euill disposed persons being borne out of her highnes dominions in other sondry nations flyeng from the obeysaunce of the Princes and Rulers vnder whome they be borne some for heresie some for murther treason robbery and some for other horrible crimes be resorted into this her maiesties Realme and heere haue made theyr demour and yet be commoraunt and lingring partly to eschew such conding punishment as their said horrible crimes deserue and partly to dilate plant and sowe the seedes of their malicious doctrine and lewd conuersation among the good subiectes of this her said Realme of purpose to infect her good subiectes with the like in so much as besides innumerable heresies which diuers of the same beeing heretickes haue preached and taught within her highnes sayd Realme it is assuredly knowne vnto her Maiesty Causes layd agaynst straungers that not only their secret practises haue not fayled to stirre comfort and ayde dyuers her highnes subiectes to this most vnnaturall rebellion against God and her grace but also some other of them desist not still to practise with her people eftsoones to rebell her Maiestie therefore hauing as afore is sayd knowledge and intelligence heereof hath for remedie heerein determined and most straightly chargeth and commaundeth that all and euery such person or persons borne out of her highnes dominions now commoraunt or resident within this Realme of whatsoeuer Nation or Countrey beeing eyther Preacher Printer Bookeseller or other Artificer or of whatsoeuer calling else not being Denizen or Marchant knowne vsing the trade of Marchaundize or seruaunt to such Ambassadours as be liegers heere from the Princes and states ioyned in league with her grace shall within 24. dayes after this Proclamation auoyde the Realme vpon payne of most greeuous punishment by enprisonment and forfayture and confiscation of all their goodes and moueables and also to be delyuered vnto their natuâ—all Princes or Rulers agaynst whose persons or lawes they haue offended Geuing to all Mayors Sheriffes Bayliffes Constables and all other her ministers officers and good subiectes straightly also in charge if they knowe any such person not borne in the Queenes highnes dominion◠〈◊〉 before excepted that shall after the time and day limitted in â—his Proclamation tarry within thys Realme that they shall apprehende the same person or persons and commit him or them to 〈◊〉 there to remayne without bayle or mayneprise till her graces pleasure or her Counsayles be signifyed vnto them for the further ordering of the sayde person or persons And that if any of her sayde officers after the sayd 24. dayes apprehend take or knowe of any such they shall with diligence immediatly certifie her sayd Counsell thereof to the intent order may forthwith be geueÌ„ for their punishmeÌ„t according In the meane while vpoÌ„ the Proclamation before mencioned not only y e strangers in K. Edwards time receiued into the Realme for Religion Pet. Martir and Iohannes Alasco banished the realme amoÌ„g whoÌ„ was Pet. Martir Iohn Alasco vncle to the King of Poleland but many Englishmen fled some to Freeseland some to Cleueland some to high Germany where they were diuersly scattered into diuers companies congregations at Wesell at Frankford Emden Markpurgh Strausborough Basill Arow Zurich Geneua and other places where by the prouidence of God they were al susteined and there entertained with greater fauour among strangers abroad Englishmen fled out of the realm for religion The number of English exiles well neare 800. persons March 15. Lady Elizabeth and Lord Courtney vpon suspicion of Syr Thom. Wyats rising committed to the Tower then they could be in their owne countrey at home welneare to the number of 800. persons Students other together In the saide moneth of March the Lorde Courtney Earle of Deuonshire whome the Queene at her first entring deliuered out of the Tower and Lady Elizabeth also the Queenes Sister were both in suspection to haue consented to Wiats conspiracie and for the same this March were apprehended and committed to the Tower Touching the imprisonment of which Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney thou shalt note heere for thy learning good Reader a politicke point of practise in Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Wint. not vnworthy to be considered This Gardiner being alwayes a capitall enemie to the Lady Elizabeth and thinking â—owe by the occasion of maister Wyate to picke out some matter against the Lorde Courtney and so in the end to entangle the Lady Elizabeth deuised a pestilent practise of conueyance as in the story heere following may appeare The story is this The same day that Sir Tho. Wyate died A poynt 〈◊〉 practise 〈◊〉 Ste. Garâ—â—â—ner agaynâ—â— the Lady â—â—lizabeth he desired the Lieutenant to bring him to the presence of the Lord Courtney Who there before the Lieutenaunte and the Sheriffes kneeling downe vpon his knees besought the Lorde Courtney to forgeue him for that he had falsly accused both the Lady Elizabeth and him and so being brought from thence vnto the scaffold to suffer there openly in the hearing of all the people cleared the Lady Elizabeth and the Lorde Courtney to be free and innocente from all suspition of that commotion At which confession D. Westoâ— against 〈◊〉 Lady Eliâ—â—â—beth Doctor Weston there standing by cryed to the people saying Beleeue him not good people for he confessed otherwise before vnto the Counsell After the execution done of Sir Thomas Wyat which was the 11. day of Aprill word was brought immediately to the Lord Maior Sir Thomas White a little before dinner The Lorâ— Mayors iudgemeâ—â— of D. Weâ—ston how maister Wyate had cleared the Lady Elizabeth and Lorde Courtney and the wordes also which Doctor Weston spake vnto the people wherunto the Lord Maior aunswering Is this true quoth he said Weston so In sooth I neuer tooke him otherwise but for a knaue Upon this the Lord Maior sitting downe to dinner who dyned the same day at the Bridgehouse commeth in Sir Martin Bowes with the Recorder newly come from the Parliament house who hearing of the Maior and Sheriffes this report of Wiats confession both vpon the Scaffold and also in the Tower marueiled thereat declaring how there was another tale contrary to this told the same day in the Parliament house which was that Sir Thomas Wyate should desire the Lord Courtney to confesse the truth so as he had done before Upon this it followed not loÌ„g after that a certaine prentice dwelling in S. Laurence lane named Cut as he was drinking with one DenhaÌ„ a plasterer being one of Quene Maries seruaunts amongst other talke made mentioÌ„ how Sir Thomas Wyate had cleared the Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney to be no coÌ„senters to his rising Which wordes being brought to Gardiner by what meanes I know not incoÌ„tinent vpon the same Cut preâ—â—tise in Lâ—â—â—doÌ„ brouâ—â—â— before 〈◊〉 Gardineâ— Syr Andrew Iudde was sent by the sayd Bishop to y e Lord Maior commaunding him to bring the said prentise
to the Star Chamber which was accused of these words that he should say that Wyat was constrained by the Counsell to accuse the Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney Which fellow when he was come to the starre Chamber the aforesaid Gardiner letting passe other matters that were in hand began to declare to the whole multitude how myraculously almighty God had brought the Queenes Maiesty to the Crowne y e whole Realme in a maner being against her that he had brought this to passe for this singular intent and purpose Ste. Gardâ—â—ners tale 〈◊〉 the starrâ— chamber â—â—gaynst thâ— Lady Eliâ—â—â—beth that this Realme being ouerwhelmed with heresies shee might reduce againe the same vnto the true Catholicke faith And where she tooke the Lady Elizabeth into her fauour and loued her so tenderly and also the Lord Courtney who of long time had bene deteined in prison and by her was set at libertie and receiued great benefites at her hands and notwithstanding all this they had conspired most vnnaturally and traiterously against her with that haynous Traytour Wiate and by the confession of Wyate sayde he and the letters sent to and fro may playnely appeare Yet there was some in the City of London whiche reported that Wyat was constrained by the Counsell to accuse the Lady Elizabeth and the L. Courtney yet you my L. Maior quoth he haue not seene the same punished The party is heere sayd the Lord Maior Take hym with you said Gardiner and punish him according to his desert said further My Lord take heede to your charge the Citie of London is a whirlepoole and sincke of all euill rumours there they be bread and from thence spread into all partes of this Realme There stood by the same time the Lord Shandoys The Lorâ— Shandoyâ— false repoâ—â— in the 〈◊〉 chamber â—â—gaynst Laâ—â— Elizabeth and Lord Courtneâ— who being then Lieutenaunt of the Tower and now hearing the Byshop thus speake to sooth his tale came in wyth these words as followeth My Lordes quoth he this is a trueth that I shall tell you I being Lieutenant of the Tower when Wiat suffred he desired me to bring him to the Lorde Courtney whych when I had done he fell down vpon his knees before him in my presence and desired him to confesse the truth of hym selfe as he had done before and to submit himselfe vnto the Queenes Maiesties mercy And thus much I thought of this matter to declare to the entent that the Reader perceiuing the proceedings of the bishop in the premisses and comparing the same with the true testimony of Wyat himselfe with the testimony oâ— the Sheriffes whiche were present the same time when Syr Thomas Wiat asked the Lord Courtney forgeuenes may the better iudge of the whole case and matter for the whiche the Lady Elizabeth and the Lord Courtney were so long in trouble Of which her Graces trouble hereafter God willing more shall be said in the story of her life In the meane time to let this matter stay let vs now passe further in our history NOt longe after this Queene Mary partly fearing the Londiners by occasion of Wiats coÌ„spiracy partly perceiuing most part of the City for religions sake not greatly to fauour her proceedings to theyr displeasure and hinderaunce sommoned a Parliament to be holdeÌ„ at Oxford as it were to gratify that Citty where both the Uniuersity Towne and Country had shewed themselues very obedient and forward especially in restoring popish religion For this purpose great prouision was made as wel by the Queenes officers and by the townes men and inhabitantes of Oxford and the Country about But the Queenes minde in short space chaunged and the same Parliament was holden at Westminster in aprill folowing Then the Queene beside other thinges proposed concerning her mariage to king Philip and restoring of the Popes supremacy As touching her maryage it was agreed vpon but the other request could not as then be obteyned The same time when this ParliameÌ„t was sommoned she also sommoned a conuocation of bishops of the Clergy writing vnto Boner whom she had made UicegereÌ„t in the stead of Cranmer being in the Tower after y e tenor and forme of a new stile differing from the olde stile of K. Henry and K. Edward as foloweth * The stile of Q. Mary altered writing to Boner for the summoning of a Conuocation MAria Dei gratia Angliae Franciae Hiberniae Regina fidei defensor Reuerendo in Christo patri Edmondo London Epis. Salutem Licet nuper quibusdam arduis vrgentibus negotijs nos securitatem defensionem Ecclesiae Anglicanae ac pacem tranquilitatem c. Where note good Reader concerning the altering and chaunging the Queenes stile the latter part thereof to bee left out of her title which is Ecclesiae Anglicanae Hiberniae supremum caput because in this present Parliament the supremacy being geuen away from the crowne of Englande to the Pope therupon this parcell of the title was also taken away Likewise the sayd Boner geuing his certificate vpon the same leaueth out autoritate illustrissimae c. legitime suffultus which parcel also in the same Parliament was repriued and taken away the same time ¶ The dignity of Priestes extolled by Byshop Boner IN this foresayd conuocation Bonor B. of LondoÌ„ being Uicegerent and President as is said made a certayne exhortation or oration to the Clergy whether it was in this conuocatioÌ„ or much about the sayd time wherin he semeth to shew a great piece of his profound and deep learning in setting forth the most incomparable superangelical order of Priesthood 〈◊〉 speaâ—â—â—h for the â—â—nour of â—riesthood as may appeare by this parcell or fragment of his foresayd Oration Being collected and gathered by some that stoode by whiche as it came to our handes so I thought to impart it to the Reader both for that the Author of so worthy a worke should not passe vnknown and partly also for that y e estimatioÌ„ of this blessed order should losâ— nothing of his preeminence but might be knowne in most ample perfection so as it standeth aboue Angels and kinges if it be true that Boner sayth ¶ A piece or fragment of the exhortation made by Boner Bishop of London to them of the Conuocation house copyed out by them that stood by and heard him Boners Oration in prayse of Priesthood WHerefore it is to be knowne that Priestes Elders be worthy of all meÌ„ to be worshipped for the dignity sake which they haue of God as in Mat. 16. Whatsoeuer ye shall lose vpon earth c. And whatsoeuer you shall binde c. For a priest by some meanes is like Mary the Uirgin and is shewed by three poyntes As the blessed Uirgine by fiue wordes did conceiue Christ as it is sayd Luke 1. Fiat mihi secundum verbuÌ„ tuum that is to say Be it vnto me according to thy
