Marginalia1555. October.To these notes and places of Doct. Ridley, let vs also adioyne other 12. places or Articles of the lyke affinitie, taken out of hys booke called the examination of the proud hunter noted in the latter end of D. Turners second course.  

By these articles it may appeare how this Byshop swarueth no lesse from the sound truth of CHRISTES Gospel, then he dyd in the other both from hym selfe, and also from other hys felow brethren of hys own Catholicke mother Church of Rome. The Articles in summe are these.

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1. THe ceremonies and traditions which the Byshop of Rome hath ordeyned, and are now allowed in England, are the pale of the Church of England. fol. 7.

2. The Popes ceremonies & traditions, are good and politicke lawes, wherby God hath enclosed the kynges subiectes vnder his Maiestie alone. ibidem.

MarginaliaOne vsurper well compared with an other.3. As kyng Richard an euill man made a good politicke law for the body and common wealth of England: so cā the Pope an euill man make good lawes and holesome doctrine for mans soule and CHRISTES Church. fol. 23.

4. *Marginalia* Note here blasphemous Winchest. preferring the wordes spoken by man before Christes doctrine. What soeuer is good spoken and vsed by man, is much more of God then CHRISTES doctrine is his fathers doctrine. fol. 33

5. He that sayth that the law of the Gospell ought only to be holden in CHRISTES Church & is sufficiēt alone for it, speaketh so farre out of reason that he is not worthy to be reasoned withall. fol. 37.

6. They that hold that the crosse of siluer or gold ought not to be worshipped with kyssyng of it and bowyng & kneelyng to it, are enemyes of CHRISTES true Crosse, and take away the meanes that might set out the glory of CHRISTES Crosse. fol. 49.

7. Neither Paul nor the Crosse can be worshipped with godly honor. fol. 61.

8. As CHRIST vsed clay for an instrument to heale the blind mans eyes withall,MarginaliaChrist neuer made clay to be an instrument for saluation of mans soule. and hath saued diuerse by faith and made it an instrumēt of saluation, and as God hath ordeined Timothe to be an instrument of saluation both to hym selfe and for other, so may the Pope ordeine holy water to be an instrument of saluation both of body and soule to all them that are sprinkled with it. fol. 64.

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MarginaliaEuen like both.9. No man can commit Idolatry with his body alone and in onely kissyng of an Image or Idole, and in onely kneelyng to it can no Idolatrie be committed. fol. 52.

10. For as much as God vnderstandeth them that syng in Latin, though they vnderstand not them selues theyr prayer is acceptable before God. fol. 76.

11. As a father may forbyd certaine of his children to mary, so may a kyng in his kyngdome forbyd certaine of hys subiectes to mary, that is to say, all the Priestes of his Realme. fol. 83.

MarginaliaThe B. of Winchest. Master of ceremonies.12. He that would take away the Popes ceremonyes out of the Church, should driue away all godlynes and semelines, all religious and deuout behauiour out of the Church. fol. 95.

Here hast thou (good Reader) this stout Prelate of Winch. with all hys properties, doinges, and qualities as in a certaine Anatomie proportioned out vnto thee, wherby thou mayst boldly iudge (and nothyng erre in thy iudgement) what is to be esteemed of hym by hys fruites: as who neither was true Protestant nor right Papiste: neither constant in hys error, nor yet stedfast in þ^e truth: neither frend to the Pope, and yet a perfect enemy to CHRIST: false in kyng Henryes tyme, a dissembler in kyng Edwardes tyme, double periured, and a murderer in Queene Maryes tyme, mutable and inconstant in all tymes. And finally, MarginaliaThe B. of Winchest. Falsely pretendeth the fauour of K. Henry towards hym.where in hys letters to the Lord Protectour  

and others, vsually he vaunteth so much of his late soueraigne Lord kyng Henry the viij. and of the great reputation that he was in with him, read I besech you, and behold in the depositions of the Lord Paget in the old booke,   pag. 806. col. 1. and also in the depositions of the Earle of Bedford pag. 824. and there ye shal see that the kyng before his death, both excepting him out of hys Pardons and quite strikyng him out of his last will and Testament, so detested and abhorred him, as he dyd no English mā

