and you knowe that MarginaliaRaylyng wordes become not magistrates.he þ^t sayth to his brother Racha, is in daunger of a Councel: and he that sayeth thou foole, is in daunger of hel fyre.

The Bishoppe aunswered: ye are all false and liars, all the sorte of you. Nay (quod Doctoure Tayloure) we are true menne, & know that it is written. Os quod mentitur, occidit animam: And agayne, Perdes omnes qui loquuntur mendatium. i. The mouthe that lieth, sleyeth the soule. And again. Lorde God thou shalt destroy all that speake lyes. And therefore we abyde by the truthe of Goddes woorde, whiche ye contrarye to youre owne conscience deny and forsake.

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Thou arte maryed (quod the Byshoppe.) MarginaliaD. Taylours mariage.Yea (quod Doctour Taylour,) that I thanke God I am, and haue hadde nine children, and all in lawefull matrimonye: and blessed bee GOD that ordayned matrimonye, and commaunded that euerye manne that hathe not the gifte of continencye, shoulde mary a wife of his owne, and not liue in adulterye, or whoredome.

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Then sayde the Byshoppe. Thou haste resisted the Queenes proceadynges, and wouldest not suffer the person of Aldham, MarginaliaAs good a papiste as can bee.a verye vertuous, and deuoute Prieste, to saye Masse in Hadleigh. Doctoure Tayloure aunswered. My Lorde: I am person of Hadley, and it is againste all Righte, Conscience, and Lawes, that anye manne shall come into my charge, and presume to infecte the flocke, commytted vnto me with venome of the Popishe idolatrous masse.MarginaliaThe masse.

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With that the Bishoppe waxed very angry, and saide: Thou arte a blasphemous heretyke in dede, that blasphemest the blessed Sacramēt, (and putte of his Cappe) and speakest agaynste the holy masse, whiche is made a sacrifice for the quicke and the dead. Doctoure Tayloure aunswered: Naye, I blaspheme not the blessed Sacramente, whiche Christe instytuted, but I reuerence it as a true Christian oughte to dooe, and confesse that Chryste ordayned the holye Communion,MarginaliaThe communion. in the remembrance of hys Death and Passion: whiche when wee keepe accordynge to his ordynaunce, wee, throughe Faythe, eate the bodye of Chryste, and drinke his bloude, geuynge thankes for oure redemption: and this is oure Sacryfyce for the quicke and the deade, to geue GOD thankes for his mercifull goodnesse, shewed to vs, in that he gaue his sonne Christe vnto the death for vs.

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Thou sayest well (quod the Byshoppe:) it is all, that thou haste sayde, and more to. For it is a propitiatorye Sacrifyce for the quycke, and the dead. Then aunswered Doctor Tayloure: Christe gaue hymselfe to dye for oure redemption vppon the Crosse, whose bodye

there offered was the propitiatorye Sacrifyce, full, perfecte, and sufficiente, vnto salua-uation for all them that beleue in hym. And thys Sacrifyce dyd oure Sauioure Christe offer in hys owne persone hymselfe, once for al, neyther can anye Prieste any more offer hym, nor we neede no more propitiatorye Sacrifice: And therefore I saye with Chrisostome, and all the Doctours: Oure Sacrifice is onelye Memoratiue, in the remembraunce of Christes death, and Passion, a Sacrifice of thankes geuynge, and therefore the Fathers calleth it Eucharistia. And other sacrifice hathe the Churche of GOD none.

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It is true (quod the Byshoppe:) the Sacramente is called Eucharistia, a thankes geuing, because we there geue thanks for our redemption: and it is also a sacrifice propitiatorye for the quicke, and the deade: whiche thou shalt confesse, ere thou and I haue done. Thē called the Byshoppe his menne, and sayde: MarginaliaA strōg reson, this is his shoote anker.haue thys felowe hence, and carye him to the Kynges Benche, and charge the keper he be straytelye kepte.

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Then kneeled Doctoure Tayloure downe, and helde vp bothe his handes and sayd: Good Lorde, I thanke thee. And from the Tirannye of the Bishoppe of Rome, and al his detestable errours, Idolatries, and abhominations, good Lorde deliuer vs. And God be praised for good king Edward. So they caried him to prison to the kinges Benche, where he lay prisoner almoste two yeare.

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☞ This is the summe of that firste talke, (as I sawe it mentioned in a letter) that Doctoure Tayloure wrote to a frende of his, thankynge GOD for hys grace, that hee hadde confessed his truthe, and was founde worthy for his truthe to suffer prison, and bandes, and besechynge hys frendes to praye for hym, that he myghte perseuer constante vnto the ende.

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Beynge in prisone, Doctoure Tayloure spente all hys tyme in prayer, readyng the holye Scryptures,  

and wrytynge, and preachynge, and exhortynge the prysoners, and suche as resorted to hym, to repentance, and amendemente of lyfe. And wythin a fewe dayes after, were diuerse other learned, and godlye menne, in all countreys of Englande committed to prison for religion, so that almoste all the prisones in Englande were become the ryghte Christian Scholes, and churches, MarginaliaPrisōs turned into Churches, and churches into dennes of theues.so that there was no greater comforte for Christian heartes, then to come to the prisones, to beholde theyr vertuous conuersation, and to heare theyr prayers, preachinges, moste godlye exhortations, and comfortinges.

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Nowe were come into the Churches blynde and ignoraunt massemongers, with their La-