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A22106	The first examinacio[n] of Anne Askewe latelye martired in Smythfelde, by the Romyshe popes vpholders, wyth the elucydacyon of Iohan Bale.	Askew, Anne, 1521-1546.; Bale, John, 1495-1563.; Askew, Anne, 1521-1546. Latter examynacyon of Anne Askewe latleye martyred in Smythfelde. aut	1547 (1547)	STC 851; ESTC S114741	83,394	227

The first examinacioÌ„ of Anne Askewe latelye martired in Smythfelde by the Romyshe popes vpholders wyth the Elucydacyon of Iohan Bale Psame cxvi The veryte of the Lorde endureth for euer Anne Askewe stode fast by thys veryte of God to the ende Â¶ Fauoure is disceytfull bewtye is a vayne thynge But a woman that feareth the Lorde is worthye to be praysed She openeth her mouthe to wysdome and in her language is the law of grace Prouerb xxxi Iohan Bale to the Chrysten readers AMonge other mooste syngular offyces dylygent reader which the lord hath appointed to be done in the ernest sprete of Helyas by the foreroÌ„ners of hys lattre aperaunce this is one verye specyall to be noted They shall turne the hartes of their auncient elders into the chyldren Mala. iiii And the vnbeleuers of theyr tyme to the wysdome of those ryghteouse fathers as ded Iohan Baptyste afore hys fyrste commyng Luce. i. That is say the Bedas cap. lxviii de temporum ratione the fayth and feruent zele of the prophetes and Apostles shal they plant in their hartes whych shal in those dayes lyue and be among men conuersaunt than wyl breake fourth sayth he as a verye true prophete such horryble persecucyon as wyl fyrst of all take from the worlde those myghtye helyases by triumphaunt martyrdom to the terryfyenge of other in the same faythe of whom some shal becom through that occasion most gloryouse martyrs vnto Christ also some very wycked Apostataes forsaking his lyuely doctrine For by the seyd Bedas testymony in the begynnyng of the same chaptre two most certayne sygnes shall we thaÌ„ haue that the lattre iudgement daye is at hande The returne of Israels remnaunt vnto theyr lord God and the horryble persecucion of Antichrist Conferre with this treated scripture and former prophecye of that vertuous man Bedas the worldes alteracyon now with the terrible turmoilynges of our tyme. And as in a mooste clere myrrour ye shal well perceyue them at this present to be in moost quick workynge And as concernynge the Israelytes or Iewes I haue bothe seane and knowne of them in Germanye mooste faythfull Christen beleuers Neyther is it in the prophecye Osee. iii. that they shoulde at that daye be all conuerted no more than they were at Iohan Baptystes preachynge Luce. i. For as Esaye reporteth thoughe the posteryte of Iacob be as the see sande innumerable yet shall but a remnaunte of them conuerte than vnto theyr lorde God Esaie x. And thoughe the Lorde hathe syfted that howse of Israell as brused corne in a syffe amonge all other nacyons Amos. ix Yet shal not that remnaunt of theirs peryshe but at that daye be saued throughe the onelye electyon of grace Romano xi Nowe concernynge the afore seyd foreronners in this most wonderful change of the worlde before the latter ende therof I thynke within thys realme of Englande besydes other nacions abroade the sprete of Helyas was not all a slepe in good Wyllam Tydall Robarte Barnes suche other more whome Antychristes vyolence hathe sent hens in fyre to heauen as Helyas went afore in the fyrye charet iiii Regum ii These turned the hartes of the fathers into the chyldren suche tyme as they toke from a greate nombre of oure nacyon by theyr Godlye preachynges and wrytynges the corrupted beleue of the pope his mastery workers which were no fathers but cruel robbers destroyers IoaÌ„ x. reducynge theÌ„ agayn to the true faithe of Abraham and Peter Gene. xv and Math. xvi The pure beleue in Christes birthe and passion which Adam and Noe sucked out of the first promes of God Iacob and Moses out of the seconde Dauid and the prophetes out of the thirde and so fourthe the Apostles fathers oute of the other scriptures so firmelye planted they in the consciences of manye that no cruell kynde of deathe coulde auerte theÌ„ from it As we haue for example their constaunt discyples and now stronge witnesses of Iesus Christ Iohan Lassels and Anne Askewe with theyr other ii companions verye gloryous martyrs afore God what thoughe they be not so afore the wronge iudgynge eyes of the world whom the bloudye remnaunte of Antechrist put vnto mooste cruell deathe in Smythfelde at London in the yeare of our lorde M.D.XLVI in Iulye Yf they be onely as was Iohan Baptyst great afore the Lorde by the holye scriptures allowaunce which are strongelye adourned with the graces of hys sprete as faythe force vnderstandynge wisdome pacyence loue long sufferaunce and suche lyfe I dare boldelye afferme these iiii myghty wytnesses also to be the same so well as the martirs of the primatyue or Apostles churche For so strongelye had these those vertues as they and so boldelye obiected their bodyes to the deathe for the vndefyled Christen beleue agaynst the malygnauÌ„t Synagoge of Sathan as euer ded they for no tyrannye admyttynge any create or corruptyble substaunce for theyr eternal lyuynge god Yf their blynd babyes to proue them vnlyke do obiect agaynst me the myracles shewed at theyr deathes more than at these as that vnfaythfull generacyon is euer desyerous of wonders Math. xii I wold but knowe of theÌ„ what myracles were shewed whan IohaÌ„ Baptystes head was cut of in the preson Marci vi and whan Iames the Apostle was byheaded at Hierusalem Acto xii These ii were excellent afore God what though they were but miserable wretches light fellowes sedycyouse heretykes busye knaues lowsye beggers in the syght of noble king Herode and hys honorable counsell of prelates For had not rochettes and side gownes bene at hande haplye they had not so lyghtlye dyed Yf they allege Steuen to maynteyne theyr purpose that he at his deathe behelde heauen open I aske of theÌ„ againe what they were whiche se it more than his own persone Sure I am that their wycked predecessours there presente se it not For they stopped theyr eares whan he tolde them therof Actoru vii Yf they yet bringe fourth the other hystoryes of Apostles and martyrs I answere them that all they are of no suche autorite as these here afore The popes martyrs in dede were moche fuller of myracles than euer were Christes as hys selfe tolde vs they shulde be so Mathey xxiiii Yet wrought fryre Forest IohaÌ„ Fisher Thomas More no miracles what though manye be nowe regestred in theyr lyues and legendes by the fryres of Fraunce Italye and Spayne Besydes that Iohan Cochleus hathe writteÌ„ of them ad Paulum PoÌ„tificem ad regem Henricum and also in theyr defence against doctor Sampson With that Erasmus ded also ad HuttenuÌ„ P. M. ad Basparem Agrippam Albertus Pighius Riuius Fichardus a great sort more And as for the holye mayd of keÌ„t with Doctor Bocking though they wrought great wonders by theyr lyfe yet apered non at their deathes Of hys owne chosen martyrs Christ loketh

for non other myracle but that onelye they perseuer faythfull to the ende Mathe. x. And neuer denye his verite afore men Luce. xii For that worthye vyctorye of the synnefull worlde standethe in the inuyncyblenesse of fayth and not in myracles and wonders as those waueringe wittes suppose i. Ioan. v. Ryght wonderfullye wyl this apere in the. ii myghtye conflyctes here after folowynge whych the faytfull seruaunt of Iesu Anne Askewe a gentylwoman verye yonge dayntye and tender had with that outragynge Synagoge in her ii examynacions about the xxv yeare of her age whom she sent abroade by her owne hand writynge The handelynges of her other iii. companyons shall be shewed in other seuerall treatyses at layser For the glorye and greate power of the lorde so manifestlye aperynge in hys elect vessels maye not nowe perysh at al handes be vnthankefullye neglected but be spred the worlde ouer as we le in Latyne as English to the perpetuall in famye of so willfully cruel and spyghtfull tyrauntes Nothynge at all shall it terryfye vs nor yet in anie point lete vs of our purpose that our bokes are nowe in Englande condempned and brente by the Byshoppes and prestes with their frantick affinite the great Antichristes vpholders whyche seke by all practises possyble to turne ouer the kynges most noble and godlye interpryse But it wyll from hens forth occasyon vs to set fourth in the Latine also that afore we wrote onlie in the English and so make theyr spirytuall wyckednesse and treason knowne moche farther of What auayled it Ioakim to burne Hieremies proyhecye by the vngracyouse counsell of his prelates Hiere xxxvi Either yet Antiochus to set fyre on the other scriptures i. Macha i. After the Apostles were brought afore the counsell and strayghtlye coÌ„maunded to cease from preachynge they preached moch more thaÌ„ afore Acto iiii In most terrible persecucions of the primatiue churche were the examynacions answers tormentes and deathes of the constaunt martyrs written and sente abroade all the whole worlde ouer as testyfyeth Eusebius Cesariensis in his ecclesyastyck hystorye Their coppyes habouÌ„de yet euery where Great slaughter burnynge hath bene here in Englande for Iohan wycleues bokes euer sens the yeare of our lorde M. CCC LXXXII Yet haue not one of them throughlye perysheth I haue at thys houre the tytles of a C. and XLIIII of them which are many more in nombre For some of theÌ„ vndre one title comprehendeth ii bokes some iii. some iiii Yea one of them contayneth xii I thinke not the contrary but ere the worlde be at a full ende God wyll so gloryfye that twentye tymes condempned heretyke execrated cursed spitted and spatled at that al your popish writers before hys tyme and after wyll be reckned but vyle swyne heardes to hym for the good fauer he bare to Chrystes holye Gospell A very madnesse is it to stryue agaynst God whaÌ„ he wyll haue the longe hydden inyquytees knowne As the godlye wyse man Gamaliel sayd Acto v. If this enterpryse that is now taken agaynst yow be of God ye shal neuer be able with all your tirannouse practyses to dyssolue it Now concernynge that blessed woman Anne Askewe which latelye suffered the tyrannye of this world for right wisnesse sake In Lyncolneshyre was she borne of a verye auncyent and noble stocke Sir William Askewe a worthy knyght beynge her father But no worthynesse in the fleshe neyther yet anye worldlye noblenesse auaileth to god warde afore whome is no acceptacyon of persone Actorum x. Onlye is it faythe with his true loue and feare which maketh vs the accepte noble and worthye chyldren vnto God Ioan. i. Whereof by hys gyfte she had wonderfull habundaunce Soch a wone was she as was Lydia the purple sellar whose harte the lorde opened by the godlye preachynge of Paule at Thiatira Acto xvi For dylygent hede gaue she to his worde whan it was ones taught wythoute supersticion would no loÌ„gar be a false worshipper or ydolatour after the wicked scole of Antichrist But