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 THE FIRST PRINTED 
 
 ENGLISH NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 TRANSLATED BY 
 
 WILLIAM TYNDALE. 
 
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 The Preface. 
 
 Evidence connected with the first Two Editions of the EngUsh 
 New Testaments, viz. : in Quarto and in Octavo. 
 
 I. William Tyndale's antecedent Career . . . . . . . . 7-18 
 
 II. The Printing at Cologne 18-24 
 
 III. The Printing at Worms 24-27 
 
 IV. William Roy's connection with these Editions 27-36 
 
 V. The Landing and Distribution in England 36-47 
 
 VI. The Persecution in England 48-64 
 
 Typographical and Literary Evidence connected with the present 
 Fragment. 
 I. It was printed for Tyndale by Peter Quentel at Cologne, 
 
 before 1526 65 
 
 II. It is not a portion of the separate Gospel of Matthew, printed previous 
 
 to that year 65 
 
 III. It is therefore certainly a fragment of the Quarto 66 
 
 Is the Quarto a translation of Luther's German version ? 
 
 Text 67 
 
 The prologge 67 
 
 Inner Marginal References 67 
 
 Outer Marginal Glosses 68 
 
 The Photo-lithographed Text, 
 
 [The Title Page is wanting in the Grenville Copy.] 
 
 The prologge [by Tyndale] 1-14 
 
 The bokes conteyned in the newe Testament 15 
 
 Woodcut [by Anthon von Worms] . 16 
 
 The Gospel according to St. Matthew : 
 
 Chapters I. — XXII. 12 [where the Fragment ends] 17-62 
 
 Part of the Title Page of Rupertus' In Matthaeiim : 
 
 Printed by Peter Quentel at Cologne, between March and July 1526 . 64 
 
TRANSLATED BY 
 
 WILLIAM TYNDALE. 
 
 "Thk true seruaunt and Martyr of God . . . Who for his notable paynes and trauell may well be 
 called the Apostle of England in this our latter age."— John Fox ; Actes and Monuntentes, p. 1224, Ed. 
 
 ''^k 
 
 e "put forthe certaine bookes of the olde Testament and the hole newe Testament, into the En<Tlyshe 
 tongue . . . whereby sence thankes be geuen to God, the dore of lyght into the scriptures, hath and 
 dailie is more and more opened unto vs, the whiche before was many yeares closed in darkenes." — 
 Anonymous Writer : Idtm, p. 514, Ed. 1563. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 jITH reverence, almost with awe, we here offer to the reader 
 the photographic likeness of a priceless gem in English litera- 
 ture. It is the unique Fragment of that first and fontal edition 
 of the English New Testament, to which Mr. Anderson refers 
 as "the veritable origin of all those millions of English 
 Scriptures now being read in so many different and distant 
 parts of the globe — parts, utterly unknown to our immortal Translator, 
 when he sent the sheets to the press — parts, then untrodden by any 
 Englishman — parts, then undiscovered." ^ 
 The first Printed portions of any part of the English Scriptures were 
 the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, probably separately printed by Tyn- 
 dale, somewhere on the Continent,^ in 1524-5. While there is abundant 
 evidence of the former existence of these two Gospels, no copies of them 
 whatever are now known to be extant. After these, in time, came simul- 
 taneously his first two editions of the New Testament — one in Quarto, * 
 with glosses or marginal notes ; the other in Octavo, without glosses — one 
 of which, perhaps both, were in England in March 1526. Of the Quarto 
 edition, there is only the Fragment, here photo-lithographed, known ; of the 
 Octavo, there is one perfect text in the librar)'^ of the Baptist College at 
 Bristol, and a portion of another in that of St. Paul's Cathedral, London. 
 These three copies, all denuded of their title pages, are the earliest im- 
 pressions of any portion of the printed Bible in the English tongue, now 
 known to be in existence. 
 
 - 'Annals of the English Bible.' vol. L,/. 74, Ed. 1845. 
 
 ' The Rev. R. Demaus, who is writing z. Life of Tyndale, which is to appear this year, has noticed that 
 no printer is known to have been at Hamburgh about these years. 
 
6 PRE FA CE. 
 
 Looking over the present photo-lithographed Text, the reader will readily 
 mark the total absence of all those distinctions which have always been used 
 for the separation of books, and the discernment from each other of their 
 several editions. It wants the names of Translator or Editor, of the 
 Printer, and the Place of printing, together with the Date of printing. 
 As wx now have it, it is an unowned, unavowed fragment of black letter 
 English. There is however an accumulation of evidence, perfectly over- 
 whelming, which assures us, beyond the possibility of a doubt, that this 
 fragment is verily and indeed a part of the earliest edition of the Neiu 
 Testament, ever printed in the English language. It is our duty here to 
 exhibit this evidence. 
 
 At the outset, however, we must limit this testimony to these first two 
 editions only. Afterwards came 'thicker and threefold' into England, 
 editions both of the New Testament and of the Bible. Some of these 
 attempted an accurate authenticity, being produced solely from a love to 
 God and Truth ; others were surreptitiously and often carelessly produced 
 by speculators, for the mere sake of money. All these can only be rightly 
 analysed and adjudged in a thorough and complete ' History of the English 
 Bible, both manuscript and printed.' A work yet to be written ; though 
 the way has been made smoother by such pioneers as Rev. J. Forshall, 
 Sir F. Madden; Revs. J. Lewis, H. Cotton, D.C.L., Canon B. F.^Vest- 
 COTT ; Messrs. Lea Wilson, C. Anderson, G. Offor, F. Fry, and others. 
 Such a work would be based upon deep sacred interest. It would record 
 a marvellous story of human heroism and self denial, of untiring effort and 
 labour. It would catalogue all known editions, all accessible early copies, 
 and point out their various differences. And, with it, would be largely in- 
 terwoven the political and social history of what may be looked upon as 
 our Biblical Century — that hundred years, roughly speaking, of incessant 
 Biblical translation and revision, which was cro\vned with that literary 
 marvel, the present authorized version. What Froude has done for the 
 Court and Political History of our Reformation ; what Macaulay for twenty 
 years later on in our National History ; might, with even a more interesting 
 subject — the most interesting of all literary subjects to many — be done for 
 the Story of the Word of God in English. Is any man so bold, so earnest, 
 so devout, as to attempt this work ?^ 
 
 In adducing this Testimony from original sources, and in eliminating it 
 from the confusion of many conflicting and perplexing statements, it will 
 be convenient to quote each passage, once for all, in its principal place ; 
 though it may occasionally anticipate somewhat in time, or contain ex- 
 traneous matter. 
 
 1 Such a worker may consult with advantage the manuscript transcripts and notes of Mr. OfFor, no- , 
 Add. MSS. 26,670-5, in the British Museum. 
 
WILLIAM TYNDALES ANTECEDENT CAREER. 7 
 
 We may group the evidence — 
 
 As IT RELATES TO THE FIRST TWO EDITIONS. 
 As IT VERIFIES THE FRAGMENT, HERE REPRODUCED. 
 
 As to the two editions, it may be arranged under — 
 
 I. William Tyndale's antecedaU career. 
 
 II. The prifiting at Cologne. 
 
 III. The printing at Worms. 
 
 IV. William Roys connection with these editions. 
 V. The landing and distribution in Engla?id. 
 
 VI. The persecution in England. 
 
 As relates to the existing fragment ; there is possibly, only — 
 
 VII. Typographical and Literary evidence. 
 
 We must also premise, that, in judging of moral actions by the use made 
 of money, we have followed the usual estimate, in a matter so hard to 
 determine absolutely ; that the multiple of Fifteen approximately represents 
 the increased power of the same standard coin in purchasing the neces- 
 saries of life (food, raiment, rent, books, and the like), in the reign of 
 Henry VIII., as compared with the present day. So that £,\o then, 
 represents ;;^i5o now; i6j'. 4//. then, j£,\2 ^s. od. now; and so on. We 
 have inserted the modem equivalent, upon this estimate, within [ ], after 
 every sum mentioned. • 
 
 I. William Tyndales antecedent Career. 
 
 1. Tyndale is believed to have been bom either at Stinchcomb or North 
 NiBLEY, in the hundred of Berkeley, in the county of Gloucester, not 
 earlier than 1484-6 -^ where his family, during the wars of the Roses, had 
 for a time adopted, probably for the sake of concealment, the name — 
 variously spelt— of Hitchins or Hotchyns. 
 
 2. The authority for the early life of our great Englishman is John Fox ; 
 in the editions of his Ades and Monumentes, etc., published during his life- 
 rime, viz., 1563, 1570, 1576, 1583; and in the account partly extracted there- 
 from and prefixed to The Workes of Tyndale, Frith, and Barnes, 1573, fol. 
 
 1 Mr. Dade Roberts, of Painswick [d. 1821] in 1561, the estate of Melksham's Court, Sunchcombe, 
 
 Lysons • Topog. Coll.' Add. MSS. 9458. Plut. fol. from Thomas, Lord Wentworth, was the Transla- 
 
 63-^ ; in the British Museum. Mr. Roberts tor's nephew, 
 thought that Richard Tyndale, who purchased, in 
 
WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 A comparison of these editions evidences two narratives. The earlier one 
 is a brief and graphic Memorandum, — probably more correct as to the 
 sequence of events — written from memory by a confidential friend, who 
 had his infonnation from Tyndale's own lips, probably during his stay in 
 London : which Memorandum evidently preserves the very words of 
 Tyndale. The later account is written impersonally, and amplified after 
 Fox's vehement manner. We here place the two side by side. 
 
 Fox's First Account, 1563. 
 
 Fox gives the following summary of Tyndale's 
 career ; which may be taken as expressing his own 
 estitnate oftJie Translator. 
 
 This good man William Tyndall the faithfull 
 minister and constant martyr of Christe, was borne 
 vpon ye borders of wales, and brought vp euen of a 
 childe in the vniuersitie of Oxford,^ being alwayes 
 of moste vpright maners and pure lyfe. This man 
 as soneas he had receyuedsome taste and sauour of 
 the diuine truth by reading of Luthers bookes,* he 
 thought no labour or trauaill to be pretermitted to 
 allure and to drawe all other englishmen to the 
 like knowledge and vnderstanding. For the better 
 and more easy accomplishing wherof, he first 
 together with Frith, labored in translating the olde 
 and newe Testament into English, a most hol- 
 some worke for the Englishnation, he wrote also 
 diuers other workes of Sundry tytles, amon[g]st the 
 whiche is that moste worthy monument of his in- 
 tituled Thobedience of a christen man, wherin with 
 a synguler dexteritie he instructeth all menne to 
 the office and dutie of christian obedience, with 
 diuerse conflictes and disputations against More 
 and others, no lesse delectable as also fmtefuU to 
 be read. p. 520. Ed, 1563. 
 
 [Here begins the Memorandum of Tyndalis 
 friend."] 
 
 First mayster Tyndall beyng in seruice with one 
 maister Welche* a Knyght, who maried a doughter 
 
 Fox's Second Account, 1570. 
 
 William Tyndall the faythfull Minister and con- 
 stant Martyr of Christ, was borne about the borders 
 of Wales, and. brought vp from a child in the 
 Vniuersitie of Oxford, where he by long continu- 
 ance grew vp, and increased as wel in the know- 
 ledge of tounges, and other liberall Artes, as es- 
 pecially in the knowledge of the Scriptures : where- 
 unto his mynde was singularly addicted '.^ In so 
 much that he lying then at Magdalene Hall, read 
 priuely to certeine studentes and felowes of Mag- 
 dalene Colledge, some parcell of Diuinitie : in- 
 structing them in the knowledge and truth of the 
 Scriptures. Whose maners also and conuersation 
 being correspondent to the same, were such that 
 all they which knew hym, reputed and estemed 
 hym to bee a man of most vertuous disposition, 
 and of life vnspotted. 
 
 Thus he in the Vniuersitie of Oxford ^ increasing 
 more and more in learnyng, and procedyng in de- 
 grees of the scholes, spying hys time, remoued 
 from thence to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge,^ where 
 after hee had lykewise made his abode a certaine 
 space, being now further ripened in the knowledge 
 of Gods word, leauyng that Vniuersitie also, he 
 resorted to one M. WelcJie^ a knyght of Glocester- 
 
 1 The dates of Tyndale's connection with Oxford 
 and Cambridge have not yet been recovered. See 
 Wood, A thents Oxonienses, «'. 94, -Ed. 1813, and 
 C. H. and T. Cooper, Atfietue Cantabrigienses, i. 
 59, Ed. 1858. 
 
 * If Tyndale went a ' child ' to Oxford, and was 
 there ' singularly addicted ' to the study of Scrip- 
 ture, it must have been long before Luther attached 
 his ninety-five Theses to the door of the church at 
 Wittenberg (31 October, 1517) ; which protest first 
 gave him a European reputation. Tyndale may 
 Have been confirmed in his opinions by Luther ; and 
 we shall see one of the works of Erasmus was so 
 congenial to him that he translated it : but a con- 
 sideration that he must have been about 30 years 
 of age, and a priest, when Ltlther.attacked the sale 
 of indulgences, is conclusive that he was but fol- 
 lowing the dictates of his own mind and conscience 
 when m early life he searched after truth in the 
 Revelation of God, and/iot among the writings of 
 
 3 Sir John Walsh, son and heir of John Walsh, 
 married Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Pointz, and 
 having served the office of high sheriff of Glouces- 
 tershire, 18 and 27, H. 8 \i.e. 1526 and 1535] died 
 seized of Little Sodbury in the 38th year of the 
 same reign [22 April 1546 — 28 Jan. 1547], leaving 
 Maurice his son thirty years old, who had the 
 livery of the manor the same year, and married 
 
 Bridget, daughter of Vause. S. Rudder, 
 
 Hist, of Gloucestershire, p. 677, Ed. i779._ 
 
 Little Sodbury is two miles from Chipping Sod- 
 bury, and fifteen from Bristol, on the Bath and 
 Chippenham road. • _• _• The old church of St. 
 Adelme was a stone building in the Early English 
 style, with tower, nave, transept, and porch, and 
 situate adjacent to the manor house ; but having 
 fallen into decay, a new church was erected in 
 1850 on a more convenient site, which church, 
 with the addition of a vestry room and north aisle, 
 was as nearly as possible a restoration of the old 
 one. Keliys Gloucestershire, p. 634., Ed, 1870. 
 
> 
 
 IVILLTAM TYNDALES ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 
 Fox's First Account, 1563. 
 of SyT Robert Pointz, a knyght dwcllyng in GIo- 
 ccstr shyrc, the saydc Tyndall beyng scholemaister 
 to the sayde maistcr Welche his children,' and being 
 in good fauour with his maister, sat moste commonly 
 at his owne table, whiche kept a good ordinary, 
 hauing resort to hym, many tymes diuerse great 
 beneficed men, as Abbots, Deancs, Archedeacons, 
 and other diuerse doctors, and learned men. 
 Amongest whome commonly was talke of learning, 
 as well of Luther and Erasmus Roterodamus, as of 
 opinions in the scripture. The saide Maister Tyn- 
 dall being learned and which had bene a studient 
 of diuinitie in Cambridge,* ai^ hadde therein taken 
 degree of schole, did many times therin shewe his 
 mynde and leamyng, wherein as those men and 
 Tyndall did varie in opinions and iudgementes, 
 then maister Tyndall would shewe them on the 
 booke the places, by open and manifest scripture, 
 the whiche continued for a certaine season, diuerse 
 and sondry tymes vntyll in the continuance thereof, 
 those great beneficed doctors waxed weary and 
 bare a secAit grudge in their hartes against maister 
 Tyndale. 
 
 So vpon a tyme some of those beneficed doctors, 
 had maister Welch and the Lady his wyfe, at a 
 supper or banquet, there hauinge amonge them 
 talke at wyll without any gainsaiyng, and the 
 supper or banquet beyng done, and maister Welche 
 and the Lady his wyfe, came home. They called 
 for maister Tyndall, and talked with hym, of suche 
 communication as hadde bene, where they came 
 fro, and of their opinions. Maister Tyndall there- 
 unto" made aunswere agreable to the truthe of gods 
 worde, and in reprouing of their false opinions. 
 The Lady Welche being a stoute woman, and as 
 maister Tyndal did reporte* her to be wise, beyng 
 there no more but they* three, maister Welche his 
 wyfe and maister Tyndall.' Well sayde she, there 
 was suche a doctor, he may dispende CC. pounde 
 [,£yxx>\ by the yeare, an other one hundred pounde 
 [;6i50o],and an other three hundreth pounde [^4500], 
 and what thynke ye, were it reason that we should 
 beleue you before them so great learned and bene- 
 ficed men.* Maister Tyndall hearyng her, gaue her 
 no aunswere, nor after that, had but small argu- 
 mentes against suche, for he perceiued it would not 
 
 Fox's Second Account, 1570. 
 
 shyre, and was there scholemaster to his children,' 
 and in good fauour with his mxstcr. This Gentle- 
 man, as hee kept a good ordinarie commonly at his 
 table, there resorted to hym many times sondry 
 Abbots, Dcanes, Archdeacons, with other diuers 
 Doctors and great beneficed men : who there toge- 
 ther with M. Tytidall sittyng at the same table, did 
 vse many tymes to enter communication and talke 
 of learned men, as of Lutlur and of Erasmus : 
 Also of diuers other controuersies and questions 
 vpon the Scripture. 
 
