Marginalia1555. September.(I say) this heauenly harmony of Gods vnfallible promises and truth: I looke not vppon, neither do I behold bread and wyne, for I take and beleue the wordes simply and playnly euen as Christ spake them. MarginaliaHow the body of Christ is spiritually to be eaten.For hearyng these wordes, my senses be rapt and vtterly excluded:  

for fayth wholy taketh place, and not fleshe nor MarginaliaRom. 8. Heb. 9.the carnall imaginations of our grosse, fleshly, and vnreuerent eatyng after the maner of our bodily foode which profiteth nothyng at all, as Christ witnesseth. Iohn. 6. but with a sorrowfull and wounded conscience, an hungry and thirsty soule, a pure and faythfull mynde do fully embrace, beholde, and feede and looke vppon that most glorious body of Christ in heauen at the right hand of God the father, very God and very man, which was crucified and slayne, and his bloud shed for our sinnes, there now makyng intercession, MarginaliaRom. 5.offeryng and geuyng his holy body for me, for my body, for my raunsome, for my full price and satisfaction, who is my Christ and all that euer he hath: and by this spirituall and faythfull eatyng of this liuely and heauenly bread, MarginaliaPhil. 3.I feele the most swete sappe and tast of the fruites, benefites, and vnspeakeable ioyes of Christes death and Passion fully disgested into the bowelles of my soule. For my minde is quieted from all worldly aduersities, tormoylynges, and troubles: my conscience is pacified from sinne, death, hell and damnation: my soule is full and hath euen enough, and will no more: for all thynges are but losse, vyle dunge and drosse, vayne vanitie, for the excellēt knowledge sake of Christ Iesu my Lord and Sauiour.

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MarginaliaIohn 6. Ephe. 5. Gala. 2. How Christes flesh is our meate, and his bloud our drinke.Thus now is Christes flesh my very meate in deede, and his bloud my very drinke in deede, and I am become fleshe of his flesh, and bone of his bones. Now I liue, yet not I, but Christ liueth in me: yea I dwell in hym and hee in me: for thorough fayth in Christ, and for Christes sake we are one, that is, of one consent, mynde, and fellowshyp with the Father, the Sonne and the holy Ghost. Iohn. 17. Thus am I assured and fully persuaded, & on this rocke haue I builded by Gods grace, my dwellyng and restyng place for body and soule, lyfe and death. And thus I committe my cause vnto Christ the righteous and iust iudge, who will an other day iudge these debates and controuersies: whom I humbly beseech to cast his tender and mercyfull eyes vpō the afflicted and ruinous Churches, and shortly to reduce thē into a godly and perpetuall concorde. Amen.

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Thus do I beleue, and this is my fayth and my vnderstandyng in Christ my Sauiour, and his true and holy Religion. MarginaliaMarke. 8.And this who soeuer is ashamed to do among this adulterous and sinnefull generation, of him shall the sonne of man be ashamed when hee commeth in the glory of his father with the holy Aungels.

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Robert Samuell.

MarginaliaW. Allen, Martyr.NExt after the sufferyng of Robert Samuell, about the begynnyng of September was burned william Allen in Walsingam, labouryng man, seruant somtyme to Iohn Houghton of Somerton. He beyng brought before the Byshop, and asked the cause why he was imprisoned: aunswered, that hee was put in prison because hee would not follow the Crosse, saying that he would neuer go on Procession.

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Then beyng wylled by the Byshoppe to returne againe to the Catholicke Churche, hee aunswered, that hee would turne to the Catholicke Churche, but not to the Romishe Church, & sayd, that if he saw the Kyng and Queene, & all other folow the crosse, or kneele down to the crosse, he would not.  

MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of W. Allen at Walsingham Anno. 1555. September.For þ which, sētence of condēnatiō was geuen agaynst hym, the. xij. of August,   and he burned at Walsingham about the begynnyng of September, who declared such constancy at his Martyrdome, and had such credite with the Iustices, by reason of his vpright and well tryed conuersation among them, that he was suffered to go vntyed to hys sufferyng, and there beyng fastened wyth a chayne, stode quietly with out shrinckyng, vntill he dyed.  

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MarginaliaRoger Coo, Martyr.ROger Coo brought before the Byshop, first was asked why he was imprisoned.

MarginaliaTalke betwen Roger Coo and Hopton Byshop of Norwich.Coo. At the Iustices commaundement

Byshop. There was some cause why.

Coo. Here is my accuser, let him declare.

And his accuser sayd that he would not receiue the Sacrament.

