Marginalia37. Article.37 Some textes of Canon law suffreth warre, but the teachyng of Christ forbyddeth all warres. Neuertheles when a Citie is besieged, or a coūtrey inuaded, the Lord of the countrey is bounde to put hys lyfe in ieopardy for hys subiectes. fol. 118.

Marginalia38. Article.38 So a Lord may vse horrible warre charitably and Christianly. fol. 119.

As touchyng warre, to bee moued or styrred first of our partes agaynst any people or countrey vpon any rash cause, as ambition, malice, or reuenge, the Gospell of Christ geueth vs no such sworde to fight withall. MarginaliaHow Christians may warre lawfully.Notwithstandyng for defence of countrey and subiectes, the Magistrate being inuaded or prouoked by other, may lawfully, and is bound to doe hys best, as the Citie of Marpurgh dyd well in defendyng it selfe agaynst the Emperour. &c.

Marginalia39. Article.39 The Gospell maketh all true Christen men seruants to all the world. fol. 79.

MarginaliaCraftye cogging in this article.He that compiled this article, craftely to make the matter to appeare more haynous, leaueth out the latter parte, which should expound the other, that is, by the rule of charitie: for that the author addeth wythall. By which rule of charity, & not of office & duty, euery Christen man is boūd one to helpe an other, as Christ him selfe beyng Lord of all, yet of charity was as seruant to euery man, to do him good. Reade the place of the summe of the Scripture, in the page as in the article it is assigned.

Marginalia40. Article.40 The Gospell is written for all personnes, estates, Prince, Duke, Pope, Emperour. fol. 112.

They which noted thys Article for an heresie, I suppose coulde little tell eyther what God, or what the Scripture meaneth.

Marginalia41. Article.41 When Iudges haue hope that an euill doer will amend, they must be alwayes mercyfull, as Christ was to the woman taken in aduoutry. The temporall law must obey the Gospell, and them that we may amend by warnyng, we shall not correct by iustice. fol. 113.

The purpose of the booke, whence this article is wrasted, being wel vnderstand, intendeth not to binde temporal Iudges and Magistrates from due execution of good lawes, but putteth both them, and especiall spirituall Iudges, in remembraunce by the example of Christ, to discerne who be penitent offenders, and who be otherwyse, and where they see euident hope of earnest repentance & amendment, if they be ecclesiasticall Iudges, to spare thē: if they be ciuill Magistrats, yet to temper the rigour of the law (as much as they conueniently may) wyth mercyfull moderation, which the Grekes doo call xxx.

And thus much hitherto of these heresies and articles collected by the Bishops, and inserted in their own Registers, out of þ^e bokes aboue specified. The names of the Byshops and collectors were these: Syr Thomas More Lorde Chauncellour, William Warrham Archb. of Cant. Tonstall Byshop of London, Steuen Gardiner Byshop of Winchester, Richard Sampson Deane of the Chappel, Rich. Wolman Maister of Requestes, Ioh. Bell, D. Wilson, with a great nūber moe, as in the Registers doth appeare. Ex Regist. Cant. & Londinensi.