of Ciprian Panis iste non effigie sed natura mutatus c. I asked of him how natura was taken in the Conuocation house in the disputation vpon the place of Theodoret. To be short Doctour Bourne came often vnto me and I alwayes sayde vnto him that I was not minded nor able to dispute in matters of Religiō but I beleued as the holy Catholick Church of Christ grounded vpon the Prophetes and Apostles doth beleue and namely in the matter of the Sacrament as the holy fathers Cyprian and Augustine do write and beleued and this aunswere and none other they had of me in effecte what wordes soeuer haue bene spread abroad of me that I should be conformable to all thinges c. The trueth is M. Mantell cōstant in his religion I neither heard Masse nor receaued the sacrament during the time of my imprisonment One time he willed me to be confessed I sayd I am content We kneeled downe to pray together in a windowe I beganne without Benedicite desiring him not to looke at my hand for any superstitious particular enumeration of my sinnes Therewith he was called away to the Coūcell ego liberatus Thus muche I beare onely for my life as God knoweth If in this I haue offended any Christian from the bottome of my hart I aske them forgeuenes I trust God hath forgeuen me who knoweth that I durst neuer deny him before men least he shoulde deny me before his heauenly father Thus haue I left behinde me written with myne own hand the effect of all the talke especially of the worst that euer I graunted vnto to the vttermost I can remember as God knoweth all the whole communication I haue not written for it were both to long and to foolish so to doe Now I beseche the liuing God which hath receiued me to his mercy and brought to passe that I dye steadfast and vndefiled in his trueth at vtter defiaunce and detestation of all Papisticall and Antichristian doctrine I beseech him I say to keepe and defend al his chosen for his names sake from the tyranny of the Byshop of Rome that Antichrist Anno. 1554. Aprill and from the assault of all his satellites Gods indignation is knowne he will trie and proue who be his Amend your liues Deny not Christ before men least he deny you before his heauenly father Feare not to lose your liues for him for yee shall fynde them agayne God hold his mercifull hand ouer thys Realme and auert the plagues imminent from the same God saue the Queene and send her knowledge in his truth Amen pray pray pray ye Christians and comfort your selues with the Scriptures Written the 2. of March an 1554. by me Walter Mantell prisoner whom both God and the world hath forgeuen his offences Amen And thus much concerning the purgation of Mayster Walter Mantell who if he had cōsented vnto the Queene what time she sent Doctour Bourne vnto him to deny his fayth it is not otherwise to be thought but he had had his pardon and escaped with life Upon the Saterday being the iij. of March sir Gawen Carew March 3. Sir Gawen Carew and M. Gibbes brought to the Tower March 7. and maister Gibbes were brought through London to the Tower with a company of horsemen In Lōdon the vij day of March euery housholder was commaunded to appeare before the Alderman of their ward and there were commaunded that they their wiues and seruaunts should prepare themselues to shrift and receiue the Sacrament at Easter and that neither they nor any of them should depart out of the Citie vntill Easter was past March 18. Lady Elizabeth brought to the Tower March 24. Upon the Sonday following being the xviij daye of March the Lady Elizabeth of whom mention was made before the Queenes Sister was brought to the Tower Upon Easter euen being the xxiiij of March the Lorde Marques of Northampton the Lord Cobham and Sir William Cobham were deliuered out of the Tower The xxv day being Easter day in the morning at S. Pancrase in Cheape the Crucifixe with the Pixe were taken out of the Sepulchre March 25. The Pixe risen out of the Sepulchre from all the watchmē at S. Pancrase Church before the Priest rose to the resurrection so that when after his accustomed maner he put his hande into the Sepulchre and sayde very deuoutely Surrexit non est hic he found his words true for he was not there in deede Whereupon being halfe dismayed they consulted amongst themselues whom they thought to be likeliest to do this thing In which debatement they remembred one Marsh which a little before had bene put from that personage because he was married to whose charge they layde it M. Marsh burthened with suspicion and with his mariage But when they coulde not proue it beeing brought before the Maior they then burdened him to haue kept company with his wife since that they were by commaundement diuorsed Whereto he aunswered that hee thought the Queene had done him wrong to take from him both his liuing and his wife which words were then noted and taken very greeuously and he and his wife were both committed to seuerall Counters notwithstanding that he had bene very sicke The viij of Aprill there was a Cat hanged vpon a gallowes at the Crosse in Cheape Aprill 8. A Cat hanged with a shauen crowne vpon the gallowes in Chepeside apparelled like a Priest ready to say Masse with a shauen crowne Her two forefeete were tyed ouer her head with a rounde paper lyke a wafer cake put betweene them whereon arose great euil will against the Citie of London For the Queene and the Byshops were very angry withall and therefore the same after noone there was a Proclamation that who soeuer could bring foorth the partie that did hang vp the Cat should haue xx nobles which reward was afterwardes increased to xx markes but none could or would earne it As touching the first occasion of setting vp this Gallowes in Cheapeside The number and occasion of gallowes set vp in the Citty of London heere is to be vnderstand that after the Sermon of the Byshop of Winchester aboue mentioned made before the Queene for the straite execution of Wyats souldiours immediately vppon the same the xiij of February were set vp a great number of Gallowes in diuers places of the Citie namely two in Chepeside one at Leaden hall one at Billynges gate one at S. Magnus Church one in Smithfield one in Fleetestreete foure in Southwarke one at Allgate one at Byshops gate one at Aldersgate one at Newgate one at Ludgate one at Saint Iames parcke corner one at Cripplegate all which Gibbets gallowes to y e number of xx there remained for terrour of other frō the xiij of February till the iiij of Iune then at the cōming in of King Philip were taken downe The xj day of Aprill was Syr Thomas Wyat beheaded and quartered at the
iudgemeÌ„t vnto the godly and discrete reader Not forgetting yet by the way if that the report shoulde be true vpon so iust an occasion to charge that catholique clergy their wicked lawes with a more shameles tirannie vncharitable cruelty theÌ„ before For if they nothing stay theyr bloudy malice towards such as so willingly submit themselues vnto their mercies what fauour may the faithfull and constant professours of Christ looke for at their haÌ„ds I might here also aske of them how they folow the pitiful and louing admonitioÌ„ or rather precept of our Sauiour Christ whose true and only Church they so stoutly bragge to be who in the 17. chapt of S. Luke sayth Though thy brother sinne against thee seuen times in a day No mercy in the popes Church and seuen times in a day turne to thee saieng It repenteth me thou shalt forgiue him But what go I about to allure them vnto the folowing of the rule and counsaile of him vnto whose worde and Gospell they seeme most open and vtter enemies Wherefore not purposing to stay any longer thereupon I will leaue theÌ„ vnto the righteous reuengemeÌ„t of the Lord whereunto let vs now heere adioine the story of one Iohn Browne a good Martir of the Lord burnt at Ashford about this fourth yeare of King Henry the eight whose story heereunder foloweth ¶ Iohn Browne father to Richard Browne which Richard was in prison in Canterbury and should haue bene burned with two more besides himselfe the next day after the death of Queene Mary but by the proclaiming of Queene Elizabeth they escaped Ioh. Brown burned in Asheforde about the 4. yeare of king Henry 8. THe occasion of the first trouble of this Iohn Browne was by a priest sitting in Grauesend barge I. Brown being y e same time in the barge came sate hard by hym wherupon after certain coÌ„municatioÌ„ the Priest asked him doest thou know said he who I am thou sitst too neere me thou sitst on my clothes No sir said he I know not what you are I tell thee I am a Priest What sir are yee a Person or Uicar or a Ladies Chaplen No quoth he againe I am a soule priest I sing for a soule saith he Do ye so sir quoth the other that is well done I pray you sir quoth he where find you y e soule when you go to Masse I can not tel thee said the Priest I pray you where do you leaue it sir wheÌ„ the Masse is done I can not tell thee sayde the Priest Neither can you tell where you finde it when you go to Masse nor where you leaue it when the Masse is done how can you then haue the soule said he Go thy waies said y e Priest thou art an heretike and I will be euen with thee So at the landing the Priest taking w t hym Water More and William More two Gentlemen breethren rode straightwaies to the Archb. Warham wheruppon the said Iohn Browne within three daies after his wife being churched the same day Chilten of wey a Baily arrant and one Beare of Wilselborough with 2. of the Byshops seruantes set him vpon the horse and so carried him away he bringing in a messe of pottage to the boord to his guests was sent for and hys feete bound vnder his own horse so brought vp to Cant. neither his wife nor he nor any of his knowing whether he went nor whether he should And there continuing froÌ„ Lowsonday to y e friday before Whitsonday not knowing to his wife all this while where he was He was set in the stockes ouer night and on the morrow went to death and was burned at Ashford an 1517. The same night as he was in the stocks at Ashford where he his wâ—â—e dwelt his wife then hearing of him came sate by him al y e night before he should be burned to whom he declaring y e whole story how he was handled shewed told how y t he coulde not set his feete to the ground for they were burned to the bones and told her how by the two Bishops Warham Fisher his feet were heat vpon the whote coales burnt to the bones to make me said he to deny my Lord which I will neuer do for if I should deny my Lord in this world he would hereafter denie me I pray thee said he therefore good Elizabeth continue as thou hast begon and bring vp thy childreÌ„ vertuously in the feare of God so y e next day on Whitsonday eueÌ„ this godly Martir was burned StaÌ„ding at y e stake this praier he made holding vp his hands O Lord I yeeld me to thy grace Graunt me mercy for my trespasse Let neuer the feend my soule chase Lord I will bow and thou shalt beate Let neuer my soule come in hell heate Into thy hands I commend my spirit thou hast redeemed me O Lord of truth and so he ended Ex testimonio Aliciae Browne eius filiae cuius mariti nomen dicebatur strat in paâ—rochia S. Pulchri At the fire the said Chilten the Bayly Arrant bade cast in his children also for they would spring sayd he of hys ashes This blessed Martyr Iohn Browne had borne a fagot seauen yeares before in the daies of King Henry the 7. As it is the propertie of SathaÌ„ euer to malice the prosperous estate of the Saintes of God true professours of Christ so ceasseth he not continually to styrre vp his wicked meÌ„bers to the effectuall accomplishyng of that which his enuious nature so greedily desireth if not alwayes openly by colour of tyrannicall lawes yet at the leastwise by some subtill practise of secret murther Which thing doth most playnly appeare not onely in a great number of the blessed Martyrs of Christes Churche mentioned in this booke but also and especially in the discourse of this lameÌ„table history that now I haue in hand concernyng the secrete cruell murderyng of Richard Hunne whose story here consequently ensueth decerped and collected partly out of the Registers of London partly out of a Bill exhibited and denounced in the Parliament house ¶ The story of Richard Hunne THere was in the yeare of our Lord. Richard Hunne martir 1514. one Richard Hunne marchauÌ„t Taylour dwelling within the Citie of London freeman of the same who was esteemed during his lyfe worthely reputed and taken not onely for a man of true dealyng and good substaunce but also for a good Catholicke maÌ„ This Richard Hunne had a child at nourse in Middlesex in the Parish of S. Mary Matsilon which dyed Anno. 1514. by the occasion wherof one Thomas Drifield Clerke beyng Parson of the sayd Parish sued y e sayd Richard Hunne in the spirituall Court for a bearyng sheete which the sayd Thom. Drifield claymed vniustly to haue of the sayd Hunne for a mortuary for SteueÌ„ Hunne sonne of the sayd Richard Hunne which SteueÌ„ beyng at nourse in the sayd Parish dyed being of
be not mine Ex Edu Halle in vit Henr. 8. anno 6. but the words of Ed. Hall his owne author Wherfore if his disposition be so set that he must needs be a censor of other mens writinges let him expostulate wyth Hall and not with me But I trouble the reader too much in this matter of Richard Hunne being of it selfe so cleare that no indifferent iudge can doubt therof As for wranglers and quarrellers they will neuer be satisfied Wherefore to returne agayn to the purpose of our story intermitted in the table aboue cōteining the names of them whiche about this time of Richard Hunne Anno. 1517. Elizabeth Stamford were forced to deny and abiure their professed opinions pag. 774. mention was made of Elizabeth Stamford Iohn Houshold and other mo abiuring about the yeare of our Lord. 1517. Whose vexation and weaknesse although it be pitifull to behold yet to consider the confession of theyr doctrine in those aūcient dayes it is not vnprofitable Wherein we haue to see the same fourme of knowledge and doctrine then taught and planted in the harts of our foreelders The teaching of the former times to be considered which is now publiquely receiued as well touching the Lordes Sacrament of his body as also other specialties of sincerity And although they lacked thē publique authority to maynteyne the open preaching and teaching of the Gospell which the Lords merciful grace hath geuē vs now yet in secret knowledge and vnderstanding they seemed then little or nothing inferiour to these our times of publicke reformation as may appeare by this cōfession of Elizabeth Stamford here vnder written whiche only may suffice for exāple to vnderstand what ripe knowledge of Gods worde was then abroade Thomas Beele although not in churches publickely preached for daunger of the bishops yet in secret wise taught and receiued of diuers In number of whom was this Elizabeth Stamford who being brought and examined before Fitziames Bishop of London ann 1517 confessed that she was taught by one Thomas Beele sometime dwelling at Henley these wordes 11. yeares before That Christ feedeth and fast nourisheth his Church with his owne precious body that is the breade of life comming downe from heauen this is the worthy worde that is worthely receiued and ioyned vnto man for to be in one body with him Soth it is that they be both one they may not be parted this is the wisely deeminge of the holy Sacrament Christes owne body this is not receiued by chewing of teeth but by hearing of eares and vnderstanding with your soule and wisely working thereafter Therefore saith S. Paule I feare me amongest vs brethren that many of vs be feeble and sicke therefore I counsell vs brethren to rise watch that the great day of dome come not sodēly vpon vs as the theefe doth vpon the Marchaunt Also the sayd Thomas taught and shewed her that the Sacrament of the aultar was not the very body of Christ but very bread and that the Sacrament was the very bodye of Christ put vppon the Crosse after a diuine or mistical maner And moreouer that y e said Thomas Beele did many times and ofte teache her thys foresayd lesson that she should confesse her sinnes to God and that the