MarginaliaAnno. 1555. October.& spoyle wyth Purgatory. And verely the abuse of them cannot bee taken away, but great luker and vauntage shall fall away from them, which had leuer haue profite with abuse, then lacke the same wyth vse: and that is the waspe that doth sting them, and maketh them to swell.MarginaliaWhat þ^e Waspe is that stingeth the Papistes, & maketh them to swell.And if Purgatory were purged of all that it hath gotten, by setting asyde restitution, and robbing of Christe, it would be but a poore Purgatory: So poore that it shoulde not bee able to feede so fatte, and tricke vp so many idle and slothfull lubbers.

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I take God to witnes I would hurt to no man, but it greueth me to see such abuse continue without remedy. I cannot vnderstand what they meane by MarginaliaThe Popes pardoning out of purgatory, a vaine inuention.the Popes pardoning of Purgatory, but by way of suffrage: and as for suffrage, vnlesse he do his duetie, and seeke not his own, but Christs glory, I had leauer haue the suffrage of iacke of the skullery which in his calling doth exercyse both faith and charity: but for his MasseMarginaliaSuffrage. Masse. Pilgrimage. Authoritie of keyes.And that is as good of an other simple Priest as of him. For as for authority of keyes, is to loose from giltines of sinne and eternall payne, dewe to the same, according to Christes worde, and not to his owne priuate will. And as for Pilgrimage, you would wonder what iuggling there is to get money withall. I dwell within a halfe a mile, of the Fosseway, and you would wonder to see how they come by flockes out of the West countrey to many Images, but chiefly to MarginaliaThis bloud of Hailes was proued before the King, and openly shewed at Paules crosse by the Bishop of Rochester that then was, to be but the bloud of a Ducke.the bloud of Hailes.  

And they beleue verely that it is the very bloude that was in Christes body, shed vppon the Mount of Caluery for our saluation, and that the sight of it with their bodyly eye, doth certifie them and putteth them out of doubt, that they be in cleane life, and in state of saluation without spot of sinne, which doeth bolden then to many things. For you would wonder if you should common with thē both comming and goyng, what faithes they haue. For as for forgeuing their enemies, and recōciling their Christen brethren, they can not away withall: for the sight of that bloud doth quite them for the time.

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I read in Scripture of two certifications: MarginaliaTwo certifications of our remission out of the Scripture.one to the Romanes: Iustificati ex fide pacem habemus. i.  

We being iustified by faith haue peace with God.

If I see the bloud of Christ with the eye of my soule, that is true faith that his bloud was shed for me. &c.

An other in the Epistle of Iohn: Nos scimus quod translati sumus de morte ad vitam, quoniam diligimus fratres. i.  

We know that we are translated from death to life, because we loue the brethren. But I read not that I haue peace with God, or that I am trāslated from death to life, because I see with my bodily eye the bloud of Hailes. MarginaliaThe bodily seing of Christes bloud profiteth litle.It is very probable that all the bloud that was in the body of Christ, was vnited and knit to his Diuinitie, and then no part therof shall returne to his corruption. And I maruaile that Christ shal haue two resurrections. And if it were, that they that did violently & iniuriously plucke it out of his body when they scourged him and nayled him to the Crosse, did see it with their bodely eye, yet they were not in cleane life. And we see the self same bloud in forme of wine, when we haue consecrate, and may both see it, feele it, and receaue it to our damnation as touching bodily receauyng. And many do see it at Hailes without confession, as they say. God knoweth all, and the deuill in our time is not dead.

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Christ hath left a doctrine behynd him, wherein we be taught how to beleue, and what to beleue: he doth suffer the deuill to vse his craftie fashion for our triall and probation. It were litle thanke worthy to beleue well and rightly, if nothing should moue vs to false faith and to beleue superstitiously. It was not in vayne that Christe when he had taught truly, by and by bad: beware of false Prophetes,MarginaliaWarning agaynst false Prophets.which would bryng in error slily. But we be secure and vncareful, as though false Prophetes coulde not meddle with vs, & as though the warnyng of Christ were no more earnest and effectuall, then is the warnyng of mothers when they trifle with their children, and byd them beware the bugge. &c.

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Lo Sir, how I runne at riot beyond measure. When I began, I was minded to haue written but halfe a dosen lynes: but thus I forget my selfe euer when I write to a trusty frende, which will take in worth my folly, & kepe it from my enemy. &c.

MarginaliaD. Wilson agaynst M. Latymer, and why.As for Doct. Wilson, I wotte not what I should say: but I pray God endue him with charitie. Neither hee, nor none of his countreymen did euer loue me since I did inuey agaynst their factions, & partialitie in Cambridge. Before that, who was more fauoured of him thē I? That is the boile that may not be touched. &c.

