¶
The
defence
of
Iob
Throkmorton
,
against
the
slaunders
of
Maister
Sutcliffe
.
GOOD
Madame
,
I
thinke
my selfe
much
bounde
vnto
your
La.
that
you
would
vouchsafe
to
make
some
pause
,
and
to
suspende
your
iudgement
before
you
passed
anie
absolute
verdicte
against
me
.
It
is
much
I
confesse
in
this
swift
censuring
and
preiudiciall
age
of
ours
,
wherein
mens
willes
&
affections
stande
for
statutes
.
Seeing
then
you
are
so
desirous
to
know
the
trueth
,
I
will
not
(
I
assure
you
)
hyde
any
thing
from
you
that
I
can
call
to
minde
.
And
howe
so
euer
for
want
of
memorie
(
things
being
passed
so
long
agoe
)
I
may
happelie
faile
in
some
wordes
,
time
,
or
circumstance
that
are
not
materiall
.
I
dare
auowe
vnto
your
La.
that
for
the
substance
of
the
thing
it self
there
is
no
vntrueth
in
it
at
all
:
But
euen
that
which
I
will
iustifie
vppon
mine
othe
,
if
I
should
be
therevnto
called
before
the
Parleament
,
or
before
the
Lordes
,
which
for
my
better
clearing
herein
(
being
by
this
false
and
slaunderous
accusation
so
much
iniured
as
I
am
)
is
the
thing
I
doe
desire
:
protestinge
vnto
you
,
that
I
was
so
farre
from
beeing
acquainted
with
anie
of
the
lewde
practises
of
Hacket
and
his
accomplices
,
(
as
Maister
Sutcliffe
and
the
Pretended
Conspiracie
would
seeme
to
insinuate
)
that
I
doe
not
remember
that
euer
I
did
so
much
as
see
the
man
aboue
once
in
my
life
.
As
for
Copinger
(
though
I
confesse
,
I
had
heard
of
him
before
by
my
cousine
Middlemore
,
that
dead
is
,
who
had
in
part
discried
vnto
me
the
humour
of
the
man
,
and
the
sicknesse
of
his
braine
)
yet
the
first
time
that
euer
I
sawe
him
,
or
had
anie
acquaintance
with
him
,
was
on
a
Sabbath
in
Hillarie
teaime
before
his
fall
1590.
At
which
time
meeting
him
at
the
Blacke
friers
in
the
after
noone
,
when
the
Lecture
was
done
,
he
called
me
aside
,
telling
me
that
hee
would
gladly
speak
with
me
,
that
his
name
was
Copinger
.
I
asked
him
what
kinne
he
was
to
Maister
Ambrose
Copinger
that
serued
sometime
the
Earle
of
Warwike
,
he
said
,
his
owne
brother
,
I
tolde
him
I
loued
him
the
better
for
that
.
And
so
he
would
needes
drawe
me
on
with
him
to
his
lodging
.
By
the
way
,
as
we
went
,
he
asked
me
sundrie
questions
concerning
my
trouble
,
&
the
matter
of
my
endightment
,
and
howe
I
spedde
.
I
tolde
him
,
I
hoped
well
,
the
rather
because
mine
owne
heart
was
a
witnesse
to
me
of
mine
innocencie
.
And
then
he
fell
from
that
to
other
matters
,
wherein
he
made
me
remember
my
cousine
Middlemore
his
wordes
:
for
me
thought
he
beganne
to
talke
somethinge
wildly
and
strangely
of
th'
ouerthrow
of
the
BB.
and
th'
expelling
of
dumme
ministers
all
at
one
clappe
,
with
sundrie
other
reeling
vagaries
without
sence
,
whereof
I
can
not
nowe
call
to
minde
euerie
particular
.
But
this
among
the
rest
I
wel
remember
,
that
he
tolde
me
he
was
in
good
hope
,
ere
it
were
long
,
to
bring
my
L.
Treasurer
about
to
lyke
of
his
devise
,
●●to
which
effect
he
saied
,
he
had
written
to
his
Honor
of
late
,
and
looked
for
answere
shortlie
,
vnto
all
which
(
musinge
with
my selfe
that
he
would
thus
boldlie
rushe
vpon
these
matters
,
especiallie
to
a
man
that
hee
neuer
sawe
before
)
I
saide
little
,
Onelie
I
wished
that
in
so
great
and
waightie
affaires
as
those
,
he
would
be
sure
of
his
grounde
and
warrant
before
he
attempted
anie
thing
,
and
doo
nothing
of
his
owne
head
without
th'
advise
of
those
that
were
wise
and
feared
God
.
I
warrant
you
(
sayeth
he
)
I
will
be
sure
of
my
grounde
:
I
will
looke
to
that
.
When
he
came
to
his
lodging
,
he
tolde
me
it
was
a
day
of
priuate
fast
with
him
,
and
therevppon
was
verie
importunate
with
me
to
haue
prayed
:
which
when
I
refused
,
because
(
as
I
tolde
him
)
I
would
bee
loth
to
take
anie
such
thing
in
hande
vpon
a
suddaine
without
premeditation
,
he
casting
me
a
cusshen
to
kneele
on
,
fell
him selfe
to
pray
after
his
manner
:
a
thing
wherein
my
Cousine
Middlemore
had
tolde
me
before
he
tooke
a
singular
delight
,
hauinge
some
conceite
and
opinion
of
his
gifte
that
way
.
Loth
I
am
(
my
good
Lady
)
to
be
an
ouerswift
and
hastie
censurer
of
anie
mans
praier
,
especiallie
in
this
cold
and
prophane
age
of
ours
,
wherein
men
let
not
blasphemouslie
to
scorne
and
deride
,
as
it
were
,
the
verie
giftes
and
graces
of
Gods
spirit
.
But
,
if
I
shall
tell
you
simplie
and
plainlie
what
I
thinke
,
this
prayer
of
Maister
Copingers
(
though
it
were
full
of
outwarde
zeale
and
feruentnesse
,
if
not
too
feruent
,
because
he
vsed
many
of
these
ohes
,
loude
sighes
and
groninges
,
when
as
I
conceiued
the
matter
in
weight
,
did
nothing
answere
those
patheticall
outcries
)
was
not
,
me
thought
,
squared
after
the
rule
of
knowledge
,
neither
in
methode
,
matter
nor
manner
,
nor
yet
savouring
of
that
humilitie
and
discretion
,
as
were
to
bee
wished
in
so
zealous
a
professour
as
he
made
shewe
of
.
It
was
very
long
and
tedious
,
pestered
with
many
impertinent
discourses
and
needlesse
repetitions
of
one
and
the
same
thing
,
stuffed
and
enterlarded
with
sundrie
bitter
imprecations
,
about
which
he
and
I
had
no
small
adoe
,
and
some
hote
bickering
within
a
while
after
.
But
the
issue
was
,
that
hauinge
caught
some
colde
,
and
beeing
nothing
well
before
,
this
long
kneeling
and
late
tarying
in
that
snowie
and
frostie
season
,
did
not
helpe
anie
with
to
diminishe
,
but
rather
to
increase
my
griefe
,
and
brought
me
to
a
fitte
of
an
ague
.
Not
long
after
this
,
when
I
had
something
recouered
my selfe
,
I
went
to
visite
Maister
Cart.
in
the
Fleete
,
vnto
whom
I
signified
what
had
passed
betwixt
Maister
Copinger
and
me
,
and
of
the
newe
acquaintance
that
he
would
needes
fasten
and
enforce
vpon
me
.
But
he
bade
me
in
anie
wise
beware
and
take
heed
of
him
,
for
he
feared
him
greatlie
that
certeinlie
all
was
not
well
with
him
,
and
that
he
had
[
(a)
](A13756-e10400-b)
(a)
That
is
,
some
crazing
of
the
braine
.
laesum
principium
,
at
the
least
,
telling
me
howe
faine
he
would
haue
propounded
&
fastened
some
of
his
fooleries
and
phantasticall
reuelations
vpon
him
.
But
(
sayeth
he
)
I
haue
returned
him
such
an
answere
,
as
I
beleeue
hee
will
not
greatlie
like
of
,
neither
seeke
to
me
in
haste
againe
for
resolution
.
After
this
hauing
beene
in
the
countrie
,
when
I
came
vp
againe
to
London
,
Maister
Copinger
meeting
me
in
the
streetes
,
tolde
me
that
he
had
bene
sundrie
times
at
my
lodging
to
seeke
me
,
but
nowe
I
was
come
,
he
would
visite
me
one
of
these
dayes
,
and
therevpon
would
needes
knowe
of
me
when
he
should
be
sure
to
haue
me
within
.
I
tolde
him
I
had
much
busines
,
and
therefore
could
not
well
set
him
downe
anie
certeine
time
,
but
seeing
I
was
a
Legier
heere
,
there
would
be
time
enough
to
meete
before
the
Tearme
were
done
.
But
he
not
satisfied
heerewith
,
did
not
giue
ouer
,
in
a
maner
day
by
day
,
yea
and
sometimes
,
as
I
vnderstoode
,
three
of
foure
times
a
day
,
to
seeke
me
at
my
lodging
.
Nowe
perceyuing
belike
that
I
did
as
much
as
in
me
lay
,
of
purpose
to
shunne
and
avoid
him
(
as
in
deede
vpon
the
warning
of
Maister
Cart.
and
the
former
speeces
of
my
Cousine
Middlemore
I
did
)
he
came
one
morning
betime
to
my
lodging
before
I
was
out
of
my
bedde
,
and
there
he
tolde
me
he
had
diuers
things
to
shewe
me
of
importance
You
shall
see
(
sayeth
he
)
that
I
haue
not
dallied
or
slept
this
geare
,
for
I
haue
dealt
,
I
tell
you
,
with
the
highest
.
And
therevppon
hee
pulles
me
out
of
his
bosome
a
bundle
of
papers
,
whiche
were
,
the
most
of
them
,
the
copies
of
such
letters
,
as
he
had
eyther
alreadie
written
,
or
els
had
a
purpose
to
write
to
seueral
persons
for
the
furtherance
of
the
cause
,
as
he
tearmed
it
.
Among
the
which
I
remember
there
was
one
to
my
L.
Treasurer
,
one
to
the
Countesse
of
Warwicke
,
and
within
that
,
one
to
her
maiestie
.
Th'
effect
of
all
which
,
to
my
remembrance
,
was
of
certaine
horrible
practises
,
treasons
,
&
conspiracies
intended
against
the
Queene
.
And
all
these
were
onely
indefinitlie
set
downe
in
a
kinde
of
generalitie
,
without
naminge
or
pointinge
at
anie
particular
,
eyther
of
time
,
place
,
person
or
circumstance
.
More
hee
had
recorded
among
those
papers
of
his
,
th'
aunswere
that
he
tolde
me
he
had
receiued
by
woord
of
mouth
,
both
from
my
L.
Treasurer
and
the
Countesse
to
this
effecte
,
as
I
remember
,
Let
not
Copinger
builde
vs
castels
in
th'
ayre
,
or
feede
vs
with
phansies
,
fables
,
or
dreames
,
but
let
him
bring
vs
some
grounded
matter
wherevpon
we
may
worke
,
and
he
shall
well
perceyue
,
he
shall
be
backed
against
the
greatest
subiect
in
the
lande
,
&c.
Withall
I
remember
he
tolde
me
that
that
Letter
to
her
Maiestie
the
Countesse
kept
still
in
her
handes
,
and
would
in
no
wise
deliuer
it
,
till
shee
sawe
some
better
matter
to
ground
vpon
.
Sundrie
other
copies
of
letters
he
shewed
me
at
that
time
,
as
namelie
one
as
I
thinke
to
his
sister
Randoll
,
one
to
Maist.
Egerton
,
one
to
Maister
Cart.
one
to
Maister
Fuller
,
another
to
Maister
Lancaster
,
two
to
Maist.
Vdall
,
with
some
others
that
I
can
not
nowe
call
to
minde
.
Neither
,
to
speake
the
trueth
,
did
I
giue
any
great
eare
vnto
them
,
hauing
at
that
instant
some
speciall
busines
,
and
therefore
could
the
more
willinglie
haue
spared
his
companie
.
