A supplicacyon to the queens majesty.  
Impryntid at London/ by John Cawoode printer tho the queens Mayestie with here most gracyns licence.   

A supplicacyon  
IN most humble wise Complaynyth unto your highnes/ that where as this noble realm off England/ hath of long time out of mind been the most fre contre in all christendom/ Now is like to be brought in to bondag and slavery of such a nation as ◇ the world both hatyth and abhoryth. The only occasion ther off is our unthankfulness/ as our preachers and true prophetes declared unto us in the time off your brother/ that most virtues prince king Edward the vj. 
King Eduord.  That if we would not be thankful for that great benyfyte off gods holy word/ then truly preached among vs. God would take away our said virtues king/ and set up a strange king to reign over us/ for our unrepentant hartes/ who should bring it, 
A strange King  again/ popery/ idolatry/ and all abhomynacyons/ as it is come to pass this day. For when that blessed word off god was truly preached among us/ we followed it not in lyvyng/ but did as the Iwes which followed christ/ because thy eat off his bread and were fyllyd. 
joan. 6.  even so did the most part off every state and degree in the common Weal/ hear the gospel preached not because they sought the glory off god only/ and so to haue framyd themselves to live ther after/ as they owgh to do. But lyuyd as in the time off ther former darkness/ in evil lust/ using extorcyon couetusnes/ and brybery? Nether sowgh● they the true liberty off the gospel/ to set ther consciences fre from syum and superstition. Which now( alas) appeareth by ther so redy mutabylyte/ provoking gods heavy Ire and wrath with ther seinyng to allow Idolatry: which Passyth all the former evil. So that it is to be dread/ gods Iustes doth ponysfhe one sin by another/ which off al is most perelouse/ and dangeruse/ as appe ryth by them which be given up off god/ because they seek not to glorify god/ according to the knowledge he hath offered unto thē but Wanndryng in the vanyties off ther own reasons/ and imagination off ther own hartes: 
Roma. 1  become at last to be confyrmid in error with strong illusyons/ because they haue had no more earnest desire to the truth/ as the holy apostle doth most plainly declare. 
2 thessa. 2. 1. Corr. 4. Hebre. 3.4 1. Cor. 4. Ezechi. 8. Num. 14. Daci. 9. luke. 19. judge. 2.3.6.9.10.19. Iere. 6.7.25.38.39. Detro. 28. 4. Reg. 17. 2. Cro. 36  On the other side/ some were wilful/ stubburn and herd hartyd/ and would not receyne the gospel off the glory off god/ but with desire to ther old idolatry/ hastenyd the vegeance off god. And therfore are thes plagues justly come vpon us because off our unthankfulness/ and not knowing the time off our ●… ysytacyon. For gods holy book doth show thes/ ●… o be the very and in fallyble causes off the overthrow of kingdoms and common weals/ specially where god off his mercy/ hath offered the knowledge off ●… ym selff/ and caused his word to be truly prea●… hid.  
wherefore your grace may call to remembrance the great and manifold benyfytes that ye haue ●… eceyuyd at the hands of almighty god/ who by ●… is permissyon hath so quietly set you in your esta●… e and honour that ye be in at this time/ and hath also contrary to mens expectacyon given you fruit in your body/ as it is reportyd. And according to serteyne off your ivy cunsell setting forth to the world in print/ with ther hands at it/ and as the act off perlyament doth pronunce and declare/ prouydyng for the same. besides many other gyfftes he hath indwed you with all. wherefore look to betimes/ least ye be found unthankful for all those benyfytes that god off his mercy so rychly hath pouryd upon you/ now that you see those plagues justly come upon the realm/ that god plagyd other realms with all for ther unthankfulness.  
We haue a notable example off the Iwes/ who were gods elect and chosen people whom god with A mighty hand delivered out of the bondage of Egypt brought them thorough the read see/ feed th●… with heuenlye bread xl yeres in the wilderness/ gave them in possession many kingdoms/ and drove out many nations before them/ so that quietly they enjoyed ther countries and dominions. 
A notable example.  And for all those benyfytes/ god requyryd no more of thē but to love him with all ther hartes/ and to keep his commandments/ and in no wise to serve any strange gods made off silver or gold wood o●… ston et c. like as the nations had done/ whom god cast out before them for the same offences. This notwythstondyng/ they forgot god that had done so many benyfytes for thē/ and worshypyd strange gods/ like as the heathen did. then god sent unto thē his holy prophetes to warn thē to forsake ther abominable idolatry/ but they would not obey goddes holy prophetes but murtheryd them as plainly appeareth( like as our bishops will murder gods true preachers and prophets now adays which haue preached the like message of god) but what followed for ther unthankfulness/ did not god plague them by sending strangers among thē/ which destroyed many hundryd thousands in ther former times off ther captyuytes and changes off ther common weal/ and at the last utter dyssolucyon: 
Note.  namely at the destruction off jerusalem/ by Titus and Vespacianus the emprours/ and also destroyed ther gooly cities/ carried them out off ther own countries/ where they be now scateryd abroad/ made flaues/ dyspysyd/ and abhorryd off all nations as it is manifest and plain at this day. 
Titus and Vespacianus  
Example.  This is a goodly example for your grace and for all chysten princes to mark and to haue all wayse before your eyes/ least ye and they be found unthankful: And know ye this transversely/ that if god sparyd not the Iwes/ which were his elect and chosen people/ much less will he spare you/ if ye anger him with strange worshipping and serving of strange gods/ and setting up habomynacyons/ like as they did. I haue hard many times that ye do it off a zeal that ye haue to religion/ yea but your zeal is not according to knowledge of gods holy word/ for god did forbid his people/ the children of Israel to do that they thought good in ther own eyes: but wyl●… yd them to do that only which he comandyd them. 
Nadab and abiuu Leuyti. 10.  Aadab and Abyw the sons off Aaroy/ offered strange fire before the lord that he comandyd them not/ and therefore were consumyd with the same fire. likewise king Saul contrary to gods comandment/ off a good intent reseruyd sartein off the best off the oxen and sheep/( as he said) to do sacrifice to the lord/ what followed off it? 
King saul 1. Samu. 15  was he not therfore deposid from his Kingdom. This is also a goodly example for your grace to mark/ and to beware how ye enterprise to do things off a good intent/ having no warrentyse of gods reuelyd will in his word/ but his word manifestly against you. Your grace therfore before ye ha done any thing in the change off religion/ ought first to haue known if gods word would haue permittyd you/ as in the first conuocacion/ ye began well to haue had the matter openly dysputyd: 
Conuocacion.  but the more pity/ the thing was not indyfferently handlyd/ for the cheff off the learned men being married according to the laws both of god and also off the realm/ could not be suffered the same time to dispute/ and yet those few learned men which were ther unmarried/ were nor indifferently herd/ but things procedid clene contrary to that/ those few provid by good learning/ as all men that were ther present can testefye. A lamentable case/ that gods word/ his true religion/ and his ministers/ must be so condempnyd/ not being indyfferently herd? 
Note  but no great marvel/ for christ hym selff/ and all his appostells and prophetes/ were so herd/ and so condempnyd: and the like hath commonly been used sens the world began.  
For ever more the wicked persecutyd the good and godly: as kayn persecutyd his brother Abell even to the death/ and Esawe persecutyd his brother jacob/ and ever the false prophets/ and priests/ haue persecutyd the true prophets and Preachers off god to death. 
Genes. 4. Kayn. Abell. Esau and jacob. Gen. 27. A notable example.  And here off we haue a notable example in the scripture/ the which I would desire your grace to red/ and to mark the same well. In the/ 22. chapter off the third book off Kings/ when king ahab was going to war against the Syryans/ he called for all his prophets/ to know of them whether he should go to war or not/ and his false prophets conselyd him to go/ saying that he should prosper against them. And when only gods true prophet in dead/ was called/ the prophet Micheas/ he saying the truth/ contrary to the great number off the false prophets which were in number/ 400/ was smitten therfore/ which was his reward. Then he said here the word off the lord/ I saw the lord sit on his seat/ and all the host of heaven stood about him/ on his right hand and on his left. And he said who schall persuade King ahab that he may go to war/ and fall before his henemyse/ and ther came forth a serteine spiryt and stood before the lord/ and said I will persuade him: 
Micheas the prophet  and the lord said to him where with/ and he said I will go out and be a false spirit in the mouth of his prophets/ and he said thou shalt persuade him/ go forth thē and do even so: And the prophet Micheas said behold the lord hath put a lying sprite in the mouth off all thes thy prophets &c. And for his saying the truth he was smitten and cast in prison/ and king ahab folouing the coumsel of his great number off false prophets/ went to the warres and was slain. And here may your grace see also/ that the truth standyth not in the multitude and number. 
