The epistle exhortatory of an english Christyane unto his dearly beloved country of England/ against the pompous popish bishops thereof/ as yet the true members of their filthy father the great Antichrist of Rome/ Henrye Stalbrydge.  
☞ As I have compiled this treatise in the zeal of God & my prince against the tyrant of Rome & his secret maintainers. So is it my desire that his grace may have it as a fruit of my Christian obedience. And I doubt it not/ but some godly man loving his grace better than that wicked Pope/ will faithfully deliver it unto him/ the slayghtes of their false generation considered. Pray (gentle reader) that it may find grace in his sight.  
☞ Deal with Babylon as she hath deserved/ for she hath set up herself against the Lord/ & against the holy one of Israel. ●…ere. 〈◊〉.   

☞ The epistle exhortatory of an English Christian unto his dearly beloved country of England against the pompous popish bishops thereof/ as yet the true members of their filthy father the great Antichrist of Rome.  
IN my heart I wish daily/ & for the same do I earnestly pray unto our most merciful father the everliving God/ & that for his sons sake our only redeemer/ and full saver jesus Christ/ if his heavenly will so be/ that he ones open throughly the eyes of our most worthy and noble king (as he hath already begun) and of all his other counsellors/ lords/ and burgesses of his parliament/ which are chosen out of the whole realm to confound ungodly customs and to set up in their towmes saws that are more godly/ to suppress wickedness and to maintain Christian virtues/ to prefer the comen wealth afore all singular or private wealths/ yea/ utterly to destroy and abolish for ever such filthy traditions as have no just ground upon God's holy word/ as are all the usages/ rites/ laws/ decrees/ services/ superstitions/ & sorceries of the romish Antichrist/ and to s●… in open practice the true worshippings advanced to Christ's glory/ so edifying his people by the scriptures in the knowledge of one only eternal living God. And in so doing they should maintain the comm●…n wealth both of soul and body.  
I say yet once again/ & that in theze se of the Lord as he is my judge/ I wish ●…f his gracious pleasure so were/ that first the kings majesty and so forth all the rest (unto whom God hath given power and authority upon earth under him may throughly see and perceive how that not only the bloody bearwolfe of Rome/ but also the most part of the other bishops & stout sturdy canons of cathedrals churches with other petty prowlers and prestigious priests of Baal his malignant members in all realms of Christendom/ specially here in England/ doth yet tore abroad like hungry lions/ frete inwardly like angry bears/ and bite as they dare like cruel wolves/ ●…ringe together in corners 〈◊〉 a swarm of add●…rs in a dung hyss/ 〈◊〉 wily subtle serpent's/ to vphold●… and pr●… their filthy father of Rome the head of their bawdy broad if it may be.  
This once perceived and seave by a godly circumspection/ I wish ●…n the same vehemency of spirit and prayer/ the said noble king/ counsellors/ & burgesses to procure a full reformation concerning there advowterouse doctrine/ there prodigious pomp/ there insatiable cloyninge/ and tyrannical persecuting of Christ in his faithful members. No doubt of it/ but the mercy of our eternal father hath opened unto us in these latter days what their forked fatherhede/ there oiled authority/ and their shaven holiness is/ for all there crafty compases of wordly wisdom that they should not apere the same generation of vipers that johan Baptist & Christ hath warned us of. His word hath he now appointed by diverse of his ministers to be their utter destruction/ for blasphemously deludinge his redeemed heritage so many hundred years in their counterfeit kingdom of hypocrisy/ wherein they show now what they have been/ even very heretics to God/ traitors to their prince's/ and thieves to their Christian commons.  
No less do I judge it then a bound duty of the said faithful ministers/ to manifest their mischiefs to the universal world/ every man according to his talon given of God/ some with pen/ and some with tongue/ so bringing them out of their old estimation/ least they should still regne in the people's consciences to their soul's destruction. An evident example have they of Christ thus to do/ which openly rebuked their filthy forefathers the scribes/ layers/ pha rise●…s/ doctor's/ pr●…s/ bishops/ and hypocrites for making Gods commandments of non effect to support their own traditions/ so clerlye condemning their hypocrita●… life and doctrine. Mat thew. xv. xvi. and. xxiii. xxiiii Beware (saith he) of the corrupt leaven of the pharis●…s/ Mark. viii. Luke. xii. Pause admonisheth us also/ that soche ravening wolves should enter in among us after his departing as should not spare the flock/ Act. xx. two. Thes. two. i Tim. iiii. So doth Ioh●…. i. Ioh●…. two so doth Peter. two. Pe two. so doth judas Thadeus in his epistle.  
By these and many other places of the scriptures are we taught easily to know at none days the wolf from the lamb and the hasty lion from the simple sheep. As Christ sought by all means to deface the proud Pr●…s/ and to bring poor johan Baptist in reputation of the people/ for that he had uttered the truth without flattery. So would he now the true teachers of his Gospel to be regarded be they never so poor/ for his veryte●…s sake/ and the blasphemers thereof to be had in an utter contempt. No less is it therefore than a doctrine of his to be put in practise among true Christianes'/ both in word and writing to have the mischiefs manifest of these spiritual mahoundes/ the very offspring of Cain/ children of Caiphas/ and successors of Simon Magus/ as their doctrine and living declareth/ needing no farther probation. notwithstanding through God's grace I shall partly open the wickedness both of them and their fathers as the truth shall lead me. Most cruel enemies have they been in all ages to the verity of God ever since the law was first given and most fierce persecutors of Christ and his church.  
Consydre first of all (besides that was done afore in the law of nature) how deverslye jannes' and Jambres with other false priests of Egypt persuaded Pharaoh through dying signs and tokens to withstand the pleasure of God in Moses and Aaron/ Eyo. seven. and. two. Tim. iii. grievously was Micheas the true prophet of the Lord vexed of Sedechias iii. Reg. xxii. and. two. Para. xviii. So was the good Prophet Hieremie of phassu●… and Semeias Heir. xx. xxvi. and. xxix wonderfully were the Israelites abused by the idolatrous priests of Baal/ and the Chaldeanes by Bell's priests also in Babylon/ till Helias and Daniel in the word of the Lord detected their crafty cloyninges. three Reg. xviii. & Daniel. xiiii. Great was the affliction of the jews' under king Demetrius/ through the cruel counsel of that traitorous priest Alchimus. i. Machab. seven. Manifest is it by the. iiii. Gospels how the Bishops and priests used Christ himself. Matth. xxvi. Mark. xiiii. Luke. xxii. johan. xviii. And after what religious sort they entreated his Apostles after his ascension/ Act. iiii. v. vi. and. seven.  
Pause had to enemy Barieheu/ Ananias/ Hymeneus/ Philetus/ Hermogenes/ and Phyge●…us/ all malicious priests. johan had Diotrephes/ Carpocras Hebion/ Martion/ C●…rinthus/ and Cynopes/ all bloodthursiye Prelates also/ Peter had Simon Magus and Menander/ james the More had Abiathar the great Bishop. Matthew had zaro●…s and Arphaxat among the Moreanes/ and the same likewise had Simon and Thadeus as they preached among the persians/ like as all the other Apostles had in the quarters where they occupied No where could the verity be taught/ but those glorious glotto●…s were ever at hand to resist it. After the apostles ty me was there no cruel tyrant unset a work by them to persecute them which published that massage of light. Every where were they whysperinge in that ●…are and that ear/ fearing the fall of their kingdom if the Gospel were truly opened/ as is evident to them which are expert in the chronicles.  
