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thou hast done, thou shalt be had into the Lollardes Tower.
Phil. Syr, sence you wyll nedes shewe mee thys extremity, and charge me with my conscience, I do desire to see your cōmission, whether you haue this autoritie so to do. And after the vewe thereof, I shall (according to my duty) make you further answere, if you maye by þe vertu therof, burthē me with my cōsciēce.
[Back to Top]Roper. Let hym see the cōmission: is it here?
Story. Shall wee let euery vile person see our commission?
Cholm. Let him go from whence hee came, and on thursdaye he shall se our commission.
Story. No, let him lye in the meane whyle in the lollards Tower: For I wyll swepe the kinges Bench, & al other prisons also, of these heretickes: they shal not haue that resorte as they haue had, to skatter theyr heresies.
CloseStory was quite correct to worry about heresy sweeping through the King's Bench prison; the fact that many Marian protestants were confined there, combined with the protestant sympathies of the marshal of the King's Bench, Sir William Fitzwilliam, ensured that the prison was a centre of protestant activity.
[Back to Top]Phil. You haue poure to transferre my body from place to place, at your pleasure: but you haue no power ouer my soule. And I passe not
CloseI do not care.
CloseSir William Fitzwilliam, the marshal of the King's Bench.
Phil. God hath appoynted a daye shortly to come, in the which he wil iudge vs with righteousnes, how so euer you iudge of vs now.
Roper. Be content to be ruled by maister doctour, and shewe your selfe a catholyke man.
Phil. Syr, if I should speake otherwise then my conscience is, I should but dissemble with you. And why be you so earnest to haue mee shewe my selfe a dissembler, both to God and you, which I cannot do?
Roper. We do not requier you to dyssemble with vs, but to be a catholike man.
phil. If I doo stande in anye thinge, against that which any man is hable to burthen mee, with one iot of the scripture, I shall be contēt to be counted no catholike man, or an heretike as you please.
Story Haue we scripture, scripture? and with that he rose vp, sayinge: who shallbe iudge, I pray you?
Story This man is like his felowe Woodman,
CloseRichard Woodman, who would later be martyred, was being held in prison and would be released on a technicality, on 18 December 1555, the day on which Philpot was executed.
CloseThe notes are at the end of the examinations were written Philpot, not by Foxe.
AT my comming, a man of Algate of myne acquayntaunce said vnto mee. God haue mercy on you. For you are already condemned in this world: for doctor Story sayd, that my Lord Chauncelor hath commaūded to do you away. After a litle consultacion had betwene them, maister Cholmely called me vnto hym, saying.
[Back to Top]Cholm. Maister Philpot, shewe your selfe a wyse man, and bee not stubburne in your owne opinion, but be conformable to þe quenes procedinges, and lyue, and you shalbe well assured of great fauour and reputacion.
Phil. I shall doo as it becommeth a Christian man to do.
Story. Thys man is the rankest heretike that hath ben in al my Lord Chauncelors dioces, and hath done more hurte, then any man elles there. Therfore his pleasure is, that he should haue the lawe to procede against him, and I haue spoken with my Lord herin. And he willeth him to be committed to the Byshop of London, and hee there to recant, or elles burne. He howled and wept in the conuocacation house, and made such a do, as neuer man dyd, as all the heretickes do, when they lacke learning to answere. He shall go after hys felowes. How sayst thou? wilt thou recant?
[Back to Top]Phil. I know nothing I haue done, that I ought to recant.
Story. Well, than I praye you let vs committe him to the lollardes tower, and ther remaine vntil he be further examined before the bishop of London. For he is to fine fed in the kinges Bench, and he hath to much fauour there.
CloseSir William Fitzwilliam, the marshal of the King's Bench, was a protestant sympathiser and was lenient to the protestant prisoners in his custody. (See Thomas S. Freeman, 'Publish and Perish: The Scribal Culture of the Marian Martyrs' in Julia Crick and Alexandra Walsham (eds.), The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700 (Cambridge: 2004), p. 237).
[Back to Top]Cooke This man hath moste stoutly maintained heresies, since the quenes comming in, as any that I haue herd of: therefore it is most meete he should be adiudged by the byshop of London, for the heresies hee hath maintained
Phil I haue maintained no heresies.
Cooke. No haue? Dyd ye not opēly speake agaynst the sacrament of the aulter, in the conuocation house? call you that no heresye? wilt thou recant that or not?
phil. It was the Quenes Maiesties pleasure that wee should reason therof, not by my seeking, but by other mens procuring, in the hearing of the counsel.
Cooke Dyd the Quene geue you leaue to be an heretycke? you maye be sure her Grace will not so do. Wel, we wyll not dispute the matter with you. My Lorde of London shall procede by inquisicion vpon thee, and if thou wilt not recant, thou shalt be burned.
Phil. My Lord of London is not mine Ordinarye in this behalfe: and I haue already an-