☞  This example I would desire your grace to mark well/ and give not so much credence/ to your false bysshoppys and clergy/ which with ther lies deceyuyrh you( as that multitude off false prophets deceiuyd King ahab 10 his dyscructyon) and caw sith the true preachers and prophets/ which haue preached gots word truly to be put in prison/ and if your grace help them not/ they will murder and destroy thē/ like as ther predysessors haue always done. And here I may specially make mention to your grace of that ●crtwes and learned man Thomas Cramner Archbisshop of Canterbury/ who hath sauid your graces life/ and put himself in Ieoperdi for your graces cause/ as it is well known Bisome off his enemise/ that were off king Edwards connsell and I doubt not but that your grace knoweth of it/ and therfore I trust your grace will requited him with merci/ and not suffer that wicked bishop off winchester/ to haue his wicked will and purpose off him.  
We red also in the 18. chapter off the third book off the kings/ after that almighty god at the prayer off the prophet Elias/ had shut the heavens that it rainid not in three yeres and six monithes/ and king ahab meeting with the prophet Elias/ he said to him? 
●. Reg. 18. Elias  thou art he that troblest all Israel( like as steven gardener bishop off winchester and his feloues/ saith to the pour preachers and professors of Christes gospel now a days) but Elias words shall answer him/ wherewith he answered king ahab. It is he and his complices/ that haue forsaken the living god/ and do go a whoring after strange gods/ as the matter shall plainly appear when god will/ like as it did appear by Elias/ with the 400. 
queen Iesabell.  false prophets/ which false prophets had seducid the queen Iesabell/ and had cawsid her to slay and destroy all gods holy prophets( like as our false and cruel bishops intendith to do) so that the prophet Elias was fain to fly in to the will dernes/ to save his life/ where god appointid A raven to feed him? but what was the end both of the queen and of all those false prophets/ red the text/ and you shal plainly perceive that the queen was cast down out of a window where she broke her neke and was eaten up of dogs/ as the prophet of god had before said/ and all here false prophets and preastes were utterly destroyed.  
let this grievous example move your grace do beware be times of your false bysshopps and clergy/ specially of steven gardener bishop of wynchester/ who now this third time hath recantyd as your grace knoweth: 
steven gardener.  first he swore to the pope but by all lyklyhode he played the fox/ and faynyd hym selff to be a flepe/ or dremyd when he so did/ after that ●●ē swore to your noble father K. ●. 8. and more plainly declaryd the same by his bocke/ devera obedientia. 
Vera obediencia.  Which was made of him with great advisement and delyberacyon/ as appeareth here after by bishop bonner/ in his prologue to the same book. Here I would make a supplication to your grace/ beseeching you for our saueyour Iesus Christes sake/ that you will with good delyberacyon/ cause to be red before you/ the said book which he named the true obedience/ yf it please your grace at my humble request/ so to do/ as your dwtye is before god: 
Request.  you shall plainly perceyne with what scripture and reasons/ he thoroughly confutyth the vsurpyd pour and authority of the bysshopp of Rome/ and in his book that he made against the hūryng of the fox likewise. And in the same book devera obedientia( for to flatter your noble father) he doth therein prove the marriage between him. And your mother queen kateryne/ not to be good nor lawful/ to your great rep●och and slander/ as much als in him lay/ fforthes be his words.  
To make mention of certain of the moral precepts/( for I mind not to rehearse all) which be in the old law a conserning marriages which before bidden/ and marriages which be incestius/ those precepts which be comandid/ and pertain to chastity and purite of marriages/ wherein is conteinid the hole course of mans life/ and the beginning of the bringing forth of Issue consistith: 
Note. Incestius. that is such marriages as be-made with any of Kidred against lauv, and all gods forbyde.  those laws/ though Leuiticall/ haue ever been countid as those/ which indeed were first given unto the Iwes/ because they were expoundid to the setting forth of the lawe of nature/ but perteinid therfore to all man kind for ever/ In which without doubt both the voice of nature/ and gods comandment agreeing in one/ haue forbidden that which should be differing for either of them. but among thes perceptes/ seing that comandment is conteinid/ which is that the brother should not mary the brothers wiff: 
The brother may not mary his brothers wif  What other thing ought or could the kings most excellent majesty do/ then that he hath done/ with the full consent of the people/ and with the Iudgement of his church/ that benig deuorsid from unlawful bonds( or conuenants) to enjoy lawful and permirrid copulacion/ and obeieng to the precepres( as it was meet) to leave herre which nether law nor right did permit to keep/ and to give him selff to chast and lawful matrimony. 
unlawful bonds.  
Nether laue nor right permyte.  In the which thing/ where as the sentence of gods/ word had been sufficient( unto the which all ought to obey/ without stop or steye) yet was his most sacrid royal majesty contentid to Ioyn ther unto/ the voices of most grave men/ and the determinate events of the most famous vniuersites in the world/ namely that he might be Iudgid to haue done those things most rightfully/ by the allowance( or sentensis) of the best learned and most godly men/ which otherwise he both might and ought to do/ and that it might appear/ he did therein show obedience as the truth of gods word doth require of every godly and good man/ so that it may be said of him worthily/ that he hath obeyed god/ and obeied in dead/ of whom seing I haue begun to speak/ I could not with silence pass over that which offered it selff/ fitlye and meet for this place/ &c. 
Iudgment of the vniuersytes. Obedience of every good and godly man is to obci gots word said he then but now to Antychryst deeres. gardeners constancy then against the. b. of Rome.   
Wherly your grace and all other/ may learn to know him and his like/ by his saiengs then and his doings now. More over in his said book devera obediencia/ he pretendith such constancy against the usurped authority of the bishop of Rome/ that therein he saith/ that yf ever he change or vary/ from his saiengs in the said book against the see of Rome/ that then he willith all men to call him what they list/. so that yf any man call him false periurid heretic/ blond supper/ dissembler traito: to god and to the hole Realm of England/ he ought not to be angry with them/ because he hath given his own Iudgment upon hym selff/ and willid all men so to do/ as appeareth by his own words in his own book/ And now again sens that time/ is fallen from god/ and worshippith the beast of Rome. 
Traitore to the Realm of England.  ought ther any credence to be given to such a periurid person? for gods sake beware of him betimes/ least ye be partaker of his wikidnes/ and so both you and the hole realm repent it/ and come to utter distruction. For his doings declare that he is at a point with hym selff and hath made conuenannte with death and hell/ Esa. 28. and beleuith that ther is no resurrection of the flesche nor life after this: and therfore what carith he yf he help to being this noble realm in to bondage and slavery/ seing he thinketh ther is no neither way/ to maintain his pomp/ pride/ and vainglory with all/ And therfore the greater shal be his Sampnacion/ besides gods great plagues which shall comapon him sodenlie/ when he thinketh all is well/ and in quiet/ them shall suddenly come his confucion and utter destruction/ because all his doings be so directly against god/ and all right/ as his own consciens knoweth the same/ to his damnation/ yf he haue any conscience or feeling of god/ and therfore beware that ye be not partaker with him. 
The cry of vuydous and fatherlese children.   
Doth not your grace think/ or at the least I do believe it/ that the complaint and cry of widows and fatherless children/ is assendid in to the cares of all mighty god/ and that only by his means so many honest men haue been deuorsid from ther lawful wiffs who hath been lawfully married both by gods law/ and the laws of this Realm/ who is able to dissalow it/ non but Martin doctor of lies( I would haue said of laws) with his ignorant folly/ who greedily seeking to come to promotion/ hath made a slaunderus book( with the help of his master gardener) against such married pristes/ and contrary to all honesty/ hath shamefully lied upon the old doctors/ which he aledgith to maintain his foolish enterprise. 
D. Martin lauyere.  Oh haw many basterds and herlotts/ would he cause to be made/ which were both begotten and born in lawful matrimony? Your grace may perceine by his said book/ de vera obediencia/ that he did his diligence/ to haue done the like with you/ with the help of boner bishop of London/ doth not your grace think that god willbe aduengid of this great injury/( although ye do it not) ye I believe that the cry of thes/ besides the blasphemy that he hath done to god/ and injury to your hole Realm/ will bring him to Ashamsul end/. unless he despair/ and so murder himself/ as his predeffessor thomas wolse late cardinal did/ so and cast both body and soul in to hell. 
wilseam langshap bishop of Elye.  yf che cry of one pour widow did bring the skin̄ of the wicked judge over his ears/ how mich more/ schall the cry of thes pour men women and children/ which cry daily to god for Iustice/ whose vengeance against him/ shall con apō him.  

a notaple exampel for steven gardener  A notable example he hath( yf any grace were in him) of willin Langshape/ who was bishop of Elye/ and lord chaunseler of England/ and having the hole rule and gouernannce of the Realm in his own hand/( like as steven gardener now hath) who in those days with his felous the bishops and clergy according to ther common practisis/ sent the king over the see A pilgrimage/ whose name was king Richard cure-de lion/ to fight against the great turk for jerusalem/ in the mean season this bishop wounderfully oppressid the commons/ abusing the Kings authority/ and aduaunsid his own pomp and vain glori/( life as steven gardener doth) And Rood with a thousand horsys contmuclli/ so that the noblemens sonnes were glad to become his slaves/ And with the best barons and carls &c. married he▪ his cussins/ neces/ and Kinswomen/( I will not say his dowghters) and for all that his grand father was but a pour plow man/ and his father a cowherd? 
