MarginaliaAn. 1555. December.After this, I with. iiij. other moe were brought to the keepers house in Pater noster Row, where we supped, and after supper I was called vp to a chamber by the Archdeacon of Londons seruaunt, and that in hys masters name: who offred me a bed for that night. To whom I gaue thankes, saying: that it should be a grief to me to lye well one night, and the next worse: wherfore I wil begin (said I) as I am like to cōtinue, to take such part as my felowes do. And with that we were brought through Pater noster row to my Lord of Londons Colehouse:MarginaliaM. Philpot layd in Bishop Boners Colehouse. vnto the which is ioyned a litle blind  

house, with a great payre of stockes appoynted both for hand and foote (but thankes bee to God we haue not played of those orgaynes yet, although some before vs had tried thē) & there we found a MarginaliaThis godly man was Thomas Whittell, whose story followeth.Minister of Estsex, a maryed priest, a mā of godly zeale, with one other poore mā. And this minister (at my cōming) desired to speake with me, and did greatly lament his owne infirmity, for that through extremity of imprisonment, hee was constrayned by wryting to yeld to the Bishop of London: whereupon he was once set at liberty, MarginaliaExample what an vnquiet consciēce doth.and afterwarde felt such a hell in his conscience that hee could scarse refrayne from destroying himselfe, and neuer could bee at quyet vntill hee had gone to the Bishops Register, desyring to see his bill agayne, MarginaliaTho. Whittell after his recantation repenteth and tare his subscription.the which assoone as he had receiued, he tare it in peeces: and after he was as ioyfull as any man might be. Of the which when my Lord of London had vnderstanding, he sent for hym, and fell vpon him lyke a Lion, and lyke a manly Bishop buffeted him well, so that MarginaliaB. Boner pluckt away a great part of Whittells beard, and made his face blacke and blewe.he made his face blacke and blewe, and pluckt away a great peece of his beard: but now thankes bee to God, he is as ioyfull vnder the Crosse as any of vs, and very sory of his former infirmity.   I wryte this, because I would all men to take heede how they do contrary to their conscience: which is to fall into the paynes of hel. And here an end.

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MarginaliaThe first appearing of Iohn Philpot before Bishop Boner.THe Bishop sent vnto me M. Iohnson hys Register with a messe  

of meate and a good pot of drinke and bread, saying that my Lord had no knowledge erst   of my being here, for which he was sory: therefore he had sent me and my fellowes that meat, knowyng whether I would receyue the same.

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MarginaliaB. Boners charitie sent to Iohn Philpot.I thanked God for my Lordes charity, that it pleased hym to remember poore prisoners, desyring almighty God to encrease the same in him and in al others: and therefore I would not refuse his beneficence, and therwith tooke the same vnto my brethren, praysing God for his prouidence towardes his afflicted flocke that he stirred our aduersaries vp to helpe the same in theyr necessity.

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Iohnson. My lord would know þ^e cause of your sending hether (for he knoweth nothing thereof) and wondreth that he should be troubled with prisoners of other dioces then his owne.

Philpot. I declared vnto him the whole cause. After the which hee sayd, my Lordes will was that I should haue any friendship I would desyre, and so departed.

Within a while after, one of my Lordes gentlemen commeth for me, and I was brought into his presence where he sat at a table alone, with 3. or 4. of hys Chaplaines wayting vpō him, and his Register.

Boner. M. Philpot, you are welcome, giue me your hand.

Phil. With that, because he so gently put forth hys hand, I to render courtesy for courtesy, kissed my hand and gaue him the same.

MarginaliaB. Boner entertayning M. Philpot.Boner. I am right sory for your trouble, and I promise you, before it was within these ij. houres, I knew not of your being here. I pray you tell mee what was the cause of your sending hether: for I promise you I know nothing thereof as yet, neyther I would you should thinke that I was the cause therof: and I mar-

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uayle that other men wil trouble me with their matters. MarginaliaB. Boner made the common Inquisitor against his will.But I must be obedient to my betters: and ywis,  

men speake otherwyse of me then I deserue.

Phil. I shewed hym the summe of the matter: that it was for the disputation in the Cōuocation house, for the which I was against all right molested.

Boner. I maruaile that you should be troubled therfore if there were none other cause but this. But peraduenture you haue mayntayned the same since, and some your friendes of late haue asked whether you doe stand to the same, and you haue sayd yea, & for this you might be committed to prison.

Phil. If it shall please your Lordship, I am burdened none otherwyse then I haue told you by the commissioners, who haue sent me hether because I would not recant the same.

Boner. A man may speake in the Parlament house, though it bee a place of free speach, as he may be imprysoned for, as in case he speake wordes of hygh treason, agaynst the king or Quene: and so it might be that you spake otherwise thē it became you, of the church of christ.

Phil. I spake nothing, which was out of the articles which were called in question, and agreed vpon to be disputed by the whole house, and by þ^e Queenes permission and the Counsail.

Boner. Why? *Marginalia* Or els why were the questions there propounded. may we dispute of our fayth?

Phil. Yea that we may.

Boner. Nay I trow  

not by the law.

Phil. In deede by the ciuill law I know it is not lawfull, but by Gods law we may reason thereof. For S. Peter sayth: Marginalia1. Pet. 3.Be ye ready to render accompt vnto al men of that hope which is in you, that demaund you of the same.

Boner. In deede S. Peter sayth so. Why, then I aske of you what your iudgement is of the Sacrament of the aultar?

Phil. My Lord, S. Ambrose sayth that the disputatiō of fayth ought to be in the cōgregation in the hearyng of the people, & that MarginaliaNo man bound to render a compt of his fayth priuately, vnles it be to edifie.I am not bound to render accompt therof to euery mā priuatly, vnlesse it be to edifie. But now I can not shew you my mynde, but I must runne vppon the pikes in daunger of my lyfe therefore. Wherefore as the sayd Doctour sayd vnto Valentinian the Emperour, so say I to your Lordshyp: MarginaliaAmbros. ad Valentinianum.Tolle legem & fiet certamen.  

Take away the law, and I shall reason with you. And yet if I come in open iudgement, where I am bound by the law to aunswere, I trust I shall vtter my consciēce as freely as any that hath come before you.

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MarginaliaOne church.Boner. I perceiue you are learned. I would haue such as you bee about me: but you must come and be of the Church, for there is but one Church.

Phil. God forbid I should be out of þ^e Church. I am sure I am within the same: for I know, as I am taught by þ^e scripture, that there is but one catholicke Church, Vna columba, vna sponsa, vna dilecta, One Doue, one Spouse, one beloued congregation, out of the which there is no saluation.

Boner. How chaunceth it then that you go out of the same, and walke not with vs?

Phil. My Lord, I am sure I am within the boūdes of the Church wherupon she is builded, which is the word of God.

Boner. What age are ye of?

Phil. I am foure and fourty.

Boner. You are not now of the same fayth your God fathers and Godmothers promised for you, in the which you were Baptised.

Phil. Yes that I thāke God I am: MarginaliaThe faith promised by his godfathers was the fayth of Christ, after his crede onely.for I was Baptised into the fayth of CHRIST, which I now hold.

Boner. How can that be? there is but one fayth.

Phil. I am assured of that by S. Paule, saying: that there is but one God, one fayth, and one Baptisme, of the which I am.

Boner. You were xx. yeare ago of an other fayth then you be now.

Phil. In deede (my Lord) to tell you playne, I was then nullius fidei, of no fayth, a neuter, a wicked lyuer, neither hote nor cold.