Marginalia2. Repugnaunce in the person.
Ala. Copus pag. 833. lin. 12.geue the Lorde Cobham to be present personally in that assemble, Halle, and Alanus Copus Anglus, do exclude hys personall presence from thence: and so doth Fabian also seme to agree, speakyng onely of the adherentes of Syr Iohn Oldcastle.

Marginalia3.Repugnaunce in the yeare.3. Thirdly, where Halle and Polydorus reporte this assemble to be after the burning of Iohn Hus, and of Hierome at the councell of Constaunce, whiche was an. 1415. that cā not be, but if there were any such conspiracie in the first yeare of Henry. 5. it must needes be, an. 1413. And here by the way, why doe certaine of your Epitome writers speaking of the Lord Cobham committed first to the tower for heresie, referre the sayde his imprisonement to the yeare 1412. where as, by their owne counte, reckoning the yeare from the annunciation, it must needes be an. 1413. beyng done in haruest tyme?

Marginalia4.Repugnaunce in the month.4. Fourthly, where Halle, with his folowers affirme that Syr Roger Acton, Browne and Beuerley were condemned the 12. day of December, the recorde is euident agaynst it, which holdeth the facte to be in workyng the 10. day of Ianuary.

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Repugnaunce in the day.5. Fiftly, where as the foresayde recorde of the Inditement geueth the Wenesday next after þ^e Epiphany, which was the. 10. day of Ianuary that present yeare, both þ^e fact to be committed, the same day, the Commission also to be graunted and deliuered to the Cōmissioners the same day, The sayd Cōmisioners to sit in Commission the same day: The Shriffes of Midlesex to returne a iurye out of the body of Midlesex the same day: and the Iurers to finde the iuditement the same day, and yet no Iurer in the inditement named the same day.

Item, the Lord Cobham, the same day, to be found cōspiryng to make hymselfe Regent, when as the king, that day and yeare, was not yet passed into Fraunce: how all these can concurre and hang together and all in one day: I suppose it will cost you two dayes, before you, with all your learned counsell will study it out. And whē you in your vnlawfull assembles haue conspired and conferred together, all ye can, yet will ye make it (as I thinke) three dayes, before you honestly dispatch your handes of the matter.

And where ye thinke, that you haue impressed in me such a foule note of lying, neuer to be clawed of while the worlde standeth, yet shall the posteritie to come iudge betwene you and me, whether shall apeare more honest and true, my defence for that worthy Lord, then your vncourteous and viperous wrangling agaynst him, moued with no other cause, but onely with the peuishe spirite of Popery, which can abide nothing, but that sauereth of your owne secte. MarginaliaPapistes can not see great beames in their owne eyes, which spye small motes in other.For els how many lowde lying legens, yea what legion of lies are dayly vsed and receaued in the Popise Church? what doltishe dreames? what fayned myracles? what blasphemous tales, and frierly fables, and idle inuētions, fighting against the sincere Religion, doctrine and crosse of Christ? And could you holde your penne from all these, and finde nothing els to set your idlenes on worke, but onely to write agaynst the Lord Cobham, Syr Roger Acton, Browne, Onley, Cowbrige, with a few other whom with much a doe at length you haue sought out, not so much for any true zeale to rebuke iniquitie, as craftely seeking matter by these to deface and blemishe the booke of Actes and Monumentes. Which seemeth belyke to make you to scratche there where it itcheth not. And if I should after the lyke dealing take in hand your Popishe portues, and with like diligence excusse euery Popishe martyr and Saint there canonised: thinke you maister Cope, I coulde not make you out halfe dosen as ranke traytours and rebels to their kinges and princes, as euer were any of these of your picking out? MarginaliaPopes traytours to their Emperours & princes.What Pope almost hath there bene these last fiue hūdreth yeares, which hath not bene a traitour to his Emperour and Prince, and to his countrey? either openly rebelling against them, or priuely conspiring their destruction, or proudly setting theyr feete vpon their neckes, or spurning their crownes of from their heads, or making the sonne to fight against the father? How many haue they deposed, & set vp other in theiyr seates? how many Emperours and kinges haue they wrongfully cursed? What Consulles of Rome haue they resisted, deposed, and put to death? What warres haue they raised vp against their owne countrey of Rome? Yea þ^e continuall holding of the Citie of Rome, from his lawfull Emperour, what is it but a continuall point of treason?

What will you aunswere me (maister Cope) to þ^e pope, which conspired to let fall downe a stone vpon the Emperours head, kneeling at his prayers. Pag. 179.

And though this treachery being as byg as a mylstone, seemed but a small mote in your eye, that it could not be espied: yet what wyll you say by the Monke of Swynstede,MarginaliaThe Popes saintes and confessours many were traytours.that poysoned king Iohn, who was both absolued by hys Abbot before his treason committed, and after his treason had a perpetuall Masse songe for hym, to helpe him out of Purgatory?