became froÌ„ thens forth a true worshipper worshipping her lorde God whych is a sprete not breade in sprete in veryte accordinge to the worde of his Ioan. iiii The Gospell of Christ bare she in her harte as ded the holye mayde Cecilia neuer after ceased froÌ„ the study therof nor froÌ„ godlye coÌ„munycacion prayer tyll she was clerlie by most cruel tormentes taken from thys wretched worlde By her do I here dere fryndes in the Lord as ded the faithfull Bretherne in Fraunce at the cities of Lions and Vicuna by a lyke faythfull yonge woman called Blandina Whyche was there put to deathe with iii. myghtye companyons more amonge other as thys was for her ChristeÌ„ beleue about the yeare of our lorde C. and. lxx in the primatiue sprynge of their Christyanyte They wrote vnto their Bretherne in the landes of Asia Phrygia verye farre of her mightie stronge sufferinges for Christes faith which the knewe nothing of afore I write here vnto yow in EnglaÌ„d the double processe of this noble woman wherof ye are not ignoraunt for so moch as it was there so manyfestly done amonge yow Coupled I haue these ii examples togither bycause I fynde them in so manye pointes agree Blandina was yonge and tender So was Anne Askewe also But that which was fraile of nature in theÌ„ both Christ made most stronge by hys grace Blandina had iii. ernest companions in Christ. Maturus Sanctes and Attalus so feruently faythfull as her selfe So had Anne Askewe iii. fyre fellowes a gentylman called Iohan Lassels her instructour a preste and a tayler called Iohan Adlam men in Chrystes veryte vnto the ende most coÌ„staunt With BlaÌ„dina were in preson to the nombre of x. whych denyed the truthe and were clerelie forsakeÌ„ of God for it How manye fell froÌ„ Christ besydes Crome Shaxton whan Anne Askewe stode faste by hym I am vncerteyne But I counsell them as saynte Iohan counselled the Laodycyanes in the myserable estate they are now in to hye them through tryed golde of Christ least they perysh all togither Apoca. iii. If they had not styll remayned in that chauncell whome Christe commaunded Iohan in no wyse to measure Apoc. ii They had neuer so shamefullye blasphemed lyke as Bedas also toucheth in hys former prophecye Prompt was Blandina and of most lustye corage in renderynge her lyfe for the lyberte of her faythe No lesse lyuelye and quyck was Anne Askewe in all her enprisoninges and tormeÌ„tes Great was the loue Blandina had to Christ. No lesse was the loue of Anne Askewe Blandina neuer faynted in torment No more ded Anne Askewe in sprete whan she was so terrybly racked of the chauÌ„celler and Ryche that the strynges of her armes and eyes were peryshed BlaÌ„dina deryded the cruelte of the tyrauntes So ded Anne Askewe

whoredome sodometrie wyth other moste deuylysh vyces reckeneth he not to hurte the minystracyon of a prest yet iudgeth it he an heresye no lesse worthye then deathe to beleue that Christes fleshe and bloude is receyued in faythe and spret What though it be Christes most ernest doctrine Ioan. vi what a saynge sayth this Bishopp is thys In sprete I wyll not take yow at the worste sayth he As though it were a most haynous heresye But mooste dyscrete and godlye was the womannes answere declaringe her a ryghte membre of Christ where as those prestes whoÌ„ he here defendeth are vnworthye receyuers and membres of the deuyl Ioan. xiii i. Corin xi This is an Antichrist here knowne by hys frutes For he vttereth blasphemyes agaynst god Daniel vii Apoc xiii he calleth euyll Good and Good euyll Esa. v. Prouerbiorum iii. Anne Askewe Then he layed vnto me that I shoulde saye that the sacrameÌ„t remaynynge in the pixte was but breade I answered that I neuer sayde so But in dede the quest asked me soche a question whereunto I wold not answere I said tyll soche tyme as they hadde assoyled me this question of myne Wherfore Steuen was stoned to deathe They sayde they knewe not Then sayd I agayne no more wolde I tell them what it was Iohan Bale O Idolouse shepehearde sayth zach thou sekest not to heale the wounded but to eate the fleshe of the fatte zach xi The watche men of Israel sayth the lorde are verye blynde beastes and shamelesse dogges They haue no vnderstandinge but folowe their owne beastly wayes for couetousnesse Esaie lvi Who euer redde in the scripture or autorysed Chronycle that breade in a boxe shulde be Christes bodye Wher or whaÌ„ commaunded he his moste holye bodye so to be bestowed What haue ye to laye for thys doctrine of yours Are ye not yet ashamed of your vnreuerent and blasphemouse beastlynesse will ye still plucke our Christen beleue from the right hand of God the eternall father and sende it to a boxe of your braynyshe deuysynge The first boxer of it was pope Honorius the thyrde in the yeare of our lorde M.CC.XVI after the many folde reuelacyons of dyuerse relygyouse women Neyther was there anye great honour geuen vnto it of the common people till a sorye solytarye syster or Ankorasse in the lande of LeodiuÌ„ or Luke called Eua after certen visions had procured of pope Vrbanus the forth in the yeare of our Lorde M.CC.LXIIII the feaste of Corpus Christi to be holdeÌ„ solempne all Christendome ouer As testifieth Arnoldus Bostius Epist vi ad Ioannem Paleonydorum In al the. xii hondred yeares afore that was it neyther boxed nor pixed honoured nor sensed vnyuersally And se what an horrible worke here is now for the boxinge therof and what a great heresie it is to beleue that Christ dwell not therin contrary both to hys owne to hys Apostles doctryne Marke also how this Gods creature is handeled here for it and how subtyllye she is betraied of the Bishoppes begles and lymmes of the deuyll Anne Askewe Then layde it my Lorde vnto me that I hade alleged a certen text of the scripture I answered that I alleged none other but Saynte Paules owne saynge to the Athenianes in the. xvii chapter of the Apostles actes That God dwelleth not in temples made wyth handes Then asked he me whate my faythe and beleue was in that matter I answered hym I beleue as the scripture doth teache me Then enquyred he of me what yf the scripture dothe saye that it is the bodye of Chryste I beleue sayde I lyke as the scrypture doth teache me Then asked he agayne what yf the scrypture dothe saye that it is not the bodye of Christ My answere was styll I beleue as the scrypture infourmeth me And vpon thys argumente he taryed a greate whyle to haue dryuen me to make him an answer to his minde Howe be it I wolde not but concluded thus with hym that I beleued therin and in all othere thynges as Christ and hys holy Apostles dyd leaue them Iohan Bale Se what an horryble synne here was She alleged the scripture for her beleue whyche is a sore and a daungerouse matter For it is agaynste the popes canon lawes and agaynst the olde customes of holie churche Sens kynge Henryes dayes the fourth hath it ben a burnynge matter onlye to reade it in the Englyshe tunge and was called wycleues lernyng tyll now of late years And it wyll not be wele with holye churche tyll it be brought to that point agayne For it maketh manye heretykes agaynst holye churche O insipyent papystes These are your corrupted practyses and abhomynable studyes to dryue the symple from God and yet ye thynke he seyth yow not Psalme xiii S. Paule sayth Roma xv what so euer thynges are wrytten in the scriptures are written for our lernynge that we through pacyence and coÌ„fort in them myght haue hope and ye wyll robbe vs therof Christ commaunded all peoples both men and women Iohan. v. to serche the scryptures yf they thynke to haue euerlastynge lyfe for that lyfe is no where but in theÌ„ Yet wyll yow in payne of deathe kepe them kyll from them For ye take vpon ye to sytte in Gods stede and thynke by that vsurped offyce that ye maye turne ouer all ii Thes. ii But Christ bad vs to be ware both of yow and your chaplaines whaÌ„ he said There shall aryse false Christes and false prophetes workynge many great woÌ„ders and saynge Lo here is Christ and there is Christ. Beleue them not Matt. xxiiii And therfore alleged this womaÌ„ vnto your qwestmongers the dogges that Christ warned vs of Mathei vii and now vnto yow that saing of S. Paule Acto xvii That God dwelleth not in teÌ„ples made with handes which also were the wordes both of Salomon longe afore iii. Reg. viii of Steuen Act vii in his tyme. That scripture somoch offeÌ„ded yow that ye wolde nedes knowe therof the vnderstaÌ„dynge For soche textes as agre not with the cloynynges of youre coÌ„iurers and the conueiaunces of your sorcerers must nedes be seasoned with Aristotles Phisickes and fawced with Iohan Donses subtyltees Here make ye a wonderfull turmoylynge to wrynge out of this WomaÌ„nes beliue in that matter that she might eyther become a creature of your olde God the pope or els be burned yet haue she not ones remoued her fote from the harde foundacyon or sauynge rocke Ihesus Chryst. i. Corinth xi Blessed be hys holye name for it Anne Askewe Then he asked me whye I had so fewe wordes And I answered God hath geuen me the gyfte of knowlege but not of vtteraunce And SalomoÌ„ sayth that a womaÌ„ of fewe wordes is a gifte of God Prouer. xix Iohan Bale WhaÌ„ Christ stode before Cayphas he asked him moche after thys sort wherfore he had so few wordes Thou answerest not

sayth he to those thynges which are laied Here against that of these meÌ„ Neuerthelesse he helde hys peace Mar. xiiii But whan he was ones throughly compelled by the name of the lyuynge God to speake and hadde vttered a verye fewe wordes he toke him at suche aduauntage though they were the eternall veryte as he was able through theÌ„ to procure hys death Matth. xxvi lyke as thys bloudye Bishopp Bonner of the same wycked generacion dyd at the lattre by thys faythful woman Anne Askewe Thirdelye my lorde layed vnto my charge that I shulde saye that the Masse was ydolatrye I answered hym No I sayde not so Howbeyt I sayde the quest dyd aske me whether pryuate Masses dyd releue sowles departed or no Vnto whome than I answered O Lorde what ydolatrye is thys that we shulde rather beleue in pryuate masses than in the helthsome deathe of the dere sonne of God Than sayde my lorde agayne What an answere was that Thoughe it were but meane sayd I yet was it good ynough for the question Iohan Bale About the lattre dayes of Iohan wycleue in the yeare of our lorde a M.CCC LXXXII as Henrye Spenser than Bishopp of Norwich was with a great nombre of English warryours besieginge the Towne of Hypers in Flaunders in the quarell of pope Vrbanus the. vi The vessels of perdycyon or verye organes of Sathan the iiii orders of beggynge fryres preached all Englande ouer that that moste holye father of theirs had lyberallye opened the wele of mercye and graunted cleane remyssyon to all them that wolde eyther fyghte or geue anye thynge towardes the mayntenaunce of those warres in the quarell of holye churche agaynst scysmatykes and heretikes For than was thys matter of their popyshe Masse in great controuersye lyke as it is now More ouer thei promised by vertue