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Maister Latimer purgeth hym selfe agaynst Boner.teine dayes after, he euer knew or spake with Hoper: And as touchyng his owne preachyng there openly accused by the Byshop, he sayd hee neuer held, taught, or preached any thyng concernyng the blessed Sacramēt, otherwise then he ought to do, nor otherwise then accordyng to the Scriptures, and true Catholicke fayth of Christes Church: and therfore offered him selfe to be tryed by the Archbyshop or other such learned men as it should please the kynges Maiestie, or the sayd Commissioners to appointe: and farther to suffer to be hanged, drawen, and quartered, if the Byshop could iustly proue the things that he had there shamefully lay to his charge. Then M. Hooper vpon like lycence obtained, sayd to this effect.

MarginaliaMaister Hooper cleareth hym selfe agaynst the false sclaūder of Boner.Thys vngodly man (pointing to the bishop) hath most vncharitably and vngodly accused me before your Grace and this audience, and hath layde to my charge that I am an hereticke. Whereas I take God to record, I neuer spake, read, taught, or preached any heresie, but onely the most true and pure worde of God. And where he sayth I frequent the company of heretickes, I doo much marueil of hys so saying, for it hath pleased my Lord Protectors grace, my singular good Lord and Maister, and my Ladies Grace to haue me with them, and I haue preached before them, & much vsed their company, wyth diuers other worshipful persons, and therefore I suppose this man meaneth them. And farther, where as he sayth that I haue made hereticall bookes agaynst the blessed sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ, calling it mathematicall, I perceiue that thys man knoweth not what thys word mathematicall there meaneth, MarginaliaThys terme Mathematycall is referred of Maister Hooper not to the substaunce of Christes bodye vpon the Crosse, but to the Papisticall accidence without substance vpon the altar.and therfore vnderstandeth not my booke: which I take God to my Iudge, I haue made truly, sincerely, and according to hys holy woord: and by the same hys holy word and scriptures I am alwayes and shall bee ready to submitte my selfe to your Graces iudgement, and the superiour powers to bee tryed: with many such more words of like importance.

MarginaliaThe Archbyshop.Which ended, the Archbishop to shorten this matter, asked the Bishop how he could proue, that Hooper and Latymer assembled together against hym that first of September, as he had alledged, seing they nowe denyed it, and therefore wylled hym to aunswere foorthwith thereunto.

MarginaliaBoner.The Bishop then aunswered that he woulde duely proue it, so that he might be admitted to doo it according to law, and with that he pulled out of hys sleeue certaine bookes, saying: I haue this varlets bookes whych he made against the blessed sacrament, whych you shall heare. Then as hee was turning certayne leaues thereof, Hooper began agayne to speake, MarginaliaBoner chargeth Maister Hooper of heresye.but þ^e bishop turning him selfe towardes him, tauntingly said, put vp your pipes, you haue spoken for your part, I wyll meddle no more with you, and therewith read a certaine sentence vpon the booke. Which done, he sayd: Lo here you may see hys opinion, and what it is.

MarginaliaThe people laugh Boenr to scorne.At which wordes the people standing behynde, and seing hys vnreuerent and vnseemely demeanour and rayling, fell sodainly into a great laughing. Whereat the bishop being moued, and perceauing not the cause wherefore they dyd so laugh, MarginaliaBoner calleth the people Woodcockes.turned hym towardes thē in a great rage saying: ah Woodcocks, woodcocks.

Then sayd one of the Commissioners, why say you so my Lord? Marye quoth hee, I maye well call them Woodcockes that thus wil laugh, and know not wherat, nor yet heard what I sayd or read.

