They know that sainct Chrisostom saith: MarginaliaIt is heresy to denye priestes mariage.it is heresy to affirme that a Bishop may not haue a wyfe. They know that saincte Ambrose wyll haue no commaundement but counsayle onely to bee geuen, touchyng the obseruyng of virginite. They knowe that Christe wyth hys blessed mother & Apostles were at a mariage,MarginaliaIhon. ii. and beautified, and honoured the same wyth his presence, and first miracle. To be shorte: They know that all that I haue here wrytten touchyng the mariage of Priestes is true, and they know that the Papistes themselues dooe not obserue touching that matter, their owne Lawes & Canons: and yet they continue marked in cōscyēce with an hote iron, as detestable heretikes in this behalf. The Lorde geue them grace to repente, if it bee his good wyll. Amen.

MarginaliaThe secōd cause.My second cause why I was condemned as an heretike is, that I denied the MarginaliaTransubstantiation and Concomitation.Transubstantiation and Concomitation, twoo iugglyng woordes of the Papistes, by the which they doe beleue and will compell al other to beleue that Christes naturall body is made of bread, and the Godhead by and by to be ioyned thereunto: so that immediately aftre the wordes (called the woordes of consecration) there is no more bread and wyne in the sacrament, but the substaunce onely of the body and bloud of Christ together with his Godhead: so that the same being now Christ, both god and manne, ought to be worshipped with godly honor, and to be offred to God, both for the quick and the dead, as a sacrifice propitiatory and satisfactory for the same. This matter was not long debated in words: but because I denyed the foresayd papisticall doctrine, (yea rather playne most wicked Idolatry, blasphemy and heresy) I was iudged an heretike.

MarginaliaThe pope is Antichrist.I dyd also affyrme the Pope to be Antychrist, and Popery Antichristianity: And I confessed the doctryne of MarginaliaThe Byble.the Byble to be a suffycient Doctrine, touchyng all and syngular matters of Christian Religion, and of saluation. I also alledged that MarginaliaThe othe.the othe agaynste the Supremacye of the Byshoppe of Rome, was a lawefull othe, and so was the othe made by vs all, touchynge the Kynges or Queenes prehemynence. For Chrisostomus sayeth: MarginaliaAll menne muste obey kings.That Apostles, Euangelistes, and all men, in euery Realme wer euer, and ought to be euer, touchyng bothe bodye and goodes, in subiection to the Kyngly autoritye, who hath the sweard in his hande, as goddes pryncipall officer and gouernour in euery realme. I desyred the Byshoppes to repent for brynging the Realme from Christe to Antichriste, from light to darkenesse, from veritye to vanitie.

Thus you knowe a summe of my laste examination, and condemnatiō. Pray for me. and

I wil pray for you.

¶ God be praysed: since my condempnation, I was neuer affrayde to dye: Gods wyll be doone. If I shryncke from Goddes truth, I am sure of an other maner of death then had Iudge Hales.MarginaliaIudge Hales was a terrible example. But GOD be praysed, euen from the bottome of my heart, I am vnmoueably setled vppon the Rocke, nothyng doubtyng, but that my deare god wyl perfourme, and finish the woorke, that he hath begonne in me, and other. To hym be all honor both now and euer through Christ oure onely and whole Sauior. Amen.

Rowland Taylour.

The places of the Doctours that Doctour Taylour alledged before in thys letter.  

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The quotations from patristic authorities, cited by Taylor in his letter defending clerical marriage, are by Foxe, not Taylor.

THis question was asked of sainct Ciprian, what should bee doone wyth those religious persones, that could not kepe theyr chastity as they hadde vowed. He aunswereth thus. Thou dooest aske what we dooe iudge of Virgins, which after they hadde decreed to liue chastelye, are afterwarde founde in one bedde with a man. MarginaliaA Deacon found in aduoutry.Of the whiche thou sayest that one of thē was a Deacon. We dooe with great sorowe se the great ruine of many persons: which commeth by the reason of such vnlawfull and peryllous companying together. MarginaliaS. Cyprians iudgement.Wherfore, if they haue dedicate thēselues vnto Christ in faith, to lyue purely, and chastly, then let them so remayne without any fable, and strongly, and stedfastly abyde the reward of virginitie. But and yf they will not abyde, or els cannot abide: then is it better to mary, then for to fall into the fier of concupiscence: And let them geue to the brethren and sisterne none occasion of slaunder. &c.

CErtaine men doe affirme, those menne to be aduouterers, that doe mary, after that they haue vowed chastity. MarginaliaThen haue the bishops greuouslye synned.But I dooe affirme that those men do greuously sinne, the whiche do seperate them &c.

CHastitie of bodye oughte to bee desyred of vs, the whiche thing I doe geue for a coūsell and dooe not commaunde it imperiouslye.MarginaliaThe Pope and his bishops commandeth. & counselleth not, and burne men for marying.For Virginitie is a thing alonely that oughte to be counselled, but not to be commaunded: it is rather a thynge of voluntarye will, and not a precepte.

AFter that Doctour Tayloure was remoued frō the Clink, & brought to the Counter by sainte Mildreds church in the pultrye,