MarginaliaAn. 1555. Nouember.affected to seme to be a patrone of all olde customes, though they were neuer so rottē with age. This one thing I cannot but smyle at in my mynde, when I see MarginaliaThe vayne bragging of Ste. Gardiner noted.how he braggeth and vaunteth himselfe in all hys letters to the Lord Protector and other of the Counsell, of the hye fauour of hys noble King of famous memory, the Kinges father that dead is. &c. when nothing was lesse true, neyther did the king lesse fauour any English man then hym, as by the depositions both of the Earle of Warwicke and of the Lord Paget may appeare in the pages of the olde booke. 824. 816.MarginaliaRead in the old booke of Actes and Monumentes pag. 824. 816. But into thys false and fooles paradyse he was brought through the sayd Lord Paget, who, as he reporteth hymselfe in his messages from the King to the sayd Winchester, deluded hym, telling hym much otherwise then the king had spoken: which thing puffed vppe this vayne glorious Thraso not a little, thinking the Moone was made of grene cheese. &c.

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But what soeuer he was, seing he is now gone, I referre hym to his Iudge, to whom he shall stand or fal. As concerning his death and maner thereof, I would they which were present thereat, would testify to vs what they saw. This we haue all to thynke, that his death happened so oportunely, þ^t Englād hath a mighty cause to geue thankes to the Lord therfore: not so much for the great hurt he had done in tyme past in perueruerting his Princes, in bringing in the. vj. articles, in murdering Gods Saintes, in defasing CHRISTES sincere religion. &c. MarginaliaSte. Gardiner especially hunteth for the life of Lady Elizabeth.as also especially for that hee had thought to haue brought to passe in murdering also our Noble Queene that now is. For what soeuer daunger it was of death that she was in, it did (no doubt) procede frō that bloudy Bishop, who was the cause therof.  

MarginaliaQ. Elizabeth preserued.And if it be certayne which we haue heard, that her hyghnes being in the Tower, a wrytte came downe from certayne of the Counsell for her execution, it is out of controuersy, that wyly Winchester was the onely Dedalus   and framer of that ingine.   Who (no doubt) in that one day had brought this whole realme into woful ruine, had not the Lordes most gratious counsell, thorow M. Brydges MarginaliaM Bridges Liuetenant, the Lordes organe in sauing the Lady Elizabethes life.then þ^e Lieutenant, cōming in hast to the Queene, certified her of the matter, and preuented Achitophels bloudy deuyses. For the which, thankes be to the same our Lord and Sauiour, in the congregation of all English Churches, Amen.

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Of thynges vncertayne, I must speake vncertainly, for lacke of fuller information, or els peraduenture they be in the Realme that can say more thē here I haue expressed. For as Boner, Story, Thornton, Harpsfield, Dunning, with other, were occuped in putting þ^e poore braunches of Gods Sainctes to death: so this Bishop for his part bent all his deuyses & had spent all hys pouder  

in assayling þ^e roote, & in casting such a platforme (as he himselfe in words at his death is sayd to confesse) to buyld hys popery vpon, as he thought should haue stand for euer and a day. But (as I sayd before) of vncertaine thinges I can speake but vncertaynly. Wherfore as touching the maner and order of his death, how rich he dyed, what wordes he spake, what litle repentaunce hee shewed, whether hee dyed with his tounge swolne and out of his mouth, as MarginaliaTho. Arundell Archbishop of Canterbury.Thomas Arundell Archbishop of Caunt. pag. 700. or whether hee stonke before he dyed, as Cardinall Wolsey dyd, read before pag. 1133.MarginaliaRead before pag. 1133. or whether he dyed in dispayre as Latomus   and others dyd. &c. all this I referre either to their reportes of whom I heard it, or leaue it to the knowledge of them which know it better.

