¶
An
apologye
agaynste
the
vntrue
and
sclaunderouse
reports
made
against
me
Iohn
Hooper
late
byshoppe
of
Worcetour
and
Gloceter
that
I
shuld
be
a
maintainer
and
encourager
of
such
as
cursed
the
Quenes
Maiesties
highnesse
.
IT
is
the
vse
and
fashion
of
all
wicked
and
euyl
desposed
personnes
(
gentle
reader
)
that
when
one
way
wyll
not
serue
too
bringe
their
wickednesse
to
passe
,
they
assay
&
proue
(
as
Terence
sayth
)
an
other
.
The
whole
congregation
&
company
of
Godlye
&
charitable
people
be
not
ignoraunte
howe
falsely
and
vncharitablye
the
papisticall
cleargye
hath
for
this
yeare
and
halfe
,
openly
and
priuelye
by
all
meanes
laboured
to
perswade
not
onely
the
common
sort
of
people
but
also
the
magistrates
,
to
iudge
and
condempne
me
in
theyr
conscience
for
an
heretyke
.
By
the
which
means
thei
haue
much
preuait
led
against
me
,
but
yet
not
as
much
as
they
desyre
and
loke
for
.
Wherefore
seynge
plaine
allegacion
of
pretensed
and
falselye
surmised
heresye
as
yet
sheadeth
not
my
bloude
,
withoute
the
whyche
that
whoryshe
and
vnbrideled
false
supremacy
of
Rome
was
neuer
satisfyed
:
nowe
because
the
princes
and
the
magistrates
may
be
their
hangemen
,
althoughe
that
wicked
power
of
Antichriste
(
as
all
cronicles
and
true
historiographers
do
record
)
wold
haue
no
power
aboue
it
,
equall
with
it
,
nor
none
vnder
it
,
but
such
as
hold
theyr
kingdoms
and
autorities
in
the
worlde
(
as
it
were
in
capite
)
of
that
wicked
and
pestylente
sea
and
chaire
of
Rome
,
which
is
in
dede
the
verye
whore
of
Babilon
that
saynt
Iohn
describeth
in
the
reuelation
of
Iesus
Christ
,
Nowe
marke
howe
my
letters
wyll
proue
thys
twoo
penye
treason
that
the
wycked
woulde
charge
mee
with
all
.
Fyrst
I
knewe
of
nothing
the
congregation
dyd
but
of
prayer
whiche
they
vsed
,
as
they
be
bounde
by
Gods
lawes
in
the
vulgare
tonge
(
let
the
papistes
saye
too
the
contrarye
what
they
wyll
)
and
there
they
gaue
God
thankes
for
that
they
had
receaued
at
his
handes
,
and
asked
of
him
the
thinges
that
they
lacked
and
prayed
also
for
the
Queene
and
the
magistrates
.
Marke
the
information
of
the
letter
that
aduertysed
mee
wherefore
they
were
taken
.
Nowe
doo
the
wicked
papistes
fayne
matter
,
and
chaunge
prayer
,
wherein
I
requyred
them
too
perseuere
for
the
Quene
,
in
to
cursinge
of
the
Quene
.
Marke
againe
the
place
where
prayer
and
seruinge
of
God
that
I
commended
was
done
:
in
a
Godly
mans
house
(
saieth
my
frende
)
in
bow
churcheyard
.
The
place
where
the
quene
by
reporte
was
cursed
,
was
in
the
counter
by
the
stockes
in
London
.
Further
marke
the
tyme
when
the
thinge
was
done
that
I
commended
:
before
they
were
taken
,
as
my
letter
to
them
doth
testify
.
Marke
also
what
the
personnes
be
that
are
accused
of
this
cursinge
:
suche
as
yet
vntyll
the
tenth
of
Ianuarye
I
knewe
not
nor
haue
hearde
of
.
And
to
those
that
be
accused
of
the
crime
,
my
letters
were
not
sente
nor
neuer
came
.
Yet
doeth
the
wickednesse
of
the
wicked
papystes
saye
that
I
encoraged
them
in
euyll
doynges
,
my
letters
neuer
commyng
vnto
them
,
nor
when
I
wrote
knew
I
of
any
such
cursing
.
Farther
,
suche
as
bee
taken
and
imprisonned
for
that
faulte
,
I
neuer
knewe
of
,
nor
of
anye
suche
thinge
too
be
done
by
them
,
vntyl
(
as
I
sayd
)
the
tenth
daye
of
Ianuary
,
whiche
was
(
as
I
haue
learned
)
at
the
leaste
syre
dayes
after
the
faulte
was
done
,
and
three
dayes
also
after
my
letter
was
written
and
deliuered
to
them
that
were
in
an
other
prisonne
,
frome
suche
as
did
thys
crime
.