And thus have they continued in their spiteful generation under the name of a spiritualty/ unto this present age/ wherein their lousy legerdemain is almost perceived of all men/ the light so abun dauntlye shining/ yet are they not ashamed/ so whorish is the face which they have cawte of their holy mother. A great conscience made their natural forefathers to put the. thirty. silver plates (that judas the traitor their elder brother had brought them) into the treasury/ because it was the price of blood/ Math. xxvii. But no conscience at all had those bloody hypocrites to murder the eternal son ne of God/ in procuring false witnesses against him/ Matth. xxvi. So like are our spiritualty to these fore leaders of theirs/ as one adder is like an other or the young wolf like the old as their daily fruits declareth. They sought by all means possible to quench the faith of his glorious resurrection/ waging the soldiers to say that his disciples had stolen him whiles they were a sleep/ Mat. xxviii. Which practice they occupy to this day by their hired sophisters or university knights to blemish his heavenly verity. Soche shameless lyar●… are they against God and his word  
But truly both they and their fathers hath foughten in vain. ●…ete such vessels of the wrath of God kick/ spew/ and spurn as much as they can/ yet will the truth of the Lord endure for ever. Seduce they never so subtly/ lie they never so lordly/ blaspheme they never so boldly/ accuse they never so freshly that the preachers are deceivers and seditious persons/ procure they never so many cruel tyrants/ yea/ persecute they and slay ●…hey never so fercelye with Nero/ Domicianus/ Traianus/ and such other/ yet shall Christ always have a faithful congregation undefiled with their wretched sorceries. Maruele not ye bishops/ Prelates/ and priests/ though I thus in the zeal of Helias and Phi●…s stomach against your sturdy storms of stubbornness. For never was yet any tyranny ministered upon Christ and his mystical members/ but by your proud procurement. And now in our days/ where are any of the lords true servants burned or otherwise murthe ●…ed for true preaching/ writing/ glozing/ or interpreting the Gospel/ but it is by your cruel calling on.  
How subtly bewitched you the parliament house/ when the. vi. blasphemous articles collected out of the Pope's wicked decrees were there enacted and established with more tyranny than ever under the romish Pope/ Mahomete or any other tyrant afore? Were not they first practised of you to destroy all them that should truly profess the Gospel (which are and will be always the kings most faithful friends & to leave a plain path way that your Pope might here after entre? At your traitorous insurrection in the north it had been wrong with this realm/ had there not been a great number which had than the fear of God written in their hearts/ whereby they knew they could not rise against their prince/ but to their own damnation/ and that they were bound also to defend him against all such popysshe and rebellious traitors.  
Thanks might weal have been given in those days to our eternal God for raising up 〈◊〉 Tyndale the first true Apostle of Christ after johan Wy●… the very man of God and such other like/ which brought Christ's Gospel into the knowledge of men/ and wrote diverse grounded work●… upon the same. As the Christian Obedience/ the parable of the wicked Mammon/ the. three chapters of Matthew/ the Somme of scripture/ and diverse other/ whereby the people were than taught how to love God/ and how to obey their princes and magistrates. These heretic books (as you call them made the kings grace more faithful friends in those days/ than you bishops and priests were weal contented with. Well/ I trust by this time they and such other like have made him ten times so many more. Not only were the said. vi. articles devised by the devil and you for the utter destruction of God's true servants and the kings faithful subjects/ but also to repair the broken walls of your yell Rome again/ as in deed they would do even to the very clouds if they were weal followed.  
Think not that ●…ne be so blind in this age/ but they perceive your crafty cloyning. Full weal knew wily Wynche stre and other more of his fellows the first practisers of them/ that were they once received/ granted/ and executed under pain of death/ the Pope should never die in England/ what though his name were suppressed with his pilgrimages/ pardons/ and a few superstitions besides. ●…hmost wicked vermin/ wylly worms/ subtile and crafty serpent's/ when will ye leave treading of Christ on the heel? Gen. iii. When shall God's son be unto you no sign of contradiction? Luke. two. When shall his verity be reverêtlye used among you? I fear me/ never/ so long as you remain in England. As our most godly sovereign began with king josias to reform his church/ bannishing your wolvish father as an ungodly usurper for ever/ ye patiently paused with lowering/ lu●…kynge/ and loutinge for fear of the sword and haltre.  
But when ye once perceived that God's holy laws were spread/ and your unholy laws were set at nought/ than thought ye it high time to work your false feats. Than put ye apace in practise your old serpentine subtyste●…s: ye compassed them so with crafts which knew not your cursed conveyances both amongst the kings counsel and commons/ that they were at the making of the said six popish articles and are yet to this hour of this blind believe. Though the Pope of Rome your old glorious grandes●…re were the great Antichrist of Europa by your own consent and grant/ yet are his filthy traditions holy/ his beggarly ceremonies godly/ and his crooked Canon laws laudable/ convenient/ and comely/ precious/ fit/ and necessary to be still admitted for the spiritual laws of the church of Englande and for the true worshippings of God therein/ the scriptures of both testaments rejected or ess punished by most terrible death/ where as they give not place unto them.  
Thus by soch●… subtile slayghtes as ye bse/ y●… mak●… God to give place to the d●…/ and his heavenly word to your false superstitious/ as ded the first serpent: yea/ ye cause the kings majesty by aua●…ynge soch●… h●…ythnishe tyt●…s and saws/ to honour your Pope a fresh/ what though his name be abolished with a few yearly pos●…ges besides. Ingenyo●…se is your ●…glynge as Melanchton telleth your tale/ and as ●…byllyam ●…braghton declareth in his hunting of the romish fox/ like a faithful subject to his prince and no less natural child and soving brother to his country. If you be not most wicked workers against God and his verity/ & most spiteful traitors to the king and his realm/ I can not think there be any living upon the earth. Be this only spoken to you that maynt●…e such mysteries of madness.  
If a tree may be judged by his fruits (as our saver saith it may) we must needs judge you most pestilent Papists upon the manifest maintenance of so manifold mischiefs with such terrible terror of halters and fire. So long as the blasphemous beggeryes of the bloody bishops of Rome are not plucked up by the roots/ as were the unsanerye sacrifices of Baal and of Bel/ and so broken in pieces with the brazen serpent idolatrously abused/ the saw●…s of Gods true worshyppynge●… (which are in the Bible prescribed) set up in their stead/ so long (I say) is 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 to ●…an nishe the Pope out of England/ but he will sty●… dwell the in the secret consciences of men/ do the kings majesty and his counsel with his nobility and commons what they will or may to the contrary.  
●…nd yfas●… other crafty conveyances sail to the upholding of him there/ yet shall their auryc●…ar confession/ a plant of his own setting in the corrupt counsell of lateran/ do it workmanly enough No better way is there to restore his nam●… again/ nor no convenient mean to bring him to his old estimation. No craftyar conveyance to bring the people in bondage of blindness/ & in cruel captivity of co●… to the utter destruction of soul an●… body. And that knew Gave gala●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 t●…●…opes holy 〈◊〉 in Eng●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which now there in high 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 most plenteousy●…●…eth his ●…se vanit●…s/ with other of his ●…euterouse adherent●…s more. Gr●…at is the diligence / labour/ and study of his whorish apostates/ holy apostles I should say/ as are both the old and new titled bishops/ suffragans/ archedea cons/ officials/ chauncellars/ deans/ c●… missaryes/ doctor's/ curates/ and parish priests with other gaudyshe gentlemen of that livery and mark/ to see these. vi. articles in every point observed.  
In so much as having their mother's face/ they have not shamed fercelye to rebuke honest and godly men of sundry quests at the giving up of their verdy t●…/ as they have not hunted after their minds and found out their game to the cruel shedding of poor innocentes blood. To prove this true I will bring forth one for example. Bonner the bloody Bishop of London Abashed nothing at all extremelye to rebuke/ menace and threaten a quest of honest citizens and men of good conscience in the yield hall at London in the year of our lord a M. D. and. xli. for ' quyting of a poor innocent lad called richard mekyns. Like a fierce furious ravening wolf/ insacyably desirous of murder & cruelly greedy upon his pray/ refusing the said quest/ chose out an other false quest to his purpose of such as he and his filthy generation had afore perverted/ and never ceased till he brought him to a consuming fire in smithfield/ so making him a sacrifice to their great God Mulciber.  
And after this shameless sort no doubt of it/ all the other Bysschoppes of England/ a very few excepted/ have tyrannously handled the kings true subjects/ and yet do to this day with less Christian equity and pity than either Saracene or turk jew or pagan/ to asuage their unquenchable thirst: It is not to be thought that they are very gentle abroad or in the farthest parts of the realm/ when they use soche furious feats so nigh the kings presence. So frantyke have they been of late days and so forgetful of themselves in their mad modye mastry●…s/ that they have not feared to enter the kings own house to hunt their game/ nor yet abashed at all sawcelye to seek out their desired pray in his own privy chamber/ coveting so to have murdered his most trusty friends and faithful servants. The same self part in a manner would they have played with his noble grace that proud ●…aman the Amalechyte played with king Assu●…s/ maliciously seeking the destruction of Mardocheus and other which above all men had sought his lives preservation ●…ester. iii. ●…herin of right they have deserved upon a gyb●…et to be hanged as he was.  