 Then M. Tyndall, as he was learned and well 
 practised in Gods matters, so he spared not to 
 shewe vnto them simply and playnly hys iudgement 
 in matters, as he thought : and when as they at any 
 tyme did varye from Tyndall in opinions and iudge- 
 ment, he would shewe them in the booke, and lay 
 plainly before them the open and manifest places of 
 ye Scriptures, to confute their erours, and to con- 
 firme his sayinges. And thus continued they for a 
 certaine season, reasonyng and contending togethex 
 diuers and sundry tymes, till at length they waxed 
 wery, and bare a secret grudge in their hartes 
 agaynst hym. 
 
 Not long after this, it happened that certaine 
 of these great Doctours had inuited M. Welclie 
 and hys wife to a banket : where they had talke at 
 will and pleasure, vttering their blyndes and 
 ignoraunce without any resistance or gaynsaying. 
 Then M. Welche and hys wife comming home 
 and calling for M. Tyndall, began to reason with 
 him about those matters, wherof ye priestes had 
 talked before at theyr banket. M. Tyndall aunswer- 
 ing by scriptures, mayntayned the truth, and re- 
 proued theyr false opinions. Then sayd the Lady 
 Welch, a stout and a wyse woman (as Tyndall re- 
 ported) Well (sayd she) there was such a Doctor 
 which may dispend a C. li. [hundred pounds=;f 1500] 
 and an other, ij. C. li. [two hundred pounds =;£3ooo] 
 and an other, iij. C. li. [three hundred pounds =;^4 500] 
 and what? were it reaSon, thinke you, that we should 
 beleue you before them ? ♦ M. Tyndall gaue her no 
 aunswere at that time, nor also after that (because 
 he sawe it would not auayle) he talked but litle in 
 those matters. At that tyme he was about the 
 translation of a booke called Enchiridion militis 
 ChristiaHi?v\iixs^ beyng^ translated, he dclyuered 
 
 ' If Maurice, bom in 1516, was the eldest born 
 son of Sir J. Walsh, Tj-ndalc's connection with his 
 family as tutor must necessarily have been short ; 
 probably at most the two or three years 1531-3. 
 
 *NoUx,p. 8. 
 
 » Graphic points showing the narrative to be at 
 first hand. 
 
 ♦ What unconscious satire ! 
 
 * That is. Enchiridion Militis Ckristiani [The 
 Pocket Dagger of the Christian Soldier] written by 
 
 B 
 
lO 
 
 WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 Fox's First Account, 1563. 
 
 helpe in effect to the contrary. But then did he 
 translate into Englyshe a booke called as P remem- 
 ber Enchiridion militis Ckrisiiani.^ The whiche 
 being translated, deliuered to his maister and Lady. 
 And after they hadde read that booke, those great 
 prelates were no more so often called to the house, 
 nor when they came, had the cheare nor counten- 
 ance as they were wont to haue, the whiche they 
 did well perceiue, and that it was by the meanes 
 and incensing of maister Tyndall, and at the last 
 came no more there. 
 
 After that, when there was a sj'tting of the by- 
 shops comissarie or chauncelor : And warning was 
 g^uen to ye priests to apeare, maister Tindal was 
 also warned to be there. And whether he had 
 knowledge by their threa[t]ning, or yat he did sus- 
 pect yat thei would lay to his charge, it is not now 
 perfitly in my mynde,but thus he tolde me,i that he 
 doubted their examinations, so that he in his going 
 thetherwardes prayed in his minde hastely to God' 
 to strengthen him, to stande faste in the truthe of 
 his worde, so he being there before them, they 
 layde sore to his charge, sayng he was an heretike 
 in Sophistry, an heretike in Logike, an heretike in 
 his diuinitie, and so continueth. But they sayde 
 vnto hym, you beare your selfe boldely of the 
 Gentlemen here in this countrey, but you shall be 
 otherwyse talked with. Then maister Tj'ndal aun- 
 swered them. I am contente that you bryng me 
 where you wyll into anye countrey within England, 
 getting me x. pound [;^iso] a yeare to lyue with. 
 So you bynde me to nothing but to teache children 
 and preache. Then had they nothing more to saye 
 to hym, and thus he departed and went home to 
 his maister agayne. 
 
 There dwelt not far of an olde doctour that had 
 bene Archechauncelour to a byshoppe, the whiche 
 was of olde familiar acquaintaunce with maister 
 Tyndal, who also fauoured him well, to whome 
 
 Fox's Second Account, 1570. 
 
 to his Maister and Lady. Who after they had read 
 and well perused the same, the Doctorly Prelates 
 were no more so often called to the house, neither 
 had they the cheare and countenaunce when they 
 came, as before they had. Which thyng they mark- 
 yng and well perceiuing, and supposing no lesse but 
 it came by the meanes of M. Tyndall, refrayned 
 them selues.andat last vtterly withdrew themselues, 
 and came no more there. 
 
 As this grewe on, the Priestes of the countrey 
 clustring together, began to grudge and storme 
 against Tyndall, rayhng agaynst hym in alehouses 
 and other places. Of whom Tyndall him self in 
 his prologue before ye first booke of Moses. . . 
 
 [ The etitire Prologue is reprinted below. "] 
 
 It folowed not long after this, that there was a 
 sittyng of the bishops Chancellour appointed, and 
 warnyng was giuen to the Priestes to appeare : 
 amongest whom M. Tyndall was also warned to 
 bee there. And whether he had any misdoubt by 
 their threatnynges, or knowledge giuen him that 
 they would lay some thinges to his charge, it is 
 vncerteine : but certein this is (as he hym self 
 declared) that he doubted their priuye accusations : 
 so that he by the way in goyng thether wardes, cryed 
 in hys mynde hart[e]ly to God, to gyuehim strength 
 fast to stand in the truth of hys worde. 
 
 Then when the tyme came of hys appearaunce 
 before the Chancellour, he threatned him greuously, 
 reuilyng and ratyng hym as though hee had bene a 
 dogge, and layd to his charge many thynges, whereof 
 no accuser yet could be brought forth (as commonly 
 their maner is, not to bryng foorththe accuser) not- 
 withstandyng that the Priestes of the countrey the 
 same tyme were there present. [This is taken 
 from the Prologue : see/urther on.] And thus M, 
 Tyndall after those examinations escapyng out of 
 their handes, departed home and returned to his 
 master agayne. 
 
 There dwelt not farre of a certaine Doctour that 
 had ben an old Chauncellour before to a Byshop, 
 who had ben of old familiar acquayntance with 
 M, Tyttdall and also fauored hym well. Vnto 
 
 Erasmus at Audomarum [St. Omer] in 1501. 'It 
 openly taught ... that the true Christian's re- 
 ligion, instead of consisting in the acceptance of 
 scholastic dogmas, or the performance of outward 
 rites and ceremonies, really consists in a true self 
 sacrificing loyalty to Christ, his ever living Prince ; 
 that life is a warfare, and that the Christian must 
 
 sacrifice his evil lusts and passions, and spend his 
 strength, not in the pursuit of his own pleasure, 
 but in active service of his Prince.' F. Seebohm, 
 The Oxford Reformers, etc., p. 173, Ed. 1869. 
 
 1 Note 3, p. 9. 
 
 • Note StP' 9- 
 
WILLIAM TYND ALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 1 1 
 
 Fox's First Account, 1563. • 
 
 maister Tyndall went and op[en]ed his mynde vpon 
 diuerse questions of the scriptures, for he durst 
 boldly open vnto hymTiis mynde. That auncient 
 doctor saide, do you not knowe yat the Pope is the 
 very Antichrist, whiche the scripture speaketh of, 
 but beware what ye saye, for if you shal be per- 
 'ceiued to be of that opinion, it will cost you your 
 lyfe, and sayde, I haue bene an officer of his, but 
 I haue geuen it vp and deiie him and all his 
 workes. 
 
 And sone after Maister Tyndall happened to be 
 in the companie of a learned man, and in commun- 
 ing and disputing with him, droue him to that issue 
 that the learned manne sayde, we were better be 
 without Gods lawe then the Popes : Maister Tyn- 
 dall hearing that, answered hym, I defie the Pope 
 and all his lawes, and sayde, if God spare my lyfe 
 ere many yeares, I wyl cause a boye that dryueth 
 ye plough, shall knowe more of the scripture then 
 thou doest. 
 
 [ The fini accowtt is evidently letter here, as 
 it tells us the occasion of this Reply : see aiove.] 
 
 Shortly after that he required his maister Welche 
 of his good wyll to depart from hym, saying to 
 hym, syr : I perceiue that I shal not be suffered to 
 tary long here in this countrey, nor you shalbe 
 able to kepe me out of their handes, and what dis- 
 pleasure you might haue therby is harde to knowe, 
 for the whiche I should be ryght sory. So with 
 the good wyl of his Maister he departed from hym 
 to London, and there taried a whyle and preached. 
 But it was not longe after but he departed out of 
 the Realme into Germanic, and there put forthe 
 certaine bookes of the olde Testament and the hole 
 newe Testament, into the Englyshe tongtie, with 
 other diueise bookes of his owne compiling, the 
 whiche he sent from thence into Englandc, whcrby 
 
 Fox's^ Second Account, 1570. 
 
 whom Maister Tyndall went and opened hys 
 mynde vppon diuers questions of the Scripture : for 
 to hym hee durst bee bold to disclose his hart. Vnto 
 whom the Doctour sayd : do you not know that the 
 Pope is very Antichrist, whom the Scripture 
 speaketh of? But beware what you say : for if 
 you shalbe perceiued to be of that opinion, it will 
 cost you your lyfe, and sayd moreouer, I haue bene 
 an officer of hys, but I haue gyuen it vp and defie 
 hym and all hys workes. 
 
 It was not long after, but M. Tyndall happened 
 to be in the companye of a certayne Diuine recoun- 
 ted for a learned man, and in commoning and dis- 
 puting with hym, hee droue hym to that issue, that 
 the sayd great Doctour burst out into these blas- 
 phemous wordes, and sayd : we were better to be 
 without Gods law then the Popes. M. Tyndall 
 hearj'ng this, full of godly zeale and not bearyng 
 that blasphemous saying, replj'ed agayne and sayd : 
 I defie the Pope and all hys lawes : and further ad- 
 ded that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares 
 he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to 
 know more of the Scripture, then he did. 
 
 After this the grudge of the Priestes increasing 
 still more and more against Tindall, they neuer 
 ceased barkyng and ratyng at hym, and layd many 
 sore thynges to his charge, saying yat he was an 
 hereticke in Sophistry, an hereticke in Logicke, and 
 an hereticke inDiuinitie : and sayd moreouer to hym 
 that he bare hym selfe bold of the Gentlemen ther^ 
 in that country : but notwithstandyng, shortly hee 
 should bee otherwise talked withall. To whom M. 
 Tyndall a.uns\veryns agayne thus sayd : that he was 
 contented they should bryng him into any coun- 
 trey in all England, giuyng him x. li. [jCj5o] a yere 
 to Ijoie with, and byndymg hym to no more but to 
 teach children and to preache. 
 
 To bee short, M. Tyndall beyng so molested and 
 vexed in the countrey by the Priestes, was con- 
 strayned to leaue that countrey and to seke an other 
 place : and so commyng to M. IVelche he desired 
 hym of hys good will, that hee might departe from 
 hym, saying on thiswise to hym: Syr, I perceaue 
 I shall not bee suffered to tarye long here in this 
 countrey, neither shal you be hable though you 
 would, to kepe me out of the handes of the spiritu- 
 altie, and also what displeasure might grow thereby 
 to you by kepyng me, God knoweth : for the whiche 
 I should be right sory. So that in fine, Af. Tyndall 
 with the good will of his master, departed and 
 eftsoones came vp to London, and there preached 
 a while, accordyng as hee had done in the countrey 
 
 B 2 
 
12 WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 Fox's First Account, 1563. Fox's Second Account, 1570. 
 
 sence thankes be geuen to God, the dore of lyght before, and specially about the town of Bristowe, 
 
 into the scriptures, hath and dailie is more and more and also in the sayd towne, in the common place 
 
 opened vnto vs, the whiche before was many yeares called Saint Austins Greene.l 
 
 closed in darkenes. ^p. 513-4. Ed. 1563. //. 1224-5. Ed. 1570. 
 
 .3. Earlier than the testimony of the Author of the Memorandum, 
 preserved by Fox, is the evidence that comes out in the ' trouble ' of 
 Humphrey Monmouth. In answer to twenty-four articles of heresy 
 charged against him, in May, 1528, Monmouth wrote to Wolsey and the 
 Council the following petition, here reprinted from J. Strype's Ecclesiastical 
 Memorials, I., Part 11., pp. 363-7, Ed. 1822 ; who gives it verbatim : the 
 originals themselves are in Harl. MS., 425, Articles 4 and 5. 
 
 Unto iJie most honorable Lord Legate, and Chancellor of England, and to the honorable Councel 
 unto your Sufferain Lord, King Henry VIII. the xixth day of May, and in the xxth yere of his 
 raigne; .beseching your Grace, and al my lords and masters, to have pitie on me, ;^oor prisoner in the 
 Towre of London, at your plesure . 
 
 THE xiiiith day of May, and in the yere abovesaid, Sir Thomas Moore, Knight, and Sir William 
 Kingeston, Knight, and of the Kinges noble Counsaill, sent for me unto Sir John Dauncies, and of the 
 same Counsaill, and there they examyned me what letters and what books I receved lately from beyond 
 the seas, and I said, None, nor never had of trewthe. And what exhibition I did give to any bodie 
 beyond the sea. I said, None in three yeres past : and examyned me, whether I was acquaynted with 
 many persons ? Of the which I was acquainted with none of them to my knowledge and remembrance. 
 I told them in iiii yeres past I did give unto a Priest called Sir^ William Tyndal, otherwyse called Hotchens. 
 And then Sir Thomas Moore and Sir William Ken[g]yston had me home to my house, and serched it, and 
 saw al the letters and books in my howse to my knowledg, by my faith ; and there they found no lettres 
 that they regarded, nor Ynglish books but five or six printed, the which they regarded not ; and they left 
 them with me as they found them. And from thence I went again to Sir John Dauncys, my special good 
 master, and he brought me the same day to the Towre of London, and delivered me unto Sir Edmonde 
 Walsyngham, Kt., and Lyftenant of the Towre. 
 
 Upon iiii yeres and a half past, and more,^ I herde the foresaid Sir William preach ii or iii sermons 
 at St. Donstones in the west, in London ; and after that I chaunced to meet with him, and with com- 
 munication I examyned what lyving he had. He said he had none at all, but he trusted to be with my 
 Lord of London in his service. And therfore I had the better fantasy to him. And afterward he 
 went to my Lord and spake to him, as he told me, and my L. of London answered him, that he had 
 Chaplaines inough, and he said to him, that he would have no more at that tyme. And so the Priest came 
 
 1 Every preaching trip to Bristol involved a thirty ' In four yeres past ' Monmouth did give exhibition 
 miles' walk, fifteen each way. _ unto Tyndale : ' I did paie it him, when he made 
 
 2 Priests, at this time and previously, received his exchange to Hamborow.' Therefore Tyndale 
 the title of Sir, as a mark of respect ; as we now left England about May 1524. ' Within a year after 
 designate laymen, Esquire. he sent for his [other] ten pounds to me from Ham- 
 
 3 This fixes precisely the date of Tyndale's coming borow, and thither I sent it him ' ; say about March 
 to London. He must have begun to preach immedi- 1525. Tyndale therefore left Hamburgh for Cologne 
 ately on arrival. Monmouth spoke with him before he in the summer of 1525. He probably stayed not long 
 applied to Tonstall. ' Four yeres and a halfe past' there ; but being discovered, he escaped with Roy 
 would be 19th November, 1523; 'and more 'would, at up the Rhine, and came to Worms about September 
 the latest, place Tyndale'sjourney to town in October 1525 ; and then and there working unremittingly — 
 of that year. He stays with Monmouth six months the actual translation being probably already 
 according to Monmouth's account, who would finished — saw the two editions through the press, by 
 naturally represent his stay as short as possible ; the end of that year. 
 
