MarginaliaAn. 1557. March.beyng entred into my house, and talked withall, they shewed them selues desperate and very obstinate, yet I vsed all the honest meanes I could, both by my selfe and other to haue wonne them, causing diuers learned men to talke with them: and findyng nothyng in them but pride and wilfulnes, I thought to haue had them all hether to Fulham, & here to geue Sentence agaynst them. Neuertheles, perceiuyng by my last doyng that your grace was offended, I thought it my duety before I any

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thyng fruther proceeded herein, to aduertise first your grace herof, & know your good pleasure, which I besech your grace I may do by this trusty bearer. And thus most humbly I take my leaue of your good grace, beseching almighty God alwaies to preserue the same. At Fullam, postridie Natiu. 1556.

Your graces most bounden Bedesmā
and seruaunt, Edmund London.

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By this letter of Byshop Boner to the Cardinal, is to be vnderstand, what good will was in thys Bishop to haue the bloud of these men, and to haue past with sentence of condemnation agaynst them, MarginaliaB. Boners crueltie somewhat stayed by the Cardinall.had not the Cardinal somewhat (as it semed) haue stayde his feruent headynes.  

Concerning the which Cardinal, although it can not be denyed by hys Actes & writinges, but that he was a professed enemy, and no otherwyse to be reputed but for a papiste: MarginaliaCard. Poole a Papiste, but no bloudy Papist.yet agayne it is to be supposed, that he was none of the bloudy and cruel sort of papistes, as may appeare not only by staying the rage of this Bishop: but also by hys solicitous writing, and long letters written to Cranmer:   also by the complaynts of certayne papistes, accusing hym to the pope to be a bearer with the heretickes, and by the Popes letters sent to hym vpon the same, callyng him vp to Rome, and settyng Frier Peto in his place, had not Queene Mary by speciall entreaty haue kept hym out of the popes daunger. All which letters I haue (if neede be) to shew:   besides also that it is thought of hym that toward his latter ende, a litle before hys comming from Rome to England, MarginaliaCard. Poole halfe suspected for a Lutheran at Rome.he began somewhat to sauour the doctrine of Luther, and was no lesse suspected at Rome: Yea and furthermore did there at Rome conuert a certayne learned Spanyard from papisme to Luthers side: notwithstanding the pompe and glory of the world afterward caryed hym away to play the papist thus as he did. But of this Cardinal enough.

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To returne now to this godly company agayne, first how they were brought vp in bandes to London, ye

haue heard: Also how Boner was about to haue red þ^e Sentence of death vpon them, and how he was stayed by the Cardinal ye vnderstand. As touching their confession, which they articled vp in writing, it were to tedious to recite the whole at length. Briefely touching the article of þ^e Lordes Supper (for þ^e which they were chiefely troubled) thus they wrote, as here foloweth.

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MarginaliaTheir opinion and iudgement of þ^e Lordes Supper.WHere as Christ at his last Supper toke bread, and when he had geuen thankes he brake it and gaue it to his disciples & sayd: take, eate, this is my body: and likewise tooke the cuppe and thanked, &c. MarginaliaChristes language to speake in parrables.We do vnderstand it to be a figuratiue speach, as the most manner of his language was in parrables and darcke sentences, that they which are carnally mynded, shoulde see wyth theyr eyes, and not perceaue, and heare with their eares, and not vnderstād, signifying this, that as he did breake the bread among them, beyng but one loafe, and they all were pertakers thereof, so we through his body, in that it was broken, and offered vpon the crosse for vs, are all partakers thereof, and his bloud clenseth vs from our sinnes, and hath pacified Gods wrath towards vs, and made the atonement betwene God and vs, if we walke henceforth in the light euen as he is the true light.

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MarginaliaThe cause why the bread and cup was geuē in the Supper.And in that hee sayd further, do this in the remēbrance of me, it is a memoriall and token of the suffring & death of Iesu Christ: and he commaunded it for this cause, that the congregatiō of Christ should come together to shew his death, and to thanke and laude hym for all his benefites, and magnifie his holy name, and so to breake the bread and drinke the wine, in remembraunce that Christ

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