Marginalia1556. Aprill.of euen now.

Syr, quoth Tyms, you haue not well applied your similitude: MarginaliaThe answere of Tyms to the Hunters similitude.for I prayse God, I haue not red Scriptures vnprofitably: but God I thanke him, hath reueled vnto me so much as I doubt not is sufficient for my saluation.

MarginaliaB. Boners reason.Then sayd the Bishop: you brag much of knowledge and yet you know nothyng, you speake much of Scripture and you know not what Scripture is. I pray thee tell me: How knowest thou that thyng to be the worde of God which thou callest Scripture.

MarginaliaRobert Drakes answereth.To this aunswered Rob. Drakes, that he did know it to be the word of God, for that it doth shew vnto thē their saluation in CHRIST, and doth reuoke and call backe all men from wicked lyfe, vnto a pure and vndefiled conuersation.

MarginaliaBoner replyeth.The Bishop replied, that the heathen writers, haue taught the preceptes of good liuyng, aswell as the Scripture, and yet their writynges are not esteemed to bee Gods word.

MarginaliaTyms answereth to Boner.To this aunswered Tyms saying: the olde Testament beareth witnes of those thinges which are written in the new, for (quoth he) there is nothyng taught in the new Testament, but it was foreshewed in the law and Prophetes.

MarginaliaBoner deniyng the principles of diuinity.I will deny all, quoth the Byshop, I will deny all: what sayest thou then? Then Rob. Drakes alledged a sentence in Latin out of þ^e Prophet Esay in þ^e 59. chap. of his Prophesie: MarginaliaEsay. 59.Spiritus meus qui est in te. &c.  

My spirite which is in thee, and my wordes which I haue put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of the mouth of thy seede, nor out of the mouth of the seede of thy seede, from hence foorth euen for euer: meanyng therby to proue that he which had the spirite of God, could therby discerne and iudge truly which was Gods word: but before he could explicate his minde, he was interrupted by the Byshop, who spake vnto Doct. Pendleton, saying:

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MarginaliaB. Boner calleth for more helpe.Master Doctour I pray you say somwhat vnto these folkes that may do them some good. MarginaliaD. Pendleton studieth for talke.Then Doct. Pendleton as he leaned neare vnto þ^e Bishop, couered hys face with both his handes, to þ^e end he might the more quietly deuise what to say, but other talke was presently ministred, so that for that tyme he sayd nothyng.

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And thus much William Alesbury  

witnes hereof, being therat present, so farre as he heard, hath faithfully recorded and reported. What more was spoken and there sayd (for they made not yet an ende a good whyle after) because hee departed then out of the house, hee doth not know, nor dyd not heare.

Then the Byshop after this and such like cōmunication thus passed betwene them, proceeding at length in forme of law, caused both his Articles and aunsweres to þ^e same, there and then to be openly red: the summe of which his confession recorded & left by his one hand wrytyng tended to this effect, as followeth.

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MarginaliaArticles aunswered by Will. Tyms.FIrst I did truly confesse and beleue that I was baptised into the true Catholicke church of CHRIST: for when I was baptised there was the element and the word of God, according to CHRISTES institution. MarginaliaHis Baptisme by his godfathers.And my godfathers and godmother did promise for me that I should forsake the deuill and all hys workes, and that I should kepe Gods commaundementes, and beleue all the Articles of the christen fayth: the which I do beleue at thys day, and with God shelpe, I trust to do whyle I lyue: for it was not the wickednes of the minister that made the Sacrament of none effect. &c.

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MarginaliaOnly 2. sacraments.Item, I confessed two Sacramentes, and but two in CHRISTES true church: that is, the Sacramēt of baptisme and the sacrament of the body and bloud of CHRIST, and that CHRIST is present with his Sacraments as it pleaseth hym.

MarginaliaThe true visible church.Item, I confessed that CHRIST hath a visible church wherein the word of God is truely preached and the sacramentes truely ministred.

