I am contēt For I am vnder your feete to be troden on as you list God forgyue it you yet am I no heretike neyther you nor any other shal be able to proue that I holde any iote agaynst the worde of God otherwyse then a christian man ought Storie The worde of God forsoth the worde of God Yt is but a follye to reason with these heretiks for they ar incurable and desperat But as I maye reasō with the not that I haue any hope to wynne thee whom will thou apoynt to be iudge of the worde wherto thou standest phil Verely the worde it selfe Storie Do you not see the ignorauncie of this beastly heretike he willeth the word to be Iudge of the worde cā the word speake Phil. Yf I can not proue that which I haue sayd by good auctoritie I wil be cōtent to be coūted an heretike an ygnorāt persō further what you please Storie Let vs heare what wyse auctoritie thou canst bring in phil It is the sayng of Christ in S. Iohn verbū quod locutus sum iudicabit in nouissimo dic The worde which I haue spoken sayth Christ shall Iudge in the last daye Yf the worde shal iudge in the last daye muche more it ought to Iudge our doinges nowe And I am sure I haue my Iudge on my side who shall absolue iustifie me in an other world howsoeuer now it shall please you by auctoritie vnrighteouslye to Iudge of me and others sure I am in an other worlde to Iudge you Storie What you purpose to be a stinking martyr and to syt in Iudgemēt with Christ at the last daye to Iudge the twelue trybes of Israel Phil. Yea syr I doubt not therof hauing the promise of Christ yf I die for righteousnes sake which you haue begon to persecute in me Storie I told you it is but vayne to argue with this heretike he is drowned in his heresies wtout al learning Phil. Syr I haue brought you for that I haue sayd good auctoritie out of Goddes booke to the which you answere nothing but goo about stil to gyue raylīg iudgemēt agaynst me wtout any cause Storie I wil com to you by by when the iudge in westminster halle geueth sentence doth the worde gyue sentence or the iudge tel me phil Ciuil maters be subiect to ciuil mē and they haue autoritie by the worde to be iudge of them But the word of God is not subiecte to mans iudgement but ought to iudge al the wysedome thoughtes and doynges of men And therfore your cōparison disproueth nothing that I haue sayd neither answereth any whyt therto Storie Wilt thou not alowe the interpretacion of the churche vpon the scripture Phil. Yes yf it be according to the word of the true churche and this I saye to you as I haue sayd heretofore that yf ye can proue the churche of Rome wherof ye are to be the true catholyke churche which I ought to folowe I wylbe as ready to yelde therto as long as it can be so proued as you may desire me Storie What a felowe is this he wil beleue nothing but he list him selfe Are we not in possession of the church haue not your forfathers these many hundreth yeres taken this churche for the catholyke churche wherof we are now And yf we had none other profe but this it were sufficient For prescription of tyme maketh a good tytle in the law Phil. You do wel M. doctor to alledge prescription of many yeares That al is nothing but a lye for it is al that you haue to shewe for your selues But you must vnderstande Ex diuinis nulla occurrit praescriptio that prescriptiō hath no place in maters belonging to God as I am hable to shewe by the testimonye of many doctors Storie Wel syr you are lyke to go after your fathers Latimer the Sophister Now Story ye shewe your selfe in your Colours Rydley who had nothyng to alledge for hym selfe but that he had learned his heresie of Cranmer where I came to him with a poore bacheler of art he trēbled as though he had had the palsey as these heretikes haue alwayes some token of feare wherby a man maye knowe them as you may se this mans eyes do tremble in his head But I despatched them And I tel thee that there hath ben yet neuer a one burnt but I haue spoken with him haue ben a cause of his despatche Phil. You haue the more to answere for M. doctor as you shal fele it in an other worlde how moche so euer you do now triumphe of your procedinges Storie I tel thee I wil neuer be cōfessed therof And bicause I cannot now tarye to speake with my lorde I pray you one of you tel my lorde that my cōmyng was to signifye to his lordship that he must out of hande ryd this heretike awaye And goyng away he sayd vnto me I certifye the that thou maist thanke none other man for it but me Phil. I thanke you therfore with al myne hart and God forgeue it you Storie What doest thou thanke me yf I had thee in my study half an houre I thinke I should make you syng an other song Phil. No maister doctor I stande vp on to sure a grounde to be ouerthrowen by you nowe And thus they departed al awaye from me one after an other vntyl I was left al alone And afterwards with my keper goyng to my colehouse as I went I met with my lorde of London who spake vnto me gently as he hath hitherto in wordes sayeng London Philpot yf ther be any pleasure I maye shewe you in my house I pray you require it you shal haue it phil My lorde the pleasure that I will require of your lordship is to hasten my iudgemēt which is cōmitted vnto you and so dispatsche me forth of this miserable worlde vnto my eternal rest And for all his fayre speache I can not attayne hytherto this forthnight space neyther fyer nor candle neyther yet good lodgyng But it is good for a man to be brought lowe in this world and to be counted amongest the vylest that he may in tyme of rewarde receyue exaltacion and glorie Therfore praysed be God that hath humbled me and gyuen me grace with gladnes to be content therwith all Let all that loue the truth saye Amen The fyfth tragedye The sixt examinacion of Iohn Phylpot had before the right honorable lordes lord Chamberleyne to the kinges maiestie the Vicount Hereforde commonly called lord Ferrers my lord Ryche my lord saynt Iohns the lord wyndsore the lord Shandoys Sir Iohn of brydges Lieutenaunt of the tower and two other mo whose names I know not with the bishop of London D. Chedsey the syxt daye of Nouēbre Anno Dn̄i 1555. phil BEfore that I was called before the lordes and whyles they were in sitting downe the bishop of London came asyde to me and whystred in myne care willīg me to vse my selfe
