Marginalia1550. same, which to be true I shal iustifie by the said papers.

Marginalia9. Article. Item, that you receiuyng the same and promising to declare the same in a Sermon by you made before hys maiestie for that purpose on the feast of S. Peter in the sayde second yeare of hys highnes raigne, dyd then and there contemptuously and disobediently omitte to declare and set forth many of the sayd matters, and of diuers others of the said Articles, you spake and vttered your mynd in such doubtful sort, as the iustnes and godlynes of his Maiesties fathers and hys procedings was not set forth according to the commaundement geuen vnto you and your owne promise, to the great offence of the hearers and manifest contempt of his maiestie and daungerous example of others.

MarginaliaAūswere to the 9. article. Touching the promise I answer as afore: & as touchyng omission of þ^t I should haue spoken of, by contēpt or disobedience, I answer by mine oth:MarginaliaOmission by contempt. I did not omit any thing (if I did omit it) by contēpt or disobedience: For I euer mynded to satisife þ^t promise, to speake of all matters in those papers according to my former declaratiō. And if I did percase omit any thing (wherof I cā make now no assurāce being ij. yeres & a half past sithence I preached) but if I did omit any thing, who knew my trauel in þ^t matter would not meruail, beyng troubled with a letter sent from þ^e duke of Somerset, wherof I shall speake after. So as frō 4. of þ^e clocke on thursday, til I had done my sermon on the friday, I dyd neither drinke, eate, ne slepe. So carefull was I to passe ouer þ^t trauel of preaching, without al slaunder of the truth, with satisifaction of my promise, and discharge of my duty to god & the kings most excellent maiesty. Wherin, whether any thing were omitted or not, I could haue answered more precisely thē I can now, if according to my most instant sute & the sute of my seruants, þ^e matter had ben heard whyle it was in fresh memory. But because omission may be by infirmity of nature, in which obliuion is a payne of our original sinne, in which case it is no mortal offence, if a man being put in remēbrance wil purge it: I therfore according to the true testimony of mine own consciēce, dare þ^e more boldly deny all contempt & disobedience, hauing for my declaration a general sentence spoken in my sermon,MarginaliaWinchesters distinctiō betwene the vpper part & the lower part of the lawes. þ^t I agreed with the vpper part in their lawes, orders, & commaundements, or such like wordes, & found only fault in the lower parte. By which sentence appeared, how I allowed in the whole that was past thetherto, & only dissented frō the doinges of them þ^t attempt innouations of their own presumption. MarginaliaOmission excused by a distinction. And furthermore I say, that that saying [omission] here obiected vnto me, if it were true, as I know it not to be, may happen ij. wayes: one way by infirmity of nature, another way of purpose. Charity of a christen man permitteth not to determine the worst of þ^t is doubtfull & ambiguous to both parties, as touching doubtfulnes obiected. I take god to record I minded to speake simply, & to be on the kings maiesties side only, & not go inuisible in þ^e world, with ambiguities esteeming him. &c.MarginaliaA locke of words, that is, to open & shut agayne as they lyste. The worst mā of all is, þ^t wil make himselfe a locke of wordes & spech, which is knowen not to be my faction, nor I thinke this life worth þ^t dissimulation: & how can that be a doubtful speech in him, þ^t professeth to agree with þ^e kings lawes, iniunctions & statutes, which I did expresly. There be þ^t cal a doubt, whatsoeuer serueth not their appetite. It is not in þ^e speaker to satisfy the hearer that will doubt where doubt is not. The summe of my teaching was, þ^t al visible things be ordred to serue vs, which we may in conuenient seruice vse. And when we serue them, þ^t is an abuse, & may thē at þ^e rulers pleasure, vnles scripture appointeth a speciall vse of thē, be corrected in þ^e vse, or taken away for reformation. And this is a plain teaching þ^t hath no doubt in it, but an yea & a nay on ij. sides, w^tout a meane to make a dout. And if any þ^t doubteth cōmeth vnto me, I will resolue hym þ^e dout as I can.MarginaliaAūswere by words to omission in deedes. And if I promised to speake plainely or am commaunded to speake plainly & cānot: thē is my fault to promise onely in the nature of folly and ignoraunce, wherunto I resort, not for a shifte, wherof in deede I professe þ^e knowledge, but to shew how somtime to my hinderauce, I am noted learned that can speake plainely, and yet speake doubtfully, other whiles am reiected as one þ^t vnderstādeth not þ^e matter at all. As touching contempt, there can be none manifest þ^t procedeth of a priuy promise, if I had broken it, as I intended not, but intended to take it, as appeareth by my general sentence to agre with the superiors, & only find fault in þ^e inferior subiects, who daily transgresseth the kings maiesties proclamations and other, wherof I spake then.

Marginalia10. Article. Item, that you being also commaunded on his maiesties behalfe, for the auoyding of tumult, & for other great cōsiderations inhibited to treat of any matter in cōtrouersie concerning the masse or the cōmunion, then cōmonly called the sacrament of the aulter, did contrary to the said commaundement & inhibition, declare diuers your iudgements & opinions in the same, in the manifest cōtempt of his highnes sayd inhibitiō, to the great offence of the hearers & disturbāce of cōmon quiet & vnity of the realm.

