I nede no dinner nor supper, and so the Steward drinking with me, returned again, & I went to dinner in M. Thirlebyes lodging: and after dinner I went to the Byshops lodging, who at my comming, very gentily put of his bonet, and so we walked together quietly a while, & shortly after, the Bishop begā after this maner: M. Boner, to day we commoned of prouision for you, and because ye shall laye no blame vppon me, I will tell you what I will do for you. MarginaliaWinchesters good will, come vpon him at last.I will prouide you mules, mulettes, horses, seruauntes, money, yea & all thinges that shalbe necessarie. My Lord (quoth I) here is a large offer and a great kindnes come vppon you. I merueill (quoth I) that I could heare nothing of this, to day in þ^e morning. I tell you (quoth hee) this will I do, for know you that I will consider the kinges honor and pleasure, & doubt not but the king will pay me againe. MarginaliaVVinchesters offer to Boner refused.My Lord (quoth I) I haue sent my seruaunt already to Lyons, to make prouision for me, and I haue sent other abroad here in the towne and countrey, to do the same: ye shall neuer nede to trouble your selfe herewith. I will (quoth he.) You shall not say an other day, þ^t ye could not be prouided for. My Lord (quoth I) let me haue instructions in the kinges matters, and as for other thinges, I shal not aske of you, because this day ye made me so plaine aunswere. After much communication, I departed from him louingly, telling him that I would bee at Terrara that night where he entēded to be lodged. MarginaliaVVinchester and Boner depart.And so the Bishop bidding me faire well, tooke soone after, his horse riding to Terrara to bead.

MarginaliaAn other meting of VVinchester and Boner.And by the way I ouertoke him, & passing by, doing my duetie to him and his companie, I came to Terrara lodging at the post house, & euē as the Bishop came into the towne, stode at þ^e post house dore: To whō þ^e Bishop said, we shal see you soone M. Boner. Yea my Lord (quoth I) thinking that therby he had desired me to supper, & at supper time I went to his lodging, hauing other to eate my supper at home, and glad he appeared to be, that I was come, making mery communication all supper while, but nothing at all yet speaking to me, or giuing any thing to me, sauing at the comming of the fruite, he gaue me a peare, I trowe, bicause I should remember mine owne countrey. MarginaliaBoner seemeth by this Peare to be a Worcester shyre man.After supper he walked, taking M. Thirleby with him. And I walked with an Italian beyng Ambassadour for the Countie Mirandula, & after a good space, we returned and bad the Bishop good night.

I did not after that night, dine nor suppe with the Bishop, till he came to Burges in Berry, where, vpō the depeach of Fraunces, and closing vp of our letters sent to the kinges highnes, the supper was so prouided and set vpō the borde, and the Bishop in washing, standing so betwene me and the doore that I could not get out: and there would he nedes that I should wash with him and suppe: MarginaliaThe straungenes betwene Winchester and Boner.and I suppose, all the waye from Barella to Bloys, he talked not aboue foure times with me, and at euery tyme, sauing at Molyns (where he by mouth told me somwhat of the kinges affaires here in Fraunce) and at Vieronne, MarginaliaWinchesters booke of instructions to Boner.(when he answering to my requestes in writing, deliuered me his boke of his owne hand for mine instructions, the copie whereof is now sent here withall) there was quicke communication betwene vs. MarginaliaThirleby and Winchester great together.His talking by þ^e way was with M. Thirleby, who, I thinke, knoweth a great deale of his doing, and will, if he be the man I take him for, tell it playnely to your Lordship. I my self was out of Marginalia* Why Boner was out of credite with Winchester.* credence with the Bishop, not being appliable to his maners and desires.

And surely, as M. Thirleby tolde me, at his first comming to Lyons, and then speaking with the Bishop, MarginaliaVVinchesters fleshe trembled at the fyrst comming of D. Thirleby to succede him.the Bishop semed to bee so well content to returne, and so glad of his comming to succede him, that his flesh in his face began all to trēble, and yet would the Bishop make men beleue that hee would gladly come home. Whiche thing, beleue it who will, I will neuer beleue: for euer he was loking for letters out of England from M. Wallop, and M. Brian, whom he taketh for his great frendes: and M. Wyat him selfe rekened, that the Bishop should haue come into Spayne, or els my Lorde of Durham, so that the Bishop of Winchester euer coueted to protracte the tyme, MarginaliaWinchester loth to returne into Englād.desiryng yet withall, to haue some shadowe to excuse and hyde him selfe, as tariyng at Barella, he made excuse by my not comming to Lyons, and commyng to Varennes & there hearing by the Ambassadours of the Venetians a flying tale of the goyng of the Frenche kyng towardes Bayone to mete the Emperour, by & by he sayd: MarginaliaBoner called Maister diligence.loe where is maister diligēce now? If he were now here (as thē I was that night) we would to the Court & present him, & take our leaue. But when, I in the mornyng was vp afore him, and ready to horse, he was nothyng hastie. No, cōming to Molyns afore him & there tariyng for him, the Frenche kyng lying at Schauenna, three small leages of, hee made not halfe the spede and hast that hee pretended.

