MarginaliaAnno. 1556. Iuly.ward that godlie prince, certain sclaunderous libelles, and railyng verses, wer priuely fixed to the walles and doores in sondrie places of the Colledge, MarginaliaLibelles set vp in Oxforde against D. Haddon President.againste the President, whiche was then Doctor Haddon, whereby was ministred further matter of trouble to Palmer. For whereas it was well knowen that he, and some of his companions, had verie little before, spoken contumelious wordes against the President: it could not be now auoided, but that thereby arose a vehemente surmise, and suspicion, that he conspiring with others, had contriued, made, and scattered abroad the saied sclaunderous writynges. Greate inquisition was made in the Colledge, to serche out the author of so malicious, and despitefull a deede, but nothyng could bee founde,and proued againste Palmer, or any of his companions. Nowe Palmer beeyng hereupon examined by the officers, did not onely with stoute courage deny the fact to haue been his: but also spake further many reprochful words, touchyng the saied officers, and sent the same to them in writyng, whereby he was by them adiudged, to bee an vnworthie member of that societie. MarginaliaIu. Palmer expelled the Colledge for Poperie.And so for this, and other Popishe pranckes (c?tinuyng obstinate still) he was expelled the house.

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After he was thus dispatched of his roome, MarginaliaIul. Palmer driuen to teach children.he was faine for his owne maintenaunce, to applie hym self to bee a teacher of children, in the house of sir Fraunces Knolles, in the whiche trade he continued vntil the c?myng of Queene Mary. And when her visitours were sent to Magdalene Colledge, vnder a title of reformation (whereas all thynges were better afore) I meane to displace diuerse of the fellowes that were learned, & to put right Catholickes (as they called them) in their roomes: then came this Iulins Palmer, waityng to be restored to his liuyng againe, of whiche he had been depriued afore, thinkyng by good right, to be restored of them, whose faithe and Religion, (as he saied) he did to the vttermoste of his power defende, and maintain. MarginaliaPalmer restored againe to his Colledge.And in deede, at length he obtained the same. Then after he was restored againe, to his house in Queene Maries raigne, GOD dealt so mercifull with hym, that in the ende he became of an obstinate Papiste, an earnest and a zealous Gospeller. Of whose conuersion to the truth, that I maie make faithfull relation, you shall heare what I haue learned of them, that dwelte in the same house, and were familiar with hym.

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MarginaliaThe conuersi? of Palmer after his restoryng again into the colledge.When he was by the Visiters restored to his Colledge, although he beg? some thing to fauour and taste of Gods truthe, by conference and companie of certain godlie and zealous men abrode, in tyme of his expulsion, specially at the house of sir Fraunces Knowles: yet was he not throughly perswaded, but in moste pointes continued for a while, either blinde, or els doubtfull. Neither could he chose, but vtter hym self in priuate reasonyng, from tyme to tyme, bothe in what pointes he was fully resolued, and also of what pointes he doubted. For suche was his nature alwaie, bothe in Papistrie, and in the Gospell: vtterly to detest all dissimulati?, in so muche that by the meanes of his plainesse, and for that he could not flatter, he suffred muche woe, both in kyng Edwardes, and also in Queene Maries tyme. Whereas he might at the firste haue liued in greate quietnesse, MarginaliaPlain Palmer could neuer dissemble with his conscience.if he could haue dissembled, and bothe doen, and spoken against his c?science, as many stiryng Papistes then did. And likewise he might haue escaped burnyng in Queene Maries tyme, if he would either haue spoken, or kept silence againste his conscience, as many weake Gospellers did. But Palmer could in nowise dissemble.

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MarginaliaThe first occasion of Iulins Pal. conuersi?, was by the c?staunt death of the Martyrs.Now within short space, GOD so wrought in his harte, that he became very inquisitiue, and carefull to heare, and vnderstande, howe the Martyres were apprehended, what Articles they died for, how they were vsed, and after what sorte they tooke their death. In so muche that he spared not at his owne charges, to sende ouer one of his scholers, in the companie of a Bacheler of that house, to Glocester, to see, and vnderstande the whole order of Bishop Hopers death, and to bryng hym true report thereof. Whiche thyng some thinke, he the rather did, because he was wonte in kyng Edwardes tyme to saie: that none of them all, would stande to death for their Religion. Thus he learned with what extreme and horrible crueltie the Martyres of GOD were tried, and how valiauntly they ouercame al kind of tormentes to the ende. Whereof he hymself also did see more experience afterward, at the examination, and death of those holie Confessours, and Martyres which

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were burned at Oxforde before his eyes, MarginaliaNote howe the bloud of Martyrs worketh.in so muche that the first hope, whiche the godlie conceiued of hym, was at the retourne from the burnyng of Bishop Ridley, and B. Latimer. At what tyme in the hearyng of diuerse of his frendes, he braste out into these wordes, and suche like: O ragyng crueltie, O tyrannie tragical, and more then barbarous.