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A certaine frend shewed me, that Doct. Wilson is gone now into his countrey about Beuerley in Holdernes, and from thence hee will go a progresse through Yorkeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, and so from thēce to Bristow. What he entendeth by this progresse God knoweth, and not I. If he come to Bristow I shall here tell. &c.

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MarginaliaHubberdin a great rayler against M. Latymer.As for Hubberdin (no doubt) he is a man of no great learning, nor yet of stable witte. He is here seruus hominum: for he will Preach what soeuer the Byshops wil bid him Preach. Verely in my mind they are more to be blamed then he. He doth magnifie the Pope more then enough. As for our Sauiour Christ and Christen Kynges are litle beholdyng to hym. No doubt hee did misse the cushon in many things. Howbeit they that did send him (men thinke) wil defend him: I pray God amend him, and them both. They would fayne make matter against me, entendyng so either to deliuer him by me, or els to ridde vs both together, and so they would thinke hym well bestowed. &c.

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MarginaliaD. Powell a stout preacher of Popery.As touching Doct. Powell,  

how highly he tooke vpon him in Bristow, and how litle hee regarded the sworde which representeth the kyngs person, many can tell you. I thinke there is neuer an Earle in this realme that knoweth his obedience by Christes commaundement to his Prince, and wotteth what the sword doth signifie, that would haue taken vpon him so stoutly. Howbeit Maister Maior, as hee is a profound wise man, did twicke him pretily: it were to long to write all. Our pilgrimages are not a litle beholdyng to him. For to occasion the people to them, he alledged this text.

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MarginaliaScripture applyed of the Papistes.Omnis qui relinquit patrem, domos, vxorem. i.  

Who so euer leaueth father, house, wyfe. &c. By that you may perceaue his hoate zeale & crooked iudgement. &c. Because I am so belied, I could wishe that it would please the kynges grace to cōmaund me to Preach before his highnes a whole yeare together euery Sonday, that hee him selfe might perceaue how they belye me, saying, that I haue neither learning, nor vtterāce worthy therunto. &c. I pray you pardon me I can not make an end.

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MarginaliaA note touching Hubberdin.FOrasmuch as mencion hath bene made in this letter of Huberdin, an old diuine of Oxford, a right painted Pharisey and a great straier abroad in al quarters of the realme to deface and impeache the springyng of Gods holy Gospell, some thyng would be added more touchyng that man, whose doynges and pageantes if they might be described at large, it were as good as any enterlude for the reader to beholde. MarginaliaHubberdin a right Image of hypocrisie.Who in all his life and in al his actions (in one word to describe him) semeth nothing els but a right Image or counterfait, setting out vnto vs in lyuely colours the paterne of perfect hipocrisy. But because the man is nowe gone, to spare therefore the dead (although he litle deserued to be spared, which neuer spared to worke what vilany he could against the true seruauntes of the Lord) this shalbe enough for example sake, for al christen men necessarily to obserue, how the saied Hubberdin after his long railyng in all places against MarginaliaHubberdin a great rayler agaynst the seruauntes of Christ.Luther, Melangthton, Zuinglius, Iohn Frith, Tindale, Latimer, and al other like professours, after his hypocriticall open almes giuen out of other mens purses, his long praiers, pretensed deuotions, deuout fastynges, his wolwarde goyng, and other his prodigious demeanour, rydyng in his long Gowne downe to the Horse heeles lyke a Pharisey, or rather like a slouen, dyrted vp to the horse belly, after his forged Tales and Fables, Dialogues, dreames, dauncinges, hoppinges and leapinges, with other like histrionicall toyes and gestures vsed in the Pulpit, and all against Heretikes: at last ridyng by a Church side where the youth of the parishe were dauncing in the Churchyarde, sodeinly this Silenus lightyng from his horse, by occasion of their daūcyng came into the Churche, and there causing the bell to tolle in the people, thought in stead of a fitte of mirth, to geue them a Sermon of dauncing. In the whiche Sermon after he had patched vp certaine common textes out of Scriptures, and then comming to the Doctors, first to Augustine, then to Ambrose, so to Hierome, and Gregory, Chrisostome, and other Doctors, had made them euery one after his Dialogue maner, by name to aunswere to his call, and to sing after his tune for the probation of the sacrament of þ^e alter against Iohn Frith, Zuinglius, Oecolampadius, Luther, Tyndale, Latymer, and other heretikes (as he called them) MarginaliaA dauncing Sermō of Hubberdine.at laste to

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