MarginaliaAunswere to the 10. Article. To þ^e x. article the said B. answered, þ^t the Wednesday at after noone next before the friday when I preached,MarginaliaM. Cicill. M. Cicill came to me, & hauing in all his other accesses spoken no word therof, did thē vtter & aduise me from the Duke of Somerset, þ^t I should not speake of the sacramēt or of þ^e masse, wherby he said I should auoyd trouble. And when he saw me not take it well: I meane (quoth he) doubtfull matters. I asked him what? He said transubstantiation. I told hym he wyst not what transubstantiation ment.MarginaliaWinchesters catholicke fayth in the sacrament. I will preache (quoth I) the very presence of Christes most precious body & bloud in the sacrament, which is the catholike fayth, and no doubtful matter, ne yet in controuersie, sauing þ^t certain vnlearned speake of it, they wot not what. And among þ^e matters quoth I, wherof I haue promised to speake, I must by special wordes speake of the sacrament & the masse also. And when I shal so speake of thē, I wil not forbeare to vtter my faith and true belief therin, which I thinke necessary for the kings maiesty to know: & therfore if I wist to be hāged whē I came down, I woulde speake it.MarginaliaWinchest. would needes talke of the sacrament & of the Masse. Which plaine zeale of my conscience, grounded vpon gods commaundement to doe hys message truly, I would not hide, but vtter so as my Lorde should, if he would not haue it spoken of, nor let me to come there, as he might haue done, where as els if I had had a deceitful purpose, I might haue accepted the aduise, & without any color of trouble haue refused to folow it as a thing groūded vpon welth only, as it was then vttered.

With this my aunswere M.Cicill departed, & vpon the thursday, which was þ^e next day folowing & the euening before I preached, betwene 3. and 4. at after noone I receiued a letter signed with þ^e hand of the duke of Somerset (þ^e copy wherof I am ready to exhibite) & toke it thē, & estemed it so nowe to continue no effectuall inhibition wherunto I might by Gods law or the kynges Maiesties lawes with discharge of my conscience and duety obey although þ^e said letters had bene (as they were not) in such termes framed, as had precisely forbidden me (as they did not) but onely to speake of matters in controuersye of the sacrament, whiche in deede I did not, but onely vttered a truth, to my consciēce most certaynly perswaded of þ^e most holy sacrament, necessary to be knowen to the kyngs Maiestie, & to be vttered by me admitted to that place of preching, from whence God cōmaundeth hys truth to be vttered,MarginaliaS. Paule threatneth death to the misusers of the sacrament: Ergo the reall presence of Christ is in the sacrament. Nego argumentum. which in this nature of truth (the vndue estimation & vse wherof S. Paul threatneth with temporall death) may in no wyse be omitted. So as I was and am perswaded the right estimation of the sacrament to be to acknowledge the very presence of the same most precious body and bloud present in the Sacrament to feede vs, that was geuē to redeme vs. If I shewed not my soueraigne Lord the truth therof, I for my part suffer him wittingly to fall into that extreame daunger of body, which S. Paul threatneth, whose person I am bound by nature by special othes, by gods lawes, to preserue to my power as I will do, and must do by alwayes and meanes. And if the kyngs maiestie doth vouchsafe to teach his people not to obey his commaundement, where God commaundeth the cōtrary, I might not take my lord of Somersets letter for an inhibition to hold my peace, when God biddeth me to speake as he doth when the Wolfe commeth & not to hide my self in silence, which is the most shamefull rūning away of all.MarginaliaAnd why woulde not Winchest. alow this reason in other in Q. Maryes tyme, speakyng the word of truth after their conscience contrary to his inhibition? I haue much matter to alleage agaynst þ^t letter, why I should not credite it, written in hys name alone, agaynst a common letter (as I toke it) written by hym and the counsail, & published in print the first day of the said month, which mayntaineth my preaching of the sacrament & masse, according to the proclamations & iniunctions: the violation of which publike letters had ben a disorder and contempt, where as I neither offended in the one nor the other.

And as for tumult, none could reasonably be feared of any thing spokē agreable w^t þ^e kings maiesties lawes, as there did folow none nor the people, or any man did offer my person any wrōg or make tumult against me,MarginaliaWinchester against players & ballade makers. notw^tstanding players, iesters, rimers, ballademakers, did signify me to be of þ^t true catholike faith, which I according to my dutie declared to þ^e K. maiesty, from whō I may hide no truth þ^t I think expediēt for him to know. And as the name of God cannot be vsed of any creature against god, no more can the kings name, beyng vsed of any subiect against his highnes. Wherfore seyng the abuse of this holy sacrament hath in it a daunger assured by scripture of body and soule, whosoeuer is perswaded in the catholike faith (as I am) findeth himself so burdened to vtter þ^t vnto his maiesty, as no worldly losse can let him to doe his duty in that behalfe, & much lesse my Lordes priuate lettters written without other of the counsails handes.

Marginalia11. Article. Item, that after the premisses, viz. in the month of May or Iune, or one of them, in the 3. yere of his highnes raigne, his maiesty sent eftsoones vnto you to know your conformity tovvards his said reformations, & specially touching the boke of common praier, then lately set foorth by hys maiesty, vvhereunto you at the same tyme refused to shevv your selfe conformable.

MarginaliaAnswere to the 11. Article. To the xi. article for aunswer and declaration thereof, he sayd: The next daye at after noone, after, he had preached,