Wherfore
if
the
wicked
were
not
paste
all
shame
,
charitye
,
loue
,
and
honesty
:
howe
coulde
they
of
conscience
blowe
and
blaste
abroade
such
wicked
lyes
and
scaunders
,
that
neither
agreeth
wyth
the
matter
of
my
letter
,
nor
with
the
personnes
,
nor
with
the
place
wher
the
crime
was
commytted
,
nor
yet
wyth
the
tyme
when
the
curses
were
vsed
.
There
was
neuer
true
subiectes
in
suche
daunger
as
we
poore
English
men
be
at
theese
present
dayes
.
The
falsest
menne
of
the
worlde
,
yea
the
Satanicall
papistes
,
may
saye
what
they
wyl
,
so
that
they
speake
against
any
that
lauoureth
God
,
his
word
,
&
the
holye
catholike
church
of
Christ
:
and
his
accusation
vs
it
neuer
so
false
by
that
time
it
hathe
bene
in
the
consistorye
courte
and
handlinge
of
the
Bishoppes
one
daye
or
two
,
it
shall
haue
some
fayre
pretensed
colour
to
make
it
appeare
true
,
and
also
to
be
done
only
for
conscience
sake
,
as
all
their
religon
is
hipocrisye
and
coloured
with
holynesse
in
name
.
I
haue
bene
alwayes
a
true
manne
to
al
the
estates
of
thys
realme
,
I
wyll
stande
with
the
lawe
in
that
pointe
and
reproue
myne
accusers
what
so
euer
they
be
.
As
for
my
truthe
and
loyaltye
to
the
Quenes
hyghnesse
,
the
tyme
of
her
mooste
daungerouse
estate
can
testifye
wyth
me
,
that
when
there
was
both
commaundements
and
commissions
out
against
her
,
whereby
she
was
to
the
sighte
of
the
worlde
,
the
more
in
daunger
,
and
lesse
lyke
to
come
to
the
croune
:
yet
when
she
was
at
the
worste
,
I
rode
my selfe
frome
place
too
place
(
as
it
is
well
knowen
)
to
wyn
and
stay
the
people
for
her
party
.
And
wher
as
an
other
was
proclaymed
,
I
preferred
her
not
wythstandynge
the
proclamations
.
And
to
helpe
her
as
much
as
I
could
when
her
highnesse
,
was
in
trouble
,
I
sente
horses
oute
of
bothe
shyres
,
Gloucester
shyre
and
Worcester
shire
too
serue
her
in
her
greate
daunger
,
as
Syr
Iohn
Talbot
knyghte
and
Wylliam
Ligon
Esquier
can
testify
the
one
dwellynge
in
the
one
shyre
,
and
the
other
in
the
other
.
Seyng
in
aduersitye
I
was
wyth
her
,
and
did
her
seruyce
,
then
I
beyng
at
liberty
:
It
is
falselye
and
wickedlye
conspyred
by
the
papystes
,
that
nowe
she
being
in
reall
possession
of
the
croune
and
in
prospertytye
,
and
I
a
prysoner
in
captiuitye
,
woulde
be
againste
her
.
But
wher
as
the
pope
wyll
for
a
penye
of
two
pence
geue
remission
of
all
synnes
a
pena
et
culpa
the
wicked
may
saye
and
do
what
thei
luste
:
and
the
innocent
lambes
of
Christ
suffer
what
so
euer
God
shall
permytte
the
members
of
Antychristes
kyngdome
to
laye
vppon
them
.
Yet
maye
the
Godlye
see
the
pretensed
and
false
ymagined
treason
of
theese
Antichristes
against
me
.
Doubtlesse
it
is
not
because
they
bear
good
will
and
loyaltye
to
the
Quenes
highnesse
that
they
would
bringe
me
in
to
her
dyspleasure
.
For
all
the
world
knoweth
she
hathe
no
more
nor
no
greater
enemies
then
those
that
desire
to
leaue
no
mouthe
open
in
this
realme
too
speake
and
sound
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
in
fayeth
and
vnderstanding
.
I
take
recorde
hereof
at
the
bishoppe
of
wynchesters
booke
of
true
obedyence
,
of
Bonners
Epistell
intoo
the
same
booke
,
of
Culbert
Tonstalles
sermons
,
and
Doctoure
Sampsons
,
oration
made
onelye
aduisedly
,
purposely
,
and
deliberately
against
the
Quene
and
the
pope
,
and
be
openly
in
all
mens
handes
,
aswell
with
in
the
realme
as
withoute
.