Bish. Then the Byshop sayd that he thought he had transgressed a law.

Coo. But Coo aunswered that there was no law to transgresse.

Bysh. The Byshop thē asked what he sayd to the law that then was?

Coo. He aunswered how he had bene in prison a long tyme, and knew it not.

No, sayd hys accuser, nor wilt not. My Lord, aske hym when he receaued the Sacrament.

Coo. When Coo heard hym say so, he sayd: MarginaliaRoger Coo to his accuser.I pray you my Lord, let him sit downe and examine me him self.

Bysh. But the Byshoppe would not heare that, but sayd: Coo, why? wyll ye not receiue?

Coo. He aunswered him that MarginaliaThe Bishop of Rome.the Byshoppe of Rome had chaunged Gods ordinaunces, & geuen the people bread and wine in the stede of the Gospell, and the belief of the same.

Bysh. How proue you that?

MarginaliaThe Sacrament of the Lordes Supper.Coo. Our Sauiour sayd: My flesh is meate in deede, and my bloud is drinke in deede. He that eateth my fleshe, and drinketh my bloud, abideth in me, and I in him, & the bread and wyne doth not so.

Byshop. Well Coo, thou doest sclaunder our holy Fathers. Did not Christ take bread, geue thankes, and brake it, and sayd: This is my body?

Coo. Yes, sayd hee, and so hee went further with the text saying: Whiche shall be geuen for you: doe this in the remembraunce of me.

Bysh. You haue sayd the truth.

Coo. Then Coo replyed further and sayd: Christ wylled to doe this in the remembraunce of hym, and not to say this in the remembraunce of hym, neither did the holy Ghost so lead the Apostles, but taught them to geue thankes, and to breake bread from house to house, and not to say as the Byshop sayd.

Bysh. How proue you that?

Coo. It is written in the second of the Actes.

Then the Byshops Chaplayne sayd it was true.

Bysh. The Byshop asked him if he could his belief.

Coo. He aunswered yea, and so sayd part of the Creede, and then after he sayd, he beleued more: for he beleued the x. commaundementes, that it was meete for all such as looke to be saued, to be obedient vnto them.

Bysh. Is not the holy Church to be beleued also?

Coo. Yes, if it be builded vpon the word of God.

Byshop. The Byshop sayd to Coo, that hee had charge of his soule.

Coo. Haue ye so my Lord? Then if ye go to the deuill for your sinnes, where shall I become?

Bysh. Do you not beleue as your father dyd? Was not he an honest man?

Coo. It is written that after Christ hath suffered: MarginaliaDaniell. 9.There shall come a people with the Prince that shall destroy both City and Sanctuary. I pray you shew me whether this destruction was in my fathers tyme, or now?

Bysh. The Byshop not aūsweryng his question, asked him whether he would not obey the kynges lawes?

Coo. As farre as they agree with the word of God, I wyll obey them.

Bysh. *Marginalia* Well spoken and lyke the Popes clerke. Whether they agree with the word of God or not, we be bound to obey them, if the kyng were an infidell.

Coo. If Sydrach, Mysaach, and Abednago had so done, Nabuchadonosor had not confessed the liuyng God.

Bysh. Then the Bishop told him, that these xxij. yeares we haue bene gouerned with such kynges.

Coo. My Lord, why were ye then dumme and dyd not speake or barke?

Bysh. I durst not for feare of death. And thus they ended.

¶ But after this done, it was reported that I rayled: wherfore I called it to memory, & wrote this my railing þ^t light should not be taken for darkenes, nor sinne for holynes, and the deuill for God, who ought to be feared and honoured both now and euer, Amen.

MarginaliaThe Martyrdome of Roger Coo at Yexford. Anno. 1555. September.This Roger Coo, an aged father, after his sondry troubles and conflictes with his aduersaries, at length was committed to the fire at Yexford in the Coūtie of Suffolke, where he most blessedly ended his aged yeares. Anno. 1555. Mens. Septemb.  

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MarginaliaTho. Cobbe of Hauerhill in Northfolke, Martyr.OVer & besides this foresayd Roger Coo, William Allen, Iames Abbes of Stokennayland, Robert Samuell and other moe, in the same yeare vppon the xij. of August was also with them condēned Thomas Cobbe of Hauerhill, Bocher and executed in the moneth of September aforesayd. MarginaliaExaminations of Tho. Cobbe.Who beyng brought and examined by Michaell Dunnynges the bloudy Chauncellour of Norwich, first whether hee beleued that Christ is really

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