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Secretary Smyth. Yea (quoth M. Secretary) you say wel my Lord, but I pray you, what others haue all these rebels both in Northfolke, Deuonshire, and Cornewall, and other places done? haue they not sayd thus?MarginaliaBoner compared to the rebels of Deuonshyre. We be the kinges true subiectes, we acknowledge him for our king, & we wil obey his lawe, with such like, and yet when eyther commaundement, letter, or pardon was brought vnto them from his Maiestie, they beleued it not, but said it was forged and made vnder a hedge, and was Gentlemens doinges, so that in dede they would not, nor did obey any thyng.

MarginaliaBoner. Ah sir, said the Bishop, I perceiue your meaning: as who should say, that the Bishop of London is a rebell like them. Yea by my trouth (quoth the Secretary.)MarginaliaThe people laughing at Boner. Wherat the people laughed.

MarginaliaD. May. Then the Deane of Paules said vnto him, that he marueiled much, & was very sory to see him so vntractable, that he would not suffer the Iudges to speake.

MarginaliaBoner with his tauntes. To whō the Bishop disdainfully answeared: Well, M. deane, you must say somwhat. And likewise at an other time as the Deane was speaking, he interrupted him, and said, you may speake when your turne cometh.

MarginaliaSecretary Smyth. Then said secretary Smith, I woulde you knewe your duetie.

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The cōtemptuous talke of Boner. I would (quoth he againe) you knewe it as wel as I, with an infinite more of other such stubborne & contemptuous talke & behauiour towardes thē, which the Cōmissioners waying, and perceiuyng no likelihood of any tractable reason in him determined that the Archb. with their whole consent, should at that present there openly reade & publish their final decree or sentence definitiue against hym. Which he did, pronoūsing him therby to be cleane depriued from the Bishoprike of Londō, & farther, as in the same appeareth, which beginneth thus: In Dei nomine, Amen. Nos Thomas permissione diuina Cant. Archiepiscopus, totius Angliæ Primas & Metropolitanus, Nicolaus eadē miseratione Roffensis Episcopus, Tho. Smith miles. &c. MarginaliaRead more hereof in the Booke of Actes and Monumētes of the first edition. pag 720. and so forth, as more at ful may appeare in the booke of Actes and Monuments of the firtse edition, pag. 720. Which ended, the bishop immediately did therfrom appeale by worde of mouth, alleging that the same sentēce there geuen against him was Lex nulla. The tenor of whose wordes I thought here to expresse, according as they were by him vttered, in this wise as foloweth.

MarginaliaThe wordes of Boner appealing from the sentence definitiue. I Edmund bishop of London brought in and kept here as a prisoner against my consent and wyll, do vnder my former protestations heretofore made, and to the intent it may also appeare, that I haue not being so here in this place, consented nor agreed to any thyng done against me, & in my preiudice, allege and say that this sentence geuen here agaynst me is Lex nulla, and so farre foorth as it shal appeare to be aliqua, I do say, it is iniqua, & iniusta, & that therefore I do frō it, as iniqua, & iniusta, appeale to the most excellēt and noble king, Edw. the sixt,by the grace of God K. of Englād, France, and Ireland, [illegible text] of the fayth and of the church of England, and also of Ireland next and immediately vnder God here in earth supreme head, and vnto his Courte of Chauncerie or Parlament, as the lawes, statutes, and ordinaunces of this Realme wyll suffer and beare in this behalfe, desiring instantly first, second, and third, according to the lawes,MarginaliaLetters reuerenciall or demissories. letters reuerencial or demissories, to be geuen & deliuered vnto me in this behalfe, with al thinges expediēt, requisite, or necessarye in any wise: and thereupon also the said bishop required the publike Notary or Actuary Williā Say, to make an instrument, and the witnes aforesaid and other present to record the same. To whō so appealing and requiring, as afore, the saide Iudges delegate saide, that they wil declare and signifie to the kinges maiestie, what is done in this matter, and therupon wil deferre or not deferre to his said appellation, according as his graces pleasure and cōmaundement shalbe to them in that behalfe: and after al this, the said bish. of London said to them: Iam functi estis officio. What wil your grace do with me now touching my imprisonmēt? wil ye keepe me styl in prison? shal I not now be at liberty to prosecute mine appeale? To whō the Archbish. aunswering, said, that they perceiued now more in that matter thē they did at the first, and that this matter is more greater rebellion then he is ware of, and therfore said, that as yet they would not discharge hym, and thereupon they committed hym againe to his keper to prison.