Yet
this
I
noted
among
th
〈◊〉
rest
,
that
there
were
fewe
of
those
letters
of
his
without
some
piece
of
imprecation
or
other
,
which
sounded
strange
in
mine
eares
.
Nowe
after
he
had
thus
shuffled
ouer
his
letters
and
papers
vnto
me
,
he
fell
to
discourse
with
me
at
large
of
certeine
straunge
revelations
and
apparitions
that
he
had
of
late
,
as
namely
,
Once
in
his
bedde
when
his
brother
Maister
Ambrose
Copinger
,
and
another
Gentleman
lay
by
him
,
He
tolde
me
him selfe
,
that
they
that
lay
by
him
beeing
awaked
with
the
loude
noise
and
groaning
that
hee
made
,
as
men
something
amazed
at
the
strangenesse
thereof
,
did
call
on
him
aloude
,
verely
thinking
him
not
to
bee
well
in
his
wittes
,
Whereas
in
trueth
(
sayeth
he
)
I
was
inwardlie
rauished
in
spirit
,
did
groane
in
soule
,
and
was
talking
with
my
God
,
who
did
most
comfortably
and
gloriouslie
appeare
vnto
me
:
yet
they
would
by
no
meanes
beleeue
it
,
but
thought
verely
I
had
bene
beside
my selfe
,
&c.
And
then
he
fell
to
vse
many
protestations
,
yea
and
imprecations
vnto
me
,
to
perswade
me
of
the
trueth
hereof
:
namely
,
that
he
for
his
part
was
as
sure
that
the
Lorde
had
reuealed
sundrie
thinges
vnto
him
,
poore
worme
of
th'
earth
(
for
those
were
his
words
)
as
he
was
sure
of
his
death
.
And
euen
here
it
was
that
I
tooke
occasion
to
deale
with
him
so
roundlie
about
those
kinde
of
cursinges
and
imprecations
that
were
so
vsuall
with
him
,
aswell
in
his
prayer
,
letters
and
speaches
,
as
,
The
Lorde
confounde
me
,
Let
vengeaunce
consume
me
,
Let
th'
earth
open
and
swallowe
me
,
&c.
Whereof
I
was
so
farre
(
I
tolde
him
)
from
seeing
any
warrant
or
example
in
the
worde
,
that
on
the
contrarie
I
thought
they
could
not
be
vsed
without
a
grieuous
sinne
and
offence
vnto
the
Maiestie
of
God
.
Concerning
all
which
his
defence
,
me
thought
,
was
most
silie
and
pitifull
,
hauing
nothing
in
the
worlde
to
salue
it
with
but
onely
Extraordinarie
,
Extraordinarie
.
Wherevpon
he
fell
in
some
earnest
manner
to
question
and
expostulate
with
me
,
what
I
thought
,
whether
all
extraordinarie
callings
were
nowe
ceased
,
&
whether
it
w●●●
not
possible
that
a
man
should
haue
anie
particular
reuelations
in
this
age
,
aswell
as
in
former
times
,
greatly
comp●ayning
that
Maister
Cart.
and
Maister
Egerton
,
with
all
●he
godlie
preachers
about
the
Citie
,
aswell
those
in
prison
,
as
at
libertie
,
should
be
of
that
iudgement
,
That
we
were
not
to
rest
vpon
anie
of
those
extraordinarie
reuelations
in
this
age
,
but
rather
to
accompt
of
them
as
deceitfull
suggestions
of
Sathan
,
&c.
To
which
effecte
I
remember
,
as
his
custome
was
to
haue
his
bosome
full
of
papers
,
copies
of
letters
,
and
such
like
,
(
because
he
saied
he
loued
to
keepe
his
reckonings
about
him
,
that
he
might
walke
surelie
)
he
drewe
out
certeyne
notes
,
either
of
his
owne
hande
,
or
of
some
of
theirs
,
wherby
was
manifestlie
refuted
that
fond
opinion
of
his
concerning
reuelations
:
all
which
,
as
he
shewed
me
one
by
one
,
so
he
forgate
not
to
tell
me
still
by
the
way
,
howe
weake
their
reasons
were
,
to
this
end
(
as
it
should
seeme
)
that
he
might
thereby
,
with
more
ease
,
fasten
this
conceite
vppon
me
,
and
drawe
me
,
if
he
could
,
to
be
of
his
minde
.
Wherein
,
Madame
,
as
in
manie
other
things
,
albeit
there
bee
good
cause
why
I
should
be
reasonably
acquainted
with
mine
owne
weakenesse
,
yet
finding
my selfe
(
vpon
the
conference
I
had
with
Maister
Cart.
and
others
)
sufficientlie
armed
,
as
I
thought
,
to
withstande
a
greater
assault
then
this
,
I
dealt
plainlie
and
roundly
with
Maister
Copinger
,
and
did
assure
him
for
a
full
and
flatte
resolution
,
that
for
mine
owne
part
I
was
altogither
of
the
iudgement
of
those
godlie
Ministers
he
spake
of
,
not
that
I
did
therein
or
in
anie
thing
els
,
relye
my selfe
wholy
vpon
men
,
were
they
neuer
so
reuerend
,
but
that
I
sawe
no
warrant
for
those
his
dreames
and
imaginations
out
of
the
worde
.
And
nowe
that
the
Lord
had
thus
at
large
reuealed
his
will
vnto
vs
,
euen
sufficient
to
make
the
man
of
God
perfect
,
if
mine
owne
Father
were
aliue
and
should
tell
me
of
anie
other
reuelations
then
that
,
I
durst
not
hearken
or
giue
eare
vnto
him
,
being
a
thing
verie
daungerous
and
deceitfull
for
anie
man
to
ground
vppon
.
And
therefore
if
I
were
as
you
,
Maister
Copinger
(
for
those
,
I
assure
you
,
were
my
wordes
vnto
him
)
I
would
rather
suspecte
this
that
you
speake
of
to
be
some
meere
illusion
of
the
Deuill
,
then
any
sounde
reuelation
from
God
,
&c.
Well
,
saith
he
,
Maister
Throk
.
(
striking
his
hande
vpon
the
deske
that
was
by
me
)
what
so
euer
you
and
others
doe
thinke
of
the
strangenesse
and
impossibilitie
hereof
,
I
am
out
of
doubt
of
the
trueth
of
it
,
being
more
then
once
,
or
twice
,
and
that
after
many
conflictes
,
agonies
and
trialls
,
assured
thereof
,
euen
by
the
holy
ghost
him selfe
from
heauen
:
and
that
the
Lorde
him selfe
hath
appointed
me
,
for
some
speciall
work
of
his
to
his
glorie
:
In
which
speeches
of
his
me
thought
I
sawe
some
wilde
and
strange
cast
of
his
countenance
.
Nowe
when
he
sawe
that
after
all
these
his
perswasions
,
protestations
,
and
fearfull
imprecations
,
he
could
by
no
meanes
fasten
vpon
me
any
liking
of
these
his
extraordinarie
reuelations
(
though
he
often
alleadged
Maister
Knox
,
and
some
others
vnto
me
)
he
grew
in
th'
end
to
this
,
that
there
was
a
worke
to
be
done
,
for
the
Church
,
which
the
Lord
would
not
haue
wrought
by
such
men
of
great
giftes
as
Maister
Egerton
,
Maister
Cart.
and
my selfe
were
(
for
so
it
pleased
him
to
couple
vs
togither
.
)
But
this
must
be
effected
,
forsooth
,
by
men
of
base
accompte
,
of
no
giftes
,
&
such
as
are
(
as
it
were
)
the
verie
abiectes
of
th'
earth
:
For
euer
,
saieth
he
,
the
Lorde
woorketh
the
greatest
woorkes
by
the
weakest
instruments
.
And
herevpon
it
was
that
he
began
to
commende
and
extoll
this
Hacket
vnto
me
,
as
a
very
rare
&
notable
man
,
and
yet
such
a
one
as
could
not
reade
a
letter
on
the
booke
:
One
that
in
deede
had
bene
(
as
he
saied
)
a
vile
and
prophane
wretch
in
his
dayes
,
but
was
wonderfullie
altered
and
come
home
.
A
man
that
would
not
sticke
in
all
humilitie
to
acknowledge
the
sinne
of
his
former
life
with
detestation
,
and
was
nowe
become
a
conuert
,
forsooth
,
and
a
diligent
hearer
of
the
woord
.
To
this
effect
(
I
assure
you
)
and
with
manie
moe
wordes
then
I
can
well
vtter
,
did
he
blaze
out
the
praises
of
this
newe
prophet
of
his
.
And
then
,
seeing
some
others
come
vp
to
me
about
busines
,
he
snatched
vp
his
papers
,
and
thrusting
them
into
his
bosome
,
he
tooke
his
leaue
for
that
time
.
But
you
must
vnderstande
,
Madame
,
that
before
this
conference
of
ours
,
he
wrote
vnto
me
,
and
finding
belike
that
my
answere
was
not
to
his
satisfaction
,
he
founde
this
meanes
to
steale
vpon
me
,
as
I
haue
described
.
His
letter
was
to
the
very
same
effecte
as
his
speeches
were
,
to
witte
:
That
he
hoped
to
liue
to
doo
some
seruice
to
the
Church
of
God
.
That
what
so
euer
perswasions
men
vsed
vnto
him
to
desist
and
breake
off
his
course
,
yet
he
had
no
cause
to
be
discouraged
,
because
he
had
his
warrant
from
heauen
:
Further
,
that
with
the
Lorde
the
greatest
workes
were
euer
brought
to
passe
by
the
weakest
instrumentes
,
&c.
Implying
&
enforcing
still
that
this
Hacket
,
forsooth
(
whom
all
this
while
I
neuer
sawe
nor
heard
of
,
but
by
Copingers
report
)
must
be
the
man
that
must
doe
the
feate
,
because
hee
was
a
weake
one
and
vnlearned
.
Vnto
this
letter
of
his
(
purposelie
to
aduise
him
to
beware
what
he
did
,
and
to
looke
before
he
leapt
)
I
wrote
him
that
answere
which
they
haue
nowe
in
their
handes
,
and
which
Maister
Copinger
kept
in
his
bosome
among
other
papers
,
euen
the
same
that
desperate
Maister
Sutcliffe
,
and
the
Pretended
conspiracie
,
haue
thus
printed
and
published
by
patches
and
pieces
,
with
so
manie
&c.
I
muse
they
would
not
publishe
it
altogither
,
as
it
was
,
vnmangled
,
It
had
sure
bene
a
great
deale
fairer
play
,
especiallie
in
a
cause
that
concernes
(
as
is
pretended
)
a
mans
life
,
credite
and
good
name
.
I
thanke
God
,
Madame
,
if
they
doe
not
adde
or
enlarge
,
or
if
they
doe
not
curtaile
it
,
clippe
it
,
enterline
it
,
and
transforme
it
,
I
doe
not
feare
the
view
of
that
letter
to
be
presented
at
anie
time
,
before
the
Lordes
,
and
my selfe
to
be
censured
and
punished
,
as
they
in
their
wisedomes
shall
thinke
my
ouersight
that
way
to
deserue
.
For
vnlesse
I
greatlie
deceyue
my selfe
,
the
very
shreades
of
that
letter
,
which
they
haue
thus
dismembred
,
renting
one
clause
from
another
,
yea
,
and
,
by
their
leaue
,
altering
and
ouerstrayninge
some
wordes
too
,
doe
notwithstanding
(
if
they
be
rightly
weighed
)
sufficienlie
cleare
me
in
th'
eies
of
all
vnpartiall
and
indifferent
minded
men
.
And
yet
it
may
be
they
knowe
that
the
whole
letter
would
haue
cleared
the
suspicion
much
more
,
Therefore
vtterly
to
suppresse
that
whiche
would
cleare
a
Puritane
most
was
for
them
the
wisest
though
peraduenture
not
the
conscionablest
course
.
It
may
be
(
and
it
is
like
enough
if
they
haue
all
his
papers
)
that
they
haue
also
another
short
letter
of
mine
in
aunswere
to
another
of
Maister
Copingers
,
who
writing
vnto
me
thus
:
Deare
brother
,
I
hope
,
ere
it
be
long
,
you
shall
see
an
alteration
:
I
answered
him
euen
vnder
the
same
letter
,
both
in
one
paper
thus
:
Such
an
alteration
as
would
breede
a
reformation
and
not
a
confusion
,
I
would
be
hartilie
glad
of
,
and
I
doe
daily
pray
for
.
