MarginaliaI. Hus expoundeth this article with this distinct.
non ratione meriti, sed ratione officij.office sake, for thē ought a kyng to be called by his office the most holy one: and hangmen with other such officers also were to be called holy, yea the deuill himself ought to be called holy, for as much as he is gods officer.

22 If the pope liue contrary vnto Christ, although he clime vp by right and lawfull election according to the common custome of men: yet notwithstanding should he otherwise clyme then by Christ: yea though we admit þ^t he should enter by the election principally made by God. For Iudas Iscarioth was lawfully elect of God Christ Iesus to hys bishoprike and yet came not he the same way he ought to do into the shepefold.

MarginaliaI Hus declareth his mynde touching this article sufficiently before.23 The condemnation of 45. Articles of Iohn Wickliffe by the doctors made, is vnreasonable, wicked, and naught, & the cause by them alleged is fayned: that is, that none of thē are catholike, but euery one of them hereticall, erronious, or slaunderous.

24 Not for that the electours, or the most part of thē haue consēted together with liuely voyce according to the custom of men vpon the person of any, therfore, that person is lawfully elect, or therfore is the true and manifest successour and vicar of Peter the Apostle, MarginaliaElection maketh not the sucessour of Peter: but imitation.or of any other the Apostles in the ecclesiasticall office. Wherfore, whether the electors haue either well or euill made their election, it behoueth vs to beleue the same, by the workes of hym that is elected. For in that that euery one worketh more meritoriously to the profite of the Church, he hath so much the more greater authoritie from God.

25 There is not so much as one sparke of appearance that there ought to be one head, ruling and gouerning the church in spirituall causes, MarginaliaOne head of the vniuersall church beside Christ, hath no foundation in all scripture.which should alwayes be conuersant in the church militāt: For Christ without any suche mōstrous heds, by his true disciples sparsed through the whole world, could better a great deale rule his Church.

26 The Apostles and faithfull priestes of God, haue right worthely in things necessary to saluatiō gouerned þ^e church before the popes office tooke place, & so might they do agayn by like possibilitie vntill Christ came to iudgement, if the Popes office should fayle.

Let euery one that is suspected in the foresaid articles, or els
otherwise found with assertion of them. Be examined
in maner and forme as followeth.

MarginaliaThe forme & maner of the popes inquisition.IN primis, whether he knew Iohn Wickleffe of England, Iohn Husse of Bohemia, and Hierome of Prage, or any of them, and how he came by the knowledge of them, & whether that during the lyues of them or any of them, they had eyther bene conuersant with them, or found any frendship at their handes.

2. Item, whether he knowyng them or any of them to be excommunicate, did willingly participate with thē: esteming & affirming the same their participation to be no sinne.

MarginaliaHeresie to pray for I. Wicklieffe or I. Hus. &c.3. Item, whether that after their deathes, he euer prayed for them or any of them, openly or priuely, doyng any worke of mercy for them, affirming them to be either Saintes or els to be saued.

4. Item, whether he thought them or any of them to bee Saintes, or whether that euer he spake such wordes, and whether euer he did exhibite any worship vnto them as vnto Saintes.

5. Item, whether he beleue, hold, and affirm, that euery generall Councell, as also the Councell of Constance, doth represent the vniuersall Church.

6. Item, whether he doth beleue that that, which the holy Councell of Constance, representing the vniuersal church, hath and doth allow in the fauour of the fayth and saluatiō of soules, is to be approued and allowed of all the faythfull Christians: and that whatsoeuer the same Councell hath condemned and doth condemne to bee contrary both to the fayth and to all good men,

MarginaliaHeresie not to beleue the councell of Constance.is to be beleued, holden, and affirmed, for condemned or not.

7. Item, whether he beleueth, that the condemnations of Iohn Hus, Iohn Wickleffe, and Hierome of Prage, made as well vpon theyr persons, as their bookes and doctrine by the holy generall Councel of Constance: be rightly and iustly made, and of euery good catholicke men, are so to be holden and affirmed, or not.

8. Item, whether he beleue, holde, and affirme, that Iohn Wickleffe of England, Iohn Husse of Bohemia, and Hierome of Prage, were heretickes or not, and for heretickes to be nominated and preached, yea or not, and whether their bookes and doctrines were and be peruerse or not, for the which together wyth their pertinacie they were condemned by the holye sacred Councell of Constaunce, for heretiques.