Popes pardons and indulgence were nought worth and profited not and that worshipping of Images and pilgrimages are not to be done To this Elizabeth Stamford may also be annexed the doctrine and confession of Ioane Sampson Ioanne Sampson wife of Iohn Sampson Carpenter of Aldermanbury in London Against whom being cited and examined before the Bishop of London certaine witnesses were producted who vpon theyr othe being sworne did detect and denounce the sayde Ioane Sampson in these articles and opinions folowing 1. First that she being in her labour what time Ioane Sampson her predecessor then being aliue was with her Articles of Ioanne Sampson and after the maner then of women called much vpon the helpe of the virgin Mary she spitting thereat was in such sort agreeued that the other party was compelled to forsake the house 2. Also that she spake against pilgrimage and the worshipping of the blessed virgine and of all saints affirming that there is none holy but one 3. Item an other time in the hearing of one Margaret Anworth when shee and other women were inuocating the blessed Uirgine to helpe in womens labour shee stoode agaynst them and contumeliously spake agaynst the inuocators 4. Item that shee speaking agaynst the Pilgrimage of our Lady of Wilsedon as she was then called and of S. Sauiour at Barmsey called the sayd Saynt Sauiour S. Sawyer 5. Item for hauing two certayne bookes in Englishe one bigger and an other lesser whiche shee committed to one Iohn Austed a Cooke which bookes in the Register be not named 6 Item that the sayde Ioane Sampson at a Supper in the hearing of certayne men Against the Sacraments of the altar and of a certayne widdow named Ioane White spake openly in contempt of the Sacrament of the aultar saying that the Priestes were Idolaters which did lift vp the breade ouer theyr heades making the people to worship it making the people to beleue that it was the Lords body and that it was better to eat the aultar cloth if it might be eaten and digested as easily as the other Here followeth moreouer the names of diuers other which in the Registers be specified to abiure as William Iacum Carpēter Iohn Stradlyng Iohn Newman Sherman Robert Boshel Tho. Edward Dyar Richard Dewar Rich. Appulby Iohn Osborne Robert Roger. Iohn Eton. Iohn Chapman William Chakon Richard Myldnale Iohn Hatchot Iacob Sturdey Tho. Puruall Taylor Iohn Bytam Rob. Hutton Pynner Robert Pope Iohn Geeste of Stratford The names of diuers persons abiured Iohn Bryan of the Parish of S. Steuen Iohn Bol. Richard Wescotte William Crosse. George Lawnd Prior of S. Sithe Henry Colle William Manne William Sweting Iacob Bruster Sabine Manne Iohn Spencer Patricke Dowdal alias Capper Robert Aleyn Iohn Finch Cooke Iohn Southwyke Agaynst this Iohn Southwike last named was layde obiected Iohn Southwike that whē one Riuelay cōming frō the church of the Gray friers in London had sayde to his wife asking where he had bene that he had heard Masse had sene his Lord God in forme of bread wine ouer y e priests head c. the foresayd Iohn Southwike there present aunswered agayn sayd nay William thou sawest not thy Lord God thou sawest but bread wine the Chalice And when the sayd William answered agayn in y e same words as before saying I trust verily that I saw my Lord God in forme of bread wine this I doubt not the other replying again answered sayd as before nay I tel thee thou sawest but onely a figure or sacramēt of him y t which is in substance bread and wine c. This was in the yere of our Lord. 1520 In which he
auoyd their danger yet he ceased not to put himself in his enemies hands so was led prisoner As he was in prison many of the faythful came to comfort him but rather he was able to coÌ„fort not onely them which came to comfort him but also the other which were there prisoners with hym The Priests left no diligence vnsought to stirre vppe the Lieuetenaunt which was of himselfe to much inflamed in such matters Arondeau after many interrogations threatning wordes and also fayre promises of his pardon still continued one man Then the Lieuetenaunt seing his constancy condeÌ„ned him to death Arondeau praysing God for his grace geuen Peter Arondeau condemned did not a litle reioyce y t he might suffer in that quarrell in token of reioysing did sing a Psalme being fully resolued to accept y t said condemnation w tout any appeale But his frendes not pleased with his resolution came to him so perswaded with hym not to geue his lyfe so good cheape ouer to his enemies handes that hee was turned from that made his appeale The appeale beyng entred y e Lieuetenaunt seeking to gratifie the aduersaries of y e gospell and especially y e Cardinall of Lorraine secretly Peter Arondeau appealeth by y t backside of the town out of the high way conueyed y e poore prisoner vnto Paris Who being brought vnto Paris by priuy iournies as is sayd was put into prison committed to y e custody of two Presidentes to witte Magistri S. Andre By the meanes of whom the sentence of the Lieuetenant was confirmed also put in execution the 15. day of Nouember in they yeare abouesayd on the which day the sayd Arondeau was burned quick at y e place called S. Iohn in Greue at Paris The constancy heroicall which God gaue hym wherin he indureed victorious vnto death was a mirrour or glasse of pacieÌ„ce to M. Anne du Bourge Counceller in the Parliament of Paris to diuers other then prisoners was to them a preparation toward y e like death which shortly after they suffred Not long after the happy end of this blessed maâ—tyr the forenamed Monroy whiche was the principall accuser party agaynst him was stroken with a disease called * Apoplexia is a sicknes engendered in the brain by aboundance of grosse humors which depriue them that haue it of speach feeling and mouing Most commonly it assaile 〈◊〉 gluttons drunkards and suifetters Apoplexia and thereupon sodeinly dyed By this and many other such like examples the mighty iudgement of God most euidently may appeare who albeit commoÌ„ly he doth vse to begin hys iudgement with his owne houshold in this worlde yet neither doth hys aduersaries alwayes escape theÌ„ selues the terrible hand of his iustice Gods iust vengeaunce vpoÌ„ the Lieuetenaunt a persecutor Also the Liuetenaunt which was his condemner taryed not long after the priest but he was arested personally to appeare before the kinges counsaile through the procurement of a certaine Gentleman of Polonie called Anthony de Leglise agaynst whome the sayd Lieuetenaunt had geuen false and wrong iudgement before By reason whereof the foresayd Gentleman so instantly did pursue hym before the Lordes of the counsaile that all the extorsions polinges of the Lieuetenant were there openly discouered and so he condemned to pay to the gentleman a thousand French crownes of the sunne Note w tin xiiii dayes vpon payne of double as muche Also he was deposed of his office and there declared vnworthy to exercise any roial office hereafter for euer with infamy and shame perpetuall Ex Crisp. Lib. 6. pag. 907. A priest of Valencienes Thomas Moutarde At Valenciennes Ann. 1559. In the towne of Ualenciennes not far froÌ„ France Thomas Moutarde martyr the same yere which was 1559. in the month of October suffered Tho. Moutard Who first being conuerted from a disordered life to the knowledge of the Gospell is to vs a spectacle of Gods great gracious mercy toward his elected Christians This Moutarde was attached for certain words spoken to a priest saying thus that his god of y e host was nothing but abhomination which abuseth y e people of God These words were takeÌ„ first as spoken in hys dronkennes Against the bodely presence of Christ in the hoste But the next day after wheÌ„ the same words were repeted to him agayne to knowe whether hee would abyde by the wordes there vttered or no hee sayd yea For it is an abuse sayd hee to seeke Iesus Christ any other where then in heauen sitting at the glory right hand of God hys father and in thys he was ready to liue dye His proces being made he was condemned to be burned quicke But as he was caryed from the town house to the place of punishment Constancye of a good conscieÌ„ce it was neuer seene a man with such constancie to be so assured in hart so to reioyce at that great honor which God had called hym vnto The hangman hasted as much as was possible to binde him dispatch him The martir in the midst of y e flaming fire lifting vp his eies vnto heaueÌ„ cried to the Lord that he would haue mercy on his soule and so in great integritie of fayth and perseueraunce hee gaue vp his life to God Ex Ioan. Crisp. Lib. 6. ☞ This Dutch story should haue gone before w t the Dutch Martyrs But seeing UallencieÌ„nes is not far distant from Fraunce it is not much out of order to adioyne the same with the French martyrs who altogether at length shal be ioyned in the kingdome of Christ which day the Lord send shortly Amen ¶ Thus haue we through the assistaunce of the Lord deduced the Table of the French and also of y e Dutch martyrs vnto the tyme and reign of Queene Elizabeth that is to the yeare .1560 Since the which tyme diuers also haue suffered both in Fraunce in the lower countrey of Germany whose story shal be declared the Lord willing more at large when we come to the tyme of Queene Elizabeth In the meane season it shall suffice for this present to insert their names onely which here do follow The residue of the French Martyrs ANne du Burge Counsailer of Paris Andrew Coiffier Iohn Isabeau Iohn Indet Martyrs of Paris Martyrs Geoffrey Guerien Iohn Morell Iohn Barbeuille Peter Cheuet Marin Marie Margarite Riche Adrian Daussi Gilles le Court Phillip Parmentier Marin Rosseau Peter Milot Iohn Berfoy Besides the tumult of Amboise the persecution of Vassi Austin Marlorat Master Mutonis The residue of the Dutch Martyrs IAmes de Lo of the I le of Flaunders Iohn de Buissons at Antwerpe Peter Petit Iohn Denys Gymon Guilmin Martyrs Simeon Herme of the I le of Flanders Iohn de Lannoy at Tournay Andrew Michell a blind man at Tournay Frances Varlut at Tournay Alexander Dayken of Bramchastle William Cornu in Henault Antony Caron of Cambray
Inquisitors proclaimed opeÌ„ly that he was damned in hel that none should pray for him yea and that all were heretickes whosoeuer doubted of his damnatioÌ„ The Inquisitors of Spaine take Christes office to iudge the quicke and the dead Neuerthelesse certayne of the Emperors Souldiors gathered of hys ashes Also the English Ambassador procured a portion of his bones to be brought vnto him knowyng right well that he dyed a Martyr Yet this could not be so secretly done but it came to the eares of the Inquisitors of the Emperor Wherefore the souldiers going in great daunger of life were committed to prison Neither did the Ambassadour himselfe escape cleare froÌ„ the daunger of the Popes scourge For he was vpoÌ„ the same sequestred froÌ„ the court coÌ„mauÌ„ded to be abseÌ„t for a space The Englishe Ambassadour banished the Spanish court And thus much coÌ„cerning the notable Martyrdome of this blessed San Romane Ex Franc. Encena Hispano teste occulato An Inquisitour in Spayne Rochus At San Lucar in Spayne An. 1545. Rochus was borne in Brabant his father dwellynge in Antwerpe By his science hee was a Caruer or Grauer of Images Rochus martyr Who as soone as he began first to taste the Gospell he fell froÌ„ making such Images as vse to serue for Idolatrye in Temples occupyed himselfe in making seales saue onely that he kept staÌ„ding on his stalle an Image of the virgin Mary artificially grauen for a signe of his occupatioÌ„ It happened vnhappely that a certayne Inquisitor passing by in the streete beholding the carued Image asked of Rochus what was the price therof Which when Rochus did set not willing belike to sell it the Inquisitour â—ad him scarse halfe the mony The other answered againe that he could not so liue of that bargayn But stil the Inquisitor vrged him to take his offer To whome Rochus agayne it shal be yours sayd he if you geue me that which my labor and charges stand me in but of that price I can not afforde it yet had I rather break it in pieces Yea sayth the Inquisitour breake it let me see thee Rochus with that took vp a Chisell A caruer burned for breaking 〈◊〉 own Image and dashed it vpon the face of the Image wherewith the nose or some other part of the face was blemished The Inquisitor seing that cried out as he were mad and commaunded Rochus forthwith into prison To whom Rochus cried again that he might do in his owne workes what he listed And if the workemanship of the Image were not after his fantasy what was that to them But all this could not helpe Rochus but with in 3. dayes after sentence was geuen vpon him that he should be burned and so was he committed to the executers As Rochus was entring the place there to be burned he cryed with a loud voyce askyng among the multitude which there stoode by if anye man of Flaunders were there It was aunswered yea and also that there were 2. ships already fraught and appoynted to sayle to Flaunders Then sayd he The death and martyrdome of Rhocus I would desire some of them to signify to my Father dwelling in Antwerpe that I was burned here in this city and for this cause which you all haue heard And thus after his prayers made to God this good man being wrongfully condemned after his godlye life made this blessed end an 1545. And leaste this so rare and straunge example of cruelty shall seeme to lacke credite in the fifte booke of the history of Pantaleon there is recorded that a certayne Spanyard comming to Antwerpe made diligent inquisitioÌ„ there among the Image makers to finde out the parentes of this Rochus signifyed to them what had happened toward theyr sonne as hath bene by his sayd parentes and frends declared In so much that it is also testified that hys Father at the hearing of the sayde message for sorrow thereof dyed shortly after Ex Pantal. lib. 5. ☞ Furthermore besides these aboue recited Diuers good men martyrs of Spayne died in prison and also before theyr time I heare and vnderstand by faythfull relation that diuers other haue bene in the sayd countrey of Spayne whose hartes God had maruellously illuminate and stirred vp both before and also since the comming in of the Inquisition to stand in defence of his Gospell and which were also persecuted for the same and are sayde to haue dyed in prison Albeit theyr names as yet are vnknowne for that the storyes of that countrey bee not yet come to light but I trust shortly shall as partly some intelligence I haue thereof In the meane tyme we wyll come now to the Inquisition of Spayne speakyng something of the ceremoniall pompe and also of the barbarous abuse and cruelty of the same ¶ The execrable Inquisition of Spayne THe cruell and barbarous Inquisition of spayne The forme and maner of the Inquisition of Spaine first began by king Ferdinandus and Elizabeth his wife and was instituted agaynste the Iewes which after theyr baptisme mainteined agayne theyr owne ceremonies But now it is practised agaynste theÌ„ that be neuer so litle suspected to fauor the verity of the Lorde The Spanyardes The Spanish inquisition can not erre and especially the great diuines there do holde that this holy sacrate Inquisition cannot erre and that the holy Fathers the Inquisitours cannot be deceiued Three sortes of men most principally be in daunger of these Inquisitors They that be greatly rich Three sortes of meÌ„ chiefly in danger of the inquisition for the spoyle of theyr goodes They that be learned because they will not haue theyr misdealings and secret abuses to be espyed and detected They that begin to encrease in honour and dignity least they being in authority should worke them some shame or dishonor The abuse of this Inquisition is most execrable If any woord shall passe out of the mouth of any which may be taken in euill part yea though no word be spoken yet if they beare any grudge or euill will agaynst the party incontinent they commaund him to be taken and put in an horrible pryson Example of the same well appeareth in Rochuâ— abâ—ue mentioned and theÌ„ finde out crimes agaynst him at leysure and in the meane time no maÌ„ liuing so hardy once to open his mouth for him If the Father speake one word for his childe he is also taken and cast into prison as a fauourer of heretickes Neyther is it permitted to any person to enter to the prisoner but there he is alone in such a place where he cannot see so much as the ground where he is and is not suffered either to read or write but ther endureth in darknes palpable in horrors infinite in feare miserable wrastling with the assaultes of death By this it may be esteemed what trouble and sorrow what pensiue sighes cogitatioÌ„s they susteyne which are not throughly instructed in holy
