quæso animum, et spiritum humiliato, neque tui cordis duritia sinas ecclesiam vulnerari, neque eius vnitatem, et tunicam Christi inconsutilem, quantum in te est disrumpi patiaris. Audi quid sapiens dicit, et obtempera: Ne innitaris prudentiæ tuæ. Dominus lesus &c.

Summa literarum Latimeri Redmanno.

SVFFICIT mihi, venerade Redmanne, quod oues xpi non nisi vocem Christi audiunt, et vos non habetis aduersum me vlla vocem Christi, et ego habeo cor cuiuis voci Christi parere paratum. Valeto, et nolito me tuis literis amplius a colloquio dei mei turbare.

Page 497, line 5. "The blind eateth many a flie."]-This proverb forms the epigrammatic close of one of Chaucer's ballads (p. 558, edit. Urry) against "deceitful women," seven stanzas ending with " Beware, therefore, the blind eateth many a flie.'

Page 506, line 3 from the bottom. "Banbury glosses."]-"BANBURY. Howell gives two proverbs concerning this town. 1. Like Banbury tinkers, who in stopping one hole, make two.' 2. As wise as the mayor of Banbury, who would prove that Henry III. was before Henry II.' According to Grove, a nonsensical tale is called a 'Banbury story of a cock and bull; so that from these evidences it would appear, that the Banburians were not remarkable for sagacity." (Halliwell.) The term, as applied by Latimer, seems to mean blundering, clumsy:" it was probably so applied by Latimer for the first time, for there is no allusion to the phrase in Beasley's History of Banbury.

Page 509, line 5. "The which thing also your grace hath promised by your last proclamation."]-Latimer in this and several subsequent sentences of this letter alludes to a Royal Proclamation, issued soon after that of the bishops, but apparently unknown to the historians. There is a copy of it in the Cotton MSS., Cleopatra E. v. folio 321, dated "Mense Junii, anno Henrici Octavi xxii." It is printed thence in Wilkins's Concilia, iii. 740. Mr. Burtt discovered an imperfect copy of it at the Chapter House, Westminster. (See "Notes and Queries," N. S. i. 125.) Beside Latimer's testimony in next page to its sad effect, we have that likewise of the contemporary" Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London," published by the Camden Society in 1852, which states: "the xxvi day of September was burned at Powless crosse a gret multytude of Ynglych bokes, as Testaments and other books, the which were forbodyn by proclamation by the kynge's commandment before." This proclamation will be found among the Documents at the end of this volume, No. III,

Page 532, line 15. "Stark of his limbs."]—See Appendix to vól. viii., note on

p. 105.

Page 552.] The larger part of Bp. Ridley's "Last Farewell" exists in his autograph in Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MS. 2. 2. 15, Nos. 58, 59. Page 555, last paragraph. Although the cause of the true man,” &c.]—The Emmanuel MS. begins here.

Page 558, line 22. "Farewell, Rochester."]-Between this and the preceding paragraph the Emmanuel MS. inserts the following paragraph :

'Farewell, Shoame Vicarage, my cure for a little time, and yet, as I acknowledge, that little was too long, both for that after my receipt of the benefice I did not nor indeed could abide in thee, and also for that he whom the college and I placed in thee after my giving over, now, as I hear say, doth yield to the trade of the world, contrary to his conferences had with me before, and to his own handwriting and subscription unto the Articles of religion in matters of controversy."

Ridley was vicar of Soham from May 17th, 1547, to 1552: Richard Hebb, fellow of Pembroke, was instituted as his successor Sept. 5th, 1552.

Page 560, line 18 from the bottom. "Are fallen from Christ."]-With these words the Emmanuel MS. breaks off.

Page 562, line 13. "Would at these my words."]—With these words the Emmanuel MS. resumes, and goes on to the end in p. 567, omitting the paragraph in large type in p. 563.

Page 592, line 29. "As Cardinal Wolsey did."]-The edition of 1563, page 1383, adds, "(who as he had used conjuration before, so after he had poysoned bym self by the waye, at his buriall was so heavy that they let him fall did geve suche a savoure that they coulde not abide him, with such a sodain storm and tempest aboute him, that al the torches wente out and coulde beare no light)." In the margin opposite to this sentence we read: "Ex relatu cujusdam qui interfuit, et morientem Cardinalem brachio sustinuit."

Page 597, note (1). "The book of John Elder, sent into Scotland."]-Pp. 164, 165, as it appears in the reprint subjoined to the "Chronicle of Queen Jane and Mary" (Camden Soc. 1850); where Elder affirms, "that almighty God, of his divine providence, hath preserved and kept 3 persons, as lode-starres and chief guides, for the defending, inbringing, and restoring of England thus to the unity of Christ's church. . . . And the third is my Lord the Bishop of Winchester."