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more. And where as the Lord Paget being sent in message from the kyng to the Byshop by other wordes thē the kynges mynde and will was, of his owne dexteritie gaue to him good and gracious wordes, which in deede the king neither knew nor yet were sent by him: the B. persuadyng him selfe otherwise of the kynges fauour towardes him then it was in deede, was therin farre deceaued, and brought into a fooles Paradise: wherof read both in the old booke before, pag. 806. 824 and also in this present volume. pag. 1478.

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To describe and paynt out the MarginaliaWinchester vnstable in religion.vnstable mutablilitie of this Byshop aforesayd, albeit here neede no more to be added besides that whiche is already declared: yet notwithstandyng, seyng the matter is not long, it shall not be out of the way to annexe withall vnto the premisses a peece of Drianders letterMarginaliaRead in the former edition pag. 802. written to one Crispine Phisition in Oxford, sent frō Antwerpe, concernyng the doynges and behauiour of this Byshop of Wynchester, whose story we haue now in hand. The copy of which Drianders letter written to the sayd Crispine his frend, beginneth thus.  

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ANte meam ex Lutetia profectionem, dedi literas ad te per Anglum illum, communem amicum nostrum. &c.  

MarginaliaA letter of Driander to one Crispine, reporting the doinges of the Bishop of Winchester at Louane.BEfore my departure from the City of Paris, I wrote vnto you by our frend the Englishman. &c.

Now you shalbe contented onely with the narration of your Bishop of Winchester, who (as apparteined to þ^e Ambassadour of so noble a Prince) came to Louane with a great brauery, and was there receiued at one Ieremyes house nd most honourably enterteined: where the faculty of Diuines for honor sake presēted him wyne in the name of the whole Vniuersitie. But our famous Doctours & learned Masters, for that they would more deepely search and vnderstand the learnyng and excellēcy of the Prelate, perused and scanned a certain Oration made by hym & now extāt, intituled De vera obediētia, in the which hys Oration he dyd impugne the supremacie of the B. of Rome, & preferred his Lordes & kinges authoritie before þ^e holy Apostolicke Sea, as they terme it: which beyng read & considered by thē, they did not only repēt thē for giuing him such honor, but also recāted that which they had done: & did not so much honor him afore, but now they were as earnest & as spitefull against him. Richard Lathomus, interpreter of termes, with þ^e fauorers of that fraternitie, and other champions of the fallyng church, disputed with him concernyng the Popes supremacy. MarginaliaB. Gardiner defendeth his booke De vera obedientia at Louane.The Byshop stoutly defended his sayd Oration. The Diuines contrary stiffly mainteined their opiniō, & diuers times opēly with exclamatiōs called the sayd Bishop an excōmunicate person, & a Scismaticke,MarginaliaWinchester compted for an excommunicate and a schismaticke, at Louaue. to no litle reproch and infamy of the English nation. The Byshop not long after, mindyng to say Masse in S. Peters church, they did deny vnto him, as to an excōmunicate person, þ^e ornamentes and vestimentes meete for the same, where with he beyng highly offended, sodaynly hastened hys iorney from thence. The Deane the next day after made an eloquent Oration, wherein he openly disgraced and diffamed hym. You haue heard now a true story, for our Doctour was a beholder of the whole tragedy. &c.

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And this now beyng sufficient for Gardiners story to leaue hym to hys iudge, and to let hym go, we will returne & proceede (by the grace and leaue of the Lord) as the course of these doulfull dayes shall lead vs, to prosecute the residue of CHRISTES Martyrs, as now in order foloweth.

NExt after the death and constant Martyrdome of the two most worthy champions and standerd-