Never sent Christ such bloody Apostles nor two horned warryours/ but the devyfe vicar Antichrist which is the deadsye destroyer of faithful believers. And now to you which o●…ishe 〈◊〉 vynchestre agayne-the wyfye watterer of the Pope's old garden. Although doctor London be dead doctor Pates run away/ & your own dear kynsmanne german gardener hanged with other of your prevycounsell. yet cease not you to play cruel Haman still. No/ do your old fears to show whose children ye are of nature. If your wicked counsel had taken effect as God forbid it should very few true faverers of the lords verity had been about the king this hour/ least they should sometime have informed him of your papistry/ and so detected you of your manifest treason. Soche havoc began you to make in the court/ as cruel Haman thought to have made among the faithful hebrews belonging to good queen Hester/ had not God by the high wisdom of our said king prevented your subtle practises.  
This mischief once performed/ ye thought easily to have deluded his nobl●…s/ and so in the end to have brought in again your great Patriarch of Rome/ and so layserlye to have made of him an other king johan. But thanks be given always to our eternal living God/ for delivering his ●…ellent majesty with his most faithful subjects from the snares of your crafty compassinges And how so ever this writing of mine shall be taken/ yet is it a true tale/ and so much the more of his majesty to be marked/ that your forefathers and you have been traitors always for your romish father's sake to emperors/ kings/ princes/ and other wordly governors all Christendom over/ specially since the crafty upcrepinge of that holy father of yours. I doubt not but the most famous writers by all ages since the churches beginning will make this my saying good/ yet have their chronicles written the best of them to hide their hypocrisy and falsehood.  
What Christian blood hath beneshed-betwyne empire and empire/ kingdom and kingdom/ as between Constantinople and Almaigne/ England & france/ Italy and Spain for the bishops of Rome/ and how many cruel wars at their priests calling on/ it were to moche either to write or to speak. Always have they been working mischief in their idle generation to obscure the verity of God. I say yet once again that it were very necessary for the kings worthy majesty with earnest eyes to mark how God hath graciously delyve red both him and his people from your troblouse termaga●…t of Rome which afore made all Christian kings his common slaves. And to be ware of you hollow hearted traitors his spiritual promoters/ consyderinge that your proud predecessors have always so wickedly used his graces noble prog●…itours the worthy kings of this realm sens the conquest and afore.  
Who overthrew king herold/ subduing all this land to the Normāny●…-who procured the death of king William Rufus/ and caused king Steven to be thrown in preson: Who troubled king Henry the first/ and most cruelly vexed king Henry the second: Who subdued and poisoned king johan: Who mourthered king Edward the second/ and famished king richard the second most unsemynglye: besides that hath been wrought against all the other kings also: To him that shall read and throughly mark the religious acts of Robert the archbishop of Canterbury/ of Odo/ Eg●…inus/ Anselmus/ Randoll of Durham/ Ralph of Chychestre/ Alexander of Lyncoln/ Nig●…lius of Holy/ Roger of Salysbury/ Thomas ●…cket/ Steven ●…angton/ Walter Stapylton/ Robert Baldock/ Richard Scrope/ Henry spe●…ser / Thomas Arundel/ and a great sort more of your anointed ancestors/ pontifical prelate's/ mitred mommers'/ mad mastery workers/ ryuged ruff●…rs/ roche ted rutters/ shorn saucy swy●… olles/ it will evidently apere that your wicked generation hath done all that and many other mischiefs more.  
By these your filthy forefathers and such other/ hath this realm been always in most miserable captivity either of the Romans or Danes/ Saxons or Normannes/ and now last of all under the most blasphemous Behemoth your romish Pope/ the great Antichrist of Europa/ and most mighty maintainer of Sodom and Gomorre/ till God by the strong power of his eternal word gave our noble king a clear victory over him. How unchristenlye your said predecessors have used the rulers of all other Christian realms/ it were to long to write. I reaken it therefore high time for all those Christian princes/ which pretend to receive the Gospel of salvation/ and accordynglye after that to live in mutual peace and tranquillity/ for ever to cast ye out of their privy counsels/ and utterly to seclude you from all administracyous/ till such time as they find ye no longer wolves but faithful feaders/ no destroyers but gentle teachers. For as saint Peter doth say. i Petri. v. ye ought to be no lords over the people of your dioceses/ but examples of Christian meekness. Who seeth not in these days that you bloody bishopp●…s of England/ Italy/ Sicell/ France/ Spain/ Portugal/ scotland/ & Ireland be the ground and original foundation of all controversies/ schisms/ variances and mars betwixt realm and realm at this present: As sure as the lord liveth it is the subtle serpent of Rome and your wily viperous generation forth ●…in goe from him which hath stirred up the first movers thereof/ confedering them with the Turk or great Barbarossa/ utterly to destroy the Christian common wealth. As in deed for your cause and his it was/ that the French king Frances first began that ungodly enterprise. ye feel it at your fingers ends that your father is sick to false/ ye perceive the daily decay of his false and usurped power. Where upon ye consider your own private powers/ inordinate pride/ covetousness/ voluptuous living/ lechere/ idleness/ tyranny/ and vain glory to follow soon after. And that causeth you to calk for his kingdom so fast/ to cloyne for his coblarie/ and to clought up his old cloak again. If ye speak aught against him/ it is from the teeth and for fear of the halter only. He hath never the less both your hearts and good will/ and lacketh neither your counsell●…or help privily/ to the uttermost ye can do/ as appeareth by your daily works. Else could he never continue as he doth/ nor yet be so strong as he is. weal/ do all that ye can in the world to his holding up/ piece/ patch/ cobble/ clought/ cloyne/ calk/ and do the devil and all besides/ when the apple of iniquity is full type/ he will fall of himself and a ye ye all no leave. And than will all these your labours be in vain. Consydre first of all both his beginning and yours.  
Never came ye in with your miters/ robes/ & rings by the door as did the poor Apostles/ but by the window unrequired like robbers/ thieves/ and manquellers with Simon Magus/ Martion and Menander. Never was your proud Pontifical power of the heavenly father's planting/ and therefore at the last it must up by the roots. ye must in the end be destroyed without hands. Daniel. viii. Inuisyblye shall ye be stricken as was the great tyrant Antiochus. two. Mach. ix. With the mighty breath of God's mouth which is his word invincible/ shall your false kingdom be consumed. two. Thes. two. and Heb. iiii. This reckon I sufficient to declare you both to God and to man most spiteful traitors unto them that will not be wilfully blind.  
Now to prove you spiritual thieves to the common people/ is the second part of my purposed writing. ●…arder need we not to seek for a proof of this/ than your own open acts. How long have ye kept the eternal testament of Christ under your filthy fere from the peoples reading/ which is the lively food of their souls: yea/ how many innocent Christian creatures have ye most cruelly murdered/ to cause them to abhorred it: Not many years past ye brent a godly woman at coventry for having but one chapter of saint Matthewes Gospel/ and an other man at London for having saint Ioh●…s Apoca lype/ besides that ye have done in other quarters else of the realm. Some burned ye in johan W●…ues time and after for not allow●…nge your pilgrimages/ some for not believing your pardons/ some for not fa●…ynge the friday/ for not observing your ●…ent/ some for your purga torie/ some for your images/ some for not praying to dead saints of your making/ some for your housel at Easter/ some for not cr●…pinge to the cross/ some for not going procession/ and some for ho lie water/ and for other vain trifles of your own inventing.  
He that shall read the causes of the imprysonmentes & death of sir johan Ball/ master johan Astone/ Nicolas Herforde/ Walter Britte/ Laurence Redenam/ David Gotraye/ johan Ashwarby/ Robert ●…ygge/ Walter Dash/ johan Hunteman/ Wissyam's Swynderby/ Richard With/ Henry Crompe/ William james/ Thomas ●…ritwell/ johan Purvey/ William Saw●…re/ William Thorpe/ johan Bad●…y/ johan Claydon richard Turmyne/ sir Roger Acton knight/ johan Brown esquire/ johan Beverlaye/ set johan Old castle the worthy lord Cobham/ William Hawlam/ Ralph Greenherst/ The tailor of Worcestre/ Peter Clarke/ Peter pain/ William tailor/ William White and jone his wife/ johan Scut/ johan Fowlyn/ William Euerdon/ William Caleser/ richard ●…ownden/ Thomas Bagley/ William ●…aundeuyle/ Philip Noris/ Regnolde Pecok Bishop of Chychestre/ johan Goos/ further Pope of Eye/ and Peke of yppeswych with a great number more. And no●…o in our time ye hang Richard Honne in the ●…ollars tower at midnight for denying a child's mortuary. And the three young men in Sothfolke/ Robert king/ johan Debynham/ and Nicolas ●…arshe for destroying the fowleydoll of ●…ouercourt.  