of hys great pardons to sende the sowles departed to heauen And diuerse of them sayd they had seane theÌ„ flye vp out of the churche yeardes from their graues thydre warde Thys moste deuilishe blasphemie wyth suche other lyke prouoked the sayde Iohan wycleue the verye organe of God and vessell of the holy Ghost not onlye to replye than agaynste them at Oxforde in the open scooles but also to wryte a greate nombre of bookes agaynst that pestylente popyshe kyngedome of theyrs lyke as Martyn Luther hath done also in our tyme wyth many other godly men And lyke as those false prophetes the frires dyd than attribute vnto the popes pardons the remyssyon of synnes the deliueraunce from daÌ„pnacyon and the fre enteraunce of heaueÌ„ whych peculyarly belongeth to the precyouse payment of Christes bloud i. Petri i. i. Io. i. So do these false anoynted or blasphemouse Byshoppes and prestes now attrybute them agayne vnto theyr pryuate and publique Masses the popes owne wares as prowlynge and pelferynge as the pardons with no lesse blasphemye The deuylysshenes of this newe doctrine of theyrs shall be refelled in my bokes agaynst fryre Peryn and Wynchestre and therfore I wrytte the lesse here Anne Askewe Then I tolde my Lorde that there was a prest whyche dyd heare what I sayde there before my lord Mayre them with that the chaunceller answered which was the same prest So she spake it in veri dede saith he before my lord the Mayre me Then were there certen prestes as doctor Standyshe other which tempted me moche to knowe my mynde And I answered them alwayes thus That I haue sayd to my lorde of London I haue sayde Iohan Bale By thys ye may se that the Byshoppes haue euery wher their watchmeÌ„ lest the kynges offycers shulde do anye thynge contrarye to their bloudie behoue This Chauncellour wolde not haue thus answered hardely so agreablye to her tale had it not bene to theyr aduauntage agaynste her as here after wyll apere Marke here the fashyon of these temptynge serpentes Standysh and hys fellowes And tel me if they be not lyke vnto those vypers whelpes whyche came to Iohans Baptym Mathei iii. and to Christe Iesus preachynge Luce. xi I thynke ye shall fynde them the same generacion Anne Askewe And then doctor Standyshe desyered my lorde to byd me say my mynde concernyng that same text of S. Paule I answered that it was agaynste saynt Paules lernynge that I beynge a woman shulde interprete the scriptures specyallye wher so many wyse lerned men were Iohan Bale It is not yet halfe a score of yeares ago sens thys blasphemouse Idyote Standyshe compared in a lewde sermon of his the dere pryce of our redempcion or precyouse blode of Christ to the bloud of a fylthy swyne lyke himselfe a swyne And for hys good doyng he is now becomen a dawe a doctor I shuld saye of the popes dyuynyte and a scolasticall interpretour of the scriptures to his behoue Here wold the swynysh geÌ„tylman haue proued both that S. Steuen dyed an heretyke and S. Paule a scysmatyke for teachynge that God dwelleth not in teÌ„ples made with handes Act vii xvii if he might haue reasoÌ„eâ— out the matter with thys woman But she toke a swyne for a swyne and wold laye no pearles afore hym as Christe had charged her afore Mathei vii For all their interrogacions are now about the temple and the temple wares Matthei xxvi Anne Askewe Then my lorde of London sayde he was infourmed that one shulde aske of me yf I woulde receyue the Sacramente at Easter and I made a mocke of it Then I desyred that myne accuser myghte come fourth whyche my lorde wolde not But he sayde agayne vnto me I sente one to geue yow good counsell and at the first worde ye called him papyste That I denied not for I perceyued he was no lesse yet made I non answere vnto it Iohan Bale No confortable scriptures nor yet anye thynge to the sowles consolacyon maye come oute of the mouthe of these spirytuall fathers But dogges rhetorycke and curres curtesye narrynges brawlynges and quarellynges Whan she was in the myddes of theÌ„ she myght wele haue sayd wyth Dauid Delyuer me lord from the quarelouse dealynges of men that I maye kepe thy coÌ„maundemeÌ„tes I deale with the thynge that is lawfull and ryght O geue me not ouer to these oppressers lette not these proud quarellers do me wronge Psal. cxviii But among all these quarellynges her accusers myght not be seane whych were the grounders of them Anne Askewe Then he rebuked me and saide that I shoulde reporte that there were bente agaynste me thre score prestes at Lyncolne In dede quothe I I sayde so For my fryndes tolde me yf I dyd come to Lyncolne the prestes woulde assaulte me and put me to greate trouble as therof they had made theyr boast And whan I hearde it I wente thyder in dede not beynge afrayed because I knewe my matter to be good More ouer I remayned there vi

that he wente forthe in to hys greate chamber and redde the same byll afore the audyence whiche enuegled and wylled me to sette to my hande saynge also that I hade fauer shewed me Iohan Bale In euerye matter concernynge our Christen beleue is the scripture reckened vnsuffycyent of this wycked generacyon God was not wyse ynough in settynge the order therof but they muste adde therunto their swybber swylle that he may abhorre it in vs as he dyd the Iewes ceremonies Esa. i. Hiere vii zacha vii Amos. v. Michee vi But thys godly woman wolde corrupt her fayth with no suche beggerye leaste she in so doynge shuld admit them and theyr pope to syt in her conscience aboute the eternall God whyche is their daylye study ii Thes. ii A virgin was she in that behalfe redemed froÌ„ the earth folowynge the lambe and hauinge in her forehead the fathers name written Apocalypses xiiii Anne Askewe Then sayde the Byshoppe I myght thanke other and not my selfe of the fauer I founde at hys hande For he consydered he sayd that I hadde good fryndes and also that I was come of a worshypfull stocke Then answered one Christofer a seruaunte to master Dennye Rather ought ye my lorde to haue done it in suche case for Gods sake thaÌ„ for maÌ„nes Iohan Bale Spirituall wyll these fathers be named and yet they doo all to be seane of men Mat. xxiii Theyr olde condicions wyl they change whan the blacke moreane change his skynne and the catte of the mountayne her spottes Hieremy xiii Yf I sought to please meÌ„ saith S. Paule I were not the seruaunte of Christ. Gala. i. Whan thys tyrannouse Byshoppe can do no more myschefe than flattereth he the worlde sekynge to haue thanke where he hath non deserued And as concerning the loue or true feare of God as is here layed vnto hym he hath non at all Psal. xiii Anne Askewe Then my lorde sate downe and toke me the wrytynge to set therto my hande and I wrytte after this maner I Anne Askewe do beleue al maner thinges contayned in the faythe of the Catholycke Churche Then because I dyd adde vnto it the Catholycke Churche he flonge into hys chambre in a greate furye Wyth that my cosyne Bryttayne folowed hym desyerynge hym for Gods sake to be good lorde vnto me He answered that I was a woman and that he was nothynge deceyued in me Then my cosyne Brittaine desyred hym to take me as a woman and not to sette my weake womaÌ„nes wytte to hys lordshippes greate wisdome Iohan Bale Was not this thinke yow a sore matter to be so greuously taken of this prelate But that they are naturallye geuen to soch quarellinges Math. xxiii This worde Catholyck was not wonte to offend them How becometh it than now a name so odeose ParaueÌ„ture through thys onlye occasion They knewe not till now of late years for it came of the Greke the true sygnyfycacyon therof As that it is so moche to saye in the Englysh as the vnyuersall or whole Afore tyme they toke it to mean their oyled coÌ„gregacioÌ„ alone But now they perceyue that it includeth the layte so wel as theÌ„ no loÌ„gar they do esteme it Other cause can I non coniecture whye they shulde now more contempne it than afore Anne Askewe Then went in vnto him doctor weston and sayde that the cause whye I dyd wrytte there the Catholyke churche was that I vnderstode not the churche written afore So with moche a do they persuaded my lorde to come oute againe and to take my name with the names of my suerties whiche were my cosyn Brittayne and mastre Spylman of Grayes inne Iohan Bale For an holye churche wyl they be taken and seme moche to differ frome the lewde lowsye layte or prophane multitude of the common people by reason of their holye vnccyons and shauynges whych came from theyr pope Most specyallye because they haue nothyng a do with marryage reckened a most coÌ„tagiouse poyson to holy orders as theyr for sayd Romysh father hath taught why she bryngeth vp al his chyldreÌ„ in SodoÌ„ Gomor Iude. i. Apoca. xi And thys point haue they lerned of theyr predecessours the olde pharyses and prestes which were not sicut ceteri hominuÌ„ as the coÌ„mon sort of men are but holie spirituall gostly fathers Luce xviii Wherfore they wyl not now be called a catholyck but an holy spiritual churche Anne Askewe Thys beinge done we thought that I shulde haue bene put to bayle immedyatlye accordynge to the order of the lawe Howbeit he wolde not so suffre it but commytted me from thens to preson agayne vntyll the nexte morowe And than he wylled me to apere in the guylde halle and so I dyd Notwithstandynge they wolde not put me to bayle there neyther but redde the Byshoppes wrytynge vnto me as before and so commaunded me agayne to preson Iohan Bale A verye seruitude of Egypte is it to be in daunger of these papystyck Bysshoppes as in thys acte doth apere Se what cauillacioÌ„s this Pharao dyd seke here to holde this ChristeÌ„ womaÌ„ still vndre his captiuite so louth is the gredye wolfe to depart from his desyred praye Ioan. x. These delaies and these sendinges from Cayphas to Pilat and froÌ„ Pylate agayne to Annas in Paules were not els but to seke more matter agaynste her and to knowe more depelye who were her fryndes and maynteners They that shall conferre the fashyons of thys termagaunt Byshoppe concernynge thys woman with the cruell maners of great Parao in the delyueraunce of the people of Israel at Gods commauÌ„demeÌ„t Exo. v. or with the handelinges of the Iewes spirytualte coÌ„cerning Christ Math. xxvi Iohan. xviii they shall not fynde them all vnlyke Anne Askewe Then were my suerties appoynted to come before them on the nexte morowe in Paules churche whyche dyd so in dede Notwithstandinge they wolde ones agayne heaue broken of with them bycause they woulde not be bouÌ„de also for an other womaÌ„ at theyr pleasure whom they knewe not nor yet what matter was layed vnto her charge Notwythstandynge at the laste after moche a do and reasonyng to and fro they toke a bonde of them of recognisaunce for my fourth commynge And thus I was at the last delyuered Written by me Anne Askewe Iohan Bale No veryte sayth Oseas the Prophet no mercy nor yet knowlege of God is now in the earth but abhomynable vyces haue euerye where gotten the ouerhande one bloud gyltynesse folowynge an other Osee. iiii Thinke you that the Byshoppes and prestes coulde take so cruel wayes wolde worke so false feates if they had the true feare of God or yet reckened to fele a ryght wyse iudge at the lattre daye Suppose it not Not onlye mynded they to shew no mercy to this womaÌ„ but also to werie al her frindes and acquayntaunce whych is most extreme cruelte and

