Marginalia1556. Iuly.At length through Gods grace he grew vp to such ripenes in the truth, that he spared not to declare certaine sparkes therof in his outward behauiour. For when he should keepe his bowyng *Marginalia* By these measures, he meaneth certain ceremony of that Colledge, which was thys: that in the Confiteor tyme at euēsong, the whole cõpany of the Quier (which was ther to the nūber of a.100) stãding vp, & turning their face first to the high altar, should then turne them to the President, and from hym to the altar agayne. And so after thys turning and returning three tymes together, the President should say: Miseriator which done euery man to place hym self againe in hys stalle. measures at þ^e Confiteor, as the custome there was in turnyng him selfe vpward and downeward, and knocke his brest in the eleuation tyme. Which Idolatrous adoratiõ, his harte did so vehemently rise against, that euen then, he would get him out of the Churche to auoyde those vngodly gestures.

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To be short, perceiuyng after a time, that he was greatly suspected, & abhorred of þ^e President then beyng (which was D. Coueney)  

& of diuers other, which before were his hie frendes, & therwithall feelyng great conflict & torment of cõscience, so that his new life & old liuyng, might not quietly stand together, he addressed him selfe to depart the house. For he thought it not best now to abyde the daunger of expulsion, as he dyd at he first, seyng the weather was waxed hotter. And beyng demaunded at that tyme, of a speciall frend, (who would gladly haue persuaded hym to the contrary) whether he would go or how he would liue, he made this aunswere: Domini est terra & plenitudo eius. i.  

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Psalm 24.(23.) 1.

Foxe text Latin

Domini est terra & plenitudo eius.

Foxe text translation

The earth is the Lordes, and the fulnes therof.

Actual text of Psalm 23. (24.) 1. (Vulgate, from both the Greek and Hebrew)

Domini est terra et plenitudo eius

[Accurate citation.]

The earth is the Lordes, and the fulnes therof. Let the Lord worke, I wil commit my selfe to God and the wyde world.

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Here I thinke it expedient, before I write of the paynfull surges that he suffered after he came abroad into the perillous gulffes and deepe Sea of this wretched wyde world: first to rehearse one or two examples of his open behauiour at such times, as he had recourse to the Colledge after his last departure: whereby the reader may better vnderstãd, how farre wyde he was, from all dissumulation in Gods cause. MarginaliaD. Iohn the Spanish Fryer succeeded Peter Martyr in the Diuinitie Lecture.Beyng at Oxford on a time, and hauyng knowledge that the Spanish Frier Iohn, who succeded Doct. Peter Martyr in the office of the Diuinitie lesson, would preache in Magdalene Colledge that present Sonday, he would not at the first graunt to be present at it. At length a frend of his a felow of that house, persuaded so much with him, that he was content to accompanie hym thether. Sodenly as the Frier inueyed agaynst Gods truth and defended certaine Popish heresies, Palmer hauyng many eyes bent and directed towardes hym departed from amongest the middest of the auditory, and was found in his frendes chamber wepyng bitterly. Afterward beyng demaunded why he slipt away vpon such a sodeine: Oh sayth he, if I had not openly departed, MarginaliaPalmer could not abyde the blasphemous sermon of Fryer Iohn.I should haue openly stopped myne eares. For the Friers blasphemous talke, in disprouing or rather deprauyng the veritie, made myne eares, not to glow, but worse to smart, then if they had bene cut frõ my head.

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It chaunced an other tyme, that the same frend  

of his, beyng bursar of the house, bad hym to a dynner in his chamber: Palmer not knowyng what gestes were also thether inuited, happened there (contrary to his expectation) to mete with the foresayd Frier with whõ were present also diuers other Papistes, whose companie Palmer could not well beare: and therfore, whisteryng his frend in þ^e eare, he sayd: he would be gone, for þ^t was no place for hym. The bursar desired hym of all frendshyp, not to do so, alledging that it were þ^e next way, to bewray him selfe, with many other persuasions, as the shortnes of time would permit. He condescended to his request, and taryed. Now as he came to the fire side, the Frier saluted him cherefully. Palmer with an amiable countenance, resaluted him gentilly. MarginaliaPalmer refuseth to take fryer Iohn by the hand.But when the Frier offred him his hand, he castyng his eye aside, as though he had not seene it, found matter of talke to an other standyng by, and so auoyded it: which thyng was well marked of some, not with

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out great grudge of stomacke.