Seeing
they
are
so
ful
of
their
printing
,
I
would
wishe
they
had
bene
so
kind-harted
to
haue
printed
this
too
.
Nowe
that
your
Honor
may
the
better
iudge
,
whether
I
be
herein
injured
or
no
,
or
whether
it
be
vpon
the
spleene
(
as
it
were
)
without
cause
,
that
I
doe
thus
complaine
,
It
may
please
you
a
little
to
consider
with
me
of
these
fewe
particulars
ensuing
.
First
,
whereas
Maister
Copinger
in
his
letter
seemed
to
be
sorie
that
I
should
be
one
of
those
that
did
condemne
his
course
,
and
I
assured
him
that
as
I
was
not
ouer
hastie
to
condemne
him
in
a
matter
that
I
knew
not
of
,
nor
had
anie
acquaintance
with
,
but
only
hearde
of
at
the
second
hand
,
as
it
were
,
by
certeine
buzzes
&
flying
reportes
abroad
,
&c.
All
that
former
part
of
my
letter
,
&
those
wordes
that
make
so
manifestly
and
apparauntlie
for
my
clearing
,
and
wherein
I
doe
vtterlie
disavowe
all
knowledge
and
acquaintance
with
those
courses
of
his
(
because
they
would
so
faine
haue
me
seeme
guiltie
)
is
quite
left
out
&
suppressed
:
not
a
word
of
that
I
warrant
you
.
Then
whereas
the
whole
drift
and
scope
of
my
letter
is
a
meere
disswasion
of
Maister
Copinger
to
goe
on
with
anie
sole
or
singular
course
of
his
owne
head
,
and
that
hee
take
both
his
eyes
in
his
handes
,
and
be
sure
of
his
grounde
before
he
striue
to
put
any
thing
in
execution
:
they
haue
laboured
to
invert
all
,
strayning
and
stretchinge
both
my
words
and
meaning
quite
against
the
haire
,
as
may
appeare
by
their
marginall
note
striue
to
put
in
execution
?
whereby
they
would
make
the
world
beleeue
(
if
they
could
)
that
Throk
.
was
no
disswader
,
but
rather
an
encourager
and
egger
on
of
Copinger
,
to
put
in
execution
that
which
before
he
had
conceiued
in
his
braine
.
And
nowe
to
mende
the
matter
,
in
the
necke
of
this
comes
Maister
Su●cliffe
with
his
vie
,
offring
me
full
as
hard
measure
as
all
this
comes
too
,
and
thereof
I
make
your
La.
the
iudge
.
For
whereas
in
the
feeling
and
experience
of
mine
owne
weaknesse
and
wantes
,
I
dare
not
boast
nor
take
vppon
me
the
name
of
a
sanctified
heart
,
he
verie
kindly
,
I
thanke
him
,
settes
his
brand
vpon
me
in
the
margine
in
this
manner
:
A
sanctified
Puritane
.
The
thing
that
I
doe
apparantlie
disavowe
and
renounce
as
not
daring
to
boast
of
,
it
pleaseth
him
,
in
his
girding
manner
,
to
vpbraied
me
with
,
as
if
I
did
arrogantlie
assume
it
vnto
my selfe
:
so
that
you
see
I
can
escape
him
no
way
.
Nay
it
seemeth
he
is
so
eger
and
sharpe
sett
to
snappe
and
bite
at
me
,
that
he
will
not
giue
me
leaue
to
speak
sometimes
the
very
language
of
Chanaan
:
no
not
as
the
holy
Ghost
him selfe
speaketh
in
the
Scripture
,
but
I
shall
beare
a
blowe
for
it
.
Him selfe
knoweth
(
I
doubt
not
)
better
then
I
,
that
it
is
th'
vsuall
phrase
with
the
Hebrewes
to
say
,
The
first
Moneth
:
The
fifte
Moneth-The
seauenth
Moneth
:
The
nienth
Moneth
.
And
albeit
I
holde
it
not
vnlawfull
to
name
and
write
the
Monethes
as
we
vsuallie
doe
,
as
March
,
Aprill
,
May
,
&c.
So
yet
for
a
man
once
or
twice
in
his
life
to
vse
the
phrase
of
the
holy
Scripture
,
and
say
,
The
fift
Moneth
,
should
not
,
me
thinkes
,
in
equitie
(
if
it
be
rightly
weighed
)
deserue
so
great
a
reproch
.
And
I
muse
if
Maister
Sutcliffe
should
comment
vpon
the
tenth
chapter
of
Ezra
,
where
it
is
said
,
That
the
people
sate
downe
and
trembled
before
the
Lorde
the
twentieth
day
of
the
nienth
moneth
.
And
againe
,
Th'
auncient
heades
sate
downe
to
examine
the
matter
,
the
first
day
of
the
tenth
Moneth
.
I
muse
,
I
saye
,
if
he
should
comment
vpon
this
,
whether
he
would
therevpon
make
such
a
marginall
glosse
,
as
he
hath
done
vpon
my
poore
letter
,
This
is
the
newe
absurde
Consistorian
stile
.
Wherein
yet
your
La.
may
see
howe
easelie
a
wise
man
may
ouerslip
him selfe
in
his
distemperature
.
For
if
it
be
true
that
this
manner
of
writinge
,
The
fourth
Moneth
,
The
fift
Moneth
,
The
eight
Moneth
,
&c.
(
which
is
so
ill
taken
and
so
scornefullie
disgeasted
by
Maister
Sutcliffe
)
bee
not
onely
the
phrase
of
poore
Maister
Caluin
,
or
Beza
,
or
barelie
a
Geneuian
deuise
(
for
then
,
I
feare
me
,
he
would
goe
nighe
to
treade
it
vnder
his
feete
,
and
rent
the
record
with
his
teeth
,
)
but
also
th'
usuall
phrase
of
the
Bishops
them selues
,
in
the
translation
of
their
great
Bibles
,
commaunded
and
enioyned
to
be
reade
in
Churches
.
If
this
,
I
say
,
may
be
prooued
(
as
it
is
manifest
and
apparaunt
to
all
that
will
not
wilfullie
muffle
them selues
)
then
must
it
needs
be
that
he
hath
herein
,
in
a
sorte
,
done
him selfe
a
piece
of
iniurie
,
and
that
in
leueling
thus
greedilie
at
me
,
he
hath
vnaduisedly
rushed
vppon
some
of
his
dearest
friendes
,
whom
I
am
sure
he
would
be
loth
to
offende
.
If
he
say
that
they
doe
but
translate
so
,
and
I
doe
write
so
:
It
will
be
but
a
silie
&
slender
voydance
of
the
matter
.
For
,
I
hope
,
he
will
not
say
that
his
Graue
fathers
doe
either
in
their
writing
or
in
their
trrnslation
vse
anie
,
Newe
,
absurde
,
Puritane
or
Consistorian
stile
,
which
,
hee
knowes
,
they
might
easelie
avoied
,
if
there
were
anie
such
absurditie
in
the
matter
as
hee
would
beare
vs
in
hande
,
and
translate
for
The
first
Moneth
,
March
.
For
the
seconde
Aprill
,
and
so
of
the
rest
,
if
it
pleased
them
.
Therefore
if
Maister
Sutcliffe
should
say
neuer
so
constantly
,
nay
if
hee
should
sweare
vnto
me
,
that
this
maner
of
writing
were
absurd
and
Consistorianlike
,
he
must
pardon
me
,
I
could
not
beleeue
it
,
my
reason
is
,
because
the
Bishops
them selues
doe
vse
it
.
And
where
doe
they
vse
it
?
Euen
there
,
where
I
presume
they
would
be
most
afraied
to
vse
anie
straunge
,
absurd
,
or
vnwarrantable
speach
,
to
wit
,
in
the
holy
scriptures
of
God
,
which
they
know
are
to
bee
handled
with
all
pietie
and
reuerence
,
as
may
most
tende
to
th'
edification
of
the
people
of
God
.
If
then
it
be
in
no
sorte
absurde
in
them
,
no
more
,
say
I
,
can
it
be
in
me
,
seeing
the
very
same
phrase
that
I
haue
vsed
but
once
onely
in
my
Letter
,
they
haue
vsed
in
their
translation
aboue
twentie
times
,
and
yet
it
were
heard
,
he
knowes
,
to
coumpt
them
eyther
Precisians
or
Disciplinarians
for
all
that
.
By
this
,
Madame
,
and
the
rest
,
your
La.
may
easilie
see
,
that
I
am
both
vncharitablie
and
vnchristianlie
dealt
with
.
And
yet
to
speak
indifferentlie
,
I
ought
not
in
some
regard
to
thinke
much
of
it
,
or
take
it
to
harte
,
when
so
reuerend
a
man
as
Maister
Egerton
is
,
(
for
whose
holy
prayers
I
doe
not
doubt
but
her
Maiestie
and
the
whole
State
doeth
prosper
the
better
)
can
by
no
meanes
escape
the
stinge
of
their
envenomed
mouthes
.
It
may
be
your
La.
hath
heard
howe
learnedly
&
roundlie
Maister
Sutcliffe
did
confute
him
of
late
in
Pawles
,
euen
since
the
publishing
of
his
last
declamation
,
and
that
to
his
face
before
D.
White
,
and
others
.
I
was
not
by
my selfe
,
but
if
it
be
as
I
haue
heard
,
the
speeches
were
so
opprobrious
,
as
I
am
halfe
ashamed
to
set
downe
with
my
penne
,
remembring
the
person
against
whom
they
were
vttered
.
They
were
neither
Greeke
nor
Hebrewe
,
nor
yet
scarce
any
congruitie
of
good
manner
,
but
(
sauing
your
reuerence
,
(
Madame
)
plaine
Scabbe
,
and
scurvey
Iacke
.
In
which
veine
of
kitchen
rhetorike
,
if
they
would
giue
me
leaue
also
to
followe
the
sway
of
fleshe
and
bloud
,
me
thinkes
I
could
easilie
without
anie
great
sweate
or
paines
(
if
there
were
no
boundes
of
modestie
to
restraine
me
)
learne
to
confute
the
honestest
man
,
and
the
greatest
Clarke
in
Christendome
.
But
this
is
not
all
:
For
both
he
and
the
Conspiracie
doe
dresse
him
another
way
,
though
in
words
nothing
so
groslie
,
yet
in
weight
and
consequent
full
as
bytingly
as
this
,
&
that
by
a
certeine
pretie
conveiance
or
sleight
of
a
finger
called
Inversio
.
For
whereas
Maister
Egertons
perswasion
to
Maister
Copinger
was
(
as
I
haue
heard
)
to
this
effecte
and
in
this
forme
,
to
wit
,
That
albeit
he
would
bee
loth
to
quenche
the
Spirit
,
or
kill
any
zeale
in
him
,
especially
in
this
colde
and
frosen
age
of
ours
,
wherein
for
the
most
parte
men
had
so
litle
hunger
and
thirst
after
the
worde
:
yet
he
was
certeinly
perswaded
that
those
supposed
reuelations
of
his
were
nothing
els
but
meere
illusions
of
Satan
,
whose
subtilitie
he
should
in
anie
wise
beware
of
,
least
he
were
seduced
and
misleade
by
him
,
&c.
Whereas
,
I
say
,
his
speeces
were
thus
framed
,
howe
doeth
Maister
Sutcliffe
and
The
pretended
Conspiracie
handle
the
matter
?
Why
,
euen
thus
Madame
,
and
I
pray
you
marke
it
for
your
learninge
,
because
it
may
serue
your
La.
for
a
handsome
paterne
to
measure
all
the
rest
by
.
They
play
Hysteron
proteron
with
him
,
that
is
,
they
turne
the
catte
into
the
panne
,
setting
the
cart
before
the
horse
,
bringing
in
that
first
which
should
be
last
,
and
that
last
whiche
should
be
first
,
to
wit
,
That
he
should
wisely
and
circumspectlie
take
heed
he
were
not
mislead
by
the
subtilty
of
Sathan
,
&c.
But
withall
(
say
they
)
the
saied
Maister
Egerton
concluded
,
that
he
would
be
loth
to
quenche
the
spirit
of
God
in
him
,
or
hinder
his
zeale
.
