The true Copy of the Complaint of Roderyck Mors, Sometime a Grey Friar, unto the Parliament Hsouse of England, about an hundred years ago, when the Bishop of Rome being Banished out of the Realm, the Bishops of ENGLAND acted his part by power of the old Romish Canon, newly Translated into English Law.  
Let the Reader take notice, that in that day when the Roman Wolf was Metamorphosed into an English Fox, the Prelates that (in our first reforming Parliament of this latter age, cried out fearfully, the destruction of the Church, and the ceasing of the glory of the Kingdom, 1530) at least for their live sake, joined in law-making, and wrote, and swore solemnly against that Roman jurisdiction, 1534. Being yet bound by their own cords, and when they would have King and State believe that both Pope and Popery were banished, even in the same day, both by word and letter, at home and abroad, took all occasions to draw bacl K. Henry the 8. his Highness from Reformation: and on the other hand, procured Injunctions and Articles, 1540 with penalties attended, in which even dealing against Transubstantion was to be considered as Treason: And themselves sat in Commission, and were cheiefe prosecutors of such as withstood them. Their attempts against the Queen Katherine Parrs own life, are they not on record. How saith our Church History, came the Noble Courtier, and so lamented of the King Earl Cromwell to his untimely end? How were divers, Londoners and others; Ministers and People, cast into the burning flame, in the same, both place and time, that others perished for adhering to the Roman Bishop? And since the last Banishing of the foreign power, in the end of the Marian times, what public persecutions, Murders, Prison-murders, Gondemnation to death, Banishment, Torture, and Spoil, by means of those cruel Canons, and usurped Offices, hath been so sore, and long endured, who seethe not, when the public slate hath so discerned? In this day when the advancement hath been so fair for a renewed Patriarchat, or Popedom within ourselves, we may less wonder the condition of the Land to be as it is, though the Prelates protest against Rome's Supremacy. Cannot they be a block to the expedition for Ireland, and designs of the Major part in Parliament for Reformation, and our safety; and agree in vote with the Popish Lords, and boast how they could settle the present distraction in quietness, troubling only some which they call Sectaries, and yet keep close to the rule of Romish government, shared among themselves, thus still letting, and like to do, till they be taken out of the way? For the further discovery of this order of Men, to every eye that is but half open, and regulated well by common sense, the judgement of the godly learned on the contrary side, in the day of our begun escape from the Romish Wolf, in this Prophetical admonitory Lamentation (being the Title and words of the 23. Chapter of his Book, Printed in Anno 1545.) is annexed.  

A Lamentation, for that the Body and Tail of the Pope is not banished, with his Name.  
OH merciful Father of heaven, I can never lament enough to hear the Gospel thus blasphemed, to be named a thing causing Sedition; when it is the only cause of concord and peace in Conscience unto the faithful. Yet these Bishops, Deans and Canons of Colleges, with other the Pope's shavelings, according to their old wont, shame not to blaspheme this holy Word, by all the subtle means that can be devised. How busy were they to stay the putting forth of the great Bible, and to have had the Bible of Thomas Matthew called in: but the Lord strengthened the heart of the Prince to set it forth against their wills: yet how shamefully have they and their members, in many places of England driven men from reading the Bible? yea and Bonner Bishop of London, shamed not in the year a thousand five hundred and forty, to Prison one Porter and other, for reading in the Bible, which if it be not Heresy to GOD, than what is Heresy? And if it be not treason to the King to deface his Injunctions then what is treason?  
And again, if it be not theft to the Commonwealth, to steal from them their spiritual food, than what is robbery and theft? And even in the beginning of the last Parliament in the year a thousand five hundred, and forty one; how did they blaspheme, rage, and belly the Holy Ghost, saying, It is not rightly translated, and that it is full of Heresies, and that they would correct it, and set out one rightly. Sooner can they find faults than amend it. Who perceiveth not your wicked intentions, that in the mean time ye look for the death of the King, whom GOD preserve to his pleasure.  
O ye blind philistians, the Scripture is full of sentences, which teach men to know you, and to beware of you. I cannot blame you, though ye fight against GOD and his Word, to shut it up from his People. For why? Whosoever readeth or heareth the Contents of that Book, and believeth the Holy Ghost, shall plainly see, that ye be the very enemies of GOD, and so shall cast you out of their Conscience, where ye have long sitten in the place of God; whereby also ye should lose your great riches and authority, which maketh you to roar like Lions, and tear like Bears, and to by't like cruel Wolves and to sting like Adders. No doubt one Bishop one Deane, one College, or House of Canons, hath ever done more mischief against God's Word, and sought more the hindrance of the same, than 10 houses of Monks, Friars, Canons or Nuns ever did.  