MarginaliaTruth maliciously sclaundered and depraued of the Papistes.I shall not nede I trusty (gentle reader) further here to tary thee with recityng mo places: when these already rehearsed may suffice for a tast and a triall for thee sufficient, to note and consider how falsely and most sclaunderously these Catholickes haue depraued, and misreported the bookes and writynges of good men. Who might almost gather heresies aswell of S. Iohn Gospell, & S. Pauls Epistles, as out of these places. Thus may we see what can not malice do, beyng set on mischief? or what can not the spirite of spite and cauillyng find out, beyng inflamed with hatred, and blowen with the bellowes of ambition and iniquitie? And as they haue done with these, the lyke partes they haue & do practise still against all other, MarginaliaThe popes crowne, & the monkes bellies, two perilous thinges to be touched.who soeuer in defense of truth, dare touch neuer so litle either the Popes crowne, or the belyes of his Clergie: for these ij. sores in no case they cā abide to be touched. And hereof only commeth all this crying out, heresie, heresie, blasphemie, errour, and schisme. Although the doctrine bee neuer so sounde and perfect after the Scripture, yet if the writer be not such in all poyntes (especially in these ij. aboue touched) as wil sing after their tune, & daunse after their pype, he is by and by an hereticke, by vertue of their Inquisition. MarginaliaThe Popes Church vpholden with lying and cauilling.So did they with the Articles of the learned Earle Ioannes Picus Mirandula. So dyd they with Iohn Reueline or Capnion. So dyd they also with good Iohn Colet here in Englād. Also with the lyke spirite of lying and cauillyng, the Catholicke faculties of Louane, Spayne, and Paris, condemned the workes and writynges of Erasmus, and of many moe. So full they are of censures, Articles, suspicions, offenses, Inquisitions, so captious they be in taking, so rashe in iudging, so sclaunderous of reporte, so practised in deprauyng, misconstruyng and wrastyng true meaninges, into wrong purposes. Briefly, so pregnant they be in findyng heresies where none are, that either a man must say nothyng, or serue their deuotion, or els hee shall procure their displeasure, that is, shall bee deemed for an hereticke. Yea and though no iuste cause of any heresie be ministred, yet where they once take dislykyng, they will not sticke sometymes with false accusations, to presse hym with matter, which hee neuer spake nor thought. If Luther had not styrred agaynst þ^e Popes pardons & authoritie, he had remained still a white sonne of þ^e mother Catholike Church, and all had bene well done, what so euer hee did. But because he aduentured to touch once the triple crown, what floudes of heresies, blasphemies, & articles were cast out against hym, enough to drown a whole world? MarginaliaImpudent lyes vpon M. Luther.what lyes and forged crimes were inuented agaynst hym? Here now commeth Staphylus and furious Surius, with their fraternitie, and saye, that hee learned his Diuinitie of the deuill. Then foloweth an other certeine Chronographer, MarginaliaEx Gilb. Genebrardo.who in his lying story reporteth most falsely that Luther dyed of drōkennes. MarginaliaM. Bucer most shamefullly sclaundered.With lyke malice þ^e sayd Chronographer writeth also of M. Bucer, falsely affirming vpō his informatiō, that he should deny at his death, Christ our Messias to be come. Whē not onely D. Redman whiche preached at his buriall, but also all Englishe men, whiche knew the name of Bucer, did know it to be contrary.

MarginaliaSingleton maliciously sclaundered and condemned of sedition.So was it layd agaynst one Syngleton Chapplein sometyme to Queene Anne Bullen, that hee was the murderer of Packyngton, and afterward, that he was a styrrer vp of sedition and commotion: who also suffered as a traytour for the same. Where in very deede the true cause was for nothyng els, but for preachyng the Gospell vnto the people, whose purpose was euer so farre of from styrryng sedition, that hee neuer once dreamed of any such matter, as hee him selfe declared & protested to one R. Lante his scholer, who is yet alyue and can testifie the truth hereof. But this is no newe practise amongest the Romishe Byshops: MarginaliaRead afore pag. 677.wherof enough hath bene sayd before in the storye of Syr Iohn Oldcastle, and Syr Roger Acton. &c.

MarginaliaMeriall falsely belyed and misreported of the Papistes.An other lyke practise of such malicious sclaūder we find also in one Meriall a Brickleyr, whose name with his abiuration remanieth yet in þ^e Registers of the Byshop of London.

The story is this, and not vnworthy to be remēbred. In the yeare of our Lord. 1534. which was about the first begynnyng of Queene Anne Bullen, at what tyme Purgatory and such trumperye began to grow in contēpt, MarginaliaByshop Stokesleyes Sermon in the Shrudes.Stokesley Byshop of London made a Sermon in the Shrudes vpō the Sonday before May day: Where hee preachyng in the commendation and vertue of Masses, declared to the people that for a litle cost, if they procured Masses to be sayd, wyues might deliuer theyr husbandes, and husbandes their wyues out of the bytter paynes of Purgatory. At this Sermon, besides many other, was Tho. Meriall, a zelous fauourer of gods word: who beyng in the watch on May euen, made relation of these wordes of the Byshop vnto the companie about him. Amongest whom then was one Iohn