But
such
be
the
inscrutable
iudgementes
of
God
that
her
highnesse
should
punysh
her
poore
,
true
,
and
louing
subiects
that
neuer
offended
her
,
and
also
make
false
trayterous
bishops
Iudges
of
truer
men
then
they
be
them selues
.
Doubtlesse
if
euer
I
had
written
or
spoken
the
tenth
parte
of
treasonne
that
her
owne
bishops
bokes
do
contayne
,
I
knowe
theyr
charitye
is
so
burning
and
seruent
that
the
crowes
and
byrdes
of
the
ayre
shoulde
haue
eaten
my
fleshe
before
this
daye
.
Yet
I
am
not
sorye
,
but
doubtelesse
(
I
speake
and
write
frome
the
bottome
of
my
harte
before
God
)
very
glad
to
se
mercy
shewed
vnto
offenders
.
But
I
speake
it
to
this
ende
that
I
verely
suppose
,
as
the
Quene
doth
forgeue
offenders
:
so
wold
she
not
wittingly
punish
me
and
other
true
men
that
al
wayes
haue
done
her
good
and
no
harme
.
For
she
is
by
the
lawes
of
God
as
much
bound
to
be
indifferent
and
fauourable
to
true
men
,
as
true
men
be
bound
to
geue
her
obedience
.
And
(
be
it
spoken
withoute
all
pride
and
malice
)
I
defye
him
whatsoeuer
he
be
(
the
magistrates
beinge
honoured
)
that
dare
open
his
mouth
to
the
contrarye
.
But
alas
sauinge
I
wold
not
offend
the
law
of
my
liuing
God
,
that
commaundeth
me
to
obey
al
magistrates
and
lawes
(
which
disagree
not
from
his
holy
worde
)
it
were
for
me
a
more
easye
death
to
be
hanged
like
a
traytoure
,
then
burned
like
an
heretyke
.
But
seinge
death
must
ensue
the
true
religion
and
faith
of
Iesus
Christe
:
I
wyll
not
appoint
God
what
deathe
he
shall
take
me
oute
of
this
lyfe
by
.
I
am
in
Christe
wholy
and
throughly
at
a
pointe
wyth
the
worlde
.
I
praye
dailye
and
wyll
pray
for
my
persecutors
euen
as
for
myself
.
But
their
tiranny
and
death
,
that
they
will
kyll
me
with
all
,
I
contemp●●e
&
passe
nothing
of
.
I
am
no
better
then
my
master
Christ
was
in
his
seru●ce
.
if
I
dy
therfore
by
his
grace
whether
it
be
by
fyer
,
or
sworde
,
or
halter
,
it
is
all
one
to
me
:
and
the
rather
death
commethe
the
better
shall
it
be
welcome
.
For
the
soner
shall
my
soule
rest
wyth
Abraham
Isaac
and
Iacob
in
my
heauenly
fathers
kingedome
:
Whereof
in
Christe
I
am
assured
to
bee
a
ryghte
heire
,
ordayned
to
the
same
of
mercye
by
hym
:
before
the
worlde
was
made
.
The
phariseis
did
not
laye
onely
heresye
to
Christes
charge
:
and
in
dede
the
manner
of
his
deathe
vppon
the
crosse
was
not
appointed
for
heresye
amonges
the
Iewes
,
but
rather
stoned
too
deathe
.
There
was
neuer
a
pair
of
stocks
in
the
town
that
Ieremye
the
prophet
scoured
not
,
but
still
his
accusers
,
the
false
priestes
made
theyr
acusations
in
bothe
states
aswell
in
heresye
as
in
treason
:
leaste
the
kinge
shuld
not
punish
the
poore
preacher
for
preachinge
,
but
let
him
go
.
So
Christes
accusers
(
the
holye
bishops
and
preastes
)
when
they
perceaued
that
Pilate
sauoured
the
innocenie
cause
of
Christe
,
and
sayd
he
found
nothing
that
they
layd
against
him
worthy
of
death
,
they
made
him
(
poore
man
)
eate
that
wordes
(
iudge
as
he
was
)
and
told
hym
,
if
hee
let
Christ
liue
and
woulde
not
proceade
to
condemne
him
he
was
not
the
emperoures
frende
.
This
hath
bene
alwayes
the
pleadinge
of
the
Satanycal
cleargy
euen
sithens
that
wicked
see
of
Rome
falsely
chalenged
supremacye
,
euen
to
put
the
princes
and
iudges
of
the
earth
in
the
headde
that
all
true
preachinge
of
Gods
word
againste
theyr
wickednes
,
superstition
,
and
ydolatry
,
was
treason
.
But
all
kinges
,
Quenes
and
magistrates
ciuile
,
shall
at
the
daye
of
their
death
aunswer
with
eternall
dampnation
of
their
soules
,
for
the
sheading
of
all
innocent
bloud
wythin
their
realms
and
offices
.
