Marginalia1555. Decemb.tway parties, of whom the one was equally disagreeing frō the other?

Christo. My Lorde, it is but follie to reason with him any further: your Lordship shall but loose time, for he is incurable.

Boner. Wel then, let his keeper haue him away. And with that Doct. Chadsey led me a way by the whiche we coulde not passe, and therfore came backe againe through the Bishops chamber, where al these Doctors were clustred together: and as I was passing, the Bishop tooke me by the gowne, and said: Wote you what M. Christoforson telleth me? I pray you M. Christoforsō rehearse þ^e sentēce in Latine, and so he did. The contentes therof was, that an heretike would not be won.

Christo. S. Paul saith: Hæreticum hominem post vnam atque alteram admonitionem deuita.  

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Christopherson, citing Titus, 3. 10.

Foxe text Latin

Haereticum hominem post vnam atque alteram admonitionem deuita.

Foxe text translation

Flee an heretike after once or twise warning.

Actual text of Titus, 3. 10. (Vulgate)

hereticum hominem post unam et secundam correptionem devita.

[Accurate citation, except for the synonymousalteram admonitionemfor the Vulgatesecundam correptionem- perhaps Christopherson is quoting from memory or translating from the Greek.]

Al the Doctors. Yea, my Lord, it is best you so do, & trouble your Lordship no more with him.

Phil. MarginaliaChristian truth called heresye.You must first proue me iustly to be an heretike, before you vse the iudgement of S. Paul against me: for he speaketh of such as hold opinion against the manifest word, the which you can not proue by me. And because you want in your profe, and be able to proue nothing against me, therfore you go about falsly to suppose me to be an heretike for the safegard of your owne counterfeite honesties: but afore God you are the heretikes, which so stoutly and stubbornly mainteine so many things directly against Gods worde, as God in his time shal reueale. As I went out of his chāber, the Bishop called me aside and said:

Boner. I pray thee in good sadnes, what meanest thou by writing in the beginning of the Bible: Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terris:  

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Philpot [written in his Bible]

Foxe text Latin

Spiritus est vicarius Christi in terris.

Foxe text translation

The spirite is the vicar of Christe on the earth.

[Cf. above Page 1711, Column 1, Line 63.

N.B. the pluralterrisfor the singularterrain the earlier citation]

Phil. My Lorde, MarginaliaThe holy ghost is Christes Vicar in earth, and how?I haue none other meaning then (as I haue tolde you already) that Christ since his ascension worketh all thinges in vs by his spirite, and by his spirite doth dwel in vs. I pray you, my Lord, let me haue my Bible, with other lawfull bookes and writinges whiche you haue of myne, whereof many of them be none of myne, but lent to me by my frendes.

Boner. Your Bible you shal not haue, but I wil perhaps let you haue an other: and after I haue perused the rest, you shal haue such as I thinke good.

Phil. I pray your Lordship then, that you woulde let me haue candle light.

Boner. To what purpose, I pray you?

Phil. The nights be long, & I would faine occupy my selfe about somwhat, and not spend my tyme idlely.

Boner. You may then pray.

phil. I can not well say my prayers without light.

Boner. Can you not say your Pater noster, without a candle? I tell you sir, you shall haue some meate and drinke of me, MarginaliaIohn Philpot denyed to haue candle light.but candle you get none.

phil. I had leuer  

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I.e., a common-place book.

Boner. Haue him downe.

Chad. I wil bring him to his keeper, my lord. M. Philpot, I wonder that all these learned men whom you haue talked withal this day, can nothing perswade you?

Phil. Why, M. Doctor, would you haue me to be perswaded with nothing? or woulde you haue me builde my faith vpon sand? What do you al bring, wherby I ought by any sufficient authoritie to be perswaded to you?

Chad. I am sory you wil so wilfully cast away your selfe, where as you might liue worshipfully. Doo you not thinke other haue soules to saue as wel as you haue?

Phil. Euery man shall receiue according to his owne doinges. Sure I am you are deceiued, and mainteine a false religion: and as for my casting away, I would my burning day were to morowe: for this delay is euery day to dye, and yet not to be dead.

Chad. You are not like to die yet, I can tel you.

Phil. I am the more sory thereof. But the wil of God be done of me, to his glory, Amen.

MarginaliaThe twelfth examination of M. Philpot before certeine Byshops.IN the morning I was fet downe to the wardrobe adioyning to the Chappell, and within a while after came three of the Bishops Chapleines vnto me, saying.

