Marginalia1555. December.ny of the Synode can by Gods word perswade me that my sayd othe was vnlawfull, and that I am bounde by Gods law to come to your Church, fayth, and Religiō, wherof you be now, I will gladly yeld, agree, and be conformable vnto you: otherwise not.

MarginaliaB. Boner with all his Doctors, not able to satisfie M. Philpots offer.Boner thē not able with all his learned Doctours to accomplish this his offered cōdition, fell to perswadyng of him, as well by his accustomed vayne promises, as also by bloudy threatnynges to returne to their Church:  

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The preceding sentence is Foxe's insertion.

Phil. You and all other of your sort are hypocrites, and I would all the world did know your hypocrisie, your tyranny, ignoraunce and Idolatry.

Vpon these wordes, the Byshop dyd for that tyme dismisse him, cōmaundyng that on MarginaliaDecember 16.Monday the xvj. day of the same moneth, betwene the houres of one & three in the after noone, he should agayne be brought thether, their to haue the definitiue sentence of condemnation pronounced agaynst him, if he remayned then in his former constancie.

MarginaliaThe last examination of Iohn Philpot.AT whiche day and tyme, Maister Philpot beyng there presented before the Byshops of London, Bath, Worcester, and Lichfield, Boner Byshoppe of London began his talke in this maner.

London. My Lord Stokesley, my predecessour, when he went about to geue sentence agaynst an hereticke, vsed to make this prayer.

MarginaliaB. Stokesleyes prayer when he gaue sentence vpon any.Deus qui errantibus vt in viā possint redire iustitiæ, veritatis tuæ lumen ostendis, da cunctis qui Christiana professione censentur, & illa respuere quæ huic inimica sint nomini, & ea quæ sint apta sectari per Christum dominum nostrum, Amen.  

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Stokesley

Foxe text Latin

Deus qui errantibus vt in viam possint redire iustitiae, veritatis tuae lumen ostendis, da cunctis qui Christiana professione censentur, & illa respuere quae huic inimica sint nomini, & ea quae sint apta sectari per Christum dominum nostrum. Amen.

Foxe text translation

Not translated.

Translation (Wade 2003)

God, you who show the light of your truth to those who are in error that they may return to the path of righteousness, grant to all who are judged in professing Christ, that they both reject those things which are hostile to his name and pursue those things which are fit, through Christ our Lord, Amen.

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Philpot. I would ye would speake in English, that all men might heare and vnderstand you: for Paule willeth that all thynges spoken in the congregation to edifie, should be spoken in a toung that all men might vnderstand.

Wherupon the Byshop did read it in English: and whē he came to these woordes: to refuse those thynges whiche are foes to this name, Philpot sayd:

Phil. Then they all must turne away from you: MarginaliaB. Boner prayeth agaynst him selfe.for you are enemyes to that name (meanyng Christes name) and God saue vs from such hypocrites as would haue thynges in a toung that men can not vnderstand.

London. Whom do you meane?

Phil. You and all other that be of your generation and sect. And I am sory to see you sit in þ^e place þ^t you now sit in, pretēdyng to execute iustice, & doe nothyng lesse but deceiue all men in this Realme.

And then turnyng himselfe vnto the people, hee farther sayd: oh all you Gentlemen, beware of these men (meanyng the Byshops) and all their doynges, which be contrary vnto the primatiue Churche. And I would know of you my Lord by what authoritie you doe proceede agaynst me?

London. Because I am Byshop of London.

Philpot. Well, then ye are not my Byshop nor I haue not offended in your Diocesse:MarginaliaB. Boner hath no authoritie by right to proceede agaynst M. Philpot. and moreouer I haue appealed from you, and therefore by your owne law you ought not to proceede agaynst me, especially beyng brought hether from an other place by violence.  

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Apparently Philpot, who was arrested following the publication of his account of the debate in convocation in October 1553, was examined by royal commissioners, as well as by Gardiner, before being sent to Bonner.

London. Why? who sent you hether to me?

Philpot. That did Doctour Story and Doctour Cooke, with other the Kyng and Queenes Commissioners: and my Lord, is it not enough for you to wirry your own shepe, but ye must also meddle with other mens sheepe?

Then the Byshop deliuered vnto Philpot two bookes, one of the Ciuile law, and the other of the Canon, out of the whiche he would haue proued that he had authoritie to proceede agaynst him in such sorte as he did. M. Philpot then perusing the same, and seyng the small and slender proofe that was there alledged, sayd vnto the Byshop:

Philpot. I perceiue your law and Diuinitie is all one: for you haue knowledge in neither of them: and I would ye did know your owne ignoraunce: but ye daunce in a net, and thinke that no man doth see you. Hereupon they had much talke, but what it was, it is not yet knowen.  

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This last sentence is an indication that Foxe is drawing on an eyewitness account as well official records.

London. Philpot, as concernyng your obiections agaynst my iurisdiction, ye shall vnderstand that both the Ciuill and Canon lawes make agaynst you: and as for your appeale, it is not allowed in this case. For it is writtē in the law: A iudice dispositionem iuris exequente, non est appellandum.  