Plouman Couhert.  And having so tirannuslie abusyd his office/ fearing least he should haue been caulid to his examination/ fled with a few of his trusty seruants to dover castle/ minding to haue stollen over the sec/ and coming in the night in a womans apparel/ with a piece of cloth under his arm/ and a meteyard in his hand upon/ suspicion( as god would haue it) being known what he was/ his kercher was pullid of his head/ his balams mark/ or shaven crown apperid on his head: 
Balams mark  And then was he draune/ a long by the see on the sands/ with a great woundering of all the people/ some ratid him/ some reuilid him/ some by spatelid him/ some drawing him by the arms/ some by the legs from place to place/ his own seruants not being able to help him/ at last they brought him to a dark seller/ where they couerid him with shane enough/ till the counsel of the realm sent for him and after was brought to the tower of London/ emprisonid examinid/ depriuid/ and banished the realm and so endid his life.  
Here before I haue mencionid of the prologue that Edmond bonner now bishop of London made/ being thē but archdeacon of leiceter/ for to come to promotion/ whereby he obtainid his bisshoprik/ made this prologue before the said steven gardeners bockde vera obedientia/ And for bycawse the 
☜  same prologis/ but short and pithye/ I will recite it here again translated in to Englische word for word/ as be causyd it to be printid in latin at Hamburg 1536.  
Edmond Bonner archdeacon of leiceter/ the king of England his most excellent may. ambassador in Denmark/ to the sincere gentill hertid and godly reader.  

bishop bonners preface. worde for worde.  For asmuch as ther be some( doubtless) even at this present as it hath all waise been the wont of mens Iudgments to be uariable and diuers/ which think the contrauersie that is between the King of England and of france/ his most rial majesty/ and the bishop of Rome/ consistith in this point/ because the fings said majesty/ hath taken the most excellent/ and most noble Lady An̄e to his wief. whereas in very dede notwithstonding/ the matter is feer other wise/ and nothing so. 
queen Anne.  wherefore to thentent all that heartily favere the gospel of christ/( which that most godli and most virtues prince doth with all diligence endeavour/ and in every place advance to the honour of almighty god/ and that hate not but love the truth/( which every where Justly claimith the upperhand/ and to hate all things/ though they struggle with here never so mich in the beginning/ yet obey and give place at lengtht as meet it is they should) may the more fulli understand the cheff point of the controersie/ and because they schall not be ygnorant/ what the hole voice and resolute determination/ of the best and greartist learned bishops/ with all the nobles and commons of England is not only in that cause of matrimoni/ but also in the defending the gospells doctrine. 
All thigs give place in time to truth The resolute. Determy nation of the best& greatyst learned bishops. The do tryne of the cospel  This oration of the bishop of windchester( a man excelentli learned in all kind of learning) entitled DE VE RA OBEDIENTIA, that is conserning true obedience/ which he made lateli in Englang/ shalbe published but as touching this bishops worthy praises/ ther shalbe nothing spoken of me at this time/ not only because they are infinyte/ but because they ar ferr better known do all christendom/ thē becomith me here to make rehearsal. And as for the oration it selff which as it is most learned/ so it is most elegant/ to what purpose should I make any words of it seing it praisiyh it selff enough and seing good wine needeth no tavern bush to utter it. But yet in this oration who so ever thou art most gentill reader: thou shalt beside other matters/ se it notably and lernidly handlib/ of what importance and how invincible the powrand excelencie of gods truth is: 
The condition and state of gods inuinsible truth.  which as it may now and thē be pressid of henemyes/ so it cannot possible be oppressid after such sort/ but it cometh again at length after banishment/ more glorius and more welcome. Thoushalt se also touching obedience/ that it is subject to truth/ and what is to be Iudgid true obedience. besides this of mens traditions/ which for the most parte be most repungnant against the truth of gods law. 
Mens trady cyons.  And ther by the way/ he speakith of the kings said highnes marriage/ which by the right Iudgment authority and pyruiledg/ of the most and principal/ vniuersites of the world/ and then with the consent of the hole church of England/ he contractid with the most clear/ and most noble lady. QVENE ANNE. 
The Kings mary age with queen Anne.   
After that touching the Kings majesties title as pertaining to the supreme head of the church of England. 
Supreme head.   
Rastlie of all/ of the false pretensid supremacy of the the bishop of Rome/ in the realm of England/ most justly abrogatid: 
The. B. of Romes pretensid supremaci  and how all other bishops being fellow like to him in ther function ye and in some points above him within ther own provinces/ were before time bound to him by ther oath. 
☞  But be thou most transversely perswadid of this good reader/ that the bishop of Rome/ though ther were no cause else/ but this marriage/ will easily content hym selff/ specally when ther is one morsel or other laid to him to chawe. 
His Iudgment of the. B. of Rome.  But when he saith so mighty a King/ being a right virtues/ and a great learned prince/ so syncerly and so hertelie favour the gospel of christ/ and perceiuith the yearly ravenous pray) ye so large a pray/ that it cometh to asmich almost as all the kings reuencus̄) snappid out of his hands/ and that he could no longer excersise his tryanny in the kings may. 
Here be good fathers of the common veal that will help out with such a reuen v, villingly and vittingly from the realm.  realm( alas it hath been to cruel/ and bitter all this while) nor make laws as he hath done many/ to the contumely/ and reproach of the maiestic of god/ which is evident that he hath done in time past/ under the title of the catholic church and the authority of peter and paul/( when notwithstonding he was a very ravening woldff dressid in types clothing calling 
☞  himself seruant of seruants) to the great damage of the christen common wealth: there off arose the complaints: 
Bonners Iudgment. jupiter olimpius  Then came thes discords/ thes deadly malices/ and so great trublous bustling. Foryf it were not thus/ no man could belene/ but that this jupiter of Olimpius( which hath falsely taken apō him poure/ with out comtrollment/ and to be above all laws) would haue done his best that this good and godly/ and right gospelike prince/ should be falsely betrayed to all the rest of monerches and princes. Nether let it move the/ gentle reader/ that the bishop of winchester/ did not before now apply to this 
☜  opinion/ for he hym selff in this oration showeth the cause/ why he did it not. And if he had said never a word/ yet thou knowest well what awitty part it is for a man to suspend his Iudgment/ and not to be to rash in giving of judgment. It is ā old said saw: Mary Magdalene profited us less in here quike believe that Christ was risē/ than Thomas that was longer in doubt. A man may rightly call him fabius that with his aduisid taking of leisour/ restorid the matter: Although I speak not this as though wynchester had not boultid out this case secretly with hym selff before hand( for he boultid it out long agō even to the bran̄ out of doubt) but that runnyng fair and softly/ he would first with his painful study/ pluke the matter out of the dark/ although of itself it was sound enough/ but by Reason of sundry opinions/ it was lappid up and made dark/ and thē did he debate it wittily to and fro/ and so at last after long and great deliberacion had in the matter because ther is no better counseler thē leisore and time/ he would resolutlie with his learned and consumate Iudgement confirm it. 
Note with what deliberacion and aduicement, winchester wrot his book devera obedren cia aga inst the B. of Rome.   
Thou shouldst gentle reader esteem his censure and authority to be of more weighty credence/ in asmich as the matter was not rashly/ and at all adventures/ but with Iudgement( as thou sayst) and with wisdom examinid and discussid: 
No neu matter, to wryte against the B of Rom  And this is no new example to be against the bishop of Rome. seing that not only this man/ but many men many times yea and rigkt great learned men/ afore now haue done the same/ even in writing/ wherein they both paintyd him out in his colours and made his sleites/ falsehood/ frawdes/ and disseytfull wil●ss/ openly known to the world. Therfore yf thou at any time here to fore/ haue doutyd either of true obedience/ or of the Kings majesties marriage/ or title/ either elles of the bishop of Romes false prerensid supremacy/ as if thou hadst a good smelling nose and a sound Iudgment/ I think thou diddest not/ yet having red over this oration/( which yf thou favour the truth/ and hate the tryanny of the B. of Rome/ and his deuelishe fraudulent falsehood/ shall dowbtles wunderfully content the( throw down thine error/ and aclowledge the truth/ now freely offrid thee at length/ considering with thy selff/ that it is better late to do so/ then never to repent. 
Note  fare thou heartily well most gentle reader/ and not only love this most valiant king of England and of france/ who vndowbtidly was by the providence of god/ born to defend the gospel/ but also honour him and serve him most obedienthe: As for this winchester/ who was long ago with out doubt reputyde among the greatist lernide men/ give him thy good word with Highest comendacions.  
The end of bishop bonners prologue.  
HEre before I haue discribid to your grace/ two of your false and dissembling bishops/ to say steven gardener bishop of winchester/ and Edmond Bon̄er bishop of London. 
Note three dissembling bishops, to say winchester london and durram.  the third is dreming Tunstall bishop of Durram/ as plainly aperith by his book of the sermon that he made before your noble father K. H.8. on palm sunday. 1539. wherein he also clerli confutith/ the usurped whoever of the bishops of Romes authority/ and here I will make rehearsal of covert of his sermon word for word as he caw sid it to be printid/ which be these.  
