Marginalia1550.haue done, where as els if I had had a deceitfull purpose, I might haue accepted the aduise, and wythout anye colour of trouble haue refused to followe it as a thyng grounded vpon wealth onely, as it was then vttered.

Wyth thys my answer maister Cicill departed, and vpon the Thursday, which was the next day following and the euening before I preached, betwene three and foure at after noone I receiued a letter signed with the hand of the Duke of Somerset (the copy wherof I am ready to exhibite) and tooke it then, and esteeme it so now to continue no effectuall inhibition whereunto I might by Gods law or the kinges Maiesties lawes with discharge of my conscience and dutie obey, although the sayd letters had bene (as they were not) in such termes framed, as had precisely forbydden me (as they did not) but onely to speake of matters in controuersye of the Sacrament, which in deede I did not, but onely vttered a truth, to my conscience most certainly perswaded of þ^e most holy sacrament, necessary to bee knowen to the kings Maiestie, and to bee vttered by me admitted to that place of preaching, from whence God commaundeth hys truth to be vttered, MarginaliaS. Paule threatneth death to the misusers of the Sacramēt: Ergo the reall presence of Christ is in the Sacrament. Nego argumentū.which in thys nature of truth (the vndue estimation and vse wherof S. Paule threatneth wyth temporall death) may in no wyse be omitted. So as I was and am perswaded the right estimation of the sacrament to be to acknowledge the very presence of the same most precious body and bloud present in the sacrament to feede vs, that was geuē to redeme vs. If I shewed not my soueraigne Lord the truth thereof, I for my part suffer hym wittingly to fall into that extreame daunger of body, which saint Paule threatneth, whose person I am bound by nature, by speciall othes, by Gods lawes, to preserue to my power, as I wil do, and must do by all wayes & meanes.

And if the kinges Maiestye doth vouchsafe to teach hys people not to obey hys commaundement, where God commaundeth the contrary, I myght not take my Lorde of Somersets letter for an inhibition to holde my peace, when God biddeth me speake, as he doth when the Woolfe commeth, and not to hyde my selfe in silēce, whych is the most shamefull running awaye of all.MarginaliaAnd why would not Winchest. alowe thys reason in other in Queene Maryes tyme, speakyng the worde of truth, after their conscience, cōtrary to his inhibition? I haue much matter to alledge agaynst that letter, why I should not credit it, written in hys name alone, agaynst a common letter (as I tooke it) written by hym and the Counsail, and published in print the first day of the said moneth, which mayntayneth my preaching of the Sacrament and Masse, according to the proclamatiōs and Iniunctions: the violation of which publicke letters had bene a disorder and contempt, where as I neither offended in the one nor the other.

And as for tumult, none could reasonably be feared of any thing spoken agreable wyth the kings maiesties lawes, as there dyd follow none, nor the people, or any man dyd offer my person any wrong, or make tumult agaynst me, MarginaliaWinchest. agaynst plaiers and ballade makers.notwithstanding Players, Iesters, Rimers, ballade makers, did signifie me to be of that true catholicke fayth, whych I according to my dutye declared to the kinges Maiesty, from whom I may hyde no truth that I thinke expedient for hym to knowe. And as the name of God cannot bee vsed of any creature agaynst God, no more can the kinges name, being vsed of any subiect agaynst his hyghnes. Wherefore seyng the abuse of this holy sacrament hath in it a daunger assured by scripture of body and soule, whosoeuer is perswaded in the catholicke faith (as I am) findeth himself so burdened to vtter that vnto hys Maiestye, as no worldly losse can let him to do hys duty in that behalfe, and much lesse my Lords priuate lettters written without other of the Counsailes handes.

Marginalia11. Article.Item, that after the premisses, videlicet in the moneth of May or Iune, or one of them, in the third yeare of his highnes raigne, hys Maiesty sent eftsoones vnto you to know your conformity towards hys sayd reformations,and specially touching the booke of common praier, then lately set foorth by hys Maiestye, whereunto you at the same tyme refused to shew your selfe conformable.