Why Wynchestre hinge Thomas Sa●…ye a man learned/ in his porters lodge at the Stews/ the cause is not yet known. ye brent Thomas Hytton at Maydston for not allowing the Pope/ Thomas Bylneye at Norwych only for preaching the Gospel/ Richard Bayfelde at London for selling new testaments in English/ with Teukesbery and Colyns/ William Leton a monk of eye for admitting both kinds in the sacrament and for not giving reverence to the rotten rood there/ George Baynham for purgatory and for not allowing Thomas Becket for a saynet/ johan Frith and johan Lambert for not admitting your purgatory also with your saints praying to and your pylde popish mass/ William Tyndale at Vilforde in Braban for translating the scriptures and disclosing the slayghtes of your false generation/ Robert Barnes with Garade and Hierome for reproving your pestilent papistry (for other things ye had none to lay to him when he stood at the stake demanding for what articles he should die) richard Spenser and johan Ramsaye at salisbury/ richard Mekens at London/ An thonye Person/ johan Testwode/ & johan Fenemor at Wyndesore with a great sort besides in divers quarters of England for matters of no weight/ but that ye must still be doing your kind.  
To long were it far to recite all your masteries of mischief/ whom ye have always practised to defuse God's word. Never were ye yet contented that that seed of salvation should fructify among the people/ but evermore ye have stopped the sweet blast thereof/ to do the devil your father a pleasure/ Apoc. seven. A few years a go when it began first to flotishe/ ye caused one Somers with certain other more openly to burn New Testa mentes in the mids of cheap at London. And as ye perceived that it still increased magrye your hearts under the authority of our most worthy king/ than roared you like rude rampyon raveners/ than raged also your rank rabble of romish rufflers in their side sweping gowns/ their shaven crowns/ caps/ and typpettes/ like the charming channters of Bell. Specially wooed Wynchestre/ lewd London/ lurking Lyncolne/ dreaming Dur●…am/ york without wit/ chattering Chychestre/ smiling salisbury/ fleering friar wattes'/ and that double faced traitor Wilson/ naming it full of errors and very ill translated.  
Oh idle idyotes and abominable hypocrites. Shame ye not at all so evidently to lie and so boldly to blaspheme? Never were ye able as yet to match them whose just labours ye reprove: & though ye were/ ye have not yet done it to the pro fight of other. ye are those wild swine/ lewdeshepardes/ and foxes which hath rooted up the lords vine yard. Psalm. lxxvii. Esa. iii. Hier. xii. Can. two. Never do you repair when any thing is therein decayed/ but continually murder all them that would gladly do it. Mat. xxi. Mark. xii. Luc. xx. In the first chapter of Sapience is it mencyo ●…ed how terrible sentences ye shall geu●… against yourselves at the latter day. 〈◊〉 horrile fear shall ye there confess openly that all hath been damnable f●…lyshnesse that ye have gone about/ that ye have ●…rred from the truth/ that ye have been wilfully ignorant/ that ye have tired yourselves in the ways of wickedness & destruction/ and so forth.  
Before your own faces will I yet lay more largely your own abominable fruits or good works as ye call them/ be ashamed of them/ yfye list. you master wyncharde of Wynchestre broiled in saynet George's field beyond Southwerk one gyles a joynar with one of the queens servants and a painter before five a clock in the morning/ least the common people should have known your lewd legerdemain by their last confessions. And you bloody Bishop boner did murder a godly young man in Newgate only for reading the Bible in Pau les/ whose life was weal known to be vnrebu●…eable among men/ besides your tyrannous handling of others for the same/ notwithstanding the kings authority. you two blind Babylon bragger's with your oiled adherentes made Alexandre Seton a notable learned man most miserably to recent for your false fire will/ William Tolwyn for your holy water making/ Thomas Becon for your images/ your chastity/ & your satisfaccids/ Robert Wisdom for your saints veneration/ your ceremonies/ & the Pope's old religion/ with such other.  
yet was not your fretting fury all qualyfyed thus/ but styllye raged in your former frenzy not unlike Pharaoes' fierce knights/ and ones again ye bewytched the parliament house/ provoking them most pestylentlye to deprive the common people all together of the Bible reading. Only was it than admitted to. three degrees of men/ to gentle men/ merchants/ and priests/ all artificers and men of the common sort clearly secluded/ as though God were partial/ not willing his laws/ precepts/ and sweet promises to be known to poor men to their soul's salvation. But false and crafty are ye in you●… feats working/ ye thought 〈◊〉 lays●… to take 〈◊〉 from them also/ might 〈◊〉 on●…●…me agay●… to you●… full sway.  
These be th●… good works th●… 〈◊〉 boast so sore/ whi●…●…fye you befo●… your God the Po●… 〈◊〉 op●… opera●…▪ These are deeds of 〈◊〉 erog●… cy●…/wh●… with ye scour you●… 〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉 so oft as it pleaseth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…rytes of ●…oure satis●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…eauen when God is no●… a●… hom●…▪  
Oh abhomina●…●…eues and shameless murderers. If 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 called a man●… lar which s●…eeth th●… 〈◊〉/ moch●… rather he which sieeth 〈◊〉 body▪ and soul●… as your generation doth commonl●…. 〈◊〉 the world in a manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ges/ and lawheth to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…dent 〈◊〉. Chri●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the poor/ but blessed t●… 〈◊〉 all ●…tes of peop●…/Mat●… 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉. vi. 〈◊〉 ●…lye opened 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gospel to the poo●… in his own per●…/ but also appointed the pore●… o●… 〈◊〉 ●…o declare it unto the poor after his 〈◊〉/ induing them most largely with high sp●…te from above Math. xxviii. Mark. xvi. Luke. xxiiii. johan. xv. Act. two. He chose the weak to confound the s●…onge and the poor to deface the proud presumptuous. i Cor. 〈◊〉 By his p●…eachynge to the poor as by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉/ ●…lared he as a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his coming in the 〈◊〉▪ Math. xi. ●…sa. lxi.  
〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…bbets 〈◊〉 ●…youse g●…ors to s●…t in consisto●…/ 〈◊〉/ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the utter 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 fayhtfully in 〈◊〉. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 to perceive whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. xxiii ye ●…ll 〈◊〉 gouer●…/ as did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 your prede●…our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ero/ to ●…ee the Gos●… not the●… kynge●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ willed none to 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…o 〈◊〉 faith by compuls●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 th●…●…les to enforce 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto. It is not our manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 james the mo●…e unto Herm●…s to cause any man to 〈◊〉 our 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he ●…e willing. And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…tes ●…ore cruel than the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to pro fess●… you●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…erse ●…yndes o●…f death.  
Non leave ye 〈◊〉 and ●…ntrobled/ No 〈◊〉 so moche as the poor mynstress 〈◊〉 players of interludes/ but ye are doyn●… with them. So long as they played 〈◊〉 and sang bawdy songs/ blasphe●…ge God and corrupting men's consciences▪ never blamed them/ but were ve very well contented. But since they persuaded the people to worship their Lord God a right according to his holy laws and not yours/ and to acknowledge jesus Christ for their only redeemer and saver without your lousy legerdemains/ ye never were pleased with them/ when they tell you as the truth is/ that your romish father hath played the cruel Antichrist/ and ●…ou his false phesicyanes in holding the Christian multitude so many hundreth years in such damnable darkness of spirit without repentance/ ye take it unpacientlye s●…kinge their destruction for it.  