God
doeth
not
bydde
the
kyng
and
Quene
commit
matters
of
religion
to
the
bishops
,
neither
doeth
he
wyl
them
to
geue
byshops
power
to
condempne
when
they
lust
,
and
so
afterwards
commit
such
as
thei
haue
condempned
to
the
secular
powers
:
but
doeth
commaunde
all
princes
to
be
learned
them selues
,
But
nowe
the
byshoppe
of
Wynchester
and
the
reast
of
hys
fellowes
againste
theyr
othes
,
theyr
sermons
,
theyr
preachinges
their
bokes
,
yea
their
own
knowledge
and
conscience
fall
vnder
that
wicked
and
false
pretensed
power
agayne
:
and
do
make
him
the
headde
of
Christes
churche
,
whom
they
al
be
not
able
to
proue
to
be
anye
member
of
Christes
churche
.
Graunte
it
wer
as
true
as
it
is
false
that
Christ
hadde
geuen
suche
supremacye
to
Saint
Peter
(
who
they
say
was
bishop
of
Rome
although
I
neuer
knewe
man
yet
able
to
proue
it
)
and
his
successoures
,
yet
no
manne
shoulde
obey
the
thinges
done
by
the
Pope
,
For
the
word
of
God
is
plain
that
he
is
an
excommunicate
person
in
that
he
teacheth
doctryne
besydes
and
contrary
to
the
worde
of
of
God
.
As
Saint
Paule
sayth
plainly
.
And
how
farre
both
the
doctrine
and
the
vse
of
the
sacraments
vnder
the
tiranye
of
the
bishop
of
Rome
,
be
from
the
word
of
God
,
it
shal
appear
plainly
to
all
the
estates
of
this
realme
,
if
my
Lorde
Cardinall
of
his
charitye
wyll
accomplish
the
reasonable
and
gentyll
requestes
that
I
haue
made
vnto
him
,
I
trust
as
gently
he
receiued
my
letters
:
so
he
wyl
graunt
me
and
my
fellowes
that
be
in
duraunce
oure
lawfull
requests
.
But
this
I
do
wryte
(
good
reader
)
not
to
make
discourse
of
any
matter
,
but
only
for
the
maiestye
and
honour
of
Gods
word
,
to
declare
mine
innocency
of
treason
or
anye
euyll
wyll
or
malyce
that
I
beare
to
the
Quenes
highnes
or
any
superiour
power
.
Doubtles
I
thank
our
heauenlye
father
I
haue
reade
to
many
times
the
word
of
life
and
marked
it
to
well
,
to
fyghte
agaynst
or
curse
the
magistrates
.
I
praye
God
to
geue
them
vnderstandinge
of
hys
holy
truth
,
wyth
loue
to
followe
it
:
and
the
harme
that
I
woulde
to
any
man
liuing
happen
to
my selfe
.
For
the
commauudement
of
God
is
that
we
should
not
only
loue
our
frends
,
I
do
remember
that
Saynte
Augustine
in
his
booke
of
Christes
sermon
in
the
mounte
,
hathe
manye
Godlye
sentences
and
sayinges
in
this
matter
.
But
I
mynde
not
to
write
a
boke
of
it
but
only
to
speake
the
truth
of
my self
agaynst
wycked
sklaunderers
,
that
care
not
so
they
maye
hurte
,
how
they
hurte
,
nor
so
they
kyll
by
what
meanes
they
kyll
.
In
the
psalmes
and
in
the
prophets
he
maruelous
execrations
of
the
wicked
,
and
speciallye
agaynste
suche
as
wyth
the
death
of
the
Godlye
god
aboute
to
condempne
the
woorde
of
God
and
to
oppresse
it
.
Christe
also
and
his
Apostels
vsed
maruelous
execrations
,
when
he
sayed
,
woo
be
vnto
the
Chorozain
,
Saint
Paul
wyshed
them
destroied
that
troubled
the
church
of
the
Galathians
.
Also
he
called
the
high
priest
painted
wall
to
his
face
:
These
thinges
declare
that
there
were
at
all
tymes
cursings
vsed
,
and
extreame
punishment
followed
such
as
were
by
Gods
commaundemente
cursed
:
and
yet
suche
as
did
curse
remayned
styll
in
the
fauour
of
God
.
But
these
examples
no
priuate
man
may
folow
,
for
these
men
were
publike
preachers
of
Goddes
word
,
whose
office
was
by
all
meanes
so
to
rebuke
and
condempne
sinne
,
as
thes
were
instructed
by
the
word
of
God
.