What shall we say of those whom god hath creatid to be subiectes/ comannding them by his word/ to obey princes and governors? 
red in the leaves B. and E. of the book of his sermon.  who not only do refuse to obey gods commandment/ but contrary to his word/ willbe above ther gouernours/ in refusing to obey thē/ and further more will haue ther princes prostrat upon the grund/ to whom they owe subiection/ to Adore them by godly honour vpon the earth/ and to kiss ther feet/ as yf they were god/ where they be but wretched men/ and yet they look that ther princes should do it to them/ and also al other Christen men/ owing them no subiection/ should of duty do the same. Do not thes as ye think follow the pride of lucifir ther father? 
Note that the bishops of Rome becomparyd to lucyfire.  who make themselves fellous to god contrary to his word. but who I pray you be thes/ that men may know them? surely the bishops of Rome be those/ whom I do mean. Who do exalt ther seat above the stars of god/ and do assende above the cludes and will be like to all mighty god.  

red more in his sermon in the lef. E. Arrant traitor.  And the bisshopp of Rome now of late/ to set forth his pestilent malis the more hath alurid to his purpose a subject of this Realm Rainold pole/ co men of a noble blood/ and thereby the more arrant traitoure/ to go about from prince to prince/ and from country to country to stir thē to war against this realm/ and to destroy the same/ being his native country. Whose pestilent purpose/ albe it the princes that he broke it unto/ haue in mich abomination/ both for that the bishop of Rome( who being a bishop should procure peace) is a stirere of war and because this most arrant and unkind traitor re/ is his minister/ to so deuelishe a purpose/ to destroy the country/ that he was born in: 
Tunstals iudgment of Cardinal Pole.  which any heathen man would abhor to do/ but for all that with out shane he still goith one/ exorting ther unto all princes that will here him. Who do abhor to see such vnnaturalnes in any man/ as he shameless doth set forwards/ whose pernicious treasons/ late secretly wrought against this realm 
☞  haue been by the work of allmighthye God/ so meruclusly detectid/ and by his own brother with out looking therfore/ so disclosid/ and condingne ponischment enswid/ that hereafter god willing/ they shall not take any more such root/ to the noyance of this realm. 
Note that Cardinal Pole is wors then a pagant.  And where ac all nations of gentiles/ by reason and by law of nature/ do prefer ther country/ before ther parents/ so that for ther country/ they will die against ther parents being traitors/ this pestilent man worse then a pagant/ is not asshamid to distroie yf he could his natine confitre. And whereas Curtius a heathen man/ was content/ fo: saving of the city of Rome/ where he was born/ to leap in to a gaping earth/ which by the yllusions of the devil/ it was answered should not be shute/ but that it must first haue one. 
Note that cardinal pole, is more wyld and cruel, then anitygure.  This pernicius man is content to run hedling in to hell/ so that thereby he may distroie his native contre of England/ being in that behalff incomparison worse then any pagant. And besides his pestilent treason/ his unkindness against the kings majesty/ wo brought him up of a child and promotid both him/ and restorid his blood being attaintid/ to be of the peers of this realm/ and gave him money yerly out of his coffers/ to find him honourably at study/ maketh his treason mich more detestable to all the world/ and him to be reputid more wild and cruel then any Tigure. 
Also notethat the Realm of England is given to the generation of englishe men, and not to spanierds.  But for all this thou englishe man/ take good courage unto the/ thou hast god on thy side/ who hath given this realm to the generation of Englishmen/ to every man in his degree/ after the laws of the same/ thou hast A noble victorius and virtues king/ hardy as alyon/ who will not suffer the to be so deuourid/ by such wild beasts: only take En anglishe hart unto the/ and mistrust not god but trust firmly in him. 
What make ye of the quem thē that receuith the pope aga in contrary to here fathers doings in his time.  And transversely the ruin entendid against the/ shall fall in ther own necks that intend it. and fear not though the devil and his disciples be against the. for god thy protectore/ is stronger then he and they/ and shal by his grace give him and them a fall.  
All this with mich more/ be the very words of the said B. of Durrams sermon/ preached before king. h. 8. as in the said book/ of his sermon appeareth more at large/ the which I would desire your grace also to red: And I would hope in god( after that) your grace would well know how to beware of thes three false dissembling bishops/ which haue not only preached against the B. of Romes usurped authority/ but also caused the same to be printid for a perpetual memory where as now they run with the world to the contrary. And as for doctor westone that bawdy ruffian of his shameless and abominable living/ it is not unknown. And whether he were wont to go in mumeries and masks/ among the merchants of London/ he hym selff cannot deny it/ or at the least his companions that were in his company at those times can testefie. Is he meet to be A comyssioner in matters of weight/ or to be the prolocutore in the conuocacion house? who would think that our bishops/ would suffer so vile a man/ in such a Rome/ if they had any honesty in them. for gods safe beware of thes false/ crastie and dissembling bishops/ least the hole realm come do destruction. 
The bishops in King henries 8 time.  Is not this Alamentable case/ to mark how thes false dissemblynge bishops in the time of your noble father/ how ernestlie/ they both preached and wrote agaist the usurped pour of the bishops of Rome. And also against Cardinal Pole/ calling him errand traitore and worse then a pagant/ as before is rehersid/ for his vnnaturallnes against his own country/ which god hath given to the generation of Englishmen &c. And yet mark here thes false traitors and dissemblers/ ther vn/ naturallnes towerd this noble realm And now. even as evil and worse thē they countid/ cardinal Pole/ for they go about with out doubt/ to bring this hole realm of England into the hands of strangers.  
wherefore yf your grace would call to remembrance what a great charge it is/ to be the ruler of a realm/ ye would never haue followed so mich your wicked bishops/ who seek not your wealth/ nor the wealth and quietness of the realm but to exalt ther god the pope/ which is for ther private profit. wherefore the prophet david saith in the 2. psalm. be ye wise therfore. 
Psalm. 2. Rulers.  oh ye Kings/ and learned ye that be Iudges of the earth/ least the lord being angry with you/ ye perish from the right way/ for be ye assured that right sharp Iudgment and sore torment shal be done to them that are in authority as the wiseman saith. 
Sapient 2.  Remember how your pour commons assistid and helpid you/ when ye were in your greatist/ necessity and danger/ with out whose help ye had never come to the dignity/ that ye now he in: 
The commons.  oh Remember them/ and give them not over/ in to the hands of your bishops and clergy/ ther henemies to be deuourid and murtherid. for ther kingdom can never be stablisshed with out shedding of blood. I would your grace would be as good to them/ whose blood your bishops seek( as ye haue been to strangers) and to banish thē your Realm/ and suffer thē in a serteine space to de parte with bag and baggage/ as ye did the strangers/ in the first year of your reign. Alamentable case and if they haue ther wicked purpose/ what shall follow/ even ther own destruction/ and the destruction of the hole realm.  
We haue examples manifestly enough/ what followed in the time of your predecessors/ fing henry the .4. and 5. in whose time first those cruel acts were inuentid by the clergy/( which now be renewid) only to the destruction of noble men/ and of a great sort of godly and learned men/ which in those days suffered most cruel death/ as the lord cobham/ and many other knights and gentlemen/ the thing is so plain that it cannot be deemed/ but what plagues followed therof? 
King Henry the .4.5.  
Lord Cobham.  was ther not many felds fowght within this realm/ where were slain almost all the noble and gentill men/ besides many thousands of the commons/ as our own chronicles plainli declarith? was not the clergy al the hole occasion of this/ first by puttig down that good king Richard the second and setting up. R. H. the .4. under whom/ they made that most ungodly act/ ex officio/ and thē be cause the kings and noble men/ should not search for the knowledge of gods verity/ set them in hand to claim titles/ in Frannce and other places and then likewise other noble men at home/ ever to set them so a work/ about warres and worldly matters/( like as they shortly will practise the same) except god shorten ther time) and in the mean season that they might as they did then and now in tend to do the same/ burn and 
practices of prelates  destroy all those that profess christ and his verity/ But it helpid them as little as it helpid the scribes and parises in the time of Christ/ when they had put Christ to death/ they thought then that all had been well/ and that he with his doctrine/ had been suppressid but what followed/ the third day he rose again from death as a valiant conqueroure/ and sent his holy spirit among his power appostels/ who declared his will and gospel through out al the world/ as it is manifest at this day/ and after that sent titus and Vespacianus them prours/ who utterly distroted his henemies/ and scaterid them thorough the hole world where they be both harid and abhorrid of all nations as it is afore said. 
the Iudgment of god and his maner of quibbling.   
this were a notable example and/ lesson for your clergy/ to make them beware how they/ persecute Christ in his power members/ but I fear me god hath hardenid ther hartes/ as he did the unhappy pashure and his felous/ and as he did the heart of king Pharoe who for all the miracles and wonders/ that god wrought before him by the hands of moses and Aaron/ would not suffer the children of Israell gods elect people/ to go out of his country/ but plagid them the more/ but what was his reward/ was not he with all his host drownyd in the rede see? 