The examinacion of the constaunt Martir of Christ Iohn̄ Philpot Archediacon of Winchestre at sondry seasons in the tyme of his sore emprisonment conuented and bayted as in these particular tragedies folowyng it maye not only to the christen instruction but also to the mery recreacion of the indifferent reader most manifestly appeare Reade fyrst and than iudge Whan the waters arose the floode bette vpon this house and coulde not moue it for it was buylded vpon a rocke Luc. 6. And the rocke was Christ 1. Corint 10. The examinacion of Iohn̄ Philpot before the Quenes cōmissioners maister Cholmley maister Roper D. Storie and one of the Scribes of the Arches at newgate sessions hall 2. Octob. 1555. DOctor storie before I was called into an inner parler where they satte came out into the hal where I was to vewe me among other that there were And passyng by me sayd Ha maister Philpot. And in returning immediatly agayne stayed against me beholdyng me and sayeng that I was wel fedd in dede I Phil. Yf I be fat and in good lykyng maister doctor it is no maruayle synce I haue ben staulled vp in prison this twelue moneth an halfe in a close corner I am come to know your pleasure wherfore you haue sent for me Storie We heare that thou arte a suspecte person and of heretical opiniōs and therfore we haue sent for thee Phil. I haue ben in prison thus long only vpon the occasion of the disputaciō made in the conuocation house and vpon suspect of setting furthe the report therof Storie Yf thou wilt reuoke the same and become an honest man thou shalt be set at libertie and do ryght well or elles thou shalte be committed to the B. of London How sayest thou wilt thou reuoke it or no Phil. I haue already answered in this behalfe to myne Ordinarie Storie Yf thou answerest thus when thou commest before vs anone thou shalt heare more of our myndes And with this he went into the parler and I within a lytle while after was called in The Scribe Sir what is your name Phil. My name is Iohn̄ Philpot. And so he intytuled my name Storie This man was Archdeacon of wynchester of doctor Ponets presentement Phil. I was Archdeacon indede but none of his presentment but by the vertue of a former vowson geuen by my lorde Chauncelour that now is Storie Ye maye be suer that my lorde Chaūcelour would not make any such as he is Archdeacon Roper Come hyther to me M. Philpot we heare saye that you are out of the catholyke churche and haue ben a disturber of the same out of the which who so is he can not be the chylde of saluacion Wherfore yf you wyl come into the same you shal be receyued fynde fauour Phil. I am come before your worshipfull maisterships at your appointment vnderstanding that you are magistrates authorised by the Quenes maiestie to whome I owe and wyll do my due obedience to the vttermost Wherfore I desire to knowe what cause I haue offended in wherfore I am nowe called before you And yf I cā not be charged with any particular mater done cōtrarie to the lawes of this realme I desire your masterships that I maye haue the benefit of a subiecte and to be delyuered out of my long wrongful imprisonment where I haue lyen thys twelue moneth and this halfe without any callyng to answer before now And my lyuyng taken from me without all lawe Roper Though we haue no particular matter to charge you with all yet we maye both by our commission and by the lawe dryue you to answere to the suspicion of a slaūder goyng on you And besydes this we haue statutes to charge you herin withall Phil. Yf I haue offended any statute charge me therwithal and yf I haue incurred the penaltie therof punyshe me accordingly And bycause you are magistrates executours of the Quenes maiesties lawes by force wherof you do nowe syt I desyre that yf I be foūde no notorious trāsgressour of any of thē that I may not be burdened with more than I haue done Cholm Yf the Iustice do suspect a felon he maye examine hym vpon suspicion therof and commit him to prison though ther be no fact done Storie I perceyue wherabout this mā goeth he is playne in Cardmakers case for he made the selfe same allegations but they will not serue thee For thou arte an heretike and holdest agaynst the blessed masse howe sayest thou to that Phil. I am no heretyke Storie I wil proue thee an heretyke Whosouer hathe holden agaynst the blessed masse is an heretyke but thou hast holden against the same therfore thou arte an heretyke Phil. That which I spake that you are hable to charge me withall was in the conuocacion where by the Quenes maiesties will her hole councell lybertie was gyuen to euery mā of the house to vtter his conscience and to saye his mynde freely of suche questions in religiō as there were propounded by the Prolocutor for the which now I ought not to be molested imprisoned as I haue ben neither nowe be compelled of you to answer to the same Storie Thou shalt go to the Lollardes tower and be handled there lyke an heretyke as thou art and answere to the same that thou there diddest speake and be iudged by the B. of London Phil. I haue already ben conuented of this matter before my lorde chaūcelor myne ordinary who this lōg tyme hathe kept me in prison therfore yf his lordshyp wil take awaye my life as he hath done my libertie and liuing he maye the which I thinke he cā not doo of his conscience and therfore hath let me lye thys long in prison wherfore I am content to abyde the ende of hym herin that is myne ordinarie and doo refuse the auditory of the bishop of London because he is an vnconpetent Iudge for me and not myne ordinarie Storie But syr thou spakest the wordes in the conuocation howse which is of the bishop of londōs diocese and therfore thou shalt be caried to the lollardes tower to be Iudged by hym for the wordes thow spakest in his diocese agaynst the blessed masse Phil. Syr you know by the lawe that I may haue exceptionem fori And it is agaynst al equyte that I should be twyse vexed for one cause and that by suche as by the lawe haue nothing to do with me Roper You cā not denye but that you spake agaynst the masse in the conuocation howse Storie Doest thow now denye the which thou spakest there or no Phil. I can not denie that I haue spoken ther. And yf by the lawe you maye put me to death therfore I am here ready to suffer whatsoeuer I shal be adiudged vnto The scribe This man is ledde of vayne glorie Cholm Playe the wyse gentilmā be cōformable be not stubborne in your owne opiniōs neyther cast your selfe away I would be glad to do you good Phil. I desyre
acceptable because they were not in al poīts done according to Goddes worde Wherfore except blessing be made after the worde which is a dewe thankes geuyng for our redēption in Christ and shewing forth of the Lordes death in suche wise as the congregacion may be edified and also a taking and eating after Christes commaundement as it is not in the masse This ys my body which is the latter parte of the sacrament hath neuer no place neither can be verefied For Christ cōmaunded aswell take ye and eate ye as this is my body Chadsey Christ sayd take eate this is my body and not take ye eat ye phil No did master doctor be not these the wordes of Christ accipite manducate do not these words in the plural nōber singnifie take ye eat ye not take thou eat thou as you would suppose Chadsey I graunt it is as you saye phil Lykewyse of consequency you master doctor must nedes deny which you haue sayd that these words this is my body being only spoken be sufficyent to make the body bloude of Chryste in the sacramēt as you haue vntruly sayd London Then came in the bishop agayne and sayde what is that you would haue master doctor deny phil My lord master doctor hath affirmed that these words this is my body spokē by the priest only do make the sacramēt London In dede if master bryges should speake these wordes ouer the bread wyne they would be of none effect but if a priest speake them after a due maner they are effectuall and make a reall body Phil. Master S. hath sayd otherwise London I thinke you mystake him for he meaneth of the words duely pronounced Phil. Let him reuoke