land was the same tyme lost.

MarginaliaRich. Scrope Archb. of Yorke traytor and yet coūted a holy man.Richard Scrope Archbishop of Yorke, was openly in armes to rebell and fight agaynst kyng Henry 4. for the which he was condemned and put to death. And yet notwithstandyng Cōmission was sent downe frō the Pope shortly after, to excommunicate them whiche put hym to death his treason notwithstanding. Read the story sincerely of pope Benedict 12. and of pope Clement 6. MarginaliaPopes cōmonly traytours.And see how the traitorous rebellion of these ij. popes against Ludouicus their rightfull Emperour can be defended: Whiche Emperour at last was also empoisoned, & that not without the practise of pope Clement, as doth Hieronimus Marius credibly witnes. pag. 466.

MarginaliaTho. Lancastre traytour, and yet made a saincte by the pope.In the reigne of kyng Edwarde the 2. mention was made before of Thomas Earle of Lancaster, pag. 463. Who with a great number of other nobles and barons of the realme rose in armour agaynst their prince, and therefore at length were put to death as traytours. And yet notwithstandyng this treason committed (maister Cope) if you be so ignorant in our stories, that you know it not, set your setters on to search, and you shall finde it true that certaine noble mē went vp to Rome, for the canonising of the sayd Thomas of Lancaster, to be made a sancte, and obteyned the same. In so much that in a certayne old Calender the name of the sayd S. Thomas of Lancaster is yet extant to be sene.

MarginaliaEdmund Archbish. of Cant. rebelled against hys prince, and yet made a sainct by the pope.In the former booke of these Actes and monumentes aboue, about the pag. 366. or. 367. mention was made of Edmunde of Abbenden Archbishop of Caunterbury, whom although I do not disproue, but rather commend in my historie, for his bold and sage counsaile geuen vnto kyng Henry the 3. and also for offeryng the censure of excommunication agaynst the kyng in so necessarye a cause: yet notwithstandyng the same Edmund, afterward about his later end, wēt vp with a rebellyng mind to complaine of his kyng vnto the pope, and in his iourney dyed, before his returne: who afterward for þ^e same, was canonised by the pope, and now shyneth among the sanctes in the popes Calender.

MarginaliaTho. Arundell a rancke traytour agaynst hys king, and yet a great piller counted in the popes church.Let vs come more nere to these daies and times and consider the doynges of Thomas Arundell Archbyshop of Caunterbury. Who beyng first deposed and exiled for his contemptuous desertes agaynst the kyng, and afterwarde commyng in, with Henry Bolynbroke Duke of Herford, in opē armes & with mayn force rose agaynst his naturall and lawful king: thinke you (maister Cope) this is not as great a pointe of treason, as þ^t which was done in Thickets fieldes? And though he be not placed among the portuous sanctes, yet I thinke nothyng cōtrary, but in your hart you will not greatly sticke to say, Sancte Thoma ora pro nobis.