An example for the clergy yf they had any grace or fear of god Iere. 38. exody. 7.8.9.10.  even so what followed all the persecucions and wicked laws that they made/ to keep gods verity under foot/ what helpid it them/ did it not still the more flourish and Increase? And did not your noble father/ in the parliament holden in the 25 year of his reign/ at the supplication of the commons/ in the said parliament/ for thes cawses following/ break the said most wicked lawe ex officio/ which the wicked clergy had obtainid in the said. 
The cause why K.H. 8 brace the act ex officio  2. year of K.H. the 4. That is to say? because the ordinary by virtue off that wickide lawe/ might as they did opon ther suggestion/ arrest or Impryson any person or persons/ whom they thought defamid or suspect of heresy/ and them to keep in ther prisons/ till they were purgid therof/ or abiurid/ or comittid to the lay poure to be burnid/ and yet in no parte of the same wickide laws be declared any serteigne cases of heresy/ so that the most expert and best learned men of the realm/ diligently lying in wait/ vpon hym selff/ can not avoyde or esthwe/ the penalty of the said act/ yf he should be examinid epon such captius interogations/ as it hath bē accustomid to be ministrid bithe ordinaris of this realm/ in cases where they will suspect any poison of heresy: And over this forasmich as it stondith not with the right order of Iustice nor good equity that any person should be convict or put to loss of his life/ good name or goods/ unless he were by dwe occasion and witness or by persentment/ verdict/ confession/ or process of outlarye &c. 
The very words of the statude anno 25. H. 8.  wherefore it is not reasonable that any ordinary/ by any suspection conceiuid of his own fantasie/ whith out dwe accusation or presentment/ should put any subject of this realm in any infamy or slander of heresy/ to the peril of life/ lose of name or goods &c. 
Slander of heresy.  this with mich more is declared in the said statude of 25. H. 8. Which was the occasion that the said most wicked lawe of ex officio/ was broken.  
More over your said noble father perceiuid how many honest men in his time/ were destroyed and murtherid by his said clergy/ as johan hune/ and many other honest men/ which liuid both quietly and honestly among ther neibours/ this is so plain that they are not able to deny it. 
Iohanhume  wherefore I most humbly beseech your grace to consider thes things/ for it is not enough for your grace to give over your pour and authority/ to your wicked bishops and clergy/ and so think to charge them and to discharge your selff/ nay not so? for every one shall bear his own burden as the holy apostle pronouncith/ and as gardener saith in his book de vera obediencia likewise/ god hath set you in authority/ and it is you your selff that shall give an account to a judge that is above you/ whose seat is the heaven/ and the earth is his foot stolen/ the which by his holy word made all things/ and by the same word shall destroy all Antichristes/ which sekith the destruction of his kingdom/ who dwellith in the light that no man can attain/ whom no man hath seen nor can see to him only be given all honour and glory for ever more.  
FUrthermore may it please you to know that themprour and diuers other princes and magistrates/ haue for the payment of a little money/ suffered and doth suffer the wicked Iwes and also the cursid turkes/ to dwell sauely in ther countries and Cities/ 
The Iues and turks  to keep and hold ther faith and ceremonies as they list/ with out any trouble or vexation for the same/ and yet the same turkes and Iwes/ do despise and abhor us Christians/ a lake for pity/ that ther shalbe more mercy and pity showed to/ Iwes and turkes/ thē to us pour Christians/ which do believe to be sauid only/ by the death/ and passion of our saueyour Iesus Christ both god and man: Is not this also a lamentable case/ that pour English men cannot be suffered to live quietly and in sauetye with out danger of ther lives in ther own countries/ but must be forcide to travell/ and seek from contre to contre/ where they may serve god quietly with a good conscience? 
Against all christian chartite, and Reason.  oh that your grace would permite the first book of common prayer made in Englishe in the time of your virtues brother K.E. vj. to be vsid to as many as would: unto the which book/ all the hole clergy of the realm did subscribe/ and affirmid it to be good and catholic doctrine/ yea they that now do persuade your grace to the contraric: And as for the Englishe procession/ what good and godly prayers be therein/ and how it was vsid to the great compfort and edifieng/ of as many as came to the church/ to here it/ all men can report/ but that cannot your bishops and clergy now abide/ because it shamith and condempnith all ther latin service/ which is expressly against gods word/ for s. paul in the 14. chapter of the first epistle to the Corrinthiance/ would haue all things done to edifienge/ and would haue .v. words spoken in the congregation/ in a language 
why the bishops and clergy, can not abide the service book in englishe.  that they understand/ rather thē .x. M. words that they understood note: 
S. Paulus doctrine.  for saith he/ how shall the vn learned say Amen/ to thy blessing or thanks giving/ when he motith not what thou sayest/ he cannot tell whether thou dost bless or course/ and comaundith plainly saying: they that speak in a languag unknown/ let thē hold ther peace in the congregation: red the said chapter/ and you shall perceyne the matter more plainly/ whereby you or any Chrystiā heart may be kindlid with godly zeal against such Antichristians/ which do so directly/ against the holy apostles plain commandment. 
1. Cor. 14.   
Now to make an end of this my supplication/ I haue red a godly example of the conuercion of s. paul/ who being brought up ffrom his youth at the feet of gamaliel/ being a pharisee/ of a zeal that he had to maintain the pharcisey call doctrine of the pharisees became also apersecutor with the pharisees for a space/ which pharisees/ had wholly coruptid the law of god given by Moses. 
Antichristians. acts. 9.  And as they had aduaunsid ther own traditions/ deuisid by therrabbins/ which both Christ and his apostles/ commonly rebukid tawght and preached ther against/ and therfore they slawndrid him and his apostles and never left persecuting of thē/ till they had murtherid them: even so our true preachers in thes days/ which haue preached against the abuse both of praying/ fasting/ and also of allmose deeds( like as Christ hym selff did) our bishops persecute to the death/ falsely belieng them/ saying/ that they preached against prayer/ fasting/ and allmose deeds &c. when they did preach/ but only against the superstitious abuse/ as ther master Christ did/ which preached against the abuse ther off/ but the seruant is not above his master and lord/ for yf they haue called the lord of the house/ helsebub/ how mich more shall they call his howsold seruants. Also like as the scribes and pharisees/ falsely belied and slaunderid our save your Christ/ even so do our bishops and clergy/ belie and slander our true preachers and prophetes of gods holy word/ when they preach not against the sacraments and ceremonis/ but against idolatry countid a sacrament and the abuse of the ceremonies: for to write of the abuse of the sacraments and cemonies a great book would scarcely suffice/ and therfo: I will turn again to my matter of the conuercion of s. paul/ who( as I haue said/ of a zeal that he had to the doctrine of the pharisees/ persecutid Christes poure members/ and cawsid many to be bound and cast in to prison. 
Phillip. 3. Act. 9. Galla. 1. 1. Timo 1. 1. Cor. 15.  But because he did it ygnorantly/ he obtainid mercy as he hymselff confessed/ not being worthy to be called an apostle because he persecutid the congregation of Iesus Christ &c. even so I think that your grace doth this ygnorantlie/ that ye haue done/ and being thereto perswadid by your false dissembling bishops and clergy: 
the queen.  Whom now that your grace hath warning/ what they are: beware from hence forth that ye follow ther counsel no more in persecuting Christes poure membres/ which haue been the true prearchers of his holy and blessed word/ but do ye as s. Paul did when he was called/ And submit your selff/ under the mighty hand of god/ and turn to the lord our god who is able and will receive you to grace and mercy as he did. S. Paul/ of ye repent and do as he did/ whereby you shall save your selff and the whole Ralme from ruin and utter distruccion. 
warned.  But yf you will not submit your selff under the mighty hand of god/ and turn to the lord our god vnfainidlie/ and follow no more/ the wyckid cousell of your bloody bishops and clergy/ in persecuting Christes pour members/ and will not receive and knowledge the time of your visytacion. Then be ye assured/ that lyki as it happenyd to the Iwes/ for persecuting christ and his pour members/ so shall it happen to you and to the whole realm/ as in the beginning of this supplication is declaryd at lavge. The which I pray god defend if it be his holy will and plasure/ whom I beseech to open the eyes of your hart/ that ye may receive his word/ and vnfallyble verity/ which may save your soul in the great day of the lord/ whom I beseech to grant you grace thus to do/ for his dear sone Iesus Christes sake amen.  

Thauthor jo the Noblemen and gentlemen.  ANd now will I speak to you noble men/ gentlemen and commons of England/ that haue of the abbey and chauntrey lands in your hands think you to enjoy them to you and to your heires now that ye haue receiuid the bishop of Rome again &c. Ye ar far deceiuid/ do ye not know that the devil is a crafty serpent/ and look where he gettithin his head/ ther will he shortly haue in also his hole body? but ye will say that the bishop of Rome by his legate cardinal Pole hath dispensid with you for thē/ and that it is so concludid by act of parliament. Well/ I say ye deceive yourselves. do you not know/ that in the first parliament of the queen/ when/ xx. of the common house/ were sent to here grace/ and did declare unto here/ the great enormites/ that would follow to the ream/ yf that she married with any stranger/ desiring herre therfore to mary within the realm. 
