MarginaliaWhether the Friers make vp the body of Antichrist or not.All these thynges well considered, now remayneth in the church to be marked: that for somuch as these Friers (with their new found testament of Frier Frauncis) not beyng contented with the testament of God in his sonne Christ, began to spryng the same tyme, when as Satan was prophesied to be let loose, by the order of the Scripture: whether therfore it is to be doubted, that these Friers make vp the body of Antichrist, which is prophecied to come in the churche, or not: so much more to be doubted, because who so lyst to try, shal finde, that of all other enemyes of Christ, of whō some be manifest, some be priuie, all be together cruel: yet is there no such sorte of enemyes, whiche more sleightly deceaueth the simple Christian, or more deepely drowneth hym in damnation, then doth this doctrine of the Friers.

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But of this Oration of Armachanus enough  

. Which Oration what successe it had with the pope, by story it is not certein. By his own lyfe declared, it appeareth, that the Lord so wrought, that his enemies did not triumphe ouer hym. MarginaliaThe death of godly Armachanus.Notwithstāding, this by story appeareth, that he was vij. or viij. yeares in banishmēt for the same matter   , & there dyed in the same at Auinion. MarginaliaThe testimonie of a Cardinall vpon Armachanus.Of whom a certeine Cardinall hearyng of hys death openly protested, that the same day, a myghty pyller of Christes churche was fallen.

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MarginaliaEx chron. reg. Richard. 2.After the death of Armachanus, the Friers had contētion lykewise w^t the monks of Benedictes order, about þ^e same yere. 1360. & so remoued their cause both agaynst the monkes and against the vniuersitie of Oxford, vnto the court of Rome, wherein sayth the autor, they lacked an other Richard. Ex Botonero. MarginaliaFryers against the Vniuersitie of Oxford.By thys appeareth to be true, whiche is testified in the fyrste tome of VVald. that long debate continued betwene the Friers and the vniuersity of Oxford: MarginaliaEnglish writers against the Friers.Agaynst whom fyrst stoode Robert Grostede Bishop of Lincolne, aboue mencioned: Thē Seuallus of Yorke. Afterward Ioannes Bachothorp, and now thys Armachanus, of whom here presently we do entreate. And after him agayne Iohn Wyckleffe, of whom (Christ wyllyng) we wil speak hereafter. Ex vvaldeno MarginaliaFriers that wryte against Armachanus.Agaynst thys foresayd Armachanus wrot diuers friars, Roger Conewey a Franciscan, Iohn Heyldesham Carmelite, Galfridus Hardeby frier Augustine. Also Frier Engelbert a Dominican, in his booke intituled, Defensorum priuilegiorum, and diuers other. MarginaliaTestified by certayne Englishmē which are alyue haue it.I credibly heare of certayne old Irish Bibles translated long synce into the Irysh tong, which if it be true, it is not other lyke, but to be the doing of this Armachanus  

. And thus much of thys learned prelate and Archbishop of Ireland, a man worthy for hys Christian zeale, of immortall commendation.

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MarginaliaPope Vrbane. 5
1360.
Vrbane cōplayneth that no promotion would fall vpon hym.After the death  

of this Innocent, next was poped in the see of Rome pope Vrbane the fyft: who by the fathers syde was an English   man. This Vrbane had ben a long waiter in the court of Rome   : and when he sawe no promotion would light vpon hym, complayning to a certaine friend of his, made to him his mone, saying: That he thought verely, if all the churches of the world should fall, yet none would fall vpō his head. The which frende after seing him to be pope, and inthronised in his threefold crowne, commeth to him, and putting hym in remembraunce of his wordes to him before sayth: MarginaliaAn answer agayne to Vrbane being made pope.that where his holynes had moned his fortune to him, that if al the churches in the world would fall, none would fall vpon his head: Nowe (sayth he) God hath otherwyse so disposed, that all the churches in the world are fallen vpon your heade. &c.