MarginaliaAunswere to the 11. Article.To the. xj. article for aunswere and declaration therof, hee sayd: the nexte day at after noone, after hee had preached, when he looked for no suche matter, MarginaliaSyr Anthony Windfield and Syr Rafe Sadler sent to Winchester.came to hys house the right worshipfull Syr Anthony Wyngfield & Syr Rafe Salder knightes, accompanied with a great nomber of the Gard, and vsing them selues for theyr part accordig to theyr worships, & (I doubt not) as they were appoynted, Syr Rafe Sadler began thus wyth me: My Lord (sayd hee) ye preached yesterday obedience, but ye did not obey your selfe, and went forth with hys message very soberly as hee can, and discretely. I asked hym wherein I obeyed not. Hee sayd, touching my Lorde of Somersets letter. Maister Sadler, quoth I, I pray you say to my Lords Grace, I woulde hee neuer made mention of that letter, for the loue I beare hym. And yet quoth I, I haue not broken that letter, and I was minded, quoth I, to haue wrytten to my Lord vpō the receipt of it, and loe, quoth I, ye may see how I began, and shewed him (because we were then in my study) the beginning of my letter, and reasoned wyth hym for declaration of my selfe, and tolde hym therwith, I wyll not spend, quoth I, many words wyth you, for I can not alter this determination. And yet in good faith, quoth I, my maner to you, and this declaration may haue this effect, that I bee gently handeled in the prison, and for that purpose I pray you, make sute on my behalfe.

MarginaliaWinchester arested.Maister Wingfield layd hys hand on my shoulder, and arested me in the kinges name for disobedience. I asked then whither I should. MarginaliaWinchester commited to the Tower.They sayd to the Tower. Finally I desired them that I might be spoken wyth shortly, & heard what I could say for my selfe, & prayed them to be suters in it, and so they sayd they would.

After that I was once in the Tower, vntill it was within vj. dayes of one whole yeare, I coulde heare no maner worde, message, comfort, or reliefe, sauyng once when I was sicke, and me thought some extremitie towardes me. My Chaplein had licence to come to me for one tyme, and then denyed agayne, beyng aunswered that my feuer was but a tertian, which my sayd Chaplaine told me when he came to me at the Easter folowyng, and there beyng with me from the mornyng till night on Easter day departed, & for no sute could neuer haue hym since. To master Lieftenant I made diuers sutes to prouoke þ^e Duke of Somersets grace to heare me. And if I might haue the libertie of an English mā, I would plainly declare I had neither offended law, statute, act, proclamation nor his owne letter neither, but all would not helpe, and I shall reporte me to master Lieftenaunt whether in all this time I maligned, grudged or vsed any vnsemely wordes, euer demaundyng iustice, and to be heard according to Iustice.

MarginaliaThe Lord Chauncellour and Secretary Peter commeth to Winchester in the Tower.When I had bene thus in the Tower one whole yeare within vj. dayes, or vij. as I remember, came to the Tower the Lord Chauncellour of England now beyng the Lord Treasurer, and Maister Secretary Peter, who callyng me vnto them, as I remember, entred this: They sayd they had brought with thē a booke passed by the Parliament, which they would I shoulde looke on and say my minde to it, and vppon my conformitie in it, my Lord of Somerset would be suter to the kings Maiestie for mercy to be ministred to me. Wherunto I aūswered that I trusted if I might be heard, the Kynges Maiesties iustice would releue me, which I had long sued for, & coulde not be heard. MarginaliaWinchester denyeth to sue for mercy.And to sue for mercy, quoth I, whē I haue not in my conscience offēded, & also to sue out of this place, where asking of mercy emploieth a further suspition thē I would be for al þ^e world touched in it, were not expedient. And therfore, quoth I, not gilty is and hath bene allowed a good plee for a prisoner. Thē my Lord said, why, quoth he, were