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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01469	A letter of a yonge gentylman named mayster Germen Gardynare, wryten to a frend of his, wherin men may se the demeanour [and] heresy of Ioh[a]n Fryth late burned, [and] also the dyspycyo[n]s [and] reasonynge vpon the same, had betwene the same mayster Germen and hym.	Gardynare, Germen.	1534 (1534)	STC 11594; ESTC S110810	25,103	84

¶ A letter of a yonge gentylman named mayster Germen Gardynare wryten to a frend of his wherin men may se the demeanour heresy of John̄ Fryth late burned also the dyspycyōs reasonynge vppon the same had betwene the same mayster Germen and hym ⸫ ALbe it I doute not ye do from tyme to tyme vnderstāde suche newes as be here occurrāt partely by the comen rumour and fame partely by the letters of your other frendes and olde acquayntaunce in these parties mych soner than I can by any certayne messenger aduertyse you of the same yet seynge that for correspondence vnto your goodnes here tofore shewed towardes me in most gentle sorte ye haue euer requyred of me kynde remembraūce onely therof and declaracyon of my desyre to accomplyshe in some parte my dutye by often wrytyng vnto you shewynge howe thankfully what so euer they were ye wolde accepte my letters I haue thought yt my parte to folowe herein your pleasour and to troble you alwaye wyth redynge my rude letters though none other mater were conteyned in theym than ye hadde bothe harde and rede ere that myne could come vnto your handes wherfore hauynge suche occasyon and argument of wrytyng offred vnto me as wherof neyther the comen fame can reporte all the trouthe and whyche is so tedyouse as fewe men wolde accomber theyr famylyare letters wythall beynge neuerthelesse suche as you for your deuocyon to chrysten religyon be most desyrouse to knowe I haue moste gladly embraced the same trustynge by the contentes of these to requyte in some ꝑte the importunytie of myn ydle letters wryten to you before ye haue herde howe John̄ Fryth somtyme scoler in that colledge wherof ye were after his departyng mayster was afterwarde amonges other at Oxenforde found besye in settyng abrode these hersyes whyche lately spronge in Almayne by the helpe of suche folke be spred abrode into soundrye partes of christendome tendyng to nothynge elles but to the dyuysyon and rentyng a sundre of Christes mystycall bodye his chyrche the pullynge downe of all power and vtter subuersyon of all comen welthes And he beyng therfore for his amedement punyshed of obstynatie fledde ouer the sees vnto the fathers of that relygyon where in the company of wyllyam Tyndale George Joy at whose name I am sure ye sygh seing your self to haue ben so deluded with the hope whyche ones ye conceyued of hym and other heretykes he profyted so myche within a whyle in vn graciouse vnshamefast boldnes that beynge not myche aboue the age of xxiiii yeres y e arrogant fole nothyng doutynge the iudgement of the hole worlde toke vpon hym to teache the ●ole chyrche of Chryste reuokynge vs from our errour as he calleth yt of purgatorye wherin we haue thys xv hundred yeres cōtynued willyng vs to truste herein the spyryt whych nowe in the ende of the worlde god hath raysed in his yonge breste to rebuke the worlde of theyr longe horryble errour and destable blyndenes wherein so many hundred yeres all men haue abyden saue onely a small chosen nomber of blessed babes whom it hath pleased god to instruct and teache pryuyly in theyr eares the trouthe of hys gospell from tyme to tyme whych y e pore chyldren feryng by all lykelyhode to be beten yf they tolde any tales oute of the scole kept close amonge theym selfe and lyke good dyspensatours layed vp theyre treasoure surely and secretely for losynge or stelynge awaye tyll theyre mayster retourne Thys yonge apostle sent from the deuell to sowe ●ocle among the corne of Chryste seynge no suche successe or effecte of all his payne and trauayle taken in wrytyng and settynge forth that his holsome worke as he loked for wyllyng in no wyse that by any his negligence or slouth y t bretherne myghte impute vnto hym the mys●ynge of theyr purpose toke vppon hym to come agayne in to England presently to ayde assyste coūsayle and comforte the bretherne of hys guylde here to stande styffe in theyr abstynacye wherof lyke a perfyt doctour he hath gyuen thē example hymselfe persystynge so longe obstynate ●…ll he hath brought hys fylthy carkace to the temporal fyre and his sel● wretched soule to y e fyre euerlastyng as ye shall more playnely perceyue here after For after that he was taken and prysoned in the towre notwythstandynge the daunger of hys lyfe wyth the wrothe of god and all good men whych he had all redy purchased ●y hys shamefull arrogance and abhomynable heresye declared in his fore sayd boke yet so god of his goodnes blyndeth y e enemyes of his doctrine the shamelesse heretyke so declared