And
he
that
marketh
the
condicion
of
these
persons
,
shall
perceaue
that
in
euerye
one
of
them
was
two
persons
:
th
one
publik
that
could
speake
no
more
pleasaunte
nor
gentlye
to
the
sinful
world
then
God
bad
them
:
whiche
was
to
pronounce
them
cursed
and
damned
for
their
sinnes
and
iniqutye
:
yet
as
priuate
menne
they
wepte
and
sorowfullye
lamented
the
miserye
and
losse
of
the
same
persons
that
they
cursed
as
publik
ministers
.
Ieremye
as
a
publike
preacher
,
But
what
doo
theese
vnGodlye
papysies
fynde
faulte
wyth
cursynge
,
when
not
onelye
all
hystoryes
,
chronycles
,
and
recordes
frome
tyme
too
tyme
,
euer
sythens
the
pretensed
and
wycked
authoritye
of
the
Romyshe
byshoppe
doo
testyfye
,
besydes
dayelye
experience
,
that
they
haue
cursed
kynges
and
realms
of
malyce
,
pryde
and
indignation
:
and
for
money
haue
blessed
them
agayne
,
and
so
vsed
kynges
and
realmes
(
as
their
wicked
lustes
haue
moued
them
)
as
slaues
and
beastes
contrarye
to
Gods
expresse
worde
.
And
dayelye
it
is
seene
in
euerye
consystorye
courte
,
that
at
the
wyll
and
pleasure
of
a
wycked
manne
that
is
the
Byshoppes
offycer
,
the
innocentes
be
cursed
and
vsed
woorsse
then
dogges
,
vntyll
suche
tyme
as
the
offycers
furye
be
pacified
wyth
Golde
or
syluer
.
If
they
knewe
Gods
lawes
(
●●
they
doo
not
in
deede
)
they
shoulde
see
and
fynde
,
that
no
ordynarye
excommunication
shoulde
bee
vsed
by
the
Byshoppe
alone
,
but
by
the
Bishoppe
and
all
the
whole
paryshe
.
So
we
reade
in
the
olde
lawe
that
when
suche
excommunications
were
Extraordinary
excommunications
that
then
the
holye
men
vsed
,
whiche
our
bishops
at
this
day
neither
haue
power
to
do
nor
know
what
they
be
:
be
not
in
vse
.
As
Saint
Paule
alone
by
Gods
power
made
blinde
the
witche
But
here
I
woulde
men
shoulde
note
and
marke
that
as
they
be
forbydde
to
curse
the
magistrates
,
so
be
they
forbyd
to
saye
,
allowe
,
or
commend
anye
thinge
they
shall
do
that
is
not
agreeable
with
the
woorde
of
God
.
For
the
scripture
doth
not
only
curse
such
as
make
wicked
lawes
,
but
also
holdeth
them
accursed
(
what
And
althoughe
God
doeth
require
me
to
obey
the
magistrate
yet
he
forbyddeth
me
to
flatter
the
magistrate
,
eyther
styre
him
vp
so
do
euyll
,
or
so
commend
the
euyll
,
when
it
is
done
.
For
we
know
not
onely
euyll
doers
shall
be
damned
but
also
such
as
consente
to
euyll
doinge
.
And
this
olde
sayinge
is
true
,
Now
these
be
the
bees
and
stinging
waspes
that
make
the
bishops
so
sore
too
rage
and
startle
.
They
haue
taken
the
worde
of
God
from
the
people
out
of
all
churches
in
this
realm
,
that
nothinge
maye
bee
sayed
in
the
vulgare
tonge
:
which
is
cleane
contrarye
to
the
woorde
of
God
and
expressely
against
the
same
,
as
sainte
Paule
sayeth
.
Further
,
they
haue
banished
the
holye
supper
of
the
Lorde
,
and
call
the
table
wher
the
communion
was
vsed
,
an
oyster
borde
,
and
the
breade
appointed
to
that
vse
,
oyster
bread
:
and
yet
those
thinges
bothe
by
name
and
effecte
,
be
conteined
&
commaunded
vs
moste
plainely
by
the
expresse
word
of
god
,
And
for
the
supper
of
the
Lorde
,
they
haue
brought
in
priuate
masses
of
their
owne
,
or
elles
of
their
wicked
predecessours
inuention
:
whyche
is
clene
contrary
to
the
word
of
god
:
let
the
boke
of
the
Apostles
and
As
I
am
sorye
with
all
my
harte
,
that
anye
manne
for
troubles
should
curse
hys
persecutors
,
except
he
haue
more
speciall
testimony
of
Gods
spirite
that
he
doth
well
then
I
haue
:
so
I
like
wise
I
doe
lamente
that
those
menne
that
be
cursed
(
who
they
be
I
knowe
not
)
do
not
examine
them
selues
and
search
their
own
consciences
whether
iustlye
God
stirreth
the
people
to
hate
them
or
no
,
as
Dauid
did
beinge
a
lauful
king
and
also
a
good
king
.