 'almost an yere' he says himself, see page 16. 
 
WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 13 
 
 to me againe, and besought me to help him, and so I took him into my house half a yere : and there he 
 lived like a good Priest, as methought. He studied most part of the day and of the night, at his book ;* 
 and he would eat but sodden meat by his good wil, nor drink but small single beer. I never saw him 
 weare linnin about him in the space he was with me. I* did promys him xi. sterling [;CiSo], to praic for 
 my father and mother there sowles, and al Christen sowlcs. I did paie it him, when he made his exchange 
 to Haniborow. Afterwards he got of some other men xA sterling [;{^iso] more, the which he left with me. 
 And within a yere after he sent for his ten pounds to me from Hamborow : and thither I sent it him by 
 one Hans Collenbeke, as I remember is his name, a merchant of the Stilyard. And since I never sent 
 him the value of one peny, nor never wil. I haue given more exhibitions to skollers in my dayes, than to 
 that Priest. Mr. Doctor Royston, Chaplen to my Lord of London, hath cost me more than xl or l 
 pounds sterling t;C6oo or £jso\. And also Mr. Doctor Wooderal, Provinciall of Friar Austynes, hath 
 cost me as much, or more. Mr. Doctor Watson, Chaplain to the Kings good Grace, hath cost me some- 
 what, and somewhat I have given to skollers at his request, and to divers priests and fryers: and yf any 
 of those other should chaunce to turn, as that Priest hath done, as God forbid, were I to bbme for giving 
 them exhibition ? 
 
 The foresaid Sir William left me an English book, called Enchiridion.'* The which book the Abbes of 
 Dennye desyred yt of me, and I sent >-t to her. And that howse hath cost me more than l pounds 
 sterling [;^75o]. I could reherse many more. I do not say this because I wold be praised, as God knoweth, 
 but bicause your Gr. and my Lords of the Counsell should know that I have speilt more for the love of 
 God, after the counsil of good Doctors, than of that one Priest. 
 
 Another book I had. of the same copie :* a Frier of Grenwich desired yt of me, and I gave yt him. I 
 think my Lord of Rochester hath it. I had two books in English wrytten ; the one was called the Pater 
 Noster, an old book.' How yt came to my howse, on my faith I cannot tel ; and the other book is called 
 De Libertate Christiana.^ I receved him of one Arnold, a yong man that is gone into Spain to a gentle- 
 m.-in whose name is Mr. Woodall, that went with Sir John Wingfeld, Kt. Embassador into Spaine. I 
 delivered those two books to the Father Confessor of Sion. And also I delivered him a book of the N. 
 Testament, the which book my L. of London had. Also, I had a litle treatise, that the Priest sent me, 
 when he sent for his mony. And all those books, save the books of the N. Testament, laye openly in my 
 house for the space of two yeres or more, that every man might rede on them that would, at their pleasure. 
 I never harde priest, nor fryer, nor lay man find any great fault in them. And so I trust in our Lord 
 God, that your good Grace, nor none of my lords and masters of the Kings noble Councel, wil find any 
 great faults in any of them, when it shal please your Gr. or any of the Councel to read them or hear them. 
 And so I trust in our Lord God I shal be gyltless for any e\il books, or any other thing that hath been 
 siu-mysed wrongfully on me. And yf mine accusers be wel examined, peradventture they should be fotmd 
 more fawlty than I shal be, when the trewth shal be known. 
 
 I have shewed the book called The Enchiridion to Mr Doctor Watson, and to Mr Doctor Stochouse, 
 Parson of Laname, [Lavenham,] in Suflfolk, and to many other, that never found fault in him to my 
 
 1 i.e. Studying : but undoubtedly his chief book phrase of the Lord's Prayer. Tyndale, in his 
 was the New Testament. ' And even in the bisshope A nnvere to More states that the Bishop of London 
 of londons house I entended to have done it,' see [Fitz James] 'wold haue made the old deane Colet 
 /. 16. Once ensconced in Monmouth's house, he \d. 16 Sept. 1519] of paules an heretykej for trans- 
 appears to have ceased to preach and to have latynge the Pater noster in englyshe/ had not the 
 devoted himself unremittingly to the task of trans- bysshope of canterbury holpe the deane.' Jol. 104. b. 
 lation ; and that work he continued— singlehanded * This is the title of a tract by Luther, first 
 doing this great task— for the next two years, as he published with his letter to Pope Leo X., dated 6 
 says, ' even very necessitie and combraunce fGod Sept. 1520, in Latin, at Wittenberg, m 1520, m 
 is recorde) aboue strength . . . caused that which year two 4to editions were printed there, 
 many thynges are lackynge.' So that there re- one occupying 18, the other 21 leaves. Luther 
 mained but to polish his version; and to see it again printed it there <n 1521, in an ediUon of 20 
 correctly printed : when Tyndale was able to make leaves. 
 
 arrangements for the secret impression at Cologne, The tract is written on these two propositions. 
 
 and to obtain Roy's assistance in collating, etc. 1. A Christian man ts a most free lord of all 
 
 • Evidently copies by Monmouth's amanuensis, subject to none. 2. A Christian man is a tnost 
 
 ' my servant ' that ' did write,' of Tyndale's transla- dutiful servant of all, subject to all. Monmouth 
 
 don of Erasmus' book. appears to have had a ' wrytten English transUp 
 
 » Evidently some old English exposition or para- tion of one of these Latin editions. 
 
14 WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 knowledg ; and to the Father Confessor of Syon, and to Mr Martyn, Priest and Parson of Totingebeke. 
 And also the other two books, called the Pater Noster and De Libertate Christiana, I think they looked 
 them most part over, and they found no fault at them. But in one of them, De Libertate Christiana, 
 they said, there was in him things somewhat hard, except the reader were wyse. And by my faith there 
 was al the fault that ever I herde of them. If I had thought they had not been good, or put any mistrust 
 in any of them, I would not have shewed them openly to so many men as I did. But mine accusers unto 
 your noble Gr. I think did never read them over ; and yf they did, they were to blame, that they had not 
 the order of charity with them. And yf they had shewed me, that they had been nought or evil books, yf 
 they had been lerned, I would have given credence to them, and done them immediately away. And. yf 
 . I had then kept them, and they had complayned, then I had bene worthy to have bene punyshed. I pray 
 God forgive them, as I would be forgeven my self. 
 
 When I harde my Lord of London ^ preach at Pawles Cross, that Sir William Tyndal had translated 
 the N. Testament into English, and was noughtilie translated, that was the first time that ever I suspected 
 or knew any evil by him. And shortely after, al the lettres and treatyes that he sent me, with dyvers 
 copies of books that my servant did write, and the sermons that the Priest did make at St. Dunstones, I did 
 bume them in my howse. He that did write them did se it. I did burne them for fear of the translator, 
 more than for any yll that I knew by them. 
 
 If it like your Grace, for this imprisonment I have utterly lost my name, and also my litle credence, 
 which I had, for ever. The which is the greatest loss, and the more sorrow and shame, that ever I had in 
 my lifFe. I occupy with divers clothe-men in Sufiblk, and in other gjaces. The which have wekely some 
 of them, as they send up their clothes, most have their mony. And yf they fail of their monye, they say, 
 they cannot set the poore folks aworke. There is divers clothe-men, the which I buy al their clothes that 
 they make. And yf they should go offer them to sel to other men now at this time, they wold bid them go 
 and sel where they were wont to sel, when the sale was good ; and so the poor men should have great loss. 
 I was wont to sel for most part every yere iiii or v hundred clothes to strangers, which was worth. to the 
 Kinges Gr. in his customes, more than though I had shipped over my self five times so many.2 I was wont 
 betwixt Chrystmas and Whytsontide to sel most part of them. And of trewthe as yet since Chrystmas, I 
 have sold but xxii clothes, nor I send over none, nor no man axeth for none : I praye God amend it, whan 
 yt shal please him. And yf I leye here in prison long, I cannot help my self more, nor none other man 
 but shal be utterly undon for ever : and if your Gr, be not good and merciful unto me. God is merciful, 
 and wil forgive them that be penitent, and axeth forgivenes. I trust in the Lord I have not offended your 
 Gr. nor none of my lords nor masters of the Kinges noble Counsail, willingly, nor to my knowledg. And 
 yf I have, I beseche your good Gr. and al my lords and masters, to forgive me, as you would that God 
 should forgive you. 
 
 Yf I had broken most part of the Ten Commandments of God, being penitent, and confessed, [I should 
 be forgiven,] by reason of certen pardons that I have, the which my company and I had graunted when 
 we were at Rome, going to Jerusalem, of the holly Father the Pope, a poena and a culpa, for certain 
 times in the yere. And that I trust in God I receved at Easter last past ; furthermore I receved, when 
 your Gr. was last at Pawles, I trust in God, your pardon of a poena and a culpa ; the which I belave 
 verily, yf I had don never so great offences, being penitent and confessed, and axing forgiveness, that I 
 should have forgivenes. Beseching your Gr. and al my lords and masters to pardon me and to forgive 
 me, as I shal be your poor headman during my liffe : and that the bl. Trinitie, and our bl. lady Saint 
 Marie, and al the holly company of heaven, may help you al at your most neede in vertue and grace, 
 Amen. I beseche your Gr. and al my lords and masters, to pardon me of my rude wrytinge and termes. 
 I am unlemed ; my witt is no better. 
 
 By your poor bedman and prysoner at your Gr's pleasure, 
 
 Humfrye Munmouthe, Draper of London. 
 
 In presentia reverendi patris in Christo Cuthberti London Episcopi, Hutnfridus Monmouth recognovit 
 se scripsisse istas cartas.^ 
 
 1 Tonstall returned fri^m Spain in the first week of possible be recovered. 
 
 April 1526. I am una.jle to fix the date of this * An appeal to the king's pocket, 
 
 sermon ; to which we shall find so many references : ^ Monmouth, having many friends, was let out of 
 
 it is a central date in this history, and should if the Tower. He became Sheriff of London in 1535. 
 
IVILUAM TYND ALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 15 VJn ^/^ " 
 
 AVliether this petition represent the religious opinions of Monmouth at ^^s^TA ^ 
 its date ; or whether it be a most subtle representation of all those of his ^*^ 
 
 acts which harmonized most with the shibboleths of the older * faith '; may 
 now perhaps be hard to determine. But it is clear that henceforth he 
 turned more and more to the Reformation. In his remarkable will, dated 
 1 6th November, 1537, is the following provision : — 
 
 .^d I wyl that my Lord Byshop of Worcester [i.e. Hugh Latimer], Doctor Barnes, Doctor Crome, and 
 Mayster Tayllour [All four ultra-Protestants] shal preach in my parysh-church aforesayd [Alhallowes in 
 Barkynge of London], every week two sermonds, tyl they have preached among them xxx. sermonds : and 
 I wyl gyve them for every sermonde xiiLy. imd. [;^io]. And yf any of these foresayde persons cannot be 
 Aere to preach these sermonds, than I wyl that the other supplie his place, that shal be absent : so that 
 after they have begonne to preach, (which I wold have them do immediatly after my buryal,) they shal 
 contynue wekely every weke, tyl the said xxx, sermonds be al preached, except there be an urgent cause, 
 allowed by myn executours and supervisour, to the contrary. And that this thing may be perfourmed the 
 better, I bequethe to eyther of myn especial and singular good Lords, Syr Thomas Audeley, Knyght, 
 Lord Chauncellour, and Syr Thomas Crumwel, Knyght, Lord Crumwel, a standyng cup of sylver and 
 gylte, of the value of x. pounds [;^»5o], that they may be good Lords to these foresayd preachers, to helpe 
 them and maynteyne them, that they be suffered to preach the forsayd sermonds quietly, to the laud and 
 prayse of Almyghty God, to the settyng forth of my Prjmces godly and hevenly purposes, to the utter 
 abolyshyng and extincting of the usurped and false fayned power of the Byshop of Rome.'— Strypb, 
 EccUs, Mem. I. Part ii., p. 369., Ed. 1822. 
 
 \. Yet still more authoritative, is the account by Tyndale of himself. In 
 what is usually known as his preface to the Pentateuch, but which is actually 
 that to The fyrst boke of Moses called Genesis, the printing of which book 
 at Marburg was finished on 17th January, 1531; Tyndale cautiously refers 
 to his early life ; without naming those of his friends, whom to name would 
 have been to have thrown in prison. We give the preface entire. 
 
 W. T, To the Reader. 
 
 Hen I had translated the newe testament/ 1 added a pistle vnto the latter ende/ In which I desyred 
 them yat were learned to amend if ought were founde amysse. But oure malicious and wylye 
 hypocrytes which are so stubbume and hard herted in their weked abhominacions that it is not 
 possible for them to amend any thinge at all (as we see by dayly experience when their both 
 lyvinges and doinges are rebuked with the trouth) saye/ some of them that it is impossible to translate the 
 scripture in to English/ some that it is not lawfuU for the laye people to have it in their mother tonge/ 
 some that it wora make them all heretykes/ as it wold no doute from many thinges which they of longe 
 tyme have falsly taught/ and that is the whole cause wherfore they forbyd it/ though they other clokes pre- 
 tende. And some or rather every one/ saye that it wold make them ryse ageynst the kinge/ whom they 
 them selves (vnto their damnatyon) never yet obeyed. And leste these temporal] rulars shuld see their 
 falsehod/ if the scripture cam to light/ causeth them so to lye. 
 
 And as for my translation in which they afferme vnto the laye people (as I haue hearde saye) to be I 
 wotte not how many thousande heresyes/ so that it can not be mended or correcte/ they haue yet taken so 
 greate payne to examyne it/ and to compare it vnto that they wold fayne haue it and to their awne imagi- 
 nations and iuggUnge termes/ and to haue some what to rayle at/ and vnder that cloke to blaspheme the 
 
 • * Thirty sermons remunerated at £,i-o each, and large hearted and openhanded man, who thus 
 
 two silver gilt cups of ;C» 50 each, making together bequeathed a legacy of £,ti to each of his four 
 
 £,fxio devoted to a seven months' protest against favourite preachers, upon the performance of, to 
 
 the Papacy : such b the benefaction of this them, a congenial and easy duty. 
 
i6 WILLIAM TYNDALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 
 
 treuth/ that they myght with as litle laboure (as I suppose) haue translated the moste parte of the bible. 
 For they which in tymes pasA were wont to loke on no more scripture then they founde in their duns or 
 soch like develysh doctrynej haue yet now so narowlye loked on my translatyonj that there is not so moch 
 as one I therin if it lacke a tytle over his hed/ but they haue noted it/ and nombre it vnto the ignorant 
 people for an heresy. Fynallye in this they be all agreed/ to dryve you from the knowledge of the scripturef 
 and that ye shall not haue the texte therof in the mother tonge/ and to kepe the world styll in darkenessef 
 to th[e]entent they might sitt in the consciences of the people/ thorow vayne superstition and false doctrine/ 
 to satisfye their fylthy lustes/ their proude ambition/ and vnsatiable covetuousnes/ and to exalte their 
 awne honoure aboue kinge and emperoure/ yee and aboue god him silfe. 
 
 C A thousand bokes had they lever to be put forth agenste their abhominable doynges and doctrine/ then 
 that the scripture shulde come to light. For as longe as they may kepe that doune/ they will so darken the 
 ryght way with the miste of their sophistrye/ and so tangle them that either rebuke or despyse their 
 abhominations with argumentes of philosophye and with worldly symylitudes and apparent reasons qf 
 naturall wisdom. And with wrestinge the scripture vnto their awne purpose clene contrarye vnto ye processej 
 order and meaninge of the texte/ and so delude them in descantynge vppon it with alligoryes/ and amase 
 them expoundinge it in manye senses before the vnlerned laye people (when it hath but one simple litterall 
 sense whose light the owles can not abyde) that though thou feale in thyne harte and arte sure how that all 
 is false yat they saye/ yet coudeste thou not solve their sotle rydles. 
 
 C Which thinge onlye moved me to translate the new testament. Because I had perceaved by ex- 
 peryence/ how that it was impossible to stablysh the laye people in any truth except/ ye scripture were 
 playnly layde before their eyes in their mother tonge/ that they might se the processe/ ordre and meaninge of 
 the texte : for els what so ever truth is taught them/ these ennymyes of all truth qwench it ageyne/ partly with 
 the smoke of their bottomlesse pytte wherof thou readest apocalipsis. ix. that is/ with apparent reasons of 
 sophistrye and traditions of their awne makynge/ founded with out grounde of scripture/ and partely in 
 iugglinge with the texte/ expoundinge it in soch a sense as is impossible to gether of the texte/ if thou 
 see the processe ordre and meaninge therof. 
 