Never repent ye your many fold mischiefs be they never so manifest/ but are always ready with all ingyns possible to fall to them again. ye are not ashamed that ye have afore time deprived 〈◊〉 people of all godly knowledge by with holding from them the scriptures. But with tooth and nail ye labour it afresh with all crafty cloyninge/ to make them both blynd●… and ignorant/ as I have proved here afore/ 〈◊〉 think the denyls in ●…ell are not of a more perverse mind nor 〈◊〉 more ways to the soul's destruction/ than you. Nether will you entre into the kingdom of Christ by a true repentance and faith in his holy promises/ nor yet suffer any other that would gladly do it. But rather on every side ye stop by the high ways there unto/ least they should believe and so receive salvation.  
Nothing pleasant is it unto your lordly cares/ to hear that we are justified by Christ's only deservings. Nether do ye think it greatly to your advantage/ that we without your lowly beggery should be saved in his blood shedding. slanderously report ye the instructors of our time both to preach and to write against good works not for any devotion that you have to do them/ specially if the scripture hath commanded them. But to have soche wicked worke●… fulfilled as your filthy father and you have commanded for your own private profit and lucre/ ye play Pha rao/ Cayphas/ Nero/ Traianus/ with all tyrants parts besides. The faith which is lively and of value before God can no more be without good works/ than the clear sun apering can be with out brightness or the burning fire with out his natural heat.  
That faith which ariseth of the gospel preaching/ bringeth forth the of the Gospel which are the wholesome fruits of the spirit/ as love/ gladness/ peace/ patience/ gentleness/ goodness/ long suffering/ faithfulness/ mehenesse / chastity/ temperance/ with such other like. Galat. v. These good have not ●…ou to be justified by/ as we see in your daily living. These be not they therefore that ye take for the good of mynies justification. I wot/ the good works that ye have cassed upon afore time/ w●…re the goyng●… to pardons/ the se●…ynge to images/ the praying to dead saints/ the taking of holy water/ the hearing of Matins and Mass without understanding/ the wearing of beads/ the offering of candles, the bearing of palms and ashes/ the idle bestowing of your holy days/ the coming to confession/ the creeping to the cross/ the paying to the paschal/ the fasting of saints vigils/ the praying for ass Christian souls/ the buysding of monasteries and cha●…teryes/ the chat myng●… of churches and chalices/ with a thousand superstitions mo●…/ for your commodity and advantage.  
The good works that we behold in your daily conversation/ for all your bold brag●…s of good works/ are but the filthy fruits of the flesh as say not ●…oule doth call them/ for we see nothing in you b●… hawty●…sse/ bayneglorye/ cove tousnesse/ pr●…de/ hatred/ malice/ manniss lauc●…r/ banketynge/ gluttony/ drunkenness/ slow the/ sedition/ idolatry/ mytchecrast●…/ 〈◊〉/ 〈◊〉/ 〈◊〉 / besides your filthy feats in the dark when women are not ready at hand. What ye apere in the sight of them which have no godly understanding/ I can not we'll tell you. But weal I wot that ye seem unto us with your iustifyeng works very pestilent idols/ as▪ zacharias saith ye are. zacha. xi. God requireth mercy of his true believers/ and neither your unsavoury sacrifices nor yet your faint feeble ceremonies/ D. see. vi. Math. ix. Gal. iiii.  
Though we do affirm with saint ja mes/ that faith to be idle/ dead/ and boy the which occupieth not good works such as the Gospel prescribeth/ yet grant we not those good works to be any part of our justification before God/ considering that to rest alone in Christ's good deservings which are ours only by faith. Not for our own righteous works (saith saint Paul, are we saved/ but by the mercy of God through jesus Christ/ Titum. three Non other is our universal righteousness before God/ (saith the Prophet) than is a filthy clo the stained with a woman's floure●…. Esa. lviiii. Seeming it is that we become newemennes/ Eph. iiii. that we be have ourselves as the ministers of God/ that we walk in a new Christian life after the Gospel. i Thess. two. that our light apere afore men to the glory of God/ Matthew. v. and that we serve no more sin from hence forth/ Rom. vi. but that our daily conversation be in heaven. Phil. iii  
yet when we have done all this by the gracious gift of God/ we may not there unto ascribe any part of our justification with the Pharisee/ Luke. xviii. but say with the poor publican/ God be merciful unto me/ I am truly an unprofitable servant/ I have not done so moche as my duty/ Luc. xvii. I am not able to think a good thought of myself/ moche less than to do a good work to my justification. two. Cor. iii. Thus do we not condemn good works/ as you like false liars report us/ but we allow them most highly/ as they arise of the Gospel and not of your beggarly traditions/ and so teach we them in their right kind. Though your forefathers in all ages sens their beginning hath murmured against the verity/ yet raged they never so unreasonable as you do/ neither sought they so cruel kinds of death for the servants of God.  
What the cause should be of this your frantyk fury/ it is easy to conjecture/ your water is scene now a days/ your sickness is known/ and your longing perceived. We see now what ye are both within and without. It hath pleased our eternal God in this latter time/ by his despised disciples to manifest the great Antichrist to the universal world/ of whom your Pope is the head and you his malignant members. No longer are ye like with your abominations to sit in the holy place/ in the temple of God/ in the secret consciences of men. Matthew. xxiiii. i. Corinth. iii. two. Thess. two. But as unlawful ●…yars and sellars/ robbers and thieves/ idolaters and murders/ to be driven out with whips/ johan. two. Luc. nineteen. Mar. xi. Math. xxi. This is the only cause of your blustering and blowing/ your roaring and raging/ your impresoning and but●…ynge of the said godly ministers/ be they writers or preachers/ players or syngers.  
Never the less your terrible turmoiling yet taketh the verity effect in them whom God hath appointed. My word (saith the Lord) shall not turn again void/ but accomplish my mind and prosper in them whom I sent it unto. Esa. lv. Against yourselves work ye in your daily doings/ yet perceive ye it not. In the sharp shedding of righteous blood/ or burning whether ye will/ have those things been opened/ whom ye have most coveted to be hid from all knowledge. As your pardons and purga torye to be of non effect/ your pilgrimages and other peltrycs to be of no value. another thing there is that ye set most by/ which must away also/ though it cost blood in habunda●…ce as I think it witted. And that is your abominable mass/ by so many pestilent Popes devised/ which were both perverters & poisoners/ sorcerers & stinking Sodomit●…s. By that is the glorious supper of the Lord which was his own institution most blasphemously bl●…myshed and brought clean out of knowledge in the Christian church.  
For a continual remembrance of Christ's death in his congregation was that heavenly supper first ordained/ and for a universal thanks giving for the most fruitful benefyght of the same. In that sacred supper are the mutual members of Christ's mystical body there gathered/ perfygh●…lye ●…nyt together to their head with the joints of faith and sy●…nowes of love/ where as it is truly ministered. In your Popish Mass was never yet such godly order. Nether is the lords death to understanding preached/ nor yet his body and blood fruit fully therein received. Nether are the hearers thereof persuaded to continual thanks giving/ nor yet christianly exhorted to a mutual love and concord. But of the denowtest that cometh to that Mass of yours one disdaineth an other/ one hateth an other/ one troubleth an other/ one robbeth an other/ one goeth to law with another/ one defileth an others wife/ yea sometime/ one slayeth an other/ besides the abominable sorceries/ sacrileges/ superstitions/ and ydolatryes which are therein daily committed.  
For therein ye offer to be worshipped of the people/ a sign for a sa●…/ and that hath been made by a sinful man's hands for our eternal living God. Thus you most execrable Antichristes' have brought them from the true worshipping of God/ to the worshipping of bread and wine/ two false Gods/ (as they are used) of your romish fathers appointing. Never commanded Christ his words to be preached to bread and to wine which are but dead things/ but to such people as had faith to believe them and to follow them ●…he bad the faithful receivers of his holy supper to take the bread and to eat it/ but never to kneel to it and to worship it: That odious observation was added thereunto by your Pope sens sathan was set at large after his thousand years' inpresonment/ Apocalyp. xx. Not without the perpetual curse of God/ Deut. xii. Apocalyp. xxii.  
The eternal testament of God wherein Christ is contained both really and substantially/ ye never hold up to be worshipped/ though ye fatche from thence the words that ye occupy/ for that were nothing for your commodity. Most commonly is that office done by an unlearned lusk/ a blind buzzard/ an asshead an idiot/ an whoremonger/ a drunkard/ a bellygod/ traitor/ a Sodomite/ a tyrant/ a unfaithful Papist/ and the most knave in a town. yea/ sometime from the vomiting of his undigested supper/ or else from the filthy occupying of an harlot/ he cometh straight to the aultre to do it/ yet must it be thought a sacrifice of no less value and strength/ than that Christ himself offered upon the cross. And he that will not so believe it/ shall be burned for an her etique.  
