MarginaliaAll the company ashamed of Gardiners talke.choler, ye cā make all the cōpany here about you, to be ashamed of you, as I am sure they are. And for my part, if ye your selfe be not ashamed, or commyng to your selfe (for now your anger is such þ^t you heare not your self) be not displeased, I shall be ashamed and pitie this your doyng without wisedome, and the oftener you vse this maner, the more shall it be to your dishonesty.

Lo (quoth he) how fondly he speaketh, as who sayth, I were all in þ^e blame. Wil you not heare (quoth he) this wise man? My Lord (quoth I) I would you could heare with indifferēt eares, and see with indifferent eyes your self. MarginaliaBrabling for nothing.Ye haue made a brablyng here for nothing, & would that I should giue you thankes for that thyng, which M. Thirleby hath done for me. MarginaliaThe spitefull lokes of Winchester.I looke for no thankes of you (quoth hee) and sayd withall looking spitefully, that he knewe me well enough, and that he was not deceiued in me. Well (quoth I) and me thinke I know you well enough too, wherefore as ye say you are not deceiued in me, so I trust I will not be deceiued by you. But I pray you Syr (quoth I) bicause ye say ye knowe me well enough, and that ye be not deceiued in me, how doe you know me? for honest and true, or otherwise? If you do, say it, and I shall make aunswere.

I could not driue him to aunswere hereunto, so that I suppose, either of his own naughtie nature he hath made me an Image after his owne fantasie, or elles beleued the report of such in conditions, as he is him selfe, MarginaliaStephen Gardiner for malice and disdayne and pride, compared by Boner to the deuill of hell.who in malice, I suppose, and disdaine may bee compared to to the deuill in hell, not giuing place to him in pride at all. In communicatiō he repeted oft the prouision of the thousand crownes. I told him they went in my diettes, and that it would be a good while, afore they were come out: and further I sayd, þ^t seing they had ben simpliciter giuē to me, I would neuer thanke him for them, but the kings highnes: and I said, that if they were xx. thousād, he should breake so many sleepes afore hee shoulde haue any part therof, intreating me as he did. Well (quoth he) you haue thē. That is trouth (quoth I) & nothing thankfull to you.

Why then (quoth hee) seyng you haue here diuerse thinges of M. Thirlebyes, and all other thinges are parabilia pecunia, which you haue, ye may make therby good prouision for your self. That is trouth (quoth I) and that can I and will do, thoughe ye tell me not, seyng I haue nothyng of you, and afore this, had prouided at Lyons for all thinges necessarie, MarginaliaWinchester putteth Boner to his shyftes for prouision.if ye without necessitie had not made that great hast to departe thēce, enforcing me therby to folow you. And yet (quoth I) one thing may I tell you: ye are very desirous I should be prouided well for, as appeareth in that you haue taken away at Lyons one horse that Fraūces had prouided for me, and also your seruaunt Mace hauyng a horse to sell & knowyng my nede, by your consent hath sold his horse to a straunger, rather then he would sell him to me, so that nothing sufferyng me to haue of you, and takyng away that prouisiō which I make & go about to make, you wel declare how hartely you desire I should bee prouided for. MarginaliaThe churlishe dealyng of Winchester.In faith (quoth he) choose you, ye may prouide and you will, and seyng your iourney hether from Lyons is vaine, you may thether returne againe & make there prouisiō for your selfe. I thought (quoth hee) departing from Lyons, to haue made easie iourneys, and to haue folowed the Court till you had come, and now come you squirtyng in post, and trouble all. I came foorth in post (quoth I) by the commaundement of the king my maister, and had libertie to returne at pleasure by his graces letters, and seing that I had no horses for the iourney, me thought better to ride in post, then go a foote. Well (quoth he) I will not departe hence this xij. moneth, except ye be otherwise prouided. Prouided (quoth I?) I must tarie, till I may be prouided for horses, if ye speake of that prouisiō: and seing that this riding in post greueth you, it causeth me to thinke you are loth to depart, MarginaliaWinchester angry that Boner should succede him.and angry that I shal succede you. I haue here already ij. gownes, and a veluet Iacket, so that you shall not be letted an houre by me.

I tell you (quoth hee) ye shall otherwise prouide, or els I will not departe. For I tell you (quoth he) though ye care not for the kings honour, but wretchedly do liue with x. shillinges a day, as ye did in yonder partes, you and your companion, I must & will consider the kinges honour. And I tel you agayn (quoth I) I will & do cōsider þ^e kinges honour as much as ye at any time will do, & as sorie will be that it should be touched by any negligence or default in me: yea and I say more to you (quoth I) thoughe ye may spēde far aboue me, I shall not sticke if any thing be to be spēde for þ^e kinges honour, to spend as liberallie as you, so long as other I haue it, or cā get it to spēd. And who soeuer enformed you of the wretchednes and spending scarcely of my companion and me in the partes where we haue bene, made a false lye, and ye shewe your wisedome full well in so lightlye beleuyng and rehearsing such a tale.