the olde canonysed martirs which in the popes Englysh churche haue had so many solempnitees seruices and sensinges Manye haue also moste desperatly recanted through their most wicked persuacions and threttenynges in whose vaine recantacioÌ„s are both to be seane theyr blasphemyes agaynste God and manyfest treasons agaynste their kinge Now in conferrynge these martyrs the olde with the newe and the popes with Christes I seclude first of all the Brytayne churche or the primatiue churche of thys realme which neuer had autoryte of the Romishe pope Her martirs in dede were agreable to that Chryste spake a fore in the Gospell concernyng his martyrs wherby we shulde knowe theÌ„ as we euydentlye finde in the liues of Emerita kinge Lucyes syster Amphibalus Albanus Aaron Iulius Dionothus soche other I sende yow forthe saith he as shâ—pe amonge wolues MeÌ„ shall delyuer ye vp in their counsels sinagoges Ye shall be brought before rulers and kinges and be hated of all men in a maner for my names sake Mathei x. Caste not afore in your mindes what answere to make For I in that houre shal gyue ye both vtteraunce and wisdome which al your aduersaries shall not be hable to withstande Luce xxi They shall excommunycate yow or condeÌ„pne yow for heretikes Yea they shall bring yow in soch hate of the world that who so euer killeth yow will thynke he doth God great good seruyce And thys shall they do bycause they knowe rightly neither father nor yet me Iohan. xvi Manye other lyke sentences left the lorde Iesus Christ in his holie Gospell that we shulde alwayes by theÌ„ discerne hys true martyrs froÌ„ the popes Mahomettes couÌ„terfet martyrs In EnglaÌ„de here sens the first plaÌ„tacion of the popes Englysh churche by Augustine other Romish moÌ„kes of Benettes supersticioÌ„ ii kindes of martyrs hath bene One of monasterye buylders and chaunterye founders whom the temporall princes secular magystrates haue dyuerslie done to death sumtyme for disobedience and sumtyme for manifest treason as we haue of Wallenus of Crowland Thomas of LaÌ„castre Rycharde Scrope Becket soch other The ymages of these haue bene set vp in their teÌ„ples lyke the olde Gods of the paganes haue had theyr vigyls holy dayes ringinges sacrifisiÌ„ges caÌ„dels offeriÌ„ges feastiÌ„ges moch a do besides as they had The other sort were preachers of the Gospell or poore teachers therof iÌ„ corners whaÌ„ the persecucioÌ„ was soche that it myght not be taught abroade And these poore sowles or true seruauntes of God were put to deathe by the holy spirituall fathers Byshoppes prestes monkes chanons fryers for heresye lollerye they saye These Christen martyrs were neuer soleÌ„pnysed of them No they had not so moch as a peny dirge or a grote masse of Requiem no more thaÌ„ had Iohan Baptyst and Steuen amonge the Iewes But they haue bene holden for condempned heretykes euer sens Who euer hearde anye goodnesse yet reported of Dionothus with his M. CC. companyous whom Augustyne can sed to be slayne at Westchestre in hys churches begynnynge bycause they wolde not preache as he dyd apoynt theÌ„ nor baptyse after the Romysh maner neyther yet hallow the Eastre feast as they dyd Many a blessed creature both men womeÌ„ haue bene breÌ„t sens Iohan Wycleues tyme a fore for onlye disclosynge the pharysees yokes teachynge the Gospels liberte And theÌ„ haue that bawdye bloudie Synagoge of SathaÌ„ dyffamed blasphemed condeÌ„pned execrated cursed to hell as most detestable heretykes and dogges Wher as if they were of Christ they ought in case they were their haters or enemies to suffre theÌ„ to saye wele of them to do them good to praye for them Math. v. Luce. vi not thus to vse more tyrannie ouer them than euer dyd Saracene Turke TirauÌ„t or deuyll A great dyfference is there of the martyrs whom they make from the martyrs whom they canonyse Of them whom they dampne from them whom they worshypp yea so great a difference or dyuersyte betwine them if ye marke them wele as is betwyxt golde and dyrt or light and darkenesse The martyrs whose deathes they haue procured by all ages of theyr bloud-thursty church harkned vnto Christ healde of ryghtousnesse and sought their lorde God in sprete Esa. li but the martyrs for the most part whom they haue with so manye latyne wawlynges torches candell burnynges magnyfyed in their temples harkened to the pope healde of hys vnrightousnesse sought out hys superstycyouse ydolatryes In the conferrynge of their olde canonysed martyrs with our newly condempned martyrs here Anne Askewe and her other iii. companyons with soche like their difference will be moch more easelie perceiued First lete vs beginne with Thomas Becket which was so gloryouse a martyr and precyouse aduocate of theirs that they made his bloude equal with Christes bloude and desyred to clime to heauen therby Manie wonderful miracles coulde that mitred patrone of theirs do in those dayes whan the monkes had fryre Bakons bokes and knew the bestowynge of fryre BoÌ„gaies mystes but now he can do none at al. Thys Becket in all hys floryshynge doynges harkened to the pope defended his pompouse kingedome supported his churches excesse wretchedlye dyed for the synnefull lybertees of the same Anne Askew her sort gaue diligeÌ„t hede to their lorde Iesus Christ soughte the kingedome of heauen in daylye repentaunce mightelye detested all ydolatrouse worshippynges in conclusyon suffered moste tryumphaunt deathe for the same CoÌ„cernynge other martyrs As Wenefrid otherwyse called Boniface an Englysh moÌ„ke archebyshopp of Magunce was slaine coÌ„firminge neophytes or professynge his newlie baptysed brode to the Romysh popes obedieÌ„ce There was fouÌ„de aboute hym a casket full of rellickes or dead meÌ„nis bones whaÌ„ he was put to death in the year of our lorde vii c. lv Anne Askewe here felyshyp had none other rellyckes aboute theÌ„ whaÌ„ they stode at the stake to be brent in Smythfelde but a bundell of the sacred scriptures inclosed in their hartes and redye to be vttered aganist Antichristes ydolatries Saynt Clare of Orchestre contemninge lawfull marryage made hym selfe an ydel prest was by headed in his owne gardene by procurimente of a womaÌ„ S. ClitaÌ„ke of Southwales was in like case stabbed in with a dagger bycause a yonge maiden loued him The only true honoure of God was it no worldlye cause that Anne Askewe her companye dyed for Saynt Edwyne being wel armed was slayne in battayle at Hatfelde in the North and S. Edwarde rydynge a Huntinge in the forest of Warham in the weast was killed vpon hys horse in drinkinge a cuppe of wine And all thys was done for the kyngedomes of thys worlde The martyrdome of Anne Askewe and her Bretherne was neyther in battelinge nor huntynge rydynge nor drynkynge but in that ryght course which Christ prescribed vnto his

dyscyples vnder the cruell Byshoppes for his onlye glorye Saynet Cadocke of Cowbridge a Bysshop was pearced through with a speare as he stode at his Masse at one of the clocke at after non bicause he wolde be of the ordre of martyrs Saynte Elphege archebishopp of Caunterburye was stoned to deathe of the Danes bycause he wolde not pase them thre M. Marke in the yeare of our lorde M. xii Of soch martyrs moch doubted LaÌ„francus which suceeded him in that office about a iiii score years after and disputed therof with Anselmus The cause of Anne Askewe and her companions was neither madnesse nor moneye but the onlie sekinge of their lord God righte As Sainte Indract with other deuoute pilgrimes of Rome laie in bed in their inne at Shapwyck by Blastenbury their throtes were cut in the night for moneie which was reckened to be in their pylgrymes scryppes Saynt Iuthware a virgine was behedded also for layenge fresh chese or cruddes whether ye will to her brestes The cause of Anne Askewe and her other fellowes conferred with Christes scriptures semeth a farre other matter Hewalde the blacke and Hewalde the whyght ii Englysh moÌ„kes goynge froÌ„ place to place with cruettes chalyce and superaltare to do their daylye sacrifices were done to deathe in Frislande by the bowers of the contrey for teachynge a straunge relygyon and are worshypped at Coleyne for martyrs For bearynge about Christes testament which is most heauenlye treasure and for spredynge the wholsom doctrine therof was Anne Askewe and her sort breÌ„t by the prestes procuremeÌ„t yet are they no honour for it Osytha runnynge awaye frome her husbande by the intysement of ii monkes became a professed nonne and was murthered of the Danes Wenefryda by counsell of a prest dysdaynouslye refusynge the marryage of a prynce chrystened lost her head for it Maxentia also played a parte not al vnlyke to thys Soch pylde popysh martyrdomes compared to the martyrdome of Anne Askewe and her faythful companye is as is rustye yron compared to pure syluer S. William of Rochestre a Scotte leauynge both wife houshold ydly to trudge on pylgrymage was strycken in the heade wyth an axe of his owne companyon by the waye Saynte Thomas of Douer a monke was suche a wone as was slayne of the frenche men for hydynge the churches iewels crosses chalyces copes No such light corruptible vanytees were they that Anne Askewe her constaunt bretherne dyed for but for the precyouse veryte of God Yonge S. Wyllyam of Norwych yonge S Robert of Burye yonge S. Hugh of Lyncolne yoÌ„ge S. Melor of Cornewayle yoÌ„g s. Kenelme of Glocestre yonge S. Eldrede of RaÌ„saye his brother wyth soch other lyke were but verye babes they saye were martyred of the Iewes of other enemyes Wherfore their martyrdomes shal be but babysh in coÌ„parysoÌ„ of these the verite hauing by theÌ„ so smal furtherauÌ„ce Foillanus his iii. bretherne goynge homeward in the nyghte after they had well banketed wyth S. Gertrude her nonnes were killed in a wod of one murtherer and their horses solde in the next market towne Iustinanus S. Dauyes ghostlye father in Wales was slayne in a gardene of hys iii. monkes bycause he compelled them to do more laboure than he wolde do hys selfe After Kilianus was come home frome Rome he was murthered in his selle wyth other holye pylgrymes by a woman as they laye there a slepe in the nyght Saynt Vrsula also and her she pylgrymes with theyr chaplaynes nurses and suckyng babes were but homely handeled at Coleyne of the hunnes and pietes if that legende be true as they were commynge homewardes from Rome Compare me Anne Askewe and her condempned companye wyth these clowted canonysed solempnysed sensed matrensed and massed martyrs and tell me by the Gosples trial whyche of them seme moste Christenlyke martyres Yea brynge saynte Edmound of Burye saynt FremuÌ„d of Dunstable saynt Ethelbert of Herforde S. Oswalde of Glocestre saynte Oswyne of Tynmoth and Saynte Wynstane