vpō you but to bryng you home into the Church Now let them heare what you can say Phil. My Lorde I thanke God of this daye that I haue such an honorable audiēce to declare my mynd before And I cannot but commend your Lordships equity in this behalf which agreeth with the order of the primatiue church which was if any body had bene suspected of heresie as I am now he should be called first before the archbishop or byshop of the Dioces where he was suspected secondly in the presence of others his fellow byshops and learned elders and thirdly in hearyng of the layty where after the iudgement of Gods word declared and with the assent of other Bishops and consent of the people he was condemned to exile for an hereticke or absolued And the seconde poynt of that good order I haue found at your Lordships hands already in being called before you your fellow bishops now haue the third sort of mē at whose hands I trust to finde more righteousnes in my cause then I haue found with my Lordes of the Clergy God graunt I may haue at last the iudgement of Gods word concerning the same London M. Philpot. I praye you ere you go any further tell my Lordes here playnely whther you were by me or by my procurement committed to prison or not and whether I haue shewed you anye crueltie sithen yee haue bene committed to my prison Phil. If it shall please your Lordship to geue me leaue to declare forth my matter I wil touch that afterward Rich. Aunswere first of all to my Lordes two questions then proceede forth to the matter How say you wer you imprisoned by my Lorde or no can you finde anye faulte since with his cruell vsing of you Phil. I cannot laye to my Lordes charge the cause of my imprisonmēt neyther I may say that he hath vsed me cruelly but rather for my part I might say that I haue found more gentlenesse at his Lordships handes then I dyd at myne owne Ordinaries for the time I haue bene wythin his prison for that he hath called me three or foure times to mine answere to the which I was not called twelue mōth and a halfe before Rich. Well now go to your matter Phil. The matter is that I am imprisoned for the disputations had by me in the Conuocation house agaynst the sacrament of the aultar which matter was not moued principally by me but by the Prolocutor with the consent of the Queenes Maiestie and of the whole house and that house being a member of the Parliament house ought to be a place of free speeche for all men of the house by the ancient and laudable custome of this realme Wherefore I thynke my selfe to haue sustayned hetherto great iniury for speaking my conscience freely in suche a place as I might lawfully do it and I desire your honorable Lordships iudgement which be of the Parliament house whether of right I ought to be impeached therefore and sustayne the losse of my liuing as I haue done and moreouer of my life as it is sought Rich. You are deceaued herein for the Conuocation house is no part of the Parliament house Phil. My Lord I haue alwayes vnderstāded the contrary by suche as are more experte menne in thinges of thys realme then I and againe the title of euery Acte leadeth me to thinke otherwise which alledgeth the agreement of the spiritualitie and temporaltie assembled together Rich. Yea that is meant of the spirituall Lordes of the vpper house Winsor In deed the Conuocation house is called together by one writte of the Summons of the Parliament of an old custome notwithstanding that house is no part of the parliament house Phil. My Lordes I must be contēted to abide your iudgementes in this behalfe Rich. We haue told you the truth Mary yet wee woulde not that you should be troubled for any thinge that there was spoken so that you hauing spoken amisse do declare now that you are sory therfore Lond. My Lordes he hath spoken there manifest heresie yea and there stoutly mayntayned the same against the blessed sacramēt of the aultar and with that he put off his cap that al the Lords might reuerence vayle theyr bonets at that Idoll as they did and would not allow the reall presence of the body and bloude of Christe in the same yet my Lordes God forbid that I shoulde goe about to shewe him extremity for so doing in case he will repent reuoke his wicked sayings if in faith he wil so do with your lordships consent he shal be released by and by Mary if he wil not he shal look for the extremitie of the law that shortly Chamb. My Lorde of London speaketh reasonably vnto you take it whiles it is offered you Rich. How say you Will you acknowledge the reall presence of the bloud and body of Christ as a◠the learned mē of this realm do in the Masse and as I do and wil beleue as long as I liue I do protest it Phil. My Lord I do acknowledge in the sacramente of the body and bloud of Christ such a presence as the worde of God doth allow and teach me Rich That shal be none otherwise then you lift London A sacrament is the signe of a holy thing So that there is both the signe which is the accident as the whitenes roūdnes shape of bread and there is also the thyng it selfe as very Christ both God and man But these heretickes will haue the sacramentes to be but bare signes How say you declar◠vnto my Lordes here whether you do allow the thing it selfe in the sacrament or no Phil. I do confesse that in the Lordes supper there is in due respectes both the signe and the thing signified when it is duely ministred after the institution of Christ. London You may see how he goeth about the bush as he hath done before with my Lords of the Clergy and dare not vtter his minde playnly Rich. Shew vs what maner of presence you allowe in the sacrament Philpot. If it shall please you my Lord of London to geue me leaue to proceede orderly thereunto and to let me declare my minde without interruption I wil throughly open my minde therin L. Shand. I pray you my Lord let hym speake his mynde Phil. My Lordes that at the first I haue not plainly
declared my iudgemeÌ„t vnto you in this because I caÌ„not speake hereof without the daunger of my life Rich. There is none of vs here that seeketh thy life or meane to take any aduauntage of that thou shalt speake Phil. Although I mistrust not your honorable Lordships yâ— be here of the teÌ„poralty yet here is one that sitteth against me pointing to my Lord of London that wil lay it to my charge euen to the death Notwithstanding seeing youre honours do require me to declare my minde of the preseÌ„ce of Christ in the sacrament that ye may perceaue that I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christe neither doe mayntayne any opinion without probable and sufficient authoritie of the Scripture I will shewe franckly my minde without all colour what soeuer shall ensuâ— vnto me therfore so that my Lord of London wil not let me to vtter my minde Rich. My Lord permit him to say what he can seeyng hee is willing to shew his mind London I am content my Lordes let him say what he can I will heare him Phil. That which I doe entend to speake vnto you right honourable Lordes I do protest here first before God his Angels that I speake it not of vaynglory neyther of singularitie neither of wilfull stubburnes but truely vpon a good conscience grounded on Gods worde against the which I dare not do for feare of damnation which wil follow that which is done contrary to knowledge Neyther do I disagree to the proceedinges of this realme in the religion for that I loue not the Queene whom I loue from the bottome of my hart but because I ought to loue fear God in his word more then man in his lawes thoughe I stand as I seeme to do in this consideration and for none other as God I call to witnes There be two thinges principally by the which the clergy at this day doth deceiue the whole realm that is the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ and the name of the Catholicke church yâ— which both they do vsurpe hauing in deed none of them both And as touching theyr Sacrament which they terme of the aulter I say now as I sayd in the Conuocation house that it is not the Sacramente of Christ neither in the same is there any maner of Chrystes presence Wherfore they deceiue the Queenes maiesty and you of the nobilitie of thys realme in making you to beleue that to be a sacrament which is none and cause you to commit manifest Idolatry in worshipping that for God whiche is no God And in testimony of this to be true besides manifest proofe which I am able to make to the Queenes maiesty and to all you of her nobility I will yeld my lyfe The which to do if it were not vpon a sure grouÌ„d it were to my vtter damnation And where they take on them the name of the Catholicke church wherby they blinde many folkes eyes they are nothing so calling you from the true religion whiche was reuealed taught in K. Edwardes time vnto vaine superstition And this I will say for the tryall hereof that if they can proue themselues to be the catholicke church as they shal neuer be able to do I wil neuer be agaynst their doynges but reuoke all that I haue sayd And I shall desire you my Lordes to be a meane for me to the Queenes maiestie that I may be brought to the iust triall hereof Yea I will not refuse to stand agaynst ten of the best of them in this realme And if they be able to proue otherwise then I haue sayd either by writing or by reasoning with good lawfull authoritie I will here promise to recant whatsoeuer I haue sayd to consent to them in all poyntes And in the declaratioÌ„ of these things more at large which now I write in summe the Bishop of London eftsones would haue interrupted me but the Lords procured me libertie to make out my tale to the great griefe of my Lord bishop of London as it appeared by his dumpes he was in LondoÌ„ It hath bene told me before that you loue to make a long tale Rich. Al heretickes do boast of the spirite of God and euery one would haue a church by himselfe as Ioan of Kent and the Anabaptistes I had my selfe Ioan of Kent a seuen night in my house after the writ was out for her to be burnt where my Lorde of Canterb. and Bishop Ridley resorted almost dayly vnto her but she was so high in the spirite that they could do nothing with her for all theyr learning But she went wilfully vnto the fire was burnt and so do you now Phil. As for Ioan of Kent shee was a vayne woman I knew her well an heretick indeed well worthye to bee burnt because she stoode agaynst one of the manifest artycles of our faith contrary to the scriptures and such vayne spirites be soone known from the true spirite of God hys church for that the same abideth wtin the limites of GODS word and will not go out of the same neither stubburnely mayntaine any thing coÌ„trary to the word as I haue gods word throughly on my side to shew for that I stand in London I pray you how will you ioyne me these ij scriptures together Pater maior me est pater ego vnum sumuê° I must enterprete the same because my Lordes here vnderstand not the Latin that is to saye The Father is greater then I and I and the father are one But I cry you mercye my Lordes I haue mispoken in saying you vnderstande no Latine for the most part of you vnderstand Latin as well as I. But I spake in consideration of my Lord ShaÌ„doys and M. Bridges his brother whom I take to be no great Latin men Now shew your cunning and ioine these two scriptures by the word if you can Phil. Yes that I can right well For we must vnderstande that in Christ there be two natures the diuinitie and Humanitie in respect of his humanitie it is spoken of christ The Father is greater then I. But in respect of hys Deitie he sayd agayne The Father and I be one London But what scripture haue you Phil. Yes I haue sufficient scripture for the proofe of that I haue sayd For the first it is written of Christ in the Psalmes Diminuisti eum paulominus ab Angelis Thou hast made him a little lesser then Aungels It is the xv Psalme beginning Coeli enarrant And there I misreckoned wherwithall my Lord tooke me London It is in Domine Dominus noster Yee may see my Lords how wel this man is vsed to say his Mattins Phil. Though I say not Mattins in suche order as youre Lordship meaneth yet I remember of olde that Domine Dominus noster and Coeli enarrant bee not farre asunder and albeit I misnamed the Psalme it is no preiudice to the truth of that I haue
say you woulde you haue come to Masse or no if the doores had sooner bene opened Phil. My Lord that is an other maner of question Lon. Loe maister Chauncellour I tolde you we shoulde haue a froward fellow of him he will answere directly to nothing I haue had him before both spiritual Lords and the temporall and thus he fareth stil yet he reckeneth him selfe better learned then all the realme Yea before the temporall Lordes the other day he was so foolish to chalenge the best he woulde make him selfe learned and is a verye moraunt foole in deede Phil I recken I answeared your Lordshippe before the Lordes plaine enough London Why answearest thou not directly whether thou wouldest haue gone to Masse with vs or no if thou haddest câ—me in time Phil. Mine answere shall be thus that if your Lordship can prooue your masse whereunto you would haue me to come to be the true seruice of God wherunto a Christian ought to come I will afterward come with a good will London Loke I pray you the King and the Queene and all the Nobilitie of the realme doe come to Masse and yet he will not By my faith thou art too well handled thou shalt be worse handled hereafter I warrant thee Phil. If to lie in a blind Colehouse may be counted good handling both without fire candle then may it be sayd I am well handled Your lordship hath power to entreat my body as you list Lond. Thou art a foole and a very ignoraunt foole Maister Chauncellour in good faith I haue handled hym and his fellowes with as much gentlenesse as they can desire I lette their frends come vnto them to relieue them And wot ye what the other day they had gotteÌ„ themselues vp into the top of the leades with a many of preutises gasing abroad as though they had bene at libertie but I shall cut of your resort and as for the prentises they were as good not to come to you if I take them Philpot. My Lord we haue no such resorte to vs as your Lordship imaginâ—th and there commeth very fewe vnto vs. And of prentises I know not one neither haue we any leades to walke on ouer our Colehouse that I wot of wherfore your Lordship hath mistaken your marke Lond. Nay nowe you thinke because my Lorde Chauncellour is gone that we wil burne no mo yes I warrant thee I will dispatch you shortly vnlesse yoâ— do recant Phil. My lord I had not thought that I shuld haue ben 〈◊〉 now neither so raw as I am but wel rosted to ashes Chaunc Case not your selfe wilfully away M. Philpot. Be content to be ruled by my lord here and by other learned men of this realme and you may do wel inough Phil. My conscience beareth me recorde that I seeke to please God that the loue and feare of God causeth me to do as I doe and I were of all other creatures most miserable if for mine owne will onely I did loose all the commodities I might haue in this life and afterward to be cast to damnation But I am sure it is not my wil wheron I stande but Gods will which will not suffer me to be cast away I am sure Chaunc You are not so sure but you may be deceiued Lon. Well since thou wilt not be conformable by no faire meane I will procede against thee Ex officio and therefore harken here to such articles as I haue heere wrytten and I charge thee to make answere to them and with that he red a liâ—ell which hee had in his hand of diuers Articles and when he had done he bad me answere Philpot. Your libel my lord containeth in summe 2. speciall poyntes The first pretendeth that I should be of your dioces and therefore your lordship vpon diuers suspectes infamies of heresie going vpon me is moued to procede against me by your ordinarie office the which first is not true for that I am not of your Lordships diocesse as the libel doth preteÌ„d And the second is that I being baptised in the catholicke church and in the catholicke faith am gone from them the which is not so for I am of that catholicke faith and church as I was baptised vnto London What art thou not of my Dioces Where are ye now I pray you Phil. My lord I can not deny but I am in your cole house which is your diocesse yet am I not of your diocesse Lond. You were sent hether vnto me by the Queenes maiesties commissioners and thou art nowe in my diocesse wherefore I will proceede against thee as thy Ordinarie Phil. I was brought hether through violence and therefore my present being now in your diocesse is not inough to abridge me of mine owne ordinary iurisdiction neither maketh it mee vnwillingly subiecte to your iurisdiction since it commeth by force and by such men as had no iust authority so to doe no more then a sanctuarie man being by force brought forth of his place of priuiledge doth ther by lose his priuiledge but alwaies may chalenge the same where soeuer he be brought Chadsey Hath not the Queenes maiestie authoritie by her commissioners to remoue your body whether shee will and ought you not to obey heerein Phil. I graunt that the Queenes maiestie of her iust power may traÌ„spose my body whether it shall please her grace to commaunde the same But yet by your lawes Spiritualia non sunt subiecta Imperatoris potestati i. Spiritual causes be not subiect to the temporal power As for example you M. doctor if the Queenes maiestie woulde appoynt two temporall men to be iudges ouer you in certaine spirituall matters might not you alledge the priuiledge of a clearke demaund competent spirituall iudges in your causes London Doth not a man I pray you sortiri forum ratione delecti Phil. My Lord your rule is true in temporal matters but in spirituall causes it is not so which be otherwise priuiledged London What sayest thou then to the seconde article and to the other Phil. My Lord I say that I am not bound to answere the second neither the rest vnlesse the first be prooued London Well suppose the first may be prooued as it will be what wil you say then to the second that you are not of the same catholicke faith neither of the same church now as you were baptised in Phil. I am of the same catholicke faith and of the same catholicke church which is of Christ the piller and stablishment of truth London Nay that you are not Phil. Yes that I am London Your Godfathers and Godmothers were of an other faith then you be now Phil. I was not baptised neither into my Godfathers faith nor my Godmothers but into the faith into the church of Christ. London How know you that Phil. By the word of God which is the touchstone of faith and the limites of the Church Lon. Howe
