MarginaliaAn. 1555. May.ctrines sake, that in his readyng they cut and mangled his gowne with their kniues. This Cardmaker being apprehended in the begynnyng of Queene Maryes reigne with M. Barlow Byshop of Bath, was brought to London  

and layd in prison in the Fleete,MarginaliaCardmaker with Maister Barlow apprehended, and layd in the Fleete. kyng Edwardes lawes yet beyng in force.   But after the Parlament was ended, in which the Pope was agayne admitted as supreme head of the Church, and þ^e Byshops had also gotten power and authoritie, Ex officio,   to exercise their tyranny: these two were both brought before Winchester Chauncellour, and others appointed by commission (as before is mencioned) to examine the faith of such as were thē prisoners, and as vnto others before, so now vnto them, þ^e Chauncellour offered the Queenes mercy, if they would agree and be conformable. &c.

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MarginaliaBarlow and Cardmaker acceptable of Winchester as catholickes.To this they both made such an aunswere,  

as the Chauncelour with his felow Commissioners allowed thē for Catholicke. Whether they of weakenes so aunswered, or he of subtilitie would so vnderstand theyr aunswere, that he might haue some forged example of a shrinkyng brother, to lay in the dishe of the rest which were to be examined, it may easily be perceiued by this, that to all them which folowed in examination, he obiected the example of Barlow and Cardmaker, cōmendyng their sobernes, discretion, & learnyng. But what soeuer their aunswere was, yet notwithstandyng Barlow was led agayne to the Fleete, MarginaliaM. Barlow exiled for the truth.from whence he afterward beyng dileuered, did by exile constantly beare witnes to the truth of Christes Gospell.   Cardmaker was conueyed to the Counter in Breadstreete, the Byshop of London procuryng it to be published, that he should shortly be deliuered, after that he had subscribed to transubstantiation and certaine other Articles.

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To the same prison where Cardmaker was, Laurence Saunders was brought (after þ^e sentence of excōmunication & condemnation, was pronounced against hym) MarginaliaConference betwene Laurence Saunders, and Iohn Cardmaker.where these ij. prisoners had such Christian conference, that whatsoeuer the breath of the Byshops blustered, and the tickle eares of the people to lightly beleued,  

in the end they both shewed them selues constant confessours, and worthy Martyrs of Christ: as of Laurence Saunders it is already written. After whose departure, Cardmaker remayned there prisoner, to be bayted of the Papistes, which would needes seeme to haue a certaine hope that Cardmaker was become theirs. Continuall and great conferēce diuers of them had with him, with reasoninges, persuadynges, threatnynges, and all to none effect. To the end that their doynges might appeare, he required them to put their reasons in writyng, and promised by writyng to aunswere them.

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MarginaliaD. Martin writeth against Cardmaker.Doctour Martine, who bare also a part in those pageants, tooke vpon him to be the chief doer by writyng, whose long vnsauerie letters & simple reasons for transubstantiation, and such Papisticall trash, this Cardmaker aunswered largely, learnedly, and substancially, confutyng the same, openyng the falshode of his Argumentes, and deliueryng the sentences of the fathers (which Martin abused for his purpose) to their true vnderstandyng: which his aunsweres I woulde had come to our handes. Thus constantly abode this man of God all the enemies doings, as he did also the death which hee suffred in Smithfield in London. Wherof ye shall heare more anone: but first we will suruey þ^e matter and maner of his Articles obiected agaynst him by Byshop Boner, with his aunsweres annexed to the same, as consequently here vnder foloweth.

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MarginaliaMay. 24. Articles ministred agaynst I. Cardmaker, by the Byshop of London.FIrst, I Edmund bishop of London, obiect against thee Syr Iohn Taylour alias Cardmaker, that thou wast and art of the citie and dioces of London, and so of the iurisdiction of me Edmund bishop of London.

Item, that thou in times past diddest professe the rule of S. Fraunces, and diddest by vow promise to keepe po-

uertie, chastitie, and obedience, according to the rule of S. Fraunces.MarginaliaIoh. Cardmaker first an obseruant Fryer.