doctrine The miserable handeling of gods people in Spaine Adde moreouer to these distresses and horrors of the prison the iniuries threates whippings and scourginges yrons tortures and rackes which they endure Somtimes also they are brough out shewed forth in some higher place to the people as a spectacle of rebuke and infamy And thus are they deteyned there some many yeares and murthered by long tormentes whole dayes together entreated much more cruelly out of al comparison then if they were in the hangmās handes to be slayne at once During all this time what is done in the proces no person knoweth but onely the holy fathers and the tormentors which are sworne to execute the tormentes All is done in secret as great misteries passe not the handes of those holy ones And after all these tormentes so many yeares endured in the prison if any man shall be saued it must be by gessing For all the procedinges of the Court of that execrable Inquisition is opē to no mā but all is done in hugger mugger in close corners by ambages by couert waies and secret counselles The accuser secret the crime secret the witnes secret whatsoeuer is done is secret neither is the poore Prisoner euer aduertised of any thing If he can gesse who accused hym whereof wherfore he may be pardoned peraduēture of hys life but this is very seldome and yet he shall not incontinēt be set at liberty before he hath endured lōg time infinite tormentes and this is called theyr penitence and so is he let go and yet not so but that he is enioyned before he passe the Inquisitors handes that he shall weare a garment with yellow colours for a note of publicke infamy to him and his whole race And if he can not gesse right shewing to y e Inquisitours by whom he was accused whereof and wherfore as is afore touched incontinent the horrible sentence of condemnation is pronounced against him that he shall be burned for an obstinate hereticke and so yet the sentence is not executed by and by but after that he hath endured imprisonment in some haynous prison ¶ And thus haue ye heard the forme of the Spanish Inquisition Diuers martyrs in Spain since the tyme of Queene Elizabeth By the vigour and rigour of thys Inquisition many good true seruauntes of Iesus Christ haue bene brought to death especially in these latter yeares since the royall and peaceable reign of this our Queene Elizabeth The names and storyes of whom partly we wil here recite according as we haue faythfull recordes of suche as are come to our hands by writing The other which be not yet come to our knowledge we will deferre till further intelligence and oportunity by the Lords ayd and leaue shall serue hereafter An. 1559. Maij 21. In the towne of Ualedolid where commonly the counsell of the Inquisition is wont to be kept 30. Christian prisoners brought before the councell of the Inquisition the Inquisitors had brought together many prisoners both of high and low estate to the number of xxx also the coffin of a certayne noble womā with her picture lying vpō it which had bene dead long before there to receiue iudgement and sentence To the hearing of which sentence they had ordeined in the sayd town 3. mighty Theatries or stages Upon the first was placed Dame Iane sister to king Philip Three stages and chiefe Regimēt of his realmes also Prince Charles king Philippes sonne with other Princes and States of Spayne Upon the other scaffold mounted the Archbishop de Seuille The ceremoniall pompe of the Spanish Inquisition Prince of the Synagoge of the Inquisitors with the Coūsell of the Inquisition also other Byshops of the landes and the kinges counsell with them After that the Princes and other spirituall iudges coūsellers were thus set in theyr places wyth a great garde of Archers and Halberdiers and harnessed souldiours with 4. Herauldes also of armes geuing theyr attēdance to the same and the Earle of Buendia bearing the naked sword all the markette place where the stages were being inuironed wyth an infinite multitude of all sortes of the world there standing and gasing out of windowes houses to heare see the sentences iudgementes of this Inquisition then after all were brought forth as a spectacle and triumph the poore seruauntes and witnesses of Iesus Christ to the number as is aforesayd of thirty clothed with theyr Sanbenito The Spanish Mantell of S. Benet of yellow coulor with red crosses both before behinde called Sanbenito as the Spaniards do call it which is a maner of vesture of yellow cloth cōming both before them behind thē spangled with read Crosses hauing burning Cierges in theyr handes also before them was borne a Crucifixe couered with blacke lynen cloth in token of mourning Moreouer they which were to receiue the sentence of death had Miters of paper vpō theyr heads which y e Spaniardes call Coracas Thus they being produced were placed in theyr order one vnder an other according as they were estemed culpable So y e first of all stood vp Doctor Cacalla an Austē Frier a mā notable singular in knowledge of diuinity preacher sometime to Charles the 5. Emperor both in higher and lower Germany These thinges thus disposed thē folowed a Sermon made by a Dominicke Frier This Dominicke was M. Melchior Cano. which endured about an houre After the Sermon finished the Procurator generall with the Archbishop went to the stage where the Princes and Nobles stood to minister a solēne othe vnto them vpō the Crucifixe painted in the Massebooke the tenour of which othe was this Your Maiestyes shall sweare that you will fauor the holy Inquisitiō also geue your consēt vnto the same and not onely that you shal The oth geuen to the princes by the Inquisition of Spaine by no maner of way hinder and impeach the same but also you shall employ the vttermost of your helpe endeuour hereafter to see all them to be executed whiche shall swerue from the Church of Rome adioyne themselues to the sect of the Lutheran hereticks without all respect of any person or persons of what estate degree quality or condition soeuer they be ¶ And thus much for the first Article of the othe The second was this as foloweth Item your Maiesties shall sweare that you shal constrayne all your subiectes to submitt themselues to the Church of Rome and to haue in reuerence all the lawes and commaundementes of the same and also to geue your ayde agaynst all them whosoeuer shal hold of the heresy of the Lutheranes or take any part with them In this sort and maner when all the Princes states euery one in theyr degree had receyued theyr othe then the Archbishop lifting vp his hand gaue them his benediction saying God blesse your highnesses and geue you lōg life This solemne Pageon thus finished at last
amongst such a number of Philistians both within the Realme and without Agayne neither is it vnlike but that Stephen Winchester being then abroade in Ambassie was not altogether asleepe The suspition whereof may be the more coniecturall for that Edmund Boner Archdeacon of Leicester and then Ambassadour in Fraunce succeeding after Stephen Winchester did manifestly detect him of plaine Papistrie as in the sequeale of their stories when wee come to the time more ample the Lord graunting shall be expressed And as touching the Kings minde and assent The lawfulnes of Queene Annes succession defended although at that time through crafty setters on he seemed to be sore bent both against that Queene and to the disheriting of his owne daughter yet vnto that former will of the King so set against her then I will oppose againe the last will of the King wherein expressely and by name he did accepte and by plaine ratification did allow the succession of hys Mariage to stand good and lawfull Furthermore Defence of Queene Anne agaynst priuy backbyters to all other sinister iudgements and opinions whatsoeuer can be conceiued of man against that vertuous Queene I obiect and oppose againe as in stede of aunswere the euident demonstration of Gods fauour in mainteining preseruing aduaunsing the offspring of her body the Lady ELIZABETH nowe Queene whome the Lord hath so meruailously conserued from so manifold daungers so royally hath exalted so happely hath blessed with such vertuous patience and with such a quiet reigne hetherto that neither the reigne of her brother EDVVARD nor of her sister Mary to her is to be compared whether we consider the number of the yeares of their reignes or the peaceablenes of their state In whose royall and florishing regiment we haue to behold not so much the naturall disposition of her mothers qualities as the secrete iudgemente of God in preseruing and magnifieng the fruite and offspring of that godly Queene And finally as for the blasphemous mouth both of Cardinall Poole Paulus 〈◊〉 can finde no whoredome in all Rome but must come and 〈◊〉 matter where none 〈◊〉 in England The Protestantes of Germanye forsake king Henry for the death of Queene Anne The wily practises of the Papists and of Paulus Iouius that Popish Cardinall who measuring belike other womeÌ„ by his curtesanes of Rome so impudently abuseth his penne in lieng and rayling against this noble Queene to aunswere agayne in defence of her cause to that Italian I obiect and oppose the consent and iudgement of so many noble Protestants and Princes of Germany who beeing in league before with King Henry and minding no lesse but to haue made him the head of their confederation afterward hearing of the death of this Queene vtterly brake from him and refused him onely for the same cause But all this seemeth as is said to be the drift of the wilie Papistes who seeing the Pope to be repulsed out of England by the meanes chiefly of this Queene and fearing alwayes the succession of this Marriage in time to come thought by sinister practise to preuent that perill before whispering in the Kings eares what possibly they could to make that Matrimonie vnlawfull and all for the disheriting of that succession Againe Stephen Gardiner who was a secret worker against that mariage and a perpetuall enemie against Lady Elizabeth being then abroade with the French Kyng and the great Maister of Fraunce ceased not in his letters still to put the King in feare that the foreine Princes and powers of the world with the Pope woulde neuer be reconciled to the King neither should he be euer in any perfect securitie vnlesse he vndid againe such actes before passed for the ratification of that succession Which thing when they had now brought to passe after their owne desire that both now the Queene was beheaded Gods prouidence still disapointeth the papistes The king maried Lady Iane. and Elizabeth the Kings daughter disherited they thought all things to be sure for euer But yet Gods prouidence still went beyond them and deceaued them For incontinently after the suffering of Queene Anne the King within three dayes after maryed Lady Iane Semer of whome came King Edward as great an enemie to Gods enemie the Pope as euer his father was and greater too In the meane time as these troublous tumultes were in doing in England Paule the third Bishop of Rome for his part was not behind to helpe forward for his own aduantage Who seeing his vsurped kingdome feate to be darkened in the countreys of Germany The feate of the beast darckned Apoc. 16. also in EnglaÌ„d thought it high time to bestirre him and therefore to prouide some remedy against further daungers appointed a general Councel at Mantua in Italy requiring all kings and princes either personally to be there or else to sende their Ambassadours vnder faire preâ—enses as to suppresse heresies and to restore the Church and to warre agaynst the Turke c. This Bull was subscribed with the hands of 26. Cardinals and set vp in diuers great Cities that it might be knowne and published to the whole world Unto the which Bull firste the Protestants of Germany doe aunsweare declaring sufficient causes why they refused to resort to that Councell being indicted at Mantua in the Popes owne Countrey Whose declaration with theyr causes graue and effectuall Ex Ioan. Sledano Lib. 10. being set forth in print and in the English tongue although they were worthy heere to be inserted yet for breuitie and more speede in our story I will pretermit the same and only take the Oration or answere of our King heere Wherein he likewise rendereth reasons and causes most reasonable why he refuseth to come or to send at the Popes call to his Councell indicted at Mantua Whose Oration or Protestation because it conteineth matter of some wâ—ight and great experience I thought heere good to expresse as foloweth ¶ A Protestation in the name of the King and the whole Counsaile and Cleargy of England why they refuse to come to the Popes Councell at his call SEing that the Bishop of Rome calleth learned men froÌ„ all parties The kinges protestation why he senâ—eth not to â—he Popes Councell conducting them by great rewards making as many of them Cardinals as he thinketh most meet and most ready to defend fraâ—des and vntruthes we could not but with much anxietie cast with our selues what so great a preparance of wits should meane As chance was wee gessed euen as it folowed We haue ben so long acquainted with Romaine subtilties and popish deceites that we wel and easely iudged y e Byshop of Rome to intend an assemble of his adherents and men sworne to thinke all his lusts to be lawes We were not deceiued The Popes craftes espyed Paule the Byshop of Rome hath called a Councell to the which he knewe well either fewe or none of the Christen Princes coulde come Both the time