by friendshippe onelye and of some other esteemed vnwoorthy of so high a vocation It is first therefore to be noted and considered that the same Thomas Cranmer comming of an ancient Parentage from the conquest to be deducted and continuing sithens in the name and familie of a Gentleman was borne in a Uillage called Arselacton in Notingham shire Of whose saide name and family there remaineth at these daies one Manour and mansion house in Lincolne shire called Cranmer Hall c. Some times of heritage of the saide stocke and familie Who being from his infancie kept at schoole and brought vp not without much good ciuilitie came in processe of time vnto the Uniuersitye of Cambridge there prospering in right good knowledge amongst the better sort of students was chosen fellow of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge And so being maister of Arte and fellow of the same Colledge it chaunced him to marrye a Gentlemans daughter by meanes whereof he lost and gaue ouer his fellowship there and became the reader in Buckingham Colledge and for that hee woulde with more diligence apply that his office of reading placed his sayd wâ—te in an Inne called the Dolphin in Cambridge the wife of the house being of affinitie vnto her By reason wherof and for that his often resorte vnto his wife in that Inne he was muche marked of some Popish marchaunts whereupon rose the slaunderous noyse and report against him after he was preferred to the Archbyshopricke of Canterb. raised vp by the malicious disdaine of certaine malignant aduersaries to Christ and his truth bruting abroad euery where that he was but an Hostler and therfore without all good learning Of whose malicious reportes one of their practises in that behalfe shall heereafter be declared as place and time shall serue But in the meane time to retourne to the matter present Whilest this saide M. Cranmer continued as reader in Buckingham Colledge his wife died in childebed After whose death the maisters and fellowes of Iesus Colledge desirous againe of their old companion namely for his towardnes in learning chose him againe fellow of the same Colledge Where he remaining at his studie became in fewe yeares after the reader of Diuinitie lecture in the same Colledge and in such special estimation and reputation with the whole vniuersitâ—e that being Doctor of diuinitie hee was commonly appoynted one of the heades which are two or three of the chiefest learned men to examine suche as yearely professe in commencement eyther Bachelers or Doctors of Diuinitie by whose approbation the whole vniuersitie licenceth them to proceede vnto their degree and againe by whose disallowance the Uniuersitie also reiecteth them for a time to proceede vntill they be better furnished with more knowledge Nowe Doctour Cranmer euer muche fauouringe the knowledge of the Scripture would neuer admitte any to proceede in Diuinitie vnlesse they were substantially sene in the storie of the Bible by meanes where of certayne friers and other religious persons who were principally brought vp in the studie of schoole authoâ—s wythout regard had to the aucthoritie of scriptures were commonly reiected by him so that hee was greatly for that his seuere examination of the religious sort much hated and had in great indignation and yet it came to passe in the end that diuers of them being thus compelled to study the Scriptures became afterwardes very wel learned and wel 〈◊〉 in so much that when they proceeded Doctours of diuinitie could not ouermuch extol and commend master Doc. Cranmers goodnesse towardes them who had for a time put them backe to aspire vnto better knowledge and perfection Among whom D. Barret a white Frier who afterwardes dwelt at Norwich was after that sort haÌ„dled geuing him no lesse commendation for his happye reiecting of him for a better amendement Thus muche I repeat that our â—pish and popish sort of ignorant priestes may well vnderstande that this his exercise kinde of life and vocation was not altogether Hostlerlike Well to goe forwardes Like as hee was neyther in fame vnknowen nor in knowledge obscure so was hee greatly solicited by Doct. Capon to haue beene one of the felowes in the foundation of Cardinal Wolseis Colledge in Oxforde which he vtterly refused not without danger of indignation Notwithstanding foreseeing that whyche after chaunced to the vtter confusion of many wel affected learned men there without consideration because mans glory was there more sought for then Gods hee stoode to the danger of the sayd indignation whych chaunced more prosperously vnto him within fewe yeares after then hee looked for For whiles hee thus continued in Cambridge The great and weighty cause of king Henry the viij hys diuorce with the Lady Katherine Dowager of Spayne came into question which being many waies by the space of ij or iij. yeares amongst the Canonists Ciuilians and other learned men diuersly disputed and debated it came to passe that this sayde Doct. Cranmer by reason that the plague was in Cambridge resorted to Waltham Abbey to one M. Cresses house there whose wife was of kinne to the sayde M. Cranmer And for that he had ij sonnes of the said Cressey with him at Cambridge as his pupulles he rested at Waltham crosse at the house of the sayd master Cressey with the sayde ij children during that somer time whiles the plague reigned In this somer time Cardinall Campeius and Cardinall Wolsey being in commission from the Pope to here and determine that greate cause in controuersie betweene the K. the Queene his pretended wife dalyed and delaied all the sommer time vntill the moneth of Aug. came in hearing the said cause in controuersie debated When August was come the sayd Cardinals little minding to procede to sentence geuing tooke occasion to finish their commission and not further to determine therein pretending not to be permitted by the lawes to kepe courts of Ecclesiasticall matters in haruest time which sodeine stay geuing ouer of the said commissioÌ„ by both the cardinals being vnknowen to the king it so much mooued him that he taking it as a mocke at the cardinals hands commanded the dukes of Northfolke and Suffolke to dispatch forthw t cardinal Campeius home againe to Rome and so in hast remooued him selfe from London to Waltham for a night or twaine whiles his houshold remooued to Grenewich by meanes wherof it chanced that the harbengers lodged D. Stephens Secretarie and D. Foxe Almosiner who were the chief furtherers preferrers and defendors on the kings behalfe of the said cause in the house of the sayd M. Cressey where the sayd doctor Cranmer was also lodged and resident When supper time came they all iij. Doctors met together Doctor Stephens and Doctor Foxe muche marueiling of Doctor Cranmers being there Who declared to them the cause of his there being namely for that the plague was in Cambridge And as they were of olde acquaintance so the Secretarie and the Almosiner right wel entertained
sory that it is gone abroad To whome the Archbishop aunswered agayn saying as I do not deny my selfe to be the very author of that bill or letter so much I confesse here vnto you concerning the same bill that I am sory that the said bill went from me in such sort as it did For when I had written it M. Scorye got the copy of me and is now come abroad and as I vnderstand the City is full of it For which I am sory that it so passed my hands for I had intended otherwise to haue made it in a more large and ample maner and minded to haue set it on Paules Church doore and on the doores of al the Churches in London which mine owne seale ioyned thereto At which wordes when they sawe the constantnesse of the man they dismissed him affirming they had no more at that present to say vnto him but that shortly he shoulde heare further The sayd Bishop declared afterward to one of Doctour Cranmers frendes that notwithstanding his atteinder of treason the Queenes determination at that tyme was that Cranmer shoulde onely haue bene depriued of his Archbishopricke and haue had a sufficient lyuing assigned hym vpon his exhibiting of a true Inuentory with commaundement to keepe his house withoute medling in matters of Religion But how that was true I haue not to say This is certaine that not lōg after this he was sent vnto the Tower and soone after condemned of Treason Notwithstanding the Queene when shee coulde not honestly denye him his pardon seeyng all the rest were discharged and specially seeing he last of all other subscribed to Kyng Edwardes request and that agaynst his owne will released to him his action of Treason and accused him onely of heresy which liked the Archbishop right well and came to passe as he wished because the cause was not nowe his owne but Christes not the Queenes but the churches Thus stood the cause of Cranmer till at length it was determined by the Queene and the Councell that he should be remoued from the Tower where he was prisoner to Oxforde there to dispute wyth the Doctours and Diuines And priuily word was sent before to them of Oxford to prepare themselues and make them ready to dispute And although the Queene and the bishops had concluded before what should become of him yet it pleased them that the matter should be debated with argumentes that vnder some honest shew of disputation the murther of the man might bee couered Neither coulde theyr hasty speed of reuengemēt abide any long delay and therfore in all hast he was caried to Oxford What this disputation was and how it was handled what were the questions and reasons on both sides and also touching his condemnation by the Uniuersitye and the Prolocutour because sufficiently it hath bene declared we minde nowe therefore to proceede to his finall iudgement and order of condemnation which was the xij day of September an 1556. and seauen dayes before the condemnation of Bishoppe Ridley and Mayster Latimer as is aboue foretouched The storye whereof here followeth faythfullye collected by the reporte and narration commyng by chaunce to our handes of one who being both present thereat and also a deuoute Fauourer of the Sea and faction of Rome canne lacke no credite I trowe with suche which seeke what they can to discredite what so euer maketh not with theyr phantasied Religion of Rome After the disputations done and finished in Oxford betwene the Doctors of both Uniuersityes the three worthy Bishops D. Cranmer Ridley and Latimer he heard then howe sentence condemnatory immediatlye vpon the same was ministred agaynst them by D. Weston other of the Uniuersitye whereby they were iudged to be heretickes so committed to the Maior and Sheriffes of Oxford But forasmuch as the sentence geuē them was voyd in law for at that time the authority of the Pope was not yet receiued into the land therfore was a new commission sent from Rome and a new processe framed for the cōuiction of these reuerend and godly learned mē aforesayd In which commission first was Doct. Iames Brookes Bishop of Glocester the Popes Subdelegate with D. Martin and D. Story Commissioners in the king queenes behalfe for the execution of the same Of the which 3 Cōmissioners aboue named as touching D. Martin this by the way is to be vnderstand that although he was vsed for an instrument of the Popes side to serue a turne whose book also is extant agaynst the lawfull mariage of Priestes yet notwithstāding neither was he so bitter an enemy in this persecution as other Commissioners were and also in this time of Queene Elizabeth were diuers other Doctors of the Arches refused to be sworne agaynst the Pope he denied not the othe and yet notwithstanding not a together here to be excused But to the purpose of this story Wherof first it shall be requisite to declare the circumstaunce and the whole state of the matter as in a generall description before we come to theyr Orations according as in a percell of a certain letter touching the same it came to our handes In primis here is to be vnderstande that the commyng downe of the foresayde Commissioners which was vpon Thursday the xij of September an 1555. in the church of S. Mary and in the East end of the sayd church at the hie aultar was erected a solemne Scaffold for bishop Brokes aforesayde representing the Popes person ten foote high The seat was made that he might sit vnder the Sacramēt of the aultar And on the righte hand of the Popes Delegate beneath him sate Doctour Martin and on the lefte hand sate Doctour Story the kynge and Queenes Commissioners which were both Doctours of the Ciuill law and vnderneth them other Doctours Scribes and Phariseis also with the Popes Collectour and a rablement of such other like And thus these Byshops being placed in theyr Pontificalibus the B. of Canterbury was sent for to come before thē He hauing intelligence of them that were there thus ordered himselfe He came forth of the prison to the church of S. Mary set forth with billes and gleues for feare least he shoulde starte awaye being cloathed in a fayre blacke gowne with his hoode on both shoulders suche as Doctors of Diuinity in the Uniuersity vse to weare Who after he was come into the Church and did see them sitte in theyr Pontificalibus he did not put of his cappe to none of them but stood still till that he was called And anon one of the Proctors for the Pope or els his Doctour called Thomas Archbishop of Caunterbury appeare here and make aunswere to that shall be layd to thy charge that is to say for blasphemy incontinency and heresy and make answere here to the Bishop of Glocester representing the Popes person Upon this he being brought more neare vnto the scaffold where the foresayd Bishops sate he first well viewed