When
Semei
called
him
bloud
sucker
and
murtherer
,
with
manye
foule
words
:
he
entred
into
that
iudgement
of
his
owne
conscyence
and
felt
that
the
Lorde
hadde
stirred
the
same
wicked
man
vp
,
beinge
his
own
subiecte
to
curse
.
Whereby
he
learned
(
good
kinge
)
to
lamente
and
beware
of
the
sinne
that
made
him
thus
to
be
cursed
.
Alas
what
manne
or
woman
liuinge
is
there
that
one
wayes
or
other
hathe
not
deserued
to
be
cursed
both
of
God
and
man
.
But
these
carnall
and
fleshly
bishops
neuer
consyder
that
whiche
is
principallye
to
be
taken
hede
of
in
euery
plage
that
god
sendeth
:
which
is
the
sinne
in
the
person
plaged
.
When
the
scourge
of
God
so
commeth
,
it
were
best
for
euery
man
too
say
to
him selfe
:
good
Lord
although
I
haue
not
deserued
thus
to
be
spoken
of
one
way
,
yet
an
other
way
I
haue
,
for
none
is
pure
and
innocent
in
thy
sighte
.
Let
euery
manne
remoue
by
grace
the
cause
of
cursings
and
other
troubles
,
whych
be
the
very
messengers
of
God
and
his
scourges
:
and
then
God
wyll
remoue
the
effectes
,
whiche
be
the
troubles
them selues
.
If
the
party
cursed
by
manne
be
innocente
:
Thus
haue
I
spoken
and
witten
(
gentle
reader
)
againste
the
papistes
proceadinges
,
as
it
is
my
bounden
dewtye
,
and
all
mennes
elles
that
feare
God
.
For
I
am
sworne
by
the
terryble
,
venerable
,
holye
,
and
blessed
name
of
God
,
as
I
truste
too
be
saued
by
the
ryches
,
treasure
and
meryties
of
Christes
deathe
:
nother
dyrectelye
nor
indyrectelye
too
agree
vntoo
the
wycked
and
pretensed
supremacye
of
the
Bishoppe
of
Rome
:
but
with
all
my
wytte
,
learning
and
other
meanes
resyst
him
.
This
othe
(
by
Gods
helpe
)
I
wyll
not
violate
break
:
let
the
wicked
persured
men
,
that
he
the
wicked
popes
adherentes
,
saye
what
they
wyll
,
and
do
what
God
shall
permitte
them
.
I
feare
not
deathe
,
nor
passe
of
their
cruell
imprisonment
,
which
is
more
vile
and
cruell
towards
vs
true
men
,
then
euer
it
was
against
murtherers
traytoures
,
and
theues
.
But
that
is
no
now
thing
.
For
there
is
no
offence
irremissible
with
the
popishe
bishops
but
to
beleue
trulye
in
Christ
,
as
his
word
teacheth
.
Cipriane
in
a
sermon
de
mortalitate
,
hath
these
words
eius
est
mortem
timere
qui
ad
Christum
nolit
ire
,
he
feareth
death
that
wold
not
go
to
christ
.
But
we
desire
and
grone
too
be
dissolued
from
this
wicked
life
and
world
if
it
please
God
.
How
be
it
we
wyll
not
gladlye
prouoke
enmitye
nor
yet
suffer
vnprofitable
persecution
:
but
when
the
glorye
of
God
shall
perishe
withoute
the
truth
be
testifyed
:
I
defye
all
tormentes
and
tormentours
.
And
let
al
good
men
and
women
reioyce
also
in
Christe
,
for
doubtelesse
the
churche
of
Christ
was
first
planted
vnder
the
gospell
by
the
deathe
of
Christ
and
his
poore
seruaunts
:
and
nowe
it
shall
take
no
more
harme
by
the
persecution
of
the
Satanicall
papistes
,
then
golde
taketh
by
the
goldsmythes
fornace
.
There
is
no
deathe
canne
come
to
the
creature
withoute
Goddes
good
leaue
and
permission
.
Therefore
let
vs
reioyce
that
oure
tyme
draweth
so
nere
to
go
from
this
ruinous
and
decayed
cytye
and
tabernacle
of
oure
bodyes
:
for
there
is
an
euerlastynge
mansion
in
heauen
prepared
for
vs
.
And
whyles
we
doo
liue
let
vs
pray
to
god
for
this
our
naturall
countrey
.
