MarginaliaAn. 1557. Iune.on, and whose talke we thought foolishnes, and his ende to be without honour: but now we may see how he is counted among the Saintes of God, and we are punished. These wordes shal you say beyng in hell, if you repent it not with spede, if you consent to the shedyng of my bloud: Wherfore looke to it, I geue you counsell

Priest. What? you be angry me thinkes. Now I will say more to you then I thought to haue done. You were at Baxill a tweluemoneth agone, and sent for the Parson and talked with him in the Churchyard, and would not go into the Church: for you sayd it was the idolles temple. Yea I was with myne old Lord, when he came to the Kynges Bench to you, and you sayd many stoute wordes to hym.

Wood. That I sayd, I sayd: and where you sayd I was angry, I take God to my record I am not, MarginaliaThe zeale of Gods spirite in Richard Woodman.but am zelous in the truth, and speake out of the spirite of God with cherefulnes.

Priest. The spirite of God? hough, hough, hough: thinke you that you haue the spirite of God?

Wood. I beleue surely that I haue þ^e spirite of God, I prayse God therfore: and you be deceiuers, mockers, and scorners before God, and be the children of hell, all the sort of you, as farre as I can see. MarginaliaD. Story cōmeth in.And therwith came in Doct. Story, poyntyng at me with his finger, speakyng to the Byshop in Latin, saying at length.

Story. I cā say nothing to him, but he is an hereticke. I haue heard you talke this houre and a halfe, and can heare no reasonablenes in hym

Wood. Iudge not, lest you bee iudged: for as you iudge, you shalbe iudged your selfe.

Story. What? be you a preachyng? you shall preach at a stake shortly with your felowes. My Lord, trouble your selfe no more with him.

With those wordes, one brought word that the Abbot of Westminster was come to dyne with the Byshop, and many other gentlemē and womē. Then there was rushyng away with speede to meete hym. Thē sayd Doct. Story to my keeper.

Story. MarginaliaD. Story commaundeth Richard Woodman agayne to the Marshalsey.Cary him to the Marshalsee againe, and let him be kept close, and let no body come to speake to hym.

Wood. And so they departed. Thē one of the Priestes begon to flatter with me, and sayd: for Gods sake remēber your selfe. God hath geuen you a good witte: you haue read the Scriptures well, & haue borne them well in memory: It were great pitie you should do amisse.

Wood. What a flatterer be you, to say my witte is good, and that I haue read the Scriptures well: and but euē now you sayd I was an hereticke, and despised me. If I be an hereticke I can haue no good witte, as you haue confessed. But I thinke your own conscience doth accuse you. God geue you grace to repēt, if it be his will.

Priest. I call it a good witte, because you are expert in all questions.

Wood. You may call it a wicked witte, if it agree not with Gods word. Then one cried, away, away: here cōmeth straungers. So we departed, and I came agayne to the Marshalsee with my keper.

MarginaliaThe third examinatiō of Richard Woodman, before Doct. Langdale, and Maister Iames Gage. May. 12.THe xij. day of May, the Marshall came to the Marshalsee, and sent for me to speake with him. When I came before him, and had done my dutie, he asked my name, and what countrey man I was. I shewed hym both. Then he asked me when I was abroad in the Citie. To whom I aunswered: If it shall please your maistershyp, I was abroad in the Citie on Monday was seuennight.

Marshall. What made you abroad?

Wood. The Byshop of Chichester sent for me to talke with me at home at his house besides S. Nicholas Shambles.

Marshall. Were you abroad no otherwise then so?

Wood. No forsoth: I was neuer abroad since I was sent hether, but then. For I haue nothing to do abroad, vnlesse they send for me.

Mar. This is a maruelous matter. I promise you I was not so rebuked these seuē yeares, as I was for you within these three dayes. MarginaliaFalse lyes and lewde reportes.It is reported that you were abroad in the Citie at certaine tauernes, and spake seditious wordes, both in the tauernes and in the streetes as you went.

Wood. Syr, the truth is, I was in neuer a house nor tauerne whiles I was abroad, but in þ^e Byshops house, as my keper can, and will (I am sure) testifie: nor I neuer talked with any man in the streetes as I came, but with my keper, sauyng with one mā in deede, of the Parishe of Framfield in Sussex, where M. Iames Gage dwelleth. His name is Rob. Smith, beyng one of my most enemies: who stode in a wayne as we came by, and was vnladyng of cheese (me thought) but a litle way frō the Marshalsey. In deede I bad him God speede, and asked him how he did: and he sayd, well he thanked me: and he asked me how I did, and I sayd, wel I prayse God: and that was all the talke that we had: and these wordes were spoken as I came by him. I promise you Syr, I stode not still while I spake them, as my keper can tell: and I thinke these wordes were no seditious wordes, but might be spoken well enough (I thinke) or els it were very straite.

Mar. Then it is to be thought that that man reported otherwise then it was. I am glad it is as you say. MarginaliaWoodmā warned to appeare.Wel, make you ready, for you must go forth straight way, where you shalbe examined of that and of other things, where you shall aunswere for your self. Go, make hast: for I will tary till you be ready.

Wood. So I departed from him, MarginaliaWoodmā taketh hys leaue of his fellowes.& went to my prison felowes, & tooke my leaue of thē, desiryng them to pray for me, for I thought verely to come no more to thē. For I supposed I should haue gone before the Counsell, because the Marshal sayd he would tary for me him selfe: and especially because he sayd it was reported that I had spoken sedicious wordes, it made me to thinke: it is possible that there may be some false thinges imagined vppon me, to bryng me to my ende. I remembred that Christ sayd: The seruaūt is not aboue his Lord. Seyng the Iewes brought false witnes agaynst. Christ, I thought they would do much more, or at the least do so to me, if God would suffer them: which made me cast the worst. But I was and am sure (I prayse my Lord God) that all the world is not able to accuse me iustly of any such thyng. Which thyng cōsidered, made me mery and ioyfull: & I was surely certified that they could do no more agaynst me, then God would geue them leaue: And so I bad my prison felowes fare wel, and went into the porters lodge to the Marshall, MarginaliaWoodmā deliuered to one of the Lord Mountagues men.and he deliuered me to one of his owne men, and to one of my Lord Mountagues men, and bad me go with them: and they caryed me to my Lord Mountagues place in Southwarke, not far from S. Mary Oueries, and brought me into a chamber in my Lord Mountagues house: and there was one D. Langdale, Chapleine to my Lord. My kepers sayd to the Doctor: this is the man that we went for.

Lang. Is your name Woodman?

Wood. Yea forsoth, that is my name.

Lang. Then he began with a great circumstaūce and sayd: I am sory for you, that you will not be ruled, but stand so much in your owne conceit, displeasing your father and other, iudgyng that all the Realme doth euill saue a few that do as you do: with many such wordes,