☞ Item, pag. 1545. in the story of the Duke of Somerset, where it is sayd that at the returne of the Earle of warwicke out of Norfolke ther was a consultation amongest the Lordes assēblyng them selues together in the house of M. Yorke &c. agaynst the Duke of Somerset: here is to be noted that the commyng of the Lordes to the sayd house of M. Yorke was not immediatly vpō the Duke of Northumberlandes returne, but first he went to Warwicke and from thence after a space came to the house aforesayd.

Itē, here also is to be noted touchyng þ^e sayd Duke of Somerset, that albeit at hys death relation is made of a sodeine fallyng of the people, as was at the takyng of Christ, this is not to be expounded as though I compared in any part the Duke of Somerset with Christ.

And though I do some thyng more attribute to the cōmendation of the sayd Duke of Somerset, which dyed so constātly in hys Religion, yet I desire thee gentle reader, so to take it, not that I dyd euer meane to derogate or empayre the martiall prayse or factes of other men, which also are to be commended in such thynges where they wel deserued.

Item, touchyng the same Duke of Somerset, where the story sayth, pag. 1360. he was attaynted, read indited.

☞ Item, pag. 1579. where mention is made of one Nicolas Vnderwode to be the betrayer of the Duke of Suffolke: MarginaliaThis N. Vnderwood dwelleth now at Coton by Nunne Eaton, and Laurence in Nūne Eaton, in Warwickeshyre.ioyne with the sayd Vnderwode also Nicolas Laurence, aliâs Nicholas Ithel keper of Asteley Parke, who takyng vppon hym and promising to keepe the Duke, for ij. or three dayes vntill he might fynde some meanes to escape, conueyed hym into an hallow tree, & after most traiterously bewrayed hym.

☞ Item, fol. 1580. in the story of Syr Tho. Wiat there is also to be corrected, that where the story saith that he was taken by Syr Clement Parson, which was not so, nor he no such Knight, amend it thus, that he first came to Clarentius beyng sent vnto hym, and afterward yelded hym to Syr Morrys Bartley.

☞ Itē, pag. 405. for somuch as there be certeine lines past in Latin which in many wordes haue neede of correction, I desire such as be learned, with their pennes to amend the faults therin escaped.

Briefly & in general, besides these castigations aboue noted, if thou finde any other cōmitted in the printing hereof, gently I desire thee, gentle Reader, to bestowe a litle paines with thine owne hand to amend them.

MarginaliaTheMartyrdome of one Snel by Richmond.AT Bedaile a market towne in Yorkshyre, were two men in the later dayes of Queene Mary, the one named Iohn Snell, and the other Rich. Snell. Who beyng suspected for Religion, were sent vnto Richmond, where D. Dakyns had commission from the Byshop of Chester to haue the examination of them. This D. Dakyns many tymes conferred with them, some tymes threatnyng fire and fagot if they would not recant, and some tymes flatteryng them with fayre fables if they would returne into the holy Catholicke Church. But they stode constantly to the sure rocke Iesus Christ, in whom they put their whole trust and confidence: whiles at last bring so sore imprisoned that their toes rotted of, and the one of them could not goe without crutches, they brought them to the church by compulsion, where the one of them heard their abominable Masse, hauing a certeine summe of money geuen him by the beneuolence of the people, and so departed thence: but the first newes that was heard of him within iij. or iiij. dayes was that he had drowned him self in a riuer running by Richmund called Swaile. MarginaliaGods punishment vpon the Doctor that condemned Snel.Immediatly after D. Dakins geuing sentence that the other should be burnt, came home to his house and neuer ioyed after, but died. The Commissary of Richmond named Hillings, preached at his burning, exhorting him to returne to the church: but his labor was in vaine, the cōstant Martyr standing strongly to the faith which he professed. Then being brought to the stake, wherunto he was tied by a girdle of iron, there was giuen vnto him gunpouder and a little straw was layd vnder his feete, and set rounde about with small woode and tarre barrels, the fire was put in the strawe, which by and by flaming about his head, he cryed thrise together: Christ helpe me: In so much that one Robert Atkinsson being present: said, hold fast there, and we wil all pray for thee. Thus this blessed Martyr ended his life.

ALbeit I am loth to insert any thing in this booke which may seme incredible or straunge to ordinary working, for quarelling aduersaries, which do nothing but spie what they may cauil: yet forsomuch as besides other reporters the person is yet aliue, called Thorne a godly minister, which heard it o the mouth of the partie himself, I thought therfore first for the incredible strangenes therof, neither to place this story in the body of these Acts and Monuments, and yet in some outcorner of the boke not vtterly to passe it vntouched, for the reader to consider it, and to credit it as he seeth cause. The story is this.

MarginaliaThe maruellous deliueraunce of one Laremouth.There was one Laremouth, otherwise called Williamson, Chaplayn to Lady Anne of Cleue: a Scottishman, to whō being in prison in Q. Maryes daies, it was sayd, as he thought, thus soundyng in hys eares: arise and go thy wayes. Whereunto when he gaue no great hede at the first, the second tyme it was sayd to him agayne in the same wordes. Vpon this as he fell to his prayers, it was sayd the thyrd tyme likewise to hym, arise and go thy way, which was about halfe an houre after. So he arisyng vpon the same, immediatly a peece of the prison walle fell downe, and as the officers came in at the outward gate of the Castle or prison, he leapyng ouer the dich escaped: and in the way metyng a certeine beggar, chaunged his coate with him, and commyng to the Sea shore, where he founde a vessell ready to go ouer, was taken in, and escaped the search, which was straitly layd for hym in all the countrey ouer.

IN turning ouer the next leafe folowing which is Page 2. col. 2 & in the later end of the same colūme, thou shalt find, gentle Reader, the argument of Pighius and Hosius, wherin thus they argue: That forsomuch as Christ must nedes haue a catholique church euer cōtinuing here in earth, which all men may see, and wherunto all men ought to resort: and seing no other church hath endured continually from the Apostles, visible here in earth, but only the church of Rome: they conclude therfore the church only of Rome to be the right catholike Church of Christ. &c.

In answering wherunto, this is to be said: that forsomuch as the modius terminus of this argument, both in the Maior and Minor, cōsisteth only in the word [visible and knowne:] if they meane by this word [visible] in the Maior, that christes church must be sene here to all the world, that al men may resort to it, it is false: Likewise if they meane by the same word [visible] in the Minor, that no other church hath ben sene and knowne to any, but only the church of Rome, they are likewise deceiued. For the true church of Christ neither is so visible, that all the world can see it, but only they which haue spirituall eyes, and be members therof: nor yet so inuisible againe, but such as be Gods elect, and members therof, do see it & haue seene it, though the worldly eyes of the most multitude can not so do. &c. Wherof read more in the protestation aboue prefixed to the church of England.