Page 597, line 29.]-See note in the Appendix on this passage.

"Who taught us that Thomas Becket was no saint, but a devill, no true subject, but a false traitor, that did disobey and contend with his Prince, and took part with the Pope? And yet that precious perle of prelacy that constant Constaunce [Gardiner] Lord with what pain did he busy himself to saint him again! Who (I pray ye) put into the prayers of the Primer: From the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome and all his detestable enormities, O Lord, deliver us? and whether the acts of our blessed Bishops, the Pope's executioners, have been such as we have needed (if we mought) so to pray still, I report me to you. Who made it one chief part of their matter in pulpits, still to shew us of his intolerable arrogancy and abuse of Princes, of his tyranny, war, quarrelling, avarice, apostacy, simony, sacrilege, whoredom... malice, pride, poysonings, and all kinds of wickedness and abominations beside, so continually exercised by him, and all his whole holy company his Cardinalls and court? Who taught us that his dispensations, his pardons and Bulls, were but false trumpery, wicked for him to give and folly for us to receive, and utterly damnable for any to trust in? Who taught us that Scripture never made mention of Purgatory after this life, or if there were any such peines, yet were they not redeemable by the Pope's pardons, by Monks' masses, or Priests' penny-prayers? Who taught us, that it was meetest for us to have the law, that we all professed, and to have divine service in that language, that we best knew? Who taught us that sacraments were ever most faithfully ministered in that tonge that the people best understood? and specially those whereby we made any covenant or promise to God, or received any comfort of his mercy and goodness; as Baptism, Matrimony, and the Holy Communion? Who taught us to pluck images out of churches for doubt of idolatry? Who taught us to make our prayers, not to our Lady, nor any other bisaints, but only to God? Who taught us all this, and ten times more than I have leisure to tell, or ye to hear, and now can recant it every whit? Who, I say, who and who, I pray ye? Mary who but even they and they of their coat? Our Bishops, our Suffragans, our Doctors, our Deacons, our Parsons, our Chaplains, our hedge Priests and all, whereof many yet alive both quick and queathing." (A speciall grace, appointed to have been said after a banket at Yorke, upon the good nues and Proclamation thear, of the entrawnce in to reign over us, of our lady Sovereign lady Elizabeth, in November 1558;' signature D. i. and iii.) There is a copy of this scarce tractate in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth. See Strype's Cranmer, book ii. chap. 7.

Page 616, note (3). "As Hosius... would assume that position."]—In mentioning Hosius as probably president of the Council at Nice, it was not intended to exclude others, or to say that he had the best claim of any. If that question were started, he would perhaps be anticipated by Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, who is plainly mentioned in Theodoret (Hist. lib. i. cap. 9). The probability is that he shared the station with others. Richerius, after giving the Synodical epistle of the Nicene Fathers from Theodoret, writes:-"Hinc claret Alexandrum Episc. Alexandrinum, velut Patriarcham, Concilio cum aliis Patriarchis, ut præsides solent in actionibus Parliamenti, præse disse." (Hist, Conc. Gen. cap. 2, § 8); and Eusebius, by speaking plurally of presidents,

The ovvódov Tроédpois, supports, and is sufficent authority for, such a view of the subject (vide Vit. Constant. 3, § 13). At all events, Hosius certainly did not represent the bishop of Rome on that occasion: vide Casauboni Epistolæ,' p. 625, edit. Roterod. 1709. Philpot commits the same error again at p. 642. See Strype's Life of Grindal, book i. chap. 2; and a Letter of Grindal's, noticing the error, Parker Soc. Grindal, p. 222.

Page 642, middle. "Scholar."]-This no doubt was Edridge, professor of Greek in the University of Oxford at that time, and who is mentioned on a previous page (544), as suggesting that Ridley should be gagged. See Warton's English Poetry, Edit. 1840, vol. iii. p, 237, note.

Page 645, line 2. "Oppress us."]—"Us" is supplied from the separate edition (1559), and the Latin says nos studetis opprimere."

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Page 665, last line. "Lo!"]-The position of this exclamation is rather peculiar. Joye has so used it in his " Refutation of the Bishop of Winchester's Declaration," 1548: ". a goodly shameless shifte, lo!" fol. ix. verso; and again on fol. cxxxiii., "No, he parteth it betwene himselfe and our ladye; loo!"