 <[ And even in the bisshope of londons house I entended to have done it.^ For when I was so 
 turmoyled in the centre where I was that I coude no lenger there dwell (the processe wherof were to longe 
 here to reherce) I this wyse thought in my silfe/ this I suffre because the prestes of the contre be vnlearned/ 
 as god it knoweth there are a full ignorant sorte which haue sene no more latyn then that they read 
 in their portesses and missales which yet many of them can scacely read (except it be Alberius de 
 secretis muliermn in which yet/ though they be never so soryly lerned/ they pore day and night and 
 make notes therein and all to teach the mydwyves as they say/ and linwod^ a boke of constitutions to 
 gether tithes/ mortuaryes/ offeringes/ customs/ and other pillage/ which they calle/ not theirs but/ godes 
 parte and the deuty of holye chirch/ to discharge their consciences with all : for they are bound that they 
 shall not dimynysh, but encreace all thinge vnto the vttmost of their powers) and therfore (because they 
 are thus vnlerned thought I) when they come to gedder to the alehouse/ which is their preachinge place/ 
 they afferme that my sainges are heresy. And besydes yat they adde to of thir owne heddes which I 
 never spake/ as the maner is to prolonge the tale to shorte[n] the tyme with all/ and accuse me secretly to 
 the chauncelare and other the bishopes officers/ And in deade when I cam before the chauncelare/ he 
 thretened me grevously/ and revyled me and rated me as though I had bene a dogge/ Und layd to my 
 charge wherof there coude be none accuser brought forth (as their maner is not to bringe forth the 
 accuser) and yet all the prestes of ye contre were yat same daye there. As I this thought the bishope of 
 london came to my remembrance whom Erasmus (whose tonge maketh of litle gnattes greate elephantes 
 and lifteth vpp aboue the starres whosoever geveth him a litle exhibition) prayseth excedingly amonge 
 other in his annotatyons on the new testament for his great learninge. Then thought 1/ if I might come 
 to this mannes service/ I were happye. And so I gate me to london/ and thorow the accoyntaunce of 
 
 1 How Tonstall must have gnashed when he wode, [who became Bishop of St. Davids, 14 Aug. 
 read this, and recalled to mind the person and 1442 ; was Lord Privy Seal to Henry V. ; and died 
 manner of Tyndale at their interview nearly five 21 Oct. 1446] about 1433. It was one of the earliest 
 years before ! printed books in England ; and several editions were 
 
 2 The Provincial Constitutions of the English printed at Paris before 1520. 
 (Church, in Latin, were compiled by William Lynde- 
 
IVJLLIAM TYND ALE'S ANTECEDENT CAREER. 17 
 
 n>.y master came to sir harry gilford the kinges graces countrollerf and brought him an oration of Isocrates 
 which I had translated out of greke in to English/ and dcsyred him to speake vnto my lorde of london for 
 me| which he also did as he shewed me/ and willed me to write a pistlc to my lordc/ and to goo to him my 
 silf which I also did/ and delivered my pistle to a servant of his awnej one wyllyam hebilthwaytc, a man of 
 myne old accoyntaunce. But god which knoweth what is within hypocrites/ sawe that I was begylcd/ and 
 that that counccU was not the ncxte way vnto my purpose. And therfore he gate me no favourc in my 
 lordes sight. 
 
 C VVherevppon my lorde answered mef his house was fullf he had mo then he coude well Andej and 
 advised me to seke in london/ wher he sayd I coude not lacke a service/ And so in london I abode 
 almoste an yere/ and marked the course of the worlde/ and herde our pratars/ I wold say oure preachers 
 how they hosted tnem selves and their hye authorite/ and beheld the pompe of oure prelates and how 
 besyed they were as they yet are/ to set peace and vnite in the worlde (though it be not possible for them 
 that walke in darkenesse to continue longe in peace/ for they can not but ether stomble or dash them selves 
 at one thinge or a nother that shall clene vnquyet all togedder) and sawe thinges wherof I deferre to speake 
 at this tyme and vnderstode at the laste not only, that there was no rowme in my lorde of londons palace 
 to translate the new testament/ but also that there was no place to do it in all englonde/ as experience doth 
 now opienly declare. 
 
 H Vnder what maner therfore shuld I now submitte this boke to be corrected and amended of them| 
 which can suffer nothinge to be well ? Or what protestacyon shuld I make in soch a matter vnto our 
 prelates those stubburne Nimrothes which so mightely fight agenste god and resiste his holy spiritej 
 enforceynge with all crafte and sotelte to qwench the light of the everlastinge testament/ promyses/ and 
 apoyntemente made betwene god and vs : and heapinge tlie firce wrath of god vppon all princes and 
 Hilars/ mockinge them with false fayned names of hypocrysye/ and servinge their lustes at all poyntes/ and 
 dispensinge with them even of the very lawes of god/ of which Christe him silf testifieth Matthew, v. yat 
 not so moch as one tittle therof may perish or be broken. And of which the prophete sayth Psalme. 
 cxviij . Thou haste commaunded thy lawes to be kepte meod\ yat is in hebrew excedingly/ with all diligence 
 might and power/ and haue made them so mad with their iugglinge charmes and crafty persuasions that 
 they thinke it full satisfaction for all their weked lyvinge/ to torment soch as tell tliem trouth/ and to borne 
 the worde of their souleshelth and sle whosoever beleve theron. 
 
 <[ Not withstondinge yet I submytte this .boke and all other that I haue other made or translated, or 
 shall in tyme to come (if it be goddes will that I shall further laboure in his hervest) vnto all them that 
 submytte them selves vnto the worde of god/ to be corrected of them/ yee and moreover to be disalowed 
 and also bumte/ if it seme worthy when they have examyned it wy th the hebrue/ so that they first put forth 
 of their awne translatinge a nother that is more correcte. 
 
 5. It will help US to understand what manner of man Tyndale was, if 
 we consider the account that Fox gives of him, at a period some eight or 
 ten years later on, in his Life, prefixed to the edition of his Workes (London, 
 1573, fol.) above referred to. 
 
 And here to ende and conclude this history with a fewe notes touching his priuate behauiour in dyet, 
 study, and especially his charitable zeale and tender releuing of the poore: Fyrst he was a man very 
 frugall, and spare of body, [Fox had previously stated that Tyndale was ' a man of no great stature '] a great 
 student and earnest laborer, namely in the setting forth of ye Scriptures of God. He rcserued or halowed 
 to hjrmselfe ij. dayes in the weeke, which he named his dayes of pastime, and those dayes were Monday 
 the first day in the weeke, and Satterday the last day in the weeke. On the Monday he visited all suche 
 poore men and women as were fled out of England by reason of persecution into Antwarp, and those well 
 vnderstanding their good exercises and qualities he did very liberally comfort and relieue : and in like 
 maner prouided for thesicke and deceased persons. On the Satterday he walked round about the towne 
 in Antwarpe, seeking out euery Corner, and hole where he suspected any poore person to dwell, (as God 
 knoweth there are many) and where he found any to be well occupied, and yet oucrburdened with 
 children, or els were aged, or weake, those also hee plentefully releued. And thus he spent his ij. dayes 
 of pastime as he cauled them. And tnielye his Almose was very large and great : and so it might well bee : 
 
 C 
 
i8 THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 for his exhibition that he had yearley of the" Englishe merchauntes was very much, and that for the most 
 part he bestowed vpon the poore as afore sayd. The rest of the dayes in the weeke he gaue hyra wholy 
 to his booke where in most diligently he traueled. When the Sonday came, then went he to some one 
 merchaunts chamber, or other, whether came many other merchauntes : and vnto them would he reade 
 some one percell of Scripture, eyther out of theolde testament, or out of the new, the which preceded so 
 frutefully, sweetely and gentely from him (much like to the writing of S. lohn the Euangelest) that it 
 was a heauenly comfort and ioy to the audience to heare him reade the scriptures : and in likewise after 
 dinner, he spent an houre in the aforesayd maner. He was a man without any spot, or blemishe of rancor, 
 or malice, full of mercy and compassion, so that no man lining was able to reprooue him of any kinde of 
 sinne or cryme, albeit his righteousnes and iustification depended not there vpon before God, but onely 
 vpon the bloud of Christ, aijd his fayth vpon the same : in which faith constantly he dyed, as is sayd at 
 Filforde [Vilvorde], and now resteth with the glorious campany of Christes Martyrs blessedly in the Lord, 
 who be blessed in all his saintes Amen. 
 
 Thus much from friends : the next testimony comes from a bitter enemy. 
 
 II. The Printing at Cologne, 
 
 Great allowance must be made in considering this hostile testimony, in 
 respect both to the ignorance and the animus of Roman Catholic writers, in 
 matters connected with the vernacular translation of the New Testament. 
 Guessing causes for that, the occasion of which they were ignorant of, they 
 hazarded all manner ot statements contrary to the tact : while as to motives, 
 they could see, or at the least would acknowledge little that was upright and 
 noble in the Reformers. Making, however, all necessary deductions, we 
 shall recover much valuable information through these antagonistic 
 writers. 
 
 X, John Dobneck, surnamed Cochl^us, an incessant pamphleteer, and 
 virulent antagonist to Luther, in a controversy with Alexander Ales of 
 Scotland, as to the free reading of the Scriptures, printed a letter to 
 James V. of Scotland, (Colophon dated Dresden, vi. Idus Junij [lo June] 
 1533,) of which the title is A71 expediat laicis, legere Noui Testameftti lihros 
 lingua vernacida ? * Whether it be expedient for the laity to read the books 
 of the New Testament in the native tongue ? ' In which occurs his earliest 
 printed reference to the secret printing at Cologne. 
 
 COCHLiEUS' FIRST ACCOUNT. TRANSLATION. 
 
 Etenim ante annos octo,duo ex Anglia Apostatse, And indeed eight years ago, two apostates from 
 
 qui Vuittcnbergse Teuthonicam edocti llnguam, Lu- England, who having learnt the German language 
 
 theri nouum testamentum in linguam Anglicanam at Wittenberg had translated Luther's New Testa- 
 
 uerterant, Coloniam Agrippinam uenerunt, tanquam ment into English, came to Cologne, being a city 
 
 ad urbem Angliae uiciniorem, mercatuque cele- nearer to England, more frequented by commerce, 
 
 briorem, et nauigijs ad transmittcndum aptiorem, and better furnished with boats for conveyance ; 
 
 ibique post rusticorum tumultum aliquamdiu ' lati- and there, living in concealment for some time^ 
 
 ^ 'The revolt of the peasants began on 19th July, .Suabia to the districts on the Rhine, and mto Fran- 
 1524.' It ' spread with inconceivable rapidity from conia, Thuringia, and Saxony. All these countries 
 
THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 »9 
 
 COCHL«US FIRST ACCOUNT. 
 
 tantes, conduxemnt sibi in occulto Chalcographos, 
 ut mox primo aggressu tria milia excmplarium 
 imprimercnt, Cumque eo in opere alacriter ingenti 
 spe proccdcrent, iactitabant conscij Bibliopolae et 
 Chalcographi, totam Angliam breui fore Luthe- 
 ranam, uclint nolint Rex et Cardinalis. Id ego 
 intelligens, premonui quosdam Anglorum Regi 
 iideles, qui et senatus authoritate malignam illorum 
 machinationem interceperunt, et Regem tanti peri- 
 culi per literas admonucrunt. Vndc factum est, ut 
 ea iacula, foeliciter praeuisa, non potuerunt ferire 
 incautos, de quibus tantopere gloriati fuerant Lu- 
 therani. A. vi. 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 after the riots of the peasantry, they secretly hired 
 printers to print at first 3000 copies. As ihey pro- 
 ceeded eagerly and hopefully in the work, the 
 booksellers and printers who knew of it boasted 
 that the whole of England would shortly be Lu- 
 theran, whether the king- and cardinal wished it or 
 not. Hearing of this, I warned some faithful 
 servants of the king of England, who by authority 
 of the senate intercepted the evil design and 
 warned the king by letter of the danger. Thus it 
 happened, that these weapons, happily foreseen, 
 could not strike unawares the people of whom the 
 Lutherans liad boasted so highly. 
 
 2. Cochlaeus wrote De matrimonio serenissimi Regis Anglice, Henrici 
 Odavi, Congratulatio dlsputatoria (Colophon dated Lipsiae, Feb. 1535): 
 to which Sir Richard Morison replied in his Apomaxis Caliimniarum J. 
 Cochlai contra Henry VIII. (Colophon dated London 1537) : to which 
 work Cochlceus rejoined with Scopa .... in arancas Richardi 
 Morysini Am^li (Colophon dated Lipsiae, March 1538). In this last work, 
 Cochlaeus again alludes to the printing at Cologne. 
 
 COCHLiBUs' SECOND ACCOUNT. 
 
 Ego uero Morysine Regem tuum non segniter 
 laudaui, dum laude digna faceret. Et possem pro- 
 fect5 multo iustius ei ingratitudinis dicam scribere, 
 quam tu Caesari nostro Opt. ac sanctiss. Principi. 
 Nam anno Domini M.D.XXV. cum essem pauper 
 et exul per seditiosos plebis et rusticorura tumultus, 
 Coloniae constitutus, non solum indicaui ei per 
 epistolam priuatam occultas duorum Anglorum 
 contra regnum suum machinationes improbas, 
 quibus Lutheri Testamentum nouum in Anglicanam 
 linguam uersum, Colonise excudebatur, ut in Angliam 
 in mulcis milibus occulte transmitteretur, Verum 
 etiam et publice nuncupaui ei subsequente mox 
 altero anno XIL libros Ruperti Tuitiensis in 
 Apocalypsim loannis, et librum plurium eiusdem 
 Ruperti opusculonim bene compactum, dono trans- 
 misi. Ipse uero ad haec omnia perpetu5 mutus ad 
 me ac dissimulator permansit, paupertatis et exilij 
 mei prorsus immemor, licet eo tempore Lutheranae 
 sectae infensissiraus esset hostis et aduersarius. 
 Vt mihi tunc suomet iudicio non minus pro illo 
 indicio meo de duobus Anglis, in regni tran- 
 quillitatem male machinantibus, debuerit, quam 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 But, Morysin, I was not slow to praise /our King, 
 when he did things that were worthy of praise ; and 
 I could immediately write against him a charge of 
 ingratitude, much more justly than you can against 
 our excellent Emperor and most sacred Prince. For 
 in the year of our Lord MDXXV. when I was 
 poor, and by the seditions of the people and 
 tumult of the rustics settled an exile of Cologne, 
 not only did I discover to him, by a private epistle, 
 the secret wicked machinations of two Englishmen 
 against his kingdom, by whom the New Testament 
 (of Luther) translated into the English language, 
 was printed at Cologne, that it might be transmitted 
 secretly, in many thousands into England : But I 
 also forthwith, in the next year, publicly dedicated 
 to him xii. Books of Rupert of Deutz, on the Apo- 
 calypse of John, and I sent him, as a present, a 
 book, well bound, consisting of the greater part of 
 the small works of the said Rupert. But, notwith- 
 standing all these things, he still remained silent, 
 and took no notice of me, altogether unmindful of 
 my jwverty and exile, although at that time he 
 was a most determined enemy and opposer of the 
 
 had revolted in January, 1525.' D'Aubign^, Hist, 
 of Hu Reformation, ii. 343 ; Ed. 1855. The revolt 
 was finally suppressed by the defeat, on 15th May, 
 
 1525. of the peasants, by Philip, the Landgrave of 
 Hesse. Cocnlajus phiccs Tyndale's residence at 
 Cologne some time aifter the tumults. 
 
 C 2 
 
20 
 
 THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 COCHLiEUS SECOND ACCOUNT. 
 
 Mardochseo debuit Assuerus pro indicfo quod Is 
 de duobus Eunuchis Regi periclitaati per Hester 
 insinuauerat. B. ij. 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 Lutheran sect. So, then, even in his own estimation, 
 he was indebted to me, for that discovery of mine, 
 concerning the two Englishmen, plotting wickedly 
 against the peace of his kingdom, not less than 
 Ahasuerus was indebted to Mordecai, for the dis- 
 covery, which, through Esther, he unbosomed to 
 the King, when in jeopardy from his two eunuchs. 
 Anuals of the Eng, Bible : i. 6i. Ed. 1845. 
 
 3* But the fullest account of the secret impression given to us by 
 Cochlasus is in his history De Actis et Scriptis Martiiii Liitheri, printed at 
 St. Victor's Mount, a monastery near Mayence [Moguntium] 1549, wherein 
 under the year 1526^ occurs the following most important passage. 
 