Oh abominable scorners and thieves/ which practise nothing else but the utter destruction of soul. If any thing under the heavens hath need of reforma macyon/ let them think this to be one which mindeth any godliness/ for never did cruel Pharaoh hold the people of Israel in so wicked a captivity/ as doth this superstitious sort of ydest Sodomites the most dearly redeemed heritage of the Lord. If they be no spiritual thieves soul murderers/ heretics/ scysmatiques / church robbers/ rebels/ and traitors to God & to man/ where are any to be looked for in all the world: An other thing yet there is which causeth me sore to lament/ the inconuenyencyes there upon considered. And that is this. Although the scriptures/ chronicles/ canons/ constitutions/ counsels/ and private histories with your manifest acts in our time/ doth declare your forefathers/ and you such heretics/ thenes'/ & traitors to the Christian common wilthes as hath not been upon the earth but you/ yet are ye still taken into the privy counsels both of Emperor and king.  
But what a plague it is or miserable yoke to that Christian realm where as you bear the swing/ I think it truly unspeakable though it be not scene. Oh eternal father for thy infinite mercies sake/ graciously grant thy most faithful servant king Henry of England our most worthy sovereign lord and governor under thee/ clearly to cast out of his privy counsel house these lecherous locusts of Egypte and daily upholders of Sodom and Gomor/ the Pope's cruel cattle tokened with his own proper mark/ to the universal health of his people/ as thou hast now constitute him an whole complete king and the first sens the conquest. For never shall he have of them/ but disseytfull workemêne and hollow hatted gentlemen. And not only that good lord but also to deprive them of there usurped authority and power restoring again thereunto his temporal magistrates whom their proud Pope hath hitherto most tyrannously thereof ●…yryued.  
finally to take from them their inordinate pomp and ●…yches and more godly to bestow them/ that is to say/ to the aid of his poverty and maynte●…aunce of his common wealth. ●…s for an example the noble Germans hath graciously done before him/ making of they●… monasteries/ nuns/ covents/ and friars houses/ scoles of Christian serning/ hospitals for sick people/ and convenient dwelling places for the impotent/ poor/ and aged/ ●…eseruynge the reest of the lan des and goods to the maintenance of their cyte●…s and contrees/ which godly distribution is much commended all Chr●… stendome over where as it is throughly known. Notunknowen is it to these pom pouse prelate's/ that when those lands and goods were first delivered unto their predecessors/ it was not to the intent that they should become possessors or lords of them/ but faithful disposa●…s to the use of the weak and needy/ that Christ might so be harboured/ norryshed/ covered/ fed/ and visited in his deceased members/ as will be required at the latter day.  
But whom have you harboured ye beast lie bellygoddes whom have you visited and feddesens ye have become●… of lowly preachers mitred modye idols: Not the sore and sy●…/ the impotent and same, the fatherless and motherless/ nor him that hath b●… decay●…d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉/ or thrown in strong pr●…son for the verity. No/ but great lords and sadyes/ ler●…ed men and ●…owte sawers/ gentlemen/ great doctors/ 〈◊〉 so●…he as hath fat ben●…fices/ with a ●…nde of bold brag gets or blasphemous swearers about ye/ to wait upon your tabl●…s/ to hold up your tails in the s●…rete/ to keep your hounds and horses/ and to convey you in the dark a piece for your pleasure. And this do ye for two specyast causes/ one is this/ for so moche as your●… selves are becomen great fords/ ye must needs have lordly companions somewhat like yourselves.  
Peter/ james/ & johan/ with the other dis●…ples of Christ (whose succe●…yon ye bo●… yourselves to be were now no mete●…●…hyp for you. Never were they yet in so●…he high authority as you be in now. ●…ther had they here any such prche●… of p●…acye as to be called my ●…tyouse ●…egne of covetousness that he lest behind him upon the high moūtay●…. Math. iiii. I think not the cōt●…arye but you s●…tdye struggelers will somewhat s●…le at this wy homely writing/ yet shall not that make me to l●…aue of/ consyd●…ynge that Christ hath promised. ●…uce nineteen. that though we should hold our peace and neither write nor speak against you in these lattre days/ so hiding his talon under the ground/ yet mold●… the dumb stones do it against your idolatrous generation.  
In vain therefore have ye made it death to impugn your mysche●…s. truly we can none otherwise chose but in the power of that spirit which he hath given us boldly to reply against your fylt●…ye father Anticrist and you/ though ye should there upon make a thousand deaths more. And I do not doubt it but in process of time we shall in the same spirit and word clearly overthrow that fleshl●…e ch●…●…he of his/ so that there shall no more there of apere/ than now doth of the carnal synagogue of the jews. The more cruel acts ye make against us/ the more earnest are we and will be/ ty●… we have wedded ye wholly out of the lords vyneya●…de. your holy brethren and cistern the monks/ f●…ytes/ canons/ and nuns/ with your h●…s pilgrims/ and perdoners be gone forth afore you/ think not but yourselves shall follow with your miters/ shaven crowns/ and long ryppetes arising out of the same soil. For Rome that rial city was the original mother to ye both.  
●…omore are you in your proud painted religion of the heavenly father's planting/ than were they in there I dell I pocresye. And therefore ye must up by the roots with your pompous palaces/ proud prebends/ chapels/ & chaunteryes. The gre●… sale of your m●…rytes and holy whorish works shall not be able to uphold you. As the lord hath given it to our most worthy king by the strength of his word to destroy that rank ●…able of Romystes so will he gra●…t him to sub endue you all so that cruel captains ●…d shorn forcerers of that sodomytycall kingdom as yet left behind/ to make perfectly the work that he hath begun/ that ye do not hereafter so wickedly abuse hy●… succession/ as ye have afore time his most noble pro genitors. I faithfully believe it/ that both Achitofel & Haman shall have there just plagues/ ere his grace give place unto nature/ as all men must die. two. Reg. xvii. Hester. seven.  
If it should be otherwise (as the lord forbid both prince Edward and the whole realm b●…syde should be in most d●…e danger. For though ye play now dyogenes flies and whysper pleasantly in the e●…re/ yet will ye hiss cruelly like s●… pentes' throwing forth your venom wh●… ye shall see your time/ according to your subtile and ungentle nature. Though the mermaids song be sweet/ yet is it full of pason (as are also your honeyed thetoryckes) & leadeth them unto death which giveth them thereof the h●…arynge. 〈◊〉 ver is Gnato unrydie which his fair flat ring feats/ to bring his false matter●… to pass where as he find it ching ●…res. Were it not for fair speech in hypocrisy/ Satan should never apere the glorious 〈◊〉 of light/ to the daily perfour mance of all his masteries of mischief. What 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 decays hath chaunc●…d to all Chri●…n ●…gyons and their rulers for giving swift credit to the fleryng●… flatteries of your babylonyshe broad/ it were very moche to write. It shall be therefore necessary for our most worthy king/ to look upon you intime/ and both to demynyshe your authority and riches leas●… ye here af●…er put all his godly enterprises in hazard. For nothing else can ye do of your spiritual nature but work daily mysch●…ues. As weal may ye be spared in the common wealth/ as may kites/ crows/ and bussardes/ polcattes wesels/ and rats/ otters'/ wolves and foxes/ body lice/ flees/ and flesh 〈◊〉 with other devowring and noyful vermin. For as unprofitable are ye unto it as they/ and as little have ye of the word of God to uphold you in those vain offices of papistry as they.  
This uncommodiouse commodity hath England had of you always when ye have been of the kings privy counsel/ and I think hath now at this present hour. That when so ever any godly enterprise is there in doying/ be it never so privily handled/ yet shall the Popish prelate's of Italy/ Spain/ Fraunc●…/ Flaunders/ and scotland have sure knowledge thereof by your secret messengers/ and you again their crafty con passynges to deface it if it may be. Nether shall those realms continue long after without war/ specially if an earnest reformation of your shameful abuses be sought there. And never shall the original ground of that war be known/ but other causes shall be laid to colour it with/ as that the king seeketh his right/ his princely honour/ the maynte●…aunce of his titles/ or the realms common wealth/ being nothing less in the end/ but an upholding of you in your mischiefs.  