pouring the oile of his gracious spirit into your sweet hart Ah good Ieremy hath Phasure put thee in the stockes why now thou hast the right reward of a prophet Thy glory neuer began to appeare vntill now I doubt not but shortly in sted of Ahikam the sonne of Shaphan Iesus the sonne of the liuing God wil come and deliuer thee foorth of the handes of all thine enemyes and will also make good agaynste them and theyr Antichristian Sinagogue all the wordes that thou hast spoken in his name The Lord hath made thee this day a strong defended Tower an yron piller and a brasen wall agaynst the whole rable of Antichrist though they fight against thee neuer so fiercely yet shall they not ouercome thee for the Lorde himselfe is with thee to helpe and deliuer thee and he will ridde thee out of the handes of the wicked and will deliuer thee out of the handes of the Tyrantes And in that you are not busy in casting pearles before swine nor in geuing the holy thinges vnto dogges you are much to be coÌ„mended in my simple iudgement And sure I am that your circuÌ„spect and modest behauiour hitherto hath bene as much to Gods glory to the shame confusion of your enemies as any mans doinges that are gone before you Wherefore mine aduise and most earnest desire is with all other of your louing frendes that you still keepe that order wyth those bloudthirsty bitesheepes bishops I should say that you haue begonne For though in conclusion they will surely haue your bloud yet shall they come by it with shame enough and to theyr perpetuall infamy whiles the world doth endure They would in deed condemne you in hugger mugger to darken Gods glory if it might be But Sathans thoughtes are not vnknowne to you the depth of his subtlety is by you well foreseene Therefore let them do whatsoeuer God shall suffer them to doe for I know all things shall turne to your best Though you lye in the darck sâ—orried with the Bishops blacke coale dust yet shall you be shortlye restored vnto the heauenly light and made as white as snowe in Salmon and as the winges of a Doue that is couered with siluer winges and her fethers like gold You know the vessell before it be made bright is soyled with oile and other thinges that it may scoure the better Oh happy be you that you be nowe in the scouring house for shortly you shal be set vppon the celestiall shelfe as bright as aungels Therfore my deare hart I will now according to your louing request cast away all care and reioyce with you and prayse God for you and pray for you day and night yea I wil now with Gods grace sing Psalmes of prayse and thankesgeuing with you For now my soule is turned to her old rest agayne and hath takeÌ„ a sweet nap in Christes lap I haue cast my care vpon the Lorde which careth for me and will be Careles according to my name in that respect which you would haue me I wil leaue out my vnseemely addition as long as I liue for it can take no place where true fayth and hope is resident So soone as I had read your most godly and coÌ„fortable letter my sorowes vanished away as smoke in the winde my spirit reuiued and comfort came agayne wherby I am sure the spirit of God was author of it Oh my good M. Philpot which art a principall pot in deede filled with most precious liquor as it appeareth by the pleÌ„teous pouring forth of the same Oh pot most happy of the high Potter ordeined to honour whiche doest conteine suche heauenly treasure in the earthen vessell Oh pot thrise happy in whome Christ hath wrought a greate miracle altering thy nature and turning water into wine and that of the best whereout the mayster of the feast hath filled my cuppe so ful that I am become drunken in the ioy of the spirit through the same When Martyrdome shall break thee O vessell of honour I know the fragrant sauour of thy precious Narde will much reioyce the heauy hartes of Christes true members although the Iudasses will grudge and murmure at the same Yea and burst out into words of sclaunder saying it is but lost and waste Be not offended deare hart at my Metaphoricall speach For I am disposed to be mery and with Dauid to daunce before the Arke of the Lord and though you play vpon a payre of Organes not very comely or easy to the flesh yet the sweet souÌ„d that came from the same causeth me thus to do O that I were with you in body as presently I am in spirit that I might sing all care away in Christ for nowe the time of comforte is come I hope to be wyth you shortly if all thinges happen aright For my olde frendes of Couentry haue put the Counsell in remembraunce of me not 6. dayes agoe saying that I am more worthy to be burned then any that was burned yet Gods blessing on theyr harts for their good report God make me worthy of that dignity and hasten the time that I might set forth his glory Pray for me deare hart I beseech you and will all your company to do the same and I will pray God for you all so long as I liue And nowe farewell in Christe thou blessed of Gods owne mouth I will for a time take my leaue but not my last farewell Blessed be the time that euer I came into the kinges bench to be ioyned in loue and felowship with such deare children of the Lord. My good brother Bradford shal not be dead whiles you be aliue for verely the spirit of him doth rest on you in most ample wise Your letters of comfort vnto me in ech poynt do agree as though the one were a copy of the other He hath planted in me and you do water the Lorde geue good increase My deare Brethren and felow prisoners here haue them humbly and hartelye commended vnto you and your company mourning for your misery but yet reioysing for your plenteous consolation and comfort in Christ. We are all chearefull and merry vnder our crosse and do lacke no necessaryes praysed bee GOD for his prouidence and great mercy towardes vs for euermore Amen ¶ To his wife AS by the greate mercy of God at the tyme of his good will and prouidence appoynted my dearelye beloued wife you and I were ioyned together in the holye and Christian state of godly Matrimony as well to our great ioy and comfor in Christ as also to the encrease of his blessed church and faythfull congregation by hauing lawfull children by in the same with the which God of his mercy hath blessed vs praised be his name therfore eueÌ„ so now by his mercifull will and diuine ordinaunce the time is come so farre as I can perceiue wherein he will for his glory
societie And so for this and other Popish pranckes continuing obstinate still he was expelled the house After hee was thus dispatched of his roume hee was faine for his owne maintenance to applie him selfe to be a teacher of children in the house of sir Frances Knolles in the whych trade hee continued vntill the commynge of Queene Mary And wheÌ„ her visitors were sent to Magdalene Colledge vnder a title of reformation wheras all thinges were better afore I meane to displace diuers of the fellowes that were learned and to put ryghte Catholickes as they called them in theyr roumes then came thys Iulins Palmer waiting to be restored to his liuing againe of which he had bene depriued before thinking by good right to be restored of them whose Faith and religion as he sayde he did to the vttermoste of his power defend and maintaine And in deede at length hee obtayned the same Then after he was restored againe to his house in Queene Maries raigne God dealt so mercifull wyth him that in the ende he became of an obstinate Papist an earnest and a zealous Gospeller Concerning whose conuersion to the truthe for the more credite to be geuen to the same we haue heere putte downe a letter wrytten by one M. Bullingham felow in some part of K. Edwardes time wyth the sayde Palmer then also of the same faction of religion with him and toward the latter end of the said Kings raigne a voluntary exile in Fraunce for papistrie In Queene Maries daies likewise a chaplaine vnto Steuen Gardiner B. of Wint. And after comming in of Queene Elizabeth suche a one as for his obstinacy was quite and cleane dispatched from all his liuings by her Maiesties commissioners And yet now God be praised therefore a most constant professor and earnest teacher of the woord of God This man at the request of a certain friend of his in LondoÌ„ being desirous to know the certaine truthe thereof wrate vnto hym concerning this Iulins The copie of which letter we thought good here to insert for that the parties being aliue can testifie the same to be true and certaine if any shall doubt thereof The letter of M. Bullingham is thys M. B. I wish you and all yours continual health in the Lorde Hitherto haue I not wrytten any thing vnto you concerning Iulines Palmer that constante witnesse of Gods truthe for that his doings and sayings known vnto me were worne out of my remembrance and to wryte an vntroth it were rather to deface blemish then to adorne and beutify him After his coÌ„uersion to the most holy gospel I neuer sawe his face Wherefore the lesse haue I to certifye you off But so much as seemeth to me to serue most vnto the purpose heere I commend vnto you and in witnesse that my sayings are true I subscribe my name willyng praying and beseechinge you to publishe the same to the whole world c. At what time I Bullingham entended to forsake England and to flie into Fraunce for the wicked Popes sake whych came to passe in dede for in Roane I was for a time this Iulines Palmer and Rich. Ducke brought me outwardes in my iourney til we came to London where on a day Iulines Palmer I walked to S. Iames the Quenes place and as we leaned at the great gate of that place Palmer spake thus vnto me Bullingham you know into what misery and calamities we are faln for the Pope his religion We are yong men abhorred of all men now presently and like to be abhorred more and more Let vs consider what hangeth ouer our heads You are departing into a strange country bothe frendless and monilesse where I fear me you shal taste of sowrer sauces then hetherto you haue done And as for me I am at my wits end The face of hell it self is as amiable vnto me as the sight of Magdalene colledge For there I am hated as a venemous Tode Woulde God I were raked vnder the earthe And as touching our religion euen our consciences beare witnesse that we taste not such an inward swetenesse in the profession therof as we vnderstand the gospellers to taste in theyr religion Yea to say the truthe we maintaine we wote not what rather of will then of knowledge But what then Rather then I wil yelde vnto them I wil beg my bread So Palmer bequeathed him selfe to the wide world and I passed ouer into Normandie At my returne into England againe my chance was to mete Palmer in Paules where a Roode was set vp This our meeting was in the beginning of Quene Maries raigne and our miserable departing not long before the ende of K. Edwardes daies Then after oure greting thus said Palmer Bullingham is this our God for whoÌ„ we haue smarted No Palmer quod I it is an image of him An Image quod he I tel thee plainly BullinghaÌ„ Ihon Caluin whose institutions I haue perused sith our departure telleth me plainly by Gods word that it is an idoll and that the Pope is Antichrist and his clergy the filthy sinke hole of hel and now I beleue it For I feele it sensibly O that God had reuealed these matters vnto me in times past I woulde haue bequeathed this Romish religion or rather irreligion to the Deuill of hell froÌ„ whence it came Beleue them not Bullingham I will rather haue these knees pared of then I will kneele to yonder Iacknapes meaning the rode God helpe me I am borne to trouble and aduersitie in this worlde Well Palmer sayd I is the winde in that corner with you I warrant you it will blow you to lâ—tle ease at the end I wil neuer haue to do with you agayne So I left Palmer walking in Paules who thorow the element of fier is exalted aboue the elementes where eternall rest is prepared for persecuted Martyrs Thus much is true and let it be knowen that I Bullingham affirme it to be true More I haue not to saye In these wordes and deedes it appeareth that God had elected him From Bridgewater Aprill 26. Anno. 1562. By me Iohn Bullingham When he was by the visiters restored to his Colledge although he began some thing to sauor and taste of Gods truthe by conference and company of certaine godly and zealous men abroade in time of his expulsion specially at the house of sir Frances Knowls yet was he not throughly perswaded but in most poyntes continued for a while either blinde or els doubtfull Neither could he chuse but vtter himself in priuate reasoning from time to time both in what poyntes he was fully resolued and also of what poynts he doubted For such was his nature alway both in Papistrie and in the Gospell vtterly to detest all dissimulation in so much that by the meanes of his plainnes and for that he could not flatter he suffred much woe both in K. Edwards and also in Quene Maries time Wheras hee mighte at the first haue liued in
God brake the bond shortened her iourney for hee tooke her home to hymselfe out of this lyfe in peace This good old woman long before she went to prison had the fallyng sicknesse and told a friend of hers one Symon Harlston after she was apprehended that she had it neuer more but liued in good health ioy of hart through her Lord Christ. She had a very vnkinde man to her husbande who while shee was in prison solde away her raimente and would not helpe her and after she was out of prison shee returned home vnto him yet would he shew her no kindnesse nor helpe her neither and yet the house land that he dwelt in he had by her wherfore as long as she lyued she was found of the congregation The said Elizabeth Lawson also had a sister wyfe to one Rob. Hollon of Mickfield in the same countie of Suffolk which likewise was persecuted and driuen out from house to house a yong man her sonne with her because they would not go to the church to heare masse receyue the sacrament of the aultar ¶ Thomas Christenmasse and William Wattes IN this perillous rage of Queene Maries raigne were two men persecuted one called Tho. Christenmas the other Wil. Wats of Tunbridge in Kent As these trauailed from place to place not resting two nights together in one place it happened them on a tyme to come to Rochester in Kent where as they entryng into the Towne euē at the Townes ende met with a little Damosell of eyght yeares of age but whether she went they knewe not It was then night and they wery and fayne therfore would haue lyen in the same town but could not tell where they feared so the bloudy Catholickes At last they deuised to aske the Damosell whether there were any heretikes in the towne or no and she said yea They asked her where She aunswered them At such an Inne tellyng them the name and where the Inne was Shortly after as they were gone from her they bethought themselues better and God so moouyng their hartes they went to the childe agayne and asked her how she knew that the Innekeper of whome shee spake before was an heretike Marrie quoth she well enough and his wyfe also How knowest thou prety mayden said they I pray thee tel vs. How know I sayd she Marrie because they go to the church and those that will not holde vp their handes there they will present them and hee hymselfe goeth from house to house to compel them to come to Church When these two men heard this they gaue God prayse and auoyded that house takyng the warnyng of that Mayde of good bringyng vp as it should seeme to be Gods maruelous prouidence towards them ¶ Another escape of William Wats THis foresayd William Wats dwelling in Queen Maries dayes at Seale in Kent the last yere of her raigne saue one was apprehended by his enemies and brought by the Constables before the Bish. and Iustices at Tunbridge where the B. and Iustices would haue perswaded hym all they coulde to turne from the truth howbeit in vayne for they could not remooue him although they spēt all the forenoone therabouts with many flattring words so mercifull was the Lord vnto hym Now when dinner tyme was come as they shoulde rise they committed the prisoner to the constables againe and so rose vp to go to diner The Constables tooke Wats and led him to a vitailing house where after they had wel filled themselues they fel a sleepe supposing their prisoner to be sure enough vnder their handes Wats wife beyng then in the house with her husband and very carefull for his well doyng seyng the Constables thus fast a sleep desired her husband to depart and go thence for so much as the Lord had made such away for hym Unto which her words he would not consent althogh she perswaded him all that she could At the last they replieng one against an other a strāger heard them and asked her what the matter was that shee was so earnest with her husbande The wyfe tolde hym Then sayde the straunger vnto Wats these words Father goe thy wayes in Gods name and tary no longer the Lorde hath opened the way vnto thee Wherevpon the sayde Wattes went hys way and his wyfe departed from hym and went home to her house at Seale thinkyng her husband had gone another way Nowe as she was goyng in at her dore tellyng her friendes of hys deliueraunce immediately came the sayd Wattes in also and they all beyng amased thereat willed hym in all haste to get hym away for they thought there would bee search for hym immediately Then Wats sayd he would eate meate first and also pray which he did and afterward departed thence So soone as he was out of the dores and had hid hymselfe in an holly bush immediately came the said constables with thirtie persons into the sayd house to search for him where they pierced the Fetherbeds broke vp hys Chestes and made such hauocke that it was wonderfull and euer among as they were searchyng the Constables cryed I will haue Wats I will haue Wats I tel thee I wil haue Wattes but God be thanked Wats could not be found And when they saw it booted not to search for hym in the ende they tooke his wyfe and set her in a payre of stockes where she remayned two dayes and she was very bolde in the truth and at the last deliuered thorough the prouidence of God whose name be glorified in all his workes Amen * Iohn Glouer of Manceter Gentleman WHat a fatherly and manifest prouidence of the Lord likewyse did appeare in the preseruyng of M. Iohn Glouer in the Diocesse of Couentry and Lichfield in the Towne of Manceter first at the takyng of Robert hys brother At which tyme although the Commission came downe for hym yet so God ordered the matter that hys brother beyng sicke was apprehended and yet hee beyng whole escaped wherof mention is made before pag. 1709. And agayne another tyme how miraculously the mercifull prouidence of the Lorde wrought his escape oute of his enemies handes they beyng at his chamber dore and drawyng the latch to search for hym and how hys wyfe the same tyme was taken and sent to Lichfielde read before pag. 1714. ¶ One Dabney THere was at London a certaine honest godly person a Painter named Dabney whom Iohn Auales in the tyme of Queene Mary had brought before Boner to bee examined for his fayth It happened the same tyme. as the sayde Dabney was there that the Bishop was occupied with examination of other so that hee was bidde to stand by and to wayte the Bishops laysure Uppon the same or not long after sodainely commeth worde to the Bishop to prepare hym in all speede the generall procession taried for hym The Bishop hearyng that settyng all businesse aparte bustleth hymselfe with all speede