hym self there as neyther good man nor almost euyll coulde wythout abhorrynge and detestyng his wyckednesse here hym named for so mych as vtterynge hys malyce there agaynst god and the doctryne of his chyrche ferther then he had done before lettynge passe all other heresyes as vnworthy to be treated by suche an apostell and leuynge them for other no● so hyghly after his owne opyniō enspyred with theyr newe holy goste as hym selfe he set vpon the blessed body of our lorde in the sacrament of thaulter denyenge it to be there presentely and affermynge the worshyp therof to be ydolatrye Me thynke I se hereat your ioyntes tremble your ▪ dyes stare ▪ your heares stert vp and all the behauour of your body alter abhorrynge these deuelyshe wordes of thys cursed wretche But who can let the deuyll to be lyke hym selfe After that this goodly apostle had wryten this holsome boke and sente it out alredy amonges his brethern there came vnto hym a leter frome Tyndale warden of theyr guylde exhortynge hym not to medle yet with the blessed sacrament nor no hygh maters passyng as he clalleth them the comen capacyte but wylled hym to crepe lowe by the grounde and folow mekenes for he knewe well the yonge mannys arrogaunce neded y e counsayle how be it gyuynge hym mych deuelysshe counsayle wythall and amonges all other that yf the bysshoppes wolde fall at a composy●yon and be content to suffre the new testament of hys poysened translaciō to be solde then Frith shuld promyse for them bothe to wryte no more and els they wold not spare to wryte styll I trowe the olde apostles had neuer the wytte whych these new haue to put the prechynge of goddes word in compromys tyll a ferther laysour and a more aduauntage How be it he wylleth in the meane season to graunte the bylyefe in the blessed sacrament as indyfferent but in no wyse to confesse it for a necessary artycle of the fayth Hys coūsayle not to medle in hygh maters came to late for thys letter came after that Frythes booke was abrode But thys last counsayle to afferme that a man myght chose whither he wolde byleue the body of our lord to be there or not so that in neyther case he worshypped it y e cay●yfe folowed so long tyll he broughte his owne body into asshes his soule to hell notwythstandynge the

alledge that agayne which so lately was answered vnto and exhorted hym to declare that eyther we were not bounde to byleue y e iugement of the chyrche or that theyr iudgement who condempned hym dyffered from the iudgement of the hole chyrche or ellys to abyde no lenger in that myserable estate wherin that all chrysten men shulde be commaunded by god to take hym as an hethen and he hym self be in the most dredefull indygnacyon of god when he replyed agayne of his conscyence whyche wolde not suffre hym to admytte this opinion we desyred hym eyther to enfourme our conscience or suffre hys to be enfourmed sayenge ●●e had for vs the worde of god p●●nyshynge with temporall ▪ shame and also eternall payne the disobeyers of his chyrche for there foloweth as y● knowe quodcūque ligaueritis c h● had nothynge for hym but his owne fanta●ye and one place of faynt Austayne expowned after his deuice contrary to many other moste playne and euydent places wherin the same author shewed hym selfe moste constantely to byleue that whyche the chyrche byleueth and techeth when for all this we could haue none other answere but of his conscyence declarynge fyrste vnto these whiche were present the vntruth of his promyses who though all were shewed vnto hym whiche he requyred to be shewed wolde not yet knowlege the truth I prayed god to amende hym entendynge to departe But the tother yonge man callyng to remembraūce how boldely Fryth had denyed any ●orshyp to be d●… to the blessed sacrament though it were in dede y e very body of our lord and trustyng y t Frith seynge playnely proued vnto hym that not onely some worshyp but moste hyghe and dyuyne worshyppe were dewe to the blessed sacrament wolde not be so shamelesse as to denye the corporall presence of our lorde shewed hym a place of saynt Austayn expowndyng Adorate scabellum pedum ●ius playnely declarynge by expresse wordes that not onely he synned not who dyd worshyppe the sacrament but that also he synned who dyd not worshyp the sacramēt with y e honour dewe onely to god So that yf it were synne not to wurshyp it the mater was not as he sayd indyfferēt to byleue whyther it were the very body of our lord For of necessyte he that worshyppeth it must thynke it our lordes very body or ellys he commytteth idolotry in worshyppynge it after suche sorte wherwyth he was abasshed sayde ▪ He meruayled that saynte Austayne wolde wryte so seynge that this honour whiche saynt Austayne named after the scolemen the man wolde faine haue semed vniuersally lerned was not dewe to the body or sowle but onely to the di●ynyte of Chryste ▪ whych we sayde that this place therfore of saynt Austayne shewed well that he