And
why
trowe
you
was
this
brought
in
last
for
a
conclusion
,
which
was
in
deede
as
the
preamble
and
first
entrance
into
his
speach
?
Because
otherwise
,
it
may
be
,
it
would
not
haue
wounded
this
Renowmed
Paraphrast
deepe
inough
,
nor
haue
stucke
by
his
ribbes
so
long
.
But
nowe
martialled
,
as
it
is
,
in
the
rereward
and
so
last
in
the
eie
,
It
is
like
enough
to
leaue
the
deeper
impression
and
remembraunce
in
mens
breasts
,
that
certeinlie
,
this
Egerton
(
though
he
vsed
a
little
faire
florishe
in
the
beginning
)
was
yet
verie
vnwilling
that
Copinger
should
desist
and
giue
ouer
his
course
,
and
therefore
it
was
that
he
would
quenche
no
zeale
in
him
.
And
howe
thinke
you
,
Madame
,
was
not
this
nimbly
and
charitably
contriued
against
so
reuerend
a
Minister
of
the
word
.
But
yet
me
thinke
that
which
doeth
exceede
all
the
rest
in
weight
of
malice
,
and
doeth
most
lay
open
the
very
sting
and
venime
of
the
heart
is
this
,
that
Maister
Sutcliffe
will
needes
make
him
a
misliker
,
and
,
as
it
were
,
an
envier
of
her
Maiesties
Honorable
,
Princelike
,
and
Roiall
apparance
in
the
beginning
of
the
Parliament
:
A
thing
that
I
dare
sweare
is
farre
from
his
heart
,
and
therefore
what
so
euer
it
shall
please
Maister
Sutcliffe
to
saye
in
this
regarde
,
(
yea
though
he
should
heerein
write
against
him
till
his
eyes
were
dimme
)
yet
I
am
perswaded
he
shall
neuer
while
hee
liues
,
gette
anie
man
of
conscience
and
iudgement
,
that
knowes
the
man
,
to
beleeue
it
:
Nay
,
I
durst
,
me
thinkes
,
pawne
my
life
vpon
it
(
and
so
I
doubt
not
would
many
of
my
betters
)
that
there
is
no
man
liuinge
vnder
the
sunne
,
that
doeth
more
from
his
heart
desire
the
true
blessednesse
of
her
Maiestie
,
namelie
,
that
shee
might
bee
beloued
of
God
,
and
highlie
honored
in
th'
eies
of
men
,
then
doeth
Maister
Egerton
,
as
may
sufficientlie
appeare
,
both
by
his
daily
teaching
and
prayers
,
whereof
there
are
witnesses
enough
,
though
I
should
be
silent
.
Notwithstandinge
all
which
Maister
Sutcliffe
(
as
a
man
that
cares
not
what
he
say
,
so
he
may
be
byting
)
will
proue
it
otherwise
,
you
shall
see
,
and
that
forsooth
out
of
his
owne
Letter
to
his
brother
Fenne
,
pag.
●
9
9.
For
doeth
he
not
saye
there
,
That
shee
went
thither
meta
polles
phantasias
,
that
is
,
(
as
he
interpretes
it
)
with
great
ostentation
and
pompe
.
Which
wordes
(
sayeth
he
)
Sainct
Paul
vseth
condemning
the
vanitie
of
Agrippa
and
Beronice
.
Wherein
,
Madame
,
eyther
through
his
hast
,
or
through
the
heate
and
vnrulinesse
of
his
passions
.
(
for
I
will
neuer
attribute
it
to
his
want
of
iudgement
)
he
hath
made
vs
at
the
least
two
or
three
foule
vnavoydable
slippes
.
For
firste
,
whereas
hee
will
needes
haue
the
woordes
to
bee
Saint
Paules
,
he
must
giue
vs
leaue
for
once
(
because
he
is
a
traueler
)
to
aunswere
him
with
the
sauf
vostre
grace
Monsieur
,
Saint
Paule
,
we
dare
warrant
,
hath
no
such
woordes
:
The
wordes
in
deede
that
he
hath
there
quoted
,
are
Saint
Lukes
.
Who
,
I
take
it
,
was
the
penner
of
the
storie
of
th'
actes
and
not
Saint
Paule
.
Secondlie
,
to
omitte
〈◊〉
slippe
of
Beronice
(
who
dwelles
sure
either
in
Rome
or
in
Portugale
,
for
in
Ierusalem
or
in
the
Scripture
there
is
none
such
to
be
founde
I
beleeue
)
where
he
sayeth
the
wordes
are
vsed
by
Saint
Paule
in
condemnation
of
the
vanitie
of
Agrippa
,
by
his
fauour
and
vnder
correction
we
denie
that
,
that
,
we
say
,
is
but
his
owne
comment
and
conceite
,
neither
are
the
woordes
,
as
we
thinke
,
vsed
to
anie
such
end
as
he
supposeth
,
to
wit
,
to
reprooue
and
reproche
the
king
with
,
but
onely
as
a
bare
and
plaine
declaration
and
laying
open
of
the
trueth
of
that
Roiall
pompe
and
magnificence
,
whiche
is
both
vsuall
and
allowable
in
great
Princes
and
States
in
their
solemne
assemblies
.
And
that
this
is
true
,
(
if
poore
Maister
Beza
,
Iunius
,
Villerius
,
Camerarius
,
and
such
as
they
be
,
were
not
of
late
by
straunge
mishappe
flatlie
excommunicated
by
Maister
Sutcliffe
for
their
ignorance
and
want
of
iudgement
)
I
could
easilie
put
him
out
of
doubt
.
For
Maister
Bezaes
woordes
vpon
the
place
be
these
:
Hic
quidem
certum
est
hoc
nomine
declarari
speciosum
regiae
magnificentia
splendorem
in
spectantium
oculos
incurrentem
,
&c.
that
is
to
say
,
Heere
it
is
manifest
,
that
in
this
worde
phantasias
is
layed
open
vnto
vs
the
beautifull
glittering
and
glorious
excellencie
of
that
Royall
Magnificence
,
that
doeth
flashe
,
as
it
were
,
into
the
eies
of
the
beholders
,
&c.
Further
in
the
marginall
note
vpon
Tremelius
,
published
,
as
I
thinke
,
by
allowance
of
the
state
,
this
worde
phantasias
is
thus
interpreted
,
id
est
Regio
apparatu
,
that
is
,
in
Princely
preparation
and
furniture
,
which
can
in
no
sort
be
taken
in
ill
sense
.
All
which
Maister
Beza
seemes
to
fortifie
and
confirme
by
th'
authoritie
and
testimonie
of
sundrie
auncient
and
learned
Greeke
writters
,
as
namelie
,
Aristotel
,
Hippocrates
,
Possidonius
.
And
if
this
be
so
,
Madame
,
then
iudge
you
,
I
pray
you
,
who
was
more
to
blame
he
which
simplie
and
barelie
laies
downe
the
wordes
of
the
storie
(
which
the
verie
best
interpreters
doe
take
in
good
sense
)
or
hee
that
thus
vnconscionablie
wreasteth
and
wringeth
them
to
make
a
man
so
well
deseruing
of
Gods
Church
,
seeme
thrice
odious
and
hatefull
to
the
State
.
All
which
considered
,
it
seemes
more
then
straunge
to
me
,
that
Sutcliffe
should
be
so
egle-eieda
censurer
of
other
mens
labours
,
and
in
the
meane
season
,
eitheir
thorough
th'
inflamation
of
the
stomacke
,
or
through
the
heate
and
vnrulinesse
of
his
affections
,
lay
him selfe
open
to
so
manie
〈◊〉
palpaple
advantages
as
he
doeth
.
I
confesse
my selfe
to
be
no
match
for
him
,
neither
haue
I
anie
purpose
to
buckle
with
him
that
way
,
being
as
he
is
,
a
great
deale
to
hotte
and
to
harde
for
me
,
and
it
may
be
,
much
better
armed
to
mainteine
an
error
,
then
such
a
one
as
I
to
defende
a
trueth
.
But
yet
as
a
stander-by
and
not
as
one
that
hath
anie
skill
to
handle
the
weapon
my selfe
,
me
thinkes
I
could
easelie
spie
a
farre
of
,
where
he
might
be
caught
and
crossebiten
,
if
anie
man
of
abilitie
and
iudgement
would
vouchsafe
to
take
him
in
hande
.
For
proofe
whereof
in
the
verie
first
leafe
of
that
invectiue
preface
of
his
to
my
L.
Anderson
,
where
he
so
strayneth
and
striueth
to
make
Maister
Fenners
and
Maister
Cartwrightes
diuinite
no
better
then
herisie
,
You
may
easilie
discerne
(
if
you
please
Madame
)
howe
the
maister
countroller
of
others
,
hath
manifestlie
broached
vs
,
a
piece
of
straunge
and
new-founde
diuinitie
him selfe
.
All
religions
(
sayeth
hee
)
teache
that
the
Sonne
is
borne
of
the
Father
,
which
is
the
Characteristicall
difference
of
that
person
.
Can
you
tell
what
to
make
of
this
,
Madame
?
If
you
can
not
,
no
more
,
I
beleeue
,
can
hee
that
coined
it
.
I
confesse
I
haue
read
in
my
dayes
(
and
it
is
a
parte
of
my
faith
still
)
That
the
Sonne
was
bègotten
of
the
Father
before
all
worldes
:
But
borne
of
the
Father
(
as
we
in
our
Englishe
tongue
vnderstande
it
)
I
doe
not
beleeue
is
to
be
founde
in
anie
creede
in
the
world
,
but
onelie
in
this
newe
Sutclivian
Creede
of
ours
.
Further
,
I
can
not
but
muze
that
〈◊〉
being
a
scholler
,
as
hee
is
would
euer
suffer
Difference
of
the
Person
to
passe
the
print
,
without
some
revocation
,
razure
,
or
correction
,
seeinge
it
was
neuer
heard
of
,
I
trowe
,
before
nowe
that
in
the
Godhead
,
there
should
be
anie
difference
of
the
persons
at
all
,
but
onelie
a
distinction
.
Sure
if
one
of
these
Puritanes
had
written
thus
,
we
should
haue
had
olde
adoo
,
I
beleeue
.
As
to
that
other
newe
refined
and
farre
fette
phrase
of
his
of
Characteristicall
,
being
so
pregnant
and
proper
for
the
place
where
it
is
sette
,
because
I
see
neither
diuinitie
nor
sense
in
it
,
nor
am
able
to
discerne
why
it
should
come
in
rusteling
heere
,
vnlesse
it
be
onely
for
the
bare
noise
and
sounde
of
it
,
I
willinglie
leaue
it
to
those
that
be
of
a
deeper
reache
then
my selfe
to
make
somewhat
of
it
.
But
one
of
the
speciall
thinges
that
I
would
wishe
your
La.
and
all
others
to
note
in
Maister
Sutcliffe
is
this
,
that
among
the
writers
of
our
age
,
you
shall
not
lightlie
finde
a
more
bolde
,
peremptorie
and
resolute
man
in
the
worlde
then
hee
.
For
proofe
whereof
,
marke
I
pray
you
,
howe
of
one
of
the
worthiest
and
most
accomplished
diuines
of
our
age
,
and
of
that
conference
that
for
th'
exellencie
of
the
woorke
,
is
thought
by
the
learned
to
be
vnmatchable
,
(
as
if
his
worde
,
or
a
cast
of
his
countenance
were
sufficient
to
change
the
face
of
the
heauens
,
and
to
turne
light
into
darkenesse
)
he
giueth
this
slight
and
brasen
censure
,
to
witte
,
That
it
was
long
forsooth
and
without
effecte
.
What
must
such
men
as
I
looke
for
at
his
handes
,
when
such
workes
as
that
is
and
such
men
as
Maister
Raynolds
is
,
are
of
no
greater
accompt
and
estimation
in
his
eyes
?
But
I
doo
not
thinke
Madame
,
that
there
is
anie
man
in
the
worlde
(
if
he
be
not
smitten
with
the
giddinesse
of
the
braine
)
that
is
of
his
iudgment
concerning
that
Conference
.
Neither
doo
I
see
for
mine
owne
part
(
if
the
matters
therein
handeled
with
the
circumstances
be
advisedlie
looked
into
)
howe
he
could
possiblie
haue
bin
shorter
,
but
he
must
withall
haue
bene
much
darker
and
intricat
.