burned of in prisoÌ„ being more like a prisoner then any of the other when the gate was opened went out amongest them and so escaped Agayne in the last yeare of Queene Mary the same Benet being taken againe with the 24. beyond Islington and brought to Syr Roger Cholmleys the people comming very thicke did cut of some of them to the number of 8. which were behinde among whom was Benet Then he knocking at the gate to come in the Porter sayd that he was none of the company He sayde yes and knocked agayne TheÌ„ there stood one by of the congregation named Iohnson dwelling now at Hamersmith which sayd Edward thou hast done well do not tempt God go thy way And so taking the warning as sent of God with a quyet conscience eschued burning ¶ Ieffrey Hurst brother in law to George Marsh the Martyr IN the Towne of Shakerley in Lancashyre dwelled one Ieffrey Hurst the sonne of an honest yeoman who had besides him 11. children the sayd Ieffrey being the xij and eldest of the rest and for that theyr father being willyng to bring them vp so that they should be able another day to helpe themselues he did binde this Ieffrey prentise vnto the craft of nayling to make all kinde of nayles which occupation he learned and serued out the time of 7. yeares The which yeres being expired he gaue himselfe at times to learne of his other Brethren which went to schole and as he was very willing to the same so GOD sent hym knowledge wherein he did perseuer and go forwardes in such sort that he could write and read indifferently and in longer continuaunce came by more knowledge and so hauing the Bible and diuers other bookes in his house dyd come by preâ—ye knowledge in the Scripture After this he tooke vnto him a wife being the Sister of Maister George Marsh of whose Martyrdome mention is made before pag. 1484. and being much familiar with him did mend his knowledge not a little Now wheÌ„ queene Mary was entred the first yeare of her reigne he kept himselfe awaye from their doings came not at the church Wherupon he was layd in wayt for and called hereticke and Lollard so for feare of further daunger he was compelled to leaue his wife and his child and all and fled into Yorkeshyre there beyng not knowne did lead his life returning sometimes by night to his house to comfort his wife and bringing with him some preacher or other who vsed to preach vnto them so long as the time would serue and so departed by night agayne The names of the Preachers were M. Reneses M. Best M. Brodbanke M. Russell euery time they came thither they were about 20. or 24. sometimes but 16. at least who had there also somtimes a CoÌ„munioÌ„ And thus in much feare did he with other lead his life till the last yeare of the reigne of Queene Mary TheÌ„ it chaunced that the sayde Ieffrey Hurst after the death of his father came home and kept himself close for vij or viij weekes There dwelt not farre of at Morlesse a certayne Iustice of peace and of quorum named M. Thomas Lelond who hearing of him appoynted a time to come to hys Fathers house where he then dwelt to rifle the house for bookes and to search for him also and so did Ieffrey and hys company hauing knowledge of his comming tooke the books which were in the house as the Bible the Communion booke the new testament of Tindals translation and diuers others and threw them all vnderneath a tubbe or â—at conueying also the sayd Ieffrey vnder the same with a greate deale of strawe vnderneath him for as it chaunced they had the more time because that wheÌ„ the Iustice came almoste to the doore he stayed and woulde not enter the house till he had sent for Hurstes mothers Landlady M. Shakerley and then with her consent to go forwards In the meane time Ieffrey by such as were with him was willed to lay in his window the testameÌ„t of Tindals traÌ„slation and a litle booke conteining the third part of the bible with the booke of Ecclesiasticus to try what they would say vnto them This done Mistres Shakerley came Unto whoÌ„ eftsoones the Iustice declareth the cause of his comming and how he was sory to attempt any such thing agaynst any of her tenauntes for her sake but notwithstanding he muste needes execute his office And agayne you must sayde he note this that a skabbed sheepe is able to infect a great nuÌ„ber and especially hauing as he hath so many brethren sisters he is able to marre them all if he be not looked vnto in time And thus concluding M. Lelond entred into the house being come in set himselfe in a chayre in the midle of the house and sending Syr Rafe Parkinson his Priest and one of his men and one of Mistres Shakerleys men about the house to searche and rifle the chestes for bookes whiche so did in the meane time he talked with Hurstes mother being of the age almost of lx yeares And chiding with her that she would suffer her sonne so to order and be haue himselfe like an heretick said thou olde foole I know my selfe that this new learning shall come agayne but for how long euen for three moneths or foure monethes and no longer But I will lay thee olde foole in Lancaster duÌ„geon for this geare and well worthy Now as concerning the searchers they fouÌ„d nothyng but latin books as Grammer and such like These be not they that we looke for sayde they we must see further and so looked into Hurstes chamber where they found the foresayd books Then syr Rafe taking vp the testament looked on it and smiled His Mayster seing that sayd nowe Syr Rafe what haue we there Forsooth sayth he a testament of Tindals translation plaine heresy and none worse then it Then is all theyr goodes sayth he lost to the Queene theyr bodyes to prison and was wonderfully hasty notwithstanding through Mistres Shakerley for a space hee was content to see farther Then the Priest looked on the other booke What saye ye to that Syr Rafe is that as euill as the other No sayde he but it is not good that they should haue such Englishe Bookes to looke on for this and suche others maye doe much harme Then he asked the Mother where her eldest sonne was and her daughter Alyce She aunswered she could not tell they were not with her of long time before And he swore by Gods bodye hee woulde make her tell where they were or he would lay her in Lancaster Dungeon and yet he would haue them notwithstandyng too To be shorte for feare he hadde hys Brother Iohn Hurst and hys Mother bounde in an hundreth pounde to bring the partyes before him within xiiij dayes and so departed he and the Priest put both the bookes in his bosome and caryed them
his course till at length he came to a steepe downe hil at the hedge end downe the which hil he ran from them for they could not ride downe the hill but must fetch a great compasse about and so this Thomas Sprat ran almost a mile and as god would got a Wood. By that tyme he came to the Wood they were euen at hys heeles but the night drew on and it began to rayne and so the malice of these persecutors was at an ende the Lord working for his seruauntes whose name be praised for euer and euer Amen Not long after this one of the two Blanchendens aforesayd which so cruelly sought the destruction of other was cruelly murdered by hys owne seruauntes ¶ Iohn Cornet HEre might also be recited the hard adueÌ„tures and sufferinges of Iohn Cornet and at lengthe his deliueraunce by Gods good working out of the same Who being a prentise with a minstrell at Colchester was sent by hys mayster about the 2. yeare of Queene Maryes raygne to a wedding in a towne thereby called Roughhedge where hee being requested by a companye there of good men the Constables also of the parish being present thereat so sing some songes of the scripture chanced to sing a song called Newes out of London whiche tended agaynst the Masse and agaynst the Queenes misproceedinges Whereupon the next day he was accused by the Parson of Roughhedge called Yackesley and so committed first to the Constable where both his mayster gaue hym ouer and hys mother forsooke and cursed him From thence hee was sent to the next Iustice named M. CaÌ„nall and then to the Earle of Oxford where he was first put in yrons chaynes and after that so manacled that the bloude spurt out of hys fingers endes because he woulde not confesse the names of them which allured hym to sing And marueile it was that the cruell Papistes were so contended that they sent him not also to Bishop Boner to suffer the extremitie of the fire But Gods gracious prouidence disposed otherwise for hys seruaunt For after hee was manacled the Earle coÌ„maunded hym to be brought agayne to the towne of Roughhedge there to be whipped till the bloud followed and to be banished the towne for euer and so hee was during all the time of Queene Mary ¶ Thomas Bryce IF our story should proceede so wide and so large as dyd the exceeding mercy of Gods prouidence in helpyng hys seruauntes out of wretchednes and thraldome of those bloudy dayes our treatise I thinke would extende to an endlesse processe For what good man or woman was there almost in all this tyme of Queene Mary who eyther in carying a good conscience out of the land or tarying within the realm could well escape the Papistes handes but by some notable experience of the Lordes mightye power and helpyng hand working for him What shoulde I here speake of the myraculous deliueraunce of Thomas Bryce who beyng in the house of Iohn Seale in the parish of Horting and the Bayliffe with other neighbours comming in sent by Sir Iohn Baker to search and apprehend hym knowing perfectly both hys stature and colour of his garments yet had no power to see or know him standing before their faces So mightely the Lorde did blinde their eyes that they asking for him and looking vpon him yet notwithstanding he quietly tooke vpp his bagge of books and so departed out of the house wythout anye hand layd vpon him Also an other time about the 2. yeare of Queene Mary the sayde Thomas Bryce with Iohn Bryce his elder brother comming then from Wesell meeting together at their fathers house as they iornyed towardes London to geue warning there to one Springfield whiche els was like to bee taken vnawares by his enemies wayting for him vpon Gaddes hill fell in company with a promoter which dogged them and followed them again to Grauesâ—ad into the towne and layed the house for them where they were and all the waies as they should go to the water side so that it had not bene possible for them to haue auoyded the present daunger of those persecutors had not the Lordes prouident care otherwise disposed for hys seruauntes through the Hostler of the Inne couertly to conuey them by a secret passage whereby they tooke Barge a mile out of the towne and so in the ende both the liues of them and also of Springfield was preserued through the Lordes gracious protection ¶ Gertrude Crockhey GErtrude Crokehey dwelling at S. Katherines by the Towne of London and being then in her husbandes house it happened in the yeare 1556. that the Popes childish S. Nicholas went about the parish Whiche shee vnderstanding shut her dore agaynst him not suffering him to enter into her house Then Doct. Mallet hearing thereof and being then Mayster of the sayd S. Katherines the next daye came to her wyth twenty at hys tayle thinking belike to fray her and asked why shee woulde not the night before let in S. Nicolas and receaue hys blessing c. To whom she aunswered thus Syr I knowe no S. Nicholas sayd she that came hether Yes quoth Mallet here was one that represented S. Nicolas In deede sir sayd she here was one that was my neighbours childe but not S. Nicolas for S. Nicholas is in heauen I was afrayde of them that came with him to haue had my purse cut by them for I haue hearde of men robbed by S. Nicolas clerkes c. So Mallet perceiuyng that nothing could be gotten at her handes went his way as he came and she for that time so escaped Then in the yeare 1557. a little before Whitsontide it happened that the sayde Gertrude aunswered for a childe that was baptised of one Thomas Saunders whyche childe was christened secretly in a house after the order of the seruice booke in king Edwardes time and that beyng shortly knowne to her enemies she was sought for Whiche vnderstanding nothing therof went beyond the Sea into Gilderland to see certayne landes that should come to her children in the right of her first husband who was a straunger borne being there about a quarter of a yeare at the lengthe comming homeward by Andwarpe shee chaunced to meete with one Iohn Iohnson a Ducth manne alias Iohn de Uilla of Andwerpe shipper who seeing her there went of malice to the Margraue and accused her to be an Anabaptist whereby shee was taken and caryed to prison The cause why this naughty manne did thus was for that he claymed of M. Crokhay her husband a peece of mony whiche was not his due for a ship that Mayster Crokhay bought of him and for that hee coulde not get it he wrought this displeasure Well she being in prison lay there a fortnight In the whiche time she sawe some that were prisoners there who priuily were drowned in Renish wine fattes and after secretly put in sackes and cast into
