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MarginaliaAnno. 1555. October.then to declare thy selfe to haue an other opinion then thou oughtest to haue.
As touching ceremonies, I esteeme them all as Paule esteemeth them, thinges indifferent, where he sayth: Regnum Dei nō est esca & potus.
Regnum Dei non est esca & potus. Not translated. The kingdom of God is not food and drink. non est regnum Dei esca et potus.
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We had palmes and candels takē away, which things may indifferently haue eyther of the two reformations aboue sayd.MarginaliaTaking away of Palmes and Candels.When they were in place, they should haue put men in remembraunce of their duety and deuotion towardes God, but because they were abused, they were and myght bee taken awaye. But the religion of Christ is not in these exercises, and therefore in taking away of them, the religiō of Christ is nothing touched nor hindered. But men must in such thinges be conformable, not for the ceremony, but for obedience sake. S. Paul sayth, that we should rebuke euery brother that walketh inordinately. I haue tolde you myne opinion, and MarginaliaB. Gardiner speaketh accordyng to his vnconstant conscience.my consciēce telleth me that I haue spoken plainly, that ye may know what I am, and that ye may not be deceiued in me, nor be sclaundered in me, nor make no further search to know my hart.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaWinchester liketh well the communion.I like well the communion because it prouoketh men more and more to deuotion. I lyke well the proclamation, because it stoppeth the mouthes of all such as vnreuerently speake or rayle agaynst the Sacrament. I lyke well the rest of the Kinges Maiesties procedinges concerning the Sacrament.MarginaliaB. Gardiner liketh well K. Edwardes procedinges.I haue nowe told you what I lyke. But shall I speake nothing of that I mislike? ye will then say I speake not playnely. I wil therefore shew my conscience playnely.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaB. Gardiner mislyketh the preachers in K. Edwards time, and why?I mislyke that preachers which preach by the Kinges lycence, and those readers which by the Kinges permission and suffraunce do readde open lectures, do openly and blasphemously talke agaynst the Masse, and agaynst the Sacrament. And to whom may I lyken such readers and preachers? I maye lyken them vnto Postes, for the prouerbe sayth, that Postes do beare truth in their letters and lyes in their mouthes:MarginaliaB. Gardiner cōpareth preachers to Postes carying truth in their letters a lyes in their mouthes.and so do they, and to speake so agaynst the Sacrament, it is the most marueilous matter that euer I saw or heard of. I woulde wishe therefore that there were a stay and an order in this behalfe, and that there might be but one order or rule, for as the Poet sayth (I may vse the verse of a Poet well ynough, for so doth Paul of the great Poet, οὔκ ἄγαθον πολυκοιρανίη· εἶς κοίρανος ἔστω..
??? ?????? ????????????? ??? ???????? ????. Not translated. rule of many is not a good thing: let there be one ruler. [N.B. Foxe used this citation in his tractAd Inclytos,an appeal to the nobility to use their influence to persuade Mary to lessen the persecution, published in 1557 and subsequently incorporated in theRerumof 1559. It was dropped for the 1563 edition of theA&Mbecause it was no longer relevant, as Mary had now died.]
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MarginaliaB Gardiner misliketh the breaking of a Vowe of chastitie.It mislyketh mee that Priestes and men that vowed chastity, should openly mary and auow it openly: which is a thing that since the beginning of the churche hath not bene seene in any time, that men that haue bene admitted to any ecclesiasticall administratiō should marry. Wee read of married Priestes, that is to say: of married men chosen to be Priestes and Ministers in the church. And in Epiphanius, wee read, that some such for necessity were wincked at. But that men being priestes already should mary, was neuer yet seene in Christes church from the beginning of the Apostles tyme. MarginaliaB. Gardiner against mariage of Priestes.I haue written in it, and studied for it, and the very same places that are therein alleadged to mayntayne the mariage of Priestes, being diligently read shall playnely confound them that maintayne to mary your Priestes, or at the farthest, with in two lynes after.
[Back to Top]Thus haue I shewed my opinion in order, proceeding from the inferiours, and in order proceeding from the higher powers. And thus I haue (as I trust) plainely declared my selfe, without any couering or counterfayting. And I besech your most excellent maiesty to esteme and take me as I am, and not to bee sclaundered in me, for I haue told you the playne truth as it is, and I haue opened my conscience vnto you. I haue not played the Post with you, to cary truth in my letters, and lyes in my mouth: for I would not for all the world make a lye in this place: but I haue disclosed the playne truth as it
[Back to Top]lyeth in my mynd. And thus I commit your most excellent Maiestie and all your moste honorable Councellours with the rest of the deuout audience here present, vnto God. To whom bee all honour, laud, and glory, world without end.