As
to
the
litle
effecte
he
speakes
of
,
Ma.
Sutcliffe
must
pardon
me
,
I
will
neuer
beleue
,
that
all
that
euer
he
hath
written
or
can
write
while
he
liues
,
will
euer
worke
the
like
effecte
in
the
hartes
of
men
for
the
confutation
of
poperie
,
&
the
confirmation
of
the
Princes
true
and
lawfull
Supremacie
,
as
that
one
worke
alone
hath
done
.
But
,
alas
,
Madame
,
howe
shall
we
doe
nowe
?
Maister
Sutcliffe
thinkes
not
so
,
and
where
be
we
then
?
For
what
soeuer
he
avoucheth
true
or
false
,
right
or
wrong
,
blacke
or
white
,
It
is
bound
straight
(
if
you
marke
it
)
with
All
Antiquitie
,
All
the
Fathers
,
All
Diuinitie
:
If
he
say
it
once
,
there
must
bee
no
straggering
at
it
,
we
must
receyue
it
foorthwith
as
an
oracle
from
his
mouth
,
be
it
neuer
so
sottish
:
As
your
Honor
may
plainlie
see
by
this
newe
Characteristicall
sentence
of
his
,
to
witte
;
That
the
Sonne
was
borne
of
the
Father
:
Which
is
(
sayeth
he
)
the
Characteristicall
difference
of
that
person
.
What
can
be
more
absurd
and
senseles
then
this
?
And
yet
〈…〉
countenanced
and
guidoned
as
it
is
,
with
Maister
Sutcliffes
coulers
,
that
is
,
with
All
Religion
saieth
it
,
All
Religion
saith
it
,
It
must
,
you
see
,
marche
on
without
an
encounter
,
or
els
there
will
be
no
hoe
with
him
.
And
yet
for
his
owne
sake
I
would
this
were
the
worst
thing
in
him
,
then
should
neuer
,
I
trowe
,
so
many
innocent
and
guiltlesse
haue
bene
thus
vily
and
iniurioussie
bee
besprinkled
with
the
gall
and
vineger
of
his
penne
,
as
haue
bene
of
late
to
the
triumphe
and
reioycing
of
th'
adversarie
,
and
to
the
griefe
of
those
that
loue
the
trueth
.
And
surelie
,
Madame
,
when
I
lay
before
me
this
deadly
sting
and
bloudie
minded
drift
of
Maister
Sutcliffes
(
for
I
can
call
it
no
better
)
in
that
he
would
so
faine
haue
Maister
Cart.
and
Maister
Egerton
,
with
so
manie
woorthie
men
,
to
be
traitours
&
conspiratours
with
Hacket
,
and
Maister
Vdall
(
for
the
pure
loue
he
beares
him
)
honored
with
the
gibbet
,
I
could
,
me
thinkes
,
in
〈◊〉
regard
(
if
I
had
anie
acquaintance
with
him
)
finde
in
my
harte
to
befriende
him
a
little
with
my
poore
advise
,
if
I
thought
hee
would
take
it
well
at
my
handes
,
to
witte
,
That
seeing
the
Revenger
of
th'
innocent
and
afflicted
is
mightie
,
and
able
,
as
he
knowes
,
to
grinde
their
oppressors
and
backbitors
into
pouder
,
he
would
(
for
all
this
huffing
and
heate
of
distemperature
)
at
length
yet
bethinke
him selfe
,
and
beware
howe
he
goes
on
anie
further
in
his
vnchristianlike
veine
of
bytinge
and
bitternesse
,
especiallie
against
such
men
whom
their
greatest
adversaries
(
if
they
haue
not
quite
abandoned
all
modestie
and
shamefastnesse
)
doe
yet
sometimes
reverentlie
accoumpt
of
:
as
may
appeare
by
the
late
politicke
treatise
of
Mai.
Hookers
,
who
(
though
hee
bee
asmuch
distasted
with
the
Discipline
,
and
,
for
anie
thing
I
see
,
as
stronglie
bewitched
,
and
euerie
way
as
deepelie
interessed
in
the
case
of
the
Hierarchie
,
as
Maister
Sutc.
)
doeth
yet
in
wordes
at
least
(
and
I
hope
from
his
hearte
)
vouchsafe
to
honor
them
and
beblesse
them
with
manie
reuerent
and
brotherlie
tearmes
,
as
Right
well
affected
,
and
most
religiouslie
inclined
mindes
,
and
such
like
:
And
yet
me
thinkes
,
to
speake
indifferentlie
,
they
should
not
bee
verie
well
affected
neither
if
they
should
be
as
Maister
Sutcliffe
would
haue
them
,
that
is
,
guiltie
of
anie
practise
or
conspiracie
against
her
Maiestie
.
Wherevpon
,
if
I
might
,
I
would
gladlie
knowe
for
my
learning
,
what
point
of
Cosmographie
Maister
Sutcliffe
holdes
this
to
bee
,
namelie
,
to
presse
men
so
egerly
(
as
he
doeth
)
to
the
defence
of
the
cause
,
asking
them
whether
they
be
quite
spent
,
and
haue
nothing
to
say
,
but
must
be
faine
(
poore
men
)
to
sende
ouer
to
Geneua
for
helpe
,
and
in
the
meane
season
by
the
verdure
and
venime
of
his
penne
to
drawe
,
as
it
were
,
a
kinde
of
endightment
of
treason
and
conspiracie
against
them
,
and
so
to
put
them
to
the
iumpe
and
defence
of
their
liues
.
A
good
round
readie
way
to
silence
and
refute
men
,
I
trowe
:
As
if
it
were
wisedome
or
godlie
policie
for
a
State
to
suffer
traitours
and
conspiratours
eyther
to
write
bookes
,
or
defend
anie
thing
by
disputation
:
Yet
me
thinkes
,
it
were
much
fairer
play
and
an
evener
course
,
a
great
deale
,
to
cleare
them
of
treason
firste
,
and
then
to
tender
them
the
chalendge
and
disputation
afterwardes
,
then
thus
to
throw
out
the
gauntlet
and
chartell
of
defiance
with
one
hande
,
and
to
shake
the
halter
and
shewe
the
hatchet
with
th'
other
,
or
rather
in
plaine
tearmes
to
doo
what
in
him
lieth
to
cut
in
sunder
their
windpipe
first
,
and
then
to
aske
them
why
they
whoppe
not
or
lewre
not
afterward
.
For
this
cause
if
I
thought
there
were
anie
man
to
be
founde
in
this
age
,
so
sober
and
well
qualified
,
that
might
heerein
be
a
director
to
a
man
of
Maister
Sutcliffes
constitution
,
I
would
then
entreate
him
,
that
when
hee
writes
againe
,
he
would
make
either
Maister
Hooker
,
or
some
one
discreete
man
of
his
owne
side
,
his
glasse
and
diall
or
direction
,
for
the
better
temperature
of
his
penne
,
beinge
enough
and
enough
,
euen
in
conscience
(
if
not
more
then
enough
)
that
he
hath
thus
runne
him selfe
out
of
breath
allreadie
:
and
vnlesse
hee
should
burne
a
newe
the
temple
of
Diana
,
I
doe
not
see
howe
hee
can
make
him selfe
more
famous
then
he
hath
done
by
this
newe
emblasure
of
his
.
In
which
regard
it
is
sure
to
somebody
,
I
trowe
,
that
Maister
Hooker
writes
,
when
he
so
solemnely
adviseth
&
admonisheth
men
,
To
lay
aside
the
gall
of
that
bitternesse
wherein
their
mindes
haue
hitherto
ouer
abounded
,
and
with
meeknesse
to
seeke
the
trueth
,
&c.
Yea
and
it
seemeth
by
the
whole
course
of
his
booke
,
that
there
is
no
man
in
the
worlde
(
if
we
may
beleue
him
)
more
out
of
loue
with
an
envenomed
penne
,
which
is
the
discrier
of
the
poison
of
the
heart
,
then
he
.
And
therfore
if
in
this
good
counsell
of
his
,
he
did
not
speciallie
and
particularlie
,
and
as
it
were
,
by
name
leuell
at
his
brother
Sutcliffe
aboue
others
,
I
must
needes
say
hee
was
to
harde
and
partially
bounde
about
th'
eies
.
For
though
for
mine
owne
part
I
be
sufficientlie
perswaded
,
and
my
heart
thoroughlie
settled
in
the
trueth
of
the
cause
,
notwithstanding
a
whole
librarie
of
bookes
should
be
written
against
it
(
and
the
more
that
is
written
in
that
kinde
,
and
the
more
disgraces
that
are
thus
maliciouslie
disgorged
out
against
the
defendours
thereof
,
the
more
I
am
confirmed
)
yet
dare
I
passe
this
promise
to
Maister
Hooker
,
or
to
any
man
living
of
his
complexion
,
that
if
among
all
those
that
haue
hitherto
sued
for
reformation
,
he
can
picke
me
out
but
one
that
is
comparable
to
Maister
Sutcliffe
,
in
that
sea
of
bitternesse
,
and
ouerflowing
of
the
gall
he
speakes
of
,
I
will
forth
with
yeeld
him
the
bucklers
,
and
passe
him
my
recantation
vnder
seale
.
So
〈◊〉
shall
be
sure
to
say
that
which
I
beleeue
Maister
Sutcliffe
will
neuer
be
able
to
say
,
〈◊〉
,
that
hee
hath
wonne
one
Disciplinarian
to
the
faith
of
the
Hierarchie
.
All
which
considered
,
I
could
wish
that
Maister
Sutcliffe
would
something
recall
him selfe
while
he
hath
time
and
space
,
and
in
remorse
of
that
which
is
past
,
strike
his
hande
vpon
his
breast
,
to
some
blusshinge
and
repentance
(
if
it
might
be
)
before
the
day
of
his
visitation
,
remembring
that
one
of
the
speciall
things
that
the
holy
ghost
marketh
out
as
abhorred
of
the
Lorde
,
is
,
A
proude
heart
,
a
lying
tongue
,
and
handes
that
are
swifte
to
sheade
innocent
bloud
.
I
come
nowe
againe
to
Maister
Copinger
,
who
after
hee
had
thus
written
vnto
me
,
and
I
had
thus
answered
him
as
before
is
set
downe
,
found
meanes
to
steale
vpon
me
once
more
at
my
lodging
,
pressing
me
very
earnestlie
to
be
acquainted
with
that
man
(
meaning
Hacket
)
whom
he
had
before
so
highlie
commended
vnto
me
,
redoublinge
his
speaches
loading
me
with
a
newe
supplie
of
his
prayses
,
especiallie
of
his
gift
in
prayer
beyond
all
that
euer
he
heard
.
He
tolde
me
that
he
was
nowe
in
the
towne
,
and
that
hee
would
bring
me
to
him
if
I
would
,
his
lodginge
was
not
farre
from
Smithfield
:
I
tolde
him
I
was
so
troubled
,
and
in
a
maner
oppressed
with
busines
,
that
I
could
not
be
at
anie
leisure
,
neither
could
I
appoint
him
anie
time
,
as
he
would
faine
haue
had
me
.
Well
yet
(
sayeth
he
)
doe
me
that
fauour
as
but
heare
him
pray
once
before
you
go
out
of
the
town
.
I
can
not
certeinlie
promise
you
that
neither
(
saied
I
)
but
if
I
be
at
anie
leisure
,
and
may
convenientlie
,
I
will
,
and
so
we
parted
.
But
heere
by
the
way
,
I
had
like
to
haue
forgotten
that
which
of
all
others
is
most
woorthie
the
remembraunce
,
namely
,
his
discourse
of
the
first
greeting
and
meeting
betwixt
him
&
this
newe
Sainct
of
his
,
which
,
to
my
remembrance
was
thus
:
That
he
hearing
of
th'
vnfaigned
conversion
of
the
man
,
with
the
simplicitie
of
his
heart
,
and
the
rare
giftes
that
God
had
lent
him
,
being
a
man
vnlearned
,
did
write
him
a
letter
to
come
vp
:
Which
Hacket
accomplished
accordinglie
.
