from their seate and possession, and place new in their rowmes. &c.

Marginalia Vntruth in Copus.Also where you continuing yet still in your common place of lieng (out of which you cānot digresse) do charge me farther, þ^t I do appointe out holy dayes & workyngdayes by colours of read & blacke, in my foresayd Calēdare to bee obserued: these leude notes of yours, MarginaliaCopus pag. 820. lin. 25.if they had bene picked out of my Calendare by you, without myne owne speciall declaration before made to the contrary, they might seme to haue some blushe of credite. Now what will the reader say, or what may hee iudge, consideryng and conferryng this your cauillyng, with þ^e matter of my premonitiō made before, but þ^t you are all together set to play þ^e perpetuall syc. I had almost called you by your right name M. Cope. But God make you (as I sayd) a good man. Readyng further in your booke I could not but smile & laugh at this your ridiculous & most loude lieng Hyperbolismum: where as you comparyng my making of sanctes, with the popes making, MarginaliaCopus pag. 819. lin. 7.can finde (as ye say) in þ^e pope no such impudent arrogancie in presumyng, as ye finde in me. &c. If the Pope had not abused his arrogant iurisdiction in Canonising and deifyeng his sanctes, more thē I haue done: the yeare should not be cōbred with so many idle holy dayes, nor the Calendares with so many raskall sanctes, some of them as good, as euer were they that put Christe to death. But where will you finde (maister Cope) any man to beleue this your hyperbolicall comparison to bee true, which seeth and knoweth the infinite and vnmeasurable excesse of the popes arrogancie, not onely in shrining such a rable of blinde sanctes of his owne creating: but also in prescribyng the same to be receaued vniuersally in þ^e whole world, and not to be receaued onely, but also to be inuocated for giftes and graces, also to be worshipped for aduocates and mediatours. MarginaliaDouble abhomination in the popes Calendare.Wherin riseth a double abhomination of the pope, the one for his idolatrous makyng and worshyppyng of sanctes: the other for hys blasphemous iniurie and derogation to Christ, in repulsing him out of his office of mediation, and placyng other mediatours of his owne makyng. And nowe to consider what sanctes these were, or what were the causes of their sancting: MarginaliaThe great sainct maker of Rome, and who be his sainctes.what sancte almost amōg all the popes sanctes shal you finde (M. Cope) made within these v. hūdreth yeres, but commonly he was either some pope, or some rich bishop, and prelate, or some fat Abbat, or some blind frier, some monke, or nonne, some superstitious regulare, or some builder of monasteries, or some geuer and benefactour to the popishe clergye, or mainteyner agonisyng for the dignities & liberties of þ^e popishe churche? What poore lay man or lay woman, were their lyues neuer so Christian, their faith and confession neuer so pure, theyr death neuer so agonysing for the witnes of Christ, and truth of his woorde, shall finde any place or fauour in all the popes xxx, that is in the Popes Calendar, either in read colour, or els in blacke?