that he hath sayd thē must it nedes folowe that this is my body hath no place except blisse take eate duely go before And because the same do go before this is my body in your sacramēt of the masse it is not the sacrament of Christ neyther hath Christ present Chadsey If this is my body onelye do not make the sacrament no more do blysse take and eate Phil. I graūt that the one without tho ther can not make the sacrament And it can be no sacrament onles the hole action of Christ doth concurre together according to the fyrst institucion Chadley Why then you wil not haue it to be the body of Christ onles it be receyued phil No verely it is not the very body of Christ to none other but to suche as condignely receyue the same after his institucion London Is not a loafe a loafe being set on the table though no body eat therof phil It is not like my lorde For a lofe is a lofe before he be set at the table But so is not the sacrament a perfect sacrament before it be dewly ministred at the table of the lord London I pray you what is it in the meane while before it is receiued after the wordes of consecraciō spokē answer me phil It is my lord the signe begon of a holy thing and yet no perfecte sacrament vntil it be receiued For in the sacrament there be two thinges to be cōsidered the signe and the thing it selfe which is Christ and his hole passion it is that to none but to suche as worthily receyue the holy signes of bread wine according to Christes instituciō wynsor Ther were neuer none that denyed the wordes of Christ as you do did not he saye this is my body phil My lord I pray you be not disceyued we do not deny the wordes of Christ but we say these wordes be of none effect being spoken otherwyse than Christ did instuute them in his last supper for an example Christ bydde the church to baptyze in the name of the father the Sonne the holy Goost yf a priest saye those words ouer the water and there be no chyld to be baptised those words onely pronounced do not make baptysme And agayne baptysme is only baptysme to such as be baptized to none other standing by L. Chamber I pray you my lorde let me aske him one question what kind of presence in the sacrament duely ministred according to Christes ordinaūce do you allowe Phil. Than do I confesse the presence of Christe holly to be with all the frutes of his passyon vnto the worthy receyuer by the spirit of God and that Chryst is therby ioyned to him he to Chryst L. chamber I am answered London My lordes take no hede of him For he goeth about to disceyue you His similitude that he bryngeth in of baptisme is nothing lyke to the sacrament of the altare For yf I should saye to syr Iohn Bryges being with me at supper My lorde is better skilled in bely cheare than in Christes sacramentes and hauing a fatt capō take eat this is a fat capon Although he eat not therof is it not a capon styll and lyke wyse of a pece of beefe or of a cup of wine yf I saye drinke this is a good cup of wine is it not so because he drinketh not therof Phil. My lord your similitudes be to grosse for so highe mysteries as we haue in hand as yf I were your equall I could more playnly declare and ther is muche more dissimilitude betwene common meates and drinkes than ther is betwene baptysme and the sacramēt of the body and bloud of Christ Lyke must be compared to like and spiritual thinges with spirituall not spiritual thinges with corporal thinges And meates drinkes be of their owne natures good or euil your wordes commēding or discōmēding do but declare what they are But the sacramentes be to be cōsidered according to the word which Christ spake of thē of the which take ye and eate ye be some of the chief concurrent to the making of the same without the which ther can be no sacramentes And therfore in Greke the sacrament of the body bloude of Christ is called Coenonia a cōmunion And lykewyse in the gospel Christ commaunded sayeng Diuidite inter vos diuide it among you Chadsey S Paul calleth it a communicacion Phil. That doth more expressely shewe that there must be a participaon of the sacrament togyther London My lordes I am sory I haue troubled you so long with this obstinate man with whom we can do no good I wil troble you no lēger now And with that the lords rose vp non of them sayeng any euil word vnto me halfe amased in my iudgement God worke it to good Thus endeth the syxt part of this tragedie the seuēth loke for with Ioye The vij examinaciō of Iohn Philpot had the .xix. of Nouembre before the bishops of London and Rochester the chaunceler of Lychefeld D. Chadsey master Dee bacheler of diuinitie SYrra come hither How chaūce you come no soner is it wel done of you to make maister chaunceler and me to tary for you this houre wel sworne my lorde by the fayth of my body halfe an
departed by my lordes regester I was brought to his cellar dore where I dranke a good cuppe of wine my lordes chaplain master Cosyn folowed me taking acquaintauÌ„ce sayeng that I was welcome wished that I would not be singular Phil. I am wel taught the contrarie by SalomoÌ„ sayeng Vae soli Wo be vnto him that is alone After that I was caried to my lordes cole house againe where I with my sixe felowes do rowse together in the strawe as chearfully we thanke God as other do in their beddes of downe Thus for the thyrde fitte The examinacioÌ„ of maister Iohn Phylpot had in the archdeacons house of LoÌ„don the 〈◊〉 day of October before the bishops of LoÌ„don Bathe worcester and Glocester MAster Phylpot yt hath pleased my lordes to take paynes hereto daye to dyne with my pore archdeacon Naye your cousyn ArchediacoÌ„ and you bothe bastardes and .ij. priestes sonnes and in the dinner tyme it chaunced vs to haue communication of you And you were pitied here of many that knewe you in the new college in Oxford And I also do pytie your case because you seme vnto me by the talke I had with you the other night to be learned And therfore nowe I haue sent for you to com before them that yt might not be sayd herafter that I had so many learned byshopes at my house and yet would not vouchesafe them to talke with you And at my request I thaÌ„ke theÌ„ they are coÌ„tented so to do Now therfore vtter your mynde frely you shal with al fauour be satisfied I am sorye to see you lye in so euel a case as you do and would fayne you should do better as you maye yf you lust Bath My lordes here haue not sent for you to fawne vpoÌ„ you but for charities sake to exhort you to coÌ„me in to the right catholike waye of the churche worcest Before he beginneth to speake yt is best that he calleth to God for grace and to praye that yt myght please God to open hys hart that he maye conceyue the truth phil With that I fell downe vpon my knees before them and made my prayer on this maner Almyghtie God which art the geuer of al wisdome and vnderstanding I beseche the of thyne infinite goodnes and mercy in Iesus Christ to gyue me most vile sinner in thy sight the spirite of wisdome to speake and make answere in thy cause that it maie be to the contentacion of the hearers before whom I stand And also to my better vnderstanding yf I be deceiued in any thing London Nay my lorde of Worcester you did not well to exhorte hym to