next Taylor which was Beniamin that made them which also was a Constable and acquainted wyth the Lord Chauncellors commandement The boy required hym to cut the hose He sayde I am not thy Maisters Taylor Sayth the boy because ye are our next neighbour and my maisters Tailor dwelleth farre of I came to you for it is farre nightes and he must occupy them tymely in the mornyng Beniamin tooke the hose and looked vppon them he knew his handy worke and sayd These are not thy maisters hose but Doct. Sandes them I made in the Tower The boy yelded and sayd it was so Sayth he go to thy maistresse pray her to sit vp till xij of the clock then I will bring the hose and speake with D. Sandes to his good At middenight the goodwyfe of the house and Beniamin the Taylor commeth in to Doct. Sandes chamber The wyfe praieth him not to be afraid of their commyng He aunswereth nothyng can be amisse what God will that shal be done Then Beniamin telleth him that he made his hose and by what good chaunce they now came to hys handes God vsed the meane that he might admonish him of his perill and aduise hym how to escape it tellyng him that all the Constables of London whereof he was one watched for hym and some were so greedily set that they prayed hym if he tooke hym to let them haue the cariage of hym to the Bishop of Winchester and he should haue the v. pound Saith Beniamin it is knowen that your man hath prouided two geldings and that you mynde to ride out at Algate to morrow and there then ye are sure to bee taken Follow myne aduise and by Gods grace ye shall escape their handes Let your man walke all the day to morrow in the streete where your horses stand booted and ready to ryde The goodmans seruaunt of the house shall take the horses and carye them to Bednoll greene The goodman shall bee booted and follow after as if he would ride I will be here with you to morrow about viij of the clocke it is both Terme and Parliament tyme here wee will breake our Fast and when the streete is full we will go forth Looke wildely and if you meete your brother in the streete shunne hym not but outface hym and knowe hym not Accordingly D. Sandes did clothed lyke a gentleman in all respectes and looked wildly as one that had bene long kept in prison out of the light Beniamin caried hym through Birching lane and from one lane to another till he come at Moore gate There they went foorth vntil they came to Bednoll greene where the horses were redy and M. Hurleston to ride with hym as his man D. Sandes pulled on his bootes and takyng leaue of hys friend Beniamin with teares they kissed eche other hee put hys hand in his purse and would haue geuen Beniamin a great part of that litle he had but Beniamin would take none Yet since D. Sandes hath remembered hym thankfully He rode that night to hys father in lawe M. Sandes where his wyfe was he had not bene there two howers but it was told M. Sandes that there was two of the Garde which would that night apprehend Doctor Sandes and so they were appoynted That night Doct. Sandes was guided to an honest Farmer neere the Sea where hee taried two dayes and two nights in a chamber without all company After that hee shifted to one Iames Mower a Shipmaister who dwelt at Milton shore where hee expected wynde for the English Fleete redy into Flaunders While he was there Iames Mower brought to hym fortie or fiftie Mariners to whom he gaue 〈◊〉 exhortation they liked him so well that they promised to die for it or that he should be apprehended The 6. of May beyng Sonday the wynd serued Hee tooke his leaue of his Hoste and Hostesse went towards the ship in taking his leaue of his Hostesse who was barren and had bene maried viij yeares Hee gaue her a fine handkerchiefe and an old royall of gold in it thanking her much and sayd Be of good comfort or that an whole yere be past God shall geue you a child a boy And it came to passe for that day tweluemoneth lacking one day God gaue her a faire sonne At the shore D. Sandes met with M. Isaac of Kent who had his eldest sonne there who vpon the likyng hee had to D. Sandes sent his sonne with hym who afterward died in his fathers house in Franckford D. Sands and D. Coxe were both in one ship beyng one Cockrels ship They were within the kennyng when two of the Gard came thether to apprehend D. Sands They ariued at Andwerpe beyng bid to dinner to M. Locke And at dinner tyme one George Gilpin beyng Secretary to the English house and kinsman to D. Sandes came to hym and rounded hym in his eare and sayde King Phillip hath sent to make search for you and to apprehende you Hereuppon they rose from their dinner in a meruailous great shower and went out at the gate toward the lande of Cleue There they founde a Wagon and hasted away and came safe to Ausburg in Cleueland where D. Sands taried 14. dayes and then iorneyed towardes Strausborough where after he had lyued one yeare his wyfe came vnto hym He fell sore sicke of a flixe which kept hym nine monthes and brought him to deathes dore He had a child which fell sicke of the plage and died His wyfe at length fell sicke of a consumption and dyed in his armes no man had a more godly woman to his wyfe After this M. Sampson went away to Emanuel a man skilfull in the Hebrue M. Grindall went into the countrey to learne the Dutch tongue D. Sandes still remayned in Strausborough whose sustentation then was chiefly from one M. Isaac who loued him most dearely and was euer more redy to geue then he to take He gaue hym in the space aboue one hundreth marks which summe the sayd D. Sandes payd him agayne and by hys other gifts and friendlines shewed hymselfe to bee a thankfull man When his wyfe was dead hee went to Zurike and there was in Peter Martyrs house for the space of fiue weekes Beyng there as they sate at dinner word sodenly came that Queene Mary was dead and Doct. Sands was sent for by his friendes at Strausborough That newes made M. Martyr and M. Iaret then there verye ioyfull but D. Sands could not reioyce it smote into his hart that he should be called to misery M. Bullinger and the Ministers feasted him and hee tooke his leaue and returned to Strausborough where he preached and so M. Grindall and he came towards England and came to London the same day that Queene Elizabeth was crowned ⧠A Complaint against such as fauoured the Gospell in Ipswich exhibited to Queene Maries Counsaile sittyng in Commission at Beckles in Suffolke the 18. of May. Ann. 1556. by Phillip Williams aliâs Footeman Iohn Steward and
most miserably died Who commonly when he woulde affirme any thing were it true or false vsed to say If it be not true I pray God I rotte ere I die Witnesse the Printer heereof with diuers other With these I mighte inferre the sodeine death of Iustice Lelond persecutor of Ieffray Hurst mentioned before pag. 2076. Also the death of Robert Baulding stricken with Lightning at the taking of William Seamen whereuppon hee pined away and died the storie of the which W. Seaman see pag. 2035. Likewise the wretched end of Beard the promoter Moreouer the consuming away of Rob. Blomfielde persecutor of William Browne specified pag. 2065. Further to returne a little backewarde to king Henries time here might be induced also the example of Ihon Rockewoode who in his horrible ende cried all to late with the same woordes which he had vsed before in persecuting Gods poore people of Calice pag. 1055. Also the iudgement of God vpon Lady Honor a persecutor and of George Bradway a false accuser both bereft of theyr wittes page 1227. And what a notable spectacle of Gods reuengyng iudgement haue wee to consider in Syr Rafe Ellerker who as hee was desirous to see the heart taken out of Adam Damlyp whom they most wrongfully put to death so shortly after the sayd Syr Rafe Ellerker being slaine of the Frenchmen they all too mangling him after they had cutte off hys priuie members woulde not so leaue hym before they myght see hys heart cutte oute of hys bodye pag. 1229. Doctor Foxlorde Chauncellor to bishop Stokesley a cruell persecutor died sodeinly read pag. 1055. Pauier or Pauie Towne Clearke of London and a bitter enemie to the Gospell hanged him selfe pag. 1055. Steuen Gardiner hearing of the pitiful end of Iudge Hales after he had drowned himself taking occasiō thereby called the following and professiō of the Gospel a doctrine of desperation But as Iudge Hales neuer fell into that inconuenience before hee had consented to Papistrye so who so well considereth the ende of Doctour Pendleton which at hys death ful sore repented that euer he had yeelded to the doctrine of the Papists as he did and likewise the miserable ende of the moste parte of the Papistes besides and especially of Steuen Gardiner him selfe who after so longe professinge the doctrine of Papistrie when there came a Bishop to him in his deathbed and put him in remembraunce of Peter denying his Maister he aunswearing againe sayd that he had denied with Peter but neuer repented with Peter and so both stinckingly vnrepentantly died will say as Steuen Gardiner also hym selfe gaue an euident exāple of the same to all men to vnderstand that Poperie rather is a doctrine of desperation procuring the vengeaunce of almighty God to them that wilfully do cleaue vnto it Iohn Fisher Bishop of Rochester and Syr Thomas More in Kyng Henryes time after they hadde brought Iohn Frith Baifield and Baynham and diuers other to theyr death what great reward wanne they therby with almighty God Did not the sworde of Gods vengeaunce light vpon their owne neckes shortly after and they them selues made a publicke spectable at the tower hil of bloudy deathe which before had no compassion of the liues of others Thus ye see the saying of the Lord to be true Hee that smiteth with the sword shall pearish with the sword So was Heliodorus in the old time of the Iewes plagued by Gods hand in the Temple of Hierusalem So did Antiochus Herode Iulian Ualerianus the Emperour Decius Maxentius with infinite others after they had exercised theyr crueltye vppon Gods people feele the like striking hand of God them selues also in reuenging the bloud of his seruaunts And thus much concerning those persecutors as well of the Clergy sort as of the laity which were stricken and died before the death of Quene Mary With whom also is to be numbered in the same race of persecuting Byshops which died before Quene Mary these bishops folowing Bishops Coates Bishop of Westchester Parfew Bishop of Harford Glinne Bishop of Bangor Brookes Bishop of Glocester King Bishop of Tame Peto Elect of Salisburie Day Bishop of Chichester Holyman Bishop of Bristow Now after the Queene immediately followed or rather waighted vpon her the death of cardinal Poole who the next day departed Of what disease although it be vncertaine to many yet to some it is suspected that hee tooke some Italian Physicke which did him no good Then folowed in order Bishops Iohn Christopherson B. of Chichester Hopton B. of Norwich Morgan B. of S. Dauids Iohn White B. of Winchester Rafe Baine B. of Lichfield and Couentrie Owen Oglethorpe B. of Carlile Cuthert Tonstall B. of Durham Thomas Rainolds elect of Herford after hys depriuation died in prison Besides these Bishops aboue named first died at the same time D. Weston Deane of Westminster afterwarde Deane of Windsore chiefe disputer against Cranmer Ridley and Latimer M. Slerhurst maister of Trinitie colledge in Oxforde who died in the Tower Seth Holland deane of Worcester and Warden of Alsoule Colledge in Oxforde William Copinger Monke of Westminster who bare the great Seale before Steuen Gardener after the death of the sayde Gardener made him selfe Monke in the house of Westminster and shortly after so fell madde and died in the Tower Doctor Steward Deane of Winchester ¶ To beholde the woorking of Gods iudgements it is wonderous In the first yeare of Quene Marie when the Clergy was assembled in the Conuocation house and also afterwarde when the Disputation was in Oxford against Doctor Cranmer Ridley and Latimer he that had seene then Doctor Weston the Prolocutoure in his ruffe howe highly he tooke vpon him in the Schooles and how stoutly he stoode in the Popes quarell against simple and naked truth full litle would haue thought and lesse did he thinke him self I dare say that his glory and lofty lookes shoulde haue bene brought downe so soone especiallye by them of hys owne Religion whose part he so doughtely defended But such is the rewarde and ende commonly of them who presumptuouslye oppose them selues to striue against the Lord as by the example of this Doctorly prolocutor right wel may appeare For not long after the disputation aboue mentioned against Bishop Cranmer and hys fellowes God so wrought against the sayd Doctour Weston that hee fell in great displeasure wyth Cardinall Poole and other Bishops because hee was vnwilling to geue vp his Deanery and house of Westminster vnto the Monkes and religious men whom in deede he fauoured not although in other things he maintained the Churche of Rome Who notwithstanding at last through importunate sute gaue vp Westminster was deane of Windsore Where not long after he was apprehended in adulterie and for the same was by the Cardinall put from all hys spirituall liuings Wherefore he appealed to Rome and purposed to haue fledde out of the Realme but was taken by the way and committed
the Lordes quarell was afterward burned in his owne house with two mo pag. 1717. The wife of Iohn Fettye beinge the cause of the taking of her husband how she was immediatly vppon the same by Gods hand stricken wyth madnesse and was distracte out of her wittes read before pag. 2055. Thomas Mowse and George Reuet two persecutors were stricken miserably wyth the hand of God and so died pag. 1917. Also Robert Edgore for that hee hadde executed the office of a Parish Clearke against his conscience thoroughe anguish and grief of conscience for the same was so bereft of his wits that he was kept in chaines and bondes many yeares after pag. 1917. As touching Iohn Plankney fellow of new Colledge in Oxford Ciuilian and one Hanington both fellowes of the same house aforesaid and both stubburne Papistes the matter is not much worthy the memory yet the example is not vnworthy to be noted to see what little coÌ„fort grace commonly followeth the comfortlesse doctrine and profession of papistry as in these two yong men amongst many other may well appeare Of whome the one which was Plankney scholer somtyme to Marshal who wrote the booke of the crosse is commonly reported and known to them of that Uniuersitie to haue drowned himselfe in the riuer about Ruly at Oxford anno 1566. the other in a Well about Rome or as some do say at Padua and so beyng both drowned were both taken vp with Crucifixes as it is sayde of some hangyng about their neckes The more pitie that such young studentes did so much addicte their wittes rather to take the way of papistrie then to walke in the comfortable light of the Gospell nowe so brightly spreading his beames in all the worlde which if they had done I thinke not contrary but it had prooued much better with them Albeit I trust the Gospell of Christ beyng now receiued in the Queenes Court amongst the Courtiers and seruaunts of her Gard hath framed their lyues and maners so to lyue in the due feare of God and temperance of lyfe with all sobrietie and mercifull compassion towarde their euenchristen that they neede not greatly any other instructions to be geueÌ„ them in this story yet for so much as examples many tymes doe worke more effectually in the myndes and memories of men also partly considering with my selfe how these aboue all other sorts of men in the whole Realme in tyme past haue euer had most neede of such wholesom lessons and admonitions to leaue their vnordinate riote of quaffing and drinking and their Heathenish prophanatie of lyfe I thought here to set before their eyes a terrible example not of a strange and forreine person but of one of their owne coate a Yeoman of the Gard not fayned by me but brought to me by Gods prouidence for a warnyng to all Courtiers and done of very truth no longer ago then in the yeare of our Lord 1568. And as the story is true so is the name of the partie not vnknowen beyng called Christopher Landesdale dwellyng in Hackney in Middlesex The order of whose lyfe and maner of his death beyng worthy to be noted is this as in story here vnder followeth This foresayd Landesdale beyng maried to an auncient woman yet liuing hauing by her both goods lands notwithstandyng liued long in filthy whoredome with a yonger woman by whom he had two children a sonne a daughter and kept them in his house vnto the day of his death Also when he should haue bene in seruing of God on the Saboth day hee vsed to walke or ride about hys fieldes and seldome hee or any of his house came to the Church after the English seruice was againe receyued Besides this he was a great swearer and a great drunkard and had great delight also in makyng other menne drunken and would haue them whom he had made druÌ„kards to call him father and he would cal theÌ„ his sonnes and of these sonnes by report he had aboue fortie And if he had seene one that would drinke freely hee would marke hym and spende his money with him liberally in ale or wyne but most in wyne to make him the sooner drunken These blessed sonnes of his should haue great chere oftentymes both at his owne house and at Tauernes and not long before his death he was so beastly drunken in a Tauerne ouer against his dore that he fell downe in the Tauerne yard and could not arise alone but lay grouelyng till he was holpen vp and so caried home This father of drunkards as he was a great feaster of the rich and welthy of Hackney and others so hys poore neighbours and poore tenauntes fared little the better for hym except it were with some broken meate which after his feastes his wyfe would cary and send vnto them or some almes geuen at his doore Besides all this he did much iniury to his poore neighbours in oppressing the commons nere about hym which was a speciall reliefe vnto them so that his cattaile eat vp all without pitie or mercy There chaunced after this about two yeres before hee died a poore man beyng sicke of the bloudy flixe for very weakenes to lie downe in a ditch of the sayd Landsdales not a stones cast from his house where he had a litle straw brought him Notwithstanding the said Landesdale had backe houses and Barnes enough to haue layed hym in but would not shew hym so much pitie And thus poore Lazarus there lay night and day about sixe weekes ere he died Certaine good neighbours hearyng of this procured things necessary for his reliefe but he was so farre spente that he could not bee recouered who lay broyling in the hote sunne with a horrible smell most pitifull to behold This poore man a little before he died desired to be remooued to another ditch into the shadowe Whereuppon one of the neighbours commyng to Landesdales wyfe for a bundle of strawe for him to lye vppon shee required to haue hym remooued to Newyngton side because she said if he should dye it would be very farre to cary him to the Church Besides this there was a mariage in this Landsdales house and the gestes that came to the mariage gaue the poore man mony as they came went by him but Landesdale disdained to contribute any relief vnto him notwithstanding that he had promised to M. Searles one of the Queenes Gard who had more pitie of him to minister to him things necessary To be short the next day poore Lazarus departed this lyfe was buried in Hackney churchyard Upon whom Landsdale did not so much as bestow a â—inding sheet or any thyng els towards his buriall And thus much coÌ„cerning the end of poore Lazarus Nowe let vs heare what became of the rich glutton About two yeres after this the said Landesdale beyng full of drinke as his custome was came ridyng in great hast from London on s. Andrews day