and all suche as alleged saint Austayne to saye that the sacrament was onely a sygne lyed on hym for he in thys place as the chyrche byleueth knowledgeth the sonne of god to be naturally present there bothe body sowle and also godhed therfore sayeth that he synneth who doth not honour the sacrament wyth the honour dewe to god onely Then beganne he after hys olde fasshyon to tryfle sayenge that god was present euery where Then I asked whyther bycause god was present in euery place he durst worshyp y e post which stode there wyth the honour dewe onely to god The shamelesse wreche blusshed then ones and stutted and stamered deuysynge in the meane season an answere whyche was this at length that he coulde not thynke saynt Austayne wolde wryte so and yet sayd he yf it were so there aduised hym a prety whyle a man myght and after an other lyke pause terge versari but I wolle not whyche I byleued not seynge hym alredy do y e contrary And therfore lamentynge fyrste with hym for our old acquayntaunce to se hym in that case prayenge god that he myghte knowlege the treuth I bad hym farewell And thother whyche were there departed sauynge one whose labour neuerthelesse cheryte shewed towarde hym auayled nothynge but onely to hys meryte that toke the payne For this fole persysted styll in his vnwylfulnesse euen vnto the fyre whyther he went as I haue knowen and herde many go to the gybet coūterfaytyng an excessiue outward gladnes eyther to lighten theyr inward pensyuenes or to make theyr iudges be hated or ellys for a glory bycause they wolde haue it sayd they dyed lyke men dyenge in dede moste lyke desperate wreches of all other Thus ye fe what ende his pryde arrogaunce confermed wyth the deuelyshe flaterynge of Tyndale and Joye with such other not onely pray synge his lernynge vnto hym more than ynough but also wrytyng that in hym and his successe was all theyr hope and truste hath brought thys myserable wreche vnto whyche for his owne sake onely that he shulde so caste away his soule beynge so derely bought and destroy by the deuyls instygacyon such good qualytees as god had geuyn vnto hym to employe in his seruyce is mych to be lamēted els I trust dout not almyghty god hath permytted and suffred ordered also and dysposed his punyshement and correccyon in example and relefe of many other For both yt hath abated the pryde of those that wolde haue ben heretyques and somewhat abashed these pryuy enymies of Crist and his chyrche who as saynte Ambrose sayth be myche more to be fered then suche as expressely shewe professe theyr malycyous purpose and mynde For these may easely be ouercome or auoyded but the parell is in suche as agreynge with vs in y e most parte in some one poynte labour to subuerte the trouth For these entyse the symple people whyche herynge theym say myche that they know for trouth byleue them in the rest and so slyde in as yt were into the ●ertes of the vnlerned multytude where the subdayne violence of thother make them redounde rather then entre These be lyke vnto the rokes which hyd vnder the water do hurte before they be spyed Agaynste the whych saynt Hierome was compelled to crye out wolde to god thys serpentyne generacion wolde eyther playnely confesse our parte or constantely defende theyr owne that we myght knowe whome ●● oughte to loue or fle But now they hate vs sayth he as enymyes whose sayth they dare not openly denye wyth many other wordes sore complaynynge of theyr deuelyshe malyce and wylynes From y e contagyouse infeccyon of whych sorte and kynde I beseche our lord for his tender mercy euermore preserue vs sende thē y t suche be which with y e corrupt stynkyng waters of theyr own diggyng alter and tourne y e swete taste of goddes holy and most holsome doctryne into very dedely poyson sende theym I saye the grace to amende and leuynge of theyr owne madde inuencyons with all mekenes to herken vnto tholde accustomed teachyng of his catholyque chyrch who also longe preserue you to his gracyouse pleasure in bodely helth and ioye spyrytuall From Ashare the fyrst day of Auguste by the hande of faythfully your owne with my seruyce prayer Germyn Gardynare The fautes escaped in the prentynge of this boke Fo. pag. li. the fautes y e amēdemētes iii. ii xxii mayster maysters vi in margine   Anasta Athanasine ix ii xiiii orr cushynge or crusshynge xii i. xiii saye sawe xiiii i. xi wold woll xx i. viii threshold thresholde● xx ii xxii● worde borde xx ii xxiiii mater malyce xxiiii i. xxi this a stone this is a stone x vi ii xviii xxiii Betrame Bertrame xxvii i. vii byshoppe byshoppes xxviii ii i. knowledged knowledge xxviii ii viii those there xxxii i. xx yf be it a yf it be a xxxii ii xiiii trecke bekke Prented by w. Rastell in Fletestrete in saynt Brydys chyrch yarde Anno a Christo nato 1534. Cum priuilegio ●nas●a ▪ in decretis Nicene sy ▪ nodi aduersus Euse ▪ Luce. 16 Chriso ▪ in sermone admonito d●●●ch● ● Hieroni. in episto 1. ●d ●●e●iodorum