make any prayer For this is the thing they haue a singular pride in that they can ofteÌ„ make their vayne prayers in the which they glorie moche For in this point they are moche like to certayne arraÌ„t heretikes of whom Plinie maketh mentioÌ„ that dyd dayly syng â—n eâ—uâ—anoâ— hymnos prayse vnto God before the dawnyng of the daye phil My lord God make me and all you here pÌ„sent suche heretykes as those were that soÌ„g those mornyng hymnes for they were ryght Christians with whom the tyraÌ„nes of the world weare offended for theyr well doing Bath Procede to that he hath to saye he hath prayed I caÌ„ not tell for what London Saye on master Phylpot my lordes wyll gladly heare you Phil. I haue my lordes beÌ„ this twelue moneth and an halfe in prison without any iust cause that I knowe and my liuing taken from me without any law ful ordre And nowe brought contrary to ryght from myn owne territorie and ordinarie into an other mans iurisdiction I know not whie Wherfore if your lordships can burden me with any euill done I stand here before you to purge me of the same And if none suche thing may be iustlye layed to my charge I desyre to be released of this wrongfull trouble London Ther is none here goeth about to trouble you but to do you good yf we can For I promise you ye weare sent hither to me without my knowledge Therfore speake your conscience without any feare Phil. My lord I haue learned to answere in matters of religion in Ecclesia legittime vocatus In the congregacion being ther to lawfully called but nowe I am not lawfully called neyther ys here a iust congregacion wher I owght to answere London In dede this maÌ„ tolde me the last tyme I spake with him that he was a lawer And would not vtter his conscience in maters of faith onlesse yt were in the heariÌ„g of the people wher he might speake to vayne glorie Phil. My Lorde I said not I was a lawer neither do I arrogate to my selfe that name although I was once a nouice in the same wher I learned some thyng for myne owne defence when I am callyd in Iudgement to answere to any cause and wherby I haue ben taught not to put my selfe further indaunger then I nede and so farre am I a lawer and no farther Bath Yf you wil not answere to my lordes request you seme to be a wilfull man in your opinion Phil. My lord of LondoÌ„ is not mine ordinarie before whome I am bounde to answere in this behalfe as master D. Cole which is a lawier can wel tel you by the lawe And I haue not offended my lord of London wherfore he should call me London Yes I haue to laye to your charge that you haue offended in my diocese by speaking agaynst the blessed sacrament of the altar and therfore I may call you and procede agaynst you to punishe you by the lawe Phil. I haue not offended in your diocese for that which I spake of the sacrament was in Paules churche in the coÌ„uocation house which as I vnderstaÌ„d is a peculiar Iurisdiction belonging to the deane of Paules and therfore is counted of your lordshipes diocese but not in your diocese London Is not paules churche in my diocese Well I wot it cost me a good deale of mony by the yere the leading therof Phil. That maye be yet be exempted from your lordships iurisdiccion And albeit I had so offended in the place of your diocese yet I ought by the lawe to be sent to myne Ordinarie yf I require it and not to be punished by you that are not myne ordinarie And already as I haue tolde you I haue ben conuented of myne Ordinarie for this cause which you go about to enquire of me London How saye you M. doctor Colle maye not I procede against hym by the lawe for that he hath done in my diocese Colle Yea further him to the fyre Me thinketh M. Philpot nedeth not to stande so muche with your lordship in that point as he dothe sythen you seke not to hynder him but to further hym Therfore I thynke it best that he go to the matter that is layde agaynst hym of the conuocacion and make no longer delaye Phil. I would willynglye shewe my mynde of
do as you do Phil. No my lorde I do not as I do for that cause For I am taught otherwyse by the Gospel not altogether to refuse the minister for his euell lyuyng so that he bryng sounde doctrine out of Goddes boke worce Do you thinke that the vniuersal churche may be deceyued Phil. S. Paule to the Thessalonians prophecied that ther should come an vniuersall departing from the fayth in the latter dayes before the comming of Christ sayeng Non veniet Christus nisi venerit defectio prius That is Christ shall not come tyl ther come a departing fyrst Cole Yea I pray you howe take you the departyng there in S. Paul It is not ment of fayth but of the departing from the empyre For it is in Greke Apostasia Phil. Mary in dede you M. Doctour put me in good remembraunce of the meanyng of saynt Paule in that place For Apostasia is properlye a departyng from the faythe and therof commeth Apostata whiche properlye sygnyfyeth one that departeth from his fayth And saynt Paule in the same place after speaketh of the decaye of the Empire Cole Apostasia doth not only signifie a departing from the fayth but also frō the Empyre as I am hable to shewe phil I neuer red it so taken and when you shal be hable to shewe it as you saye in wordes I wil beleue it and not before morc I am sorye that you should be agaynst the christen world phil The worlde cōmonly and such as be called christians for the multitude hathe hated the truth and ben enemyes to the same Gloue Why maister Philpot do you thynke that the vniuersall churche hathe erred and you only to be in the truthe phil The churche that you are of was neuer vniuersal For two partes of the worlde which is Asia and Affrica neuer consented to the supremacie of the bishop of Rome as at this daye they do not neither do folowe his decrees Gloce. Yes in Florentines coūsel they did agree phil It was sayd so by false reporte after they of Asia and Affrica were gone home But it was not so in dede as the sequel of them al hitherto doth proue the contrarye Gloce. I praye you by whom wyl you be iudged in matters of controuersie which happen dayly phil By the worde of God For Christ sayeth in S Iohn̄ the worde that he spake shal be iudge in the later daye Gloc. What yf you take the worde one waye and I an other waye who shal be iudge then phil The primatiue Churche Gloc. I knowe you meane the doctours that wrote therof Phil. I meane verely so Gloc. What yf you take the doctours in one sence and I in an other who shal be iudge then Phil. Then let that be taken which is most agreable to Goddes worde Cole My lordes why do you trouble your selues to answer him in this mater it is not the thing which is layd to his charge but his errour of the sacrament and he to shyfte him selfe of that brought in an other matter Phil. This is the mater maister Cole to the which I haue referred al other questions and desire to be satisfyed worce It is wonder to se howe he stādeth with a fewe against a great multitude Phil. We haue almost as many as you For we haue Asya Affryca Germany Denmarke and a great part of Fraunce and daylye the nombre of the Gospel dothe increase so that I am credibly informed that for this religion in the which I stād and for that which I am like to