of Euesham whych are the best of the Englyshe martyres to the touche stone of Goddes worde and ye shall fynde theyr martyrdomes and causes full vnlyke to theyrs whome the Byshoppes murther now apace in Englande In all these Englysh martyrs reherced here afore ye shall fynde verye fewe coloures or yet tokens that Christ sayd his martyrs shuld be knowne by on lesse ye take pylgrimages poÌ„pes rellyckes women battels huÌ„tynges ydelnes monkeryes moneye treasure worldlye kingdomes conteÌ„pt of marryage superstycyoÌ„s suche other vanitees for theÌ„ And than wyll I saye and not lye in it that ye are moch better ouerseane thaÌ„ lerned in the scriptures of God as youre olde blynde bludderynge predecessours hath bene Ye wyll axe me here if I reckeÌ„ EnglaÌ„de thaÌ„ all barreÌ„ of ChristeÌ„ martyrs Naye marry do I not For I knowe it hathe had good store seÌ„s the popes faith came first into Englande to the Gospels obscuracyoÌ„ though their names be not knowne to al meÌ„ Greate tyraÌ„nye was shewed by the heythnysh emprours kynges at the fyrst preachynge of the Gospel in the primatyue churche of the brytaynes by the cruel callynge on of the pagane prestes But nothinge lyke to that hath bene shewed seÌ„s in the Englysh church by the spiritual tyrauÌ„t of Rome his mytred termagauÌ„tes at the prouocacyoÌ„ of theyr oyled swylbolles bliÌ„d Baalamites For they most cruellye breÌ„t those innoceÌ„tes whych dyd but only read the testameÌ„t of God in their mother runge do not yet repente them of that myschefe but contynewe therin Yf ye marke wel these ii examinacioÌ„s of Anne Askewe ye shal fynde in her in her other iii. coÌ„mpanioÌ„s besydes other whoÌ„ the Byshoppes in our tyme afore hath breÌ„t the expresse tokeÌ„s that Christ sealeth his martyrs wt. Thei apered as shepe amonge wolues They were throwne in stroÌ„g presoÌ„ They were brought forth into couÌ„sels synagoges Their answeres were out of gods spret as herin apereth not out of their own They were reuyled mocked stocked racked execrated condempned and murthered as is sayde afore By a spiritualte also as he promised they shuld be Mat. xxiii and xxiiii Yea those spiritual tyrauntes besydes theyr mortal malyce vpoÌ„ the innocent bodyes haue most blasphemouslye vttered in theyr spyghtful sermons and writynges that their sowles are dampned as is to be seane in the bokes of winchestre and Peryn But let them be ware lest they dampne not theyr own wretched soules For ful sure we are by Christes stronge promes Luce. xii That theyr sowles they can not harme wyth all theyr popes blacke curses Ful swetelye rest they now in the peace of God where theyr slaunderous and malyciouse iudgementes can not hurte them at al Sapi. iii. Lette those Epycures pygges dampne them with as manye blasphemouse

or soche an abomynable ydoll as subuertynge Christes true religyon wyll be your fynall destruccyon both here and in the worlde to come For ydolles are called abhomynacyoÌ„ al the scriptures ouer Yet shall it endure say the Daniel sumwhere vnto the ende of al Daniel ix Wherby ye maye well perceyue that it comprehendethe not onely the tryumphaunt stremers of Tyberius or golden ymages of Caligula whyche bothe preuented the subuersyon of Hierusalem but some other ydolles which shulde contynewe And it folowethe in the Gospell texte that he shulde sytte in the holye place for the tyme of hys contynuaunce Mathei xxiiii And not in the paganes temples Tell me yf youre Masses be done anye where els than in your hallowed sanctuaryes vpon your sanctified aulters and in your holy ornamentes and consecrate cuppes Neyther may any do them vnlesse they be anoynted therunto of your Byshoppes sorcerers Not without the holy place sayth-Christ is that abhomynacyon but in it Mathei xxiiii Antichriste sayth saynt Paule shal syt not without but within the verye temple of God ii Thessalo ii The papacye is not wythoute but wythin the verie church of Christ what thoughe it be no part therof Apoca. xi Therfore it shall be mete that we be ware and seperate oure selues frome them at the admonyshmentes of hys hoolye doctryne leaste we be partakers wyth yow in theyr promysed dampnacioÌ„ Apoca xviii By the vayle ouer Moses face she meaneth the blynde confydence that manye men yet haue in olde Iewysh ceremonyes and beggarlye tradycions of men as S. Paule doth call them Gala. iiii Wherby the veryte of God is sore blemished The spiritual knowlege which cometh by the clere doctryne of the Gospell mynystreth no soch impedymentes of darkenes But all thynges are clerelye seane to them which are endued therwith They can be deceyued by none of Sathans subtyle conuayers but perceyueth all thynges whych haue obtayned the pure eyes of faythe Anne Askewe For it is playnelye expressed in the hystorye of Bel in the Byble that God dwellethe in nothynge materyall O kynge saythe Daniel be not deceyued Daniel xiiii For God wyll be in nothynge that is made with handes of men Actor vii Oh what styffnecked people are these that wyll alwayes resyste the hoolye Ghost But as theyr fathers haue done so do they bycause ther haue stonye hartes WrytteÌ„ by me Anne Askewe that nether wyshe deathe nor yet feare his myghte and as merye as one that is bowne towardes heauen Truthe is layed in pryson Luce. xxi The lawe is turned to worme woode Amos. vi And there can no ryghte iudgement go forth Esay lix Iohan Bale Marke here howe graciouslye the lord kepeth promyse with thys poore seruaunte of his He that beleuethe on me saythe Christe oute of his bellye shall flowe ryuers of lyuynge water Ioa. vii Neyther lasheth thys woman out in her extreme troubles language of dispayre nor yet blasphemouse wordes agaynste God with the vnbeleuinge but vttereth the scriptures in wonderfull habundaunce to his lawde and prayse She rebuketh here the most pestylent vyce of ydolatrye Not by olde narracions and fables but by the most pure worde of God as dyd Daniel Steuen And in the ende she shewethe the stronge stomacke of a mooste Christen martyre in that she is neyther desyrouse of the deathe neyther yet standeth in feare of the vyoleÌ„ce or extremyte therof What a constancye was this of a woman frayle teÌ„dre yong and most delycyouslye brought vp But that Christes sprete was myghtye in her who bad her be of good cher For though the tyrauntes of thys worlde haue power to fleye the bodye yet haue they no power ouer the sowles Matthei xx Nether haue they power in the ende to demynyshe one heare of the heade Luce xxi She faynteth not in the myddes of the battayle i. Corint ix But perseuerethe stronge and stedefast to the verye ende Mathei x. Not doubtynge but to haue for her faythful perseuerauÌ„ce the crowne of eternall lyfe Apoc. ii So mery am I sayth she good creature in the myddes of Newgate as one that is bowne towardes heauen A voyce was thys of a most worthye and valeaunt wytnesse in the paynefull kyngedome of pacience Apocalip i. She faithfullye reckened of her lorde God that he is not as men are fyckle Numeri xxiii But most sure of worde and promyse Psalm cxliiii And that he wolde most faithfully kepe conuenaunt wyth her whan tyme shuld come Apoca. ii She had it most grouÌ„dedlye planted in her hart that though heauen and earthe dyd passe yet coulde not his wordes and promes passe by vnfulfylled Lu. xxi Ashamed may those carnall Helchesytes be whych haue not on lye denyed the verite of theyr lorde god but also most shamefullye blasphemed dishonoured bothe it and themselues for the pleasure of a yeare or ii to dwell styl in this fleshe They coÌ„sidre not that he wyth whome they mocke hathe power to sende them to helle for theyr blasphemye Luce. xii They shall not fynde it a matter lyght for theyr inconstancye to be vometed out of the mouthe of God as vnsauerye morsels Apocalypsis iii Neyther shal they proue it a Christmas game to be denyed of Christ before hys heauenlye father and his angels for denyenge here his verite Math. x. Anne Askewe Oh forgeue vs all oure synnes and receyue vs gracyouslye As for the workes of oure handes we wyll no more call vpon them For it is thou lorde that art oure God Thou sheweste euer mercye vnto the fatherles Oh yf they wolde do this saythe the Lorde I shoulde heale they re sores yea wyth all my harte woulde I loue them O Ephraim what haue I to do wyth ydolles anye more Who so is wyse shall vnderstande thys And he that is ryghtlye enstructed wyll regarde it For the wayes of the Lorde are ryghteouse Soche as are godlye wyl walke in them And as for the wicked they wyll stomble at them Osee. xiiii Iohan Bale All these wordes alleged she oute of the last chaptre of Oseas the prophete where as he prophecyed the destructyon of Samaria for the onlye vyce of ydolatrye In the worde of the lorde she declareth her selfe therin to detest and abhorre that vyce aboue all and to repent froÌ„ the hearte that she hathe at anye tyme worshypped the workes of mennes handes eyther stone wode breade wyne or anye soche lyke for the eternall lyuynge God Consequently she confessyth hym to be her only God and that she had at that tyme truste in non other els nether for the remyssion of her synnes nor yet sowles coÌ„fort at her nede And lyke soch a wone as is vnfainedlye coÌ„uerted vnto the lorde she axethe of the spyritual Ephraimytes in his worde what she hath anye more to do wyth ydolles or whyether minde so tyrannouslye enforce her to the

Askewe My faythe breuelye wrytten to the kynges grace I Anne Askewe of good memorye although God hath geuen me the breade of aduersyte and the water of trouble yet not so moche as my synnes haue deserued desyre thys to be knowne to your grace That for as moche as I am by the lawe condempned for an euyll doer Here I take heauen and earthe to recorde that I shall dye in my innocencye And accordynge to that I haue sayde firste and wyll saye laste I vtterlye abhorre and detest all heresyes And as concernynge the supper of the Lorde I beleue so moche as Christe hathe sayde therin Whyche he confyrmed wyth hys mooste blessed bloude I beleue also so moch as he wylled me to folowe and beleue and so moch as the catholycke churche of hym dothe teache For I wyll not forsake the commaundemente of hys holye lyppes But loke what God hath charged me wyth his mouth that haue I shutte vp in my hart And thus breuely I ende for lack of lernynge Anne Askewe Iohan Bale In thys she dyschargethe her selfe to the worlde agaynst all wrongefull accusations iudgemeÌ„tes of heresye what though it be not accepted to that blynde worlde vnto whome the lorde sayde by hys prophete Your thoughtes are not my thoughtes neither yet are your wayes my wayes But so farre as the heueÌ„s are hyer than the earthe so farre do my wayes excede youres my thoughtes yours Esa. lv Heresye is not to dyssent froÌ„ the churche of Rome in the doctryne of fayth as LaÌ„fraÌ„cus in his boke de Eucharistia aduersus BerengariuÌ„ Thomas waldeÌ„ in his worke of sermoÌ„s Ser. xxi Dyffyneth it But heresy is a voluntarye dysseÌ„tyng froÌ„ the veryte of the scriptures of God and also a blasphemous deprauyng of them