iudgement the King had of Cromwell in himselfe howsoeuer the parliament by sinister information was otherwise incensed to iudge vpon him Such malicious makebates about Princes and parliaments neuer lacked in common weales By such kyng Ethelstane was incensed to kill his brother Edwine pag. 159. So was king Edward 2. deposed So likewise when king Richard 2. was once brought into the Tower what crimes and accusations were layd against him in the Parlament So was Humfrey the good Duke of Gloucester the kings vncle by Henry Beauford bishop of Winchester and other in the Parliament holden at Bery arrested as a traitour and falsly made away pag. 160. What great treason was in the words of him who dwelling in Chepe side at the signe of the Crowne sayd merily to hys sonne that if he liued he would make him heyre of the crowne yet was he therefore atteinted and iudged for a Traytor pag. 701. In the tyme of king Henry the 8. how was that Parliament incensed wherein both Queene Anne was falsly condemned and Queene Elizabeth her daughter as falsly disherited To omit here the Attainder of the Duke of Buckingham wrought by the Cardinall of Yorke Of the lord Cobham likewise and sir Roger Acton pag. 150 If the cause of the lord Henry late Earle of Surrey were well tried out peraduenture no such hainous purpose of any treasoÌ„ shuld be found therin as than was made Who incensed y e late Duke of Somerset to behead his own brother but such makebates as these And afterward wheÌ„ the sayd Duke himselfe was attainted for a traytor and condeÌ„ned for a felon a briber and extorcioner how was the parliament then incensed Adam Damlip receyued of Cardinall Poole at Rome but a sely crowne in way of almes and therfore by meanes of Steuen Gardiner was atteinted for a traytor George Egles did but read some tyme in woods and by the said Gardiner was also condemned and suffered as a traytor Not that I here speake or meane agaynst the hygh courtes of Parliamentes of thys our Realme Authority of Parliamentes necessarilye assembled for the common wealth to whom I always attribute their due reuerence and authoritie But as it hapneth sometimes in generall Councels which though they be neuer so generall yet notwithstanding sometimes they may and do erre in waightie matters of religion so lykewise they that say that Princes and Parliaments may be misinformed sometimes by some sinister heds in matters ciuill and politike do not therein derogate or empaire the high estate of parliaments but rather geue wholsome admonition to princes and parliament men to be more circumspect and vigilant what counsell they shall admit and what witnesses they do credit For priuate affection which commonly beareth a great stroke in all societies doings of men creepeth sometymes into such generall Councels and into Princes Courtes also either to much amplifying things that be but small makyng mountaynes of mole-hils or els to much extenuating thyngs that be of themselues great and waightie according as it is truely said of the Poete Iuuenal Dat veniam cornis vexat censura columbas or as our English Prouerbe sheweth As a man is friended so is his matter ended And where the hedge is lowe A French prouerb a man may lightly make large leapes or rather to speake after the Frenche phrase Qui son chien veult tuer la rage luy met sus That is He that is disposed to haue hys dogge killed first maketh men beleeue that he is madde And thus much hauing declared touching the matter of his accusation the rest I referre to the high Parliament of that mightie king who shall one day bring all things to perfect light In the meane season howsoeuer the cause of the Lorde Cromwell standeth true or false this is certain that Steuen Gardiner lacked not an head nor yet priuie assisters which cunningly could fetch this matter about and watch their tyme when as the kyng being disposed to marrie an other wyfe Lady Anne of Cleue diuorâ—ed from the king which was the Lady Katherine Hawarde immediately after the beheading of the Lord Cromwell did repudiate Lady Anne of Cleue which otherwise is to be thought during the lyfe of Cromwell could not so well be brought to passe But these things beyng now done and past let vs passe them ouer and returne agayne from whence we digressed that is to the lord Cromwell beyng now atteinted committed to the Tower Who so long as he went with full sayle of fortune how moderately and how temperatly he did euer beare himselfe in his estate before hath ben declared The Christen pacience of the L. Cromwell in his aduersity So now the said lord Cromwell always one man by the contrary wynd of aduersitie being ouerblowen receiued the same with no lesse constancie and patieÌ„ce of a christian hart Neither yet was he so vnprouided of counsaile and forecast but that he did foresee this tempest long before it fell Cromwell foreseeing preparing of his trouble before it fell and also prepared for the same for two yeares before smelling the coÌ„spiracie of his aduersaries fearing what might happen he called vnto him his seruants and there shewing vnto them in what a slippery state hee stood and also perceiuing some stormy weather already to gather required them to looke diligently to their order and doings least through their default any occasion might rise agaynst him Cromwel good to his seruantes And furthermore before the tyme of his apprehension such order he tooke for his seruants that many of them especially the yonger brethren which had little els to take vnto had honestly left for theÌ„ in their frends hands to relieue them whatsoeuer should him befall Briefly such a louyng and kynd maister he was to his seruauntes that he prouided aforehand almost for them all In so much that he gaue to twelue children which were his Musitians twenty pound a peece and so coÌ„mitted them to their friends Of whom some yet remayne aliue who both enioyed the same and also geue recorde of this to be true Furthermore beyng in the tower a prisoner how quietly he bare it how valiauntly he behaued hymselfe how grauely and discretely he aunswered and entertayned the commissioners sent vnto him it is worthy noting Whatsoeuer articles and interrogatories they propounded they could put nothing vnto him either concerning matters ecclesiasticall or temporall wherein he was not more ripened and more furnished in euery condition then they them selues Amongst the rest of those Commissioners which came vnto him one there was whom the Lord Cromwell desired to cary for him a letter to the kyng which when he refused sayeng that he would cary no letter to the king from a traytor then the Lord Cromwell desired him at least to do from him a message to the king To that the other was contented and granted so that it were not agaynst his alleageance Then the Lord Cromwell taking witnesse
stand that standeth not with the Lord Which thing as in example of all ages is to be seene so in this late proclamation deuised by the bishops is in like maner exemplified The which proclamation though it was sore terrible for the time yet not long after Mans deuise agaynst the Lord ouerthrowen by reason of the kings death whoÌ„ the Lord shortly therupon took to his mercy it made at length but a castle come downe So that where the prelates thought to make theyr Iubile it turned them to the Threnes of Ieremy Such be the admirable workings of the Lord of hostes whose name be sanctified for euer This I do not inferre for any other purpose but onely for the workes of the Lord to be seene premonishing thee good Reader withall that as touching the king who in this Proclamation had nothing but the name onely here is nothing spoken but to his laude and prayse Who of hys owne nature disposition The praise of K. Henry 8. was so inclinable and forward in all things vertuous and commendable that the like enterprise of redresse of religion hath not lightly bene sene in any other Prince christned As in abolishing the stout and almost inuincible authority of the Pope in suppressing monasteries in repressing custome of Idolatry pilgrimage c. Which enterprises as neuer king of England dyd accomplish though some beganne to attempt them before him so yet to this day we see but few in other Realmes dare folow the same If Princes haue alwayes theyr Counsell about them that is but a common thing If some time they haue euill counsell ministred that I take to be the fault rather of such as are about them Much superstition purged by king Henry then of princes themselues So long as Queene Anne Tho. Cromwell B. Cranmer M. Denny D. Buts with such like were about him could preuaile with him what organe of Christes glorye did more good in the Church then he as is apparant by such monuments instrumentes and actes set forth by him in setting vp the Bible in the church in exploding the pope with his vile pardons in remouing diuers superstitious ceremonies in bringing into order y e inordinate orders of friers sectes in putting chantry priests to theyr pensions in permitting white meate in Lent in destroying Pilgrimage worship in abrogating idle superfluous holydaies both by act publicke and also by priuate letters sent to Boner tending after this effect ¶ By the king The kinges brief to Boner RIght reuerend father in God right trusty and welbeloued we greet you well And whereas considering the manifolde inconueniences which haue ensued and dayly do ensue to our subiectes by the great superfluity of holy dayes we haue by the assentes and consentes of all you the Byshops Abrogation of holy dayes and other notable personages of the Clergy of this our Realme in ful congregation and assembly had for that purpose abrogated and abolished suche as be neither Canonicall ne meete to bee suffered in a common wealth for the manifolde inconueniences which do ensue of the same as is rehearsed and to the intent our determination therein may be duely obserued and accomplished we haue thought coÌ„uenient to commauÌ„d you immediately vpon the receit hereof to addresse your commaundementes in our name to all the curates religious houses and colledges within your dioces with a copye of the act made for the abrogation of the holy dayes aforesayd a transumpt whereof ye shall receiue herewith commaunding theÌ„ and euery of them in no wise eyther in the Church or otherwise to indict or speake of any of the sayd dayes and feastes abolished wherby the people might take occasion either to murmure or to contemne the order taken therin and to continue in theyr accustomed idlenes the same notwithstanding but to passe ouer the same with such secret silence as they may haue like abrogation by disuse as they haue already by our authority in conuocation And forasmuch as the time of haruest now approcheth our pleasure is ye shall with such diligence and dexterity put this matter in execution as it may immediatly take place for the benefite of our subiectes at this time accordingly without fayling as ye wil aunswere vnto vs for the contrary Geuen vnder our Signet at our Monastery of Chertesey the 11. day of August Thus while good Counsell was about him and could be heard K. Henry according as his CouÌ„cell was about hym so was he lead he did much good So agayne when sinister and wicked Counsell vnder subtile and craftye pretences had gotten once the foot in thrusting truth verity out of the Princes eares how much Religion and all good thinges went prosperously forward before so much on the coÌ„trary side all reuolted backward agayn WherupoÌ„ proceded this Proclamation aboue meÌ„tioned concerning the abolishing and burning of English bookes Which proclamation bearing the name of the kinges maiesty but being y e very deed of the bishops no doubt had done much hurt in the church among the godly sort bringing theÌ„ either into great dauÌ„ger or els keping theÌ„ in much blindnes had not the shortnes of the kinges dayes stopped the malignant purposes of the foresayd Prelates The death of K. Henry 8. causing the king to leaue that by death vnto y e people which by his life he would not grauÌ„t For within 4. monethes after Anno 1547. the proclamatioÌ„ coÌ„ming out in August he deceased in the beginning of Ianuary in the 38. yeare of his raigne an· 1547. leauing behinde him three children who succeded him in his kingdome K. Edward Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth of whom it remaineth now to prosecute by the permission and sufferance of Christ our high Lord and Prince in the proces of this hystory according as the order of theyr succession and Actes done by them in the church shall require after that fyrst I shall haue prosecuted certayne other matters by the way according to my promise here to be inserted ¶ The History touching the persecution in Scotland with the names and causes of such blessed Martyres which in the same country suffered for the truth after the time of Patricke Hamelton THus hauing finished the time and rase of kyng Henry the eight it remayneth nowe according to my promise made before here to place adioyne so much as hath come to our handes touching the persecution of Scotland and of the blessed Martyrs of Christ which in that couÌ„try likewise suffered for the true religion of Christ testimony of theyr fayth To proceede therefore in the historye of these Scotland matters Read 〈◊〉 pag. 956. next after the mention of Dauid Straton and M. Nicholas Gurlay with whom we ended before pag. 956. the order of time woulde requyre nexte to inferre the memory of syr Iohn Borthwike Knight Syr Iohn Borthwiâ—â—â— knight 〈◊〉 condemâ—ned of 〈◊〉 being â—â—â—â—sent 〈◊〉 picture 〈◊〉 in Scoâ—â—land An. 154â— commonly
