MarginaliaTalke betwene M. Bradford and a certayne Gētlewomās seruaunt.THis Seruant or messenger of the foresayd Gentlewoman cōming to Maister Bradford, and taking hym by the hand sayd: God be thanked for you. How doe you?

Brad. Maister Bradford aunswered: Wel I thāke God. For as mē in sayling, which be neare to the shore or hauen where they woulde be, would be nearer: euen so the nearer I am to God, the nearer I would be.

Seruant. Syr, I haue neuer seene you so strong and healthsome of body, as me thinke you be now, God be thanked for it.

Brad. Why quoth he, I haue geuen ouer al care and study, and onely do I couet to be talking with him, whō I haue alwayes studied to be withall.

Seru. Well, God hath done much for you, since the tyme that I first knew you, and hath wrought wonderously in you, to hys glory.

Brad. Truth it is, for he hath delt fauourably wyth me, in that he hath not punished me according to my sinnes, but hath suffered me to lyue, that I myght seeke repentaunce.

Seru. Truly we heare say there is a rod made so greuous, out of the which I thinke no man shall plucke hys head.

Brad. Well, let all that be of Christes flocke, arme them selues to suffer, for I thinke verely, God wyll not haue one of hys to escape vntouched, if he loue him, let them seeke what meanes or wayes they can.

Seru. Well Sir, there goeth a talke of a MarginaliaBy thys fryer, he meaneth Alphōsus mentioned before pag. 1705.Frier that should preach before the King, and shoulde tell hym that he should be gilty of the innocent bloud that hath bene shed of late.

Brad. Verely, quoth Bradford, I had a booke wythin these two dayes of hys writing, and therin he saith that it is not meete nor conuenient that the heretickes should lyue: and therefore I haue maruell how that talke should rise, for I haue heard of it also, and I haue also talked with this Frier (he is named Frier MarginaliaAlphōsus otherwise called in the vulgar speach frier Fonse.Fonse) and with diuers other, and I prayse God they haue cōfirmed me: for they haue nothing to say but that which is most vayne.

Seru. Syr, Father Cardmaker hath hym commended vnto you.

Brad. How doth he? how doth he?

Seru. Well, God be thanked.

Brad. I am very glad thereof: for in deede my lord Chauncellour did cast *Marginalia* Of this, read Pag. 1784. him in my teeth, but as Dauid sayth, God hath disapointed him.

Seru. Forsooth, Gods name be praysed, hee is very strong.

Brad. And I trust so are we. What els? our quarell is most iust: therefore let vs not bee afeard.

Seru. My Maistres hath her recōmended vnto you.

Brad. How doth she?

Seru. Well, God be praysed, but she hath bene sorer afflicted with her own father and mother, then euer you were with your imprisonment, and yet God hath preserued her, I trust, to hys glory.

Brad. I pray you tell her, MarginaliaA story of a faythfull woman and Martyr in the primitiue Church called Iuleddo. Ex Basilio.I red this day a goodly history written by Basilius Magnus of a vertuous woman which was a widdow, and was named Iuleddo. She had great landes, and many childrē, and nigh her dwelled a Cormorant, which for her vertuousnes and godly liuing had great indignation at her, and of verye malice he tooke away her landes, so that shee was constrained to go to the law with him: and in conclusion the matter came to the tryal before the Iudge, who demaunded of this Tirant why he wrongfully withheld these landes from this woman. Hee made aunswere and sayd: he might so do, for (sayth he) this woman is disobedient to the kinges proceedinges: for she wyll in no wyse worship hys Gods, nor offer sacrifice vnto them. Then the Iudge hearing that, sayde vnto her:

Woman, if this be true, thou art not onely like to loose thy land, but also thy lyfe, vnles that thou worshyp our Gods, and do sacrifice vnto them. This godly woman hearing that, stept me forth to the Iudge and sayd: Is ther no remedy, but either to worship your false gods, or els to lose my landes and lyfe? then farewell suite, farewell landes, farewell children, farewell frendes, yea and farewell lyfe to: and in respect of the true honor of the euerliuing God, farewell all. And with that saying dyd the Iudge commit her to prison, and afterward she suffered most cruell death: and being brought to the place of execution, she exhorted all women to be strong and constant. For (sayth shee) ye were redeemed with as deare a price as men. For although ye were made of the ryb of the man, yet be you also of hys flesh: so that also in the case and triall of your fayth towardes God, ye ought to be as strong. MarginaliaExample of Iuleddo Martyr.And thus dyed she constantly, not fearyng death. I pray you tel your Maistres of thys history.

Seru. That shall I Syr by Gods grace: for she told me that she was with you and M. Saunders, and receiued your gentle counsell.

Brad. We neuer gaue her other counsell but the truth, & in wytnes thereof we haue & will seale it wyth our blouds. For I thought this night that I had bene sent for, because at a. xj. of the clocke there was such rapping at the doore.

Then aunswered a Mayde and sayd: why then I perceyue you were afrayde.

Brad. Ye shall heare howe fearefull I was. MarginaliaM. Bradford nothing afrayd of death.For I considered that I had not slept, and I thought to take a nap before I went: and after I was a sleepe, these men came into the next chamber, and sang,MarginaliaIt may be that this noyse was sent in of purpose by the B. to keepe Bradford from slepe. as it was told me, and yet for all my fearefulnes I heard them not: therefore belyke I was not afrayd, that slept so fast.

Seru. Do you lacke any thing toward your necessitie?

Brad. Nothing but your praiers, and I trust I haue them, and you myne.

Seru. I saw a Priest come to you to day in the morning.

Brad. Yea, he brought me a letter from a Friar, and I am writing an aunswer.

Seru. Then we let you, therefore the liuing God be with you.

Brad. And wyth you also, and blesse you.

Seru. Amen sayd we, and gaue hym thankes, and departed.

THus still in prison continued Bradford, vntill the moneth of Iuly, in such labours & suffringes as he before alwayes had sustained in prison. MarginaliaM. Bradford had from the Counter to Newgate by night.But when the time of his determined death was come, he was sodeinly conueyed out of the Coūter where he was prisoner, in the night season to Newgate as afore is declared, & frō thence he was caryed the next mornyng to Smithfield, where he constantly abidyng in the same truth of God, which before hee had confessed, earnestly exhortyng the people to repent and to returne to Christ, and sweetely comfortyng the godly young springall of xix. or xx. yeares old, which was burned with him, cherefully he ended his painfull life, to liue with Christ.

WIth whō also was burnt one MarginaliaIohn Leafe felow Martyr with Maister Bradford.Iohn Leafe, an apprentice to Humfrey Gawdy Tallow Chaundelour, of the Parish of Christes Church in London, of the age of xix. yeares & aboue, borne at Kirkeby moreside, in the County of Yorke: who vpō the Friday next before Palme Sonday MarginaliaIohn Leafe of the parish of Christchurch, by the Alderman of that ward committed to prison.was committed to the Counter in Bredstreete by an Aldermā of London, who had rule and charge of that Warde or part of the City, where the sayd Leafe did dwell. After, he commyng to examination before Boner, gaue a firme and Christian testi-