MarginaliaThe. ij. complaint.I mislike in the Bishop of Winchester, that he cā not be content that any ioyned in cōmission with him, should kepe house, but to be at his table. MarginaliaVVinchester would be alone.Wherin either hee searcheth thereby a vayne glory and pride to him selfe, with some dishonour to the kyng, as who sayth, there were among all the kynges Ambassadours, but one hable to mainteyne a table, and that were hee: either els he doth the same for an euill entent & purpose to bring them therby into his daunger, that they shall say and do as liketh him alone, whiche I suppose verilie hath bene his entēt.

MarginaliaThe thyrd complaint.
The pompe & glory of Winchester.I mislike in the sayd Byshop, that where hee for hys own pompe and glory, hath a great nomber of seruaūts in their veluets and silkes, with their chaynes about their neckes, and kepeth a costlie table, with excessiue fare and excedyng expenses many other wayes: hee doth say, and is not ashamed to report, that he is so commaūded to do by the kinges grace, and that is his aunswere commonly, when his frendes telleth him of hys great charges, and so vnder colour of the kinges commaundement and honour, hee hideth his pride, whiche is here disdayned.

MarginaliaThe iiij. complaint.
Winchester geuen more to his owne affections, then to the kinges affaires.I mislike in the sayd Bishop, that he hauing priuate hatred agaynst a man, will rather satisfie his owne stomacke and affection, hynderyng & neglectyng the kings affayres, then relentyng in any part of his sturdy and stubburne will, giue familiare and harty counsaile (wherby the kinges highnes matters and busines may bee auaunced and set foorth) to him that hee taketh for hys aduersarie.

MarginaliaThe v. complaint.
Winchester suspected to be Imperiall.I mislike in the sayd Bishop, that he euer continually here in this Court of Fraunce, made incomparablie more of the Emperours, kyng of Portugalles, Venitians, and Duke of Ferraries Ambassadours, then of any Frenchmen in the Court, whiche with his pride caused them to disdeine hym, and to thinke that he fauored not the Frenche kyng, but was Imperiall:

MarginaliaThe 6. complaint.I mislike in the Bishop, that there is so great familiaritie and acquaintaunce, yea and such mutuall confidēce betwene the said Byshop and M. as naughtye a felowe, and as very a Papiste as any that I know, where hee dare expresse it. MarginaliaBoner like a true Gospeller, cōplayneth of papistes.The Byshop in his letters to M. Wyat euer sendeth speciall commendations to Mason, and yet refuseth to send any to M. Heynes and me, beyng with M. Wyat, as we perceiued by the sayd letters. And Mason maketh such foundation of the Bishop, that he thinketh there is none such. And he telled me at Villa Franca, that the Bishop, vppon a tyme, when hee had fallen out with Germaine, so trusted him, that wepyng and sobbing he came vnto him, desiryng and praying him that hee would speake with Germaine and reconcile him, so that no wordes were spoken of it, and what the matter was, hee would not tell me. MarginaliaVVinchester suspected of vntrue dealing.That young folowe Germaine knoweth all, and Preston whiche is seruaunt to the Byshop of Winchester shewed me one night in my chāber at Bloys after supper, that Germaine is euer busy in shewyng the kynges letters to straungers, and that hee hym selfe hath giuen him warning therof. This thing Preston tolde me the night before that þ^e Byshop departed hence, and when I would haue more of him therin, he consideryng how the Byshop and I stode, kept him more close and would say no further.

MarginaliaVj. things in the foresayd declaration to be noted.In this declaration of Doct. Edmund Boner sent to the Lord Cromwell aboue prefixed, diuers thinges we haue to note:MarginaliaThe rancour and pride of Steuen Gardiner.Fyrst as touching Steuen Gardiner, Byshop of Wint. here we haue a playne demonstration of his vile nature, and pestilent pride, ioyned with malice, and disdayne intolerable: wherof worthely cōplayneth Doct. Boner aforesayd, shewing. 6. speciall causes, why and wherfore he misliketh that person, according as he was wylled before by the kings cōmaundement, so to do.

Marginalia2.
Steuen Gardiner reuolteth to papistry.Secondly, in the said Steuen Wint. this we haue also to note and vnderstand, that as he here declareth a secret inclination from the truth (which he defended before in hys booke De obedientia) to papistrie, ioynyng parte and side with such as were knowen Pa-