Tower hill where hee vttered these woordes M. Wiats words touching the Lady Elizabeth touching the Lady Elizabeth and the Earle of Deuonshyre Concerning sayd he what I haue sayd of other in my examination to charge any other as partakers of my doings I accuse neyther my Lady Elizabeths grace nor my Lord of Deuonshyre I can not accuse them neyther am I able to say that to my knowledge they knew any thing of my rising And when Doctour Weston tolde him that his confession was otherwise before the Counsell he aunswered that which I said then I sayd but that which I say now is true Uppon the Tuesday beeing the xvij of Aprill Syr Iames Croft and Maister Winter Aprill 17. Sir Iames Croft M. Winter Sir Nichoâ—las Throgmorton were brought to the Guild hall with whom also the same time and to the same place was brought sir Nicholas Throgmorton and there arraigned of treason for that he was suspected to be of the conspiracie with the Duke of Suffolke the rest agaynst y e Queene where he so learnedly and wisely behaued him selfe as well in clearing his owne case as also in opening such lawes of the Realme as were then alledged agaynst him that the Quest which was charged with his matter could not in conscience but finde him not gilty The Queâ—â—â— troubled 〈◊〉 Sir Nichoâ—las Throgmorton for y t which the said xij persons of the Quest being also substantiall meÌ„ of the Citie were bounde in the summe of 500. poundes a peece to appeare before y e Queenes Counsell at a day appointed there to answere such things as should be laid against theÌ„ for his acquiting Which Quest appeared accordingly before the Counsell in the Starre chamber vppon Wednesday being the xxv of Aprill and S. Markes daye Aprill 25. From wheÌ„ce after certaine questioning they were coÌ„mitted to prison Emanuell Lucar maister Whetstone were committed to the Tower and the other ten to the Fleete As concerning the condemnation of Thomas Archbyshop of Cant. of Doctour Ridley and M. Latymer which was the xx of this moneth of Aprill also of their disputations because we haue sayd enough before it shall not neede now to bestow any further rehearsall thereof The Friday next following after the condemnation of them the xxvij of Aprill Lord Thomas Gray L. Thomas Gray beheâ—â—ded Aprill 27. Aprill 28. the late Duke of Suffolkes brother was beheaded at Tower hil Upon the Saterday beeing the xxviij of Aprill Syr Iames Croft and Maister Winter were agayne brought to the Guild hall where Sir Iames Croft was arraigned and condemned and because the day was farre spent Maister Winter was not arraigned Upon the Thursday being the xvij of May William Thomas was arraigned at the Guild Hall W. Thomas condemneâ— May. 17. and there the same day condemned who the next day after was hanged drawne and quartered His accusation was for coÌ„spiring the Queenes death which how true it was I haue not to say This is certaine that he made a right godly ende and wrote many fruitefull exhortations Letters and Sonets in the prison before his death In the moneth of May it was so giuen out and bruitted abroad A certaine disputation intended to be had at Cambridge that a solemne disputation should be holden at Cambridge as ye heard before in Maister Ridleys letter page 1396 betwene M. Bradford M. Saunders mayster Rogers and other of that side and the Doctours of both the Uniuersities on the other side like as had bene in Oxford before as you haue heard Whereupon y e godly Preachers which were in prison hauing word therof albeit they were destitute of their bookes neither were ignorant of the purpose of the aduersaries and how y e cause was preiudicate before also how the disputations were coÌ„fusedly haÌ„dled at Oxford neuerthelesse they thought not to refuse the offer of disputatioÌ„ so that they might be quietly and indifferently heard and therefore wisely pondering the matter with themselues by a publicke consent directed out of prison a declaration of their minde by writing the vij day of May. Wherein first as touching the disputation although they knew that they should do no good wheras all things were so predetermined before yet neuertheles they would not deny to dispute The preachers in prâ—â—son refuse not to dispute before indifferent Iudges so that the disputation might be either before the Queene or before the Counsaile or before the ParlameÌ„t houses or else if they might dispute by writing for else if the matter were brought to the Doctours handling in their owne scholes they haue sufficient proofe they sayd by the experience of Oxford what little good will be done at Cambridge and so coÌ„sequently declaring the faith and doctrine of their Religion and exhorting the people withall to submit themselues with all patience and humilitie either to the will or punishmeÌ„t of the higher powers they appealed in the end from them to be theyr Iudges in this behalfe and so ende their protestation the copie and contents whereof I thought not vnfit here to be inserted * A copie of a certayne declaration drawne and sent out of prison by Mayster Bradford Mayster Saunders and dyuers other godly Preachers concerning theyr disputation A declaratiâ—on of the godly preachers written and senâ— abroad out of prison and doctrine of their Religion as followeth BEcause we heare that it is determined of the magistrats and such as be in authoritie especially of the Clergye to send vs speedely out of the prisons of the kings Bench the Fleet the Marshalsey and Newgate where presently we are and of long time some of vs hath ben not as rebelles traytors seditious persons theeues or transgressours of any lawes of this realme inhibitions Proclamations or commaundements of the Queenes highnes or of any of y e Councels Gods name be praysed therfore but alonely for the conscience we haue to God and his most holy word truth vpon most certayne knowledge because we say we heare that it is determined we shal be sent to one of the vniuersities of Cambridge or Oxford there to dispute with such as are appointed in that behalfe A 〈◊〉 of a preâ—enâ—ed 〈…〉 at Cambridge in that wee purpose not to dispute otherwise then by writing except it may be before the Queenes highnes and her Counsell or before y e Parlament houses and therfore perchaunce it will be bruted abroad that we are not able to mayntaine by the truth of Gods word and the consent of the true and Catholicke Church of Christ the doctrine we haue generally and seuerally taught and some of vs hath writteÌ„ set forth wherthrough the godly and simple may be offended somwhat weakened we haue thought it our bounden dutie now whilest we may by writing to publish and notifie the causes why we will not dispute otherwise then is abouesayd to preuent the offences which might come thereby First because it is euidently knowne vnto the whole
brought out of the Tower and committed to the custody of Syr Iohn Williams after Lord Williams of Tame of whom her highnes was gently and curteously entreated who afterward was had to Woodstocke and there committed to the keeping of Sir Henry Benifield Knight of Oxeborough in Northfolke Sir Henry Benefield who on the other side both forgetting her estate and his owne duty as it is reported shewed hymselfe more hard straight vnto her then either cause was geuen of her part or reason of his owne part would haue led him Iuly 20. K. Phillip arriueth at Southampton if either grace or wisedome in him might haue sene before what daunger afterward might haue ensued thereof Whereof we haue to entreate more at large the Lorde willing hereafter in the story life of Queene Elizabeth Upon the Friday following being the xx of Iuly and S. Margarets day the prince of Spaine laÌ„ded at South-hampton The Prince him selfe was the first that landed who immediately as he set foote vppon the land drew out his sword and caried it naked in his haÌ„d a good prety way King Phillip caryeth his sword naked comming into England The keyes of Southampton deliuered to K. Phillip Then met him without the Towne a little the Maior of Southampton with certayne Commoners who deliuered the keyes of the Towne vnto the Prince who remoued his sword naked as it was out of his right hand into his left hand and so receiued the keyes of the Maior without any word speaking or countenaunce of thankefulnes and after a while deliuered the keyes to the Maior againe At the Towne gate met hym the Earle of Arundell and Lord Williams and so he was brought to his lodging Upon the Wednesday following being S. Iames day Iuly 25. Mariage beâ—tweene K. Phillip anâ— Q. Mary and the xxv of Iuly Philip Prince of Spayne Mary Queene of England were maryed together solemnely in the Cathedrall Church at Winchester by the Byshop of Winchester in the presence of a great number of noble men of both the Realmes At the time of this mariage the Emperours Embassadour being present opeÌ„ly pronounced y t in coÌ„sideration of that Mariage the Emperour had grauÌ„ted giuen vnto his sonne the Kingdome of Naples c. Whereupon the first daye of August following there was a Proclamation that from that tyme foorth the style of all maner of writings should be altered August 1. and this following should be vsed ☞ Philip and Mary by the grace of God Kyng and Queene of England Fraunce Naples Ierusalem and Ireland defenders of the Fayth Princes of Spayne and Cicill Archdukes of Austrich Dukes of Millaine Burgundie and Brabant Counties of Haspurge Flaunders and Tyroll Of this Mariage as the Papistes chiefly seemed to be very glad so diuers of them after diuers studyes to shew forth their inward affections some made Interludes and Pagentes some drewe foorth Genealogies deriuing his petigrue from Edwarde the third and Iohn of Gaunte some made Uerses Amongst all other Mayster Whyte then Byshop of Lincolne his Poeticall vayne beeyng drunken with ioye of the Mariage spued out certayne Uerses the copy whereof we haue heere inserted ¶ Philippi Mariae Genealogia qua ambo Principes ex Iohanne de Gandauo Edwardi tertij Angliae Franciaeque Regis filio descendisse ostenduntur Whito Lincolniense Authore I Lle parens regum Gandaua ex vrbe Iohannes Somersetensem comitem profert Iohannem Somersetensis venit hoc patre dux Iohannes Qui Margaretam Richemundi habuit Comitissam Haec dedit Henricum qui regni septimus huius Henrico octauo solium regale reliquit Hoc patre propitio fausto quasi sydere nata Iure tenes sacram teneasque Maria coronam ¶ Verses of M. White Byshop of Lincolne concerning the Marriage of Philip and Mary NVbat vt angla anglo regina Maria Philippo Inque suum fontem regia stirps redeat Noluit humani generis daemon vetus hostis Sed Deus Anglorum prouida spes voluit Nollet Scotus inops timidusque ad praelia Gallus Caesar Italia Flandria tota volet Noluit Haereticus stirps Caiphae pontificum grex Pontificum sed grex Catholicus voluit Octo vxorati Patres in daemone nollent Quinque Cathenati pro pietate volent Noluit Iohannes Dâ—dley Northumbrius vrsus Sed fidum regni Consilium voluit Noluit aetatis nostrae Catelina Viatus Sed proceres plebs pia turba volet Nollet Graius dux Cantia terra rebellans Nos quoniam Dominus sic voluit volumus Clarior effectus repetat sua limina sanguis Cum sit Philippo iuncta Maria viro ¶ Aunswere by the reuerend Byshop of Norwich to the Byshop of Lyncolne EXterno nubat Maria vt regina Philippo Vt sint pulsa suis sceptra Britanna locis Vult Daemon generis nostri antiquissimus hostis Anglorum non vult anchora sola Deus Nolunt hoc Galli nolunt Scoti armipotentes Vult Caesar Flandrus vult Italus Golias Vult grex Pontificum stirps Caypha turba bicornis Ann. â—â—54 〈◊〉 Non vult sanctorum sed pia turba patrum Nolunt octo quibus sunt vincla iugalia curae Quinque cathenati Daemonis arte volunt Hoc neque tu prorsus Dudlaee animose volebas Inuitum regni Consilium voluit Dedecus hoc non vult fortissimus ille Viatus Inuitus populus sic proceresque volent Vos vultis quoniam semper mala cuncta voletis Non vulâ— Graius Dux nec pia turba volet Quot tulit Hispanus rex ergò commoda secum Reginae socias cum dedit ille manus ¶ Another aunswere by the sayd Author HIspano nubat Maria vt regina Philippo Extirpetur stirps vt quoque Nobilium Vult pater id vester disturbans omnia Daemon Non vult Anglorum sed pater Altitonans Non vult bellipotens Gallus non vult Scotus acer Vult Caesar Flandrus Papicolaeque volunt Grex mitratorum vult Cayphae ipsa propago Non vult sanctorum sed pius ordo patrum Nolunt octo pios qui iure colunt hymenaeos Quinque cathenati pro impietate volunt Dudlaeus minimè voluit Northumbrius Heros Cui sua perchara est patria nemo volet Libertatis amans non vult bonus ille Viatus Non proceres non plebs nec pia turba volet Vos vultis pietas qui vultis vt exulet omnis Non Graius sed nec Cantia turba volet Ergò magis clarus quî fit rogo sanguis auitus Quando iugalis sit iunctus vterque thoro ¶ Other Verses aunswering to Byshop White made by I. C. QVamlibet Anglorum stirps ementita Philippo Et Maria Hispana de genetrice fuit Vt tamen Hispano confusi sanguinis Angla Nuberet in gentis dedecus atque patris Noluit Anglorum priscae virtutis amator Sed Deus in nostram perniciem voluit Noluit in nostram nisi conspirata salutem Turba quid ad nos
iustice nor vnwoonted to thy mercy It is well knowen vnto vs how maruelously thou diddest worke in Sara of the age of xc yeares and in Elizabeth the barren and also far striken in age for thy counsel is not in the power of men Thou Lord that art y e searcher of harts thoughts thou knowest that thy seruaÌ„t neuer lusted after man neuer gaue her selfe to wanton coÌ„pany nor made her selfe pertaker w t them that walk in lightnes but she consented to take an husband with thy feare not with her lust Thou knowest that thy seruaunt tooke an husband not for carnal pleasure but only for the desire loue of posteritie wherein thy name might be blessed for euer and euer Geue therfore vnto thy seruaunts Phillip our king and Mary our Queene a male issue which may sit in the seat of thy kingdome Geue vnto our Queene thy seruant a little infant in fashion and body comely beautifull in pregnant wit notable and excellent Graunt the same to be in obedience like * It is not best such one to be graunted vnto you 〈◊〉 being lyke Abrahamâ— Ioseph Moses and Salomon hâ— may chauÌ„â—â— to smel oâ— your corrupt doctrine and detest yoâ— bloudy tyranny c. Abraham in hospitalitie like Loth in chastitie and brotherly loue lyke Ioseph in meekenes myldnes like Moses in strength valiantnes like Sampson Let him be found faythful as Dauid after thy hart Let him be wise among kings as the most wise Salomon Let him be like Iob a simple and an vpright man fearing God eschewyng euill Let hym finally be garnished with the comelynes of all vertuous coÌ„ditions and in the same let him waxe old and lyue that he may see his childrens children to the third fourth generation And geue vnto our soueraigne Lord and Lady K. Phillip and Queene Mary thy blessing and long life vpoÌ„ earth And graunt that of theÌ„ may come kings Queenes which may stedfastly continue in faith loue and holynesse And blessed be their seed of our God that all nations may know thou art only God in all the earth which art blessed for euer and euer Amen ¶ Another prayer for Queene Mary and her conceiued chyld O Almighty father which diddest sanctifie the blessed Virgine and mother of Mary in her conception and in the byrth of Christ our sauiour thy onely sonne also by thy omnipotent power didst safely deliuer the prophet Ionas out of the Whales belly Defend O Lord we beseech thee An other prayer for the same thy seruaunt Mary our Queene with child conceyued and so visite her in and with thy godly gift of health that not onely the child thy creature within her conteined may ioyfully come from her into this worlde and receyue the blessed Sacraments of Baptisme and Confirmation enioying therwith dayly encrease of all princely and gracious gifts both of body soule but that also she the mother thorowe thy speciall grace and mercy may in tyme of her trauaile auoyde all excessiue dolour and payne and abide perfect and sure from all perill and danger of death with long and prosperous life thorough Christ our Lord Amen It followeth now further in processe of the story that vpon the Tuesday being the x. of Ianuary xix of the lower house of the Parliament with the Speaker Ianuary 1â— came to the White Hall to the kyng and there offred him the gouernment of the realme and of the Issue if the Queene should faile which was confirmed by act of Parliament within ten dayes after Upon Wednesday folowing Ianuary â—â— beyng the xxvi of Ianuary the Parliament was cleane dissolued In this Parliament among other things the bishop of Rome was established and all such lawes as were made against hym since the xx yeare of K. Henry the 8. were repealed also cardinall Poole bish Pates The Pope supremacy establisheâ— by Parlament Matters coÌ„â—cluded in the Parlaâ—ment Lilly other were restored to their bloud Also there was an acte made for speakyng of words that whosoeuer should speake any thyng agaynst the king or Queene or that might mooue any sedition or rebellion at the first tyme to haue one of his eares cut of or to forfeit an C. markes and at the second tyme to haue both his eares cut off or els to forfeit an C. pounds who so euer should write cipher or print any of the premisses to haue their right hand cut off Three statutes agaynst heretickes reâ—uiued Also in this Parliament three statutes were reuiued for triall of heresie one made in the fift yere of Richard the 2. an other in the 2. yeare of Henry the 4. and the third in the 2. yeare of Henry the 5. Also the doyng of M. Rose and the other that were with him was communed of in this Parliament and vpon that occasion an acte was made that certaine euill prayers should be treason agaynst the Queenes highnes The prayers of these men were thus God turne the hart of Queene Mary from Idolatrie or els shorten her dayes Wherof read the statute Ann. 1. 