diē a great multytude dothe daily com out of Fraūce through persecucion that the cities of Germanie be scarse hable to receaue them And therfore your lordship may be sure the worde of God wil one day take place So what you can to the contrarie worcest They were wel occupied to bring you suche newes and you haue ben well kept to haue suche resort vnto you thou art the arrogauntest and stoutest fond felowe that euer I knewe Phil. I pray your lordshipe to beare with my hastye speache for it is parte of my corrupte nature to speake somwhat hastly But for all that I meane with humilitie to do my dewty to your lordships London Master Philpot my lordes wil troble you no further at this tyme But you shall goo from whence you cam and haue suche fauour as in the meane while I can shew you and vpon wednesdaye next you shal be called agayne to be heard what you cā say for the mayntenaunce of your error Phil. My lord my desire is to be satisfied of you in that I haue required and your lordship shall fynde me as I haue said worcest We wyshe you as well as our selues Phil. I thinke the same my lordes but I feare you are deaceuyd and haue a zeale of your selues not according to knowledge worcest God send you more grace Phil. And also God increase the same in you open your eyes Nay God ryd his shepe from such wolues that you maie se to maintaine his truthe and his true church Than the bishopes rose vp and cōsulted together and caused a writing to be made In the which I thinke my bloude by them was bought and sold and therto they put to theyr handes and after this I was caryed to my cole howse agayne Thus endeth the fourth parte of this tragedye God hasten the ende therof to his glorye Amen BEcause I haue begonne to write vnto you of myne examinacions before the B. other more to satisfie your desire than it is any thing worthy to be written I haue thought yt good to write vnto you also that which hath ben of late that the same myght come to light which they do in darkenes priuy corners and that the world nowe the posteritie herafter might knowe howe vnorderlye vniustlye and vnlearnedlye these rauening wolues do procede agaynst the selye and faithful flocke of Christ and condēpne and persecute the syncere doctrine of Christ in vs which they are not hable by honest meanes to resyst but only by tyrannie and violence The examinacion of Iohn Philpot had before the bishoppes of Lōdon Rochester Couētre S. Asses I trow one other whose seas I know not Doctor storie Curtop D. Sauerson D. Pendletō with diuers other chaplaynes and gētlemen of the Quenes chamber with diuers other gentilmen in a galerye of my lord of Londons palace MAster Philpot come you hyther London I haue desired my lordes here other learned men to take som paynes once agayne and to do you good and because I do mynd to sit in iudgemēt on you to morowe as I am commaunded yet I would you should haue as muche fauour as I can shewe you yf you wil be any thing conformable Therfore plaie the wyse mā and be not singular in your opinion but be ruled by these learned men phil My lorde that you saye you will sit on me in iudgement to morowe I am glad therof For I was promised by them
the sacrament bothe to be a signe and the thing it selfe when it is duely ministred after the institution of Christ London You maye se howe he goeth about the bushe as he hath done before with my lordes of the clergie and dare not vtter his mynde playnly Ryche Shewe vs what maner of presence you alowe in the sacrament Phil. Yf it shal please you my lorde of London to geue my leaue to procede orderly therunto and to let me declare my mynde wtout interruption I wil throughly open my mynde therin L. Shand. I pray you my lorde let him speake his mynde Phil. My lordes that at the first I haue not playnly declared my iudgement vnto you is this bicause I can not speake herof without the daunger of my lyfe Ryche Ther is none of vs here that seketh thy lyfe or meane to take any auauntage of that thou shalt speake Phil. Although I mistrust not your honourable lordshippes that be here of the temporaltie yet here is one that fytteth against me appointing to my lorde of London that wil laye it to my charge euen to the death Notwithstandyng seyng your honours do require me to declare my mynde of the presence of Christ in the sacrament that ye maye perceyue that I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ neither do mayntayne any opinion without probable and sufficient autoritie of the scripture I wil shewe frankly my mynde without al colour what so euer shal ensewe vnto me therfore so that my lorde of London wyll not let me to vtter my mynde Ryche My lorde permit hym to saye what he can seyng he is willyng to shewe his mynde London I am cōtent my lordes let him saye what he can I wil heare him Phil. That which I do entend to speake vnto you right honourable lordes I do protest here first before God his Angels that I speake it not neither of vain-glorie neither of singularitie neither of wilful stubburnes but truly vpō a good conscience groūded on goddes worde against that which I dare not do for feare of dampnaciō which wil folowe that is done contrary to knowledge Neither do I disagre to the procedinges of this realme in religion for that I loue not the Quene whō I loue frō the bottō of my hart but because I ought to loue feare God in his worde more then man in his lawes Though I stande as I seme to do in this consideration and for none other By what thinges the cleargie deceaueth the hole realme as God I cal to witnesse There be two thinges principally by the which the cleargie at this daye dothe deceyue the hole realme That is the sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ and the name of the catholike churche the which bothe they do vsurpe hauing in dede none of them bothe And as touching their sacrament whych they terme of the Altar I saye nowe as I sayd in the conuocacion house that it is not the sacrament of Christ neither in the same is ther any maner of Christes presence Wherfore they deceyue the Quenes maiestie and you of the nobilitie of this realme in making you to beleue that to be a sacrament which is none and cause you to commit manifest idolatrie inworshippyng that for God which ys no God And in testimony of thys to be true besydes manifest profe which I am hable to make to the Quenes maiestie and to al you of her nobilitie I wil yelde my lyfe The which to do yf yt were not vpō a sure grounde yt were to my vtter dāpnacion Note And where they take on them the name of the catholike churche wherby they blynde many folkes eyes they ar nothyng so callyng you frō the true religion which was reueled taught in kyng Edwardes tyme vnto vayne supersticiō And this I wil saye for the trial hereof that yf they can proue them selues to be the catholyke churche as they shal neuer be hable to do I wil neuer be against their doynges but reuoke al that I haue sayd And I shal desyre you my lordes to be meane for me to the Quenes maiestie that I maye be brought to the iust trial herof Yea I wil not refuse to stande agaynst tenne of the best of them in this realme And yf they be hable to proue that otherwyse then I haue sayd eyther by writyng or by