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Bonner, quoting the law

Foxe text Latin

A iudice dispositionem iuris exequente, non est appellandum.

Foxe text translation

Not translated.

Translation (Wade 2003)

There must be no appeal to a judge in carrying out the ordering of the law (?)

philpot. My Lorde it appeareth by your interpretation of the lawe,MarginaliaB. Boner noted to be ignorant in the law. that ye haue noe knowledge therein, nor that ye doe vnderstand the lawe: for if ye dyd, ye woulde not

bryng in that text.

Hereupon the Byshop recited a lawe of the Romains,MarginaliaThis law seemeth either blyndly compared of the Byshop, or els not rightly collected of his Register. that it was not lawfull for a Iew to keepe a Christian man in captiuitie, and to vse him as his slaue, laying then to the sayd Philpots charge, that hee dyd not vnderstand the law, but dyd lyke a Iewe. Wherunto Philpot aunswered:

Phil. No, I am no Iewe: but you my Lorde are a Iewe. For you professe Christ and mainteine Antichrist: you professe the Gospell, & maynteine superstition, & ye bee able to charge me with nothing.

Lond. and other Bish. With what can you charge vs?

Phil. You are enemyes to all truth, and all your doynges be naught full of Idolatrye, sauyng the article of the Trinitye?

Whylest they were thus debating the matter, MarginaliaThe Lord Maior with the Shriefes assistant to B. Boner agaynst Iohn Philpot.there came thether Syr Williā Garret knight then Maior of London, Sir Martyn Bowes Knight, and Thomas Leigh, then Shrieffe of the same City, and sat downe with the sayd byshops in the sayd Consistory, where and what tyme Byshop Boner spake these wordes in in effect as foloweth.

Lond. Philpot, before the comming of my Lord Maior, because I would not enter with you into the matter wherewith I haue heretofore and now intend to charge you with all, vntill his commyng, I dyd rehearse vnto you a prayer both in English and in Latyn, whiche Byshop Stokesly my predecessor vsed when he intended to procede to geue sētence agaynst an hereticke.

And here they did agayne read the sayd prayer both in English and also in Latin: which beyng ended, he spake agayne vnto him and sayd:

Boner. MarginaliaThe 3. Articles against Iohn Philpot agayne repeated.Philpot, amongest other I haue to charge you, especially with three thinges.

1. First, where you haue fallē from the vnitye of Christes Catholicke church, you haue therupon bene inuited and required, not onely by me, but also by many and diuers others catholicke Byshops, and ather learned men, to returne and come agayne to the same: and also you haue bene offered by me: that if you would so returne and confesse your errours and heresies, you shoulde be mercifully receiued, and haue so much fauour as I could shew vnto you.

2. The second is, that you haue blasphemously spoken agaynst the sacrifice of the Masse, callyng it idolatry and abomination.

3. And thirdly that you haue spoken and holden agaynst þ^e sacrament of the aulter, denying the real presēce of Christes body and bloud to be in the same.

This beyng spoken, the Byshop recyted vnto him a certayne exhortation in Englishe, the tenour and forme wherof is this.

MarginaliaAn exhortation of B. Boner to Iohn Philpot. December. 16.MAster Philpot, this is to be told you, that if you, not being yet reconciled to the vnity of the catholicke church, frō whence ye dyd fall in the tyme of the late schisme here in this Realme of England, agaynst the sea Apostolicke of Rome, will now hartely & obediently be reconciled to the vnity of the same catholicke Church, professing and promising to obserue & keepe to the best of your power the fayth and Christian Religion obserued & kept of al faythfull people of the same: and moreouer if ye which heretofore, especially in the yeare of our Lord. 1553. 1554. 1555. or in one of them, haue offended and trespassed greuously agaynst the sacrifice of the masse, callyng it idolatrye and abominable, and lykewise haue offended and trespassed agaynst the sacramēt of the aulter, denying the real presēce of Christes body & bloud to be there in the sacramēt of the alter, affirming also withall material bread & materiall wyne to be in the sacrament of the aulter, & not the substaunce of the body & bloud of Christ: if ye, I say, wilbe reconcyled as is afore, and wil forsake your heresies and errors before touched, beyng hereticall and damnable, and will allowe also the sacrament of the Masse, ye shall be mercifully reciued & charitably vsed, with as much fauour as may be: if not, ye shall be reputed, taken and iudged for an hereticke (as ye be in deede.) Nowe do you chuse what ye will do: you are counselled herein friendly and fauourably.

Ita est quod Ed. Boner Epis. Lond.

The Byshops exhortation thus ended, M. Philpot turned him selfe vnto the Lord Maior and sayd:

Phil. MarginaliaIohn Philpot aunswereth to the Byshops exhortation before the Lord Maior.To you my Lord Mayor bearing þ^e sword, I am glad that it is my chaūce now to stand before that authority that hath defended the Gospell, and the truth of Gods word: but I am sory to see that that authority whiche representeth the Kings and Queenes persons, shoulde nowe be chaun-