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I could name the man (but I abstayn from names) who being then present, and a great doer about the sayd Winchester, reported to vs cōcerning the sayd Bishop, that when Doct. Day Bishop of Chichester came to hym, and began to comfort him with wordes of Gods

MarginaliaSteuen Gardiner hauing his toes crooked and sharpe like the talōes of rauening beastes.promise, and with the free iustification in the bloud of CHRIST our Sauiour, repeting the Scriptures to hym. Winchester hearing that, what my Lord (quoth he) will you open that gap now? then farewell altogether. To me and such other in my case you may speake it: but open this window vnto the people, then farewell altogether.

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Moreouer, what D. Boner then saw in him, or what he heard of him, and what words passed betwene them about the tyme of his extremity, betwixt him and him be it. MarginaliaA warning to Doctor Boner.If Boner dyd there behold any thing which might turne to his good example, I exhort hym to take it, and to beware in tyme, as I pray God he may.  

Here I could bringe in the friuolous Epitaph which was made of his death, deuised of a Papist for a popish Bishop, but I pretermit it, and in stede thereof I haue here inferred certayne gatheringes out of his Sermons, wordes and wrytinges, wherein may appeare first what an earnest and vehement enemy he was to the Pope if hee would haue bene constant in him selfe: then howe inconstantly he varyed from him selfe: and thirdly how he stāding vpon a singularity of his own wit, wauereth also from other Papists in certayne pointes. In the gathering whereof albeit there be some paynes, and tediousnes, also in reading: yet I thought not to pretermit the same vppon certayne considerations, namely for that so many yet to this day there bee, which sticke so much to Gardiners wit, learning, and religion, taking him for such a doughty piller of the Popes church. To þ^e entent therefore, that such as hetherto haue bene deceyued by him may no longer be abused therein, if they will eyther credit his owne wordes, workes, Sermons, wrytinges, disputations or els will be iudged by hys owne witnesses of his owne party producted, we haue here collected such manifest probations, which may notoriously declare how effectuously first he withstoode the Popes supremacy: and lykewyse afterward may declare manifest contrariety and repugnaunce of the said Gardiner, first with other wryters, & lastly with hym selfe: first beginning with is Sermon preached before K. Edward. The sūme & effect of which sermon briefly collected by M. Vdall, here vnder foloweth to be seene.  

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MarginaliaThe effect of Steuen Gardiner Bishop of Winchesters Sermon.MOst honorable audience, I purpose by the grace of God to declare some part of the Gospel that is accustomably vsed to be red in þ^e Church as thys day. And for because þ^t without the special grace of God, neither I can speake any thing to your edifying, nor ye receaue the same accordingly, I shall desyre you all, þ^t we may ioyntly pray altogether for the assistāce of his grace. In which praier I cōmend to almighty God, your most excellent maiesty our soueraigne lord, king of Englād, Fraunce & Ireland, and of the church of Englād and Ireland next & immediatly vnder God here on earth þ^e MarginaliaSupreame head.supreme head, Queene Katherin Dowager, my Lady Maries grace, my Lady Elizabethes grace your Maiesties most deare Systers, my Lord Protectors grace, with all others of your most honorable Counsail, the spiritualtie and temporaltie, and I shall desyre you to commend vnto God wyth your prayer, the soules departed vnto God in Christes fayth, and among these most specially our late soueraigne Lord king Henry the eight, your maiesties most noble father. For these and for grace necessary I shall desire you to say a Pater noster, and so forth.

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The Gospell beginneth: Cum venisset Iesus in partes Cæsareæ Phillippi. &c.  

MarginaliaMath. 16.When IESVS was come into the parties of Cesaria a citie that Phillippus builded, he asked his disciples and sayd: whom do men say that the sonne of man is? They sayd, some say that thou art Iohn the Baptist, some that thou art Elye, some that thou art Ieremy or some of the Prophets. He sayd to them: but whom say ye that I am? Then aunswered Simon Peter and sayd, thou art CHRIST the sonne of the liuing God. &c. I cannot haue time I thinke to speake of the Gospell throughly,

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