reasonyng with good lawful authoritie I wil here promise to recant what so euer I haue sayd and to consent to them in al pointes And in the declaration of these thinges more at large which nowe I wryte in somme the bishop of London eftsones would haue interrupt me but the lordes procured me lybertie to make out my tale to the great grefe of my lorde bishop of London as it appeared by his dumpes he was in London It hath ben tolde me before that you loue to make a long tale Ryche All heretikes do boast of the spirite of God And euery one would haue a churche by him self as Iohn of Kent and the Anabaptistes I had my selfe Iohn of Kent a seuen nyght in my house after the wrytte was out for her to be burnt where my lorde of Cantorburye and bishop Rydley resorted almost daylye vnto her but she was so hyghe in the spirite that they could do nothyng with hir for al their lernyng But she went wilfullye vnto the fier was burnt so do you nowe Phil. As for Iohn of Kent she was a vayne woman I knewe her wel and an heretike in dede wel worthy to be burnt because she stode against one of the manifest artikles of our fayth contrarye to the scripture And suche vayne spirites be sone knowen from the true spirite of God and his churche for that the same abydeth within the lymittes of Goddes worde and wyll not go out of the same neither stubburnly mayntayne any thing contrarye to the worde as I haue Goddes worde throughly on my syde to shewe for that I stande in London I praye you howe wil you ioyne me these two scriptures together Pater maior me est Et pater ego vnum sumus I must interprete the same bycause my lordes here vnderstande no latyne that is to saye the father is greater thē I and I and the father are one But I crie you mercie my lordes I haue mispoken in sayng you vnderstande no latyne for the most parte of you vnderstande latyne as wel as I. But I spake in cōsideraciō of my lorde Shandois and maister Brydges hys brother whom I take to be no great latine men Now shew you your connyng and ioyne these twayne scriptures by the worde yf you can Phil. Yes that I can ryght well For we must vnderstand that in Christ there be two natures the diuinitie and humanitie And in respecte of his humanitie it is spoken of Christ the father is greater then I. But in respect of his deitie he sayd agayne the father and I be one London But what scripture haue you
other vpon the wordes of a statute must not the wordes of the statute iudge and determine the controuersye Ryche No mary the iudges of the lawe maye determine the meaning therof London He hath brought as good example against him self as caÌ„ be And here the bishop thought he had good haÌ„d fast against me and therfore enlarged it with many wordes to the iudgemeÌ„t of the churche The lordes He hath ouerthrowen him selfe by his owne argument Phil. My lordes it semeth to your honores that you haue great aduauntage of me by the example I brought in to expresse my cause but yf it be pondered throughly it maketh holly with me and nothing against me as my lorde of London hath preteÌ„ded For I wil aske of my lorde Ryche here whom I knowe to haue good knowledge in the lawes and statutes of this realme Albeit a iudge may decerne the meaning of a statute agreable to the wordes whether the same may iudge a meaning coÌ„trary to the expresse wordes or no Ryce He can not so do phil Euen so saye I that no man ought to iudge the worde of God to haue a meanyng contrarye to the expresse wordes therof as this false churche of Rome dothe in many thinges And with this the lordes semed to be satisfyed made no further replicacion herin Ryche I maruel theÌ„ why you do deny the expresse wordes of Christ in the sacrament sayeng this is my body yet you wil not sticke to saye it is not his body Is not God omnipotent And is not he hable aswel by his omnipoteÌ„cy to make it his body as he was to make man fleshe of a pece of claye did not he saye this is my body which shal be betrayed for you and was not his verye body betrayed for vs therfore it must nedes be his bodye London My lorde Ryche you haue said wonderful wel and lernedly But you myght haue begon with him before also in the sixt of IohnÌ„ where Christ promised to gyue his body in the sacrament of the altare sayeng panis quem â—go dabo caro mea est The breade which I wil gyue is my fleshe Howe can you answere to that Phil. If it please you to gyue me leaue to answere fyrst my lorde Ryche I wil also answere the obiection Ryche Answere my lorde of London first and after come to me phil My lorde of London may be sone answered that the sayeng of S. IohnÌ„ is that the humanitie of Christ which he toke on him for the redemption of man is the bread of lyfe wherby our bodyes and soules be susteyned to eternal lyfe of the which the sacramentall bread is a lyuely representacion and an effectuall cohabitatioÌ„ to al suche as beleue on his passion and as Christ sayeth in the same syxte of IohnÌ„ I am the bread that came from heauen but yet he is not material neither natural breade Lykewyse the bread is his fleshe not natural or substanciall but by signification and by grace in a sacrament And nowe to my lorde Ryches argument I do not deny the expresse wordes of Christ in the sacrament this is my bodye But I denye that they are naturally and corporally to be taken but sacramentally and spiritually according to the expresse declaracion of Christ sayeng that the wordes of the sacrament which the Capernaites toke carnally as the Papistes nowe do ought to be taken spiritually and not carnally as they falsely ymagine not wayeng what interpretacion Christ hathe made in this behalfe Neither folowe the institution of Christ nether the vse of the Apostles and of the primatiue churche who neuer taught neither declared no such carnal maner of preseÌ„ce as is nowe exacted of vs violently with out any grounde of scripture or antiquitie who vsed to put out of the church al suche as dyd not receaue the sacrament with the rest also to burne that which was left after the receyuyng as by the Canon of the Apostles and by the decre of the counsel of Antioche London No that is not so they were only Cathecumeni which went out of the churche at the celebration of the coÌ„munion and none other Phil. It was not only of suche as were Nouices in fayth but al others that did not receyue London What saye you to the omnipotency of God is not he hable to performe that which he spake as my lord Ryche hath very wel sayd I tel thee that God by his omnipotency maye make hym selfe to be this carpet yf he will Phil. As concerning the omnipotency of God I saye that God is hable to do as the prophet Dauid fayeth what so euer he willeth But he willeth nothing that is not agreable to his worde as that is blasphemy which my lorde of LoÌ„don hath spoken that God may become a carpet For as I haue learned of auncient wryters Non potest Deus facere quae suÌ„t naturae suae contraria That is God can not do that which is contrary to his nature as it is contrary to the nature of God to be a carpet A carpet is a creature God is the creator and the creator can not be the creature wherfore onles you can declare by the worde that Christ is otherwyse present with vs then