MarginaliaThe Archb. declareth the effecte of Boners sentence in Englyshe This talke finished, the Archb. considering that most of the audience there present did not vnderstand the meaning of the sentēce being read in the Latin tounge, said vnto thē: Because there be many of you here that vnderstand not the Latine tounge, & so can not tell what iudgement hath bene here geuen, I shal therfore shew you the effect therof: and therwith dyd declare in English the causes expressed in the sentence, adding then therunto these wordes:

MarginaliaBoner depriued and vnbishopped Because my Lord of London is founde gyltie in these matters, therefore we haue here by our sentence depriued hym of the Bishoprike of London: and this we shewe vnto you, to the entent that from henceforth ye shal not esteme hym any more as Bishop of London.

MarginaliaBoners disdaynfull wordes to the Commissioners. Then Boner desired the Archbishop to declare likewise what he had done, and howe he had appealed. But the other seing his frowarde contempt, refused it, saying, ye may do it your selfe. Wherupon very disdainfully againe he sayd, Iam functi estis officio. What wil your Grace doo with me touching my imprisonmēt? Wil you kepe me stil in prison?

To whō the Commissioners answeared, that they perceiued now more in the matter, then they did before, & that his behaueour was more greater rebellion then he was ware of:MarginaliaBoner agayne committed to hys keeper. and therefore they would not discharge him, but committed him againe to his keeper to be kept in prison. Where he most iustly remained vntyl the death of that most worthy & godly prince king Edward the sixt. After which time he wrought moste horrible mischiefe and cruelties against the saintes of God, as appeareth hereafter throughout the whole raigne of Queene Mary. From the executing of the which like tyranny, the Lord of his great mercy keepe al other such. Amen.

MarginaliaA Supplication of Boner to the Lord Chauncelour and the rest of the kinges Counsell. Now immediately after his depriuation, he writeth out of the Marshalesey an other letter supplicatorye vnto the Lord Chancelor and the rest of the kings Coūsaile. Wherin he thus cōplaineth, that by reason of þ^e great enemity that the Duke of Somerset and sir Thomas Smith bare vnto him, his often and earnest suites vnto the king & his Coūsaile could not be heard. He therefore most humbly desireth their lordships for the causes aforesaid, to consider him, and to let him haue liberty to prosecute his matter before them, and he would dayly prayefor the good preseruation of their honors:MarginaliaRead more hereof in the booke of Actes and Monumentes of the first edition. pag. 723. and 724. as appeareth more at large in the Actes and Monumentes, page. 723. and 724.

Thus after the Commissioners had finished with Boner, he being nowe prisoner in the Marshalsey, leauing no shifte of þ^e law vnsough how to worke for him selfe as wel as he might, drewe out a certaine supplication, conceyued and directed to the kinges maiestie out of the said pryson of the Marshalsey.

MarginaliaBoners supplication to the king. In the which supplication, first after the vsed forme of stile, he prayed for the prosperous estate of the king long to raigne. Thē he shewed that his faithful hart and seruice to hym, hath, is, and shalbe, as it was to his father before.

Then he declared howe he had ben belyed of euyl men, & misreported not to beare a true hart to his grace, but a rebellious mind, in denying his royall power in his minoritie, where in deede (he saith) his grace should finde him alwayes during life, both in hart, word, & deed, to do & acknowledge otherwise, and to be most willing to shew. &c. and to do all thinges for his grace as willingly as any other subiect, or as those that were his denouncers, who he thought were not sent of his grace, but pretensed Commissioners. &c.

Further, he complained of his denuntiation by certayne Cōmissioners (who said they were sent by his grace) alleging the same not to be lawfull: and of his long and sharpe imprisonment, & that the Cōmissioners obserued neyther law nor reasonable order, but extremitie. And where he had made appeale to his grace, and he could not haue it: he desired to haue lawe to prosecute and sue his appeale for his remedy, & that he cōsidering his vocatiō, might not be shut vp & put from liberty, which his meanest subiectes haue.

Thē he desired his graces letters of Supersedeas against the Cōmissioners, and that the matter might be heard before the Counsaile, and then he doubted not, but to be found a true faythfull man, and herein to haue wrong. So in the ende he concluded, this (prostratyng hym selfe euen to the very ground, and humbly kissing his graces feete) to be the thyng onely which he humbly desired. &c.

MarginaliaBoners appellation to the kyng perused and tried and found by the Lawe vneffectuall and vnreasonable. THis done, & the supplication perused, the king eftsoone geueth in charge & cōmaundement, to certayn men of honor and worship, & persons skilfull in the law, as to the lord Rich high Chancelor, the Lord traysurer, the L. Marques Dorset, the Bishop of Ely, Lord Wentworth, sir Anthony Wingfield, sir Wil. Harbert knightes. Doc. Nich. Wootton, Ed. Mountague Lorde chiefe Iustice, sir Iohn Baker knight, with Iudge Hales, Ioh. Gosnold, D. Oliuer, and also Doctor Leyson, that they scannyng & perusing all such actes, matters, & munimentes of the said Boner by hym exhibited, produced, propounded & alledged, with all & singular