Page 712.]-The copy of this Letter, as given by Strype (Mem. Mary, Originals, No. L.), differs both in length and matter from this of Foxe; the latter being written subsequently to the condemnation of Philpott, the former in prospect of it.

Page 715, line 14. "About the 27th of January."]-The 22d, according to Machyn's Diary, p. 99.

Page 734, note (5).]—See note in the Appendix on p. 77.

Page 746, line 11. "The 27th of the same month."]-In Machyn's Diary (p. 99), this martyrdom and that of the six others are placed on the 22d: "they wer all bornyd by ix at iii postes; and ther wer a commonment thrughe London over nyght that no yong folke shuld come ther, for ther the grettest [number] was as has byne sene at shyche a tyme."

Page 750, middle. "After these seven... on the 31st of January."]—Sampson, in a letter to Bullinger, says they suffered on the 27th: p. 175 of "Original Letters relative to the English Reformation," Parker Soc. 1846.

Page 771, note on page 449, line 15 from the bottom.]-It is possible that he may have been confounded at first with William Buckenham, who was at this time Master of Gonville and Caius College, which was dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary: thus we read in the Book of Institutions of Norwich Diocese, March 22nd, 1531, that H. Barker was instituted to the Rectory of Telnitham, Suffolk, "ad præsentationem Gulielmi Buckenham, Custodis sive Magistri Collegii Annunciationis beatæ Mariæ in Cantabrigia aliorumque ejus collegii sociorum."

DOCUMENTS

REFERRED TO IN THE FOREGOING APPENDIX.

No. I.

THE EPISTLE OF ROBERTE GLOUER SENT TO HIS WIFE DECLARYNG THEREIN HIS CONFLICTES WITH HYS ENEMIES.

(See Note in the Appendix on p. 387.)

From the Edition of 1563, p. 1273.

"THE quietnes of conscience which passeth all understanding, wyth all gladnes, consolation, & bolde speaking in the holye ghoste, increase and multiply eternally in thine heart, by the lyuelye stable and constante faith, in the onely and moste dearest sauiour Jesu Christe. Amen.

"The letters which thou sentest to me in prison, I haue receyued, and geue thee good wife moste hartye and ample thankes for the same, whiche not withoute teares I perused agayne and agayne: I saye not without teares. but certainlye not for anye griefe or dolour conceyved, but for incredible ioye and gladnes, that aboundantlye flowed in me, assone as I behelde the wonderfull woorkes of God planted in thee: Fyrste in that thy unfayned repentaunce: Secondlye in thy humble and true reconciliation: and laste of all, in the lowly obedience of thy harte, committyng thy selfe and all thyne to goddes holye wyll and pleasure: whiche all when in those thy letters, as in a playne Index and table I hadde seene and vewed, especiallye perceiuyng it to procede of a symple and inwarde motion of thy hearte. I coulde not but all weepyng aboundantly geue thankes to our Lorde for thee, whoe for hys singuler goodnes hathe vouchesafed to poure and shewe vppon thee, but muche more vppon me hys mercye and clemency. These thy writynges, and the often relation of our frendes to me of thy profytyng and constancye in the knowledge of God, doe greatlye lighten and daylye dymynyshe the sorrowes of myne imprisonmente, whiche wyll bee for thee at the latter daye a sure and perfecte testimonye agaynste manye deyntie, nice, and luxurious dames, more addicted to the ragynge pleasures of thys worlde, then to God, hauyng neyther regarde (as they seeme) of themselues nor yet of other. So longe as I shall lyue, I wyll not cesse continually to pray for thee, that that whiche the goodnesse of God hathe happyly layde and grafted in thee, maye euerye daye more and more haue better progression and successe, to the glorie of his holye name: And that he woulde vouchesafe so to arme thee with the secrete strengthe of hys holye spirite, and so to guyde, and rule thee in all thy doynges, that we both lincked together in one spirite and fleshe, maye shewe and celebrate hys prayse in the worlde to come, to the euerlastynge ioye and consolation of vs bothe. As longe as thou by goddes permission shalt Ĭyue in thys worlde, chiefely and before all other thinges geue thy selfe to continuall prayer, accordyng to the admonishment of Saint Paule, lyftyng vppe thy pure handes to almightye God, beeynge voyde of wrathe, contention, or staggeryng, remembring no iniurye, but forgeuyng all the worlde, as Christe hath forgeuen us. And the more bente and readye you are to forgeue the iniuries done agaynste you (besydes that you shall profitte your selfe no little thereby, in callyng to remembraunce the greate and houge trespasses, which Christ hath and dothe daylye forgeue and pardonne vs of) the sooner thereby it wyll come to passe (as Saincte Peter sayth) that we embracing mutuall charity, maye forgette and forgeue one an other oure offenses committed, althoughe neuer so greate and heynous: And because by the worde of God we are taughte and instructed howe and after what manner we shoulde praye, What we shoulde followe or eschewe in thys