spiritually and sacramentally by grace as he hath taught vs you pretende the omnipotency of God in vayne London Why will you not saye that Christ is really present in the sacrament or do you denye it Phil. I denye not that Christ is really in the sacrament to the receauer therof according to Christes institution London What meane you by really present Phil. I meane by really present present in dede London Is God really present euerywhere phil He is so London Howe proue you that phil The prophet Esay sayeth that God filleth all places and where so euer be two or thre gathered together in Christes name there is he in the middest of them London What his humanitie Phil. No my Lorde I meane the Deitie according to that you demaunded Ryche My lorde of LondoÌ„ I pray you let maister doctor Chedsey reason with him and let vs see how he can answer him for I tel thee he is a learned man in dede one that I do credit before a great many of you whose doctrine the Quenes maiestie and the hole realme dothe wel alowe therfore heare him London My lordes I praye you wil it please you to drinke You haue talked a great whyle and muche talke is thrustye I wyl leaue maister doctor and him reasoning together a whyle with your leaue wyl come to you by and by agayne They went as I suppose to make rowme for more drinke after the lordes had dronke Riche My lorde Ryche sayd to the lordes I praye you let the poore man drinke for he is thristy And with that he called for a cup of drynke and gaue it me and I dranke before them all God requite it him for I was athirst in dede Afterwardes doctor Chadsey began in this wyse
is my hole desyre now to folow that which is good what soeuer I haue don in tymes past and to cleaue to Goddes truthe Duresme Do you so and then shal you do wel It is almost nyght my lorde of London I must nedes be gone London Nay my lorde of Duresme I must desire your lordship and my lord of Chichester to tary a lytle whyle And before he had so said the bishop of Bathe went his way wtout sayeÌ„g any worde What my lorde of Bathe wil you be gone I praye you tary My lordes I haue earnest maters to charge this man withal wherof I would your lordships to be made priuie And I haue them here written in a lybel I praye you syt downe agayne or els I wil. First I laye to him here that he hath written in a Bible which I toke from him this erroneous sayeng ê™ spiritus est vicarius Christi in terra wilt thou abyde by this sayeng of thyne that the spirite is Christes vicar on earth Phil. My lorde it is not my sayeng it is a better learned mans then myne For I vse not to wryt mine owne sayenges but the notable sayenges of other auncient wryters as al the other be where ye fynde the same wrytten And as I remember it is in the sayeng of S. Bernarde and a sayeng that I nede not to be ashamed of nether you to be offended as my lorde of Duresine my lorde of Chichester by their learning can discerne and wil not recken it euil sayd London No wil why take awaye the first sillable and it soundeth Arius phil That is farre fetched in dede yf your lordship wil scan mens sayengs in suche wise you may fynde out what you lyst London But to helpe this I fynde moreouer writteÌ„ with his owne haÌ„de in an other boke In me Ioanne Philpotto vbi abundauit peccatum superabundauit gratia That is in me IohnÌ„ Philpot wher synne did abound grace hath superabouÌ„ded I pray you what superabouÌ„daunt grace haue you more theÌ„ other men So said Arius that he had the aboundaunce of grace aboue al other phil My lorde you nede not to be offended with that sayeng more theÌ„ the other for it is the sayeng of S. Paule of hym selfe and I did applye it to my selfe for my comforte knowyng that though my synnes be huge and great in the syght of God yet is his mercye and grace aboue them all And coÌ„cerning Arius and his adherentes I defye them as it is wel knowen I haue written against them London Also I lay to thy charge that thou killedst thy father wast accursed of thy mother in her deathbed as I can bring witnes herof phil O lord what blasphemy is this hathe your lordship nothing of truth to charge me wtal but as I may speake it with your honours such forged blasphemous lyes If any of these caÌ„ be ê“ued I wil promis here to recant at Paules crosse what you wil haue me I am so sure they are as great blasphemies as may be obiected agaynst any man Ha my lordes I pray you considre how my lord of London hath hitherto proceded agaynst me For in dede he hath none other but such pretensed slauÌ„derous lies Chichest They be parorga That is maters besyde the purpose Dures My lord I must nedes bid you fare well London Nay my lord here is a letter which your lordship I shall desire to heare or you goo This man being in my keping hath taken vpon him to write letters out of prison and to peruerte a yong gentilman called Master Grene in my house cal him hyther and hath made a false report of his examinacion as you shall heare not being content to be euill him selfe but to make others as bad as him selfe he all to tare the letter when he sawe my man went about to searche him But yet I haue pieced it agayne together and caused a copy to be written therof and he read the torn letter bidding master Christo for soÌ„ and doctor Morgan to marke the copy therof The contentes of the letter was the examinacion of master Grene before the bishop of London in the presence of master Feknam Deane of Pauls and of dyuers others whose redy answeres in the scriptures and in the doctors was woÌ„dered at of the deane him self and of many others as master Feknam dyd report And that he was first committed to doctor Chadsey and after to doctor Dee the great coniurer and to haue his meate from the bishops owne table How say you my lords was this wel done of him being my prisoner to write this And yet he hath written as shamfully that he was in doctors Chadseys keping how say you maister doctor Chadsey is it not a shamfull lye Chad. Yes my lord he was neuer in my keping Lond. Art thou not ashamed to write suche shamfullyes come hither master Grene did not I shewe you this letter Grene. yea forsoth my lord you shewed it me London Howe thinke you my lordes Is not this an honest man to belye me to call my chaplayne a great coÌ„iurer my lord of Duresme smyled therat phil Your lordship dothe mystake all things this letter as your lordship may perceaue al other that haue herd the same was not wrytteÌ„ by me but by a freÌ„d of myne certyfyeÌ„g me at my request howe master Grene sped at my lord of LoÌ„doÌ„s haÌ„des there is nothiÌ„g in that letter the other I or he the wrote it nede to feare but that myght be wrytten as my reporte London Then tel me who wrote it if you dare phil No my lord it is not my deuty to accuse my frende specyally seyng you will take all thinges to the worst Nether you shal neuer knowe of me who wrote it Your lordship may se in the ende of the letter that my freÌ„d did wryte vnto me vpoÌ„ the occasion of my appeale which I haue made to the hole parlyament house about suche maters as I am wrongfully troubled for London I would see any so hardy to put vp thyne appeale Phil. My lord I caÌ„not tel what God wil worke I haue writteÌ„ it spede as it may London My lord I haue vsed him with muche gentilnes synce he cam to me howe sayst thou haue I not phil If to lye in the vilest prison in this towne being a gentilman and an archdiacon and in a cole house by the space of v. or vi wekes already without fyer or candel be to be counted gentilnes at your handes I must nedes say I haue fouÌ„de geÌ„tilnes But there were neuer meÌ„ so cruelly haÌ„dled as we are at these dayes London Lo what a varlet is this besydes this my lords euen yesterday he procured his man to bring him a bladder of blacke powder I cannot tel for what purpose I. phil Your lordship nedeth not to mistrust the mater it is nothing but to make ynke withall for lacke of ynke as I had it before in the kinges benche wheÌ„ my keper
