Marginalia1558.MarginaliaD. Martin presenteth her to the Commissioners.translated them, nor who printed them, nor yet who sent them ouer. Wherfore my Lord Chancellor committeth her vnto my Lord of London, he to do with her as he shal thinke good. For shee wyll confesse nothing, but that shee bought these said bookes in Hamsterdame, and so brought them ouer to sel for gaine.

D. Cooke. Let her head be trussed in a small lyne, and make her to confesse.

Martin. The booke is called MarginaliaThe booke called Antichrist.Antichrist, & so may it be well called, for it speaketh against Iesus Christ & the Queene. And besides that, shee hath a certaine sparke of the Anabaptistes, for shee refuseth to sweare vpon the foure Euangelistes before a Iudge: For I my selfe and M. Hussy haue had her before vs foure tymes, but we can not bring her to sweare. Wherfore my Lord Chauncellour would that shee should absteine & fast, for shee hath not fasted a great while: MarginaliaElizabeth Young a great while in the Clinke.For shee hath laine in the Clincke a good while, where shee hath had too much her libertie.

Then said þ^e bishop: why wilt thou not sweare before a Iudge? that is the right trade of the Anabaptistes.

Eliz. My Lord, I wyl not sweare that this hand is mine.

No said the Bishop? and why?

Eliz. MarginaliaElizabeth Young refuseth to sweare and why.My Lord, Christ saith, that what soeuer is more thē yea yea, or nay, nay, it commeth of euyll. And moreouer, I know not what an oth is: and therefore I wyl take no such thyng vpon me.

MarginaliaElizabeth Young thought to be no woman.Then said Cholmley: xx. pounde, it is a man in a womans clothes: xx. pound it is a man.

Boner. Thinke you so my Lord?

Cholm. Yea, my Lord. &c.

Eliz. My Lord, I am a woman.

Bish. Sweare her vpon a booke, seeing it is but a question asked.

Then said Cholmley: I wyll lay twentie pound it is a man.

Then D. Cooke brought her a booke, commaunding her to lay theron her hand.

Eliz. No, my Lord, I wyl nat sweare: for I knowe not what an oth is. But I say that I am a woman, and haue children.

Bish. That know not we: wherfore sweare.

Cholmley. Thou yl fauoured whoore, lay thy hand vpon the booke: I wyl lay on myne, and so he layd his hand vpō the booke.

Eliz. So wyl not I myne.

Then the Bishop spake a word in Latine, out of saint Paul, as concernyng swearing.

Eliz. My Lord, if ye speake to me of S. Paul, thē speake English for I vnderstand you not.

The Bish. I dare sweare that thou doest not.

Eliz. My Lord, S. Paul saith that fiue wordes spoken in a language that may be vnderstand, is better then many in a foreine or strange tongue which is vnknowen.

Doctour Cooke. Sweare before vs whether thou be a mā or a woman.

Eliz. If ye wyll not beleue me, then send for women into a secret place, and I wyl be tryed.

Cholm. Thou art an yl fauoured whore.

Then said the Bishop: MarginaliaSacrament of the altar.How beleuest thou in the Sacrament of the altar?

Eliz. My Lorde: if it wyll please you that I shall declare myne owne fayth, I wyl.

The Bish. Tell me howe thou beleuest in the sacrament of the altar.

Eliz. Wyll it please you that I shall declare my fayth? And if it be not good, then teach me a better, and I wyl beleue it.

Doct. Cooke. That is wel said, declare thy fayth.

Eliz. MarginaliaThe confession and fayth of Elizabeth Young.I beleue in God the Father almighty, the Sonne, and the holy Ghost, three persons and one God. I beleue all the Articles of my Creede. I beleue all thinges written in the holy Scripture, and all thinges agreeable with the scripture, geuen by the holy ghost into the church of Christ, set forth and taught by the church of Christ. I beleue that Iesus Christ the only sonne of GOD, that immaculate Lambe, came into the world to saue sinners, & that in hym, by hym, and through him I am made cleane frō my sinnes, and without hym I coulde not. I beleue that in the holy sacrament of Christes body and bloud, which he dyd institute and ordeyne, and leaft among his Disciples the night before he was betrayed, MarginaliaThe Sacrament to be receaued in spirite and fayth.when I do receiue this sacrament in faith and spirit, I do receiue Christ.

The Bish. No more, I warrant you, but the sacramēt of Christes body and bloud, receiued but in spirite and faith, with these hereeiques.