please your honours I iudge that my Lordes here stay most on this poynt that they feare when they shall begin first and the other aunswere thereupon there shall be no time geuen to them to speake whiche my Lord misliketh L. Keeper Howe can it otherwise be in a talke appoynted in such assembly and audience thinke you that there can be continuall aunswering one another when shouldeâ—â— after that sort haue an end Lich. Couen It must bee so in a disputation to seeke out the trueth L. Keper But how say you my Lord Abbot are you of the mynde it shal be read Abbot Yea forsooth my lord I am very wel pleased with all Harpesfield being inquired his mind thought as the other did L. Keper My Lordes sith that ye are not willing but refuse to read your writing after the order taken wee wyll breake vp and departe and for that ye willl not that wee should heare you you may perhaps shortly heare of vs. THus haue we declared the order and maner of this coÌ„munication or conference at Westminster betweene these two parties wherin if any law or order were brokeÌ„ iudge good reader wher the fault was and consider with al what these Papistes be from whoÌ„ if ye take away their sword and authority from them you see all their cunning how soone it lyeth in the dust or els why would they not abide the triall of writing why would they or durst they not stande to the order agreed vpon Whether shoulde we say ignoraunce or stubbernes to be in them more or both together Who first being gently as is sayd and fauorably required to keep the order appointed they would not Then being secondly as appeared by the Lord Keepers words pressed more earnestly they neither regarding the authority c. of that place nor their owne reputation nor the credite of the cause vtterly refused that to doe And finally being agayne particularly euery of them aparte distinctly by name required to vnderstande theyr opinions therin they al sauing one which was the Abbot of Westminster hauing some more consideratioÌ„ of order and hys duety of obedience then the other vtterly and playnly denyed to haue theyr booke read some of them as more earnestly then other some so also some other more vndiscretly and vnreuerently then others Wherupon geuing such example of disorder stubbernes and selfe will as hath not bene seene and suffered in such an honorable assembly being of the two estates of this Realme the nobility and the commons beside the presence of the Queenes Maiestyes most honorable priuy counsell the same assembly was dis missed and the Godly and most Christian purpose of the Queenes Maiesty made frustrate And afterward for the contempt so notoriously made the Byshop of Wincester Lincolne hauing most obstinatly both disobeyed commoÌ„ authority and varyed manifestly from theyr owne order and specially Lincoln who shewed more folly then the other were condignely committed to the Tower of London and the rest sauing the Abbot of Westminster stoode bound to make dayly theyr personall appearaunce before the counsell and not to depart the Cittye of London and Westminster vntill further order were taken with theÌ„ for their disobedience and contempt Besides the former protestation or libell written and exhibited by the Protestantes concerning the first question there was also an other like writing of the fayde Protestantes made of the second question but not published which if it come to our hand we wil likewise impart vnto thee As these Byshops aboue named were committed to the Tower so Boner Bishop of London about the same time was commaunded to the Marshalsea whereas hee both in his blinde bloudy heresy and also in his deserued captiuity long remayned abiding the Queenes pleasure gods pleasure I beseech him so be wrought on that person that the Church of Christes flocke if they can take or looke for no goodnesse of that man to come yet they maye take of him and of other no more harme herafter theÌ„ they haue done alredy We al beseech thee this O Lord eternal per Christum Dominum nostrum Amen Aboute this time at the beginning of the flourishing reigne of Queene Elizabeth was a Parliament summoned and holden at Westminster wherin was much debating about matters touching religion and great study on both parties employed the one to reteine still the other to impugne the doctrine and faction which before in queene Maries time had bene established But especially here is to be noted that though ther lacked no industry on the papistes side to holde fast that which they most cruelly from time to time had studied by al meanes practised to come by Yet notwithstanding such was the prouidence of God at that time that for lacke of the other bishops whome the Lorde had taken away by death a little before the residue that there were left could doe the lesse and in very deede God be praysed therefore did nothing at all in effect Although yet notwithstanding there lacked in them neyther will nor labour to do what they could if their cruell abilitie there might haue serued But namely amongest all other not onely the industrious courage of Doctor Story but also his wordes in this Parliament are worthy to be knowne of posteritie who like a stout and furious champion of the popes side to declare himselfe howe lustie hee was what he had and would do in his maisters quarrell shamed not openly in the saide Parliament house to brast out into such impudent sort of words as was wonder to all good eares to heare and no lesse worthy of history The summe of which his shameles talke was vttered to this effect First beginning with himselfe hee declared that where as he was noted commonly abroad and much complayned of to haue bene a great doer and a â—eâ—ter forth of such religion orders and proceedinges as of hys late soueraigne that dead is Queene Mary were set forth in this Realme hee denied nothing the same protestyng moreouer that he therein had done nothing but that both his conscience did lead him thereunto and also his commission did as wel then commaund him as now also doth discharge hym for the same being no lesse ready now also to doe the like and more in case hee by this Queene were authorised likewise and commaunded thereunto Wherefore as I see sayth he nothing to be ashamed of so lesse I see to be sory for but rather sayd that he was sory for thys because he had done no more theÌ„ he did and that in executing those lawes they had not bene more vehement and seuere Wherein he sayd there was no default in him but in them whom he both ofte and earnestly had exhorted to the same being therefore not a little greeued with them for that they laboured onely about the young and little sprigges and twigges whyle they should haue stroken at the roote and cleane haue rooted it out c. And concerning his persecuting
of the x. persecution 77 Dioclesian Maximiliā tired with persecuting of Christians gaue vp their kingdoms 81 Dioclesian his death 86 Dirige for the dead 137 Dirike Caruer Martyr hys apprehension examination and condemnatiō .1680 his martirdome 1682 Dissention amongst the Monks of Canterbury for the electiō of the Archb. 258. Discord what hurt it worketh in the church and common wealth 330.258.241.172.173.236.1367 Discorde alwayes in the Popes church 241 Dissention betweene the Archb. of Canterb. and the church of Lincolne 327 Dissention betweene Kyng Henry 3. and his nobles 330. Dissention betweene the Couent Prior of Durham and the king 272 Dissention amonijst Friers about the conception of Mary 800 Discord betweene the L. Protector the Admirall and the Earle of Warwike 1367 Discent of the B. of Rome 1758 Dispensations what mischiefs they do and what euils spring thereout 285 Dissolution of Abbeys by the lorde Cromwell 1179.1180 Dissolution of Abbeis and religious houses in England 1101.1102 Dissention between the Friers and the students of Paris 328 Dissention betweene Pope Eugenius and the councell of Basill 668 Disputation betweene the Papistes and Protestantes in the beginning of Q. Elizabeths raigne at Westminster 2119.2120.2121.2122 Disputation of religion in Paules in London in the Conuocation house aboute the reall presence .1410 dissolued by Queene Mary 1417 Disputation in the Uniuersitie of Prage 456.457 Disputation at Cambridge aboute transubstantiation and the reall presence 1376.1377.1378 Disputation in Oxford by Peter Martyr and others against trāsubstantiation 1373. Disputation in the councell of Basill 678.679 Disputation betweene Austen and the Waldenses 231 Disputation betweene the Romish bishops and the Scottish bish about Easter day 123 Disputation at Lypsia 847 Disputation at Baden in Heluetia .869 at Berne ibid. Disputation by M. Latimer Crāmer and Ridley at Oxford 1428 1429 Disputation betweene D. Barnes and Stephen Gardiner 1198 Dispensations for mony 285 Diuorce of K. Henry the 8. decided by D. Cranmer 1860 1861 1862 D O. Dobbe persecuted for the Gospell dyeth in prison 1297 Doctrine of the apostle S. Paule in a summe 20 Doctrine erroneous of the Church of Rome concernyng sinne 26 Doctrine of the Pope of Christ compared 485 Doctrine of the Pope what it is .2 more gaineful then holy scripture ibid. Doctrine of the Popes church corrupt examined 19 Doctrine of the Pope the summe finall scope 20 Doctrine of S. Paule reduced to v. points 16 Doctrine of the law and of the Gospell 976 Doctrine of the Pope what good stuffe it containeth 1772 Doctrine of Rome concerning faith and iustification erroneous 26. Doctrine erroneous of the papistes concernyng penance 26 Doctrine erroneous of the papistes in the sacraments 28 Doctrine of the papists corrupt cōcernyng ciuile maiestrates 29 Doctors read with indifferēt iudgement make more against the papists then with them 1854 Doctor Weston Prolocutor in the disputation in London 1410 Doctor Redman his confession at his death 1360 Doctor London a bloudy persecuter 1213 Doctor Coxe schoolemaister to K. Edward the 6. 1295 Doctor Sandes his trouble for the Gospell and happy deliueraunce by the singuler prouidence of god 2086.2087.2088.2089 Doctor Whittington Chauncellor a cruel persecuter slayne of a bul 775.776 Doct. Collet Deane of Paules his story 838 Doctor Story his impudent words in the parliamēt house .2125 his bloudy cruelty to Christes Martyrs by his owne confession ibidem Doctor Story a cruell and bloudie persecutor his bloudy ende and death at Tyborne 2152 Dog clothed in a Rochet vnder the name of B. Gardiner 2078 Dog of the English Embassadors bite the Pope by the great toe 1861. Doly her trouble and persecutiō for the Gospell 984 Dolphin with the French discomfited at Cassels 387 Domicianus Cesar his extreme tiranny 35.36 Domicianus maketh inquirie for Dauids stocke and murthereth them 48 Dominion of the Turkes parted into foure families 737. Dominion temporall and spirituall of Rome 499. Domicius Nero a tyrant his cruell end and ouerthrow 31 Dominion of the Turke large and ample 760.761.762.764.766.768 Donation of Constantine to the Romish papall sea prooued to be falsifyed by many inuincible reasons and argumentes 105 Donations of Carolus magnus Otho to Rome 159 Donation of Pipinus falsely taken for the donation of Constantine 130 Donation of Constantine forged 105.390 Donations geuen to religious men by king Ethelbald 133 Donation of king Athelwolfus to the Clergy 136 Dorobernia and Caunterbury taken for one 174 Doues their nature 1297 Douer court Martyrs theyr story trouble and Martyrdome for pulling downe of Idols 1031 1032 Douer head City of Kent 172 D R. Draycot Chauncellour of Liechfield a bloudy Persecutour of the poore Sayntes of God 1954 Draycots Sermon against Ioane Wast a blinde woman and martyr 1952 Drakes martyr his story .1895 his examination and death 1896 1897.1898 Dreames of Dustone 157 Dreames not to be regarded 152 Dronkennesse well auoyded by the pollicy of king Edgar 155 Drowry Martyr 1911.1912 Drayner called Iustice nine holes a bloudy and cruell persecutour his story 2112 D V. Dunning Chauncellour his sodeine and fearefull death 2099 Duchesse of Suffolke her tragicall and lamentable story .2078 her trouble extremity for the Gospell 2079.2080 Duke of Clarence drowned in a Butte of Malmessie 717 Duke of Northumberland committed to the Tower and condemned to dye .1407 beheaded 1423 Duke of Buckingham speaketh for the Protector in the Guilde hall 728 Duke Ethelwold slayne 141 Duke of Suffolke beheaded 1467.706 Duke Elfread his punishment for periury 148 Duke Edrike a bloudy persecutor a cruell murtherer and put himselfe to death 162 Duke Robert prisoner 191 Duke of Glocester made Protector .727 accuseth his Mother his bloudy tyranny 727.728 Duke of Northumberlād Duke of Herford both banished 514 Duke of Glocester beheaded by K. Richard 2. 513 Duke of Lancaster and Lord Hēry Persie great frends to Wickliefe 425 Duke Alpherus restorer of Priestes and their Wiues 158 Duke of Austrige punished of god 248 Duke Albert his bloudy slaughter in Boheme 656 Duke of Northfolke slayne 729 Duke of Mantua denieth the pope his City for his counsell 1133 Duke of Guise slayne before Orleance 2112 Duke of Guise his bloudy purpose disapoynted 2109 Duke of Northumberlande sente forth agaynst Queene Marye committed to the Tower 1465 Duke of Sommerset his History .1367 committed to the Tower with articles layd agaynst hym .1370 his death and rare commendation 1371.1372 Dunstanes roodes miracle 158 Dunstane Chittendene with the rest of his fellowes famished for the gospell in the Castle of Canterbury 1954.1955 Dunstane Abbot of Glastenbury his false and lying myracles 150 made Bishop of Worcester .152 seduceth king Edgar 156. hys his dreames 157 Dunstane a post setter a sorcerer .156 his death 160 Durandus 950 Dunkirke where writinges were set vppe agaynst King Henry .8 1055 Duty of husbandes and wiues one towardes an other 1933 Dutch Martyrs 928 Dungate martyr his story martyrdome 1949.1950 Dunninges the bloudye Chauncellour his