So long as you shall bear rule in the parliament house/ the Gospel shall be kept under and Christ persecuted in his faithful members. So that n●… godly acts shall come out from thence to the glory of God and Christian common wealth/ but you shall so sauce them with your romish sorceries/ that they shall at all times be ready to serve your turn. Although the kings majesty hath permitted us the scriptures/ yet must the true ministers thereof at your most cruel appointment either suffer most tyrannous death/ or else with mouth openly deny Christ's verity which is moche worse than the death. For where as he which mannefullye suffereth/ declareth himself an able witness of the lord/ he that cowardly recanteth showeth himself to be but a faint hearted hypocrite/ throwing himself wholly under Antichristes' yoke again. Thus give ye strength to his laws and norryshe up his kingdom/ whom ye say with your lips that ye have refused/ your pestilent Pope of Rome.  
ye play altogether hyck scorner under the figure of Ironia. That ye say ye hate ye love/ & that ye say ye love ye hate. let all faithful men be ware of such double day dreamers and hollow hearted traitors/ and think where as they bear the rule/ nothing shall come rightly forward neither in faith nor common wealth. Never find these tyraūt●… of Sodom any place to repentance for their continual murdering of Christ in his faithful members/ but more and more they sin against knowledge blaspheming the holy ghost/ to bring upon themselves the more swift dam nation. And as concerning their prince's/ always are they at this crafty point with them/ to follow their minds outwardly for the time/ for of all men lyunge they are ever the mosilsubtyle observers of time.  
But be sure of this ones/ that what countenances so ever they show before them with lowly sowting and ducking down to the ground, yet ●…ane they, all that way which maketh most to there upholding in the vain glorious and 〈◊〉 regne of Antichrist, whether it be with the French kynge/ the Turk/ or the Emperor. As now at this present time/ speak they never so fair/ look they never so demu●… show they never so wise polecyes/ or provide they never so ware●…ye for the kings hoos●… in baking/ brewing/ broiling/ grinding/ seasoning/ salting/ sousing/ and seething/ yet hath the French king their inward hearts for the great good will he beareth to their romish father. yea/ although the kings grace and the emperor's majesty be now jointly joined friends peraventure not without their procurement also for an other purpose of theirs/ as to stop a general counsel wherein they doubt their utter fall) yet shall they not long so continue/ if they by any other false policy may alter it/ as I hope it shall never lie in their wicked power to do it.  
These have been always their common practises/ as they have scene their matters in danger. And therefore they are now lest of all to be trusted/ considering that at this present they are in most danger of all. If this general war set them not up again/ they are never like to go forward. And therefore hardly they work now a tawnte for the upholding of their kingdom/ take head to their hands who shall/ yea and peraventure to some of their feet if God be their good lord. What other works can come from the devils working toll/ than cometh from the hands of his own malyngnaunt mischief: who can deny these bishops and priests to be the instruments of sathan/ understanding the scriptures and beholding their daily doings: Only persecute they simple men unto death for believing in Christ/ and never for the great ab hominacyons of idolatry and superstition.  
Only are they great enemies to marriage which is holy/ and never to the stinking Sodom●…trye that is daily used among them. No/ of that they have set up an ydos●… among themselves/ calling it holy virginity and the vowed 〈◊〉 ite of prosses yea/ they have so bewitched the parliament house/ that it must be honoured of all England under pay●… of death though it be the mo●… filthy fruit of 〈◊〉 that ever yet y●…ued from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ye there can be a gr●… plague to a Christian realm/ than to have such goo●… lie fathers of the kin g●… privy counsel: If wise men do judge it any other than a just plague for our sin and a yoke laid upon us for o●… unreverent receiving of that heavenly treasure the eternal testament of Christ/ to have such hypocrites/ thieves/ & traitors to regne over us/ truly they judge not a right.  
If we would 〈◊〉 therefore repent our former living/ and unfeignedly turn unto our ever living God/ as we find in that testament/ I would not doubt it to I ●…parde both my body and soul/ that we should in short space be delivered of this romish vermin rising out of the pit bottomless/ Apocalyp. ix. which eateth up all that is green upon earth or that hath taken any strength of the living word of the Lord. For the heart of a king is always in the hands of God and at his pleasure he may evermore turn it/ Prou. xxi. Take me not here that I condemn any bishop or priest that is godly/ doing those holy offices that the scripture hath commanded them/ as preaching the Gospel/ providing for the poor/ and ministering the sacraments right. But against those bloody butchers that murder up God's people/ and make daily havoc of Christ's congregation/ to maintain the jews ceremonies and the Pagans superstitions in the Christian church.  
These are not bishops but byteshepes/ tyrants/ tormentors/ termaga●…tes/ and the devils slaughter men. Christ lest no such disciples behind him to sit with cruel caiphass at the sessions upon life and death of his innocent members. But such 〈◊〉 in poverty preached the Gospel/ rebuking the wicked world for idolatry/ hypocrisy/ and false doctrine/ called sin/ righteousness/ and judgement in the. xvi. chapter of johan. Episcopus is as moche to say as a superintendant or an ouers●…ar/ whose office was in the primitive Church purely to instruct the multitude in the ways of God/ and to see that they were not beastly ignorant in the holy scriptures as the most part of them are now a days. Pres●…iter is as much to say as a sevyour or elder/ whose office was also in godly doctrine and examples of living to guide the Christian congregation/ and to suffer no manner of superstition of jew nor gentle to regne among them. And these two offices were all one in those days/ and commonly executed of one several person.  
They which than were appointed to these spiritual offices did nothing else but only preach and teach the Gospel having assistant unto them other inferior officers called D●…akons to minister the sacraments than used/ and to provide for the poor/ the diseased/ and aged/ ●…cto. vi. Christ sent not me forth (say●…) 〈◊〉 Paule●… to baptize/ but to preac●… the Gospel or glad tydyng●… of salvation in his death and resurrection i. Corinth. i. Roma. iiii. No godly man can despise these offices/ neither yet condemn those that truly execute them. Not only are they worthy to have a competent living. i Cor. ix. but also double honour after the doctrine of saint Paul●…. i. Timoth. v. But from inordinate excess of riches ought they of all men to be sequestered/ considering that the most wicked nature of Mammon is always to corrupt/ yea/ the very elect if God were not the more merciful. And that caused Christ our saver to say unto his Apostles/ ye can not serve God and Mammon. Matth. vi. which might be an admonyshment to our lordly Bishops when they be in their wordly pomp/ that they are not Gods servants/ believed they his sayings as they do nothing less.  
I can not think that any Christian bishop or priest will be offended with aught that I have written here/ but rather prefer it to their power/ saying it maketh nothing against them/ seeking God's glory and not their own. And as for the Romyshe Pope's idols/ the better it will beiudged of all Christian believers if they do spittle against it. My conscience doth give me that I have herein followed the example of Christ. For like as he laboured by his daily preaching to deface the great opinion that the people had of 〈◊〉 Pharis●…s and false bishops▪ & to p●…ace johan Baptist and Peter in th●…yr rooms/ Matthew. xi. ●…uc. x. So do I here to my simple portion that the Pope's Presies and Prelates should no longer occupy the consciens of men with their beggarly dead baggage above the eternal God and his living word. two. Thessaly. two. Daniel. two. The which in the zeal of his only verity/ I desire that lord of his bottomless mercy and for his son jesus sake/ shortly to perfourne to the just expectation of his elect flock. finally with heart I desire/ that those enemies of the truth be no longer given over of God and so left to themselves/ but that they may find some just way to repentance/ and so from henceforth to maintain the pure laws of Christ/ as they have in times past the most filthy traditions of Antichrist.  
So be it.  
☞ Written from basil a city of the 〈◊〉 by me henry Stasbrydge in the year from Christ's incarnation. 1544. and the first day of August.   

☞ An appendyces jorned to the foresaid Episile.  