Request made in the first parliament to the queen.  But that would not our bishops suffer/ for they knew yf the queen married within the realm/ they should not so sone/ haue brought in the B. of Rome again/ nor yet haue been sure of ther wyckid and devilish enterprise. But they knew/ yf the queen married with the prince of spain/ that he wolde not trouble hym selff any thing with ther affairs/ having no more wit then would serve for hym selff/ but they casting how to come to haue the hole antorytorie of the Realm in ther own hands/( like as they now haue) might stablish ther wicked kingdom/ without any lert or interrupcion.  
The next parliament/ the articles were debatyd upon/ and by the help of the bishops were concludid/ under which articles thes were agreid upon/ that is/ that the prince of spain should not promote admit nor advance any stranger to any office or benefice/ with in this Realm/ but only the queens natural subiectes. 
Articles concluded and agreed vpon.  And that he should meintein all the old and ancient customs and privileges of this Realm. And shall not enterprise to do any thing against them. Also yf the queen died without issue by him/ that he should not challenge any right in to the said kingdom/ but should permite the sucsession therof/ without any empediment/ to the next rightful heirs/ to whom it shall appertain/ by the right laws of this realm. As in the said statude plainly appeareth. But haue ye not seen that they haue gone about sens that time/ to make him king/ not in name only/ but in dead. 
The bishops endevovt.  Therfore what think you will that ther pretensyd conclusion in ther articles help/ think you that our bishops and clergy/ willbe content/ that he shall haue only the name of the thing and not rather to haue the thing if selff? and think you that although they cannot bring it to pass at this parlyment/ that they will let the matter so pass. Nay nay/ ye shall perceive that they will never rest nor be in quiet/ till they haue brought it to pass. So ye not know that our bysshopps and clergy must gratefie him by whom they may as they think/ sauely enjoy again ther god the pope/ with all ther ●… pitefull ecclesiastical Iuridiccions. As in helping ●… ym to haue placide/ and machyd in offices some ●… f his spanierds/ with men of our own Englishe ●… acyon/ And that not in the worst romes nether/ ●… ut even no less then in the romes of lord chamber ●… aine and with thy master of the horse/ and with ●… he knight marschall/ &c. 
Lord chamberlayne. master of the horse. etc.  And this is the begin●… king to show ther good will to him/ against our ●… atiue country. you may therfore easily guess/ what ●… ill follow hereafter/ yf it lie in ther poure. And here is aspedie trial/ of ther wholly and faithful observing of ther promises in therticles/ so lately and solemlye concludid in the other parliament/ as is above mencionyd. Do not you also know that the bishops went about the other parliament/ to set up the bishop of Rome and how that it was denied at that time/ because the state of the Realm fearyd that then/ which shall come now upon them/ that is the losses of ther abbey and chantry lands/ &c. Were they therfore contentid and at rest: Nay they were never in quiet/ till they had by one way or other/ deuisyd to bring him in. 
Ther practices.  And therfore caused such burgesys of the parliament to be chosen/ as would not resist ther purposse/ whereby they brought ther purpose craftily to pass.  
And do you think that now they haue all that they would haue? Nay/ nay. but now that they haue gotten in his head/( that is the wicked usurped title of supreme head) they will not seize till they haue gotten in his hole body. think you that he will not haue again his usurped peter pens/ pencyons/ censes/ procuracions/ fruits for prouicyons/ expedicions of bulls for archbisshopriches and bysshoppriches for delegacions and restriptes in cawses of contention/ with many other such like things/ to rob this noble realm of ther treasure and riches. 
Peter pens, and expedycyons for bulls, delegacions, etc.   
And King Henry the .8. perceiuid the same/ and therfore in the 25. year of his reign/ by act of parliament forbade them/ because they were intolerable/ being as bonner bishop of London saith in his prologue before winchesters book DE VERA OBEDIENTIA the rauenus pray/ ye so large a pray that it cam to asmych almost as the kings reuenwes/ snappid out of his hands/ &c. 
Note b. bonners prologue.  Also think you/ that they will suffer the articles/ and provisions to stand/ which now he/ and the cardinal in his name/ hath granted to. Not so/ but the next parliament some of them shalbe broken/ according to a constitution of thers made in the counsel of constance/ and practisid/ namely/ that no faith nor promiss ought to be kept with heretics. 
constitutions at the counsel of constance.  And therfore will he dyssemble and make pretensid promises by little/ and lytl/ till he haue establisshede hole authority again. And then beware ye lords/ gentlemen and commons that haue any spiritual or ecclesiastical possessions/ or abbey londs in your hands/ if ye will not willingly restore them again/ he will find the means thoro we his clergy/ that ye shalbe accusid of heresy/ and so lose both londs goods and life to. 
abbey lands.  Can you not take warning therof by a time put out by one of ther sort/ and was in print but calyd in again lest you should to plainly see the snare before your necks were in/ one verse in enery staff of that rhyme is/ caveat emptor/ take hede I say. Ye haue they not allredy gotten that authority/ by renwing the wilkid act ex officio/ that they may call any man before them/ upon suspeccion and keep him/ xl. days in ther presons/ although no man haue accusid him/ and examine him preuelie/ in his or ther houses or places/ And so condempne him/ to loss both 
Ex officio  goods lands and life to/ except he recant/ and yet after that/ they piking a quarrel to him again/ he shall not be able to escape ther hands/ but must be burnid yf they will/ they tarry but upon time to put all this gear in ure/ and practise/ according to ther accustomid manner. 
They tārye but a time.   
Is not this a lamentable case/ that by the space of xx yeres both King Hery the viij. And also King Edward the vj. haue made godly laws and statuds for the suppression of the tyrrannye of the bishop of Rome/ which haue been obeseruid and kept/ and all Iudges and officers/ with all bishops and the hole clegie/ haue taken a corporal oath that they with the uttermost of ther cornning/ wit and pour/ shall help to suppress the wicked authority/ and usurped pour of the bishop of Rome/ as in the act of parliament made in the 28 year of. K. H. 8. 
Corporal oath taken  appeareth at large: to be so suddenly and deuelishly overthrown? yf the said King Henry the viij had known that his double facid and shamles bishops and clergy would haue done as they now haue done in this casse/ think you/ that he would not haue made a great mainy of them lept hedles to bede/ or else they should haue worn a ripett at tibourne. 
bishops and clergy preach xx yerres.  And did not all the bishops and clerge/ preach against the said usurped pour by the space of xx yeres and more and haue so with gods word and natural reasons/ beaten it in to all mens heads/ that it will not be possible to make thē believe the contrary. And must they now imme diatly cause men( yf they will not change with every wind of false doctrine/ and believe the said usurped pour of the. B. of Rome and to be condempnid for heretics? 
Their ●oden mutability, and cruelty now.  Is not thy● also a lamentable case. red the act made in the .28. year of K. H. 8. where the oath is made/ that the bishops and clergy made to the king/ and his successors/ and tell me yf they be not all periuryd. dower they will say/ that unlawful oaths ar to be broken/ then would I know of afric/ why the unlawful vous/( which is not so great charge as a solemn oath) that the popish priests haue made/ ought not to be broken? 
Their perjury.  but pour men/ that marye in the fear of god must be shame fuliye ponisshed/ for braking of an unlawful voue/ which gods lawe doth bear them in/ and alowith them.  
And ye bishops and clergy/ being periurid and forswore/ by gods lawe haue done well? Is this your ungodly Iudgment ye cursid workers of all iniquity/ for the establissing of your wicked kingdom? 
Matth. 7. Ther fruits.  And as for the oath against the. B. of Rome they themselves countid it good and lawful/ xx. year and now in less then xx monithes thinkeit unlawful what must we pronounce/ judging you by your fruits as our saueoyur commadith/ sunerlie you papists/ declare what dissembling shifts/ and counterfaitid consciences ye haue/ And a great sort of you papists do doubt how long this 
☜  your usurped aucrorite will contiwe/ And therfore care not by what wicked ways ye work/ so you may uphold your kingdom/ And be ye assured as sure as god is god/ and a righwise judge/ that all your abominations and practices/ shall come to nawght. 
the prophet Dauith in the 14. psalm. doth plainly dyscryb you and paint you out at large. Gods wrath prouokid.  And all men shall manifestly perceive your lewdness. And then look what measure ye haue met/ the same shalbe mesurid to you again/ gods word cannot fail/ heaven and earth shall perish/ but his word shall abide for ever. And therfore repent/ repent betimes/ and work not wickidnes even with greediness/ contrary to gods verity and your own conscience. Ye provoke gods wrath/ were he not so merciful and patient/ that he should consume you/ with fire and brimstone from heaven/ as he did Sodoma and Gomora.  