For
where
as
before
it
was
cursed
but
by
wicked
manne
the
Antichriste
of
Rome
:
nowe
is
it
cursed
of
God
.
And
where
as
before
it
was
interdicted
but
by
a
false
wretche
that
would
be
Christes
vicare
in
earthe
:
nowe
is
it
interdicted
by
the
maker
and
creatour
of
al
the
earth
:
as
the
woord
of
God
doeth
shew
vs
,
and
all
the
olde
counsayles
and
doctoures
.
Besydes
that
loke
vppon
the
Bishops
boke
,
Winchesters
oration
,
doctour
Sampsons
oration
,
the
byshoppe
of
Duresmes
sermon
and
the
Bishop
of
Londons
Epistle
.
I
praye
thee
(
gentle
reader
)
as
soone
as
thou
readest
this
treatise
,
kepe
it
not
close
.
but
make
it
open
and
spare
not
.
For
it
is
not
by
sworde
and
fyre
that
the
papystes
canne
feare
vs
frome
the
truth
of
Goddes
word
.
Grace
and
peace
bee
wyth
thee
.
Amen
.
¶
The
coppye
of
Master
hoopers
letter
delyuered
in
the
counter
at
breadestreete
.
THe
grace
,
fauour
,
consolation
and
ayde
of
the
holy
ghoste
be
wyth
you
nowe
and
euer
so
be
it
.
Dearly
beloued
in
the
Lorde
,
euer
sythens
your
imprisonmente
,
I
haue
bene
maruelously
moued
with
great
affections
and
passions
,
as
well
of
myrth
and
gladnes
,
as
of
heauynes
and
sorowe
.
Of
gladnesse
in
this
,
that
I
perceaued
how
ye
be
bent
and
geuen
to
prayer
,
and
inuocation
of
Gods
helpe
in
these
darcke
and
wicked
proceadinges
of
men
,
agaynste
Gods
glorye
.
I
haue
bene
sorye
to
perceaue
the
malice
and
wickednesse
of
men
,
to
be
so
cruell
,
diuelish
and
tirannycall
,
too
persecute
the
people
of
God
,
for
seruinge
,
sayinge
and
hearinge
of
the
holye
psalmes
,
and
the
word
of
eternall
life
.
These
cruel
doynges
do
declare
,
that
the
papistes
churche
is
more
bloudy
and
tirannicall
,
then
euer
was
the
swearde
of
the
Ethnickes
and
gentyles
.
When
I
hearde
of
youre
takinge
,
and
what
ye
were
doynge
,
wherefore
,
and
by
whome
ye
were
taken
:
I
remembred
howe
the
Christyans
in
the
primityue
churche
were
vsed
,
by
the
crueltye
of
vnchrystenned
heathens
,
in
the
tyme
of
Traiane
the
Emperour
about
.
77.
years
after
Christs
ascension
in
to
heauen
:
and
howe
,
the
Christians
were
persequuted
verye
sore
,
as
thoughe
they
hadde
bene
traytoures
and
mouers
of
sedition
.
Whereuppon
,
the
gentyll
Emperour
Traiane
requyred
to
know
,
the
true
cause
of
Christian
mens
trouble
.
Agreate
learned
manne
called
Plinius
wrote
vntoo
him
and
sayed
:
it
was
because
the
Christians
sayed
certayn
psalmes
before
day
,
vnto
one
called
Christ
:
whom
thei
worshipped
for
God
.
When
Traiane
the
emperoure
vnderstode
it
was
for
nothing
but
for
conscyence
and
religion
:
he
caused
by
his
commaundementes
euery
wher
,
that
no
man
shuld
be
persecuted
for
seruinge
of
God
.
Lo
,
a
gentyle
and
heathen
manne
woulde
not
haue
such
as
were
of
a
contrarye
religion
punished
for
seruing
of
god
:
but
the
Pope
and
his
churche
hathe
caste
you
in
to
prison
,
beinge
taken
euen
doynge
the
worke
of
God
,
and
one
of
the
excellentes
workes
that
is
required
of
Christian
menne
:
that
is
to
wit
,
whiles
ye
wer
in
prayer
,
and
not
in
suche
wycked
and
superstytious
prayers
,
as
the
papistes
vse
:
but
in
the
same
prayer
that
Christe
hath
taughte
you
too
praye
.
And
in
hys
name
onelye
ye
gaue
God
thankes
for
that
ye
haue
receaued
,
and
for
his
sake
ye
asked
for
suche
thinges
,
as
ye
wante
.
O
gladde
waye
yee
be
that
euer
ye
were
borne
,
to
be
apprehended
whilest
ye
were
so
vertuously
occupied
.
Blessed
be
they
that
suffer
for
ryghteousenesse
sake
.