for the wretched bellyes sake to mayntene the pompes of thys worlde Thus is it dyffyned of S. Hierome in coÌ„mentariis Hiere S. Augustyne and Isidorus agreynge to the same CoÌ„sidre thaÌ„ whether he be the thefe that sytteth vpoÌ„ the beÌ„che or he that standeth at the barre The popyshe clergye that condempneth or the innocent that is condempned Athanasius in hys boke de fuga aduersus Arrianos calleth them the heretykes whyche seketh to have the ChristeÌ„ beleuers murthered as dyd the sayd Arryanes Thys godlye woman hyr innocencye to clere laboureth not here to an inferiour membre of the realme but to the heade therof the kynges owne persone Whome she beleueth to be the hygh minister of God the father of the lande and vpholder of the people Sapi. vi that he might faythfullye and rightlye iudge her cause But who can thynke that euer it came before hym Not I for my part Anne Askewe The effect of my examynacyon and handelynge sens my departure from New gate On twesday I was seÌ„t from new gate to the sygne of the crowne where as mastre Ryche and the Byshoppe of London wyth all their power flatterynge wordes wente aboute to persuade me from God But I dyde not exteme their glosynge pretenses Then came there to me Nicolas Shaxton and counselled me to recaÌ„t as he had done Then I sayde to hym that it hade bene good for hym neuer to haue bene borne with manye other lyke wordes Iohan Bale Afer that Chryst had ones ouercommen Sathan in the desert where he had fasted longe tyme Math. iiii We reade not in the scriptures that he was moch assaulted or vexed of the worlde the fleshe and the fyende whyche are reckened the common enemyes of man But yet we fynde in the Gospell that these iii. ghostlye enemyes the prelates the prestes and the lawers or the Byshoppes pharysees and scrybes neuer lefte hym afterwarde tyl they had throughlye procured hys deathe Marke it I desyre yow if it be here anye otherwyse with his dere membre What other enemyes tempteth here Anne Askewe thaÌ„ the Byshop of London mastre Ryche and doctor Shaxton besydes the great Caiphas of Winchestre with his spightfull I shulde saye spyrytuall table or who els procureth her deathe Ye wyll thynke parauenture concerning mastre Ryche that though he be an enemye yet is he no spirytuall enemye bycause he is not anointed with the popes grese But than are ye moch deceyued For it is the sprete of blasphemye auaryce and malyce and not the oyle that maketh them spirytuall And where as they are anointed in the hande with oyle he is in the hart anointed with the sprete of Mammon betraynge with Iudas at the Bishoppes malycyouse callynge on the poore innocente sowles for moneye or at the least for ambycyouse fauer O Shaxton I speake now vnto the I thynke in the voice of God What deuyll by wytched the to playe this most blasphemouse part as to become of a faythfull teacher a temptynge sprete Was it not ynough that thou and soch as thou art had forsakeÌ„ your lorde God and troden hys veryte most vnreuerentlye vndre your fete but with soch feates as this is thou must yet procure the a more deper or double daÌ„pnacioÌ„ Ryghtlie sayd this true seruaunt of God that it had bene better for the and thy fellowes that ye neuer had bene borne Ye were called of God to a mooste blessyd offyce If ye had bene worthye that vacacyon as ye are but swyne Mathei vii ye hade perseuered faythfull and constaunte to the ende Mathei x. and so haue worthelye receyued the crowne therof Apoca. ii But the loue of your beastlye fleshe hath verye farre in yow ouer wayed the loue of the lorde Iesus Chryste Ye now shew what ye are in dede euen wauerynge reedes with euerye blast moued Luce vii Yea verye faynte harted cowardes and hypocrytes Apo. iii. Ye abyde not in the shepe folde as true shepeherdes but ye flee lyke hyrelynges Iohan. x. Had ye bene builded vpon the harde rocke as ye were on the fyckle sande Math. vii neither Romish stoodes nor Englysh wyndes hade ouerthrowne yow But now loke onlie after your deseruinge for this terrible iudgement of God For them saith S. Paule whiche voluÌ„tarylye blaspheme the truthe after they haue receyued the Gospell in fayth and in the holye Ghost remayneth no expyacyon of synne but the fearfull iudgement of hell fyre For a mocke haue they made of the sonne of God Hebrew vi and x. Anne Askewe Then mastre Riche sent me to the tower where I remayned tyll thre of the clocke Then came Ryche and one of the counsell chargynge me vpon my obedyence to shewe vnto them if I knewe man or woman of my secte My answere was that I knewe none Then they asked me of my ladye of Sothfolke my lady of Suffer my ladye of Hertforde my ladye Dennye and my ladye Fizwyllyams I sayde if I shulde pronounce any thynge agaynste them that I were not hable to proue it Iohan bale Neuer was there soche turmoylynge on the earthe as is now

God for their most specyall treasure and haue hym in soch intiere loue that they had moch leuer to lose themselues than hym The wicked desperates haue the voluptuouse pleasures of thys vayne worlde so dere that they hade leuer to forsake God and all hys workes than to be sequestred from them Thys godlye yonge woman referreth prayse vnto her lorde God that he hath not lefte her in thys paynefull conflycte for his verytees sake but perseuered stronge with her beynge in hope that he wolde so styll contynewe with her to the verye ende as without fayle he dyd Manye men sore wondre now a daies that Wrisleye whiche was in my lorde Cromwels tyme so ernest a doer against the pope is now becomen agayne for his red larye wares so myghtye a captaine But they remembre not the common adage that honour chaungeth maners and lucre iudgementes These great ynne kepers they saye hadde leuer to haue one good horse man to hooste than vi men on fote specyally if they weare veluet whodes or fyne rochettes What els foloweth Chryst but beggery and sorowes whyche are verye hatefull to the worde Where fatnesse is cawse of euerye mannys laboure there is yet sum what to be loked for If hys chrysten zele be soch that he wyll haue no she heretykes vnponnyshed lete hym do fyrste of all as we reade of dyuerse ryghtfull gouerners amonge the heythen Lete hym serch hys owne howse wele Parauenture he maye fynde aboute my ladye hys wyfe a rellycke of no lytle vertue a practyse of Pythagoras or an olde midwyues blessyng which she carryeth closelye on her for preseruacyoÌ„ of her honoure Her opinyoÌ„ is folke saye that so loÌ„ge as she hath that vpoÌ„ her her worldlye worship can neuer decaye I praye God this prouysyon in short space deceyueth her not as it hath done pope Siluester the seconde and as it dyd of late yeares Thomas wolsye our late Cardynall This heresye goeth neyther to the racke nor to the fyre to Newgate nor yet Smythfelde as contynuallye doth the pore Gospell Anne Askewe Then was I brought to an howse and layed in a bed with as werye and paynefull bones as euer had pacyente Iob I thanke my lorde God therof Then my lorde Chauncellour sente me worde if I wold leaue my opynioÌ„ I shuld waÌ„t nothinge If I wold not I shuld fourth to Newgate so be burned I sente him agayne worde that I wold rather die thaÌ„ to breake my faythe Thus the lorde open the eyes of their blinde hartes that the truthe maye take place Fare wele dere frynde and praye praye praye Iohan Bale Beholde in thys last parcell most euydeÌ„t signes of a christeÌ„ martyr and faythfull witnesse of God besydes that went afore She allegeth not in all thys longe processe lienge legendes popyshe fables nor yet olde wiues parables but the most liuelie autoritees and examples of the sacred Byble Se putteth her selfe here in remembraunce not of desperate Cayne nor yet of sorowfull Iudas but of most pacyent Iob for example of godlye sufferaunce For Anguysh and payne of her broken ioyntes and broused armes and eyes she curseth not the tyme that euer she was borne as the maner of the vnfaythfull is But she hyghlye magnyfyeth and prayseth God for it Neyther was she peruerted with flatteringe promyses nor yet ouer coÌ„men with terryble threttenynges of deathe Neyther doubted she the stynke of Newgate nor yet the burnynge fyre in Smythfelde But coueted rather deathe of her bodye for the syncere doctryne of Christe than lyfe of the same vndre the ydolatrouse doctrine of the Romysh pope She desyred God to take mercye of her enemyes and exhorted all Christen people instauntlye to praye for them If these be not the frutes of a true beleuer what other frutes els can we axe Anne Askewes answere vnto Iohan Lassels letter Oh frynde most derelye beloued in God I maruele not a litle what shuld moue yow to iudge in me so slendre a faythe as to feare deathe whiche is the ende of all myserye In the lorde I desyre yow not to beleue of me soch wyckednesse For I doubt it not but God wyll perfourme hys worke in me lyke as he hath begonne Iohan Bale I woulde but knowe of them which are common readers of chronycles and Sayntes lyues where they euer redde of a more feruente and lyuelye faythe than was in thys godlye yonge woman As lyght a matter estemed she deathe as dyd Eleazarus that auncyent senyour or yet the vii Machabees with their most worthie mother ii Mach. vi vii For she sayde that it was but the ende of al sorowes She reckened not with the couetouse man the remembraunce therof bytter Eccle. xiiii But with the righteouse she thought it a mooste redie swyfte passage vnto lyfe Ioan. v. The feare of deathe iudged she great wickednesse in a Christen beleuer was in full hope that God wold not suffer her to be troubled therwith For whye deathe loâ—seth vs no life but bringeth it in vnto vs lyke as the harde winter bringeth in the most pleasauÌ„t somer Who can thynke whaÌ„ the sunne goeth downe that it vtterly so perysheth Death vnto the righteouse beleuer is as a profitable haruest which after sweate labour bringeth in moste dylectable frutes None otherwyse thought it Anne Askewe than a verye entrauÌ„ce of lyfe whaÌ„ she had it thus in desyre faithfullie trusted with Paule that God wolde fynyshe in her that he than begonne to hys owne glorye Philippen i. Anne Askewe I vnderstande the counsell is not a lyttle dyspleased that it shulde be reported abroade that I was racked in the towre They saye nowe that they dyd there was but to feare me Wherby I perceyue they are ashamed of their vncomelye doynges and feare moch least the kynges mageste shuld haue informacion therof Wherfore they woulde no man to noyse it Well their crueltye God forgeue them Your hart in Christe Iesu. Farewele and praye Iohan Bale Hypocrites and tyrauntes wolde neuer be gladly knowne abroade for that they are in dyde But for that they are not they loke alwayes to be gloryouslye noysed Wrisleye Ryche woulde yet be iudged of the worlde ii sober wyse men and verye sage counsellers But this tyâ—â—nnouse example of theirs maketh a most manyfest shewe of the contrarye Yea and the God of heauen wyll haue it so knowne to the vnyuersall worlde to their ignomynyt and shame So is he wonte to rewarde all cruell Apostataes as he rewarded Iulianus for their wylfull coÌ„tempt of his verite The martyr of Christ for her pacyent sufferaunce shall leaue here behinde her a gloryouse report whereas these forworne enemyes and pursuers of his worde haue purchased themseluâ—â— a perpetuall infamy by their cruelte and myschef In excuse of their madnes they saye they dyd it only to feare her Is it not

