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MarginaliaAn. 1555. October.fer the deuill to vse his craftie fashion for our triall and probation. It were litle thanke worthy to beleue well and rightly, if nothing should moue vs to false faith and to beleue superstitiously. It was not in vayne that CHRIST when he had taught truly, by and by bad: beware of false Prophetes,MarginaliaWarning agaynst false Prophets. which would bryng in error slily. But we bee secure and vncarefull, as though false Prophetes coulde not meddle with vs, and as though the warnyng of CHRIST were no more earnest and effectual, then is the warnyng of mothers when they trifle with their children, and byd them beware the bugge. &c.
[Back to Top]Lo Sir, how I runne at riot beyond measure. When I began, I was minded to haue written but halfe a dosen lynes: but thus I forget my selfe euer when I write to a trusty frende, which will take in worth my folly, and kepe it from my enemy. &c.
As for MarginaliaD. Wilson agaynst M. Latymer, and why.Doct. Wilson, I wotte not what I should say: but I pray God endue him with charitie. Neither he, nor none of his coūtreymen did euer loue me since I did inuey agaynst their factions, & partialitie in Cambridge. Before that, who was more fauoured of him thē I? That is the boile that may not be touched. &c.
[Back to Top]A certaine frend shewed me, that Doct. Wilsone is gone now into his countrey about Beuerley in Holdernes, and frō thence he wil go a progresse through Yorkeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and so from thence to Bristow. What he entēdeth by this progresse God knoweth, and not I. If he come to Bristow I shall here tell. &c.
[Back to Top]As for MarginaliaHubberdin a great rayler agaynst M. Latymer.Hubberdin (no doubt) he is a mā of no great learning, nor yet of stable witte. He is here seruus hominum: for he will Preach what soeuer the Byshops will byd him Preach. Verely in my mind they are more to be blamed then he. He doth magnifie the Pope more then enough. As for our Sauiour CHRIST and Christen Kynges are litle beholdyng to hym. No doubt he dyd misse the cushon in many things. Howbeit they that did send him (men thinke) wil defend him: I pray God amēd him, and them both. They would fayne make matter agaynst me, entendyng so either to deliuer him by me, or els to ridde vs both together, and so they would thinke him well bestowed. &c.
[Back to Top]As touching MarginaliaD. Powell a stout preacher of Popery.Doct. Powell,
CloseLatimer preached a series of sermons in Bristol in March 1553 which enjoyed great success and aroused enormous controversy. One of the opponents of Latimer, who crticised the sermons, was Dr Edward Powell, prebendary of Salisbury Cathedral and chaplain to Katherine of Aragon. Powell was sent to the Tower in 1534 as a result of his criticisms of Latimer. In one of the most infamous events of Henry VIII's reign, Powell would be executed for treason, along with Thomas Abell and Richard Featherstone on 30 July 1540, on the same day that Latimer's evangelical associates, Robert Barnes, Thomas Garrad and William Jerome, were burned for heresy.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaScripture applyed of the Papistes.Omnis qui relinquit patrem, domos, vxorem. i.
Omnis qui relinquit patrem, domos, vxorem Who so euer leaueth father, house, wyfe. &c. nemo est qui reliquit domum aut parentes aut fratres aut uxorem aut filios propter regnum Dei.
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CloseThis 'disgression' first appeared in the 1570 edition and must have been supplied to Foxe by an informant.
