Marginalia1555. Iuly.hominibus in quibus est notitia uera, & confessio fidei & veritatis, that is: The church consisteth not in men by reason either of secular or temporall power: but in men indued with true knowledge, and confessiō of faith, and of verity. And in Hilarius time, you know hee writeth to Auxentius, MarginaliaHilarius ad Auxentium.that the Church did rather delitescere in cauernis,  

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Hilarius

Foxe text Latin

delitescere in cauernis ... eminere in primariis sedibus

Foxe text translation

was hidden rather in caues & holes, ... did glister and shine in thrones of preeminence

Actual text of Hilarius

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Hilarius

Foxe text Latin

delitescere in cauernis ... eminere in primariis sedibus

Foxe text translation

was hidden rather in caues & holes, ... did glister and shine in thrones of preeminence

Actual text of Hilarius

[Unable to trace this in PL]

Then came one of their seruauntes and tolde them that my Lord of Duresme taried for them at Maister Yorkes house, and this was after that they had taryed three houres with Bradford. And after that theyr man was come, they put vp their wrytten bookes of cōmon places, and said that they lamented his case: they wylled him to reade ouer a booke, which did Doctor Crome good: and so wishing him good in woordes, they went their way, and poore Bradford to his prison.

MarginaliaThe comming of 2. Spanish friers to Master Bradford.After this cōmunication with the Bishops ended, within two daies following came into the Counter. ij. Spanish Friers to talke with maister Bradford, sent (as they said) by þ^e Earle of Darby. Of whom the one was the kings Confessor: the other was Alphonsus, who had before written a popishe booke agaynst heresies, the effect of which their reasoning here lykewyse followeth.

MarginaliaThe talke betwene certaine friers and M. Bradford.VPon the. xxv. of February, about. viij. of the clocke in the mornyng, two Spanish Friers came to the Counter where Bradford was prisoner: to whom Bardford was called. Then the one Frier, which was the kings Confessor, asked in Latin (for all their talke was in Latin) of Bradford, whether he had not seene nor heard of one Alphonsus that had written against heresies?

Brad. I doo not know him.

Confes. Well thys man (pointing to MarginaliaThis Alphonsus had written a booke before in lattin, agaynst heresies.Alphonsus) is he. We are come to you of loue and charitye, by the meanes of the Earle of Darby, because you desired to conferre wyth vs.

Brad. I neuer desired your cōming, nor to conferre with you, or anye other. But seeing your are come of charity, as you say, I cannot but thanke you: and as touching conference, though I desire it not, yet I wyll not refuse to talke with you, if you will.

Alphon. It were requisite that you did pray vnto God, that ye might follow þ^e direction of Gods spirite, that he would inspire you so that ye bee not addict to your own selfewyll or wyt.

Brad. Whereupon MarginaliaBradford willed to pray, maketh his prayer.Bradford made a prayer, and besought God to direct al their wyls, woordes & works, as the wils, words, and works of his children for euer.

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The pressure of persuasion to which Bradford was subjected in the Counter included, soon after the efforts of the prelates, the weight of the mendicants. They are represented in the way that was customary in the Acts and Monuments as sinister figures whose ugly features betray their evil scheming character. As in the preceding picture of Bradford, barred window and gaol keeper set the scene, and again the leading figures are named. But the atmosphere is very different from the civilised exchanges with the bishops. Bradford is seated, but he is being intimidated and with fixed gaze clings to his book. The gaolor stands threateningly at his side while the ample figure of the ruthless Alphonso lunges towards him, abetted by the hooded figure of King Philip's confessor. The threatening group on the right, specially the sinister central figure, raising his left hand to his cap, seems to be echoed in the two enemies of Gods word pulling a preacher from the puplit, who illustrate 'Envie' in Stephen Bateman's A christall glasse (London, 1569), sig. G4r (a woodcut which seems also to reflect Foxe's woodcut of Thomas Bilney being pulled out of the pulpit). The narrow eyes and broad noses of this popish posse could have been modelled on the features of cruelty as described in the work of physiognomy printed by John Day in 1558.

Alphon. Yea, you must pray with your hart. For if you speake but with toung onely, God will not geue you hys grace.

Brad. Syr, doo not iudge, lest ye bee iuged. You haue heard my wordes, nowe charitye woulde haue you to leaue the iudgement of the hart to God.

Alphon. You must be as it were a neuter, and not wedded to your selfe, but as one standyng in doubt: pray and bee ready to receiue what God shall inspire, for in vaine laboreth our toung to speake els.

MarginaliaNo man ought to be in doubt of his religion.Brad. Syr, my sentence, if you meane it for religion, must not be in a doubting or vncertaine, as I thanke God I am certayne in that for which I am condemned: I haue no cause to doubt of it, but rather to bee

most certaine of it, and therefore I pray God to confirme me more in it. For it is hys truth, and because it is so certaine and true that it may abide the lyght, I dare be bold to haue it looked on, and conferre it with you, or any man: in respect whereof I am both glad of your comming, and thanke you for it.

Alphon. What is the matter wherof you were condemned? we know not.

Brad. Sir I haue ben in prison almost two yeares: I neuer transgressed any of their lawes wherefore I might iustly bee prisoned, MarginaliaThe cause why Maister Bradford was condemned.and now am I condemned onely because I frankely confessed (whereof I repent not) my fayth concerning the sacrament, when I was demaunded in these ij. poyntes: one, that there is no