MarginaliaAn. 1557. March.that this thyng was not well suffered in the Citie. These naughty heretickes, al the way they came through Cheapsyde both exhorted the people to their part, and had much comfort à promiscua plebe,  

and beyng entred into my house and talked withall, they shewed them selues desperate and very obstinate, yet I vsed al the honest meanes I could, both by my selfe and other to haue wonne them, causing diuers learned men to talke with them: and findyng nothing in them but pride and wilfulnes, I thought to haue had them all hether to Fulham, and here to geue sentence agaynst

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them. Neuertheles perceiuyng that your grace was offended, I thought it my duety before I anye thyng further proceded herein, to aduertise first your grace hereof, and know your good pleasure, which I besech your grace I may do by this trusty bearer. And thus most humbly I take my leaue of your good grace, besechyng almightye God alwayes to preserue the same. At Fullam, postridie Natiu. 1556.

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Your graces most bounden Bedesmā
and seruant, Edmund London.

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By this letter of Byshop Boner to the Cardinall, is to be vnderstand, what good will was in this Byshop to haue the bloud of these men, and to haue past with sentence of cōdemnation agaynst them, MarginaliaB. Boners crueltye somewhat stayed by the Cardinall.had not the Cardinall somewhat (as it seemed) haue stayde his feruent headynes.  

Concernyng the which Cardinall, although it cannot be denyed by hys Actes and writynges, but that he was a professed enemy, and no otherwise to be reputed but for a papiste: MarginaliaCardinall Poole a Papist, but no bloudy Papist.yet agayne it is to be supposed, that he was none of the bloudy and crucll sort of papists, as may appeare not onely by stayyng the rage of this Byshop: but also by his solicitous writyng, and long letters written to Cranmer,   also by the complaynts of certayne papistes, accusing him to the pope to be a bearer with the heretickes, and by the popes letters sent to hym vpon the same, callyng hym vp to Rome, and settyng Frier Peto in his place, had not Queene Mary by speciall entreaty haue kept hym out of the popes daunger. Al which letters I haue (if neede be) to shewe:   besides also that it is thought of him that toward his latter ende, a little before his commyng from Rome to England, MarginaliaCardinall Poole halfe suspected for a Lutheran at Rome.he began somewhat to sauour the doctrine of Luther, and was no lesse suspected at Rome: Yea and furthermore dyd there at Rome conuert a certeyne learned Spanyard from papisme to Luthers side: notwithstandyng the pompe and glory of the worlde afterward caryed hym away to play the papist thus as he dyd. But of this Cardinall enough.

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To returne nowe to this godly company agayne, first howe they were brought vp in bandes to London, ye haue heard: Also howe Boner was about to haue red the Sen-

tence of death vpon them, and how he was stayed by þ^e Cardinall ye vnderstand. As touchyng their confession, whiche they articled vp in writyng, it were to tedious to recite the whole at length. Briefly touchyng the article of the Lordes Supper (for the which they were chiefly troubled) thus they wrot, as here foloweth.

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MarginaliaTheir opinion and iudgment of the Lordes Supper.WHeras Christ at his last Supper tooke bread, and when he had geuen thankes he brake it and gaue it to his disciples and sayd: take, eate, this is my body: and likewise tooke the cuppe and thanked, &c. MarginaliaChristes language to speake in parrables.We do vnderstand it to be a figuratiue speach, as the most maner of hys language was in parrables and darcke sentences, that they which are carnally mynded, shoulde see with theyr eyes, and not perceaue, and heare with theyr eares, and not vnderstand, signifiyng this, that as he dyd breake the bread among them, beyng but one loafe, and they all were partakers therof, so we through his body, in that it was broken, and offered vpon the crosse for vs, are all partakers thereof, and his bloude clenseth vs from our sinnes, and hath pacified Gods wrath towards vs and made the atonement betwene God and vs, if we walke henceforth in the light euen as he is the true light.

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MarginaliaThe cause why the bread and cup was geuen in the Supper.And in that he sayd further, do this in the remembrance of me, it is a memoriall and token of the suffryng and death of Iesu Christ: and he commaūded it for this cause, þ^t the congregation of Christ should come together to shew his death, and to thanke and laude him for all his benefites, and

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