oyle. The temple of the Lord to be the wyde world. MarginaliaThe tēple of the Lord that is, the proper habitatiō wherin God most properly dwelleth and worketh. That is the very place maketh not the ministratiō of holy things either more or les holy.The maiestye of God not to bee restrayned more within the walles of temples, monasteries and chapels, so that hys grace is rather to be found in one place, then in another

Priestes apparel, ornaments of the high aulter, vestiments, corporaces, chalices, patines, and other churche plate to serue in no stede. For the difference and respect of the verye place: to make no matter, where the priest doth consecrate, or doth minister to them which doo require. To be sufficiēt to vse onely the sacramētal words without all other superfluous ceremonies.

The suffrages of saintes reigning with Christ in heauen, to be craued in vayne, being not able to helpe vs. In saying or singing the houres and mattens of the day, the tyme to be but lost. A mā ought to cease from his labour no day, but onely vpon Sonday.

The feastes and festiuals of saintes, ought to be reiected. Item such fastes as be coacted and inioyned by the churche, haue no merite in them.

These assertions of the Valdenses, beyng thus articled out by Eneas Siluius, I thought to geue them abroad both in Latin and English: to thentent, þ^t as they are the lesse to be doubted, beyng set out of a Popes pen: so we may the better know both them hereby,what they were: and also vnderstand how this doctrine now preached & taught in the churche, is no new doctrine, which here we see both taught & persecuted almost. 400. yeres ago. And as I haue spoken hetherto sufficiently concernyng their doctrine: so now we will briefly somewhat touche, of the order of theyr lyfe and conuersation, as we finde it regestred in a certaine olde written booke of Inquisitions.

MarginaliaDe moribus et cōsuitudine Valdensiū.MOdus autem Valdensiū talis est. &c. The whole proces commeth to this effect in Englishe. The maner of the Valdēses is this: They knelyng vpon their knees, leaning to some bācke, or stay, do continue in theyr prayers with silence, so long as a man may say. 30. or 40. tymes Pater noster. And this they do euery day w^t great reuerence, beyng amōgst thēselues, & such as be of their own religion, and no straungers with them, both before diner & after: likewise before supper and after: also what tyme they go to bed: and in the mornyng when they rise: and at certaine other tymes also, as well in the day, as þ^e night. Item they vse no other prayer, but the prayer of þ^e Lord, and that without Aue Maria, and the Crede, which the affyrme not to be put in for any prayer by Christ, but only by the church of Rome. Albeit they haue & vse þ^e seuen articles of fayth concerning the diuinitie: and seuē articles concernyng the humanitye, and the x. cōmaūdements, and seuen workes of mercy, which they haue cōpiled together in a compendious booke, gloryeng much in the same, and therby offer them selues, ready to aunswere any man for their fayth.

Before they go to meate, they haue this grace, Benedicite. Kyrieeleysō. Christe eleyson. Kyrieeleysō. Pater noster: MarginaliaTheir maner of grace before meate.which beyng sayd, then the elder amongest them begynneth thus in their owne tongue: God whiche blessed the fiue barly loaues and two fishes in the desert, before his disciples, blesse this table & that is set vpon it, or shalbe set vpon it. In the name of the father, of the sonne and of the holy ghost. Amen. And likewise agayne when they ryse frō meate, the seniour geueth thankes: MarginaliaTheir grace after meat.saying the wordes of the Apocalips: Blessing, and worshyp, and wisdome, and thankes geuing, honor, vertue, & strength to God alone for euer and euer. Amen. And addeth more ouer: God reward them in their bosoms, and he beneficiall to all them, that be beneficiall to vs, & blesse vs. And the God whiche hath geuen vs corporall feedyng, graūt vs his spirituall lyfe, & God be with vs, and we alwayes with him. To whiche they aunswere againe. Amen. And thus saying grace, they holde their hāds vpward lokingvp to heauen. After their meat and grace said, they teach and exhorte amongest them selues conferryng together vpon their doctrine. &c.