MarginaliaA note touching Hubberdin.FOrasmuch as mencion hath ben made in this letter of Hubberdin, an old diuine of Oxforde, a ryght painted Pharisey and a great straier abroad in all quarters of the realme to deface and impeach the springing of Gods holy Gospel, some thing would be added more touching that man, whose doynges and pageants if they might be described at large, it were as good as any enterlude for the reader to behold. MarginaliaHubberdin a right Image of hipocrasie.Who in all his lyfe and in all his actions (in one worde to describe hym) seemeth nothing els but a right Image or conuterfaite setting out vnto vs in lyuely colours the patterne of perfect hypocrisy. But because the man is nowe gone, to spare therefore the dead (although he litle deserued to be spared, which neuer spared to worke what vilany he could against the true seruauntes of the Lord) this shalbe enough for example sake, for all christen men necessarily to obserue, how the sayd Hubberdin after his long raylyng in all places agaynst Luther, Melangth-
[Back to Top]ton, Zuinglius, Iohn Frith, Tindale, Latimer, MarginaliaHubberdin a great rayler agaynst the seruauntes of Christ.and all other lyke professours, after his hypocriticall open almes giuen out of other mens purses, his long prayers, pretensed deuotions, deuout fastinges, his wolwarde going, and other his prodigious demeanour, rydyng in his long gowne downe to the horse heeles lyke a Pharisey, or rather lyke a slouen, dyrted vppe to the horse belly, after his forged tales, and fables, dialogues, dreames, dauncinges, hoppinges and leapinges, with other lyke histrionical toyes and gestures vsed in the pulpit, and all agaynst heretickes: at last riding by a church side where the youth of þe parish were dauncing in the churchyarde, sodeinly thys Silenus lyghting from his horse, by occasion of their dauncing came into the Church, and there causing the bell to tolle in the people, thought in stead of a fitte of mirth, to geue them a Sermon of dauncing. In the which Sermon after he had patched vp certayne common textes out of the scriptures, and then comming to the Doctors, fyrst to Augustine, then to Ambrose, so to Hierome, & Gregory, Chrysostome, & other Doctors, had made them euery one (after his dialogue maner) by name to aunswere to his call, and to sing after hys tune for the probation of the Sacrament of the altar agaynst Iohn Fryth, Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Luther, Tyndale, Latymer, and other heretickes (as he called them) at last to shewe a perfect harmony of all these Doctors together, as hee had made them before to sing after his tune, so nowe to make them daunce also after his pype, MarginaliaA daūcing Sermon of Hubberdine.fyrst hee calleth out CHRIST and his Apostles, then the Doctors and auncient Seniours of the Church, as in a round ring all to daunce together: with pype vppe Hubberdyn. Now daunce CHRIST, now daunce Peter, Paule, now daunce Austen, Ambrose, Hierome, and thus old Hubberdin as he was dauncing wyth hys Doctours lustely in the pulpit agaynst the heretickes, how hee stampt and tooke one I cannot tell, MarginaliaHubberdine dauncing in the pulpit fell with the pulpit, and brake hys legge.but crashe quoth the pulpit, downe commeth the dauncer, and there lay Hubberdin not dauncing, but sprawling in the midst of his audiēce: where although he brake not his necke, yet he so brake his legge the same tyme and brused hys old bones, that he neuer came in pulpit more, and dyed not long after the same. Whereupon when the church Wardens were called and charged for the pulpit being no stronger, they made aunswere agayne, MarginaliaAnswere of the church wardens.so excusing them selues that they had made their pulpit for preaching, and not for dauncing. &c. But to spend no more paper about thys idle matter, now to our purpose agayne.
[Back to Top]Amongst many other impugners and aduersaries, whereof there was no small sort which dyd infest thys good man in Sermons: some also there were, whych attempted the pen against him. In the number of whō was one Doctor Sherwode, who vpon the same occasiō of preaching of the virgin Mary (or as they thought, against þe Virgin) dyd inuade him with his pen, MarginaliaDoctour Sherwood wryteth agaynst Master Latymer.writing against him in latin, whose long Epistle, wyth M. Latymers aunswer also in latin to the same, because it would aske to much roume here to bee inserted, I desyre the Reader to resort to the booke of Actes and Monuments of the fyrst edition, pag. 1317.
[Back to Top]Besides these lattin letters aboue expressed, other letters also he wrote in Englishe, as well to others, as namely to Syr Edw. Baynton Knight:
CloseSir Edward Baynton was vice-chamberlain to Anne Boleyn, Latimer's most important patron.