1570 Edition | Book 11 | Page 1974 
Marginalia1555. October.Sauiour CHRIST, as the Scripture maketh mentiō, and he suffered the same patiently, how much more doth it become vs his seruaūtes? and in saying of these wordes they put vppon the sayd Doct. Ridley the surples, with all the trinkettes appertaining to the Masse, and as they were puttyng on the same, Marginalia
B. Ridley inueyeth agaynst the Bishop of Rome, and his foolish apparell.
The surples here is called a foolish apparell.Doct. Ridley did vehemently inuey agaynst the Romish Byshop and all that foolish apparell,
CloseFoxe's glosses opposite this passage are patently disingenous. Foxe made it seem as if Ridley were opposed to the wearing of vestments. Nothing could be further from the truth; as Foxe recounted, Ridley got into an unpleasant dispute with John Hooper when the latter refused to wear vestments at his consecration as bishop (1563, pp. 1050-52; 1570, pp. 1676-77; 1576, pp. 1403 [recte 1430]-1431 and 1583, pp. 1504-05).
[Back to Top]Brok. Well, you were best to hold your peace, lest your mouth be stopped. MarginaliaMaster Edridge geueth coūsell that B. Ridley should be gagged.At which words one Edridge, the reader then of the Greeke Lecture stāding by, sayd to Doct. Brokes: Syr, the law is he should be gagged, therefore let him be gagged. At which wordes Doct. Ridley lookyng earnestly vppon him that so sayd, wagged his head at him, and made no aunswere agayn, but with a sigh sayd: Oh well, well, well.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaDegrading of B. Ridley.So they proceeded in their doinges: yet neuerthelesse Doct. Ridley was euer talking thinges not pleasant to their eares, although one or other bad hym hold hys peace, lest hee should be caused
CloseConstrained, forced.
When as they came to that place where as Doctor Ridley should hold the chalice, and the wafer cake (called the singing bread)
CloseA term for the Host which arose because of the chanting at mass.
CloseI.e., Despite everything I can do; Ridley is being ironic.
Afterward they put a booke in hys hand, and withall red (as is before sayd) a certaine thing in Latin, the effect thereof was: MarginaliaD. Ridley disgraded from preaching.We do take from you the office of preaching the Gospell. &c. At which wordes Doct. Ridley gaue a great sigh, looking vp toward heauē, saying: Oh Lord God, forgeue them this their wickednes.
[Back to Top]And as they put vpō him the Masse geare, so they began with the vppermost garment, in taking it away agayne, reading a thing in latin according to the order contayned in the sayd booke of the Popes law. Nowe when all was taken from him, sauing onely the Surplis left on his backe, as they were reading and taking it away, Doct. Ridley sayd vnto them: Lorde God, what power bee you of, that you can take from a man that which he neuer had? I was neuer singer
CloseI.e., a priest who celebrated mass.
MarginaliaAll the glittering of Antichristes kingdome consisteth in apish toyes.So when all this their abominable and ridiculous degradation was ended very solemnly, Doct. Ridley sayd vnto Doct. Brokes: haue you done? If you haue done, then geue me leaue to talke with you a little concerning these matters. Brokes aunswered and said: Master Ridley, wee may not talke with you, you bee out of the church, and our lawes is that wee may not talke with any that be out of þe church. Thē M. Ridley sayd: seyng that you wyll not suffer me to talke, neyther wyll vouchsafe to heare me, what remedy but patience? I referre the cause to my heauenly father, who wyll refourme thinges that bee amysse when it shall please hym.
[Back to Top]At which wordes they would haue bene gone, but that M. Ridley said: My Lord, I would wish that your lordship would vouchsafe to reade ouer and peruse a litle booke of Bartrams
CloseThe medieval theologian Ratramnus of Corbie (d. 868). Ridley credited Ratramnus's De corpore et sanguine Domini with influencing his rejection oftransubstantiation.
maner of talke. Well it bootes not: I will say no more. I wyll speake of worldly affaires. I pray you therfore (my Lord) heare me, and be a meane vnto the Quenes maiestye in the behalfe of a great manye of poore men, and especiallye for my poore Sister and her husbande, which standeth there.
CloseI.e., Alice Ridley and her husband, George Shipside. Shipside was present at the degradation of Ridley and at all the final events of Ridley's life. Shipside was almost certainly Foxe's source for Ridley'smartyrdom and the events leading up to it.
CloseThis is another mention of the property which Ridley had leased to the Shipsides. This topic will keep surfacing in Foxe's account of Ridley's martyrdom and it is an important indication that Shipside was Foxe's source for this material.
CloseGeorge Shipside.
Ridley. I pray you for Gods sake do so.
Brookes. I thinke your request wyll be graunted, except one thing let it, and that is (I feare) because you do not allow the Queenes proceedings, but obstinately withstand the same, that it will hardly be graunted.
Ridley. What remedy, I can do no more but speake and wryte: I trust I haue discharged my conscience therein, and Gods wyll be done.
Brookes. I wyll do what lyeth in me.
The copy of this supplication writtē to the Queene here followeth.
CloseFoxe's printing of this document was a favour to his source for the final events of Ridley's life, George Shipside. There were undoubtedly a number of reasons why Shipside co-operated with Foxe, but one of them was to use the pressure Foxe's text could generate in order to recover the property Ridley had leased to him. As one of Foxe's glosses indicates, this effort was not unsuccessful. BL, Harley 590, fos. 70r-75r is a copy of this petition among Foxe's papers.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaA supplication of B. Ridley to Q. Mary, in the behalfe of certayne poore mens leases.JT may please your Maiestie for CHRIST our Sauiors sake, in a matter of conscience (and now not for my sefe, but for other poore men) to vouchsafe to heare and vnderstand this myne humble supplication. It is so (honourable princesse) that in the time whiles I was in the ministery of the Sea of London, diuers poore men tenauntes therof, haue taken new Leases of their tenauntries and holdinges, and some haue renued and chaunged their old, and therefore haue payed fynes and summes of mony, both to me and also to the chapter of Paules, for the confirmation of the same.
[Back to Top]Now, I heare say that the MarginaliaThis Bishop was Doctor Boner.Bishop which occupieth the same roome now, will not allow the foresayd leases, which must redound to many poore mens vtter ruine and decay. Wherefore this is myne humble supplication vnto your honorable grace, that it may please the same for CHRISTES sake, to bee vnto the foresayd poore men their gracious patronesse and defendour, either that they may enioy their foresayd leases and yeares renued, as (I suppose) whē their matter shalbe heard with conscience, both iustice, conscience and equity shall requyre, for that their leases shalbe found (I trust) made without fraude or couen,
CloseThis is short for covenance; i.e., an agreement or contract.