How many be ther of you/ dissembling papists/ which( rather then ye would lose your promotions) would/ not deny/ and say/ god were not god? 
they will rather deny god himself then lose ther promocyons  I do know some of the bishops my selff that haue said that yf they were in turkey among the Turks/ would do as they do/ rather thē to be in trouble therfore. herbye ye may perceine what constancy our clergy be of. This heresy doth origen condemn in the sect of the helchesaites/ read the 6. book 28. chapter/ of Eusebius/ and ther shall ye find it plainly. 
Helchesaites.   
More over/ I cannot hold from you my native contre men what I haue herde in other countries/ with what policys and feches/ the bishops and clergy of this realm/ use for the establishment of ther Kingdom/ which yf it come to pass wylbe the utter decay/ subuercion/ and destruction/ of this noble realm of England? 
Thanthor unto all treu hearted Englishemen.  They intend by one craft or other/ that the prince of spain shalbe crownid King of England/ as is a foresaid/ and 
Note  to haue this noble realm of England to him and to his heires/ and so contrary to the statutis made in the other perlyaments/ dysinheryte all the reight full heirs of the realm. And after he hath gotten that quyetlye/ then they will not leave to prick him forward/ and to cause this noble Realm of England/ to be brought into bondage and slauerye/ like as the emperor hath done Naples/ Myand/ and his nether countries of Flanders/ Holland/ Seland/ Brabant/ Fryseland/ and Lyselburg/ &c.  
first I wylbegine with Naples/ in which within the space of less then xxx. year/ he hath caused to be deposyd/ Murtheryd/ and banished away/ more then fourstore and twelff of the nobles of that contre/ to say of Dukes/ Marqueses/ earls/ lords and Barons/ where of the least of them were barons. 
Naples, howhit hath been, and is ordered.  besides knights and gentyllmen: And hath placyd in ther romes/ proud spanyerds/ like as our bishops would haue him do the like/ in this our 
☜  noble realm and fre country/ besyds that them-proure/ hath Raysyd such unreasonable/ excyses and tolles both of corn/ wine/ salt/ and fruits/ &c. so that the nobles and comos of Naples be brought in to very beggary and slauerye. The like hath he done within the duchy of Myland/ within thes few yeres/ besyds that every man/ rich and poure/ must pay for every chymny/ that they haue/ in ther houses/ a french crown of gold. 
The duchy of Miland  And of the unreasonable/ excyses/ or poulyng tols/ that is taken in them prours nether countres/ as holland/ Braband/ Sealand and Flanders/ &c. 
The Nether countries,  I need not to name them/ because they be so nere our countres/ all they that resort thether can tell/ that the pourest handy crafts men/ must pay to thē prour for excyse for every barrel of bear that they drink/ more then the bear cost them at the first penny/ besyds the unreasonable toll/ or excyse/ that they must pay/ both of corn/ wine/ flesh/ fish/ salt/ butter/ cheese/ milk. And of all maner of grain and vytalls/ besyds the toll of all maner of fruits/ as apples pears/ Nuts/ &c. and yerbes for pottage/ so that no man can make a mess of pottage/ but he must first give/ I cannot tell sertenly/ how many tolls/ whereby the common people/ ar brought to very great myssery and vile slauerye/ so that they daily make ther complaint/ to such Englyshmen/ as travail by them/ in what beggary and myssery they be in/ And will us to beware/ that we be not brought in to the like myssery/ beggary and slauerye/ the which I pray god defend( and that is the very accasyon/ why so many of them go out of ther own country for to dwell in our fre contre of England.  
For our wicked bishops haue affirmyd and said/ that our nobles and commons ar to full of wealth/ wherefore they must be brought low/ or else they will never be obedient/ to them and ther procedings. 
Devices, of the vicked bishops, for the no bylyte.  And as for the nobility/ they intend to dispach them away/ either by condempning them for heresy/ by piking one quarrel or another to them/ or to sand them in to strange countries to excersys them in feats of warres/ and to give thē possessions and fecs/ in some of the princes countries/ as at/ Naples/ Myland or ther about/ and so settle them ther/ that they shall never come home again. And in the mean season/ to settle in ther places some proud spanierds/ or else some of ther bastard sons/ or such new vpskypte gentlemen/ as Rochester/ martin/ or such other/ that can flatter thē/ whom they may haue allwaise/ to be ther ministers/ wherly they may work all ther mischeff. 
M. Rochester. D. martyn.  
The cloaked cruelty of the popish clergy.  For they be to holy/ they will seek no mans death/ when in dead it is only ther whole dewyse/ by ther shameless flatterers. And beware you noble men/ that he as yet of the counsel/ they do but flatter you/ although they bear a fair face towerd you/ and pretend you great Frendshipe/ suerlye it is but for a time as here after shall appear/ unless god of his merciful goodness disperse them shortly/ in the ymaginacions of ther own hartes. 
Noble men warned.  The which I beseech him to do/ for his dear sone Iesus Christs sake Amen. Say not now but that ye be warnid.  

report of the emproveris anwer to settein embassadovres,  More over I cannot hold from you my native contremen what I haue herd of credible persons/ of them prours answer that he made to certain ambassadors/ for money/ that was lent him. first he declared/ what great charges he had been at/ with those his warres/ against the french King. And also what great charges/ he had been at/ for the bringing of his sone in to England. And how that he had laid out then for his sone xij. hundrid thousand french crowns/ where of he had receyuyd but three hundrid thousand again of him/ but he hopid in short time to receive the rest/ for said he/ it cost no small deal of money/ the gifts and rewards/ that was given/ to the great men gentlemen and to ther wifes. 
No small deal of money, gifts and rewardes.  I need not mich to declare the cause/ that mouid him/ namlie/ for to haue ther favour and good will/ that he might the better/ obtain his purpose. And for that cause/ hath thenglishe merchants/ paid already for the queen xl. thousand pounds in Flanders. And shortly must pay a hundrid thousand pounds more/ which was laid out for the bringing in of our new King/ besides that which as yet remainyth vnpayd/ which pour England must be fain to pay.  

To be lamentid that no noble man in England cowld serve the queen.  A lamentable case/ that never a noble man in England would serve for the queens majesty/ but that England must be fain to bestow all ther treasure and riches/ to bring in a stranger to rain over them/ who with the bishops aduise and help will bring this noble realm in to beggary and vile slavery: And yet for all this/ when he hath gotē that he hath sought( that is) the realm in to his hands/ then it will appear/ that he will set asmich by here/ as men set by ther old shows: Is not the queen and all Englishmen bound to curse such a wicked gardener/ for bringing in to this realm/ such weeds/ as will not only over grow/ and destroy/ the noble and good corn/ of this noble realm/ but weed out the wealth/ ye vtterby root out the hole state theroff in every degree. 
Gardener vhat weeds he plantyth in England we swear warned before.  This is a plague above all plagues/ which is come vpon us/ for our vnthankfullnes/ according as our true prophets and preachers/ declared to vs. Yf we would not amend our lives/ and knowledge the time of our visitation.  

Gardener L. chavncelore.  Is not this also a most miserable and lamentable case that such a wicked bishop as steven gardener is/ must rule all the nobility/ and the hole realm. And who dare speak against him: hath not that most wicked bishop being chanselere/ corruptid agreat sort of the nobility/ and of his vpskipte gentlemen/ whom with his great and sumptues house keeping he fedith saylye at his table/ giving some and promising other rewards/ to be his spies abroad/ to here what is said and done/ that thereby he may use/ and abuse his antorite as helistith. 
Corupting nobility and up skipte gentilmen  How he corrupteth Iudgment in matters that come before him/ many that haue felt it/ and smartid for it can report/ by making some begin ther swtes/ new again/ wherein they had well gone forward: 
corupting judgement  And by suddenly displacing some/ which before/ were law fully possessid. Doth he not commonly when any matters come before him in Iudgment 
His percialitie  dispossess many/ that haue been rightfully possessid/ and set the matter/ of a new to begynn again/ both in other mens causes of percyalite/ and most notable in that which was his own case? 
In his o●ne case specialye.  for he would haue all men believe/ that he was wrongfully deposid from his bisshopryche/ when in very dead/ if the matter might be egallye and indifferently herde it would be found that for his contepmte/ and dissobedience he was rightfully deposid. But indead I confess/ that he had wrong at that time/ that he had not had a typett of tybourne for his reward/ according to his deserts. 
steven gardener, the cavse of rising.  And then had ther been many noble men and gentlemen/ sauyd a live/ which for his cause rose/ perceiving such things to be at hand/ which be now come to pass. besides that the realm/ had been at this present in wealth and quietness.  

An exortacyon to the lords and commons of the parliament house.  

To the higher and lover house of the parliament.  THe occasion partly of this my writing/ is to admonish all those. that here after shal be chosen of the Perlyament house/ that they according to ther dwtyes/ will haue respect unto this ther natural and fre contre of England/ which of all other countries in christendom/ hath been the most freyst: and now without gods great mercy and help/ is life to be brought in to the most miserable/ vile servitude and bondage by a strange people/ whom all Christendom both hatith and abhorryth: wherefore when ye shall come in to the Perlyament house/ and ther shall perceive any laws of statuds propounid or to be made/ giving any title or authority/ either to the prince of spain to haue any jurisdiction in this realm/ more thē he allredy hath. 
parliament house  Or any more to the bishops of Romes usurped authority/ whereby the freedom/ and liberty/ of our noble contre/ shalbe in any parte/ either hindrid or taken away. That ye with the uttermost of your poure/ will resist it/ being assured as is aforesaid/ that where as thy can get in ther head/ or any parte therof/ ther they will haue in shortly after/ ther hole body/ for all ther working is by craft and subteltye/ As you may perceive by ther working in giving to the prince of spain( under the name of king) as mich authority/ as yf he were king of England in dead. 