Chapleins. M. Philpot, my Lord hath sent vs vnto you, to desire you to come to masse, certifying you that there is a

Doctor of Diuinitie a Chapleine of my Lordes, a notable learned man, called Doct. Chadsey, going to masse: therfore we also pray you, good M. Philpot, be content to come: it is hard hereby.

Phil. MarginaliaIohn Philpot sent for to masse, refuseth to come.I wonder my Lorde would trouble you in sending you about this matter, seeing he knoweth I am a man (by your lawe) that can not heare masse, because I stand excōmunicate.

Bishops Chap. Your excommunication is but vpon a contumacie, and my Lorde wyl dispense with you, if you wyll come.

Phil. My Lorde can not, for he is not myne Ordinarye, and I wyll not seeke any suche thing at his handes. With this answeare they went their way. And after Masse the Bishop called me before hym into his Chappell, and there in the presence of his Register (after he had sayde his minde, because I would not come to Masse) recited the articles,MarginaliaThe Byshop layeth out his articles agayne. which he often tymes before had done in that behalf, with the depositions of the witnesses, of whom some were not examined.

Boner. Sir, what can you now say, why I should not proceede to geue sentence against thee as an heretike?

Phil. Why, my Lorde, wyll you proceede to geue sentence against me, before your witnesses be examined? that is plain againste your owne Lawe, MarginaliaThe Byshops doinges against the lawe.as all your doinges haue bene hitherto.

Boner. See what a foole thou art in the lawe. I neede not to recite the depositions of the witnes, but if I list: for I knowe them wel enough already.

phil. It appeareth in deede you may do what you list.

Boner. Tell me, I say, whether thou wylt answer, or no: and whether if thou were absolued of thine excommunication, thou wouldest come to masse, or no?

Phil. I haue answered as much as I intend to doo, vntyll I be called to lawful iudgment: and as concerning my conscience, I wyll not make you God to sit there as yet: it is Gods part only to be searcher of the hart.

Boner. Looke how foolishly he speaketh. Art thou God? and yet doest thou not sit in thine owne conscience?

Phil. I sit not in myne own conscience: but I know it, and God there onely ought to sit, and no man els.

Boner. MarginaliaIohn Philpot is rebuked for singing.Thou art a naughty felowe, and haste done muche hurt, & hast seduced other poore felowes here in prison with thee, by thy comforting of them in their errors, & hast made them reioyce and sing with thee.

Phil. Yea, my Lorde, we shall sing, when you and suche other as you are, shall crye Væ, Væ, Woe, woe, excepte you repente.

Boner. What an arrogant foole is this? I wyll handle thee like an hereticke, and that shortly.

Phil. I feare nothing (I thanke God) you can do to me. But God shall destroy such as thou art, and that shortly, as I trust.

Boner. Haue him away, this is a knaue in deede.

Phil. And I was had into the Wardrobe again by my keeper, and within an houre after was sent for to come before him and the bishops of Worcester and Bangor.

Boner. Sir, I haue talked with you many tymes, and haue caused you to be talked withall of many learned men, yea and honourable both Temporall and Spirituall, and it auaileth nothing with you. I am blamed that I haue brought thee afore so many: for they say, thou gloryest to haue many to talke withall. Well, nowe it lyeth thee vpon to looke to thy selfe: for thy tyme draweth neare to an end, if thou doo not become conformable. And at this present we are sent from the Synode to offer you this grace, that if you wyll come to the vnitie of the Church of Rome with vs, and acknowledge the reall presence of Christe in the sacrament of the aultar with vs, all that is past shalbe forgeuen, and you receiued to fauor.

Worc. MarginaliaTalke betwene Iohn Philpot and the B. of Worcester and Bangor.Maister Philpot, we are sent (as you here haue hearde, by my Lorde of London) from the Synode, to offer you mercy, if you wyll receiue it. And of good wyl I beare you, I wishe you to take it, whilest it is offered, and bee not a singular man againste a whole multitude of learned men, whiche nowe in fasting and prayer are gathered together to deuise thinges to doo you good. There haue many learned mē talked w^t you: why should you thinke your selfe better learned then them all? Be not of suche arrogancie, but haue humilitie, and remember there is no saluation but in the church.

Bangor. Me thinketh my Lorde hath saide wonderfully well vnto you, that you shoulde not thinke your selfe so well learned, but other men are as well learned as you, neither of so good wyt, but other be as wise as you, neither of so good memorie, but other haue as good memorie as you. Therefore mistrust your owne iudgement, and come