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Fr? that daie forward, he studiously sought to vnderstande the truthe, and therefore with all spede he borowed Peter Martyrs commentaries vpon the first to the Corinthes, of one of Magdalenes yet aliue, and other good bookes of other men. And so through hartie praier, and diligent search, and conference of the scripture, at length he beleued, & imbraced the truthe with greate ioy: and so profited in the same, that daily more and more, he declared it bothe in worde and deede. In suche sort, as he neuer hated the truthe more stubbornly before, MarginaliaPalmer feru?t in the Gospeles cause.then afterwarde he willingly embraced the same, when it pleased God to open his eyes, and to reueale vnto hym the light of his worde. And now again when he should come to Churche, in those daies of Poperie, there to bee occupied among the reste, in syngyng of Respondes, readyng of Legendes, and suche like stuffe allotted vnto hym, MarginaliaSuperstitious toyes. he had as muche pleasure (he saied) to be at them, as a Beare to be baited, and wearied with Dogges. When he came, it was (as it appeared) more to auoide displeasure, and daunger: then for any good will, and ready affection.

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At lengthe through Goddes grace, he grewe vp to suche maturitie, & ripenes in the truthe: that he spared not to declare certaine sparkes thereof in his outward behauiour, and doynges.. For when he should kepe his bowyng measures at*Marginalia* By these measures, he meaneth certain ceremonie of that Colledge, whiche was this: That in the Confiteor tyme at Eu?song, the whole c?pany of the quier (which was there) to the n?ber of a hundreth standing vp, & turnyng their faces firste to the high Altar, should then turne them to the Presid?t, and from hym to the Altar again, and so after this turnyng three tymes together, the President should saye: Misereatur, whiche doen euery man to place himself againe in his stall. the Confiteor (as the custome there was (in turnyng hym self to and fro, sometyme Eastwarde, sometyme Westwarde, and afterwarde knocke his breast at the eleuation tyme (against whiche Idolatrous adorati?, his harte did so vehementely rise, that sometyme he would absent hymself from th?, and somtyme beyng there, he would euen at the sacryng time (as thei termed it) get hym out of the churche, to auoide those vngodly gestures, & Idolatrous adoration. To bee short, perceiuyng after a while, that he was greatly suspected, and abhorred of the President, then beyng, whiche was maister Cole,  

and of diuerse other, whiche before were his frendes, and therewithall feelyng greate conflicte, and torment of conscience daiely to grow with his conuersation with Idolaters: seyng also that his newe life, and old liuyng might not well, nor quietly stande together, he addressed hymself, to departe the house. For he thought it not best, to abide the daunger of expulsion, as he did at the firste: seeyng the weather was now waxed warmer. And beyng dema?ded at that tyme, of a speciall frende (who would gladly haue perswaded hym to staie there longer) whether he would goe, or how he would liue, he made this aunswere: Domini est terra, & plenitudo eius. i.  

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Psalm 24.(23.) 1.

Foxe text Latin

Domini est terra & plenitudo eius.

Foxe text translation

The yearth is the Lordes, and the fulnesse thereof.

Actual text of Psalm 23. (24.) 1. (Vulgate, from both the Greek and Hebrew)

Domini est terra et plenitudo eius

[Accurate citation.]

The yearth is the Lordes, and the fulnesse thereof. Lette the Lorde worke. I wil commit my self to God, & the wide world.

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Here I thinke it expediente, before I write of the painfull surges that he suffered, after he came abroade into the perillous gulfes, and deepe sea of this wretched wide worlde: first, to rehearse one or twoo examples of his outwarde behauiour, at suche tymes as he had recourse to the Colledge, after his last departure, whereby the reader maie better vnderstande, of his simplicitie and plainnesse, and how farre wide he was, from all cloked dissumulation in Gods cause, whiche certaine godlesse persones, haue sought maliciously to charge hym with all. Beeyng at Oxforde on a certaine time in Magdalene Colledge, and hauyng knowledge that the Spanishe Frier IohnMarginaliaDoctour Ihon the Spanishe Frier succeded D. Peter Martyr in the diuinitie Lecture. (who succeded Doctor Peter Martyr, in the office of the Diuinitie Lecture) would preache there that presente Sondaie, he would not at the firste, graunt to bee present at it. At length a freinde of his, a fellowe of that house, perswaded so muche with hym, that he was contente to accompanie his saied freinde to the Churche. But sodainly as the Frier vehemently inueighed againste Gods truthe, in defendyng certaine Popishe heresies, Palmer hauyng many eyes bente, and directed towardes hym, departed from amongeste the middest of the auditorie, and was founde in his frendes chamber, wepyng bitterly. After-

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