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Boner would make the people falsly beleue that hee was called for hys opinion in the sacrament.Well my Lorde of London, sayd the Archbishop, then I perceiue you would perswade this audiēce that you were called hither for preaching of your beliefe in the sacrament of the aultar, and therefore you lay to these mens charge (meaning Hooper and Latymer) that they haue accused you of that. Howbeit there is no such thing layd to your charge, and therefore thys audience shall heare openly read the denunciation that is put vp against you, to the entent they maye the bet-ter perceiue your dealing herein. And there wythall he sayde vnto the people: MarginaliaThe wordes of the Archbishop to the people.My Lorde of London woulde make you beleue that he is called hether for declaring and preaching his opinion touching the sacrament of the aultar, but to the entent you may perceaue how he goeth about to deceiue you, you shall heare the denunciation that is layd in against him read vnto you, and therupon he deliuered the denūciation vnto MarginaliaSyr Iohn Mason readeth the denunciation vnto the people.Syr Iohn Mason knight, who there read it openly. Which done, the Archbishop sayd agayne vnto the audience: Loe, here you heare how the bishop of London is called for no such matter as he would perswade you.

MarginaliaBoner in a rage.With this the bishop being in a raging heate, as one cleane voyde of all humanitie, turned himselfe about vnto the people, saying: Well, nowe heare what the bishop of London sayth for hys part. MarginaliaBoner for hys contumacie not suffered to speake to the people.But the commissioners seing his inordinate contumacie, denyed hym to speake any more, saying that he vsed him selfe verye disobediently: with moe like wordes.

MarginaliaBoner chargeth the Archbyshop with contrarietie in hys owne bookes.Notwithstanding he styll persisting in his vnreuerent maner of dealing with the Commissioners, pulled out of hys sleeue an other booke, and then sayd vnto the Archbishop: My Lord of Canterbury, I haue here a note out of your bookes that you made touching the blessed sacrament, wherein you do affirme the veritye of the body and bloud of Christ to be in the sacrament, and I haue an other booke also of yours of the contrary opinion: which is a marueilous matter.

MarginaliaThe Archbishop purgeth hym selfe and hys bookes.To which the Archbishop aunswered, that he made no bookes contrary one to an other, and that he would defend his bookes, how beit he thought the bishop vnderstood them not: For I promise you quoth he, I wyll finde a boy of ten yeares old, that shall be more apt to vnderstand that matter, then you my L. of London be.

Thus after much multiplying of like wordes, the Commissioners thinking not good to spende any more waste time with him, MarginaliaBoner commaunded to aunswere to the Articles.wylled him to shew forth hys answers vnto the articles obiected þ^e last day agaynst him. Wherupon he hauing them ready, did reade the same openly vnto them. Wherein after manye wordes of hys former protestation recited, with a marueilous lamentation, to see that one of hys vocation, at the malicious denunciation of vile heretickes, shoulde be so vsed after such a straunge sort, hauing neuertheles done the best he could to declare his obedience vnto the kinges Maiestie for the repressing and discouraging of rebellion and all rebells, and also for the aduauncement of the verity of Christes true body and hys presence in the sacrament of the aultar, for which onely the malicious denouncers wyth their complices had studyed to molest and trouble him, MarginaliaBoner aunswereth to the Articles.he then cōmeth to aunswering the articles & sayth, that to the first, second, and fourth he hath already in hys former answers to the denunciation sufficiently aunswered, & therfore was not bound by law to aunswere any farther.

As to the third and fift hee sayd, hee began to write his Sermon, but beyng soone wery, did onely make certeine notes therof without helpe of any other, sauyng that he shewed them to his Chapleyns requiryng thē to put him in remēbraunce therof: amongest the which for the better setting forth of þ^e kyngs Maiesties power and authoritie in his minoritie, hee had collected aswell out of histories, as also out of the Scriptures, þ^e names of diuers young kynges, who notwithstandyng their minoritie were faithfully and obediently honored and reputed for very true and lawfull kynges: MarginaliaExamples of kinges that were younge, and yet sufficient kinges.As Henry 3. beyng but 9. yeares olde, Edward 3. beyng but 13. yeares, Richard 2. beyng but 11. yeares. Henry 6. being not fully one yere, Edward 5. being but 11. yeare, Henry 8. beyng but 18. yeares of age. And out of the old Testament, Osias and Achas, who were but 16. yeares olde, Salamon and Manasses, beyng but 12. yeares, Iosias, Ioachim and Ioas, beyng but 8. yeares of age when they entred their reignes. MarginaliaBoner excuseth hys obliuion.All which with many other he had purposed to declare if they had