thinke you a propre frayenge playe whaÌ„ our armes and eies are compelled to leaue theyr naturall holdes Ye ment no lyght dallyaunce whan ye wolde haue had so many great women accused toke the hangemannes offyce vpon youre owne precyouse personnes O tourmentours and tyrauntes abhomynable Ye feare leaste your temporall and mortall kyng shuld know your madde frenesyes But of the eternall kynge which wyl ryghtly punysh you for it with the deuyl his angels vnles ye sore repent it ye haue no feare at all It is so honest a part ye haue played that ye wyll not haue it noysed But I promyse yow so to dyuulge thys vnsemelye facte of yours in the latyne that all christendome ouer it shall be knowne what ye are Anne Askewe I haue redde the processe whyche is reported of them that knowe not the truthe to be my recantacyon But as sure as the Lorde lyueth I neuer meÌ„t thing lesse than to recaÌ„t Notwithwandynge this I confesse that in my first troubles I was examined of the Byshop of LondoÌ„ aboute the sacrameÌ„â— Yet had they no grauÌ„t of my mouth but this That I beleued therin as the worde of God dyd bynd me to beleue More had they neuer of me Iohan Bale In the ende of her fyrste examynacyoÌ„ is thys matter treated of more at large Here do she repete it agayne onely to be knowne for Christes stedefast membre and not Antichristes To the voyce of hym she faythfullye obeyed but the voyce of that Romyshe monstre and other straungers she regarded not Iohan. x. As she perceyued whan she was before the Byshopp of London that all passed styll after theyr olde tyrannye and nothynge after the rules of scrypture she suspected their doctryne more than afore and thoughte them none other than Christe warned his dyscyples to be ware of Luce. xii Whereupon she throughâ—â—e couenaunted wyth her selfe neuer to deny his verite afore men at theyr callynge on lest he shuld agayne denye her before his eternall father Math. x. For yf the confessynge therof bryngethe saluacion as saynt Paule sayth it dothe Romanorum x. The denyeng therof on the other syde must nedes bryng in damnacyon Anne Askewe Then he made a coppye whyche is nowe in prynte and requyred me to sette therunto my hande But I refused it Then my ii suertyes dyd wyll me in no wyse to stycke therat For it was no great matter they sayd TheÌ„ with moch ado at the last I wrote thus I Anne Askewe do beleue thys yf Gods worde do agre to the same and the true catholycke churche Iohan Bale Commonlye is it spoken of popysh prestes that in doynge their false feates they syt in Gods stede This poynt folowed the bludderinge Byshoppe of London here which for their olde fantasied superstycyon laboured in thys woman to displeace the sincere veryte of the lorde But so surelye was she buylded vpoÌ„ the harde rocke that neyther for enmite nor fryndeshyp wolde she ones remoue her fote Math vii Neyther anguyshe trouble tormente nor fyre coulde separate her from that loue of her lord God Rom. viii Though she were for his sake rebuked and vexed and also appoynted as a shepe to be slayne Psa xliii Yet did she strongely thorughe him ouercome haue I doubt it not obtayned the crowne of lyfe Apoc. ii Anne Askewe Then the byshoppe beynge in greate dyspleasure wythe me bycause I made doubtes in my wryttynge commaunded me to prysone Where I was a whyle But afterwardes by the meanes of fryndes I came oute agayne Here is the truthe of that matter And as concernynge the thynge that ye couete mooste to knowe Resorte to the. vi of Iohan and be ruled alwayes thereby Thus fare ye well Quoth Anne Askewe Iohan Bale In all the scriptures we reade not that eyther Chryste or yet hys Apostles commaunded anye man or woman to pryson for their faythe as thys tyraunt Byshope dyd here But in dede we fynde that Christes holy Apostles were oft tymes cruellye coÌ„maunded to pryson of the same spyghtfullye spirytual generacyon Acto iiii v. xii xvi Christe wylled his true beleuers to loke for none other at theyr spirytual handes than enprisonmentes and death Math. x. Iohan. xvi And therfore sayde Peter vnto hym I am redye to go with the Lorde both into pryson and to deathe Luce. xxii Paule greatly complayneth of hys enprysonmentes and scourgynges by them ii Corinty xi Dyuerse in the congregacyon of Smyrna were enprisoned by that fearce synagoge of Sathan Apocal. ii Esaye prophecyenge the condycyons of the spirytuall Antichriste saythe amonge other that he shulde bolde men captyue in prison Esaye xiiii Ezechiel reporteth that he shuld churlyshlye checke and in cruelte rule Ezech. xxxiiii zacharye shewethe that he shulde eate vp the fleshe of the fattest zacharie xi Daniel declareth that he shoulde persecute wyth swerde and fyre Daniel xi And saynt Iohan verefyeth that he shuld be all dronke wyth the bloude of the wytnesses of Iesu Apoca. xvii And therfore in these feates hys Byshoppes do put their kyndes Thus endeth the lattre examynacyon The confessyon of her faythe which Anne Askewe made in Newgate afore she suffered I Anne Askewe of good memorye althoughe my mercyfull father hathe geuen me the breade of aduersytie and the water of trouble yet not so moche as my synnes hathe deserued confesse my selfe here a synner before the trone of hys heauenlye magestye desyerynge hys eternall mercye And for so mouche as I am by the lawe vnryghtouslye condempned for an euyll doer concerninge opynions I take the same moste mercyfull God of myne whyche hath made both heaueÌ„ and earth to record that I holde no opynyons contrarye to hys mooste holy worde Iohan Bale What man of sober dyscresyon can iudge thys woman yl indyfferently but markynge this her last confessyon Not a fewe of most euydent argumentes are therin to proue her the true seruaunt of God Her wyttes were not ones dystracted for all her most tyraÌ„nouse handelynges She was styll of a perfyght memorye accountynge her emprysonmentes reuylynges rackynges and other tormentes but the breade of aduersyte and the water of trouble as dyd Dauid afore her Psa. lxxix As the louyng chyld of God she receyued them wythoute grudge and thought them deserued on her partye She toke them for hys hande of mercye and gaue most hygh thankes for them She mekelye confessed herselfe in hys syghte a synner but not an haynouse heretyke as she was falselye iudged of the world In that matter she toke hym most stronglye to witnes that thoughe in faythe she were not agreable to the worldes wylde opynyon yet was she not therin contrarye to hys heauenlye truth She had afore that proued their spretes conferrynge both their iudegementes i. Iohan. iiii perceyued them farre vnlyke Esaye iv Anne Askewe And I truste in my mercyfull Lorde

permyt her to be ouercommen of the flatteryng worlde neyther yet to geue place to his enemyes And I doubt it not but these are mooste euydent sygnes that she was hys faythful seruaunt I know certaynly that all the power of hell can not preuayle agaynst so earnest a faythe Math xvi For he hathe so spoken it there whiche can not lye Luc. xxi and. i. Petri. ii In thys lattre part she sheweth the nature of Christes lyuelye membre and of a perfyghte christen martyr in .ii. poyntes first she desyreth god to forgeue her enemyes as Christe desyred hym in the tyme of hys passyon Luc. xxiii And as holy Steuen also did for the tyme of his death Actorum vii Secondlye she desyreth theyr hartes to be opened that thei maye trulye beleue and be saued Actorum xvi Thys supernaturall affecte of charyte hadde she onelye of the sprete of Christe whyche wylleth not the deathe of a frowarde synner but rather that he be from hys wyckednes turned and so lyue Ezech. xxxiii Thus is she a Saynt canonysed in Christes bloud though she neuer haue other canonysacyon of pope preste nor Byshoppe The destroyer shall be destroyed without bandes Daniel viii The Balade which Anne Askewe made and sange whaÌ„ she was in Newgate LYke as the armed knyght Appoynted to the fielde With this worlde wyl I fyght And fayth shal be my shyelde Fayth is that weapon stronge Whych wyl not fayle at nede My foes therfore amonge Therwyth wyll I procede As it is had in strengthe And force of Christes waye It wyll preuayle at lengthe Though all the deuyls saye naye Fayth in the fathers olde Obtayned ryghtwysnes Whych make me verye bolde To feare no worldes dystresse I nowe reioce in harte And hope byd me do so For Christ wyll take my part And ease me of my wo. Thou sayst lorde who so knocke To them wylt thou attende Vndo therfore the locke And thy stronge power sende More enemyes now I haue Than heere 's vpon my head Let them not me depraue But fyght thou in my steade On the my care I cast For all theyr cruell spyght I set not by theyr hast For thou art my delyght I am not she that lyst My anker to let fall For euerye drystynge myst My shyppe substancyall Not oft vse I to wryght In prose nor yet in tyme Yet wyll I shewe our syght That I sawe in my tyme. I sawe a tyall trone Where Iustyce shulde haue sytte But in her stede was one Of modye cruell wytte Absorpt was tyghtwysnesse As of the ragynge floude Sathan in hys excesse Suete vp the gyltelesse bloude Then thought I Iesus lorde Whan thou shalte iudge vs all Harde is it to recorde On these men what wyl fall Yet lorde I the desyre For that they do to me Let them not tast the hyre Of theyr inyquyte God saue the kynge God hath choseÌ„ the weake thynges of the world to confounde thynges which are myghty Yea thynges of no reputacioÌ„ for to bryng to nought thynges of reputacion that no fleshe shulde presume in his syght 1. Corin. 