true obedience ibid. Obiection of a late English writer in defence of the Popes supremacie confuted 13 Obiections of the papistes agaynst the Protestantes refusing their religion answered 2.3 O C. Ockam of Windsor his knauery abhominable periury 1218 Octobonus the Popes Legate his conuocation at London 335 O D. Odo Archb. of Cant. 151. his lying miracles ibid. O. E. Oecolampadius his historye and death· 873 O F. Offa and Kenredus make themselues monkes at Rome 129 Offrings bestowed vpon harlots 1048 Offrings in the church 1404 Offices of the law and of the gospel compared 977 Offertorie of the Masse 1402 Office of a christian magistrate 8. Officials how inconuenient in the church their corruptions 86 Officers of the court temporal compared with the Officers of the court spirituall 19 Office of a kyng described 166 Office of the ecclesiasticall minister 8. Ofrike king of Denmarke ariueth in England 141 O L. Old man and new man what their continuall war together is 1655 Oliuer Chancellor punished for his cruelty to Gods saints 2112 O M. Omnipotencie of God denied by the brood of cursed Papists 1650 Omnipotencie of God how to bee vnderstood .1808 doth not prooue Christes body to bee really in the sacrament 1951 Omnipotencie of Christ proueth no reall presence in the Sacrament 1686 O P. Opus tripartitum a booke shewyng the enormities of the clergy 200 O R. Ordinances of Lent fast falsly ascribed to Telesphorus 53 Orders of priesthoode amongest the papists inuented by the Deuill 1105. Order defined 21 Orders religious described in a table 260 Order and disposing of this booke of Acts and Monuments 30 Orders of Iesuites examined 4 Order kept in the church what true order is 21 Orders made merchaundise by the Pope and Prelates 610 Order taken in the parliameÌ„t house for Queene Maries child 1480 Orders in the church which lawful 21 Ordo Cluniacensis beginneth 146. Orchanes the second Emperour of the Turkes how he came to hys Imperiall dignitie his story 7â—8 Organes in temples mans deuise .536 suspended for not ringyng of the bels 555 Organes in the church 1404 Orem his sermon before pope Urbane 5. 411.412.416 Ormes her story and martyrdome 2023 Origene kept from martyrdome by his mother .54 his great praises ibid. his scholers Martyrs .54 his fall and persecution hys repentance hys blemishes 60 Originall sinne how it remaineth in vs how taken away by Christ. 1995 Originall sinne originall iustice 26. Oriall colledge in Oxford built 374 Oration of the Lord Keeper 2150 2151 Oration of K. Henry 8. to the parliament house .1233 with notes thereof 1234 Oration of the Emperour to Iohn Hus. 608 Oration of Armachanus agaynste the Friers 410 Oration of the Lord Peter in the parliament of Fraunce with answere of the Prelates 353 Oration of Doctor Bassinet 946 OratioÌ„ of Boner in praise of priesthood 1426 Oration of Becket resigning hys Bishopricke to the Pope 213 Oration of the Earle of Arundel to the Pope 213 Oration of Queene Mary in guild Hall 1418 Oration of K. Edgar to the Clergy 169 Oration of the Bishop of Aix most cruell and bloudy 945 Oration of the souldiers to the Emperour 80 Oration of Iohn Hayles to queene Elizabeth at the beginning of her raigne 2115.2116.2117.2118 Oration of Peter de Uineis in the Emperors behalfe 306.307 Oration of M. Acworth Oratour of the Uniuersity of Cambridge at the restitution of Bucer and Paulus Phagius agayne 1964 1965.1966 Oration of K. Henry 8. his Embassadors before the Emperour in defence of the kinges mariage 1074 O S. Oswold a zelous king preached the Gospell to the people 114.121 Oswoldus Archbishop of Yorke a fauourer of Monkery 150 Oswold Martyr his story 1914 Osmond Martyr his story martyrdome 1602 Osborne Martyr his story ibid. Osbright his adultery 140 Oswine trayterously murthered 122 Os Porci the name of a porkish pope 140 O T. Othe of the Bishops of Englande agaynst the Pope 1057 Othe of Henry 4. Emperor to pope Hildebrand 180 Othe betwene the french king and king Richarde at theyr first going to holy land 242.251 Othe of the Clergy to the king 1053 Othes with theyr differences how lawful how not which be against charity which not 1608 Othes of Queene Mary sworne to the Pope and the realme contradictory 1891.1892 Othes how farre tollerable .1118 how farre lawfull 500 Othes of Byshops to the Pope 229.1053 Othe of the french king 362 Otho the firste Emperour of the Germains .149 deposed .264 set vp agayne ibid. Otho Cardinall the Popes Legatt pouleth England is reiected in Scotland 286 Otho Duke of Brunswicke and his wife theyr fidelity to the Emperour 314 Otho Cardinall his actes in England .265.266 kept out of Scotland and pouâ—eth England 286 Otho Byshop of Constance rebuked of the Pope for not displacing maried priestes 175 Otho Cardinall feared in Oxford 267 Oâ—tomannus his life and firste aduauncement 738 O W. Owle defacyng the Pope and hys Councell gathered together at Constance 592 O X. Oxford prouisions 329 Oxford scholers their skirmish amongst themselues 393 Oxford famous for sincere religion 526 Oxford Commissarie his iurisdicon ouer the assise of breade and ale 393 Oxford at variaunce with the vniuersitie of Cambridge 328 Oxford at variance with the towns men Scholers conquered the towne interdicted 393 Oxe gathered a christians body beyng slayne together amongst the Turks 758 O Y. Oyle and creame by whom it was first inuented and brought into the chucch of God 60.1405 P. A. PAcie Martyr his sto and martyrdome 989 Pacience commeÌ„ded 486 Packington the Bishop of Londons Merchaunt 1019 Palmer his story .1934 persecuted and apprehended .1937 his condemnation most glorious martyrdome 1939.1940 Palmes bearyng 1043 Paleologus Emperour of Constantinople excommunicate and why 351 Palestina not holy for Christ hys walkyng there 425 Pamphilius bish of Cesarea martyr 78 Panormitan in the councell of Basill 668.669 Pandolphus the Popes Legate made Bishop of Norwiche .255 his Epistle in commendation of Frederike .2 Emperour 316 Pandolph accursed King Iohn by the commaundement of his maister the Pope 252 Papa in olde tyme a common name to all bishoppes of higher knowledge and learnyng then others were 8.12 Papacy reduced from Fraunce to Rome 418 Papists their wretched ends 2114 Papists neuer afflicted deepely in conscience 20 Papistes vsurpe the name of the church that falsly .1806 haue all one manner of solution of all arguments namely fire fagot 1929.1930 Papists three executed for treason 1201 Papists and Protestants their disputation at Westminster 2120.2121.2122.2123.2124.2125 Papists stronge heretikes 1258 Papists periured 271 Papistes their tottering fayth .22 their erroures touchyng good workes ibid. Papistes in their decrees contrary to themselues 11 Paphnutius his defence of priestes and their mariages in the councell of Nice 1118 Pardons by Pope Boniface the 8. 342 Pardon of Queene Elizabeth to the Garnesey men that murthered the 3. blessed sayntes of God for the Gospell 1945.1946 Pardons of the pope blasphemous
presence in the Sacrament may haue a double sense Equiuocation in the word really How the body of Christ may be sayd to be really and how not really in the Sacrament â— Questions vnder one The Papistes Protestantes in graunting the presence do agreeâ— onely in the maner of being they differ How Christes body is effectuously receaued in the SacrameÌ„t How Christ may be graunted to be really in the SacrameÌ„t and how not What change is in the Sacramentall bread Sacramentall mutation The substaunce of bread and wine in theâ— Sacrament not chaÌ„ged ComparisoÌ„ betweene the Sacrament of the CommunioÌ„ and of Baptisme What difference the Catholicks put betweene the Sacrament of the CoÌ„munion and Baptisme Aunswere to the 3. Article Propitiatory sacrifice of the masse is a derogation to Christes passion Vnbloudy sacrifice Answere to the 4. Article D. Ridley assigned to appeare agayne the next day M Latimer 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 The order of M. Latiâ—â—◠〈◊〉 The oratioÌ„ 〈◊〉 Lincolne 〈◊〉 M. Latimer But this Church 〈◊〉 standing on the truth of Gods word 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 of man How you 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 your owne actes can beare witnes The Popes authoritye 〈…〉 Latimer * Qui tradidâ—runt metioâ—â—naius peccaâ—â—m habent sayth Christ. Perswasions vsed to M. Latimer 〈…〉 to the vnitye of the Popes Church Reasons to perswade the flesh but not 〈◊〉 conâ—cience M. Latimer hath leaue to sit downe Answere of M. Latimer to the B. of Lincolne The vniuersall Church hath not his foundation onely in Rome â—rgâ—ment Christ bad Peter regere gouerne his peâ—ple Ergo the Pope 〈…〉 Rex to reigne 〈◊〉 Kinges and Emperours Regere 〈…〉 to regere 〈◊〉 voluntateÌ„ Deut. 21. Cliâ—ping of Gods Scriptures by the Catholickes The author of this booke was D. Brookes which there was in the commission Brookes B. of Glocester speaketh The Catholicks how vnreasonable they are in their vsing of men The Catholicks alleage the Scriptures but take not all The protestatioÌ„ of M. Latimer 1. Article The body of Christ in the Sacrament receiued by spirite grace M. Latymer agaynst the grosse and carnall being of christ in the Sacrament 2. Article What chaunge is in the bread and wine in the Sacrament not in the nature but in the dignitye of representing Substance of bread wine in the Sacrament vnchanged Difference betweene Christs holy bread the Popes holy bread 3. Article 4. Article â— Article The next 〈…〉 October 1. D. Ridleys appearanâ—e 〈…〉 the 〈◊〉 The words 〈◊〉 M. 〈…〉 to B. 〈…〉 B. Ridley refuseth to put of his cap to the Pope or to them which come froÌ„ the Pope The last examination of Bishop Ridley The wordes of the B. of Lincolne The place of S. Austen again repeated Totus mundus c. Aunswere of D. Ridley to the place of S. Austen as before How the Catholickes vse to alledge the Doctours A place of Cyrillus alledged by Melancthon Scripture bookes burned at Oxford * Argumentum á contrario sensu ex Cyrillo contra â—udaeoâ— * Altars be erected in Christes remembrance in Britayne Ergo Christ is come Altars be now plucked downe in Britayne Ergo Christ iâ— not come Aunswere This argument is not a sensu contrario For erecting of altars in the Antecedent and plucking downe altars in the consequent be not contrary In the Antecedent Cyril meaneth the table or els the celebration of the Lordes Supper in his remembrance In the consequent by plucking downe of altars is ment the taking away of places and monumentes seruing not to the Lordes Supper but to Idolatry whereby the true table of the Lordes Supper in his remeÌ„brance may be erected agayne * B. White blasphemously calleth the bord of the Lordes Supper an Oyster table The articles read agayne to M. Ridley B. Ridley not suffred to reade his owne aunswere Note the extreme dealing of these catholicke men The deputies durst not read out the writing of Bishop Ridley To the 1. article To the 2. Article The words of exhortation of Brookes Bishop of Glocester to M. Ridley B. Ridley vntruely charged with singularity The determination of the Church is only that whereupon our catholicke men do ground theyr fayth A briefe answere of B. Ridley to B. Brokes taâ—le D. Weâ—ton 〈…〉 Sentence of 〈◊〉 â—ead 〈◊〉 D. â—â—â—ley 〈…〉 of M. Latimer before the Commissioners The Bishop of Lincolnes wordes to M. Latimer M. Latimer short with the Commissionerâ— The Catholicke Church and the Romish Church be two thinges Cyprians counsell in truth no deliberation to be taken M. Latimers question to the Bishops Whether is more lyke the sea of Rome which persecuteth or the little flocke which is persecuted to be the â—rue Church c. The cause of the Martyrs of the primitiue tyme and of the Martyrs of the latter tyme aâ—l one The Image of the Church before Christes comming compared with the Church after his comming The Articles agayne propouÌ„ded to Maister Latimer Maister Latimer againe aunswereth with Protestation as before The very body of Christ receaued in the Sacrament by the spirite grace Aunsweres to 2. 3. articles M Latimer will not deny his Maister Christ. Condemnation read agaynst M. Latimer The Papistes false in their promises M. Latimer appealeth to the next generall Councell truly called in the Lordes name but that Councell is long a comming October 15. The talke betweene D. Brookes B. of Glocester and D. Ridley vpon his degradation No mercy to be had without consenting to iniquitye Answere oâ— D. Ridley to Bishop Brookes O worthy champion of Christes Church With that their caps went of but D. Ridley held on his cap. B. Ridley commaunded to silence when otherwise he could not be reuinced B. Ridley refuseth to put on the surples B. Ridley inueyeth agaynst the Bishop of Rome and his foolish apparrell The surples here is called a foolish apparrell Maister Edridge geueth counsell that B. Ridley should be gagged A prayse of Bertrams 〈◊〉 vpon the Sacrament Note the charitye of the Papists B. Ridleys 〈◊〉 put from her house by B. Boner A supplication of B. Ridley to Queene Mary in the behalfe of certayne poore mens leases This Bishop was D. Boner If to succour the widow and fatherles is pure vndefiled religion as Saint Iames sayth Then is Boner and his religion filthy and abominable which doth such wrâ—â—g to the widow and fatherles Notwithstanding these godly and iust â—equeâ—tes no Iustice could be had vntill that now of late some of these shamefull iniuries by order of law haue beâ—ne redressed The life of M. Ridley such as coulâ— not with any notorious crime be charged The wordes of a certayne warden or head of a Colledge D. Ridley biddeth gestes to his mariage Mistres Irish a great Papist before weepeth for D. Ridley B. Ridley careles of his death The order and maner of B. Ridley and M. Latimer going to the stake D. Ridley and M. Latimer brought together to the stake The behauiour of D. Ridley M. Latimer at the
expoundâ— the Scripture yet he dare â—â—dge vpon heresie The Papists dare not assure them selues to haue the holy Ghost The Capernaites faith The place of Iohn cap. 6. expounded how Christes fleshe is meate Christes flesh is flesh in our flesh say the Papistes Christes fleshe is meate for our soule by the Christians In the Sacrament ministred receaued according to Christes institution we receaue Christ. One question solued by an other The Sacrament a witnes both of Christes death and of his comming agayne Christes body occupyeth but one place at once The 6 examination of Elizabeth Young The fleshly reason of the Papistes Name of Sacramentes geuen by the Church Two Sacramentes Wedlocke Priestes mariage Praying for the dead Purgatory Oblation for the dead The holy Communion blasphemed So many Martyrs haue beene slâ—yâ—e and yet the Papistes bragge as though none will come forth to aunswere them Fysher B. of Rochester Nothing to be receaued to saluaâ—ion but onely that which is found or founded in Scripture But we read not that Christ did draw them into priâ—ons and condemned them to be burnt that would not câ—me Elizâ—beth YouÌ„g deemed 〈◊〉 heretick because shee beleeueth all thinges written and agreeable to the Scripture nothing els Elizabeth Young had to the Stockhouse and then to the Lollardes Tower The 7. examination of Elizabeth Young Two Sacramenteâ— Head of the Church Byshop of Rome From the Byshop of Rome and all his detestable enormities Elizabeth Young refuseth to go to Masse Elizabeth Young setteth her hand to her examination The 8. examination of Elizabeth Young The Deane made sute for Elâ—zabeth YouÌ„g Story The beliefe 〈◊〉 the Papâ—â—â—es followeth the multitude True belief dependeth not vpon men but vpon the 〈◊〉 of Gods word Elizabeth Young committed to the Deane The 9 examiâ—ation of â—lizabeth Young Talke betweene the Deane and Elizabeth Young aâ—â—ut receauing the Sacrament Christ 〈◊〉 â—bsent from his Sacramentes Two women suretyes for Elizabeth Young Elizabeth YouÌ„g vpon suretyes deliuered Elizabeth Lawson Confessour Robert Kitrich Tho. Elas persecutours Syr Iohn Sylliarde Shâ—râ—ffe Elizabeth Lawson in prison two yeares and three quarters Elizabeth Lawson sory that shee was not burned Elizabeth Lawson bayled vpon suretyes in Q. Elizabethes tyme. Elizabeth Lawson preserued from persecution ended her lyfe in peace Elizabeth Lawson troubled with the falling sicknes after her persecution neuer felte it more Tho. Christenmas W. Wattes Gods prouidence vpoÌ„ Tho. Châ—istenmas W. Wattes W. Wattes an other tyme deliuered by the Lordes prouidence W. Wattes apprehended and brought before the Byshop An other notable example of the Lordes prouidence W. Wattes deliuered out of his enemyes handes W. Wattes sought for agayne W. Wattes wyfe set in the stockes Gods prouidence in deliuering M. Iohn Glouer Read before pag. 1709. An other narrow escape of M. Iohn Glouer Read before pag. 1714. The escape of a godly man called Dabney Gods 〈◊〉 working in the deliuerance of Dabney Alexander â—imshurst a Minister deliuered by Gods prâ—uidence from his enymies Wymshurst taken by Robin Caly. Wymshurst taâ—â—eth with Doct. Chadsey D. Chadsey asure friend at neede Wymshurst brought to D. Story D. Cooke Commissioners Wimshurst commaunded to prison Good couÌ„seâ—l sent of God A way made by Gods 〈◊〉 to Alexander Wimshurst to escape Bosoms wyfe The behauiour of Bosoms wyfe in the Church Bosoms wyfe summoned to appeare at Kingstone Bosoms wyfe through Gods helpe escapeth The Lady Anne Kneuet Lady Kneuet threatned by the Byshop The great age of the Lady Kneuet Lady Elizabeth Vane a great relieuer of Gods people Iohn Dauis a childe vnder the age of 12. yeares cast to be burned â—or the 6. articles and yet by Gods prouidence preserued 〈…〉 before and to whom he wrote a letter pâ—g 1â—93 Syr Iohn Gilford a troubler of 〈◊〉 Robertes Syr Iohn Gilford stopped of his purpose by Gods working Mistres Anne Lacy. Crosmanâ— wyfe Barbour of Tibnam Constable persecutor Example of Gods gratious prouidence The story of a congregation at Stoke in Suffolke Confessors Cotes Parishe Priest it Stoke Iohn Steyre and Iohn Foxe 〈◊〉 The christian constancye of Elizabeth Foxe The effecte of Christian prayer Iohn Foxe recouered agayne to the truth by prayer The womeÌ„ of Stoke summoned by the Byshop How the women of Stoke escaped The preseruation of the congregation at London The congregation at M. Cardens house The congregation agayne deliuered The congregation agayne deliuered The congregation in a shippe at Billinsgate The congregation in a shippe betwixt Ratcliffe and Redriffe The congregation in a Couperâ— house in Pudding lane The congregation in a house in Thamis streete An other notable example of Gods mercyfull prouidence The Ministers of this congregation A story of Mayster Bentham The Queenes proclamation no man to pray for the Martyrs nor to speake vnto them The congregation embracing the Martyrs contrary to the Proclamation M. Bentham Minister of the congregation Master Bentham speaketh and prayeth for the Martyrs without daunger An other deliuery of Master Bentham out of great perill Master Bentham forced agaynst his will to sit in the Crowners quest Master Bentham refuseth to sweare vpon a Popishe Primer Meanes wrought wherby Master Benthâ—m escaped English men at Calice preserued Iohn Thorpe his wyfe A story of Edward Benet now dwelling in S. Brides Parishe Edward Benet 25. weekes in the Counter for bringing a new Testament to Tynâ—le which after dyed in prison and was buryed on a dounghill D. Storyes wordes to Edward Benet Edward Benet brought to Bonet and examined How Edward Benet escaped out of the Byshops house An other escape of Edward Benet 8. Of the 24. taken at Islington escaped and how good warning sent of God The story 〈◊〉 Ieffrey Hurst dwelling in the towne of Shakerley in the Parish 〈◊〉 Ieffrey Hurst brother to George Marsh the Martyr Ieffrey Hurst leaueth wyfe children house for persecution Preachers vsing to Ieffrey Hurstes house and to Preach M. Thomas Lelond Iustice of peace at Morlese in Lancashire a cruell persecutor Ieffâ—ey Hurst conueyed vnder a Dâ—fat Mistres Sâ—akerlay Hurstes Landlady M. Lelond entreth to search Hurstes house Rafe Parkinson a Popishe persecuting Priest The Papists follow false Prophesies of the Gospell to come againe after 4. Monethes and more The new Testament of Tyndalls translation made heresie Searche made for Hurst and his sister Alice The olde mother threatned to goe to Lancaster Castle Hurstes mother and brother bound in a 100. pound for his forth comming Master Lelonde maker Talke betweene Ieffrey Hurst and the Iustice. Ieffrey Hurst denyeth to come to Masse Examination after Masse Ieffrey Hurst Alice his sister let go vnder suertyes Ieffrey Hurst by the death of Q. Mary released Ieffrey Hurst in Queene Elizabethes tyme put in authoritye to see the proceeding of Religion Thomas Lelond the Popishe Iustice would not come to the Church in Queene Elizabethes tyme yet continued Iustice still A Catholicke father of the Popishe church Note a Catholicke knaue of