lyfe, that pleaseth or displeaseth God: and finally, when hys word as the Lorde testifieth, that he spake, shall iudge vs all at the latter daye: Directe therefore especiallye youre prayer to thys ende, that oure Lorde of hys infinite goodnesse woulde euerye daye more and more vouchsafe to enspire thyne hearte wyth the verye true knowledge of hys woorde, and so to gouerne and dyrect thy lyfe, that thy fruites maye bee correspondent and auns were thy knowledge. And further, because thys woorde is called by the holye ghoste, the woorde of affliction, as to the which for the moste parte do cleaue the incommodities of thys world, as hatred, perills, persecutions, and losse of goodes, (by daylye experience as you doo see) the more earneste you muste bee in callynge to God for hys helpe, and before to trye wyth your selfe, whether you shalbee able to beare the charge vppon you or no. And thus you hauyng leauied and layed a sure and stronge foundation by deuoute prayer, you shall by the helpe of the holye spirite stande faste agaynste all manner of stormes and tempestes: Calle often tymes that into youre remembraunce, whyche happened to Lots wyfe, lookyng backe on those thynges whiche she lefte behynde her. Bee you by that example instructed and made the wyser, leste you in anye waies bee caried and moued wyth those thynges which are displeasant beefore the syghte of almightye God. And beecause nothyng maye or canne more greuouslye offende him then Idolatrye, whiche is the false worshyppyng of God, beware in anye wyse and take good hede, leste that at any tyme you pollute your selfe with the idolatry of the blasphemous masse, whiche is playnelye against the woorde of God, and euidentlye repugneth againste the example and institution of Christ. For what is he, be he neuer so little sene in the readyng of the holye Scriptures, that doth not beleue all thynge now executed in the Englishe churche, to bee done aswell againste the doctrine of the holye woorde, as the edification of Christes churche, when all thynges therein is ministred and doone in a straunge and vnknowen tongue, contrarye to the expresse will and commaundement of the spirite of God? In deede with great bragge they obiecte that they are the churche, chalengyng by this title faith: whome I aunswere on thys wyse, that the true churche of Christe dothe confesse and acknowledge no head but Jesus Christ, the onelye sonne of God. But he forsaken, you do take in hys place to youre heade the Pope of Rome, whiche is the sonne of perdition and aduersary to Christ. For the church of Christ heareth only his voice, & is taught & ruled only by his word, according to the saieng of the lord, my shepe do heare my voice. If you shall dwell in me and my worde in you, then are you my disciples, &c. But contrary their church, the symple doctrine of Christ beeyng neglected, doo intrude and thruste in her tradicions by violence, when the church of Christ dothe nothyng adde nor dyminishe from gods holy Testament, or is in anye thinge preiudiciall to the same.

"But these men are not ashamed [not] onely to abolishe suche thinges as are to our soules healthe taught by Christ: but also to reuell and route in their inuentions, reioycing in the woorkes of their owne handes: But contrary the church of Christ hath euer hitherto (wheresoeuer it hath or shalbe) adioyned to it the crosse, oppressed thorough the so great multitudes of troubles and miseries of this worlde. So that it is not of the world, when these me hauyng no respect or difference, do persecute, slaye, burne, and destroye all they fynde to arreste in the true and sincere doctrine of Christ, and finallye spareth none, otherwise beeing neuer so qualified & endued with vertu and excellency of learning. Furthermore Christ and his church do willingly geue & prech his doctrine, offring it to bee tried and discussed by the misticall fountaine of the holy Scripture suffering all men freelye to conceyue and iudge thereof: saying, searche ye and try out the scriptures. But farre otherwise is the state of theyr churche, wherein they vtterly do interdicte al me the liberty of the worde, suffering neither learned or unlearned to make exploration of theyr actes, and to conferre them with the places and maximes of the holy scripture.

"The true church of god striued euer in al that it mighte, to resiste the illecebrous desyres and vnbrideled temptacions of the flesh, the world, and the deuil when most parte of these men (as thou maiest see) do wallowe in all kynde of fylthy lustes, committing secret abbominacion (as Paule reherseth) the names whereof I abhorre to expresse. By these, and the like reasons they shewe what they are, manifestly declaring therby, that they be not of the churche of Christ, but are belongyng to the Sinagoge of Sathan. It were not