Cholm. Ah whore? MarginaliaCholmley can not abyde spirite and fayth.spirit and faith whoore?

Eliz. This sacrament neuer man could or dyd make, but only he that dyd that, which no man could do.

Mart. Then thou must allow that grasse is a sacrament: for who could make grasse but he only?

Eliz. Syr, he hath suffered, and made a sufficient Sacrifice once for all, MarginaliaInstitution of the Sacrament by Christ onely once for all.and so hath he made his Sacrament sufficient once for all, for there was neuer man that coulde say: Take, eate, this is my body that is broken for you, but onely Iesus Christe, who had his bodye broken for the sinnes of the worlde: which Sacrament he hath leaft here amongest vs for a testimoniall of his death, euen to the worldes ende.

Mart. Who taught thee this doctrine? dyd Scory?

Eliz. Yea, Bishop Scory and other that I haue heard.

Bish. Why? is Scory Bishop now?

Eliz. If that do offende you, call hym Doctour Scory, if ye wyll.

Roper. I knew when he was but a poore Doctour.

Mart. What doo ye cal Scory?

Eliz. Our Superintendent.

Bish. Loe, their Superintendent.

Mart. And what are ye called?

Eliz. Christes congregation.

Bish. Lo, Christes congregation, I warrant you.

Doct. Cooke. What liuyng hath Scory?

Eliz. Syr, as farre as I doe know, he liueth by his owne, for I know no man that geueth hym ought.

Recorder. Yes, I warrant you, he hath enough sent hym out of England.

Eliz. Syr, I know no such thing.

Cholm. Harke whoore, harke: harke how I do beleue.

Eliz. My Lord, I haue told you my beliefe.

Cholmley. Harke, thou yll fauoured whoore, howe I doo beleue. MarginaliaConfessiō of Cholmleyes fayth.When the Priest hath spoken the wordes of Consecration, I do beleue that there remayneth the very bodye that was borne of the virgine Mary, was hanged on the Crosse, was dead and buryed, and descended into hell, and rose agayne on the third day, and ascended to heauen, and sitteth at the right hand of God. The same body when the Priest hath spoken the wordes, commeth downe, and whē the Priest lifteth vp his body on this wise (he lifting vp his handes) sayd there it is. Eliz. I haue told you also how I do beleue.

Mart. Away with her.

Cholmley. Ah euill fauoured whore, nothing but spirite and fayth whore?

Mart. Away with her, we haue more to talke withall.

Then was she caryed into the Colehouse, and searched for bookes, MarginaliaElizabeth Young caried to the Stockhouse.and then put into the stockehouse, and her knife, gyrdle, and aporne, taken from her.

MarginaliaThe fift examination of Elizabeth Young.THen was she brought out of the stockhouse and brought before the Bishops Chauncellour, who required of her, what age she was of.

Eliz. Syr, forty yeares and vpwardes.

The Chauncellour. Why, thou art a woman of a fayre yeares: what shouldest thou medle with the Scriptures? it is necessary for thee to beleue, and that is inough.

It is more fit for thee to medle with thy distafe, then to medle with the Scriptures. What is thy beliefe? I would heare it: for it can not be good, in that thou art brought into prison.

Eliz. MarginaliaElizabeth Young offereth agayne to declare her beliefe.Syr, if it wil please you to heare it, I wil declare it vnto you. But I pray you that you wil take your pen and write it, & then examine it: and if ye finde any thing therin that is not for a Christian woman, then teach me better, and I wil learne it.

Chaunc. Well said. But who shalbe Iudge betweene thee and me?

Elizab. The Scripture.

Chaunc. Wilt thou stand by that?

Eliz. Yea sir.

Chaunc. Wel, go thy way out at the doore a litle while, for I am busie, and I wyl cal for thee anone againe.

Then he called me againe, and said: Now woman, the tyme is too long to write. Say thy minde, & I wyl beare it in my head.

Then Elizabeth began, and declared her faith to hym, as shee had done before the Bishop.

Chaunc. Woman, spirit and faith I do allow, but doest not thou beleue that thou doest receiue the body of Christ MarginaliaReally. Corporally. Substantially.really, corporally, and substantially?

Eliz. These wordes really, and corporally, I vnderstande not: as for substantially, I take it, ye meane I should beleue that I should receiue his humane body (which is vpon the right hand of God, and can occupy no moe places at once) and that beleue not I.