father he be one And none in the spirite of God can deuide Christ frō the substaunce of God the father onles a natural sonne may be of an other substaūce than his father which nature dothe abhorre Who can abyde the eternall generacion of the sonne of God to be denied synce it is written of him his generacion who shal be able to declare Esa 53. Is ther any true christiā hart that grudged not at suche faythles blasphemours Can the eye eare tongue or the other senses of the body be cōtent to heare their creatour blasphemed not repyned should not the mouth declare the zeale of his maker by spittyng on him that depraueth his diuine maiestie which was is and shal be God for euer Apoc. 3. Yf God as it is mencioned in the Apocalipse wil spew ypocrites out of his mouthe suche as he neither hotte nor colde in his worde why maye not than a man of God spitte on hym that is worsse than an hipocrite enemye to the godhead manifested in the blessed Trinitie which wil in no wyse be persuaded to the cōtrarie Iohan. 2. Yf Christ with a whippe droue out the of temple suche as were prophaners therof ought not the seruaūt of God by some lyke outwarde significacion reproue the villanie of those as go about to take awaye the glorie of him that was the buylder of the tēple Yf there were as muche zeale in men of the truth as there is talkatiue knowlege they would neuer be offended with that which is done in the reproche and cōdemnacion of frowarde vngodlye men whome nothing can please but singularities and diuisions from the churche of Christ which ought to be the mother and mystres of vs al to leade vs Gala. 4. into al true knowledge of the worde of God and not ymagine by ignoraūce takyng the word of God dayly an other Gospel and an other Christ as euery sect dothe separating thē selues frō Christes spouse which is the same that is the accōplishement of truthe Ephe. 1. hitherto neuer knewe O insatiable curiositie O arrogaunt selfe loue the original of al these heresies O pestilent canker of thyne owne saluacion O Arrian the ryght inheritour to Lucifer Esay 14. that would exalte his seate and be lyke to the hyghest whose fal shal be lyke where the synne is equal Yf God dyd hyghly allowe the minister of Ephesus Apoca. 2. for that he could in no wise abyde such as said they were Apostles and were not indede howe maye any laye vncharitablenes vnto me which for the loue of my swete Christ do abhorre al phantastical Arrians in suche sorte as al men ought to do that loue the sonne of God vnfaynedly Yf Moses be cōmended by the scriptures Act. 8. for strykyng an Egiptian that dyd iniurie to one of the people of God howe may he iustly be blamed which dyd spit at him that doth suche iniurie and sacrilege to the sonne of God as to plucke him from his eternal and propre godhead was there euer creature so vnkynde was there euer man so temerarious to stryue against the glory of his glorifier was there euer heretike so bolde and impudent as the Arrian is that durst take frō the sōne of God the glorie which he had with the father frō the beginning Yf Christ be the beginning Apoca. 1. ending of all thing as he testifyeth him self to S. Iohn how may he be but a creature like vnto others who may dissemble such blasphemy that hath any sparke of the spirite of God who may heare with patience the right wayes of the Lorde peruerted by these deuilishe holi Arriās hold his peace A lyuely fayth is not dōme but is alwayes ready to resist the gainesayers as Dauid sayth I haue beleued therfore I haue spoken Speake than you that haue tonges to prayse confesse against these Arriās exalte your voice lyke a trompet that the simple people maye beware of their Pharisaical venome and be not deceaued as now many are vnwares of simplicitie Suffre them not to passe by you vnpointed at yea yf they be so stonte that they will not ceasse to speake against God our saueour and Christ as they are al newe baptised enemies therto refraine not to spit at suche inordidate swyne as are not ashamed to tread vnder their fete the precious godhead of our saueour Iesus Christ Our God is a gelous God and requireth vs to be zelous in his cause Yf we can not abyde our owne name to be euel spoken of without great indignacion shall we be quiet to heare the name of our God defaced and not declare any signe of wrath against thē It is writtē be angry and synne not A man than maye shewe tokens of angre in a cause which he ought to defende without breache of charitie The prophet Dauid sayeth shal I not hate them O Lorde that hate thee Psal 138. vpon thyne ennemyes shall I not be wrathful I wil hate them with a perfect hatred they are become myne enemyes Aaron bycause he was not more zelous in goddes cause whan he perceiued the people bent to ydolatry entred not into the lande of promyse God loueth not luke warme souidiars in the batel of fayth but suche as be earnest and violent shall inherite his kyngdome Therfore S. Paule biddeth vs to be feruent in spirit you that are to colde in these dayes of the cōntet of the gospel aswel against these arch heretiks as others wherof there be at these daies stered vp by the Deuill an infinite swarme to the ouerthrow of the gospell if it were possible I exhort you not to iudge that euil which God highlie commedeth But rather to pray that God will geue you the lyke zeale to withstande the enemies of the gospel neyther to haue any maner of felowship with these Antichristes whom the deuil hathe shitten out in these dayes to defyle the Gospel which go aboute to teache you any other doctrine The gospel pure in K. Edw. dayes than you haue receyued in kyng Edwardes dayes in the whiche praysed be God al the synceritie of the gospel was reuealed according to the pure vse of the primatiue church and as it is at this present of the trew catholike church allowed through the worlde The spirite of God the holye Goost the thirde persone in Trinitie whom these wicked Arrians do elude and mocke hath taught the church according to Christes promise al truth and shal we nowe receyue an other vaine spirite whome the holy fathers neuer knewe Trye the spirites of mē by goddes worde and by the interpretacion of the primatiue churche who had promyse of Christ to receyue by the cōming of the holy goost the true vnderstanding of al that he had spokē and taught after the which we haue ben truely taught to beleue three persones in one deitie God the father frō whom and God the sonne by whom God the holy Goost in whō al