9. Itē, whether he haue in his custody any treatises, small workes, Epistles, or other writinges in what language or tong so euer, set forth or translated by any of these heretikes, Iohn Wickleffe, Iohn Hus, and Hierome or any other of theyr false Disciples and followers, that he may deliuer thē to the ordinaries of that place, or his commissary, or to the inquisitours, vpon hys othe. And if he say that he hath no such writyng about him, but þ^t they are in some other place: that then you sweare him to bring the same before his Ordinary or other afore named, within a certayne tyme to him prefixed.

10. Item, whether he knoweth any that hath the treatises, workes, Epistles, or any other writings of the foresaid Iohn Wickleffe, Iohn Hus, and Hierome, in what so euer tong they are made or translated, and that he detect and manifest the same, for the purgation of their fayth and execution of Iustice.

11. Item, especially let the learned be examined, whether he beleueth that the sentence of the holy Councell of Cōstance, vpon the. 45. Articles of Iohn Wickliffe, and the 30. Articles of Iohn Hus be not catholicke: which sayth, that some of th? are notorious heretical, some erronious, other some blasphemous, some slaunderous, some rash and seditious, & some offensiue to godly eares.

12. Item, whether he beleueth and affirmeth, that in no case it is lawfull for a man to sweare.

13. Item, whether he beleueth, that at the commaundemēt of a Iudge or any other, it is lawfull to take an othe to tell the truth in any conueniēt cause, although it be but purging of an infamy, or not.

14. Item, whether he beleueth that periury wittynglye committed, vpon what cause so euer, whether it be for the safegarde of his owne lyfe, or of any other mans lyfe, (yea, although it be in the cause and defence of the fayth) bee a sinne or not.

15. Item, whether a man contemning purposedly þ^e rites of the Church, and the ceremonies of exorsisme, of Cathechisme, and the consecration of the water of Baptisme, be deadly sinne or not.

16. Item, whether he beleue, that after the consecratiō of the priest in the Sacrament of the aultar vnder the figure of bread and wyne, be no materiall bread and wyne: but in all pointes, the same very Christ which was crucified vpon the crosse, and sitteth vpon the right hand of the father.

17. Item, whether he beleue, that after the consecration made by the priest vnder the onely forme of bread, and besides the forme of wyne, be the very flesh of Christ and his bloud, his soule and his deitie, and so whole Christ as he is: and in lyke wise, vnder the forme of wine without þ^e forme of bread, be the very flesh of Christ and his very bloud, hys soule, and deitie, and so whole Christ, and þ^e same body absolutely vnder euery of those kindes singularly.

MarginaliaHeresie to minister in both kindes.18. Item, whether he doth beleue, that the custome of houselyng of the lay people vnder the forme of bread onely, obserued of the vniuersall Church, and allowed by the holy Councell of Constance, be to be vsed, and not without the authoritie of the Church, at mens pleasures to be altered, & that they þ^e obstinatly affirme the contrary to thys, are to be punished as heretickes, or not.

19. Item, whether he beleue that those which contemne the receuing of the Sacramentes of confirmation, or extreme vnction, or els the solemnisation of matrimonie, commit deadly sinne or not.

20. Item, whether he beleue, that a Christian man, ouer and besides the contrition of hart, being licenced of a conuenient priest, is bound to confesse hymselfe onely to a Priest and not to any lay man, be he neuer so deuoute or good, vpon the necessitie of saluation.

21. Item, whether he beleue, that in the cases before put, a priest may absolue a sinner confessing hymselfe and beyng contrite, from all sinnes, and enioyne hym penaunce for the same.

22. Item, whether he beleueth, that an euill Priest, with due maner and forme, and with the intention of doyng, doth verely consecrate, doth verily absolue, doth verily baptise, and doth verilye dispose all other Sacramentes, euen as the Church doth.

23. Item, whether he beleue that Saint Peter was the vicar of Christ, hauyng power to bynd and to loose vpon the earth.

24. Item, whether he beleue that the Pope being canonically elect, which for the time shall be, by that name expresly, be the successor of Peter or not, hauing supreme authoritie in the church of God.

25. Item, whether he beleue, that the authoritie of iurisdiction of the Pope, and Archbishop, or a Bishop in binding and