And what thinke ye in your conscience is to be sayde of Thomas Becket, who did inough, and more then became him, to set the French kyng, and the king of England together by the eares? Of Anselme likewise, and of Stephē Langhton, who departed both out of the Realme to complaine of their princes and soueraines? The like may be said also of Iohn Peckham. Iohn Stradford Archbyshop of the same sea notoriously resisted the Kynges commaundement, being sent for by King Edward. 3. to come to þ^e parliament at Yorke, through the default of whose commyng, the present oportunitie of getting Scotland was the same tyme lost.

MarginaliaRic. Scrope Archb. of Yorke traytor and yet counted a holy man.Richard Scrope Archb. of Yorke, was opēly in armes to rebell and fight against K. Hēry 4. for the which he was condemned and put to death. And yet notwithstāding Cōmission was sent downe frō the Pope shortly after, to excōmunicate them which put him to death, his treason notw^tstanding. Read the story sincerely of pope Benedict 12. and of pope Clement 6. MarginaliaPopes commonly traytours.And see how the traiterous rebellion of these two popes against Ludouicus their rightfull Emperour can be defended: Which Emperour at last was also empoysoned, and that not without the practise of pope Clement, as doth Hieronimus Marius credibly witnes. pag. 377.

MarginaliaTho. Lancastre traytour, & yet made a sainct by the Pope.In the raigne of K. Edward the 2. mention was made before of Thomas Earle of Lācaster, pag. 374. Who with a great number of other nobles & Barons of the Realme, rose in armour against their prince, and therefore at length were put to death as traytours. And yet notwithstandyng this treason committed (M. Cope) if you be so ignoraunt in our stories, that you know it not, set your setters on to search, and you shall finde it true, that certaine noble men went vp to Rome, for the canonising of the said Thomas of Lancaster, to be made a Saint, and obteyned the same. In so much that in a certaine old Calender, the name of the said S. Thomas of Lancaster is yet extant to be sene.

MarginaliaEdmunde Archbish. of Cant. rebelled agaynst his prince, & yet made a Saint by the Pope.In the former booke of these Actes and Monumentes aboue, about the pag. 366. or. 367. mention was made of Edmunde of Abbenden Archb. of Cant. whom although I do not disproue, but rather commend in my history, for hys bolde and sage counsaile geuen vnto K. Henry the 3. and also for offering the censure of excommunication against the king in so necessary a cause: yet notwithstanding the same Edmund, afterward about his latter end, went vp wyth a rebellyng mynde to complayne of hys kyng vnto the pope, & in his iourney dyed, before his returne: who afterward for the same, was canonised by the pope, and now shyneth amōg the Saintes in the popes Calender.

MarginaliaTho. Arūdel a ranck traitour agaynst his king, & yet a great piller counted in the popes church.Let vs come more neare to these dayes and times and consider the doinges of Tho. Arundell Archb. of Caunterb. Who being first deposed and exiled for his contemptuous desertes against the king, and afterward comming in, wyth Henry Bolynbroke Duke of Herford, in open armes and with maineforce rose against his natural and lawfull king: thinke you (M. Cope) this is not as great a poynt of treason, as that which was done in Thickets fieldes? And though he be not placed among the portuous Sainctes, yet I thinke nothing contrary, but in your hart you wyll not greatly sticke to say, Sancte Thoma ora pro nobis.

All these things well considered, tell me (M. Cope) I pray you, is treason such a straunge and vnketh thyng in your popecatholike Church, that your burning zeale of obedience to kyngs and princes, can not read the story of the L. Cobham and Sir Roger Acton, but your penne must needes be inflamed to write against them, & yet so many traytours in your owne Calenders neither seene, nor once spoken of? And if the traytorous conspiracie and rebellion of so many your Calender Saintes committed against Emperours, Kinges, and Princes, can not stirre your zeale, nor moue your pēne. Nor if the treason of pope Gregory. 9. raising warre against his owne City of Rome, and causing 30. thousand Citizens in one battaile to be slayne, pag. 288. deserueth not to be espyed, and accused as much as this treason of the Lord Cobham: MarginaliaPope Gregory 7. traytor against the Lords owne bodye.yet what wyll you or can you aunswere to me (Maister Cope) as touching the horrible treason of Pope Gregory the vij. committed not against Emperour nor kyng, nor any mortall man, but agaynst the Lord hymselfe, euen against your God of your owne makyng, beyng therin as you say no substaunce of bread, but the very personall bodye, fleshe, bloud, and bone of Christ hymselfe, which body notwithstandyng the foresayde Pope Gregory vij. tooke and cast with hys owne handes into the burning fire, because he would not aunswere hym to