MarginaliaAn. 1556. March.agaynst hym in forme of law, were these vnder folowyng.

MarginaliaInterrogatories layde against the Archbishop.1. JNterrog. First was obiected, that hee the foresayd Tho. Cranmer, beyng yet free, and before he entred into holy orders, maryed one Ioane surnamed blacke or brown, dwellyng at þ^e signe of þ^e Dolphine in Cābridge.

MarginaliaThe first mariage of the Archbishop.Aunswere. Wherunto he aunswered, that whether she was called blacke or browne, hee knewe not, but that hee maryed there one Ioane, that he graunted.

2. Interro. That after the death of the foresayd wife, he entred into holy orders, and after that was made Archbyshop by the Pope.

Auns. He receaued (he sayd) a certeine Bull of the Pope which hee deliuered vnto the king, and was Archbyshop by hym.

MarginaliaThe second mariage of the Archbishop.3. Inter. Item, that he beyng in holy orders, maryed an other womā, as his secōd wife, named Anne, and so was twise maryed.

Auns. To this he graunted.

4. Inter. Item, in the tyme of kyng Henry 8. he kept the sayd wife secretly, and had children by her.

Auns. Hereunto he also graunted: affirmyng that is was better for him to haue his own, then to do like other Priests, holdyng and keping other mens wiues.

5. Inter. Item, in the tyme of kyng Edward he brought out the sayd his wife openly, affirmyng and professyng publickly the same to be his wife.

Auns. He denyed not but hee so dyd, and lawfully might do the same, for asmuch as the lawes of the Realme dyd so permit hym.

6. Inter. Item, that he shamed not openly to glory him selfe to haue had his wife in secret many yeares.

Auns. And though he so dyd (he said) there was no cause why he should be ashamed therof.

MarginaliaThe Archb. charged with his doctrine and bookes.7. Inter. Item, that the sayd Tho. Cranmerfallyng afterward into the deepe bottome of errours, did flye and recuse the authoritie of the Church, did hold and folow the heresie concernyng the Sacrament of the aultar, and also did compile, and caused to be set abroad diuers bookes.

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Auns. Wherunto, when the names of the bookes were recited to hym, he denyed not such bookes which he was the true author of. As touchyng the treatise of Peter Martyr vpon the Sacrament, he denyed that he euer saw it before it was abroad, yet dyd approue and well like of the same. As for the Catechisme,  

the booke of Articles,   with the booke agaynst Winchester,   he graunted the same to be his doynges.

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8. Inter. Item, that hee compelled many agaynst there willes to subscribe to the same Articles.

Auns. He exhorted (he sayd) such as were willyng to subscribe: but agaynst their willes, he compelled none.

9. Inter. Item, for somuch he surceased not to perpetrate enorme and inordinate crimes, he was therfore cast into the Tower, and from thence was brought to Oxford, at what tyme it was cōmonly thought that the Parlamēt there should be holden.

Auns. To this he sayd, that he knew no such enorme and inordinate crimes, that euer he committed.

10. Inter. Item, that in the sayd Citie of Oxford, he did openly mainteyne his heresie, and there was conuicted vpon the same.

Auns. He defended (he sayd) there the cause of the Sacrament, but to be conuicted in the same, that he denyed.

11. Inter. Item, when he perseuered still in the same, he was by the publicke censure of the Vniuersitie, pronoūced an hereticke, and his bookes to be hereticall.

Auns. That he was so denounced, he denyed not: but that he was an hereticke, or his bookes hereticall, that he denied.

12. Inter. Item, that he was and is notoriously infamed with the note of Schisme, as who not onely him selfe receded from the Catholicke Church and sea of Rome, but also moued the kyng, and subiectes of this Realme

to the same.

Auns. As touchyng the receding, that he well graunted: but that recedyng or departing (sayd he) was onely from the sea of Rome, and had in it no matter of any schisme.

13. Inter. Item, that hee had bene twise sworne to the Pope: and withall Doct. Martin brought out the instrument of the publicke Notary, MarginaliaThe Archbishop sworne to the Pope by protestation.wherein was cōteined his protestation made whē he should be consecrated, askyng if he had any thyng els protested.

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Auns. Wherunto he aunswered, that he dyd nothing but by the lawes of the Realme.

14. Inter. Item, that he the sayd Archbishop of Caunterbury, dyd not onely offend in the premisses, but also in taking vpon hym the authority of the Sea of Rome, in that without leaue or licence from the sayd Sea, hee consecrated Bishops and Priestes.

Auns. He graunted, that he dyd execute such thynges as were wont to bee referred to the Pope, at what tyme it was permitted to hym by the publicke lawes and determination of the Realme.

15. Inter. Item, that when the whole Realme had subscribed to the authoritie of the Pope, he onely still persisted in his errour.

Auns. That hee dyd not admitte the Popes authoritie, he confessed to bee true. But that hee erred in the same, that he denyed.

16. Interroga. Item, that all and singular the premisses be true.

Auns. That likewise he graunted, exceptyng those thinges wherunto he had now aunswered.

After he had thus answered to the obiections aforesayd, and the publicke Notary had entred the same, the Iudges and Commissioners, as hauing now accomplished that wherefore they came, were about to ryse and depart: but the Bishop of Glocester, thinking it not best so to dismisse the people, beyng somewhat stirred wyth the wordes of the Archbishop, began with this Oration in the hearing of the people, to declame.

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MarginaliaAn other oration of Byshop Brokes to Archb. Cranmer.MAster Cranmer, I can not otherwyse terme you considering your obstinacy, I am right sory, I am right hartely sory to heare such woordes escape your mouth so vnaduysedly. I had conceaued a right good hope of your amendement: I supposed that this obstinacy of yours came not of a vayne glory, but rather of a corrupt conscience, which was the occasion that I hoped so well of your returne. But now I perceaue by your foolish bable, that it is farre other wyse. Ye are so puffed vp wyth vayne glory, there is such a cauteria of heresy crept into your cōscience, that I am cleane void of hope, & my hope is turned into wan hope. But who cā stay hym that willingly rūneth into perdition? Who can saue that which will be lost? God would haue you to be saued, and you refuse it. Perditio tua super te Israel, tantummodo in me saluatio tua, ait Dominus per Prophetā. i.  

Thy perdition is onely vpon thy selfe, O Jsraell: onely in me is thy saluation, sayth the Lorde by his Prophet. You haue vttered so erroneous talke, with such open malice against the Popes holines, with such open lying agaynst the Church of Rome, with such open blasphemy agaynst the Sacrament of the aultar, that no mouth coulde haue expressed more maliciously, more lyingly, more blasphemously.

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MarginaliaMaister Cranmer not to be reasoned withall.To reason wyth you, although I would of my selfe to satisfy this audience, yet may I not by our Commission, neither can I fynd how I may do it with the scriptures: For the Apostle doth cōmaund that such a one should not onely not be talked withall, but also shunned and auoyded saying: Hereticū hominem post vnum aut alterum conuentum, deuita, sciens, quòd huiusmodo peruersus est et delinquit, quū sit proprio iu-  

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