BE it known unto you brag ging 〈◊〉/ that the day after I had synyshed my Episile/ there came unto my hands an answer of your making against the liberal hunting of your romish father the fo●…e of all falsehood wherein ye show yourself neither learned nor yet wise. In ded eye apere there a very shameless gentylmanne. For where as neither scriptures nor good natural reasons will serve you/ ye fall to plain scolding like an whore of the stews. ye stamp and ye stare/ ye face/ fret/ and far/ as it were great N●…mroth of Babylon. Nothyn ●…e else find we in your writing but boystuouse boasts/ brags/ and brawlings/ lordly checks/ rebukynge/ and tyrannical threttenynge/ all after the fashion of your cruel kingdom. They that were blind afore are like to ●…e so still for aught they shall learn of you It is not your office to make them to see/ ●…ut to keep them ignorant still/ you bishops can not chose but show yourselves still as ye be/ even the natural loving children of your father.  
In no wise may ye suffer it/ that he in his tight colours be revelated to the world/ least you rising out of his right side be thrown from your vain glorious dignities with him. Moche rather had ye that all princes powers were nothing/ than the acts of that father of yours should utterly come to nought. But saying ye have taken so great pains to defend h●…s holy quarrel/ 〈◊〉 marvel what the cause should be that ye put it not forth in prent that your traitorous brethren also might be confirmed in their obstinate errors by the same. If you will not showeth cause why/ than I shall ta ke the pains to do it for you. ye have consy dere with yourself and with other your crafty counsellors/ that if ye should so put for the that work of yours/ ye might cha●…ce to apere to some eyes in condemning this honte to allow in your holy father his suppressed authority afresh. Take heed what ye do in any wise/ for the world is not now as it hath 〈◊〉.  
again yfye should have let it pass untouched/ ye should either have sh●…wed yourself 〈◊〉 coward/ or else have condemned utterly the. vi. wicked articles of your own devysyege for Antichristes' Idle and blasphemous wares. In deed ye were brought to a narrow point both ways/ and seem yet scat an honest conveyar in the art of Mome bowgett. O well/ to keep yourself upright/ ye have written against this honter. And ye think ye have gested him out of countenance though ye have done nothing else for want of matters to your mind. As ye d●…d Ale●…andre seton and other more/ to whom in comparison ye were judged a very blind ass in the learning of God/ but that authority (they say) maketh fools bold. But my lord my lord/ yfye think wraghton thus overthrown or yet dashed out of countenance/ ye are sore dece yved. David will one's again lay hand upon his sling. They be not your lor delye looks that shall cause him to shrink in so just a quarrel of his lord jesus Christ.  
I suppose your vulerned legerdemain will encourage him to pour double upon that romish whore your malygna●…t madame/ the mother of all filthiness/ idolatry/ superstitions/ hypocrisy/ vain glory/ craft/ subtlety/ falhede/ Idleness avarice/ gluttony/ lechere/ sodometry/ & most unshame fast tyranny. let your work come a broad & not lurk thus in corners/ that your father may say ye have done your part we'll/ & your brethren report that ye are a great pillar of there's. Ifye will not set it forward/ I put ye out of doubt that. I will do it to your sma●… honest/ that the kings majesty may see and all the realm besides what a forsworn gentleman ye are/ and what an wholesome counsellor with. two. Faces in an who the/ suppressing the gospel for your old religion to keep your father s●…yll in England. Non otherwise shall it apere than your own copy is. N●…yther will I add unto it one word (as god shall judge me) nor yet demynyshe it in one tittle.  
But as ye delivered it to your dear friend Doctor weston/ so shall it be seen in eve rye point. ye shall not devye it to be your own act/ if the said O veston be 〈◊〉 ●…amyned. How heretical/ traitorous/ & blasphemous the s●…rmon was which the said O ves●…on preached a●… the 〈◊〉 on the tuesday in the ●…aster weak/ a great sort of the hearers can tell. And although he was there of accused/ yet after the anointed broad had swarmed on●…s together such a cloak was cast upon it that it was judged a good matter and a very catholyek sermon. Now to you again my lord because ye shall well know that. I have your work/ I signify here unto you/ that this is th●…rof the superscription or title. The ●…amynatiō of a proud pre sumptuous honter. Thus far ye well for this tym●…/ & the lord send you hereafter a mor●… godly spirit/ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  
Amen.   

A brief table.  

Acts of cru●…lte by Byss. 〈◊〉  
Ale yandre seaton. 15. 28  
articles of papistry. 7  
Anricular confession. 8  
All sorts ve yed of the Byss. 16  
Answer of wynchestre. 28  
Apostles of the pope. 8. 27  
Apostles ve yed of priests. 4  
Bewyteh●…rs of the parliament. 5. 15. 26  
Bon●…r of london. 8. 13  
bishops tyranny. 9  
Bysshopp●…s of England. 10  
Brent for the scriptures. 12  
Brent in our time. 13  
Bible cond●…mpned of prelate's. 15  
conscience of prelate's. 5  
Ceremony●…s of the pope. 7. 17  
Chronyeles showeth the best. 10  
Christian work●…s allowed. 18  
Christ's church how defended. 22  
commodity of bishops. 24  
destruction sought for Christians. 6. 20  
Doctor london and pates. 9  
Doctor westons sermon. 28  
Destroyed must they be. 12  
Devowring vermin. 24  
Dyogenes flies. 24  
Death forth preachers. 32  
En●…myes to the verity. 4  
England holdeth the pope. 8  
England in captivity. 11  
empires subverted. 10  
Epythetes of prelate's. 11. 14. 16. 20  
Excuses for war. 24  
Episcopus/ what it is. 27  
Fears of cruel papists. 5  
Face of their mother. 8  
Feaders ought U. to be. 11  
Fruits of prelate's. 11  
Faith engendereth Good works. 17  
flattery/ whatyt doth. 24  
Gardener the pope's holy ghost. 8  
German gardener hanged. 9  
Good works of papists. 11  
Good works of Byss. 14. 15. 17. 22  
Gyl●…s a joynar/ bre●…t. 14  
Good works after the scripture. 17. 18  
Honting of the fox. 7  
Haman with Assnerus. 9  
Hanock in the court. 9  
How byss. impugn the pope. 11  
How byss. came in first. 12  
Hy●…k scorner under Ironia. 25  
johan vexed of priests. 4  
johan king of England. 10  
johan aston with his company. 13  
johan the lord Cobha●…. 13  
insurrection in the north. 6  
justification in Christ. 17. 18  
kings prenye chamber sought. 6  
kings of England vexed. 10  
kyngedomes de●…ed. 10  
king henry a 〈◊〉 king. 21  
Laws of papistry. 7  
London/ pates/ Gardener. 〈◊〉  
Moses' persecuted of priests. 4  
Mynstrels and players vexed. 16  
Mass of the pope. 19  
Mass hearers/ what they are, 20  
Mass mongers describe. 20  
Monks gone afore. 23  
Mermaids song. 24  
Names of bishops. 10  
Names of kings. 10  
Names of brent christians. 13  
New testaments brent. 14  
Old practises of papists 5. 7. 26  
Ordre in there masses. 20  
Ordre to be taken for bissoppes. 21  
Paul vexed of prelate's. 4  
Prelates companions. 22  
Prophets persecuted. 4  
practises of papists. 5. 7. 26  
Pope dwelleth in England, 8  
poverty commended. 15  
policies of provision. 25  
quests diverse. 8  
Resysters of truth. 4  
Recantations of our time. 15  
Reparers of Rome. 6  
Regnolde peacock bishop. 13  
Repentance have they none. 16  
righteousness where and what. 18  
Recant or else die. 52  
Simon magus counsel. 16  
Slandered are the preachers. 17  
Supper of the Lord. 19  
Sapiens rebuketh. 14  
tyrants procured by priests. 4  
traditions of the Pope. 7. 17  
Three young men of Sothfolke. 13  
Three degrees have the Bible. ●…5  
Thomas Sa●…xye/ hanged. 13  
Testament/ not worshipped. 20  
Testament kept down. 12  
V●…dyte of honest men. 8  
Victory hath our king. 11  
Vowed chastity/ an ydol●…. 16  
Upholders of the Pope's church. 14  
Wynchestre the Pope's holy ghost. 8  
Wynchestre al●… wolvish. 9  
Wynchestres wyl●…s for the Pope. 6  
Wynchestre a shameless papist. 28  
Wynchestre put to his shifts. 28  
William Wraghton. 7. 28  
What the Prelates are. 14. 28   
☞ Set yourselves at large/ and bear not the strangers yoke with the unbelievers. two. Cor. vi.