After they were set, and had well eaten, the Frier with a pleasaūt looke, offering him the cuppe, sayd: Propino tibi iuuenis erudite. i.  

I drinke to you, O learned young mã. Palmer at that word blushing as red as scarlet, aunswered: Non agnosco nomen domine. i.  

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Julius Palmer

Foxe text Latin

Non agnosco nomen, domine.

Foxe text translation

I knowledge no suche name, O sir.

I knowledge no such name, O Syr.: MarginaliaIulius Palmer refuseth to drinke with Fryer Iohn.and therewith taking the cuppe at hys hand, he set it downe by him as though he would haue pledged him anone: but in the end it was also well marked, that he did it not.

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When dyner was done, beyng sharply rebuked of his frend, for this so vnwise and vnciuill behauiour, as he termed it: he made aunswere for him selfe and sayd: Oleum eorū nõ demulcet, sed frangit caput meū. i.  

The oyle of these mē doth not supple, but breaketh my head.

An other tyme, which was also the last tyme of hys beyng at Oxford before his death, one Barwicke  

an olde acquayntaunce of his, beyng sometyme Clarke in Magdalenes, and then felow of Trinitie Colledge, a ranke Papist, begã to reason with hym, in his frēdes chamber aforesayd, and perceyuyng hym to be zelous and earnest in the defence of the verity, he sayd vnto hym: MarginaliaBarwickes wordes to Palmer.Well Palmer, now thou art stout and hardy in thine opinion. But if thou were brought to the stake, I beleue thou wouldest tell me an other tale. I aduise thee, beware of the fire, it is a shrewd matter to burne.

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MarginaliaPalmers godly aunswere to Barwicke.Truly, saith Palmer I haue bene in daunger of burnyng once or twyse, and hetherto I thanke God haue escaped. But I iudge verely it will be my end at last. Wellcome be it by the grace of God. In deede it is a hard matter for thē to burne that haue þ^e soule lynked to the body, as a theeues foote is tyed in a payre of fetters. But if a man be once hable through the helpe of Gods spirite, to separate and diuide the soule from the body, for hym it is no more mastery to burne, then for me to eate this peece of bread. Thus much by the way concerning his playnnesse, w^tout dissimulatiõ. Now let vs procede in our story, and faythfully declare, both the occasion and maner of his death.

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Immediatly after he had yelded vp his felowshyp in Oxford, he was through Gods prouidence (who neuer fayleth them, that seeke his glory) placed scholemaster by patent in the Grãmer schole of Readyng, MarginaliaIulius Palmer placed by patent to be Scholemaster at Reading.where he was well accepted of all those that feared God, and fauoured hys word, aswell for his good learnyng & knowledge, as also for his earnest zeale and profession of the truth. But Sathan the enemy of all godly attemptes, enuying his good procedinges, and prosperous successe in the same, would not suffer hym there to be long quyet: wherefore he styrred vp agaynst hym, certaine dubble faced hypocrites, which by dissimulation, and crafty insinuation, had crept in, to vnderstand his secretes, vnder the pretense of a zeale to the Gospell: which men he (suspectyng no disceite) right ioyfully imbraced, and made them pryuie of all his doynges. MarginaliaPalmer circumuented by false Iudasses.For as he hym selfe was then feruently inflamed with the loue of heauēly doctrine, so had he an incredible desire, by all meanes possible, to allure and encourage other, to the profession of the same.

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These faithfull and trusty brethren, so soone as they had found good oportunite, spared not in his absence, MarginaliaIulius Palmers study searched for bookes.to rifle his study of certaine good bookes and writynges, amongest the which was his replication to Morwyns Verses touchyng Winchesters Epitaphe, and other Argumentes both in Latin and Englishe, written by hym agaynst the Popish procedynges, and specially agaynst their vnnaturall and brutishe tyranny, executed toward the Martyrs of God.  

When they had thus done, they were not ashamed to threaten him, that they would exhibite the same to the Coūsel, vnles he would without delay, depart out of their costes, and gyue ouer the schole to a frend of theirs. The truth of this story appeareth in part, by a letter written with his owne hand out of prison, about 8. dayes before he was burned,   and sent vnto two especiall frendes of his: which

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