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This pope mayntained  

and kindled great warres in Italy, sending Egidius his Cardinall and Legate   , and after him Arduinus a Burgundian his legate & Abbot with a great puisance and muche money agaynst sundry cities in Italy: MarginaliaEx Sabel. Enead. 9. lib. 8.By whose means, the townes and cities which before had broken from the bishop of Rome, were oppressed: also Bernabes and Galeaceus princes of Millane, vanquished. By whose example other beyngMarginaliaHow the church of Rome came by their royall possessions.sore feared, submitted thē selues to the church of Rome. And thus came vp that wicked church to her great possessions, which her patrones would needes father vpon Constantine the godly emperour   .

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In the time  

of this pope Vrbane the fift, and in the second yeare of his raygne, about the beginning of the yeare of our Lord. 1364   . MarginaliaNicholaus Orem.I fynde a certaine sermon of one Nicolaus Orem, made before the pope and his Cardinals on Christenmas euen. In the which sermon, the learned man doth worthely rebuke the prelats & priests of his time, declaring their destruction not to be far of, by certayne signes taken of their wycked and corrupt lyfe. All the sayinges of the prophets spoken agaynst the wicked priests of the Iewes, he doth aptly apply against the Clergy of his time, comparing the church then present to the spirituall strumpet spoken of in. xvi. of the prophet Ezechiel. And proueth in conclusion the clergye of the church then, to be so much worsse then the old Synagoge of the Iewes, by how much it is worse to see the church and sacraments, then to suffer Doues to be sold in the church. With no lesse iudgemēt also and learning he answereth to the old and false obiectiō of the papysts: who albeit they be neuer so wicked, yet thinke thēselues to be the churche, which the Lorde cannot forsake. All which thinges to thentent they may the better appeare in his own words, I haue thought here to translate and exhibite the Sermon as it was spoken before the pope.

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MarginaliaA Sermō made before the popeIVxta est salus mea, vt veniat, et iustitia. &c. that is: My sauing health is neare at hand to come, and my righteousnes to be reuealed. &c. Esay. 56. MarginaliaEsay. 56.
The world deuided into two sortes of men before the incarnation of Christ.After the sentence of S. Paule Rom. 2. and in diuers other places, before the natiuitie of Christ: þ^e whole world was diuided into two sortes of men, the Iewes and Gentils. The Iewes who wayted for the opening of the doore of Paradise, by the bloud of the sauiour to come. The Gentiles, who yet sitting in darkenes, were to be called to light, and to be iustified by faith, as is written. Rom. 5.

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This saluation pertaynyng both to the Iewe and Gentile, God promised before time to the fathers by the prophets, to styr vp the desyre thereof in their hartes the more, and to increase their firme hope and fayth in the same. As fyrst in Mich. 6. the voyce of the Lord crieth: Health and saluation shall be to all mē which feare my name. And Esay. xlvi. I wil geue in Sion saluation, and in Ierusalem my glory. &c. with diuers suche other places lyke. MarginaliaRom. 12.And forsomuch as hope manye times whych is deferred, doth afflict the soule, and conceiueth wearines of long deferring: He therefore prophesieng of the nerenes of the comming therof, sayth moreouer. Esay. xliij. his time is neare at hand to come. Also Abac. ij. He wyll come, and will not tary, with manye suche other places mo. So then the holy fathers being in Limbo, loked and hoped that he should bring out them that sat boūde, and which in the house of prison sat in darkenes, as is redde Esay. xli. Then the time drew on, in which came the fulnes of the Gentiles, and in which the lord would declare the riches of this mistery being hidden from the worlde, and from generations, Colos. 1. Wherfore the Lorde in this text doth both certifie our fathers of the commyng of our sauiour, & doth comfort them touching the nearenes thereof, and also teacheth the iustification of the Gentiles by fayth aproching now neare at hand, according to the woordes of my text, Iuxta est, salus mea. &c. Which wordes were fulfilled then, what tyme the lord did make manifest hys saluation, and dyd reueale hys righteousnes in the sight of all the Gentiles. MarginaliaDiuision.And is deuided in three partes. Of which the fyrst speaketh of the nearenes of hys comming, where is sayd, Iuxta est salus. &c. MarginaliaIuxta est.The second concerneth the mistery of the aduēt

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