 COCHL^US THIRD ACCOUNT, 
 
 Verum Duo Angli Apostatse, qui aliquandiu 
 fuerant Vuittenbergse,^ non solum quaerebant 
 subuertere Mercatos suos, qui eos occulte in exilic 
 fouebant et alebant : Verum etiam cunctos Angliae 
 populos, uolente nolente Rege, breui per nouum 
 Lutheri Testamentum,^ quod in Anglicanam 
 traduxerant linguam, Lutheranos fore sperabant. 
 Venerant iam Coloniam Agrippinam, ut Testa- 
 mentum sic traductum, per Typographos in multa 
 Milia multiplicatum, occulte sub alijs mercibus 
 deueherent inde in Angliam. Tanta enim eis erat 
 rei bene gerendse fiducia, ut primo agressu peterent 
 a Typographis, Sex Milia sub praelum dari. Illi 
 autem subuerentes, ne grauissimo afficerentur 
 damno, si quid aduersi accideret, tantum Tria 
 Milia* sub praelum miserunt : Quae si foeliciter 
 uenderentur, facile possent imprimi denuo. Iam 
 literas ad Sanctos, qui sunt in Anglis, praemiserat 
 Pomeranus,* et ad Regem quoque scripserat ipse 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 Two English apostates, who had been sometime 
 at Wittenberg,'* sought not only to subvert their own 
 merchant (who secretly favoured and supported 
 them in their exile,) but even hoped that, whether 
 the king would or not, all the people of England 
 would in a short tim? become Lutherans, by means 
 of the New Testament of Luther,* which they had 
 translated into the English language. They had 
 already come to Cologne, that thence they might 
 convey, secretly, under cover of other goods to 
 England, the Testament so translated, and multi- 
 plied by printers into many thousands. For they 
 had so much confidence of managing the business 
 well, that, at the first onset, they asked from the 
 printers six thousand to be given from the press. 
 But fearing lest they should meet with a very heavy 
 loss, if anything happened unfortunately, they only 
 put three thousand * to the press ; which, if they 
 should happily be sold, could with ease be printed 
 
 ' Cochlaeus, •writing 23 years after the event, 
 summarises events from their perspective at that 
 distance of time. He groups matters together 
 which occurred over a period of several years, as if 
 thejiwere but the stages in a vast preconceived plot, 
 so subtle and far-reaching as to require even dia- 
 bolic powers of invention and construction : instead 
 of, as in truth and fact, the uncombined efforts of 
 many men who strove to bring the system of which 
 he was the advocate, down to the dust. The date 
 1526 is no contradiction, for his main story is the 
 publication of the works of the Abbbt Rupcrtus, the 
 publishing of which at Cologne began in 1526 ; his 
 notice of the New Testament being but episodical. 
 
 * It is to be noted that Cochlaeus did not know 
 even the names of Tyndale and Roy, much less 
 their previous history. Therefore he supposes that 
 these two ' apostates ' had been first with Luther : 
 which is quite contrary to the fact. There is 
 nothing to show that Tyndale ever saw Luther. 
 
 He denied that he was confederate with him. 
 Both Reformers were apparently quite independ- 
 ently at work. 
 
 * How could Cochlaeus know this, when he never 
 saw a sheet of the impression ? Luther's German 
 version first appeared in Sept. 1522. 
 
 ■* This fixes the final number of the Quarto im- 
 pression : of which the present fragment is the 
 only known relic. 
 
 5 The title of this short letter (4 leaves) is Epistola 
 loaiuiis Btti^eiihagii J'ovterani ad Ang;los, Wit- 
 temberg. MDXXV. The nd Sanctos, S'c, quoted 
 by Cochlaeus, is found in the bending /oannes Bvp-en 
 hagms Pomeranus Pastor Ecclesia Witteitiber- 
 gensis Sa7ictis in Christo qui sunt in Anglia. 
 The essence of this letter is the following, taken 
 from the first English edition 1536. " And because 
 thou shalt not excuse thyself with the diuersyte ot 
 doctrynes, to be shorte, we teach but one artikle, 
 though we preach much daylye, and wryte much, 
 
THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 COCHL-EUS THIRD ACCOUNT. 
 
 I-utherus. ' Cunqiie nouum Testamentum mox 
 subsequuturum crc^derctur, tanta ex ea spe Ijctitia 
 Lutheranos inuasit, ac uanx fiducia: iiento inflauit, 
 ut gaudio distenti, ante diem ruperint secretum 
 uanis iactationibus. * 
 
 Exulabat co tempore Colonise loannes Cochlaeus, 
 Decanus Ecclesiae B. Virginis Francofordensis, 
 Qui per hospitem suum, Georgium Lauer, Canon- 
 icum ad Apostolos, Abbati Tuitiensi redditus fami- 
 liariter notus, ubi audisset opera quaedam Ruperti 
 Tuitiensis quondam Abbatis, mittenda esse Nurcn- 
 ber^m, ut a Lutheranis aederentur in publicum : 
 coepit sammo studio earn rem et dbsuadere et 
 impedire. Nam Lutherani in eum usque diem, 
 cum omnes Bibliothecas antiquas diligentissime 
 exquisiuissent ac discussissent, nullum ^prorsus 
 autorem ex cunctis tot saeculorum Doctoribus 
 Ecclesise inuenire p>otuerunt, qui Lutheri dogmata 
 comprobasset. Inuentum tandem illius Ruperti, 
 qui ante 400. annos uixerat, opusculum, cui titulus 
 erat, De Victoria uerbi Dei,* mox Nurenbergse a 
 Lutheranis euulgatum est. Quod suo titulo ita 
 mox placuit omnibus Lutheranis, ut nihil uideretur 
 eo autore desiderabilius. Interim ex Tritemio in- 
 telligebant, ilium complura scripsisse opuscula, sed 
 duo tantum paruula inuenerant : Quorum unum de 
 potentia, alterum de uoluntate Dei inscriptum erat. 
 In eorum xditione multa Lutherice apposuerat 
 Osiander, uxoratus presbyter et prsedicator, quibus 
 pium autorem impiae sectse patronum facere 
 tentabat. Et iam dudnm egcrant cum ipso Abbate 
 Tuitiensi : ut reliqua Ruperti Opera Nurenbergam 
 excudenda, transmitteret. Ille uero, ut k 
 Cochlaeo audiuit, quantum periculi foret ea in re, si 
 pium autorem traderet in manus impiorum, qui eura 
 non solum impijs praefationibus, et annotationibus 
 focde contaminaturi essent : Verum etiam integros 
 et sanos illius sensus deprauaturi, ex Catholico 
 antiquo facturi essent ha:reticum nouum, qui 
 uideretur cuncu Lutheri dogmata ante annos 400. 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 anew. Already Pomeranus had sent forward letters 
 to the saints who are in England,* and Luther him- 
 self had also written to the King.^ And when it was 
 believed that the New Testament was about to fol- 
 low by and bye, so great joy from that hope seized 
 the Lutherans, and inflated them with the wind of 
 vain confidence, that, filled with delight, they, with 
 theirvain boasting, broke the secret before its time.' 
 At that time John Cochlaeus, Deacon of the 
 Church of the Blessed Virgin at Frankfort, lived as 
 an exile, at Cologne, who, by his host George 
 Laver, Canon to the Apostles, [became] intimately 
 acquainted with the Abbot of Deutz, when he heard 
 that certain works of Rupert, formerly an Abbot of 
 that Abbey, were to be sent to Nuremberg, that they 
 might be published by the Lutherans, he began, 
 with the greatest eagerness, both to dissuade from, 
 and to hinder that business. For the Lutherans, 
 even to that day, after they had diligently searched 
 and turned over all the ancient Libraries, could 
 find no author of all the Doctors of the Church for 
 so many ages, who could have approved of the 
 doctrines of Luther. At last a little work of that 
 Rupert, who had lived 400 years before, was found. 
 The title of it was ' of the Victory of the "Word 
 of God.'* And it was forthwith published by the 
 Lutherans ; because, by its title, it so directly 
 pleased all, that nothing more desirable could be 
 seen than that author. In the meantime, they 
 understood from Trithemius, that he had written 
 many little pieces, but they had found only two ; of 
 which one was inscribed 'of the power,' the other 
 'of the providence' of God. In their edition, 
 Osiander, a married priest and preacher, applied 
 many things after the manner of Luther, by which 
 he attempted to make the pious author the patron 
 of that infamous sect ; and now they were treating 
 with the Abbot of Deutz himself, that he might send 
 the rest of the works of Rupert to Nuremberg, to be 
 printed. He, however, as soon as he heard from 
 Cochlajus what great danger there would be in that 
 matter, if he delivered the pious author into the 
 hands of the impious, who were about, not only to 
 
 and do many thynges for our aduersaryes, that 
 they also maye be saued. And this is the artykle, 
 namely : <[ Christ is cure ry^lituysnesse. Yox he 
 is become vnto vs of God the father, wysdome, 
 iustice, satisfaction, and redemption." 
 
 J On I September 1525. Cochlaeus puts the 
 printing at Cologne after this date : at all events his 
 discovery of it was so. • Note 5, /. 20. 
 
 • Cochlaeus, erroneously attributing a concerted 
 plan to all the Protestants, has great glee over his 
 
 discovery. His representation here is quite false. 
 It was a drunken printer, not the Lutherans, that 
 betrayed the secret. 
 
 * This edition was printed by Frederic Peypos, 
 and finished in March, 1525, in 8vo: therefore 
 Cochlaeus first made the acquaintance of the Abbot 
 of Deutz some time after that month. Cochlxus 
 edited another in 4to at Cologne : the date of his 
 dedication to the Bp. of Ely in which is iv. Idus 
 Apriles [xo April] 1529. 
 
22 
 
 THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 COCHLvliUS THIRD ACCOUNT. 
 
 approbasse. Abbas igitur ille, vir bonus, mutata 
 sententia uolumina iam in grandem fascem 
 compacta, uelut Nurenbergam transmittenda, apud 
 se retinuit. In quo sane fasce erant xiiii. libri in 
 Euangelium loannis,^ xii. libri in Apocalypsim^ 
 eiusdem, et xii. libri, de Diuinis Officijs.^ 
 
 Cum autem Monachi quieturi non essent, nisi 
 sederentur opera ilia : Cochlseus Petro Quentellio, 
 et Arnoldo Berckmanno sedulo suasit, ut communi- 
 bus inter se impensis et lucris ea opera susciperent 
 sedenda. Persuadere tamen non potuit, donee 
 tandem omnem suam operam adseditionem illam^ eis 
 pollicitus esset. Cunque seditio illa^ satis quasstuosa 
 eis existeret, non egebant amplius impulsore 
 Cochlaeo, sed ipsimet ultro plura illius opuscula 
 desiderabant : rogantes nunc Abbatem, nunc Coch- 
 Iseum, ut undecunque plura conquirerent. Abbas 
 itaque ex uetustis S. Benedicti Monasterijs per- 
 quisiuit xxxii. libros in xii. prophetas minores,' et 
 VII. libros in Canticum Canticorum.^ Cochlaeus vero 
 inuenit Colonise in Bibliotheca Maioris Ecclesise ix. 
 libros, De glorificatione Trinitatis, et processione 
 Spiritus sancti.^ Et in scholis Artiuin grande uolu- 
 men, quod de operibus Trinitatis ^ inscriptum, xlii. 
 complectebatur libros. E quibus in Genesim erant 
 IX. In Exodum iiii. &c.i Cunque sciret Rupertum 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 basely contaminate him by impious prefaces and an- 
 notations, but even to pervert his upright and sound 
 opinions, and of an ancient catholic were about to 
 make a new heretic, who, four hundred years before, 
 should seem to have approved of all the dogmas of 
 Luther. The Abbot, therefore, good man, having 
 changed his opinion, kept by himself volumes, al- 
 ready packed up into a large bundle, ready to be con- 
 veyed to Nuremberg. In this bundle there were four- 
 teen books on the Gospel of John,i twelve on the 
 Revelations,iand twelve books 'DeDivinis Officiis.'^ 
 When, however, the monks were not to be at 
 rest, unless they published these works, Cochlaeus 
 earnestly entreated Peter Quentel and Arnold 
 Byrckman that they should, on their joint expense 
 and profit, undertake their publication ; notwith- 
 standing, he could not persuade them, till at length 
 he had promised them, to that^ edition, all his own 
 labour. .When that became sufficiently profitable to 
 them,2they no more required Cochlseus to urge them, 
 but themselves, of their own accord, sought out more 
 of his small works, requesting now the Abbot, and 
 then Cochlseus, that they might search for more of 
 them in any quarter. The Abbot, therefore, thus 
 excited, diligently searched out of the old monas- 
 teries of St Benedict, thirty-two books on the twelve 
 minor Prophets, 1 and seven on the Songof Solomon.^ 
 Cochlseus found at Cologne, in the library of the 
 Greater Church, nine books concerning the Glorifi- 
 cation of the Trinity ,1 and the procession of the 
 Holy Spirit ; ^ and in the School of Arts a large 
 
 1 The Commentaries of Rupertus were first printed 
 in this order. 
 
 (i) Cologne. 13 Books on Matthew, with 9 
 Books on the Trinity, etc. Cochlseus' dedications 
 are dated 20 April and 3 July 1526. Col. dated 
 Pridie Idus Junias [12 June] 1526. 
 
 (2) Nuremberg. 14 Books on John (Froies^ani 
 edition). Col. dated July 1526. 
 
 (3) Cologne, The same {Catholic edition). Col. 
 dated simply 1526. 
 
 (4) Cologne. 12 Books on the Apocalypse. Col. 
 dated 1526. There is no printed dedication to 
 Henry VIII. as stated by Cochlseus : see/. 19. 
 
 (5) Cologne. 7 Books on the Song of Solomon. 
 Dedicated by Henry, Abbot of Deutz, to Tonstall, 
 Bishop of London, pridie Octobres [30 Septeni.] 
 1526. Col. dated 1527. 
 
 (6) Cologne. 32 Books on the Minor Prophets. 
 Pio Lectori dated 3 Sept. 1527. Col. Sept. 1527. 
 
 (7) Cologne. 42 Books on the works of the 
 Holy Trinity. Ded. to Wolscy, dated 3 Sept. 
 1528. Col. dated Sept. 1528. 
 
 From this it is clear that Cochlaeus is summar- 
 izing, in the text, the whole of these transactions 
 rather than narrating, in consecutive order, the 
 occurrences of the one year 1526. 
 
 ^ Special attention should be paid to the first 
 edition of this work : Cologne, 1526. It is printed 
 in the same style as the present Fragment, with 
 large black type for the headings and first lines of 
 each book, as is here done to each chapter ; but the 
 small type is not the same. It is, however, very 
 valuable as containing Cochlseus's dated dedication 
 to Herman, Archbishop of Cologne : ' Ex Colonia, 
 iij. Idus Marcias [13 March ]m.d.xxvi.' Up to that 
 date at least Cochlseus had not left that city. It was 
 also the success of this book that stirred Quentel 
 and Byrckman to seek out the other works of Ru- 
 pert of Deutz. The search detailed in the text must 
 therefore have occurred between 13 March and 20 
 April 1526, when Cochlseus wrote his dedication 
 dated Ex Moguntia, 12 Calendas Maias 1526, of 
 the 9 books 'on the Trinity' to Bp. Fisher: see 
 fol. 200. Cochlaeus was also at Mayence on 3 July 
 following, when he dedicated the 13 Books In 
 Mattkcennt, to the Archbp, of Capua : see /ol. 
 200 of the same book. It would therefore appear 
 that it was while assisting in the publication oi De 
 DivifiisOJjficiis—ihc earliest book of Rupert, printed 
 at Cologne — that Cochlseus obstructed the secret 
 printing of the English Testaments. Tyndale there- 
 fore certainly left Cologne before April 1526. 
 
THE PRINTING AT COLOGNE. 
 
 23 
 
 COCHL^US' THIRD ACCOUNT. 
 
 olim Leodij ad S. Laurentium fuisse Monachum, 
 scripstt Thcoderico Hezio, Canonico Leodiensi, 
 quem Roma: post obitum Adriani vi. (cuius ille k 
 Sccretis intimus extiterat) familiarius cognouerat, 
 obsecrans, iit is in eo Monasterio perquireret, 
 quidnam ex Ruperti libris extaret. Ille ergo rep- 
 pcrit maxime desideratum opus, xiii. libros in Mat- 
 thscum, de Gloria et honore filij hominis. Verum 
 transmittere Coloniam non potuit Archetypum, nisi 
 ipse cum duobus alljs Canonicis, pro restituendo 
 exemplari, cuncta bona sua in hypothecam Mona- 
 chis obligarent. 
 