Item that thou in times past diddest receyue al the orders of the church then vsed, to wyt, tam maiores, quam minores.

Item, that thou after thy sayd entry into religion and profession, and orders aforesayd, MarginaliaIoh. Cardmaker maryed.dyddest take to wyfe a wydow, and with her haddest carnall copulation, and diddest get of her a woman childe, breakyng thereby thy vow and order, and also the ordinance of the church.

Item, that thou hast beleued and taught, and so doest beleue that in the sacrament of the aultar vnder the visible signes there: that is to saye, vnder the formes of bread and wine, there is really and truly the true & very natural body and bloud of our sauiour Iesus Christ.

Item, that the beliefe of the catholicke church is, MarginaliaThe belief of the Popes Catholicke Church.that in hauyng the body and bloud of Christ really and truly conteined in the sacrament of the aultar, is to haue (by the omnipotent power of almighty God) the body and bloud of Christ there inuisibly, and really present vnder the sayd sacrament, and not to make thereby a new God or a new Christ, or a new body of Christ.

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Item, that it may stand well together, and so is the fayth of the catholicke church: MarginaliaTo speake naturally of the naturall body of Christ, these ij. can not stand together at one tyme, vnles we graunt Christ to haue two bodyes.that the body of Christ is visibly and truly ascended into heauen, and there is in the visible forme of his humanitie: and yet the same body in substance is inuisibly and trulye contayned in the sayd sacrament of the aultar.

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Item, that Christ at hys last Supper, taking bread into his handes, blessing it, breaking it, geuyng it to hys Apostels, and saying: Take, eate, this is my body, did institute a sacrament there, *Marginalia* That Christ neuer willed, neither can the scriptures beare it. wylling that hys body really & truly should bee contained in the sayd Sacrament, no substaunce of bread and wyne there remayning, but onelye the accidentes thereof.

[Back to Top]MarginaliaIoh. Cardmaker answereth to the articles.

TO the first article he aunswereth and confesseth the same to be true in euery part thereof.

To the second article he aūswereth and confesseth, that he being vnder age, did professe the sayd order and religion, and afterward by the autority of king Henry the. viij. he was dispensed with for the same religion.  

To the third he aunswereth and confesseth the same to be true in euery part thereof.

To the fourth he answereth and confesseth the first part therof to be true: and to þ^e second part of the same article, he aunswereth and sayth, that in mariage hee brake no vow, because hee was set at libertye to mary, both by the lawes of this realme, and also by the lawes and ordinances of the church of the same.

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To the fift he aunswereth & confesseth, that he hath beleued and taught as it is cōtained in thys article, but hee doth not now so beleue nor teach.

To the sixt he aunswereth, that he doth not beleue the same to be true in any part thereof.

To the seuenth he aunswereth, that he doth not beleue the same to be true in any part thereof.

To the eight he aunswereth, and doth beleue, videlicet, MarginaliaThe first part of this article is true: the second is false.that it is true, that is to say: that Christ taking bread at hys last supper into hys handes, blessing it, breaking it, geuing it to his disciples, and saying: Take, eate, this is my body, did institute a sacrament there. And to the other part of this article videlicet (wylling that hys body really and truely should bee contayned in the sayd sacrament, no substance of bread and wyne there remayning, but onely the accidents thereof) hee aunswereth that he doth not beleue the same to be true.

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By me Iohn Cardmaker.

Maister Cardmaker calling to mynde afterwardes the ready cauillinges of the Papists, and thinking him selfe not to haue fully and according to hys true meaning aunswered the latter part of the last eight article, dyd the next day after the foresayd aunsweres, exhibite vnto the bishop in a schedule this hereafter following.

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MarginaliaA more full answere to the second part of the eight article.Where  

in my aunswer to your articles, I deny the presence of Christ in the sacramēt, I meane not his sacramentall presence, for that I confesse: but my deniall is of hys carnall presence in the same: but yet far-