MarginaliaAn. 1555. Iuly.fragan, and. vij. or. viij. of the chief Priestes, and examined of certaine Articles, and thē I required to see their Commission.MarginaliaSheterden requireth to see the Commission.

They shewed it to me and sayd: there it is and the Kyng and Queenes letter also. Then I desired to haue it read: and so in readyng I perceaued that on some notable suspicion he might examine vppon two Articles: whether CHRISTES real presence were in the Sacrament, and whether the Church of England bee of CHRISTES Catholicke Church.

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To that I aunswered, that MarginaliaSheterden three quarters of a yeare in prison before the law toke place.I had bene a prisoner three quarters of a yeare,  

and as I thought, wrongfully: reason would therfore that I should aunswere to those thinges wherfore I was prisoner.  

Suff. The Suffragan sayd, his Commission was I must aunswere directly yea or nay.

Shet. This Commission (sayd I) was not generall to examine whom he will, but on iust suspicion.

Suf. He sayd: I was suspected, and presēted to him.

Shet. Then I required that the accusation myght be shewed.

Suff. He sayd, he was not bound to shew it, but hee commaunded me in the Kyng and Queenes name to aunswere directly.

Shet. And I as a subiect doe require of you iustice for that I haue done: I aske no fauour.

Suff. He sayd I was suspected.

Shet. I bad him proue that suspicion, or what caue he had to suspect.

Suff. Thou was cast into prison for that cause.Shet. That was a prety suspicion, MarginaliaThe proceedinges of the Papistes were agaynst the law.because I had suffered imprisonment contrary to Gods law and the Realme, that therfore I must now for amendes be examined of suspicion without cause, to hyde all the wrong done to me before. For whē I was cast in prison, there was no law, but I might speake as I did: MarginaliaThe Bishop of Douer a protestant in K. Edwardes time.therefore in that point I coulde bee no more suspecte, then you which preached the same your selfe not long before.

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Suff. That was no matter to thee what I preached.

Shet. Well, yet in the Kyng and Queenes name I must aunswere directly: and therfore I require, as a subiect that ye do not extend beyond your Commission, but proue me suspect, more then you your selfe.

Milles. Then sayd M. Milles, I had written to my mother, and he did see the letter wherein I persuaded my mother to my opinions.

Shet. In that I did but my duty, to certifie her I was not in prison for any euill And that was before the law also, and therfore no more suspicion was in me, then was in them which taught the lyke.

Mil. Well, ye are required here to aunswere directly yea or no.

Shet. First then I require of you to proue his suspicion: and thus we tossed two and fro. At last the Byshop sayd he hym selfe did suspect me. I asked wherby?

Suff. Well, sayd he, I my self did suspect thee, and it is no matter wherby.

Shet. But your Commission doth not serue you so to do without iust suspicion.

Suff. Well, yet did I suspect you.

Shet. It is not meete for you to be my accuser and my iudge also: for that was to much for one mā. And thus many wordes were multiplied, and they were much greeued.

Milles. If you were a Christian man you would not be ashamed of your fayth beyng required.

Shet. I am not ashamed in deede, I thanke God, and if any man do come to me, either to teach or to learne I would declare it, but for as much as I perceaue you come neither to teach nor to learne, I hold best not to aunswere you.

MarginaliaVpon this it appeareth the letters were written to the B. of Winchester, by whom he was sent for after and examined.Myls. If you wyll not, then will we certify the kings Counsell.Sheter. I am therewith content that you should certifie that I had suffered three quarters prison wrongfully, and therefore I desire to be iustified or condem-

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hed, first for that I suffered such prisonment: and then I wyl not refuse to aūswer your articles, though there were a bushell of them. But to saye that I would aunswer, whereby you should heale all your wrong done to me against the law of God & the Realme, I wil not.MarginaliaSheterden refuseth to answere before it be tried, wherfore he was imprisoned.

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Here much ado there was to proue that hee had no wrong:  

and again that it was not they that did it. But he sayd the Commissary was one of them: he aunswered no, it was the Archdeacon. He sayd, you sat wyth hym, and he asked your counsell in it, and yet if it were he, it was your church, except the Archdeacon and you be deuided one from an other. Well sayd they: will ye now deny that ye said then, and promise here to submit your selfe henceforth, and ye shall be deliuered?

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Shet. I am not so much bound to you to graunt any such promise: MarginaliaSheterden refuseth to submit him selfe.and agayne you shall well know that I would not promise to go crosse the streete for you: but if I did at any time offend your lawe, let me haue the punishment, I aske no fauour.

Then sayd they that it was obstinacy in him that he would not aunswere, and a token that his fayth was naught, seing he was ashamed to vtter it.

Shet. Nay sayd he, ye shall well knowe I am not ashamed of my faith: but because you do so gredely seeke bloud, I wil aūswer only to that you haue agaynst me.

Suffr. Nay, you shall aunswer to the articles, or els be condemned vpon suspicion.

Shet. I am content with that: yet al men shal know that as ye suspect and can proue no cause, so shall ye cōdemne me without a matter, & then shall all men know ye seeke bloud, and not iustice.

Suffr. No we seeke not thy bloud, but thy cōuersion.

Shet. That we shal see. For then wil you proue my peruersion first, before you condēne me on your owne suspicion without proofe of the same: and by that I shall know whether you seeke bloud or no. Many other wordes were betwene them.

At last stept vp one MarginaliaOne Loueles a loueles lawyer.Loueles a lawyer, which would proue his prisonmēt not to be wrong, but right, by olde statutes of Edward the fourth, and Henry. &c. but at last he was compelled to forsake those statutes from Michaelmas to Christmas,  

and then he sayd it was no wrong.

To this Nicholas sayd, if he could proue that men might wrongfullye imprison before a lawe, and in the meane while make lawes, and then vnder that hide the first wrong, then he said true, or els not. Thus he kept the Bandogs  

at staues end, not as thinking to escape them: but that I would see (sayd he) the Foxes leape aboue ground for my bloud, if they can reach it (so it be the wyll of God): yet we shall see them gape, & leape for it. From Westgate in hast.

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By yours Nicholas Shetterden.

THe holy sygne in steede of þ^e thing signified, is seruile seruitude as S. Augustine termeth it, when the bread in the sacrament is by common and solemne errour worshipped in steede of the fleshe assumpted of the word of God.MarginaliaFalse worship of the Sacrament.

There was no mencion of worshipping the creatures at the feast or first supper that CHRIST did celebrate: therfore the saying of CHRIST concerning diuorce, may well be applyed to them: it was not so from the beginning, nor shall be to the end.

MarginaliaAgaynst Sacramētall oblation.The once made oblation of CHRISTES is herby derogate,  

when this sacramentall oblation and offering of thankes geuing is beleued to be propiciatory, and that it purgeth the soule, as well of the liuing as of the dead, agaynst this saying to the Hebrues: MarginaliaHebr. 9.with one onely oblation hee hath made perfecte for euer those that are sanctified. Againe: where is remission, there is no more oblation for sinnes, making vs cleane by hym.

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This word (by hym selfe) hath a vehemency and pyth that dryueth all Priestes from authority to enterpryse such oblation, where as what he him selfe doth by hym selfe, he leaueth not for other to do. So seemeth our pur-