MarginaliaThe great Godmaker of Rome.But here (maister Cope) if ye had þ^e wyt, so much to defēd, as ye haue to ouerwhart, you might take me w^t the maner, & reply agayn for þ^e defence of your great sanctmaker, or rather Godmaker of Rome: that he maketh moe Martyrs & sanctes of these foresaid poore laymen, & laywomen, then euer he did of any other. For he burneth them, he hangeth them, he drowneth them, inprisoneth & famisheth them, and so maketh them truer Martyrs of Christ, then any other of his new shrined sanctes, whom he hath so dignified in his Calēdare. For the one he doth rubricate, onely with his read letters, the other hee doth rubricate with their owne bloud. And therefore to aunswere you (maister Cope) to your comparison made betwene the Pope and me, for makyng of holy Martyrs & sāctes: Briefly I say, and report me to all the world, that herein is no comparison. For if ye speake of true Martyrs, who doth make them, but the Pope? if ye speake offalse Martyrs, who doth make them, but the Pope? And farthermore, to cōpare together the causes of these martyred sanctes in my Calendare, with them whiche shyne shrined in the popes Calendare (taking the same proportiō of tyme as I do, within these last v. hundreth yeares) why may not I haue as good cause to celebrate these in my Calendar, whiche lost their lyues and were slayne, principally for the cause of Christ and of his woorde: as the pope hath to celebrate his double and simple feasted sanctes in his Calendar, who in their doynges, doctrine, & life, as they semed rather to serue the pope, then Christ the Lord: so in their death appeared no such cause, why they should be sanctified in the churche, beyond all other. Let not the church of Christ (maister Cope) be deluded w^t hypocriticall names, nor fayned apparitions, and fablelous miracles, neither be you deceaued your self, but let vs resort sincerely to the word of God. MarginaliaNo cause why the popes new sanctes should be put in the Calendare.What was in S. Fraunces, looke vpon his superstitious lyfe, and presūptuous Testamēt, wrought no doubt by Satan, to diminish and obscure the Testament of Iesus Christ, why he should be made a sāct, & not an enemie rather of Christ? What was lykewise in Frier Dominicke, who before Fraunces. x. yeares together persecuted the poore Waldenses to death and destruction, why hee shoulde stande a sancte and a piller of the churche? MarginaliaTho. Becket.I praye you what see you in Thomas Becket, but that hee dyed for the ambitious liberties of the Popish churche? MarginaliaAldelmus.
Anselmus.
Dunstanus.What in Aldelmus, and in Anselmus, but onely that they chased away maried priests from the churches, and planted in idle monkes in their steede? The like also did Dunstanus, who was rubricated with a duplex festum. MarginaliaS. Elizabeth.Elizabeth who was the wife of the Marques of Thuring, when she had w^t much persuasions got out her husband to fight agaynst þ^e Turkes, & was their slaine, she afterward encloystred her selfe, & was made a nunne. And do you thinke these causes to be sufficient, why they should be made sanctes, worshipped in churches, and set in Calendares? Lōg it were to make rehearsall of all this rifraffe, and almost infinite. One example may suffice for many. MarginaliaThe canonisation of S. Gilbert of Sempringham.S. Gilbert of Sempringham, was the sonne of Ioceline a knight, who for his deformitie of his body was set to learnyng, and afterwarde made chanon, and was autor of the Gilbertines, in the time of kyng Iohn. This Gilbert after he had erected 13. monasteries of his order of Sempringham, was afterwarde laboured for vnto the Pope to be made a sancte: Who hearyng of his miracles, wrote his letters to Hubert Archbishop of Cāterbury, willyng and cōmaunding per Apostolica scripta, that the feast of the said Gilbert should be solemnised through all þ^e prouince of Cāterbury, Vt meritis nimirū eius et precibus apud misericordissimū iudicē misericordiā consequatur. &c. MarginaliaEx lib. de vita S. Gilberti Confessoris.Wherupon Hubert the Archbishop directeth downe his writynges to all the bishops within his prouince, the contentes of whiche his writynges do folow: MarginaliaThe popes letter & the arch. bish. for the canonising of S. Gilbert.Hubertus Dei gratia Cant. Archiepisco. totius Angliæ primas, dilectis in Christo frat. Episco. per prouinciam Cant. Sal. grat. & bene dictionem. D. papa, sicut ex literis ipsius manifeste perpenditur, de conuersatione, meritis, & moribus b. Gilberti magistri ordinis de Sempringham, & miraculis a Deo per eum factis per testes & testimonia sufficienter instructus, de consilio fratrum Cardin. ipsis mag. Catalogo sanctorum decreuit ascribi, solemnitatem eius constituit & mandauit per Cant. prouinciā solemniter celebrari. Insuper & corpus eius cum requisiti fuerimus præcepit ad honorem Dei & gloriam eleuari. Vestra igitur vniuersitas huic mandato cū deuotione congaudeat, & secundum formam in ipso mandato præscriptam, prædicti confessoris Domini depositionem annuam faciatis cum reuerentia & solemniter obseruari: vt apud Dominum & ab illo vestra debeat & possit deuotio commendari, necnon & ipsius sancti supplex intercessio vobis proficiat ad salutem. Valete.