As
soone
as
they
mette
,
after
some
salutations
,
Copinger
signified
vnto
him
what
revelations
he
had
had
of
late
,
howe
the
Lord
had
sundrie
times
appeared
vnto
him
from
heauen
,
but
he
could
gette
no
man
hereabouts
to
beleeue
him
,
that
there
was
anie
such
thing
in
trueth
,
but
that
all
was
a
meere
illusion
of
Sathan
.
No
(
sayeth
Hacket
)
will
they
not
beleeue
it
?
But
I
〈◊〉
beleeue
it
,
and
will
prooue
it
to
them
,
for
I
my selfe
haue
had
reuelations
,
and
straunge
revelations
too
.
Wherevpon
I
remember
Maister
Copinger
glaunced
a
little
at
Maister
Egerton
and
Maister
Cart.
that
they
would
by
no
meanes
be
perswaded
of
the
trueth
of
these
thinges
,
whereas
this
simple
man
did
at
the
firste
both
conceiue
of
it
,
giue
credite
to
it
,
and
was
readie
by
his
owne
experience
to
iustifie
it
.
And
this
verifies
(
sayeth
he
)
that
which
I
tolde
you
before
,
that
the
Lord
will
not
haue
this
worke
brought
to
passe
by
anie
other
then
by
the
simplest
and
weakest
.
And
then
he
tolde
me
howe
that
vpon
these
speaches
of
Hacket
,
he
burning
in
desire
to
knowe
what
those
revelations
of
his
were
,
pressed
him
verie
earnestlie
to
tell
him
.
But
Hacket
,
seeing
him
so
sharpe
sett
,
to
giue
him
,
as
it
were
,
the
keener
edge
,
and
the
greater
longing
,
did
purposelie
(
as
it
should
seeme
)
keepe
him
fasting
,
and
helde
of
telling
him
,
that
there
was
a
time
for
all
things
,
he
had
not
nowe
long
to
staye
in
the
towne
,
but
he
should
knowe
more
shortlie
,
for
the
present
let
this
suffise
him
,
That
there
were
manie
strange
practises
and
wonderfull
treasons
a
brewing
against
the
Queene
.
Heerevpon
it
was
that
Copinger
,
after
Hacket
was
gone
downe
into
the
Countrie
,
wrote
those
same
letters
that
I
before
mentioned
,
to
witte
,
vnto
her
Maiestie
,
the
Countesse
of
Warwicke
,
and
my
L.
Treasurer
,
from
whom
hauing
receyued
that
answere
that
I
haue
heere
set
downe
,
namelie
,
That
he
should
bring
with
him
some
grounded
matter
to
worke
vpon
,
he
writes
me
againe
in
all
post
haste
to
his
newe
prophet
,
willing
him
to
come
vp
,
with
all
possible
speede
,
for
he
had
broken
the
yee
,
forsooth
,
nowe
was
the
time
or
neuer
.
Wherevpon
Haket
came
vp
,
and
was
by
his
meanes
(
as
he
tolde
me
)
brought
before
my
Lo.
Treasurer
.
In
whose
presence
he
so
behaued
him selfe
,
falling
flatte
on
his
face
,
groueling
,
groaning
,
and
foming
at
the
mouth
,
that
my
L.
seeing
him
,
should
say
:
What
hath
Copinger
brought
me
,
a
mad
man
heere
?
My
Lord
(
saied
he
)
thought
he
had
bin
madde
,
whereas
he
,
no
doubt
,
was
inwardlie
ravished
in
soule
,
and
rapt
vp
into
the
third
heauen
as
Paul
was
:
whereat
smiling
w●●h
my selfe
,
I
asked
him
what
became
in
the
meane
season
of
all
those
great
treasons
and
practises
that
were
thus
extraordinarilie
revealed
vnto
Hacket
,
and
he
vpon
Hackets
worde
,
had
thus
ventured
to
make
knowne
to
those
great
personages
.
I
looked
(
saied
I
)
that
vpon
this
appearaunce
before
my
Lo.
Treasurer
,
we
should
haue
heard
newes
of
them
.
He
tolde
me
,
that
if
they
could
haue
obteyned
that
they
hoped
for
,
namelie
a
warrant
&
commission
to
search
and
bolt
out
the
trueth
of
thinges
,
we
should
haue
hearde
more
ere
this
,
being
perswaded
in
his
soule
,
that
it
would
haue
fallen
out
,
to
haue
bene
one
of
the
best
seruices
that
euer
was
vndertaken
for
the
Lande
.
Wherevpon
when
I
told
him
that
it
seemed
strange
vnto
me
,
that
a
man
should
take
in
hande
to
waken
th'
eares
of
great
Counsellours
with
I
knowe
not
what
noise
of
complottes
&
conspiracies
first
,
and
then
to
sue
for
a
commission
to
enquire
afterwardes
:
He
choked
me
straight
with
his
old
common
place
of
Extraordinarie
,
Extraordinarie
,
telling
me
that
we
were
not
to
draw
presidents
of
those
things
wherof
there
was
no
rule
:
whervnto
I
replied
,
that
though
their
supposed
revelations
were
(
as
they
saied
)
Extraordinary
,
yet
the
commission
to
enquire
,
that
they
would
so
faine
haue
had
,
was
Ordinarie
:
and
therfore
I
mused
that
such
extraordinarie
men
as
they
,
would
flie
to
such
common
and
ordinarie
helpes
.
Well
(
saieth
he
)
it
may
be
you
shall
heare
more
when
the
time
comes
.
And
so
he
departed
.
After
this
,
hauing
bene
to
seeke
Maister
D.
Chippingdale
,
Copinger
meetes
me
by
chaunce
in
Pawles
Chaine
,
and
taking
me
by
the
arme
,
whispered
me
in
th'
eare
,
tellinge
me
that
the
man
he
spake
to
me
of
,
was
nowe
harde
by
,
remoued
from
his
olde
lodging
into
Knightrider
streete
.
I
tolde
him
I
had
much
businesse
,
he
sayed
I
should
not
stay
,
but
onely
see
the
man
,
&
iudge
of
his
gifte
in
prayer
,
if
I
would
,
which
he
knewe
I
would
admire
.
Vpon
his
importunacie
(
I
speake
it
not
Madame
,
in
anie
great
praise
of
my self
,
because
hauing
such
warning
as
I
had
,
I
might
haue
bene
better
advised
)
yet
thinking
it
strange
that
a
man
,
not
able
to
reade
,
should
haue
such
an
extraordinarie
gifte
as
he
spake
of
(
though
vpon
the
former
taste
of
Maister
Copingers
poore
iudgement
,
I
did
partlie
feare
before
hande
,
what
I
should
finde
)
I
went
,
I
confesse
,
with
him
.
And
this
was
the
first
&
the
last
time
that
euer
I
sawe
Hacket
in
my
life
.
And
to
speak
the
trueth
,
this
verie
once
was
enough
to
distaste
anie
man
of
neuer
so
meane
iudgement
,
I
beleeue
,
vnlesse
he
were
bewitched
,
because
the
verie
puffing
and
sweilinge
of
his
face
,
the
staring
and
gogling
of
his
eyes
,
with
his
gahstlie
countenance
,
did
,
me
thought
,
sufficientlie
decipher
out
vnto
me
,
what
was
in
the
man
,
at
the
first
sight
.
And
heere
also
at
this
time
I
founde
Arthington
,
whom
to
my
remembrance
I
neuer
sawe
aboue
once
before
in
my
life
.
But
conference
I
neuer
had
anie
with
him
,
as
hee
him selfe
best
knowes
,
who
is
yet
liuing
to
witnesse
whether
I
lie
or
no.
When
I
was
come
vp
to
the
chamber
,
Copinger
tolde
Hacket
that
the
Gentleman
could
not
stay
,
and
therefore
desired
him
he
might
be
partaker
of
his
prayer
.
Wherevppon
Hacket
clapping
to
the
dore
,
fell
without
anie
more
adoe
,
to
his
prayer
,
euen
(
for
all
the
worlde
)
as
a
man
should
haue
fallen
to
his
sworde
and
buckler
.
But
if
I
shall
not
lie
vnto
you
,
Madame
,
such
a
piece
of
prayers
did
no
man
liuing
,
I
thinke
,
euer
heare
.
It
was
much
like
the
wildegoose
chase
,
neither
heade
nor
foote
,
rime
nor
reason
.
In
steede
of
desiring
God
to
be
present
with
vs
,
he
desired
him
to
be
absent
from
vs
,
and
so
,
for
anie
thinge
I
knowe
,
he
was
,
vnlesse
it
were
in
his
hande
of
iudgement
to
punishe
vs
:
for
concerning
anie
blessing
to
befall
vs
,
sure
I
am
,
he
was
not
present
with
vs
,
at
that
time
.
Many
strange
stoppes
and
pawses
he
had
in
his
prayer●
,
and
that
a
preatie
while
togither
,
saying
nothing
but
onelie
groaned
&
murmured
to
him selfe
,
and
then
he
would
suddainlie
burst
out
into
some
passionate
outcrie
and
exclamation
against
those
wicked
Hamans
and
Traytours
to
God
and
the
Queene
,
for
that
was
a
great
woord
with
him
.
As
to
his
maner
and
gesture
,
it
was
,
me
thought
,
full
as
strange
as
the
prayer
it self
,
speaking
sometimes
in
a
kinde
of
lowe
and
base
voice
,
and
sometimes
againe
in
so
high
a
voice
,
that
I
thinke
he
might
easelie
haue
bene
heard
into
the
streetes
:
yet
were
the
most
of
his
wordes
vttered
with
much
earnestnes
and
fervencie
,
with
puffinges
and
bearinges
in
a
kinde
of
snatching
manner
,
as
if
he
had
bene
halfe
windlesse
,
and
out
of
breath
.
And
howsoeuer
other
men
iudge
of
him
,
I
must
confesse
I
haue
liued
to
see
him
a
kinde
of
prophet
in
deede
in
the
right
successe
and
event
that
his
prayer
had
.
For
as
execrations
and
imprecations
were
vsuall
with
him
,
so
I
remember
this
sweete
sentence
among
the
rest
,
O
Lorde
thou
knowest
,
thou
hast
revealed
sundrie
thinges
to
me
,
which
thou
hast
kept
backe
from
the
mightieenes
of
the
worlde
,
and
if
this
be
not
true
,
let
thy
vengeance
and
visible
confusion
fall
vpon
me
.
This
I
say
,
I
expreslie
noted
.
And
hauinge
liued
to
see
that
I
haue
done
,
namely
,
such
a
sensible
hande
of
God
vpon
him
,
in
giuing
him
ouer
to
ende
his
dayes
in
that
most
shamefull
and
desperate
manner
as
he
did
,
with
so
manie
horrible
blasphemies
without
repentance
.
Who
can
denie
but
that
Hacket
was
a
right
reader
of
destinies
,
and
concerning
him selfe
a
prophet
?
While
he
was
in
his
prayer
,
Copinger
and
Arthington
did
bestowe
the
most
of
the
time
in
a
straunge
kinde
of
sighing
,
humming
and
groaning
,
&
that
manie
times
verie
loude
.
When
his
prayer
was
done
,
which
to
mee
was
a
great
deale
to
long
,
vnlesse
it
had
bene
more
savorie
(
and
to
tell
you
the
verie
trueth
,
Madame
,
I
sate
,
me
thought
,
vpon
thornes
,
and
was
not
quiet
in
my selfe
,
till
I
was
out
of
the
chamber
,
fearing
,
when
I
heard
him
thunder
and
curse
in
that
maner
,
least
the
floore
should
haue
fallen
on
our
heads
)
I
tolde
them
I
had
hastie
busines
,
and
so
tooke
my
leaue
&
gladd
in
my
heart
that
I
was
gone
.
I
remember
Hackets
last
wordes
to
me
at
my
farewell
,
were
these
,
I
should
heare
more
shortlie
,
and
so
in
deede
I
did
.
For
the
next
newes
I
heard
,
was
,
that
they
were
vp
in
a
cart
in
Cheape-side
,
and
so
were
apprehended
,
and
their
great
Mahomet
brought
to
that
end
,
as
all
men
knowe
,
and
he
best
deserued
.