All these things well cōsidered, tell me (maister Cope) I pray you, is treason such a straunge and vnketh thing in your popecatholyke church, that your burning zeale of obedience to kinges and princes, can not read the storye of the Lord Cobham and syr Rog. Acton, but your penne must needes be inflamed to write agaynst them, and yet so many traytours in your owne calenders neither sene, nor once spoken of? And if the traytorous conspiracie and rebellion of so many your Calendarsanctes committed agaynst Emperours, kinges, and princes, cā not styrre your zeale, nor moue your penne. Nor if the treasō of Pope Gregory. 9. raising warre against hys owne citie of Rome, and causing 30. thousand citezens in one battaile to be slayne, pag. 365. deserueth not to be espyed, and accused as much as this treason of the Lord Cobham: MarginaliaPope Gregorye 7. traytour agaynst the Lordes owne body.yet what will you or can you aunswere to me (maister Cope) as touchyng the horrible treason of pope Gregorye the vij. committed not agaynst Emperour nor kyng, nor any mortall man, but agaynst the Lord him selfe, euē agaynst your God of your owne making, beyng therin as you say no substaunce of bread, but thevery personall body, flesh, bloud, and bone of Christ him selfe, whiche body notwithstandyng the foresayd Pope Gregory vij. tooke and cast with his owne handes into the burnyng fire, because he would not aunswere him to a certain doubt or demaūd Benu. Card. pag. 229? MarginaliaVide supra pag. 229.Southly if Syr Iohn Oldcastle had takē the body of kyng Hēry the v. and throwne hym into the fire, the fact beyng so notoriously certaine as this is, I would neuer haue bestowed any word in his defence. And could this, and so many other heynous treasōs passe through your fingers (maister Cope) & no other to stike in your pen but the L. Cobh. Finally & simply to cōclude w^t you (maister Cope) & not to flatter you, what is the whole workyng, the procedynges, actions, and practises of your religion, or hath been almost these v. hundreth yeares, but a certaine perpetuall kynde of treason, to thrust down your princes & magistrates, to derogate from their right and iurisdiction, and to aduaunce your own maiesties and dominations: as hath been sufficiently aboue proued and layd before your faces, in a parlament holdē in Fraunce by the Lord Peter de Cugnerijs. vid. pag. 443. MarginaliaVide supra pag. 443.Wherfore if þ^e assēble of these fornamed persons, either within or w^tout S. Giles fielde bee such a great mote of treason in your eyes, fyrst looke vpon the great blockes and mylstones of your own traitours at home, and whē you haue well discussed the same, then after poure out your wallet of your trifling Dialogues or trialogues if ye list, agaynst vs, and spare vs not. Not that I so thincke this to bee a sufficient excuse to purge the treason of these mē, if your popishe calenders and legantes be founde full of traytours, Multitudo enim peccatum non parit errori patrocinium. MarginaliaReligion commonly maketh treason among the papistes.But this I think, that the same cause which made them to suffer as traytors, hath made you also to rayle agaynst them for traytors, that is, mere hatred onely agaynst their religion, rather then any true affection you haue to your princes and gouernours. Who if they had bene as feruent in your poperye, & had suffered so much for the holy father of Rome, or for the liberties of the holy mother church of Rome, I doubt not, but they as holy children of Rome had bene roong into your Romysh Calender with a festum duplex, or at least with afestum simplex of. ix. lessons, also with a vigill peraduenture before them. Now because they were on the contrary profession, and enemies to your Magna Diana Ephesiorum, you play with them, as the Ephesian caruers did wyth saint Paule and worse. Ye thrust them out as sedicious rebels, not onely out of lyfe and bodye, but also can not abide thē to haue any poore herber in their own frends houses, among our actes and monuments to be remembred. In the which actes and monumentes, and if gentle maister Ireneus, wyth his fellowe Critobulus in your clerkly Dialogues, wyll not suffer them to be numbred for Martyr or yet speake a good word for them (mayster Cope) they may stand for testes or witnes bearers of the truth. And thus much for defence of them.

MarginaliaAnswere to the second part of Copes accusatiō, concerning his vntrue charging of the boke of Actes & Monum.Now to the other part of his accusation, wherin this Alan⁹ Copus Anglus in his xxx or sexfold Dialogues contendeth and chafeth agaynst my former edition, to proue me in my history to be a lier, a forger, impudent, a misreporter of truth, a deprauer of stories, a seducer of þ^e world, and what els not? whose virulent wordes, and cōtumelious termes, how well they become his popish person, I knowe not. Certes for my part I neuer deserued this at his handes wyttingly, that I do knowe. Maister Cope is a mā whō yet I neuer saw, & lesse offended, nor euer hard of him before. And if he had not in the front of his booke intituled hym selfe to be an English man, by his writing I would haue iudged him rather some wild Irishmā, lately crept out of S. Patrikes Purgatory, so wildlye he writeth, so fumishlye he fareth. But I cease here, & tēper my self cōsideryng not what M. Cope deserueth to be sayd vnto, nor how far the pen here could run