Marginalia1558.the lyke striking hand of God them selues also, in reuēgyng the bloud of his seruauntes.

And thus much concernyng those persecutours, as well of the Clergy sort, as of the laity, which were stricken and dyed before the death of Queene Mary. With whom also is to be numbred in the same race of persecuting Bishops which died before Queene Mary, these Bishops following.MarginaliaBishops that died before Q. Mary.

Now, after the Queene immediatly followed, or rather waited vpō her, the death of Cardinal Poole, who the next day departed: of what disease, although it be vncerteine to many, yet to some it is suspected that he tooke some Italian Physicke, which did him no good. Then folowed in order.MarginaliaBishops that died after Q. Mary.

Beside these Byshops aboue named, first dyed at the same tyme.

Doct. Weston Deane of Westminster, afterward
Deane of Winsore, chief disputer agaynst Cran-
mer, Ridley, and Latymer.
M. Slethurst Master of Trinity Colledge in Ox-
ford, who dyed in the Tower.
Seth Holland Deane of Worcester and Warden
of Alsoule Colledge in Oxford.
William Copynger Monke of Westminster, dyed
in the Tower.
Doct. Steward Deane of Winchester.

MarginaliaA note of D. Weston.¶ To beholde the working of Gods iudgementes, it is wonderous. In the first yeare of Q. Mary, when the Clergie was assembled in the Conuocation house, and also afterward when the disputation was in Oxford agaynst D. Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer, he that had seene then Doct. Weston the Prolocutor in his ruffe, how highly he tooke vpō him in the Scholes, & how stoutly he stoode in þ^e Popes quarell agaynst simple and naked truth, full litle would haue thought, and lesse did he thinke him selfe (I dare say) that his glory & lofty lookes should haue bene brought down so soone, especially by them of his owne Religion, whose part he so doughtely defended. But such is the reward and end commonly of them, who presumptuously oppose them selues to striue agaynst the Lord, as by þ^e example of this Doctorly Prolocutor right well may appeare. For not long after þ^e disputation aboue mentioned, agaynst Byshop Cranmer and his fellowes, MarginaliaD. Weston out of fauour with the Papistes.God so wrought agaynst the sayd Doct. Weston, that he fell in great displeasure with Cardinall Poole and other Byshops, because he was vnwilling to geue vppe his Deanery and house of Westminster, vnto the Mōkes and religious men, whom in dede he fauoured not, although in other thinges he maintained the Church of Rome. Who not withstaynding, at last through importunate sute, gaue vp Westminster, and was Deane of Windsore: MarginaliaD. Weston taken in adultery.where not long after, he was apprehēded in adultery, and for the same was by the Cardinall put from all his spirituall liuinges.

MarginaliaD. Weston appealed to Rome.Wherfore he appealed to Rome, and purposed to haue fled out of the Realme, but was taken by the way, and committed to the Tower of London, and there remained vntill Queene Elizabeth was proclaimed Queene, at which tyme he beyng deliuered, fell sicke and dyed. MarginaliaThe death of D. Weston.The common talke was that if he had not so sodeinly ended his life, he would haue opened and reueled the purpose of the chief of the Clergy, meanyng the Cardinall, which was to haue taken vp kyng Henries body at Windsore and to haue burned it. And thus much of Doct. Weston.

The residue that remained of the persecutyng Clergy, and escaped the stroke of death, were depriued, and committed to prisons: the Catalogue of whose names here followeth. MarginaliaCatholicke Byshops after Queene Maries death depriued and imprisoned.
Note þ^t some of these Byshops afterward through the goodnes of Q. Elizabeth were dispersed and suffered to be kept in their frendes houses.

Of Dauid Poole B. of Peterborough, I doubt whe-
ther he was in the Tower, or in some other prison.

Edmund Boner Byshop of London, in the Mar-
shalsee.
Thomas Wood Byshop Elect, in the Marshalsee.
Cutbert Scotte Byshop of Chester, was in the
Fleete, from whence he escape to Louane and
there dyed.

MarginaliaA note of D. Chadsey.¶ Concernyng which Doct. Chadsey here is to be noted, that in þ^e begynnyng of kyng Edwardes reigne he recanted and subscribed to 34. Articles,Marginalia34. Articles of D. Chadsey. wherin he then fully consented and agreed with his owne hand writyng to the whole forme of doctrine approued and allowed then in the Church,MarginaliaDoct. Chadsey subscribed to the reformed religion in K. Edwardes tyme. as well concernyng Iustification by faith onely, as also the doctrine of the two Sacramētes then receaued, denying as well þ^e Popes supremacie, trāsubstantiation, Purgatory, Inuocation of Saintes, eleuation and adoration of the Sacramēt, the sacrifice, and veneration of the Masse, as also all other like excrementes of Popish superstition, accordyng to the kynges booke then set forth. Wherfore the more maruell it is, that he being coūted such a famous and learned Clerke, would shew him selfe so fickle and vnstable in his assertions, so double in his doynges, to alter his Religion accordyng to tyme, and to mainteine for truth, not what hee thought best, but what hee might most safely defend. So long as the state of the Lord Protectour and of his brother stode vpright, what was the the conformitie of this D. Chadsey, his own Articles in Latin written and subscribed with his own hand, do declare, which I haue to shew, if he will deny them. MarginaliaD. Chadsey mutable and inconstant in hys religion.But after the decay of the kinges vncles, the fortune of them turned not so fast, but his Religion turned withall, & eftsoones he tooke vpon him to dispute agaynst Peter Martyr in vpholding transubstantiation at Oxford, which a litle before with his own hand writyng he had ouerthrowen.