For
if
God
had
suffered
them
that
toke
your
bodies
,
then
too
haue
taken
youre
lyfe
also
:
nowe
hadde
ye
bene
folowinge
the
lambe
in
perpetuall
ioyes
,
away
frome
the
companye
and
assemble
of
wycked
men
.
But
the
lorde
woulde
not
haue
you
sodaynly
so
to
depart
,
but
reserueth
you
,
gloriously
too
speake
and
maintaine
his
truths
too
the
worlde
,
Be
ye
not
carefull
what
you
shall
saye
:
for
God
wyll
go
oute
and
in
with
you
,
and
wyll
be
present
in
your
hartes
and
in
your
mouthes
,
to
speake
his
wisedome
,
althoughe
it
seeme
folishenes
to
the
worlde
.
He
that
hathe
begonne
this
good
worke
in
you
,
continue
you
in
the
same
vnto
the
ende
and
praye
vnto
him
,
that
ye
maye
feare
him
onelye
,
that
hath
power
to
hyll
both
bodye
and
soule
,
and
to
cast
them
in
to
hell
fire
.
Be
of
good
comforts
,
all
the
heares
of
youre
heades
be
numbred
,
and
there
is
not
one
of
them
can
perishe
excepte
your
heauenlye
father
suffer
it
to
perishe
.
Nowe
ye
be
euen
in
the
fielde
,
and
placed
in
the
forefront
of
Christs
battailes
doubtelesse
it
is
a
singular
fauoure
of
God
,
and
a
speciall
loue
of
him
towardes
you
,
too
geue
you
this
forewarde
and
preheminence
,
and
a
signe
that
he
trusteth
you
before
others
of
his
people
.
Wherfore
(
deare
brethren
and
sisters
)
continuallye
fighte
this
fighte
of
the
Lord
.
youre
cause
is
most
iuste
and
Godly
:
Ye
stande
for
the
true
Christ
(
who
is
after
the
fleshe
in
heauen
)
and
for
his
true
religion
and
honoure
,
which
is
amplye
,
fullye
,
sufficientely
,
and
aboundantelye
conteined
in
the
holye
Testament
,
sealed
with
Christs
own
bloude
.
Howe
muche
be
ye
boundes
to
God
,
to
put
you
in
truste
with
so
holye
and
iuste
a
cause
?
Remember
what
lokers
vppon
you
haue
,
to
see
and
beholde
you
in
youre
fighte
:
God
and
all
his
holye
Aungelles
,
who
vs
readye
alway
to
take
you
vppe
in
to
heauen
,
if
ye
be
slayne
in
this
fight
.
Also
you
haue
standynge
at
youre
backes
,
all
the
multitude
of
the
faithfull
,
who
shall
take
courage
,
strengthe
and
desire
,
to
folowe
suche
noble
and
vallaunte
Christians
,
as
you
be
.
Be
not
a
fearde
of
your
aduersaries
,
for
he
that
is
in
you
,
is
stronger
then
he
that
is
in
them
.
Shryncke
not
althoughe
it
be
payne
too
you
.
Youre
paines
be
not
nowe
so
great
as
hearafter
youre
ioyes
shall
be
.
Reade
the
●oumfortable
chapiters
too
the
Romaines
.
8.
10.
15.
Hebrues
.
11.
12.
And
vpon
your
knees
thank
god
that
euer
ye
wer
accompted
worthy
to
suffer
any
thinge
for
his
names
sake
.
Reade
the
second
chapter
of
S.
Lukes
gospell
,
and
ther
you
shal
see
how
the
shepeheardes
that
watched
vppon
theyr
shepe
all
night
,
as
sone
as
they
heard
that
Christ
was
borne
at
Bethelem
,
by
and
by
they
went
to
se
him
.
They
did
not
reason
nor
debate
with
them selues
,
who
shuld
kepe
the
wolf
from
the
shepe
in
the
meane
time
,
but
dyd
as
they
wer
commaunded
,
and
committed
their
shepe
vnto
him
,
whose
pleasure
they
obeyed
.
So
let
vs
doo
now
we
be
called
,
commit
all
other
things
vnto
him
that
calleth
vs
.
He
wyl
take
hede
that
all
things
shal
be
well
.
He
will
healpe
the
husband
,
he
wyll
comfort
the
wife
,
he
will
guide
the
seruauntes
,
he
wyll
keepe
the
house
:
he
wyll
preserue
the
goodes
:
Yea
rather
then
it
should
be
vndone
he
wyll
washe
the
dishes
,
and
rocke
the
cradell
.
Cast
therefore
all
youre
care
vpon
god
,
for
he
careth
for
you
Besides
thys
,