Thus hauyng comprised the summe and chief purpose of his Sermon, with other such matter aboue storyed, wherein may appeare the double faced doynges of this Byshop in matters of Religion: MarginaliaB. Gardiner agreing to reformatiō of religiō how farre and wherin.now for the more fortification of that which hath ben sayd, if any shall deny this foresayd Sermon, or any part thereof to be true, to confirme therefore the same, we will here adioyne certeine brief notes and specialties in maner of a summary table, collected as well out of the testimonies and depositions of hys owne frendes and seruauntes, and other whiche were sworne truely to declare theyr knowledge in this behalfe, as also out of hys owne writynges and workes agreeyng with the same. In all which foresayd allegations it may remayne notorious and famous to all men, how, in what pointes, and how farre the sayd Byshop of Wynchester agreed with the reformation of Religion receaued, not onely in Kyng Henryes, but also in Kyng Edwardes dayes.
[Back to Top]And because it will be long and a double labour to repeate all the wordes and testimoniall sayinges of euery witnes particularly, the same being expressed sufficiently in our first impression before,
I.e., in the first edition (see 1563, pp. 804-61).
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CloseFoxe added this section of passages culled either from De vera obedientia or testimony given at Stephen Gardiner's trial in 1550 in the 1563 edition. Fascinatingly he retained this section even though, due to a shortage of paper for the 1570 edition, he had been compelled to eliminate the depositions in Gardiner's trial which had been printed in the first edition (on pp. 804-61). This section allowed him to present some particularly embarrassing evidence from the depositions. The purpose of this section was to depict Gardiner as an opportunist without real religious convictions by presenting passages where he attacked, or was alleged to have attacked, catholic beliefs and practices. Yet the result was that in all editions of the Acts and Monuments from 1570 onwards, the reader was referred back to the first edition for the actual quotations - even in the 1684 edition, printed over 120 years later.
[Back to Top]MarginaliaPlaces in B. Gardiners bookes & Sermōs expressed, where be impugneth þe Popes supremacie.FIrst, as touchyng the confession and iudgemēt of Steuē Gardiner against the supremacie of the B. of Rome, read in his booke De vera obedientia. fol. 6.
Item, concernyng the disputations and defensions of Byshop Gardiner at Louane agaynst the Popes supremacie, read in our first impression, pag. 802.
I.e., in 1563, p. 802.
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Item, how the said Byshop Gardiner in his Sermons & preachings, as where he expoundeth the place [Tu es Petrus] nothing at all to make for the authority of the Romish Byshop, maruelyng how the Pope could vsurpe so much to take vp that place to build vppon, when Christ had taken it vp before to build his Church, MarginaliaRead in the first impression of Actes and Monuments.read in the old booke,
I.e., the 1563 edition. Foxe printed the depositions from Gardiner's trial in the first edition (pp. 804-61) and, because of their length, he never reprinted them. But he was unwilling to give up the opportunity to use this testimony against Gardiner and, in later editions, he simply referred the reader back to the relevant pages of the first edition.
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CloseThe cross-references, here and following, are to the pages in the 1563 edition where this material occurs.
Item, how the confession of Peter was the confession of all the Apostles, like as the blessing geuen to Peter partayned as well to all the Apostles as to Peter, read ibidem. pag. 847. col. 1.
Item, that the place: Pasce oues meas, was not speciall to Peter alone, but generall to all the Apostles. Also that the Greke Church dyd neuer receaue the said Byshop of Rome for their vniuersall head, read in the same booke, pag. 847 col. 1. pag. 836. col. 2.
Item, that the authority of the Byshop of Rome, was not receyued of the most part of Christen Princes, read the depositions of Syr Tho. Smyth, pag. 827. col. 2.
Item, how the said Byshop Gardiner would not graūt, that the sayd authority was receyued generally. Ibidem. pag. 827. col. 2.
Item, that the Church was builded vppon Christes fayth, and not vpon Peter, read the depositions of Rob. Willanton, pag. 836. col. 2.
And though Peter was called Princeps Apostolorum, that was nothing els, but like as it is in an inquest, MarginaliaThe head man of Enquest.where the foreman or headman is not so called because he is best or chiefest of that cōpany, but because he speaketh first. Read in the depositions of M. Basset, pag. 850. col. 2. pag. 836. col. 2.
[Back to Top]Item, when the keyes were giuen, they were giuen generally to all the Apostles. Read the depositions of Rob. Willanton, pag. 836. col. 2.
Item, how the sayd Byshop taketh away all such Scriptures which are thought to serue for the Popes supremacie, as Super hanc Petram: Pasce oues meas: Princeps Apostolorum. &c. prouyng that they serue nothing for his authority, read likewise in the same booke in the depositions of M. Basset his owne seruaunt, pag. 850. col. 2.
[Back to Top]Item, how the sayd Byshop in his booke De vera obedientia, did not only write against the Popes supremacie,