 Ea igitur uolumina uniuersa Cochlaeus, Mogun- 
 tiam euocatus, secum detulit, atque ibi residens, ad 
 aeditionemprxparauit,Coloniamquesedendaremisit.^ 
 
 Hinc Typographis Coloniensibus notior ac fa- 
 miliarior factus, audiuit eos ali^uando inter pocula 
 fiducialiter iactitare, Velint Nolint Rex et Cardi- 
 nalis Angliae, totam Angliam breui fore Luther- 
 anam. Audiuit item, duos ibi latitare Anglos, 
 eruditos linguarumque peritos et disertos, quos 
 tamen uidere aut alloqui nunquam potuit. Vocatis 
 itaque in hospitium suum quibusdam Typographis, 
 postea quam mero incaluissent, unus eorum in 
 secretion coUoquio reuelauit illi arcanum, quo ad 
 Lutheri partes trahenda esset Anglia. Nempe 
 uersari sub praelo Tria Milia Exemplarium Noui 
 Testamenti Lutherani, in Anglicanamlinguam trans- 
 lati, ac processum esse iam usque ad literam Alpha- 
 beti K, in ordine Quatemionum. Impensas abunde 
 supp«'ti k Mercatoribus Anglicis, qui opus excusum 
 clam inuecturi per totam Angliam latenter dis- 
 pergere uellent, antequam Rex aut Cardinalis 
 rescire aut prohibere possit. 
 
 CochUeus intra se metu et admiratione uarie 
 afiectus, foris mirabundus moerorum dissimulabat. 
 Altero autem die, periculi magnitudinem tristis secum 
 expendens, cogitabat, quo nam pacto possit com- 
 mode pessimis illis conatibus obsistere. Abijt igitur 
 clam ad Hcrmannum Rinck, Patricium Colonien* 
 sem, ac Militem Auratum, qui et Cassari et Regi 
 Angliae familiaris erat et Consiliarius, eique rem 
 omnem, ut acceperat uini beneficio, indicauit. 
 Ille, ut certius omnia constarent, alium misit 
 exploratum in earn domum, ubi opus excudebatur 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 volume [which was inscribed 'of the works of the 
 Trinity ' and comprised forty-two books, of which 
 nine were on Genesis, four on Exodus, &c.] When, 
 however, he learnt that Rupert was formerly a Monk 
 of St Laurence at Liege, he wrote to Theodoric 
 Hezius, a Canon of Liege, whom he had known 
 intimately at Rome, after the death of Adrian VI. 
 [Sep. 1523], whose private secretary he had been, 
 entreating that he would search out in that monas- 
 tery whatever remained of the books of Rupert. 
 He found, therefore, a work greatly esteemed — 
 thirteen books on Matthew ' of the glory and 
 honour of the Son of Man.'^ He could not, however, 
 send the original to Cologne, except he, with two 
 other Canons, would pledge in security to the monks 
 all their goods, for the restoration of the copy ! 
 
 All these volumes, therefore, Cochlaeus, being 
 called away to Mentz, carried with him, and while 
 residing there prepared them for publication, and 
 sent them back, to be published at Cologne.^ 
 
 Having thus become more intimate and familiar 
 with the Cologne printers, he sometimes heard them 
 confidently boast, when in their cups, that whether 
 the King and Cardinal of England would or not, 
 all England would in short time be Lutheran. He 
 heard also that there were two Englishmen lurking 
 there, learned, skilful in languages, and fluent, 
 whom, however, he never could see or converse 
 with. Calling, therefore, certain printers into his 
 lodging, after they were heated with wine, one of 
 them, in more private discourse, discovered to him 
 the secret by which England was to be drawn over 
 to the side of Luther — namely, That three thousand 
 copies of the Lutheran New Testament, translated 
 into the English language, were in the press, and 
 already were advanced as far as the letter K, in ordine 
 quatemionum {i.e. in quarto]. That the expenses 
 were fully supplied by English merchants ; who were 
 secretly to convey the work when printed, and to 
 disperse it widely through all England, before the 
 King or Cardinal could discover or prohibit it. 
 
 Cochlaeus being inwardly affected by fear and 
 wonder, disguised hii grief, under the appearance 
 of admiration. But another day, considering with 
 himself the magnitude of the grievous danger, he 
 cast in mind by what method he might expeditiously 
 obstruct these very wicked attempts. He went, 
 therefore, secretly, to Herman Rinck, a patrician of 
 Cologne and Military Knight, familiar both with 
 the Emperor and the King of England, and a 
 Counsellor, and disclosed to him the whole affair, 
 as, by means of the wine, he had received it He, 
 
 ' t^Ote I, /. 23 
 
24 
 
 THE PRINTING AT WORMS. 
 
 COCHLiEUS* THIRD ACCOUNT. 
 
 iuxta indicium Cochlsei. Cumque ab illo accepisset 
 rem ita habere, et ingentem Papyri copiam ibi 
 existere : adijt Senatum, atque effecit, ut Typo- 
 graphis interdiceretur, ne ultra progrederentur in 
 eo opera. Duo Apostatse Angli, arreptis secum 
 Quaternionibus impressis, aufugerunt, nauigio per 
 Rhenum ascendentes Vuormacium, ubi plebs plane 
 furore Lutharizabat, ut ibi per alium Typographum 
 coeptum perficerant opus. Rincus uero et Cochlaeus 
 de his mox admonuarunt htaris suis Regam, Car- 
 dinalamque et Episcopum Roffensem,i ut quam 
 diligentissima praecauarent in omnibus AngHse 
 portubus, ne merx iila perniciosissima inueherentur. 
 (//. 132-134) 
 
 TRANSLATION, BY MR. C. ANDERSON. 
 
 that he might ascertain all things mora certainly, 
 sent another parson into the house where the 
 work was printing, according to the discovery of 
 Cochlseus ; and when he had understood from him 
 that the matter was even so, and that there was 
 great abundance of paper there, he went to the 
 Senate, and so brought it about that the printer 
 was interdicted from proceeding farther, in that 
 work. The two English apostates, snatching away 
 with them the quarto sheets printed, fled by ship, 
 going up the Rhine to Worms, where the people 
 were under the full rage of Lutheranism, that 
 there, by another printer, they might complete the 
 work begun. Rinck and Cochlseus, however, im- 
 mediately advised by their letters ^ the King, the 
 Cardinal, and the Bishop of Rochester [Fisher], that 
 they might, with the greatest diligence, take care 
 lest that most pernicious article of merchandise 
 should be conveyed into all the ports of England. 
 Annals of the Eng. Bible: i. 56-59. Ed. 1845. 
 
 We are much indebted, in a way he did not anticipate, to the rabid zeal 
 of Dobneck, for these circumstantial details of the secret printing of our first 
 New Testament, which otherwise we should not have known. 
 
 III. The Print mg at Worms. 
 
 \, Tyndale produced at Worms the Second edition in Octavo : to which 
 he added the following his secqnd Address. 
 
 To the Reder. 
 Eve diligence Reder (1 exhortethe) that thou come with a pure mynde/ and as the scripture sayth 
 with a syngle eyej vnto the wordes of health/ and of eternall lyfe : by the which (if we repent and 
 beleve them) we are borne a newe/ created a fressha/ and enioye the frutes off the bloud of Christ. 
 Whiche bloud cryeth not for vengeauncef as the bloud of Abel : but hath purchased lyfa/ love/ 
 faveour/ grace/' blessyngef and whatsoever is promysed in the scriptures/ to them that beleve and obeye God : 
 and stondeth bitwene vs and wrathe/ vengeaunce/ cursse/ and whatsoever the scripture thraateneth agaynst 
 the vnbelevers and disobedient/ which resist/ and consent not in their hartes to the lawe of god/ that it is 
 rightf wholy/ iuste/ and ought soo to be. 
 
 Marke the playne and manyfest places of the scriptures/ and in doutfull places/ se thou adde no interpret- 
 acion contrary to them : but (as Paul sayth) let all be conformable and agreynge to the fayth. 
 
 Note the difference of the few/ and of the gospell. The one axeth and requyreth/ the wother perdoneth 
 and forgevelh. "i'he one threateneth/ the wother promyseth all good thynges to them that sett their trust in 
 Christ only. The gospell signifieth gladde tydynges/ and is nothynge butt the promyses off good thynges. 
 All is not gospell that is written in the gospell boke : For if the lawe were a waye/ thou couldest not know 
 Mjhat the gospell meante. Even as thou couldest not se perdon/ favour/ and grace/ excepte the lawe rebuked 
 the/ and declared vnto the thy sinne/ mysdede/ and treaspase. 
 Repent and beleve the gospell as .sayth Christ in the fyrst of Marke. Applye all waye the lawe to thy 
 
 1 These letters by Rinck and Cochla:us have not 
 yet been recovered. Their being private or secret 
 communications may partly account for this. Their 
 
 loss simply, does not invalidate Cochlajus' state- 
 ments as regards facts that came within his own 
 personal knowledge. 
 

 V 
 
 ry/^' PRINTING AT WORMS. 2*^-^ "^^i? 
 
 dcdes/ whether thou finde histc in the bottom of thyne herte to the lawe warde ; and soo shall thou no 
 dout rcpentf and fcale in the silfe a certayne sorowe/ payne/ and grefe to thyne hcrtc ; because thou canst 
 nott withfuU Uiste do the dedes off the lawe. Applye the gospell/ that is to saye the promyses/ vnto the 
 deservynge off Christ/ and to the mercye of god and his trouthj and soo shall thou nott dcspcare ; butt 
 shall feale god as a kynde and a mercifull father. And his spretc shall dwell in the/ and shall be stronge 
 in thee : and the promises shalbe geven the at«he last (though not by and by| lest thou shuldest forgctt 
 thy sylfe and be negligent) and all threatenyngcs shalbe forgeven the for Christis blouddis sake/ to whom 
 commit thy silfe all togedderj with out respect/ other of thy good dedes or of thy badde. 
 
 Them that are learned Christenlyf I bcseche : for as moche as I am sure/ and my conscience bcareth me 
 recorde/ that of a pure entent/ singilly and faylhfully I have interpreted itt/ as farre forth as god gave me 
 the gyfte of knowledge/ and vnderstondynge : that the rudnes off the worke nowe at the fyrst tyme/ offcnde 
 them not : but that they consyder howe that I had no man to counterfet/ neither was holpe with englysshe 
 of eny that had interpreted the same/ or soche lyke thinge in the scripture beforetyme. Moreover/ even 
 very necessitie and combraunce (God is recorde) above strengthe/ which I will not rehearce/ lest we shuldc 
 seme to host oureselves/ caused that many thynges are lackynge/ whiche necessaryly are requyred. Count 
 it as a th\'nge not havynge his full shape/ but as it were borne afore hys tyme/ even as a thing begunne 
 rather then fynnesshed. In tyme to come (yf god have <ipoynted vs there vnto) we will give it his full 
 shape : and putt out yf ought be added superfluusly : and adde to yff ought be oversene thorowe negligence : 
 and will enfoarce to brynge to compendeousnes/ that which is nowe translated at the lengthe/ and to geve 
 lyght where it is requyred/ and to seke in certayne places more proper englysshe/ and with a table to 
 expounde the wordes which are nott commonly vsed/ and shewe howe the scripture vseth many wordes/ 
 which are wother wyse vnderstonde of the commen people : and to helpe with a declaracion where one 
 tonge taketh nott another. And will endever oureselves/ as it were to sethe it better/ and to make it more 
 apte for the weake stomakes : desyrynge them that are learned/ and able/ to remember their duetie/ and to 
 helpe there vnto : and to bestowe vnto the edyfyinge of Christis body (which is the congregacion of them 
 that beleve) those gyftes whych they have receaved of god for the same purpose. The grace that commeth 
 of Christ be with them that love hym. Praye for vs. 
 
 From Mr. F. Fry's Handtraced-lithographed edition {o/^ij-j copies only) . Bristol, 1863. 
 
 2. Mr. A. Bower in his Life of Luther^ 1813, under the year 1526 
 writes, ' The Imperial Diet assembled at Midsummer at the iity of Spires, 
 and the pressure of business was such as to require the attendance of the 
 elector John, during several months.' /. 243. 
 
 Spalatin was with the Elector at Spires. He noted in his diary 
 * Saturday the morrow of St. Lawrence,' i.e. 11 August, 1526,1 the follow- 
 ing Table Talk : 
 
 Sabbato postridie Laurentii.i Princeps nosier On the Saturday the morrow of St. Lawrence,* 
 
 Elector Saxoniae (Spirae in comitiis imperialibus) our prince the Elector of Saxo^ (then at the Diet 
 
 audito in aedibus Principis Hessorum sermone, of Spires) having heard a sermon at the residence 
 
 domum rediit. . . . Buschius [dixit nobis in of the Landgrave of Hesse, returned to his house, 
 
 coena] . . . Item Wormatiae' vi. mille . . . Buschius [told us at supper] . . . Also at 
 
 cxemplaria Novi Testamenti Anglice excusa. Id Worms* 6000 copies of the New Testament were 
 
 opcris versum esse ab Anglo, illic cum duobus aliis printed in English. This work was translated by aii 
 Britannis* divertente, ita vii. linguarum pcrito, ' EngUshman, who was staying there with two of his 
 
 Hebraicae, Graecae, Latinae, Itaiicae, Hispanicae, countrymen,' and who was so learned in seven lan- 
 
 Britannicac, Gallica:, ul, quamcunque loquatur, in guages, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, lulian, Spanish, 
 
 ea natum pules. Anglos enim, quamvis reluctante English, and French, that, whichever he spoke, 
 
 el invito Rege, tamen sic suspirare ad Evangelion, you would think his native tongue. The English 
 
 » St. Lawrence's day is August 10. The day » Worms is only some twenty miles from Sipires. 
 
 following was a Saturday in 1526 ; which proves the » One of these two assistants was Roy : who was 
 
 occurrence to be in that year. the other T Certainly neither Fysh nor Fnth. 
 
 D 
 
26 THE PRINTING AT WORMS. 
 
 ut affirment, sese empturos Novuig Testamentum, indeed have such a desire for the gospel, although 
 
 etiamsi centenis millibus seris sit redimendum. the king opposes and dislikes it, that they say they 
 
 Adhaec Wormatiae etiam Novum Testamentum would buy a New Testament, even if each copy 
 
 Gallice excussum esse.'— Extracts from the MS. cost 100,000 of money. In addition to this the 
 
 diary of George Spalatin, printed in Avioenitates New Testament was printed in French at Worms.! 
 Literarice hy Schelhorn : [Francofurti et Lipsise, 
 14 vols. 8vo] iv. 431-2. Ed. 1730. 
 
 3. We have now come to the question; whether the Quarto was 
 finished at Worms or elsewhere ? There is no express statement on the 
 subject ; but we possess circumstantial evidence that renders it morally 
 certain that it was completed in that city or in its neighbourhood. 
 
 Mr. F. Fry in his facsimile edition (1862) of the Octavo has demonstrated by similarity of type, water- 
 marks, etc., beyond all reasonable doubt, that it was printed by Peter Schoeffer of Worms. It is impossible 
 to apply a typographical test of like kind to the present fragment, for we do not possess in it even all that 
 was printed at Cologne, by eight or sixteen pages. The evidence is therefore external : arising principally 
 out of four points. 
 
 TJie above testimony of Cochlceus. 
 
 o Cochlaeus knew nothing of the Octavo. 
 
 j8 He indubitably fixes the impression begun at Cologne to be the Quarto, in ordine Quaternionum ; and 
 that it actually consisted of three thousand copies ; though it was first intended to print six thousand. 
 
 y He states — and it was quite within his power to ascertain it — that the two Englishmen fled, with the 
 printed sheets, to Worms, to complete the work there by another printer. 
 
 *•* Cochlasus, at all events, believed the Quarto to have been finished there. 
 
 Tyndale's residence at Worms : as chiefly fixed by the beginning of the Preface to the Parable of the 
 Wycked Mammon, the printing of which book was finished 8 May, 1528. See opposite page. 
 
 S Tyndale says of Roy, ' Neuerthelesse I suffered all thinges tyll yat was ended whych I coulde not 
 doo alone wythout one both to wryte and to helpe me to compare ye textes together. When that was 
 ended I toke my leue and bode him farewel for oure two lyues : ' Roy therefore left as soon as the two 
 editions had passed the press. 
 
 e Roy left Tyndale in the spring of 1526, going to Strasburg. 
 
 fTyndalq was at Worms about August 1526, by the testimony of Busche. 
 
 t] Tyndale was at Worms in May 1527 : and had an interview with Jerome there. * A yere after that 
 and now. xii. monethes before the pryntinge of this worke/ came one lerom a brother of Grenewich also/ 
 thorow Wormes to Argentine.' ... * Which lerom with all diligence I warned of Royes boldnesse.' 
 