Item, I confessed the Sea of Rome to bee as the late Bishop of Winchester hath written in his bookes MarginaliaWinchesters booke De obedientia.De vera Obedientia, to the which I sayd vnto the Byshop of London, that hee had made a godly Preface: and also Iohn Bale hath playnely declared in hys booke called the Image of both churches, euen so much as I beleue thereof.

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MarginaliaThe Masse blasphemous.Item, I confessed the Masse to be blasphemy to Christes death and Passion.

MarginaliaSacrament of the altar an Idoll.Item, I confessed that in the Sacrament of the altar CHRIST is not present neyther spiritually nor corporally, but as they vse it, it is an abominable Idole.

Last of all, I confessed the Byshop of London to bee myne Ordinary.

After this the Bishop falling to entreatyng and persuasions, earnestly exhorted him to reuoke his heresies (as he termed them) and to reforme him selfe vnto the Church of Rome, and not to sticke so much to the lyterall sense of the Scriptures, but to vse the interpretation of the old fathers.

To which Tyms aunswered: I will not reforme my selfe therunto. And I thanke God of this day: for I trust hee will turne your cursinges into blessinges.

And furthermore asking this question, he sayd: and what haue you to maynteine the reall presence of CHRIST in the Sacrament, but onely the bare letter?

We haue (quoth the Byshop) the Catholicke church.

No sayd Tymes, MarginaliaThe Popes church.you haue the Popishe Church of Rome for you, for which you bee periured and forsworne. MarginaliaThe Sea of Rome, þ^e Sea of Antichrist.And the Sea of Rome is the sea of Antichrist: and therefore to that Church I will not conforme my selfe, nor once consent vnto it.

Then the Byshop seyng his constant boldnes to be vnmoueable, proceedyng to his condemnation, MarginaliaSentence red agaynst Will. Tyms.pronounced the sentence definitue vppon him, and gaue hym ouer vnto the secular power.

MarginaliaThe aunswere of Robert Drakes.After, callyng for Rob. Drakes, hee vsed towardes him the lyke maner of exhortatiō that he did before. To whom Drakes sayd: as for your Church of Rome, I vtterly defie and deny it, with all the workes therof, euen as I deny the deuill and all his workes.

The Bishop thē vsing his accustomed order of law, with his lyke exhortations, MarginaliaSentence geuen agaynst Drakes.at last gaue hym the like blessyng that Tyms had, and so charged the Sheriffe with him.

MarginaliaThe answere of Tho. Spurge.Thomas Spurge beyng next demaūded if he would returne to the Catholicke Church, sayd as followeth: as for your Church of Rome, I do vtterly deny it: but to the true Catholicke church I am content to returne and continue in the same, wherof I beleue the Church of Rome to be no part or member. Then in fine, callyng the rest in their courses, and vpon the liked demaūdes receiuyng the lyke aunsweres, MarginaliaSentence geuen against Tho. Spurge, Rich. Spurge, Cauell, Ambrose.the sayd Byshop gaue vnto ech of them their seuerall iudgementes, and so riddyng his bloudy handes, committed them vnto the custody of the Sheriffes of Londō, who sent them vnto Newgate, whether they went all most ioyfully, abidyng there the Lordes good tyme, wherin they should seale this their faith with the sheedyng of their bloud: MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of the 6. Martyrs. An. 1556. Aprill. 14.which they most stoutly and willyngly performed the xiiij. day of Aprill,  

as before is mentioned.

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MarginaliaA letter of Will. Tyms to Agnes Glascoke.THe grace, mercy, and peace of God our Father thorow IESVS CHRIST our Lorde and onely Sauiour, wyth the swete comfort of hys holy and myghty spirite, to the performaunce of hys wyll, to your euerlasting comfort, be with you my deare sister Glascocke, both now and euermore, Amen.

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My most deare and entierly beloued sister, yea mother I may right well call you for the motherly care