2. Reg. Phil. Mariae Cap. 9. As touching the taking of M. Rose his felows word was brought therof to M. Hooper being theÌ„ in the Fleete Whereupon the said M. Hooper sendeth aunswer againe with a letter also of consolation sent to the sayd prisoners the copie wherof I thought here not to ouerpasse ¶ The aunswer of M. Hooper to a letter sent vnto him concerning certaine prisoners taken in Bowe churchyard 〈◊〉 aunâ—â—re to a 〈…〉 sent 〈◊〉 him THe grace of God be with you Amen I perceiue by your letter how that vpon Newyeres day at night there were taken a godly company of Christians whilest they were praying I doe reioyce in that men can be so well occupied in this perilous time and flee vnto God for remedy by prayer as well for theyr owne lackes and necessities as also charitably to pray for them that persecute them So doth the worde of God commaund all men to pray charitably for them that hate them and not to reuile any Magistrate with wordes or to meane him euill by force or violence They also may reioyce that in well doyng they were taken to the prison Wherfore I haue thought it good to send them this little writing of consolation praying God to send them pacience charitie constancie in the truth of his most holy word Thus fare you well and pray God to send his true word into this Realme againe amongest vs which the vngodly Bishops haue now banished Ianua 4. ann 1555. ¶ A letter of consolation sent from M. Hooper to the godly brethren taken in Bow churchyard in prayer and layd in the Counter in Breadstreat THe grace fauor consolation and ayd of the holy ghost be with you now and euer So be it Dearely beloued in the Lord euer sithens your imprisonment A letter of 〈◊〉 Hooper 〈◊〉 of most â—eauenly â—onsolatioÌ„ I haue
this romish Idolatry When he had thus said they with weping teares prayed together and kissed one the other His last token to his wyfe and his sonne he gaue to his wife a booke of the Church seruice set out by Kyng Edward which in the time of his imprisonment he daylye vsed And vnto his sonne Thomas he gaue a Latin booke cōteining the notable sayings of the old martyrs gathered out of Ecclesiastica historia in the end of that book he wrote his Testament and last Vale as hereafter foloweth ¶ The last will and Testament of Doctor Rowland Taylour Parson of Hadley D. Taylours will and testament written in the booke which he gaue to his sonne Iob. 1.2 Apoc. 14. Luke 12. I Say to my wife and to my children The Lord gaue you vnto me and the Lord hath taken me from you and you from me blessed be the name of the Lord. I beleue that they are blessed which dye in the Lord. God careth for Sparowes and for the heares of our heades I haue euer founde him more faythfull and fauorable thē is any father or husband Trust ye therefore in him by the meanes of our deare Sauior Christes merites beleue loue feare and obey him pray to him for he hath promised to helpe Count me not dead for I shall certainely liue and neuer dye I go before and you shal folow after to our long home I go to the rest of my children Susan George Ellen Robert and Zachary I haue bequeathed you to the onely omnipotent I say to my deare frendes of Hadley and to all other which haue heard me preache A pure consciēce fully quieted that I depart hence with a quiet conscience as touching my doctrine for the which I pray you thanke God w t me For I haue after my little talent declared to other those lesiōs y t I gathered out of gods booke the blessed Bible Therfore if I or any Aungell from heauen should preach to you any other Gospell then that ye haue receiued Gods great curse vpon that Preacher Beware for Gods sake that ye deny not God A graue warning agaynst Popery neyther decline from the word of fayth lest God decline from you so do ye euerlastingly perishe For Gods sake beware of Popery for though it appeare to haue in it vnitye yet the same is in vanity and Antichristianity and not in Christs fayth and verity Beware of the sinne agaynst the holy ghost The sinne agaynst the holy Ghost now after such a light opened so playnly and simply truly throughly and generally to all England The Lord graunt all men his good and holy spirit encrease of his wisedome contemning the wicked world A godly prayer harty desire to be with God the heauenly company through Iesus Christ our only Mediator Aduocate righteousnes life sanctification and hope Amen Amen Pray Pray ¶ Rowland Taylour departing hence in sure hope without all doubting of eternal saluatiō I thāke God my heauenly father through Iesus Christe my certeine Sauiour Amen The 5. of February Anno. 1555. Psalme 27. The Lord is my lighte and my saluation whome then shall I feare Roma 8. God is he that iustifieth who is he that can condemne Psalm 30. In thee O Lord haue I trusted let me neuer be confounded On the next morow after that Doct. Tailour had supped with his wife in the Counter as is before expressed which was the fift day of February the Shiriffe of London with his Officers came to the Counter by two of the clocke in the morning and so brought forth Doctor Taylour and without any light lead him to the Wolsacke an Inne without Algate D. Taylours wife suspecting that her husband should that night be caried away watched all night within S. Butolphes Churchporch beside Algate hauing with her two children D. Taylour lead from the Coūter by night toward Hadley the one named Elizabeth of xiiij yeares of age whom being left without father or mother Doctour Taylour had brought vp of almes from iij. yeares olde the other named Mary D. Taylours owne daughter Now when the Shiriffe his company came against S. Butolphes church The last meeting and leaue-taking with his wyfe and children Elizabeth cried saying O my deare father Mother mother here is my father led away Then cried his wife Rowland Rowland where art thou for it was a very darcke morning that the one could not see the other D. Taylour aunswered deare wife I am here and stayed The Shiriffes men would haue led him forth but the Shiriffe sayd This Sheriffe was M. Chester stay a litle maysters I pray you and let him speake with his wife and so they stayed Then came she to him and he tooke his daughter Mary in his armes and hee his wife and Elizabeth kneeled downe sayd the Lordes prayer At which sight the Sheriffe wept apase so did diuers other of y e company After they had prayd he rose vp kissed his wife shooke her by the hand sayd Farewell my deare wife be of good cōfort for I am quiet in my conscience God shal stirre vp a father for my children And then he kissed his daughter Mary and sayd God blesse thee and make thee his seruant kissing Elizabeth he sayde God blesse thee I pray you all stande strong stedfast vnto Christ his word keepe you from idolatry Thē said his wife God be with thee deare Rowland I will with Gods grace meet thee at Hadley And so was he led forth to the Woolsacke and his Wife folowed him As soone as they came to the Woolsacke hee was put into a chamber wherein he was kept with foure Yeomen of the Gard and the Shiriffes men Doctor Tailor as soone as he was come into the chamber fell downe on his knees gaue himselfe wholy to prayer The Sheriffe then seing D. Taylours wife there The Shrieffes gentlenes shewed to the womā would in no case graunt her to speake any more with her husband but gētly desired her to go to his house and take it as her owne promised her she should lack nothing sent two Officers to conduct her thither Notwithstanding she desired to go to her mothers whither the Officers led her and charged her mother to keep her there till they came agayne Thus remayned Doctour Taylour in the Woolsacke kept by the Shiriffe and his company D. Taylour brought to the signe of the Woolsacke till 11. of the clocke At which time the Sheriffe of Essex was ready to receyue him and so they set him on horseback within the Inne the gates being shut At the comming out of the gates Iohn Hull before spokē of stood at the rayles with Thomas Doctour Taylours sonne When Doctour Taylour saw them he called them saying Come hither my sonne Thomas And Iohn Hull lifted the child vp and set him on the horse before hys father And Doct. Taylour put
electe and chosen what affliction and trouble shal happen vnto them for his sake not to the entent to fray them thereby but rather to prepare their mindes against the boistrous stormes of persecution As we haue a notable exāple in the Apostle S Paule vnto whome God sent Agabus who prophecied vnto him of the imprisonment and bandes that hee should suffer at Ierusalem In whom we haue also a good example of constancie stedfastnes which regarding nothing the teares of his familiar frēds nor yet the peril of his own life did through fire water go on stil to set forth the glory of God and he being deliuered frō the hands of his vngodly bloudthirsty enmies that so many times is in cōclusion fain to commit himself to the rough waters of the sea where he was a long season in great peril ieoperdy of his own life But God was alwais to the great cōfort of all that shal heare of it most ready to help succor hym First he did send him a most frendly and swete cōpanye I meane Aristarchus and Lucas so ruling the heart of the vnder captaine Iulius that he courteously intreated him Actes 17. gaue him liberty to go to his frendes and to refresh him selfe and he was beneficiall vnto him at all times In like manner was God with Ioseph and deliuered him from all his aduersities and gaue him fauoure and wisedom in the sight of Pharao king of Egypt in so much that he made him Gouernour ouer all Egypt and ouer all his houshold In like manner was hee with Ieremie and Daniel in theyr great troubles and appoynted men for them in their most troubles to relieue succour and helpe them to their singular comfort Also when Peter was in Herodes prison Peter deliuered out of prison sleeping betwene 2. soldiours bound with 2 chaines and the kepers before the dore keeping the prisone the same night that Herode had intended to haue brought him out vnto the people the day following and to haue put him vnto death to please the Iewes withal as a litle before he had killed Iames the brother of Iohn with the sword god sent his angel and the chaines fell off from Peters hands and the yron gate opened vnto him by his owne accorde and so was Peter wonderfully deliuered by God For it is the true liuing God that looseth al bandes and deliuereth out of prison and not that fained God S. Leonard On that true God did S. Peter call vnto him did he ascribe the glory of his deliuerance saying Nowe I know of a truth that God hath sent his Angel c. These things are written for our learning that we through patience and comforte of the scriptures might haue hope The God of patience and comfort graūt that we be like minded one towardes an other after the ensample of Christe Iesu that we all agreeing together may with one mouth glorifie God the father of our Lord Iesus Christ. A poore prisoner for Christ George Marsh. An other letter of George Marshe to Robert Langley THe grace of our Lord Iesus Christ the loue of God and the fellowship of the holy Ghost be with you good brother in Christe Robert Langley An other letter of G. Marsh to Robert Langely and others with all them that loue the Lord Iesus vnfainedly Amen After harty commendations to you w t thanks for that ye did visite me a prisoner in Christ vnacquainted with you to your costes this shal be to let you knowe that yee shall receiue from me mine examination and handling at Lathum and the cause of mine imprisonmēt according as I did promise you and this ye shal receiue by my brother or some one of the Bradshawes of Bolton w tin this seuen night willing you to shew the same to such faithfull mē about Manchester or els where as you do take to be fauorers of true religion and Christes holy word and then to deliuer it againe And wheras you did put me in comfort that if I did want any thing necessary vnto thys life you with some others would be bearers with me in this my costly and paineful affliction I geue you most hearty thankes and reioyce greatly in the Lord who stirreth vp the hearts of others to be carefull for me in this my great necessitie I thanke God as yet I doe want nothing and intende to be as little chargeable vnto others sauing my mother as I can If I do want I wil be bolde wyth you and others to send for your reliefe and helpe in my necessitie desiring you in the meane while to pray for mee and all others in the bondes of Christ that God woulde performe the thing which he hath begon in vs that we maye with boldnesse confesse Iesus Christe and fighte the good fight of faith Yours George Marsh. A letter of George Marshe to a certaine godly frende GRace be with you and peace be multiplied in the knowledge of God and Iesus the Lord. After hearty commendations and thankes to you not only for your large token An other letter of G Marsh to to his frend but much more for your louing letters ful of consolation to me as touching my person to you vnknowen these shall be to certifie you that I reioyce greatly in the Lorde when I do perceiue how my sweete sauiour Christ doth stirre vp the mindes not only of my familiar frends in times past but also of sondry and diuers heeretofore vnto me vnknowne and vnacquainted to beare part with me in this my painfull costly imprisonment sending me things not onely necessary for thys present life but also comfortable letters incouraging exhorting me to continue grounded and stablished in the faith and not to be moued away from the hope of the Gospell wherof according to my small talent I haue bene a minister and daily I call and crie vnto the Lord in whom is al my trust and wythout whom I can do nothing that he which hath begon a good worke in me wold vouchsafe to go forth with it vntill the day of Iesus Christ being surely certified in my conscience of this that he will so doe for as much as he hath geuen me that not only I shoulde beleeue on him but also suffer for his sake The Lord strengthen me with hys holy spirite that I maye be one of the number of those blessed which enduring to the ende shal be saued And whereas you say that my suffering of persecution wyth Christ is a thing to you most comfortable I make answere that in all mine aduersitye and necessitye nothing on your behalfe is greater consolation vnto me then to heare of the faith and loue of others and how they haue good remembrance of vs alwayes euen as the Apostle reporteth by the Thessalonians saying Now are ye aliue if ye stande stedfast in the Lorde For my trust in the Lord is that this my businesse shall happen to the