 The fair inference is therefore that Tyndale did not leave Worms from his arrival there with Roy in 
 October 1525 until after May 1527. 
 
 Herman von Busche's Snpper-talk, on 11 August, 1526. 
 
 Q Busche's talk, combined with Cochla;us' accounts, fixes the impression of the Octavo, as well as the 
 Quarto, at three thousand copies : or Six thousand in all. For supposing signature {i.e. sheet) K had not actu- 
 ally been struck off when the printing at Cologne was stopped there ; nine signatures (A to I) would 
 have been printed ; 3000 copies of which, or 27,000 sheets altogether, Tyndale and Roy must have taken with 
 them up the Rhine. If Busche's six thousand refer to the Quarto alone, it follows that Tyndale duplicated 
 at Worms what had already been printed at Cologne : and that having deliberately reduced the impression 
 from its first intended number of six thousand to the three thousand actually begun there, that he had 
 changed his mind on arriving at Worms, and increased it again to six thousand : a purposeless waste of 
 power for which he can hardly be credited. On this assumption also the Octavo, which we know was 
 printed at Worms, has to be accounted for. 
 
 On the other hand, it is more reasonable to believe that Tyndale did not duplicate the beginning of the 
 Quarto, but 'completed' it, and that he printed a like impression of the Octavo. It is not necessary to 
 
 ! I have not been able to trace any French New Testament printed at Worms In 1525. One was printed 
 at Basle in that year. 
 
WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 27 
 
 suppose that Schocflcr finished the Quarto : John Erfibrdianus, another printer about that time in Worms, 
 may have done it, or it may have been finished in some neighbouring city. Indeed the short time in 
 which the two editions were produced favours the employment of more than one^rinter. 
 Notices of the Ne^u Testament in England in 1526. 
 
 t John Pykas of Colchester confessed on 7 March, 1528, ' that about a two ycres last past, he bought 
 in Colchester, of a Lumbard of London, a New Testament in English, and payd for it foure shillingcs.' 
 
 f John Tyball of Bumstede confessed on 28 April, 1528, ' abowght ii yeres agon he compayned with 
 syr Richard Fox curate of Bumstede, and shewid hym al his bookys that he had : that is to say, the New 
 Testamente in Englishe, the Gospel of Matthew and Mark in Englishe.' 
 
 X John Tyball and Thomas Hilles, between Whitsontide and Michaelmas 1526, bought each a Testa- 
 ment of Dr. Robert Barnes in the Augustine Friary, London. 
 
 *,* All these may have been either Quartos or Octavos. 
 
 ft- Tonstall, Bishop of London, denounces both impressions on 24 Oct., 1526. 
 
 " Archbishop Warham does the same, in almost identical terms, on 3 Nov., 1526. 
 
 ^ Robert Necton is actually selling the Quartos in January, 1527. 
 
 Henry VIIL's preface to his English translation of his answer to Luther, early in 1527, refers to both 
 editions. 
 
 T Dr. Robert Ridley's letter dated 24 Feb. [1527 in all probability] pointedly refers to the Quarto. 
 
 *,* All- these occurrences — and possibly they might be multiplied — will be narrated further on. The 
 point here to be marked is their very early date : all before Jerome called on Tyndale at Worms, in May 
 1527. 
 
 If then Tyndale remained in that city till after May 1527 ; and the Octavo, as we know it was, was 
 printed there ; and that both editions, simultaneous^ denounced on 24 Oct. 1526, came into England to- 
 gether early in that year, — a supposition that Busche's talk would favour, — it follows that Tyndale, by some 
 printer, finished the Quarto at or near Worms. 
 
 IV. William Roys connection with these editions, 
 
 \, In his Address above referred to, prefixed to The Parable of the Wycked 
 Mammon, ^c. ; the printing of which work was finished by Hans Luft at 
 Marburgh in Hesse on the 8 May 1528; Tyndale thus informs us of 
 . Roy's share in the production of the first two New Testaments. 
 
 H William Tyndale otherwj'se called Hychins to the reader 
 Jrace and peace with all maner spirituall fealinge and lyuinge worthy of the kyndnes of Chryst, be 
 with the reader and with all that thurst the vryl of God Amen. The cause why I set my name 
 before this lytle treatyse and haue not rather done it in the newe testament is that then I folowed 
 the counsell of Chryst which exhorteth men Math. vi. to doo theyr good deades secretly and to 
 be content with the conscience of weldoynge/ and that god seeth vs| and paciently to abyde the rewarde of 
 the last daye which Chrjrst hath purchased for vs and now wold fayne haue done lykewysej but am com- 
 pelled otherwyse to doo. • 
 
 Whyle I abode a faythful companyon ^ which now hath taken an other vyage vpon him/ to preach 
 Christ where (I suppose) he was neuer yet preached (God which put in his herte thyther to goo sende his 
 sprite with him| comforte him and bringe his purpose to good effecte) one William Roye a man somewhat 
 craftye when he cometh vnto new acquayntaunce and before he be thorow knowen and namely when all is 
 spent/ came vnto me and offered his helpe. As longe as he had no money/ somwhat I could ruele him : 
 but as sone as he had goten him money/ he became lyke hym sclfc agayne. Ncuerthelesse I suffered all 
 thinges tj-ll yat was ended whych I coulde not doo alone wythout one both to wryte and to helpe me to 
 
 » Can this be Thomas Hytton, the priest, whose hjTn selfe was preste, but sayed that he had by the 
 mart^Tdom on 24 February, 1529, Tyndale felt so space of. ix yeres ben beyonde the see, and there 
 deeply? More, in the Preface to his Confutacyon, lyued by the ioyners craft,' Bb. iii. 
 states th'>' V'vitnii would not be 'a knowen that 
 
 D 2 
 
28 WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 
 
 compare ye textes together. When that was ended I toke my leue and bode him farewel for oure two 
 lyues/ and as men saye a daye longer. After we were departed he went/ and gate him new frendes which 
 thinge to doo he passeth a^l that euer I yet knewe. And there when he had stored hym of money he gote 
 him to Argentine where he professeth wonderfull faculties and maketh host of no small thinges. A yere 
 after that and now. xii. monethes before the pryntinge of this worke/ came one lerom a brother of Grene- 
 wich also/ thorow wormes to Argentine/ sayenge that he entended to be Christes disciple an other whyle 
 and to kepe (as nye as God wolde gyue him grace) the profession of his baptim/ and to gett his lyuinge with 
 his handes/ and to lyue no lenger ydely and of the swete and laboure of those captyues whiche they had 
 taught/ not to byleue in Chryst : but in cuttshowes and russet coetes. Which lerom with all diligence I 
 warned of Royes boldnesse and exhorted hym to bewarre of hym and to walke quyetly and with all 
 pacience and longe sofFeringe acordinge as we haue Chryste and his apostles for an ensample/ which thinge 
 he also promysed me. Neuerthelesse when he was comen to Argentine William Roye (whos tonge is able 
 not only to make foles sterke madde/ but also to disceyue the wisest that is at the fyrst syght and ac- 
 quayntaunce) gate him to hym and set him a werke to make rymes| whyle he hym selfe translated a 
 dialoge out of laten^ in to Englysh/ in whose prologe he promyseth moare a greate deal than I fere me he 
 wyll euer paye. . . . 
 
 Some man wyl aske parauenture why I take ye laboure to make this worke, in as moch as they wyll 
 brunne it seynge they brunt the Gospel I answare, in brunninge the new testamente they dyd none 
 other thynge then that I loked for/ no more shall they do yf the[y] brunne me also, yf it be gods wyll it 
 shall so be. Neuerthelesse in translatynge the newe testamente I dyd my dutye/ and so do I now/ and 
 wjdl do as moch more as god hath ordened me to do. And as I offered that to all men to correcte it/ who 
 soeuer coulde, euen so doo I this. Who soeuer therfore readeth this/ compare it vnto the scrypture. 
 
 2, Rede 7ne and he nottwrothe is a miscellany of invective verse. It was 
 first known as The burying of the mass, from The Lamentacion at the 
 beginning, which has the refrain of 
 
 • Seynge that gone is the masse, 
 Nowe deceased alas alas.' 
 
 The Satire is evidently written upon information such as Jerome had 
 brought from England; say up to April 1527. Roy had a thousand copies 
 printed of it ; and another of his ' dialoge out of laten,' but not having 
 money to pay for paper or printing to the printer, John Schoet of Strasburg, 
 (which quite accords with Tyndale's account of his powers of gammoning,) 
 the most part of the two impressions were pawned to the Jews of Frank- 
 fort. Some copies however were sent into England ; and Wolsey wrote, 
 
 1 This translation is now apparently lost. The sayd the furst way all redy/ sendyng forth Tyndals 
 author of the original Latin work (which I have translacyon of the new testament in such wyse 
 also been unable to see) is unknown. Its title is handled as yt shuld haue bene the fountayn and 
 given by Park [Harl. Misc. ix. 3] as Inter patrem well spryng of all theyr hole heresies. For he had 
 Christianum et filiutn contumacem dialogunt corrupted and purposely changed in many placys 
 Christianum. That this work is also the same as the text/ with such wordys as he myght make yt 
 Roy's book against the seven sacraments is proved seme to the vnlerned people/ that the scrypture 
 by the following passage in his Snpplicacyon of affyrmed theyr heresyes it selfe. Then cam sone 
 Sonlys (in answer to Simon Fyshe's Supplication after out in prynt the dyaloge of frdte Roye and 
 /J^r /A^7y^^^rtr.O published before More had become frere Hyerome/ betwene ye father and ye sonne 
 Lord Chancellor (25 Oct. 1529). The reference is agaynst ye sacrament of ye aulter ; and the bias- 
 important as fixing the order in which the several phemouse boke entytled the beryeng of the masse, 
 works became known in England. I'he dates will [i.e. Rede me, &c.] Then cam forth after Tyndals 
 be seen to confirm Tyndale's statement ; that Roy's wykkyd boke of Mammona [dated 8 May 1528] 
 two works were printed at Strasburg in 1527. and after that his more wykkyd boke of obydyence' 
 'They parceyuyng thys/ haue therfore furste as- [dated 2 October 1528]. foL xix. b. 
 
WILLIAAf ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 29 
 
 on 5 August 1528, to Herman Rinck, to arrest Roy and Tyndale and to 
 buy up all their works. Rinck's reply will be found at//. 32-36. 
 
 3. The Invective mainly consists of A brcfe Dialoge betwene two prestes 
 servaunUsl named Watkyn and Jeff ray e [Jerome and Roy] in which ^e two 
 following passages refer to the first reception by the Hierarchy in 1526, of 
 the New Testament in England ; and in so pointed a manner as to con- 
 stitute very early and important evidence on that point : as we said, not 
 later than April 1527. 
 
 The first passage proves the private * consistory ' of the Bishops under 
 Wolsey, deliberating what was to be done with the Forbidden Book 
 
 ffi[at. C Art thou not a frayde to presume| 
 Agaynst the Cardinalls fume/ 
 
 Seynge they wilbe all on his syde? 
 Sif. C No I do rather gretly reioyce/ 
 That of a lytell wormes voyce/ 
 
 Goddis iudgement may be veryfyed. 
 Agaynst soche a wickeS brothellj 
 Vihich sasrth/ vnder his girthell/ 
 
 He holdeth Kynges and Princes. 
 To whom for a salutacionf 
 I will rehearce a brefe oracionf 
 dedicate vnto his statlynes. 
 KsL <[ Now gentell mate I the praye. 
 lUf . <[ Have at it then with out delaye/ 
 
 Contempnynge his maliciousnes. 
 
 O miserable monster/ most malicious/ 
 
 Father of perversite/ patrone of hell, 
 
 O terrible Tyrant/ to god and man odious, 
 
 Advocate of antichrist/ to Christ rebell. 
 
 To the I speake/ o cay tife Cardinall so cruell. 
 
 Causles chargynge by thy coursed commandment 
 
 Td brenne goddis worde the wholy testament. 
 
 Goddis worde/ grownd of all vertue and grace 
 The fructeous fode/ of oure faythfull trust. 
 Thou hast condempned in most carfull cace/ 
 Throwe furious foly/ falce and vniust. 
 O fearce Pharao/ folower of flesshly lust 
 What moved thy mynde by malyce to consent/ 
 To brenne goddis wordef the wholy testament. 
 
 The tenoure of thy tyranny passeth my brayne 
 In every point evidently to endyght. 
 Nero nor herod/ wer never so noyus certajme 
 All though of goddis lawis they had lytel lyght 
 Shame it is to speake howe agaynst ryght. 
 Thy hatfull hert hath caused to be brent/ 
 Goddis true worde/ the wholy testament. 
 
 O perverse 
 
 O perverse preste patriarke of pryde/ 
 Mortherer with out mercy most execrable. 
 O beastly brothell/ of baudry the bryde/ 
 Darlynge of the devill/ gretly detestable, 
 Alas/ what wretch wolde be so vengeable ? 
 At eny tyme to attempte soche impediment/ 
 To brenne goddis worde the wholy testament. 
 
 God of his goodenes/ grudged not to dyef 
 
 Man to delyver from deadly dampnacion. 
 
 Whose will is that we shulde knowe perfetly 
 
 What he here hath done for oure saluacion. 
 
 O cruell kayface [Caiaphas] / full of crafty conspi- 
 
 racion. 
 Howe durst thou geve then falce iudgement 
 To brenne goddis worde/ the wholy testament 
 
 Thy leawednes of lyvynge is loth to heare/ 
 Christis gospell to come vnto clcare light. 
 Howe be it surly it is so sprcd farre and neare 
 That forto let it thou haste lytell myght. 
 God hath opened our dercke dimed syght. 
 Truly to perceave thy tyrannous intent/ 
 To brenne goddis worde the wholy testament. 
 
 Agaynst thyne ambicion all people do crye/ 
 Pompously spendinge the sustenaunce of the pore 
 Thy haulte honoure hyly to magnify/ 
 Maketh/ theves/ traytours/ and many a whore 
 Wo worth the wretche of wickednes the dore 
 Forger of oure dayly damage and detriment 
 To brenne goddis worde the wholy testament 
 
 O paynted pastoure/ of Satan the Prophet/ 
 Ragynge courre/ wrapped in a wolues skynne 
 O butcherly bisshop/ to be a ruler vnmete/ 
 Maker of misery/ occasion of synne. 
 God graunt the grace nowe to begynne. 
 Of thy dampnable dedcs to be penitent/ 
 Brennynge goddis worde/ the wholy testament. 
 
30 WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 
 
 WxA. C No more for onre lordis passion/ 
 Thou raylest nowe of a fassion/ 
 
 With rebukis most despytous/ 
 No man shall these wordes advert/ 
 But will iudge theym of an hert/ 
 
 To precede/ most contumelious. 
 
 ^ff, Though popisshe curres here at do barcke/ 
 
 Yet thou mayst therin well marcke/ 
 
 The will of god accomplesshed. 
 
 The Cardinall thus to rewarde/ 
 
 Which with oute eny godly regarde/ 
 
 Desdayneth the trothe to be pubblisshed. 
 Therfore as he did the trueth condempne/ 
 So god wil hym and all his contempne/ 
 
 With the swearde of punnysshment. 
 Wi.lA, C[ They had fyrst some provocacion ? 
 ^tl, <[ None wother then the translacion/ 
 
 Of the englysshe newe testament. 
 Wherin the authors with mecknes/ 
 Vtterly avoydynge conviciousnes/ 
 
 Demeaned them so discretly. 
 That with all their invencion/ 
 They coulde fynde no reprehencion/ 
 
 Resistynge goddis worde wilfully. 
 Mat, C Howe had the gospell fyrst entraunce/ 
 Into Englonde so farre of distaunce/ 
 
 Where to rede hym/ no man maye ? 
 ^tl. <[ Goode christen men with pure affecte/ 
 Of god singulerly therto electe/ 
 
 With cost did hym thether conveye. 
 Which/ even as Christ was betrayed/ 
 So with hym the clargy played/ 
 
 Thorowe trayterous prodicion. 
 8Hat <[ Who played the parte of ludas ? 
 ^tf. <[ The wholy bisshop of Saynct Asse/ 
 
 A poste of Satans iurisdiccion. 
 Whom they call Doctour standisshe/ 
 Wone that is nether fiesshe nor fisshe/ 
 
 At all tymes a commen Iyer. 
 He is a bablynge Questionist/ 
 And a mervelous grett' sophist/ 
 
 Som tyme a lowsy graye fryer. 
 Of stommake he is fearce and bolde/ 
 In braulynge wordes a very scolde/ 
 
 Menglynge vennem, with sugre. 
 He despyseth the trueth of god/ 
 Takynge parte rather with falcehod/ 
 
 Forto obtayne worldly lucre. 
 Tn carde playinge he is a goode greke/ 
 And can skyll of post and glyeke/ 
 
 Also a payre of dyce to troUe. 
 For whordom and fornicacionsj 
 He maketh many visitacions/ 
 
 His Dioces to pill and polle. 
 