Now
when
I
was
come
my
way
from
hearing
this
man
of
the
rare
gift
,
Maister
Copinger
followed
me
,
and
bringing
me
a
little
a
long
the
streete
,
he
iogged
me
on
th'
elbow
,
and
asked
me
in
mine
eare
,
what
I
thought
of
the
mans
gifte
,
&
whether
he
were
not
an
excellent
fellowe
:
I
tolde
him
,
I
mused
what
should
moue
him
to
thinke
so
,
because
I
sawe
no
order
at
all
in
his
prayer
,
but
a
meere
confused
heape
of
wordes
without
sappe
.
And
then
I
beganne
to
enter
into
some
particulars
with
him
,
as
what
should
be
the
reason
,
or
howe
it
might
be
iustified
,
that
a
man
should
dare
to
offer
vp
his
prayers
to
God
without
anie
acknowledgement
of
his
sinne
and
vnworthinesse
,
as
at
that
time
Hacket
neuer
did
,
neither
in
generall
nor
in
particular
.
Againe
,
I
asked
him
what
warrant
anie
man
had
to
vse
anie
of
those
imprecations
and
bitter
curssinges
of
him selfe
in
his
prayer
,
whereof
there
was
neither
rule
nor
warrant
in
the
whole
Scripture
of
God
.
Vnto
all
which
his
aunswere
was
still
one
and
the
same
,
not
vnlike
to
the
rest
of
his
resolutions
:
Oh
(
sayeth
he
)
you
must
consider
it
is
extraordinarie
,
extraordinarie
:
And
I
am
verely
perswaded
,
Maister
Throkmorton
,
that
as
Iohn
Baptist
was
the
fore-runner
of
our
Saviour
in
the
fleashe
:
So
this
man
is
the
very
fore-runner
of
our
Saviour
in
iudgement
.
At
which
wordes
of
his
,
I
confesse
,
I
was
something
amazed
,
and
looking
vpon
him
(
remembring
Maister
Cartwrightes
former
speaches
vnto
me
)
I
could
not
but
pitie
the
man
,
with
this
resolution
,
neuer
to
come
at
him
againe
,
nor
anie
of
his
confederates
(
if
I
could
avoid
them
)
while
I
liued
.
And
thus
parted
Maister
Copinger
and
I
,
being
the
last
time
that
euer
I
sawe
him
:
who
,
as
farre
as
I
coniecture
,
returned
backe
againe
at
that
verie
instant
to
Hacket
,
because
I
sawe
him
bende
that
way
.
Not
long
after
this
I
went
to
Enfielde
to
visite
my
cousin
Middlemore
,
that
then
was
verie
yll
,
vnto
whom
I
reported
at
large
the
trueth
of
the
whole
,
as
I
haue
heere
set
downe
,
and
howe
at
Maister
Copingers
earnest
intreatie
I
heard
Hacket
pray
,
and
of
the
maner
of
his
prayer
,
&c.
And
I
remember
his
wordes
,
and
shall
doo
while
I
liue
,
to
witte
,
That
he
feared
he
would
come
to
some
ill
ende
,
whiche
hee
gathered
by
those
bitter
cursinges
and
execrations
that
were
so
vsuall
with
him
.
Nowe
when
I
came
backe
againe
to
London
,
I
founde
this
short
letter
at
my
lodginge
,
which
Ma.
Copinger
wrote
vnto
me
from
Knightrider
streete
,
and
which
Maister
Sutcliffe
(
I
thanke
him
)
hath
taken
the
paines
to
print
and
reprint
,
to
wit
,
That
much
hath
bene
done
since
they
sawe
me
,
which
I
would
reioyce
to
heare
of
,
That
they
desire
conference
with
mee
,
That
the
busines
is
the
Lords
owne
,
That
some
of
the
enemies
of
God
beganne
to
be
hottely
pursued
by
Sathan
,
&c.
For
so
was
it
in
my
letter
,
though
in
their
printed
copie
it
be
pursued
by
God
,
&c.
That
I
receyued
such
a
letter
I
denie
not
,
but
you
must
vnderstand
,
Madame
,
that
they
had
bene
preaching
in
the
cart
,
and
were
apprehended
before
this
letter
came
to
my
handes
.
But
what
could
I
doo
withall
,
if
Maister
Copinger
did
write
thus
vnto
me
?
It
is
knowne
he
did
write
letters
to
other
maner
of
men
then
I.
I
confesse
,
hee
did
wonderfullie
seeke
me
,
and
labour
to
haue
drawne
me
to
the
bent
of
his
bowe
.
And
albeit
I
may
truely
say
that
his
vnsensible
perswasions
had
neuer
anie
taste
or
relish
in
my
breast
,
neither
did
I
euer
feele
so
much
as
anie
inclination
to
bee
drawne
away
by
him
,
yet
doo
I
not
,
nor
dare
I
not
attribute
the
least
parte
of
this
resistance
to
mine
own
strength
,
because
the
Lorde
might
iustlie
haue
giuen
me
ouer
to
a
weaker
assault
then
this
,
if
it
had
pleased
him
.
But
what
will
Maister
Sutcliffe
make
of
this
?
Copinger
wrote
vnto
me
twice
or
thrice
.
True
,
I
denie
it
not
,
and
good
leaue
haue
he
to
make
his
advantage
of
it
,
let
him
hardlie
presse
it
and
straine
it
to
th'
vttermost
,
it
shall
not
offende
me
.
What
then
?
Why
then
,
forsooth
he
concludeth
,
that
Throk
,
is
not
onelie
an
accessarie
and
a
concealer
of
their
treacherous
practises
,
but
also
a
principall
actor
in
the
Pagent
,
and
deepely
guiltie
of
the
conspiracie
.
This
haulting
consequent
I
leaue
to
be
refuted
by
Maister
Sutcliffe
him selfe
,
when
he
is
sober
and
not
all
out
so
distempered
as
it
may
be
he
was
when
he
wrote
the
booke
.
He
knowes
well
enough
it
were
great
pitie
that
all
they
that
wrote
and
receyued
letters
from
Copinger
,
or
had
anie
conference
with
him
,
or
anie
view
of
Hacket
,
should
forthwith
be
reputed
traitors
and
conspirators
for
that
.
For
the
rest
I
would
Maister
Sutcliffe
knewe
,
that
I
holde
it
not
onelie
lawfull
but
euen
my
bounden
dutie
to
reveale
anie
practise
or
treason
intended
against
my
Soveraine
,
and
that
of
conscience
,
if
there
were
no
lawe
to
binde
me
too
it
but
the
lawe
of
God
.
Of
which
sinne
,
I
hope
,
I
may
without
offence
pleade
guiltlesse
,
not
onelie
before
men
,
but
(
for
anie
thing
I
knowe
)
before
the
tribunall
seate
of
Christ
.
And
if
probable
collections
bee
in
th'
eies
of
indifferent
Iudges
of
as
great
force
for
a
mans
clearing
and
defence
as
they
are
for
a
mans
guiltinesse
and
condemnation
,
then
mine
innocencie
,
I
hope
(
though
it
bee
neuer
so
much
shotte
at
by
the
dartes
of
envenomed
mouthes
)
shall
yet
by
Gods
assistance
,
escape
vntouched
and
vnbleamished
in
the
ende
.
If
anie
man
should
demaunde
(
sayeth
Arthington
)
why
I
did
not
discouer
Hackets
intended
villainous
practises
against
the
Queene
and
the
State
,
seeing
hee
was
knowne
to
bee
a
sorcerer
,
and
condemned
for
high
treason
against
her
Maiestie
truelie
,
as
I
meane
to
be
saued
at
the
last
day
,
both
these
matters
were
vnknowne
to
me
so
long
as
he
liued
,
and
to
Maister
Copinger
too
,
as
I
thinke
.
Neither
was
I
euer
any
farther
acquainted
with
anie
visions
or
speeches
touching
these
matters
,
then
as
before
in
substance
is
declared
,
&c.
Therefore
as
on
the
one
side
,
I
should
deepely
offende
the
Maiestie
of
God
,
if
I
should
conceale
any
daunger
intended
against
her
Maiestie
(
falling
within
the
compasse
of
my
knowledge
:
)
So
should
I
displease
the
Lorde
on
the
other
side
,
by
speaking
more
then
a
trueth
of
anie
:
yea
were
it
of
the
Devill
himselfe
,
protesting
thus
much
in
the
presence
of
God
,
that
if
I
were
privie
to
one
evill
woorde
spoken
against
her
Maiestie
,
&c.
This
booke
of
Arthingtons
,
Madame
,
hath
,
wee
see
,
th'
alowance
and
approbation
of
the
State
:
And
if
hee
that
was
one
of
the
three
,
naming
him selfe
the
prophet
of
iudgement
,
so
manie
times
conversant
with
Hacket
,
aswell
in
prayer
as
in
conference
,
be
thus
publikelie
cleared
by
his
protestation
,
and
that
taken
and
accepted
of
for
payement
,
It
goeth
harde
,
me
thinkes
,
that
another
man
,
that
neuer
saw
Hacket
but
once
in
his
life
,
that
wrote
and
laboured
to
Maister
Copinger
to
desist
,
as
one
altogither
distasted
with
his
courses
,
should
not
haue
the
same
libertie
to
pawne
his
protestation
for
his
defence
.
If
then
Maister
Sutcliffe
,
or
anie
of
his
humour
doo
aske
of
Iob
Throk
.
why
he
did
nor
reueale
the
treasons
&
practises
of
Hacket
and
his
accomplices
,
he
aunswereth
in
a
worde
(
and
that
with
protestation
before
the
Lorde
of
heauen
and
earth
)
Because
he
knewe
not
of
anie
,
neither
euer
heard
so
much
as
the
least
noyse
or
sounde
of
anie
,
And
that
Maister
Sutcliffe
him selfe
(
for
anie
thing
he
knowes
)
was
full
as
guiltie
,
and
euerie
way
as
accessarie
to
those
conspiracies
as
he
.
If
it
be
demanded
further
,
why
he
did
not
reueale
so
much
as
he
knew
,
namelie
of
their
prayers
,
imprecations
,
and
supposed
revelations
?
He
answereth
,
that
the
same
reason
that
moued
that
honorable
Countesse
to
deteine
still
in
her
handes
Mai.
Copingers
letter
vnto
her
Maiestie
,
without
deliuerie
,
namelie
,
that
there
was
no
grounde
of
his
information
,
but
only
his
phansie
,
moued
also
Throk
.
not
to
make
the
Magistrate
acquainted
with
anie
of
those
toyes
and
fooleries
,
without
some
better
grounde●
thinking
them
altogither
vnworthie
of
their
presence
&
eares
,
and
fearing
(
vnlesse
he
would
haue
foreseene
into
th'
event
aforehande
)
that
he
had
bene
liker
a
great
deale
(
for
troubling
their
Honors
with
such
a
headlesse
information
)
to
haue
bin
rather
returned
home
againe
as
wise
as
he
came
,
with
some
checke
or
reproche
for
his
follie
,
then
with
anie
thanke
or
rewarde
for
his
paines
.
Touching
Marten
,
whatsoeuer
it
pleaseth
Ma.
Sutcliffe
to
say
,
I
hope
those
that
are
in
Authoritie
,
&
Ma.
Sutcliffes
betters
,
are
sufficientlie
perswaded
of
mine
innocencie
that
way
.
And
seeing
the
gentleman
hath
giuen
him selfe
a
commission
to
speake
his
pleasure
of
my
betters
,
there
is
good
reason
that
so
meane
a
man
as
I
should
allow
him
a
litle
to
speake
per
Hyperbolen
,
or
licentiâ
poetica
,
as
he
doeth
of
Maister
Cart.
when
he
chargeth
him
with
th'
execution
of
his
brother
Stubbes
his
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He
is
not
so
much
as
once
named
in
his
will
.
will
,
a
thing
that
I
haue
heard
him
say
he
neuer
dealt
in
in
anie
sorte
,
in
all
his
life
.
And
I
doo
the
rather
beleeue
it
,
in
that
in
one
of
his
bookes
he
bringeth
testimonie
(
as
I
remember
)
out
of
one
of
th'
auncient
Fathers
,
that
it
is
either
vnmete
or
vnlawfull
for
a
Minister
of
the
worde
,
to
be
so
much
as
an
Executor
,
much
lesse
that
he
should
be
encombred
with
anie
ciuill
office
.