What our clergy Vuorkith Vuith the name of king.  As ye may see/ both by the quoynid money going abroad currant/ and also by proclamations lately con out/ not only with his name jointly before the queen/ but as very sovereign lord/ willing charging/ and comanding/ as the very king/ and lord of the Realm in dead. And now you may see more clear then the sone/ ther unspeakable falsh ode/ and dissembling cruelty in getting that/ they haue had already granted for the bishop of Rome. Therfore as I haue said/ beware/ left now you haue let his head in/ that ye do not condissend/ to let him thrust in his hole body after/ to the dyshonoure and blasphemy of allmyghtye god/ the shane/ infamy/ slauerye and perpetual bondage/ and captivity of this noble realm of England our native count fare ye well/ 26. january 1555.  

1555 Sens the Vritinge of the former Innocent lambs.  Sens the making here of/ it is come to my knowledge that thou accursyd of god steven gardener chaunseler/ with thy dyssembling bucherly brethren hast condempny and murtheryd/ those godly ministers and preachers. of his holy word/ who like innosent lambs/ haue offeyd a pleasant and acceptable sacrifice/ to our heavenly father. And haue run a right course/ and haue obtaynyd an incorruptible crown of glory. But thou most cursed of god/ thinkest thou/ that thou shalt escape gods vengeance. Hast thou not red in the scripture/ in the bocke of hester/ of thy fellow proud hamon/ how he dysdaynyd gods holy people/ and sought to haue destroyed them all/ because that merdocheus gods seruant/ would not bow to him being a proud panym/ and gods open henemye/ wherefore he caused a high payer of gallows to be made/ to haue hangyd him thereon. 
proud hammon  But yet god who scateryth the proud in the imagination of ther hartes/ whose doings ar in comprehensyble/ showed his almighty poure and brought his wonderful works so to pass/ that the same wicked and proud hamon/ was hangyd on the same gallows/ that he had prouydyd to haue hangyd merdocheus on/ and all his x. sons/ companions and friends were all dystroyd/ and gods people/ were delivered out of his tyranny. 
Hester. 7.  This example might make the fear and tremble/ yf ther were any spark of grace in the. But for asmych as thou art/ past grace/ I will comytt the to gods Iudgment/ who as a merciful father/ and most righteous judge. 
The Rod cast in to the fire  when he hath used the as a rod/ to correct us/ for our vnthankfullnes/ will cast thee his scourge and road/ in to everlasting fire/ for asmych as I do know/ that this greuonse persecusyon/ that thou now vsyst/ against gods saints and ministers: thou deist it against thine own conscyens/ as thy former doings declare yf thou ever haddest any maner of conscience/ adtherfore thou synnyst against the holy ghost/ and for such no man ought to pray.  
But I would know of the/ and of thy cursed bloody brethren/ by what law haue ye condempnyd those innosent lambs/ as M. Hoper bishop of Worceter/ D. Taylore of hadle/ master Rogers master sanders/ &c. 
M. Hoper. D. tailor. M. rogers. M. Sanders.  Ye ar not able to prove that ever they preached/ or teachyd any doctrine sens the queen cam to here authority/ whereby they were or augh to be condempnid to death/ the most that the lawe gave you authority/ was for in pryssonment/ and yet the same should be for such/ as should speak or do/ any thing after the xx day of december 1553/ and all those men were apprehendid before the same day/ and had and did continwe in presone more thē xv monithes/ which is longer thē the law permittid to do/ and now to burn them without any just law or occasion? 
How, and bie what authority put to death.  ye will say that ye haue done it now by/ ex officio/ but by what lawe kept ye thē so long in presone till that time? By the same wickyd pour and devise/ with out any lawe/ ye might condemn halff the comoners of the realm/ And then need ye not to levy any subsidy/ to help the King with/ to pay his debts/ that he owyth to his father/ nor yet to help to maintain his father in his warres against the french King. But he should haue the most parte of the goods and lands of the hole realm/ which thing ye do intend to bring to pass so sone as ye can/ for fear of vprour now that ye haue gotten your bloody ex officio. But to make an end/ red how King ahab/ with his wicked queen jesabel sought to haue the vineyard of Naboth/ And because he would not condyssend to sell them his patrymony/ they found the means/ to murder/ and destroyed the said Naboth: 
3 kings 21.  And what followed of it/ was not the King according to gods word slain for it/ and the doggs lyckyd bye blood in the same place/ where the said Naboth was murtheryd. 
Naboth.  mark thende of all those/ that thirst to come/ to ther purposes by blood. Doth not blond require vengeance/ with blood again/ we had lamentable examples enough wholly in our time within England the more pity. 
blowde. asketh blowde.  And what plagues beside will follow/ god only knoweth/ whom I beseech for his mercies sake to spare/ and be favourable to his pour church of England/ And remember not our offences( oh lord) nor the offences of our forefathers/ nether take thou vengeance of our synnys/ spare us good lord/ spare thy people/ whom thou hast redemyd with thy most precyus blood/ and be not angry with us for ever. 
The prayer of the author.  But I pray the open the queens hart/ that she may perceive/ the wicked devices and tyranye of here shameless and cruel bishops and clergy/ and that she may use so her procedings/ that gods most holy name may he praysyd/ and his kingdom encreasyd/ and that pour England may shortly be delivered again/ from the tyranny of the bishop of Rome/ and all his detestable enormytes/ and that we may with one heart and mouth glorysye God the father of our lord Iesus christ/ to whom be given all honour and glory for evermore amen.    

An exortacyon to the christian readers.  
DEarlye belouyd in the lord Iesus christ: for asmych as thes grievous plagues/ ar now most justly come a pone us and our contre for our sins and vnthanckfulnes/ as is aforesaid: for the avoiding where of/ I can give no better counsel/ but as Mardocheus did the Iwes/ when they were in the like extremyte and mysserye/ and like to be utterly dystroyd/ by ther wicked henemy the proud hamon. 
pray ( that is) first that ye will with me/ knowledge and confess/ our sins and vnthanckfullnes to our heavenly father. And then to humble ourselves with fasting/ and prayer contynwally to him/ and to desire him for his dear sone Iesus Chrystes sake/ that he will deliver this noble realm of England/ from the tyranny of our wicked bishops/ which seek the dystructyon theroff/ and of Chrystes pour floke/ ther assembled in his name. 
judge. 10. A notable example.  We haue a notable example in the .x. chapter of the book of Iudges/ of the children of Israell gods chosen people/ who being unthankful for gate god that had so many times wonderfully delyueryde them out of bondage/ and comyttyd idolatry by worshipping of strange gods. wherefore god was worth with them/ and delivered thē in to the hands of the heathen ther enemies which pyllyd/ and oppressyd them( like as the strangers will do us shortly/ unless god help be times) then thy cried to the lord saying/ we haue sinned/ for we haue forsaken the lord our god/ and haue served balym/ &c. 
O England knoswledge thine ofence, likewyse.  And the lord said unto them/ did not the Egypcyans/ the Amorytes/ and the Phylystynes/ &c. opresse you/ and ye cried unto me/ and I delivered you out of ther hands/ and for all that ye haue forsaken me/ and served strange gods/ wherefore I will help you no more/ go and cry unto the gods which ye haue chosen/ and let thē save you in the time of your generation. And they confessyd/ and said unto the lord/ we haue sinned/ do thou with us what so ever pleasyth the/ deliver us only this time. 
A notable example for england.  And they put away ther strangs gods/ from them/ and served and delivered them out of ther enemies hands/ &c. 
Iere. 18. Ieuy. 26. Math. 11. Exodi. 3.14. Iud 2.3.6.  Therfore let us with deep sythyng earnestly consider how grievously we haue prouokyd gods just ire and vengeance against us/ for so redelye receiving the wicked mass and yeldyng ther unto/ with other like abhomynacyons. And let us turn to the lord our god vnfaynyd lie/ with true repentance. And he will not refuse us/ but will hear us/ and deal with us/ as he did with his people of old/ yf we cast away/ our own inuencyons and adhomynacions of ydolatrus worshipping him as they did.. And be thou assured gentle reader/ that god our heavenly father/ is mercy full/ patient/ and long suffering/ And will help us/ doubt thou not therof at his time appoyntyd/ for he hath no pleasure in our dystructyon/ but as a loving father/ after a storm/ sendeth fair wether/ after mourning and heaviness/ he sendeth great joy/ and gladness/ wherefore his holy name be praysyd for evermore/ Amen.  
pray pray pray.  
To the living only: be given all honour and glory.  
Anno M.D.L.