The King's grace began well to weed the Garden of England: but yet hath he left standing (the more pity) the most foulest and stinking weeds, which had most need to be first plucked up by the roots, that is to say, the pricking Thistles, and stinking Nettles, which still standing, what helpeth the deposing of the petty members of the Pope, and to leave his whole body behind, which be the pompous Bishops, Canons of Colleges, Deans, and such other? Surely it helpeth as much as to say, I will go kill all the Foxes in S. johans' Wood, because I would have no more Foxes bred in all England. We say we have cast the Pope out of England: how so, I ask you, seeing he came never in England, how can he be cast out therefore? Some will say yes his tributes and other pollages be taken from him. Well thanks be to God, we be somewhat eased of our temporal and bodily burden. But there be greater things in this matter, than that, which well pondered, we may say, and lie not, that the Pope remaineth wholly still in England, save only that his Name is banished. For why? his body (which be the Bishops and other shavelings) doth not only remain, but also his tail, which be his filthy traditions, wicked Laws and beggarly Ceremonies (as S. Paul called them) yea and the whole body of his pestiferous Canon Law, according to the which judgement is given through the Realm, and men condemned after the prescript of it; so that we be still in Egypt, and remain in captivity, most grievously laden by observing and walking in his most filthy dross aforesaid, which is a misty and endless maze. And so long as ye walk in those wicked Laws of Antichrist the Pope, and maintain his Knights the Bishops, in such inordinate Riches, and unlawful Authority; so long say I, ye shall never banish that monstrous Beast the Pope, out of England. Yes, and it shallbe a mean in process of time to bring us into a temporal bondage also again, and to have him reign as he hath done like a God. And that know our forked Caps right well, which thing maketh them so boldly and shamelessly to fight of their God's quarrel, against Christ and his Word. The Bishops of England never took so great pains to defend the Pope and his Kingdom, as they have done since the King's grace took rightfully from him his accustomed pollages, which usurpedly he had out of this Realm. To prove this to be true, what blood have they shed? since that time, of the beloved servants of the everlasting God, for preaching, teaching, writing, and walking in the truth; as Teukisbery, Bainam, Frith, Bilney, Barnis, Garet, jerom, with divers other in Kent, Salisbury, and divers other places. And William tindal the Apostle of England (although he were burnt in Brabant) yet he felt the Bishop's blessing of England, which procured him that death, which he looked for at their hands. Nevertheless, I doubt not, but that all these be of the number of them, that S. john speaketh of in the Apocalypse, which lie under the Altar, till the number of their Brethren be fulfiled, which shall be slain for the Gospels' sake. I rehearse not their names for any praise to be given to them: but that the Congregation of Christ may laud and praise the everliving God, for giving them grace to stand so faithful in the Lord to the end, leaving us the victory, which is part of your spiritual comfort. For God promiseth the Preachers and Ministers of his Word, no other reward in this life. And thorough the preaching of these poor wretches (but outcastles in the sight of the world) he hath wrought this, that whereas the King was before but a shadow, or at the most but half a King, now he doth wholly reign thorough they preaching, writing and suffering.  
But now to the tyranny of the Bishops, once again, which besides the murdering of these Saints, how have they bewitched the , in making such viperous Acts, as the Beast of Rome never made himself? for the Pope never made the Marriage of Priests to death, and such other.  
Thus by your subtleties and most crafty wiles, ye make the People to abhor the name of the Pope of Rome, for a face, and compel them to walk in all his wicked Laws. And the Word of God which we say we have received, is not, nor cannot be suffered to be preached and taught purely and sincerely, without mixing it with your invented traditions and service. For whosoever doth (standing faithfully to it) he shall die for it. Thus you may see, that the things which we say that we have cast off, we receive, cherish, maintain, and walk therein: and again, that thing which we say we have received by the craft and tyranny of the Bishops, is abhorred, despised taken for Sedition called new Learning; and men be driven from it for fear of loss of goods of punishment of body, and danger of death, so weak and frail is our flesh.  
What a lamentable thing is this, that men should be driven from the Gospel of Christ, the glad tidings that bringeth peace in Conscience to the faithful, that is forgiveness of sins in Christ's blood. By these fruits all men may know, that they be more natural to their wicked Father the Pope, than any Child can be to his natural Father: and that shall the Realm feel at the change of a Prince, or at such times as they look for, unless God of his very mercy break the wicked counsels of them. What is the cause, that the Bishops be so diligent to sit so often upon the six wicked Articles, but only that they be establishing of the Pope's authority, be thou sure? Now therefore, that same God which gave grace to Achab to hearken unto the voice of Elyab, the 3. of the Kings the 18. to the confounding of the false Prophets give our noble King that same grace, if it be his Godly will and pleasure, to hearken to the godly learned, to confound and destroy all the false Prophets in England, and then I am sure there shall not be remaining one pompous Bishop in the Realm.  
Wherefore to open the conclusion of this little Lamentation, if ye will banish for ever the Antichrist, the Pope, out of this Realm, ye must fallen down to the ground those rotten posts the Bishops, which be clouds without moisture, and utterly abolish all and every his ungodly Laws, decrees, Traditions and Ceremonies, without Sgnifications, for they wait but for a time to rob some Noble man of his wit, as they would haye done with the marquis of Exetor. This is as sure, as Winchester received a Letter from the Pope, at his being at Regenspurg. Well, these filthy dregs once expelled, then make no Laws but such as shallbe agreeable to God's Word; and so shall ye drive out Antichrist and his members, or else never: and thus we shall not only avoid our temporal bondage, but also our spiritual captivity, which thing is most to be desired. And surely, seeing there is no power upon earth above the Temporal, to redress civil matters, Commonwealths, and to change wicked Laws, and evil customs; and inasmuch as the higher powers be fully certified by the Scripture, that as the Pope is enemy to the Gospel, so be his Children the Bishops (which thing is open and manifest to as many as will not wilfully be blind) therefore, I say, I cannot see, how they can suffer them thus to reign, persecuting the setters forth of the Gospel, but that they be partakers of their iniquity, and sprinkled with them in the blood of the righteous.   
FINIS.   

Printed in time and place of public observation of the English Prelates, so contrary handling the matter with the peace-seeking Protestant Subjects of SCOTLAND, and the bloodsucking Popish Rebels of IRELAND. 15. Jan: 1641