And
such
another
like
tale
is
that
of
the
sale
of
his
cotaige
,
and
the
purchase
of
his
three
or
foure
manours
:
which
is
so
apparant
a
slaunder
,
as
I
doubt
not
but
he
may
be
convinced
by
hundreds
that
are
yet
aliue
,
and
I
thinke
fewe
of
his
owne
side
so
immodest
to
beleeue
it
.
As
for
my selfe
and
his
charge
of
Martinisme
,
if
Maister
Sutcliffe
were
the
man
that
had
neuer
tolde
vntrueth
in
his
life
,
I
could
easilie
in
this
case
(
if
need
were
)
make
some
advantage
of
him
for
my
clearing
&
defence
.
For
though
in
one
of
his
Queres
pag.
202.
he
lay
all
vppon
me
,
I
thanke
him
,
Theses
,
Protestations
,
Dialogues
,
&
all
(
and
so
to
speake
the
trueth
,
he
may
aswell
all
as
one
)
yet
in
his
better
moode
,
when
it
may
be
,
hee
had
slept
better
all
night
,
he
franklie
cleareth
me
againe
,
disburdeninge
me
of
that
charge
,
and
letteth
not
to
say
,
pag.
78.
that
the
noble
Martin
was
Iohn
Penry
,
Iohn
Vdall
,
Iohn
Field
,
all
Iohns
,
sayeth
he
,
as
for
me
he
doeth
but
bring
me
in
at
the
later
ende
as
a
candle
holder
:
and
no
more
in
deede
I
am
not
,
in
regard
of
some
of
those
Reuerend
men
.
But
because
,
Madame
,
I
am
to
render
accompt
of
my
dooings
before
other
manner
of
men
then
Maister
Sutcliffe
.
Seeing
an
oth
(
as
th'
Apostle
sayeth
)
ought
to
bee
th'
ende
of
all
strife
,
I
will
for
my
finall
clearing
heerein
(
when
so
euer
it
shall
be
thought
so
good
by
the
State
)
willinglie
take
this
oth
,
as
I
haue
heeretofore
offered
,
to
witte
,
That
I
am
not
Martin
,
I
knewe
not
Martin
,
And
concerning
that
I
stande
endighted
of
,
I
am
as
cleare
as
the
childe
vnborne
.
For
the
rest
,
that
I
liue
vnder
a
most
gratious
Princesse
and
a
mercifull
gouernement
,
I
were
greatlie
to
blame
,
if
I
would
not
in
all
humblenesse
acknowledge
:
and
if
I
haue
not
bene
thankfull
to
God
for
it
,
my
sinne
sure
hath
bene
the
greater
.
But
what
Prince
and
gouernement
liueth
Maister
Sutcliffe
vnder
,
trowe
you
?
If
it
be
the
same
that
I
liue
vnder
(
and
I
hope
howe
farre
so
euer
hee
hath
traueled
,
he
hath
none
other
)
then
,
if
I
be
not
deceiued
,
(
vnlesse
hee
haue
some
charter
of
priuiledge
that
I
knowe
not
of
)
his
band
&
recognoisance
is
full
as
great
as
mine
,
and
he
as
deepely
engaged
this
way
as
my selfe
.
And
if
it
be
true
that
a
reuerend
Iudge
in
this
lande
did
once
tell
my
Lo.
Chancelour
,
that
dead
is
,
That
the
matter
of
th'
indightment
that
passed
against
Throk
.
at
Warwicke
,
was
in
trueth
but
a
friuelous
matter
,
and
a
thing
that
hee
would
easelie
auoied
.
And
if
it
be
also
true
that
the
saied
Lorde
Chauncelour
(
who
,
if
I
be
not
deceiued
,
was
able
to
see
as
farre
into
a
man
as
Maister
Sutcliffe
)
did
saye
not
onelie
priuately
in
his
house
,
but
euen
to
her
Maiestie
(
who
caused
the
same
to
bee
signified
vnto
me
,
that
I
might
therein
be
thankfull
vnto
my
Lorde
)
and
more
then
that
,
if
the
saied
Lo.
Chauncelour
did
openlie
in
Parleament
(
whereof
there
are
yet
liuing
witnesses
enow
)
pronounce
,
that
he
knew
the
saied
Iob
Throkmorton
to
be
an
honest
man
:
If
all
these
,
I
say
,
be
true
,
I
thinke
I
may
safelie
conclude
in
defence
of
my selfe
against
Maister
Sutcliffe
,
the
Pretended
Conspiracie
,
and
all
others
,
that
this
sparinge
course
that
hath
bene
hitherto
helde
with
me
,
hath
rather
(
to
speake
the
trueth
)
bene
a
course
of
Iustice
,
them
a
course
of
mercie
,
And
that
if
all
things
be
rightly
considered
,
it
is
a
farre
greater
mercie
&
patience
to
suster
Ma.
Sutcliffe
and
such
as
he
is
,
thus
shamefully
to
traduce
whole
Churches
and
to
sett
his
colebrand
of
infamie
vpon
the
most
reuerend
men
that
euer
wrote
,
then
to
suffer
Iob
Throkmorton
,
to
goe
in
peace
.
Who
so
long
as
he
hath
his
owne
innocencie
and
vnguiltinesse
for
his
clearinge
,
maketh
no
doubt
(
notwithstanding
all
this
racking
,
wreasting
and
libelling
against
him
)
but
he
shal
haue
alwayes
the
lawes
of
God
and
her
Maiestie
for
his
sufficient
shelter
and
defence
.
Thus
Madame
haue
I
endeuoured
my selfe
in
that
measure
I
could
,
to
satisfie
your
earnest
request
,
wherin
what
other
defectes
so
euer
there
bee
,
I
would
bee
loth
,
there
should
be
founde
anie
vntrueth
:
if
your
Honor
thinke
good
to
make
it
knowne
abroade
to
others
,
I
am
not
against
it
:
Seeing
my
defacing
hath
bene
publike
,
I
hope
no
man
will
blame
me
,
if
I
desire
that
my
clearing
might
also
be
publicke
.
The
blotte
and
bleamish
of
my
good
name
,
hath
bene
,
as
you
see
,
publiklie
spread
and
proclaimed
,
as
it
were
,
ouer
the
whole
lande
,
and
my selfe
no
lesse
wounded
then
in
capite
,
that
is
in
my
allegeance
to
my
Prince
,
and
I
by
this
their
wreasting
,
curtayling
,
and
implying
,
made
little
better
then
a
traytor
and
conspiratour
in
th'
eies
of
the
worlde
.
A
thing
that
,
if
I
remember
my selfe
well
,
ought
,
no
doubt
,
to
humble
me
and
pull
me
downe
(
if
it
were
possible
)
to
the
verie
centre
of
th'
earth
.
In
which
regarde
when
I
looke
backe
to
the
sinnes
of
my
former
life
,
I
must
needes
acknowledge
it
to
be
iust
with
God
,
howe
so
euer
it
bee
vnrighteous
with
men
.
I
knowe
right
well
,
Madame
,
what
the
Prophet
Dauid
did
in
like
case
,
who
when
he
was
reviled
and
railed
vppon
by
Shimei
,
did
neither
frette
at
this
nor
at
that
,
as
commonlie
men
doo
,
nor
yet
looke
vppon
the
person
or
vilenesse
of
the
man
,
with
any
frowning
aspect
or
revengefull
countenance
,
but
on
the
contrarie
did
foorthwith
cast
his
eies
〈◊〉
to
heauen
,
acknowledging
it
to
be
the
hande
of
the
great
God
,
and
to
be
his
dooing
:
He
curseth
,
sayeth
he
,
euen
because
the
Lorde
hath
bidden
him
curse
Dauid
,
&c.
I
confesse
,
Madame
,
I
ought
to
be
thus
affected
too
,
if
I
were
as
I
should
be
:
But
fallinge
short
of
this
,
my
onelie
desire
(
if
it
might
be
)
for
all
the
malice
I
beare
to
Maister
Sutcliffe
is
this
,
that
in
this
case
I
might
be
credited
,
and
he
not
.
And
I
thinke
,
Madame
,
I
haue
reason
to
desire
it
.
In
deede
if
I
came
to
appeach
or
accuse
,
there
were
some
reason
for
a
person
of
your
place
to
make
a
pawse
,
and
not
to
be
ouerswift
in
lendinge
an
eare
vnto
me
.
But
comming
as
I
doo
,
in
defence
of
th'
innocent
,
&
to
saue
the
guiltlesse
from
obloquie
&
sclaunder
,
me
thinks
I
may
by
all
lawes
Heathen
and
Christian
(
and
that
without
offence
)
chalenge
as
it
were
a
day
of
favourable
hearing
&
credence
before
mine
adversarie
.
I
remember
the
fellons
and
malefactours
standing
at
the
barre
,
one
of
the
last
thinges
that
the
Iudge
doeth
aske
of
them
before
he
procede
to
sentence
is
this
:
What
hast
thou
to
say
for
thy selfe
,
why
thou
mayest
not
haue
iudgement
,
&c.
I
could
wishe
Madame
,
and
my
humble
sute
vnto
your
Honor
,
and
to
all
others
that
shall
reade
these
printed
accusations
against
me
,
is
,
that
ye
would
in
this
case
playe
still
th'
vpright
Iudges
with
me
,
and
afoord
me
but
that
fauour
,
which
is
not
denied
,
you
see
,
to
verie
thieves
and
felons
at
the
barre
,
namelie
,
that
yee
would
not
passe
anie
resolute
sentence
of
credite
or
condemnation
against
me
,
before
you
haue
made
enquirie
,
What
Throkmorton
can
saye
for
him selfe
,
why
he
may
not
bee
reputed
a
Traytour
and
Conspiratour
as
well
as
Hacket
.
And
if
I
may
be
but
thus
charitably
dealt
with
,
that
is
,
if
none
of
these
slaunders
may
make
anie
impression
against
me
in
the
breastes
and
conceites
of
men
,
before
I
bee
duelie
and
patientlie
heard
what
I
can
say
for
my selfe
,
assure
your selfe
,
Madame
,
I
will
neuer
craue
a
Psalme
of
Miserere
for
my
deliuerance
while
I
liue
.
But
rather
,
if
I
bee
asked
what
I
haue
to
say
for
my selfe
,
I
will
by
Gods
grace
,
saye
,
euen
as
I
haue
sayed
,
and
is
heere
alreadie
layed
downe
to
your
La.
in
all
plainenesse
,
and
trueth
,
which
I
hope
is
sufficient
to
cleare
me
in
the
face
of
anie
righteous
Iudge
vnder
heauen
.
Th'
issue
therefore
of
the
whole
is
this
,
that
when
things
haue
bene
neuer
so
much
wrenched
and
writhed
,
yea
and
as
it
were
strangelie
tenter
stretched
against
me
,
to
bring
me
not
onely
in
disgrace
,
but
in
question
of
my
life
:
Yet
if
euer
it
bee
prooued
,
Madame
,
by
anie
acte
,
witnesse
,
or
recorde
vnder
the
sunne
,
that
Throk
.
was
anie
wayes
accessarie
,
weeting
,
privie
or
consenting
to
anie
of
those
vile
practises
of
Hacket
,
and
his
accomplices
:
Nay
more
,
not
onelie
in
this
,
but
in
any
other
action
,
attempte
or
consultation
whatsoeuer
,
if
,
I
say
,
it
may
be
prooued
that
euer
he
had
anie
hande
in
anie
vngodlie
practise
against
his
dreade
Souueraigne
,
from
the
beginning
of
the
worlde
to
this
daye
,
he
craueth
none
other
fauour
,
then
to
be
made
a
publicke
spectacle
,
and
a
notable
example
of
iustice
to
all
posteritie
.
Nay
hee
sayeth
further
in
his
owne
clearing
and
defence
,
that
if
his
verie
harte
were
arraigned
in
the
presence
of
God
and
men
,
he
may
safelie
protest
,
that
he
is
so
farre
from
being
guiltie
of
that
wherewith
he
is
thus
wrongfullie
and
iniuriouslie
slaundered
,
that
he
is
not
privie
to
him self
of
so
much
as
anie
felonious
or
deloiall
thought
of
her
Maiestie
.
If
he
be
,
let
him
not
die
the
death
of
the
righteous
.
J.
Throkmorton
.