1. The Conclusyon THus hast thou dylygente reader the ende of these ii examynacioÌ„s and answers of the moost christen martyr Anne Askewe with other addycyons besydes Marke in theÌ„ the horryble mad furye of Antychrist and the deuyll how they worke in thys age by their tyrannous meÌ„bres to brynge the last vengeaunce swyftlye vpon theÌ„ Afore tyme hath not bene seane soch frantyck outrage as is now the iudges wythout all sober dyscressyon ronnynyge to the racke toggynge halynge and pullynge therat lyke tormentours in a playe Compare me here Pylate wythe Wrisleye the hyghe chauncellour of Englande wyth Riche and wyth other whych wyl be counted no small moates And se howe moch the pagane Iudge excelleth in vertue and wisdom the false christened iudge yea rather prodygyouse tyraunte Whan Pylate had enquired what accusacyon the Iewes clergye had agaynste Christ he perceyued they dyd all of malyce and refused to meddle therin Ioan xviii In Wrisleye and Ryche is no suche equite But they rather seke occasyon to accomplyshe the full malyce of Antychriste Pylate shewed the accused all fauer possyble He examyned hym pryuatelye he gaue hym fryndelye wordes he had hym not feare to speake he hearde hym wyth gentylnesse he counselled wyth hym that he myght the more frelye suppresse theyr madde furye and he promysed they shulde do hym no wrong in case he wolde vtter his ful mynd IoaÌ„ xviii Farre contrarye to this were Wrisleye and Ryche whych not all ignoraunt of the Byshoppes beastlye errours malycyouslye wythout all feare of God and shame of the worlde executed vpon this godly woman moste terryble tyrannye Pylate spake for the innocent excused hym defended hym layed fourth the lawe pleated for hym sharpelye required them to shewe mercye alleged for hym theyr custome declared him an innocent sought by all meanes to delyuer hym Mat xxvii These periured magistrates Wrisleye Ryche not onlye examyned thys innocent woman with rigour but also hated her scorned her reuyled her condempned her for an heretike with vnspeakable tormentes sought to enforce her to brynge by accusacion other noble women and men to death More ouer Pylate wolde shede no innocent bloud but laboured to mytigate the Byshoppes furye instauÌ„ted them as they were relygiouse to shew godlye fauer concludynge that he coulde by no lawe of iustice iudge him worthie to die Marci xv These vengeable tyrauntes Wrisleye and Riche insaciably thirsted not onlie the innoceÌ„t bloud of this faithfull seruaunt of God but also the bloud of the noble duchesse of Sothfolke the bloud of the worthye countesse of Hertforde and of the vertuouse countesse of Suffexe the bloude of the faythfull ladye Dennye of the good lady Fizwilliams and of other godlye women more soche widowes and wiues as Paule Peter and Iohan commendeth in their epistles besydes the bloude of serten noblemen of the kynges hygh counsell And all at the spyghtfull callynge on of the Byshoppes Slacke eare gaue Pilate to the prestes he regarded not ther dyspleasure he detected their proternouse madnesse by delayes he dyfferred the sentence and fynallye washed hys handes as one that was clere from their tyrannie Luce. xxiii Swyft eare gaue Wrisleye Ryche with their wycked affynyte to the puffed vp porkelynges of the pope Gardiner Bonner soch other they folowed their reuell counsell they enprysoned her iudged her condempned her racked her at the laste with their owne poluted bloudie tormentours haÌ„des till the vaynes and synnowes brast If ye marke the scriptures wele ye shall easelye perceyue that Pylate was not in fawte of Chrystes bufferynges bearynges scornynges face spyttynges crownynge with thorne and soch other extreme handelynges But the malycyouse Byshoppes prestes which waged Iudas to betraye hym hyred false wytnesse to accuse hym monyed the

stones Acto vii Lete beastlie blinde babbyllers and bawdes with their charmynge chaplaynes than prate at large out of theyr malycyouse sprete and ydle braynes We haue in habundaunce the veryte of Gods worde and promes to proue them both saued and gloryfyed in Christe For God euer preserueth them which trust in him Psal. xvi All that call vpon hys holye name are saued Iobel ii What reasonable man will thynke that they can be loste whyche haue their lorde God more dere than their owne lyues No man shall be hable sayth Christ to plucke my shepe out of my handes but I wyll geue theÌ„ eternall lyfe Ioan. x. Beleue sayth Paule to the iayler at Philippos on the lorde Iesus Christ and thou shall be saued thy whole howsholde Acto xvi They that seme in the sight of the vnwyse to go into destruccyon do rest in the peace of God and are replenished with immortalite Sapien. iii. With other in numerable scriptures to the praise of God whose name be glorified worlde without ende Amen FINIS God saue the kynge Thus endeth the lattre conflict of Anne Askewe latelye done to deathe by the Romysh popes malycyouse remnaunt and now canonysed in the preciouse bloude of the lorde Iesus Chryste Imprynted at Marpurg in the lande of Hessen 16 die Ianuary anno 1.5.4.7 Bedes prophecy 2. sortes 2. sygnes Israelytes preachers Tyndale Barnes The fathers Martyrs Christen martyrs Breade myracles rochettes Steuen Legendes Forest. Fysher More Writers Christen martirs Anne Askewe Goddes power Bokes coÌ„dempned Latyne God wyll be knowne Iohan Wlcleues bokes Canonise Gamaliel Anne Askewe True nobylyte Lydia Cecilia Blandina Anne Askewe Companions RecaÌ„ters Tryed Golde The chauncell Corage Rakced Burned Beastes ShaxtoÌ„ Graces Sprete Hygh stomacke Mother Asshes Autors Not all deed Weakenesse Martyrs Example Sprites Christofer dare Reallye The boxe Temples Accusers Masses Goddes worde The prest Iudas Sacryfyces Thevi of Iohan. ConfessioÌ„ Prestes The kynges boke Pharysees The spyrite A prest mockers A serpent ryseth Masses pryuate Druydes For sowles The prestes receyuynge Mayre Bonner IgnorauÌ„ce Wynchester Peryn Diuisio Guimundus Waldenus Algerus Christus Fayth Nota. Women Scripture women Women Englyshe women Walter hunte Preson Christ troden on the hele A prest Iudas The sacramente Shrifte Prechers ConfessyoÌ„ Practise hypocryte preachers The hostâ— A fallynge God Wynchestre Peryn An Idolle Lyke olde Gossyppes Dronckennesse hypocrite Howsell Spirituallye A whore Dogges Baylynge antichryst The beast Examples A custome The chauÌ„celler Fayth in Christe Tyrannye Wylye Wylye Subtyle A wolfe Foxes A prest A thefe Iudas Herode A false lyar O traiter A tyraunt Murtherers Egles More laÌ„bes to deuoure Lyke the deuyll Archedeacon A lyar Iudas Iohan. Frith Bokes coÌ„dempned Bokes brent Her fryndes Cayphas Practise Sathan Tempter Cayphas Enemyes Surgerye Counsell A murtherer Botches Gathered store Sinon cast Bowgittes Antichrist a sore heresye Prestes Breade Steuen Beastes The boxe Honorius Eua reclusa Bostius Iudases Temples A teÌ„pter scripture practyses Christ. In Gods stede Temples Arystotle Dons Fewe wordes Sylence Bonner Priuate Masses Henrye Spenser Frires Masses Iohan Wycleue Pardons Druydes Perin Chaunceler StaÌ„dyshe Watchemen Vypers I tempter StaÌ„dyshe Doctor Swyne Accuser Dogges rhetoryck Quarellers Thre score prestes Prestes Lordshyp Hypocresi Wonders I prest Occupyenge Scripture Folowers Lordships possessioÌ„s Marryage He wryteth Worshyp thâ— beaste Holye lecherye papystyck Canonysed lecheri Priapystes Scripture Vnsuffycient The pope Fauer Falshede Flatterye catholyck â— woman Catholick FroÌ„ oyle Weston Layte Sodomytes Manye delayes Pharao Practyse Knauery spirituall With prestes TyrauÌ„tes Practyse Subtylte Byshoppes KyngedoÌ„ of God Popes kyngedom A change Polycye No felde â–ª Counsel Sylence Perryn take hede Germanes Peryns sermons Wynchestre modestie Oke groue CoÌ„scyeÌ„ce Hate them ExaÌ„ples Wycleue and huse Sprete Waues Pray and obeye Abhorre Wryters notaireye Martyrs Sufferers Bernardus Barnes other RecaÌ„ters Brytayne churche Christ. Byshoppes Englysh churche Martyrs Other martyrs No dyrge Augustine Wycleue Suffre Difference of martyrs Martyrs Compare Becket Miracles Ryght matyrs Bonifacius Anglê° Clarus Clitancus Edwinê° Edwardus Cadocus Lanfrancus Indractus Iuthwara Newaldy duo Anne Askewe Ositha Wenefrida MaxeÌ„tia Guilhelmus Thomas Yonge Sayntes Foillanê° Iustinanus Kilianus Vrsula Proue the ipretes EdmuÌ„dê° FremuÌ„dê° and other Tokens the autor Brytannyshe Englyshe Tokens Answers TyrauÌ„tes Winchostre Peryn Epycures pygges Lyght S. IohaÌ„ Sathan Christes heares Christes fete Fyre Coppye Christ. Breade RemeÌ„bre Edere Bibere Beleue Euangelystes Doctryne Faythe Christ. Communyon Loue. Letter Christe Foreheades Hartes A membre CoÌ„panyons Kyme Salomon Kyme An vse Marryed Exyled Dyuorcement A beast Sacrament Wynchestre Answere Tyraunt Daunger Parables Rebukes v. houres Parables Wynchestre Mockers Hypocrytes SacrameÌ„t Wynchester Godlye Prynces â–ª Micheas Hieremye Pylate Lisias Cesares Wynchester Treason Christes Sacrament Halte Englande Tepidi Brenne Antichrist To breÌ„ne Prestes God laugheth Christes meanyng Sygnyfye Remembraunce Idolatrye Not in breade The eater Remembraunce Tyll he come Frute of the vyne Partakynge Coxe and RobynsoÌ„ newgate In breade A waffer antychrist Inpaned newgate Breade Temple Moses vayle Blessed Temple warnynge The masse Idolles Tyberius Caligula Masses Antichrist Shurns them The vails Darkenesse Syght Daniel Strength Promes Faythe A martyre TyrauÌ„tes Stedefast Valcaunt Faythe Helchesytes In constaunt Prayer Ephraim Oseas Ydolatrie Ephraimytes ii sortes S. SteueÌ„ Temple Worshyp Meate 3. bulwerkes â—omystes Lo here Se there Heretyke Sacrament Moulde in the boxe Christ coÌ„dempned Membre Sacrament no sygnes the wyne Confesse Teachers Belles Prestes Tyranny Wycked lawes Remembraunce Apostles â–ª Eatynge The suÌ„mâ— of belefe O beastlye ydolaters O constaunt martyre Olde ydolaters Newe ydolaters A waffer The supper Answere An ydoll Death Promises To the Chauncellour The kyng To God Stronge ObedyeÌ„t Her matter Theyr offyce To God Trouble Heresyes Faythe Dyscharge Heresye What it is Who is the heretyke The kyng Ryche Shaxton Sathan 3. ghostlye enemyes Wynchestre spirytuall MammoÌ„ Shaxton Double Vnworthy Hypocrytes IudgemeÌ„t Ryche Christen ladyes Babylon Obedyence A secte Ladyes Helthe The kyng Mardocheus Haman Papystes Craftye Pyghius Bucer Obseruauntes Letters to accuse Ioseph Paule Onesymus Iudges Prelates Gentyllwomen Ladyes Christ. Noble women Lydia Noble women TyrauÌ„tes Prelates Faythe Masses hearynge The racke Nicodemus Fryndes Hygh treason Frenesye A tourmentour Chaunceller Riche MaÌ„mon wretches TyrauÌ„tes Tyrauntes A lambe TyrauÌ„tes Christe Periures A mylstoÌ„ Vnlosed Perseuer Practyse TeÌ„ptacioÌ„ â— sortes Prayse Wrisleye Ynne kepers Profyght My ladye Honour cardynall A tyraunt Swete woman A martyr Gods creature Christes seruaunt A verye Saynt Deathe Chronycles Deathe No feare Haruest Racked No noyse Wrisleye Ryche Iulianus In excuse TyrauÌ„tes No noise Of Cayphas Christes martyr Bonnee Wolues SaluacyoÌ„ Hande wrytynge Gods stede Buylded A lambe Eucharystys Pryson Pryson Chryst Smyrna Antichrist With fire Trouble Condempned Proue her â—â—ntâ—s of faythe ObedyeÌ„t to God No hereâ—yke Breade Proue yet Frutes of faythe Consecracyon Waffer Breade Shall come Antichrist Myracle No God Doctors Moulde in the boxes Godmakers The supper Scriptures Without Masse Idolatryes Mannes wysdome Scriptures Hope proue styll Frutes of faythe Her god A sure part Eucharystye masse an ydoll obidyeÌ„ce The Masse Ydolaters An ydoll Popes Monkes Vniuersytees The masse Profytable Necessaryes myracles of the masse Dead letter Sathan Wytches An ydoll Enemyes Hate theÌ„ Aduersaryes Haters Fryndes Fauorers Northfolke Prayer Swete woman Goddes true seruaunt Christes membre Charyte A Saynt Antichrist compassioÌ„ Pylate Wrisleye Pylate Wrysleye Pylate Wrisleye Pylate Wrisleye Ladyes Pylate Wrisleye Riche Pylate Prestes Pylate Wrysleye Pilate Wrisleye Brent Martyrs A sygne Gods haÌ„de Centurio Christianes Take hede Ceremonyes Tendrelynges Hypocresye Papystes Prestes Bawdes ThoÌ„ders Thonder Apocal. ThoÌ„ders Eucheryê° For tyrauntes North folke Markewele S. SteueÌ„ gods wordes Not lost

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