In their doctrine and teachyng they were so diligent and painefull, that Reinerius a writer about their time, MarginaliaReinerius an old inquisitor against Valdenses. (an extreme enemy against thē) in a long proces, wherin he describeth their doctrine & teachyng, testifieth: that he heard of one whiche did know the partie, that a certaine heretike (sayth he) onely to turne a certaine person away from our fayth, and to bryng hym to hys (in the night, & in the winter tyme) swāme ouer the riuer called Ibis, to come to hym and to teach hym: moreouer so perfect they were then in the Scriptures, þ^t the sayd Reinerius saith, he did here & see a man of the coūtrey vnlettered, whiche could recite ouer the whole booke of Iob word by word, without booke: with diuers other, whiche had the whole new testament perfectly by heart.

And although some of them, rather merely then vnskilfully, expoūded the words of 1. Ioan. Sui non receperunt eum, MarginaliaPius videtur Iocus, in lasciuos sacerdotes.Swine did not receaue him: yet were they not so ignoraunt & voyde of learnyng, nor yet so fewe in nūber but that they did mightly preuayle. In so much that Reinerius hath these wordes. Non erat qui eos impedire auderet propter potentiam & multitudinem fautorum suorum. Inquisitioni & examinationi fæpe intersui Et cōputatæ sunt. 40. Ecclesiæ, quæ hæresi infectæ fuerūt: ac in vna parochia Cammach fuerunt decē eorum scholæ. &c. MarginaliaThe power & multitude of Valdenses.That is. There was none durst stoppe them, for the power and multitude of their fauourers. I haue often ben at theyr inquisition, and examination. And there were numbred xl. churches, infected with their heresy, in so much that in one parishe of Cammach. were. x. open scholes of them. &c. Hæc illo.

And yet the sayd Reinerius, when he hath sayd all he can, in deprauing and impugning them: yet is driuen to confesse this of them, where he doth distinct their secte frō other sectes and hath these wordes: Hæc vero leonistarum secta magnam habet speciem pietatis, eo quod coram hominibus iuste viuant, et bene omnia de Deo credant, et omnes articulos, qui in simbolo continentur, Solā Romanam ecclesiam blasphemant et oderunt. MarginaliaValdenses in all other payntes sound, but only for holding agaynst the church of Rome.That is, This sect of Leonistes, hath a great shew of holynes: in þ^t both they lyue iustly before men & beleue all thinges well of God, and hold all the articles conteyned in the Crede. Onely they blaspheme the Romish churche, and hate it. &c.

MarginaliaGratio.Now to touch somwhat their persecutiōs. After they were driuē out of Lyōs, they were scatered into diuers & sondry places (the prouidence of God so disposing) that þ^e soūd of theyr doctrine might be hard abroad in þ^e world: Some, as I sayd, went to Bohemia. Many did flee into othe prouinces of Fraunce. Some into Lōbardy, other into other places. &c. MarginaliaThe crosse cōmōly foloweth the woorde.But as the crosse cōmenly foloweth the veritye and sincere preachyng of Gods worde: so neither could these be suffered to lyue in rest. They are yet to be seene, þ^e cōsultatiōs of Lawyers, archbishops, and bishops of Fraunce, as Harbonensis, Areletatensis, Aquensis, and Albanensis, diuised amongst them selues, and yet remayne in writing, for þ^e abolishyng, and extirping of these Valdenses, writē aboue. CCC. yeres: wher by it appeareth, there was a great number in Fraunce.

Besides, there was a whole councel kept in Tolose about. CCCLv. yeares to fore, and all agaynst these Valdenses: The which also were condēned in an other councel at Rome before that.

What great persecutions were raysed vp against thē in Fraunce, by these iiij. Archbishops before mentioned, it appeareth by their writings, wherof I will resite som of their words, which towards þ^e end be these: MarginaliaValdenses persecuted more then 200 yeres ago by Antichrist.Quis enim est solus ille peregrinus, qui condemnationem hæreticorū Valdēsiū ignoret a longe retro annis factā, tan famosam, tā publicā, tot et tantis laboribus, expensis, et sudoribus fidelium insecutam, et tot mortibus ipsorum infidelium so-