William Sentlow committed to the Tower Lady Elizabeth charged with Syr Thomas Wyats conspiracye Lady Elizabeth châ—rged with the 〈◊〉 of Peter Carâ—w Lady Elizabeth threatned to goe to the Tower Lady Elizabeth 〈◊〉 her 〈◊〉 to the Lordes Lady Elizabethes seâ—uâ—untes 〈◊〉 from her The Queenes mâ—n and wayting womâ—n attendant vpon Lady Elizabeth The hard dealing of a certayne Lord with the Lady Elizabeth The Earle of Sussex gentle to the Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth writeth to the Queene but it would not serue Lady Elizabeth sent to the Tower The wordes of Lady Elizabeth entâ—ing the Tower The Christian prayer of Lady Elizabeth The Lord of Sussex speaketh for Lady Elizabeth The Bishop of Winchester â—nemye to Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth 〈◊〉 by the B. of Winchester The friendly speach of the â—aâ—le of Arundell to the Lady Elizabeth Syr Iames Acroft examined touchiâ—g the Lady Elizabeth These were not the offiâ—erâ— of the â—ower but such as went in white greene Lady Elizabeth 〈…〉 the Tower Displeasure betâ—eenâ— the 〈…〉 and Lady Elizabethes men Lady Elizabeâ—hes wayringmen in the Tower Lady Elizabeth â—â—nyed the lâ—bertye 〈◊〉 the Tower Liberty graunted 〈◊〉 Lady Elizabeth to walâ—â— in a little garden Suspicious heades A young childe 〈◊〉 for bringing flowers to the Lady Eâ—izabeth The Conâ—â—â—ble of the Tower discharged of his office Syr Henry Benifield with his company placed about the Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth in great feare and doubt of lyfe Lady Elizabeth in doubt of Syr Henry Benifield Lady Elizabeth remoued from the Tower to Woodstocke Lady Elizabeth â—ecluded froÌ„ her seruâ—untes Lady Elizabeth in diâ—payre of her selfe Lady Elizabethes Vâ—her talketh with the Lord of Tame The gentle haâ—t of the Lord of Tame to Lady Elâ—zabeth Tanquam ouis â— Like a sheepe to the slaughter Lady Elizabeth honourably receaued and beloued of the people The gentle entertaynement of Lady Elizabeth at the Lord of Tames house M. Benefield grudging at the gentle entertaynement of Lady Elizabeth The rude and vngentle manly behauiour of Syr Henry Benifield Lady Elizabeth commeth to Woodstocke The strayte watch kept at woodstocâ—e A mery story concerning the sâ—râ—yte keeping of the Lady Elizabeth The straytenes of Syr Henry Benifield merely noted Lady Elizabeth with much ado suffered to write to the Queene The cruell dealing of Syr Henry Benifield to the Lady Elizabeth reprooued The letters of the Lady Elizabeth sent to the Queene D. Owen and D. Wendye Q. Maryes Phisicions sent to the Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth requested to submit her selfe to the Queene Counsell of the Papistes to mary the Lady Elizabeth to a Spanyard Wicked counsell geuen of the Lord Paget agaynst the Lady Elizabeth Spanyardes more fauorable to Lady Elizabeth then some English men Lady Elizabeth in daunger of fire Lady Elizabeth in daunger of killing An other conspiracye of murder agaynst Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth preserued by the Lordes prouidence from execution in the Tower Winchesters platforme ouerthrowen Whereof read before pag. 1787. Verses written by Lady Elizabeth in the glasse Window Lady Elizabeth not suffered to come to the Lord of Tames house Lady Elizabeth wisheth her selfe to be a milke-mayde Lady Elizabeth 〈◊〉 from Woodstocke to Hampton Courte Lord William Haward gentle and hnourable to Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth requested by Winchester to submit her selfe to the Queenes mercy Lady Elizabeth standeth to be tryed by the lawe Talke agayne betweene Winchester and Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth denyeth to confesse any fault done to the Queene Lady Elizabeth sent for to the Queene Lady Elizabeth brought to the Queenes bed chamber Talke betwene the Queene and Lady Elizabeth Small comforte at the Queeneâ— hand toward her sister King Phillip thought to be a friend to Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth by Gods prouiden◠〈◊〉 at libeâ—â—ye Syr Henry Benifield discharged Mistres Ashley sent to the Fleete â— GentlewomeÌ„ of â—â—dy Elizabâ—the sent to the â—ower 〈…〉 wondâ—rfull working of the 〈◊〉 prouidence 〈…〉 of Lady Elizabeth Lady Elizabeth dâ—liuereâ— by the 〈◊〉 of Stephen Gardiner How the Lord here beganne to worke for Lady Elizabeth A note of a story 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 oâ— the Papistes toward Lady Elizabeth Robert Farrer 〈…〉 to Lady â—lizabeth Robert Farrer 〈◊〉 agaynst Lady Elizabeth The paâ—te of a good trusty seruaunt Robert Farrerâ— complayned of to the CoÌ„missioners but 〈…〉 was â—ad How Bysh. Boner and D. Story beare with him that rayled agaynst Lady Elizabeth Note the vngodly lyfe of these Catholickeâ— Lady Elizabeth proclamed Queene the same day that Quene Mary dyed The Lord make England thankfull to him for his gâ—eat benenâ—es 〈◊〉 17. Q Mary 〈◊〉 Q Elizabeth beginneth her 〈◊〉 The maner of Q. Maryes death Q. Mary 〈◊〉 â—â—ought 〈◊〉 the losse 〈◊〉 Calice More Engâ—â—â—â— bloud 〈◊〉 in Q Maryes 〈◊〉 then 〈◊〉 was in 〈…〉 her The raygne 〈◊〉 Queene â—ary now 〈…〉 it was 〈◊〉 to her râ—â—lme to her 〈◊〉 in al 〈◊〉 Q Mary 〈◊〉 had 〈…〉 any 〈…〉 about Comparison betweene the raigne of Q. Mary and Queene Elizabeth Gamaliels reason Actes 5. Q. Mary prospered so long as she went not against the Lord. Q. Maryes promise to the Gospellers broken The ship called the great Harry burned Q. Maryes maryage with a straunger Q Mary disappoynted of her purpose in Crowning king Phillip Q. Mary stopped of her will in restoring Abbey landes The victory of K. Edward 6. in Scotland The ill lucke of Q. Mary in losing of Calice The 11. king of the Conquest got Calice and the 11. agayne after him lost it The ill lucke of Queene Mary in her childebyrth Q Mary left desolate of king Phillip her husband The ill lucke of Q Mary with her husband The finall ende and death of Q. Mary Q. Mary raygneâ—â— 5. yeares 5. monethes The shortnes of Queene Maryes raigne noted An admonition 〈◊〉 Christian rulers A treatise of Gods seuere punishment aagaynst câ—â—ell pâ—â—secutors and enemyes to his 〈…〉 De 〈◊〉 lib. 13. The death of Stephen Gardiner read before pag 1786. 〈…〉 S. Dauids A note of 〈…〉 Iustice Morgan 〈◊〉 with 〈◊〉 D Dunning 〈◊〉 Chauncelâ—our 〈◊〉 wiâ—â— sodaine â—â—ath The sodayne death of Berrâ—y a CoÌ„missary in Northfolke Gods stroke vpon D. Thornton Byshop or Suffragan of Douer An other 〈…〉 he had 〈◊〉 the Carâ—inallâ— blessâ—â—â—â— The Iudgement of God vpon Grimwood A terrible example of Gods seuere punishment vpon one Nightingall Parson of Crondall in Kent D. Geffrey Chauncellour of Salisbury M. Woodâ—â—â—fe a cruell Sheriffe plagued Read before pag. â—624 The betrayer of George Eagles plagued Gods punishment vpon M. Swingheld and other which bewrayed one Angels wyfe A story of Burton Bayliffe of Crowland how he was plagued for setting vp Masse Burton earnest in seâ—â—ing vp the Masse The stinking death of a Popish Massemonger Of the Martyrdome of Iames Abbes read before pag. 1683. A story to be noted of all rayling persecutours The Shrieffes seruaunt vyly rayling agaynst Iames Abbes. A fearefull example of Gods righteous iudgment against the Sheriffes seruaunt
iudgement of God vpon a burning persecutour Gods fearefull hand vpon Castellanus persecutour Legate Du Prat the first beginner of persecution agaynst the faythfull horribly plagued Iohn Ruse comming from accusing the faythfull was terribly stricken with Gods hand The wicked end of Claude de Asses a wicked persecutour Peter Lyset author of the burning chamber plagued The mighty hand of God vpon Iohn Morin a greeuous persecutor Iohn Andrew Booke bynder plagued The terrible vengeance of God vpoÌ„ Iohn de Roma a terrible persecutor Iohn Minerius a cruell persecutour plagued of God The French king by sundry sortes of troubles warned of God Riches and Pride of the Clergy the fountayne of all euills The purenes of the primatiue church how long it continued and whereby The false Donation of Constantine Exhortation to the king to seise vpon the temporalityeâ— of the Clergye The ryches of the Popes Clergye how they ought to bâ— employed The malicious and lying slaunders of the Papists to bring the true Gospellers in hatred with Princes Constantine confirmed in his kingdome the more by receauing the Gospel Examples of England and Germany how Princes lose no honour by the gospell The Popes religion more noysome to the state of Princes then the doctrine of the Lutherans Wholesome remedy shewed agaynst the Popes pryde A blynde shift of the Papistes to stop Princes from calling generall Councels The contrarietyes in the Popes Councells enough for their disproofe Prophesie agaynst the French king The story and end of Henry 2. the French king that would not be warned What commeth to kinges that refuâ—e good counsell Henry â— French king wholy set to persecute the Church oâ— Christ. Gods mighty power agaynst his enemyes Henry 2. the French king forâ— set agaynst the poore Protestantes Henry 2. the French king in his triumph iusteth agaynst Montgommery Montgommery agaynst his will commaunded to iuste agaynst the king Henry 2. the French king stricken and killed in his owne iusting The deuelishe perswasion of the Cardinall of Loraine at the death of the French king Certayne gentlemen executed at Amboyse for standing against the house of Guyse The Lordes punishment vpon the Chauncellour Oliuier for his sentence geuen agaynst certayne gentlemen Protestantes The death of Fraunces 2. french king after he began to withstande the course of the Gospell How the Lord worketh for his Gospell The wordes of king Fraunces at his death The terrible stroke of Gods reuenge vpon Carol. 9. the French king The death of Charles the Emperour An Epitaphe vpon Charles Emperour Henry .2 French king and Fraunces his sonne The sodaine death of President Minard The punishment of God vpon the king of Nauarre after he had reuolted from the Gospell to Popery The Duke of Guyse slâ—ine before Orleance The Constable before Paris The Marshall of S. Andrew before Dreux The story of one Drayner otherwise called Iustice nine holes A malitious practise to intrappe a good man Drayner conuict of falsehood A lamentable history of Iohn Whiteman snowmaker Iohn Whitman coulde not suffer the abhominable Idolatry of the Papists Iohn Whitman apprehended Iohn WhitmaÌ„ brought â—efore the â—udges Sentence geuen agaynst Iohn Whitman The Martyrdome and death of Iohn Whitman Iohn 16. 3. Argumentes agaynst the Papistes Gods worde Bloud of Martyrs Gods punishment The plagues of God set against pretensed antiquitye Henry .2 the French king and king FrauÌ„ces his sonne stricken the one in the eyes the other with an impostume in the eare Stephen Gardiner Queene Mary Constable of Fraunce King of Nauar. Henry Smith D. Shaxton The end of Gardiner Iohn de Roma Twyford Bayliffe of Crowland Suffragan of Douer D. Dunning D. Geffray Berrye Poacher Archbishop Crescentius Cardinall Rockwood Latomus Guarlacus Eckius Thornton Pattyer Longe Bomelius all professours of Popery Esay 50. Page 199. A secrete note of Papisteâ— which haue beene great cryers out of Priestes maryage and themselues after taken in open adultery Comparison betweene the ende of Popishe persecutours the Gospellers The godly ende of the Gospellers to be noted The blessed end of King Edward .6 The patient end of the Duke of Somerset the kings vncle The quiet and ioyfull end of the Martyrs Two speciall notes of the â—iue Church of Christ. Outward affliction peace of conscience 2. Tim. 3. 1. Cor. 1. The wretched end of Papistes geue testimony agaynst their owne doctrine Admonition to persecutours which yet remayne aliue The end and death of Edmund Boner God maketh the persecutors of his people commonly to be their owne persecutours Saul murderer of himselfe Achitophel murderer of himselfe Iudas murderer of himselfe Senacherib murdered of his owne sonnes Herode and Antiochus murdered by lyce Pilate murderer of himselfe Nero murderer of himselfe Dioclesianus and Maximinianus Emperours deposed them selues Maximinus eaten vp with lyce Maxentius and king Pharao both drowned in their owne harnesse Achaz Achab. Iesabell Manasses Ioachim Sedechias punished of God for theâ—r persecutions The murdering mother church with her bloudy children admonished Esay 1. Esay 1. What the lawes of this Realme could say agaynst the persecutours in Queene Maâ—les tyme. The nature of the Church is not to persecute with bloud In that the persecutours of the Church be suffered of the Church to liue it is to their confusion Syr Henry Bonifield forgiuen Nouember 18. Doctor Weston Great benefites and treasures do nothing profit where the vse of them cannot be inioyed Felicitye not in hauing but in vsing Wicked practises of most cruell Tyrantes Cruelty of late dayes farre exceeding al crueltyes committed by the auncyent and famous tyrauntes in tyme past Tyrantes euill gouernours be the plague of God God worketh all thinges to his owne glory Affliction tryeth men whether they be good or euill God plenteously poureth his benefites vpon vs not for our sakes but of his infinite mercy and for his gloryes sake Wonderfull is the mercy of God in deliuering this Realme from the tyranny of the Papistes The Papistes buildings stand so long onely as they be propt vp with rope sword fagot Burgesses vnlawfully disorderly and violently thrust out of the Parliament house in Queene Maryes dayes The third Parliament in Quueene Maryes dayes not orderly and formally called and therefore of none effecte A ioyfull day God preserueth the innocent maketh frustrate the malicious purposes of the wicked An apt similitude Three thinges which preserue the good estate of a Realme or câ—mmon wealth Charges not to be weyed where Gods glory is to be furthered The 1. proposition Two partes of the proposition The first part of the proposition The Argument or probation The Maior proued An other argument oâ— probation An other argument The fourth argument or probation Ambros. Per hos enim impletur confirmatio precis qui respondent Amen The fyfte argument The sixte argument Obiection dissolued The 7. reason The 8. reason The 9. reason The 10. reason The 11. reason or probation The 12. reasâ—n or probation The second part of the