ye are goyng I meane heauen then ye nowe finde and are like to doe Foule 〈◊〉 and foulâ— weather the kingdome of heauen excepte ye wyll with the worldlinges which haue theyr portion in this life 〈◊〉 still by the way til the stormes be ouerpast and then eyther night will so approch that ye can not trauell eyther the doores will be sparred before ye come and so ye shall lodge without in wonderfull euill lodginges Read Apocal. 22. Begin at Abel come from him to Noe Abraham Isaac Iacob Ioseph the Patriarches Moses Dauid Daniell and all the Sayntes in the olde testament and tell me whether euer any of them found any fayrer way then ye now finde If the olde Testament will not serue The 〈◊〉 of all 〈◊〉 Saincteâ— both in olde and new tesâ—â—â—ment 〈◊〉 bene thoâ—rough aâ—â—fliction I praye you come to the new and beginne with Mary and Ioseph and come from them to Zachary Elizabeth Iohn Baptist and euery one of the Apostles and Euangelistes and search whether they all founde anye other way into the Citty we trauayle towardes then by many tribulations Besides these if ye shoulde call to remembraunce the primatiue Churche Lord GOD ye shoulde see many to haue geuen chearefully theyr bodyes to most greuous tormentes rather then they woulde be stopped in theyr iourney that there is no day in the yeare but I dare say a thowsand was the fewest that with great ioy lost theyr homes here Read thâ— story of primitiâ—â— Church â—â—boue 〈◊〉 but in the Cittye they went vnto haue found other maner of homes then mans minde is able to conceiue But if none of all these were if ye had no company now to go with you as ye haue me your poore brother and bondman of the Lord with many other I trust in GOD if ye had none other of the Fathers Patriarches Kynges Prophettes Apostles Euangelistes Martyrs and other holy saincts and children of God that in their iourney to heauenward found as ye now finde and are lyke to finde if ye go on forwarde as I trust ye will yet ye haue your Mayster and your Captayne Iesus Chryst the deare dearlyng and onely begotten and beloued sonne of God Christ Ieâ—â—s the 〈◊〉 leader â—f all Gods 〈…〉 in whome was all the fathers pleasure ioy delectation ye haue him to goe before you no fayrer waye but muche fouler into this our Cittye of Ierusalem I neede not I trust to rehearse what manner of waye he found Beginne at his birth and till ye come at his buriall yee shall finde that euery foote and stryde of his iourney was no better but much worse then yours is now Wherfore my dearely beloued in the Lorde be not so deintie as to looke for that at Gods handes your deare father which the Fathers Patriarckes Prophetes Apostles Euangelistes Martyrs Sainctes and his owne sonne Iesus Christ dyd not finde Hetherto we haue had fayre way I trow and fayre weather also now because we haue loytered by the waye and not made the speede we shoulde haue done our louing Lorde and sweete father hath ouercast the weather and styrred vp stormes and tempestes that we might with more hast runne out our race before night come and the doores be sparred The Deuill standeth now at euery Inne doore in his Citie and Countrey of this world crying vnto vs to tary and lodge in this or that place tyll the stormes be ouerpast not that he woulde not haue vs wet to the skinne but that the tyme might ouer passe vs to oure vtter destruction Therfore beware of his entisementes Cast not your eyes on thinges that be present how this man doth and howe that man doth But cast your eyes on the gleue ye runne at or els ye will lose the game Ye know that he which runneth at the gleue doth not looke on other that stande by and go this waye or that way but altogether hee looketh on the gleue and on them that runne with him that those which be behynde ouertake hym not and that he may ouertake them which be before euen so shoulde we doe leaue of lookyng on those which will not runne the race to heauen blisse by the pathe of persecution with vs and cast our eyes on the ende of our race and on them that goe before vs that wee may ouertake them and on them which come after vs that we may prouoke them to come the faster after Hee that shooteth will not cast his eyes in his shootyng on them that stand by To looke to the marke or ryde by the wayes I trowe but rather at the marke he shooteth at for els he were lyke to wynne the wrong way Euen so my dearely beloued let your eyes be set on the marke ye shoote at euen Christ Iesus who for the ioye set before hym did ioyfully cary his Crosse contemning the shame and therefore he now sitteth on the right hande of the throne of God Let vs follow him for this did he that wee shoulde not be fayntharted For we may be most assured that if we suffer wyth him we shall vndoubtedly raygne with hym but if wee denye him surely he will deny vs for he that is ashamed of me saythe Christ and of my Gospell in this faythles generation I wyll be ashamed of him before the Angels of God in heaven Oh howe heauy a sentence is this to all suche as knowe the Masse to bee an abhominable idoll 〈…〉 to the 〈…〉 masse full of idolatrye blasphemye and sacriledge agaynst God and his Christ as vndoubtedly it is and yet for feare of men for losse of lyfe or goodes yea some for aduauÌ„tage and gayne will honest it with theyr presence dissemblyng both with God and manne as their owne harte and conscience doth accuse them Better it were that such had neuer known the truth then thus wittingly and for the feare or fauoure of man whose breath is in his nosethrels to dissemble it or rather as in deeede it is to deny it The end of such is like to be worse then their beginning Such had neede to take heed of the two terrible places to the Hebrewes in the sixt and tenth Chapiters 〈◊〉 2. 〈◊〉 2. â—eb 6 10. least by so doyng they fall therein Let them beware they playe not wily begile themselues as some doe I feare me whiche go to Masse and because they worship not nor kneele not nor knocke not as others doe but sit still in theyr pues therefore they think they rather do good to others then hurte But alas if these men woulde loooke into their owne consciences there shoulde they see they are very dissemblers and in seeking to deceiue others for by this meanes the Magistrates thinke them of theyr sorte they deceiue themselues They think at the eleuation tyme all mennes eyes are set vppon them to marke howe they doe They thinke others hearyng of suche men goyng to Masse do see 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beleue and confesse all the Articles of faith doctrine set forth in the Simbole of the Apostles The Creede whiche we commonly cal the Creede and in the Symboles of the Councels of Nice kept An. dom 324. of Constantinople An. dom 384. of Ephesus kept An. dom 432. of Calcedon kept An. dom 454. of Toletum the first and fourth Also the Symboles of Athanasius Irenaeus Tertullian of Damasus which was about the yeare of our Lorde 376. we confesse and beleue we saye the Doctrine of the Symboles generally and particularly so that who soeuer doth otherwise we hold the same to erre from the truth Fourthly we beleue and confesse concerning iustification Iustification by fayth onely in Christ. that as it commeth onely from Gods mercy through Christ so it is perceaued and had of none whiche be of yeares of discretion otherwise then by fayth onely which fayth is not an opinion but a certaine perswasiō wrought by the holy Ghost in the minde and hart of man What fayth is where through as y e minde is illumined so the hart is soupled to submitte it selfe to the will of God vnfaynedly so sheweth forth an inherēt righteousnes Righteousnes in man righteousnes without man The doctrine of free iustification defended for no curiositie but for quiet of conscience which is to be discerned in the Article of iustification from the righteousnes which God endueth vs withall iustifying vs although inseperably they goe together And this we do not for curiositie or contention sake but for conscience sake that it might be quyet whiche it can neuer be if we confounde without distinction forgeuenes of sinnes and Christes Iustice imputed to vs with regeneratiō and inherent righteousnes By this wee disalowe Papisticall doctrine of free will of woorkes of supererogation of merites of the necessitie of auricular confession and satisfaction to Godwardes Seruice in the vulgar tongue Fiftly we confesse and beleue concerning the exteriour seruice of God that it ought to be according to the word of God and therfore in the congregation al thinges publike ought to be done in such a tongue as may be most to edifie not in Latin where the people vnderstād not the same Sixtly we confesse and beleue that God onely by christ Iesus is to be prayed vnto and called vpon Inuocation to God alone Purgatory and Masses suffragatory denied therfore we disalow inuocation or prayer to Saints departed this life Seuenthly we confesse and beleeue that as a man departeth this life so shall he be iudged in the last day generally in the meane season is entred either into the state of the blessed for euer An. no 1554. May. or damned for euer and therefore is either past all helpe or else needes no helpe of any in this life By reason whereof we affirme Purgatory Masses of Scala coeli Trentals and suche Suffrages as the Popishe Church doth obtrude as necessary Two sacramentes to be the doctrine of Antichrist Eightly we confesse and beleeue the Sacramentes of Christ which be Baptisme and the Lordes Supper that they ought to be ministred according to the institution of Christ concerning the substantiall partes of them and that they be no longer Sacraments then they be had in vse and vsed to the end for the which they were instituted The supper to be ministred in both kindes Against transubstantiation Agaynst Adoration of the sacrament The masse to be no propitiatory sacrifice Inhibition of Priestes mariage Antichristian And heere we playnly confesse that the mutilation of the Lords Supper and the subtraction of the one kinde from the lay people is Antichristian And so is the doctrine of transubstantiation of the Sacramentall bread and wyne after the words of consecration as they be called Item the adoration of the Sacrament with honor due vnto God the reseruation and carying about of the same Item the Masse to be a propitiatory sacrifice for the quicke and dead or a worke that pleaseth God All these we confesse and beleeue to be Antichristes doctrine as is the inhibition in Mariage as vnlawfull to any state And we doubt not by Gods grace but we shal be able to prooue all our confessions heere to be most true by the veritie of Gods word and consente of the Catholicke Churche which followeth and hath followed the gouernaunce of Gods spirit and the iudgement of his word And this thorough the Lordes helpe we will do eyther in disputation by word before the Queenes hyghnesse and her Counsayle eyther before the Parliament houses of whome we doubt not but to be indifferently heard eyther with our pennes whensoeuer we shall be thereto by them that haue authoritie required and commaunded In the meane season as obedient Subiectes wee shall behaue our selues towardes all that be in authoritie and not cease to pray to God for them that he woulde gouerne them all generally and particularly with the spirite of wisedome grace And so we hartily desire humbly pray all men to do Exhortation agaynst rebelliō in no point consenting to any kinde of rebellion or sedition against our soueraigne Lady the Queenes highnes but where they can not obey but they must disobey God there to submit themselues with all patience and humilitie to suffer as the will and pleasures of the higher powers shall adiudge as we are ready thorough the goodnes of the Lord to suffer whatsoeuer they shall adiudge vs vnto rather then we will cōsent to any doctrine contrary to this which we heere confesse vnlesse we shall be iustly conuinced therof either by writing or by word before such Iudges as the Queenes hyghnes and her Counsell The bigger part agaynst the better Appeale from the Vniuersitie Doctors as not indifferent iudges or the Parlamēt houses shall appoint For the Uniuersities and Clergy haue condemned our causes already by the bigger but not by the better part without all disputation of the same and therefore most iustly we may do appeale from them to be our Iudges in this behalfe except it may be in writing that to al men the matter may appeare The Lord of mercy endue vs all with the spirit of his truth and grace of perseuerance therein vnto the end Amen The 8. of May Anno Dom. 1554. Robert Menauen aliâs Robert Ferrar. Rowland Taylor The names of the prisoned preachers subscribing to this declaration Iohn Philpot. Iohn Bradford Iohn Wigorne and Glouc. Episcopus aliâs Iohn Hooper Edward Crome Iohn Rogers Laurence Saunders Edmund Laurence I. P. T. M. ☞ To these things abouesayd do I Myles Couerdale late of Exon consent and agree with these my afflicted breethren being prisoners with mine owne hand And thus much concerning this present declaration subscribed by these preachers which was on the viij day of May. Furthermore the xix day of the sayd moneth the Lady Elizabeth May. 19. Lady Elizabeth Sir Iohn Williams Sister to the Queene was