I cā not tell (quoth he) but this was opēly rehearsed by M. Brians seruaunts at my table. Yea was (quoth I?) Yea mary was it (quoth he). Now by my trouth (quoth I) then was the faire that was bestowed vpon them, very well cast away. For of my fidelitie, that weeke that M. Brian and his seruauntes were with vs at Villa Franca, it cost my companion and me xxv. li. in the charges of the house. This they say (quoth he.) MarginaliaWinchester reproued to his face of false slaunder.Yea (quoth I) and therin they lye. And here I shewed him, that being well setled at Nyce, and hauing made there good and honest prouisiō to our no litle charges, M. Wyat would not rest, till he had gotten vs to Villa Franca, where euen vppon the first word of M. Heynes, he was right well content to take of vs xx. shillinges by the day. Whiche was not duryng x. dayes: where at his comming to vs to Nyce, him selfe and al his seruaunts, and then tarying with vs ij. daies, we tooke not one peny of him. And moreouer, at the departing of M. Wyat frō Villa Frāca, in post into England, we founde our selues, our seruauntes, all M. Wyates seruauntes to the nomber of xvj, all his acquaintaunce, whiche dinner and supper continually came to vs, some times xij. somtimes, x. & whē they were least, vj. or viij. and for this, had not one peny of M. Wyat, and yet at our comming from Barcelone, where we taried about viij. dayes, we gaue to M. Wyat xxviij. li. and to his seruaūtes v. li. besides xl. shillinges that priuatly I gaue to some being of gentle fashion out of mine owne purse: so that I told him, it was neither M. Wyat, ne Mason that found vs and our seruauntes, but we payed for the finding of them, and here it chaunced to vs to haue all the charge & other men to haue all the thankes.

The Bishop whē he heard this, was amazed & stode still, finally saying: By my trouth (quoth he) I tell you as it was told me, and M. Doctour here can tel whether it was so or no. Yea & I will tel you more (quoth he) they said that M. Heynes would haue ben more liberall a great deale, if you had not bene. Now by my trouth (quoth I) I shall therin make M. Heynes him selfe iudge thereof, who can best tell what cōmunication hath bene betwene him and me therin.

MarginaliaThe bishop of VVinchesters wilde heade.Thinking that this communication had dryuen the other matters out of the Bishops wilde head, I held my peace, and by and by, was he in hand agayne with them as fast as euer he was. My Lord (quoth I) I desyred ere while, your lordship to make an end of this communication, wherin the longer ye talke, the more ye make me beleue that ye would, where ye haue spoken vndiscretly, yea & vnkyndly, MarginaliaVVinchester regarded not the kings letters.not regarding the kinges letters, with multitude of wordes and great countenaunce, I should think ye had not done amisse: but surely you lose your labour, for ye shall neuer make me thinke that ye are desirous to do me pleasure, neyther for myne owne sake, nor for the kings. For if your wordes be well wayed, I haue as much of you in dede for myne owne sake, as I haue for the kinges sake, that is nothing at all. Here both of vs were talking together, but I held on still, and euer enforced hym to this: My Lord (quoth I) this is the thing that I shall onely desire of you: that where the kynges grace hath here in the Frenche Court diuers affaires (as I take it) ye would therin instructe me of the state thereof, and giue me your best counsell and aduise: and this I proteste vnto you, that if ye this will do: I will attentlie heare you, and if ye will not, I shall with payne heare you in your other thinges, but I will make no aunswere at all.

MarginaliaBoner out scoulded by VVinchester, and driuen to silence.For all this, the Bishop ended not, but in conclusion, when he sawe by no meanes that he could induce me to aunswere, he returned homwardes, and I brought him to his lodging and chāber. It being dinner time, and all thinges prouided, and stāding afore him, and he turning his backe from me into a wyndow, MarginaliaDoct. Boner taketh his leaue of Winchester.I at his turning towardes me againe, put of my bonet, & said: God be with you my Lord. He gaue no aūswere to me at all, nor coūtenaunce, but suffred me to go. Whereupon, returnyng to my lodging, which was in M. Thirlebies chamber, I caused my dinner to be prouided, & when it was almost ready, the Byshops steward called Myrrell came for me, (whether sent from the Bishop or not, I cā not tell) and I told him, my dinner was prouided for, & withall, that my Lord his master had giuen me such a breakefast, that