 Though he 
 
 Though he be a stowte divyne/ 
 Yett a prest to kepe a concubyne/ 
 
 He there admitteth wittyngly. 
 So they paye their yearly tributis 
 Vnto his dyvlisshe substituti^/ 
 
 Official!/ or commissary. 
 To rehearce all his lyvynge/ 
 God geve it yvell chevynge/ 
 
 Or els some amendment shortly. 
 Wat. <[ Howe did he the gospell betraye ? 
 Ifef. <[ As sone as ever he hearde saye/ 
 
 That the gospell cam to Englonde. 
 Immediatly he did hym trappe/ 
 And to the man in the red cappe/ 
 
 He brought hym with stronge hondc. 
 Before whose prowde consistory/ 
 Bryngynge in fake testimony/ 
 
 The gospell he did theare accuse. 
 Mat. C He did mo persones represent/ 
 
 Then ludas the traytour malivolent/ 
 
 Whiche betrayed Christ to the lues, 
 ^ff. <[ Thou mayst se of theym in one manne/ 
 Herod/ Pilat/ Cayphas/ and Anne [Ananias]. 
 
 With their propertis severall. 
 And in another manifestly/ 
 ludas full of conspiracy/ ■ 
 
 With the sectes pharisaicall. 
 They are a grett deale more mutable/ 
 Then Proteus of forme so variable/ 
 
 Which coulde hym silfe so disgyse. 
 They canne represent apes/ and beares/- 
 Lyons/ and asses with longe eares/ 
 
 Even as they list to divyse. 
 But nowe of standisshe accusacion/ 
 Brefly to make declaracion/ 
 
 Thus to the Cardinall he spake. 
 Pleaseth youre honourable grace/ 
 Here is chaunsed a pitious cace/ 
 
 And to the churche a grett lacke. 
 The gospell in oure Englisshe tongej 
 Of laye men to be red and songe/ 
 
 Is nowe bidder come to remayne. 
 Which many heretykes shall make/ 
 Except youre grace some waye take/ 
 
 By youre authorite hym to restrayne. 
 For truly it is no handlynge/ 
 For laye peoples vnderstondynge/ 
 
 With the gospell to be busy. 
 Which many wone interprisynge/ 
 Into heresy it did bryngc/ 
 
 Disdaynynge the churche vnrcvcrently. 
 Mat. C Tosshe/ these saynges are sophisticall/ 
 I wolde heare the sence misticall/ 
 
 Of these wordes right interpreted. 
 
WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 3^.^ 
 
 |p{. a In fayth with out simulacion/ 
 This is the right significacion/ 
 
 Of his mcanyngc to be expressed. 
 O Cardiiiall so glorious/ 
 Thou arte dpitayne over vs/ 
 
 Antichristis chefe member. 
 Of all cure detestacions/ 
 And sinfuU prevaricacionsf 
 
 Thou alone/ arte the defender. 
 Wherfore healpe nowe or els never/ 
 For we are vadonc for ever/ 
 
 Yf the gospell abroade be spred. 
 For then with in a whyle after/ 
 Every plowe manne and carter/ 
 
 Shall se what alyfe we have led. 
 Howe we have this five hondred yeres/ 
 Roffled theym amonge the bryres/ 
 
 Of desperate infidelite. 
 And howe we have the worlde brought/ 
 Vnto beggery worsse then nought/ 
 
 Through oure chargeable vanite. 
 Which knowen/ we shalbe abhorred/ 
 Reddi to be knocked in the forhed/ 
 
 Oure welth taken awaye clene. 
 Therfore Tyrant playe nowe thy parte/ 
 Seynge with the devill thou arte/ 
 
 Gretter then eny manne hath bene. 
 Put the gospel a waye quyght/ 
 That he come not to laye mens sightf 
 
 Forto knowe goddis commaundements. 
 And then we that are the remmenaunt/ 
 
 Shall diligently 
 
 Shall diligently be attendaunt/ 
 
 To blynde theym with oure commentis. 
 If they have once inhibicion/ 
 In no maner of condicion/ 
 
 To rede goddis wordc and his lawes. 
 For vs doctours of theology/ 
 It shalbe but a smale mastery/ 
 
 To make theym foles and dawes. 
 Loke what thou dost by tyranny/ 
 We will alowe it by sophistry/ 
 
 Agaynst these worldly villaynes. 
 WviX. C Nowe truly this is the meanynge/ 
 Howe soever be the speakynge/ 
 
 Of these spretuall lordaynes. 
 H But what sayde the Cardinall here at ? 
 Htf. <[ He spake the wordes of Pilat/ 
 
 Sayinge/ I fynde no fault therin. 
 Howe be it| the bisshops assembled/ 
 Amonge theym he examened 
 
 What was best to determyn ? 
 Then answered bisshop Cayphas/ ffoc est. 
 That a grett parte better it was/ London 
 
 The gospell to be condemned. Episcopus. 
 Lest their vices manyfolde/ 
 Shulde be knowen of yonge and olde/ 
 
 Their estate to be contempned. 
 The Cardinall then incontinent/ 
 Agaynst the gospell gave iudgeraent/ 
 
 Sayinge/ to brenne he deserved. 
 Wherto all the bisshoppis cryed/ 
 Answerynge/ it cannot be denyed/ 
 
 He is worthy so to be serred. j. 
 
 The second passage of The dialogue indelibly fixes the first burning of 
 the printed New Testament — not, as has been often thought, on 11 
 February 1526, on the occasion of the humiliation of Dr. Barnes, when 
 Bishop Fisher preached a sermon against the Lutherans within, and 
 Lutheran books were burnt * before the rode of Northern ' without St. 
 Paul's church : but in connection with Bishop Ton stall's sermon at Paul's 
 Cross, after the * conspiracy ' of Wolsey and the bishops. The important 
 allusion to The prologge, see/. 10 of the lithographed text, will be referred 
 to again. 
 
 JSoL C Holde thy peace and be content/ 
 The gospell by a commaundment/ 
 
 To do it will strayghtly theym compelL 
 Hd C They sett nott by the gospell a flye/ 
 Diddest thou nott heare whatt villany/ 
 Th[c]y did vnto the gospell ? 
 Wat. a Why/ did they agaynst hym conspyrc? 
 ||(f. ([ By my trothe they sett hym a fyrc/ 
 Openly in London cite. 
 
 Wat. c Who 
 
 ®tat. C ^Vho caused it so to be done? 
 
 gtt C I" sothe the Bisshoppe of London/ 
 With the Cardinallis authorite : 
 Which at Paulis crosse cmestly/ 
 Denounced it to be heresy/ 
 That the gospell shuld come.to lyght. 
 Callynge them heretikes execrable/ 
 Whiche caused the gospell venerable/ 
 To come vnto laye mens syght. 
 
32 WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 
 
 .M- 
 
 He declared there in his furiousnes/ 
 That he fownde erroures more and les/ 
 
 Above thre thousande in the translacion. 
 Howe be it when all cam to pas/ 
 I dare saye vnable he was/ 
 
 Of one erroure to make probacion. 
 Alas he sayde/ masters and frendes/ 
 Consyder well nowe in youre myndes/ 
 
 These heretikis diligently. 
 They saye that commen women/ 
 Shall assone come vnto heven/ 
 
 As those that lyve perfectly. 
 . <[ And was that their very sayinge ? 
 <[ After this wyse with oute faynynge/ 
 
 In a certayne prologe they wryte. 
 
 That a 
 
 That a whoare or an open synner/ 
 By meanes of Christ oure redemer/ 
 
 Whome god to repent doth incyte. 
 Shall soner come to saluacion/ 
 By meritis of Christis passion/ 
 
 Then an outwarde holy lyver. 
 JEtst. C They did there none wother thinge shewe/ 
 Then is rehearced in mathewe/ 
 
 In the one and twenty chapter. 
 ^ti. C For all that/ he sayde in his sermone/ 
 Rather then the gospell shdlde be comone/ 
 
 Bryngynge people into erroure 
 He wolde gladly soffre marterdome/ 
 To vpholde the devyls fredome/ 
 
 Of whom he is a confessoure, 
 
 C. ij & iij. 
 
 \, We get further information of Roy's connection with the first New 
 Testaments from the following letter of Herman Rinck, written to Wolsey 
 the 4th October 1528. The original MS. is imperfect at the edges r 
 
 on 
 
 hence the gaps in the following Latin. 
 
 HERMANN RINCK TO WOLSEY. 
 
 Sanctissime ac gratiosissime pater in Christo 
 ac domine .... clementissime, post humilis 
 benevolique servitii me[i] titudinem ad qusevis 
 
 vestrae sanctitati beneplacita, obsequen .... 
 grata obnixa ac sincera mente, vestram gratiam, ac 
 paternita[tem] scire exopto, quatenus etc. 
 
 Literae gratiae vestrae ad me datae per dominum 
 lohannem West, sacerdotem ordinis divi Fran- 
 cis[ci] de Observantia, scriptae quinto Augusti, le 
 apud^ Hampton Korte, in vestrae gratiae pallat[io] 
 mihi a Colonia ad Francofordiam in biduo celeri 
 nuncio sunt missae et perlatae, 21 Septembris, de 
 commercandis undique libris Anglica lingua ex- 
 cussis, et de capiendis Roy et Huckynck. At illi et 
 eorum complices a paschate* et proximis quad- 
 ragesimae nundinis Francofordiae non sunt visi, 
 neque scitur quo abicrunt, superstites ne sint an 
 vita functi.3 Neque lohannes Schott, civis Argen- 
 tinensis et eorum chalcographus,* se scire dixit quo 
 evanuissent.' Sunt autem ipsorum libri referti 
 hseresi, ac contra vestrae gratiae magnificentiam et 
 honoremjpleni invidia et infamia, qui et pessime et 
 praeter Christianam charitatem, regiam serenitatem, 
 benignissimum dominum meum et generosissimum 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 Most holy and most gracious father in Christ, 
 most merciful lord — after offering my humble and 
 willing service to your Holiness's pleasure, with 
 grateful and sincere mind, I wish to inform your 
 grace and fatherhood as follows. 
 
 Your grace's letters dated Aug. 5, at your palace 
 of Hampton Court, were given to me by John 
 West priest of the order of St. Francis de Obser- 
 vantia, at Cologne on Sept. 21, having been sent on 
 from Frankfort by a swift messenger in two days, 
 which letters ordered me to buy up everywhere 
 books printed in English, and to arrest Roy and 
 Hutchins. They and their accomplices have not 
 been seen at Frankfort since Easter^ and the market 
 after Lent, and it is not known whither they have 
 gone, and whether they are alive or dead.^ John 
 Schott, citizen of Strasburg, their engraver,* says 
 he does not know whither they^ have vanished. 
 Their books indeed are stuffed Miith heresy, full 
 of envy and slander against your grace's glory and 
 honour,^ and what is worst and contrary to Christ- 
 ian charity, make the king's serenity, my most kind 
 and noble lord and illustrious prince, infamous to 
 all worshippers of Christy However, I, as a most 
 
 ^ 1 for 'apud le Hampton Courte.' 
 
 • Easter Day in 1528 fell on 12 April. There- 
 fore Tyndale, or Roy, or both of them were at 
 Frankfort fair about April 1528. 
 
 ' Tyndale at least had gone on to Marburg, and 
 was there when Rinck was writing this letter. 
 ♦ i.e. printer. 
 
 " Schott possibly never knew Tyndale. 
 8 Rinck is referring to Roy's Satire. 
 
I VILLI AM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 33 
 
 HERMANN RINCK TO WOLSEY. 
 
 et illustrissimum principcm, omnibus christicolis in- 
 famcm reddunt. Ego tamen tanquam humillimus 
 fidelissimus et diligentissimus minister, tribus heb- 
 domadibus^ ante vestrae gnitix acccptas literas, 
 audivi et percepi illos ipsos libros ludeis Franco- 
 fordiae certo acre vel nummo oppigneratos esse, et 
 turn quam primum pro ipsis consequendis ex me- 
 ipso elaborabam, et sollicitus eram. Chalcographus 
 autem lohannes Schott prater faenus ludaeis dan- 
 dum et sui laboris mercedem et papiri sumptum 
 exigebat, et illi se eos venditurum aicbat qui plus 
 pecuniae offerret Cum itaque gratia vestra mihi 
 literas et mandata ex Anglia mittebat, illico neque 
 corpora neque pecuniae neque diligentiae parcebam 
 (ut merito debebam) sed privilegiis a Caesarea 
 Maiestatc olim acceptis utebar. Consules Franco- 
 fordienses et aliquot senatores ac iudices mihi donis 
 et muneribus conciliabam, quo libros illos omnes, 
 omni ex loco corraderera et coacervarem quod et 
 tribus aut quatuor locis factum est, ita quod spero, 
 quotquot talium librorum excussi sunt eos apud me 
 contineri, praeter duos quos vestrae gratiae commis- 
 sarius praenominatus lohannes West, a me exoptavit 
 et accepit, in maiorem et frugem et utilitatem regiae 
 gratiae et vestrae. Libros vero duos ipsi dedi, cum 
 eum turn fidclem tum diligentem vestrae gratiae 
 comperirem, et cui saepe inserviisset, et adhuc pro- 
 cul dubio inserviet. Debebant autem libri ipsi, 
 (nisi pcrcepissem et intervenissem) in thecas chart- 
 aceas compingi et occultari, et decem inclusas 
 sarcinis, lino obductis, callide et sine omni sus- 
 picione, per mare, tempore transmitti in Schotiam 
 et Angliam, ut ibidem ac sola et nuda papirus 
 venderentur, sed admodum paucos aut nullos 
 transvectos vel venditos puto. Caeterum et . . . 
 . . et procuravi coram consulibus Franckfordien- 
 ^bus iuramentis acceptis [et] praestitis, quod denuo 
 non excudentur typis aeneis, tum chalcographus 
 ipse vigore sui iuramenti exemplar scriptum et 
 prindpale ad me mittere obstrictus est. Insuper et 
 summa opera curabo in praedictis Roy et Huckyng 
 caeterisque regiae gratix et vestrae aemulis et re- 
 bellionibus, tum capiendis, tum ubi locorum agant, 
 perdpiendo, ut dominus lohannes West et filius 
 meus Hermannus Rynck, et lohannes Geilkyrche, 
 meus minister ore et praescntes testabuntur, quibus 
 vestra gratia non secus ac mihi ip^ fidem adhibeat 
 et praebeat; ipsi enim rem omnem et celabunt et 
 obticebunt, quamcumque vestra gratia ipsis com- 
 miserit, quos praecipue et praesentes ad regiam et 
 
 TRANSLATION, 
 
 humble, faithful and diligent servant, three weeks ' 
 before receiving your grace's letters, heard and 
 perceived that those very books had been pawned to 
 the Jews at Frankfort for a certain sum of money, 
 and then, on my own account, I laboured and en- 
 deavoured to get hold of them as soon as possible. 
 The engraver, John Schott, demanded beside the 
 interest for the Jews, the pay for his labour and 
 the expense of the paper, and said that he should 
 sell them to whoever would give the most money. 
 So, as your grace had sent me letters and commis- 
 sions from England, I immediately spared neither 
 my person, my money nor my trouble, (as I was 
 bound to do,) but made use of the privileges pre- 
 viously received from his Imperial Majesty. I 
 gained over the consuls of Frankfort and some 
 senators and judges, by gifts and presents, so that 
 I might scrape and heap together all those books 
 from every place ; which was done in three or four 
 places, so that I hope that all of those books yet 
 printed are in my possession, except two which 
 your grace's commissary the above named John 
 West asked for and received from me for the 
 greater profit and advantage of th» king's grace and 
 yours. Two books indeed, I gave him, as I found 
 him faithful and diligent for yoiu- grace, whom he 
 has often served and doubtless will in future serve. 
 Unless I had discovered it, and interfered, the books 
 would have been enclosed and hidden in paper 
 covers, packed in ten bundles covered with Unen 
 and conveyed in time by sea,* craftily and without 
 exciting any suspicion to Scotland and J^ngland, 
 where they would have been sold only as blank 
 paper ; but I think that very few, or none, have 
 been exported or sold. Besides 1 have . . . and 
 procured from the consuls of Frankfort a prohibi- 
 tion strengthened by oaths, of their further printing 
 from copper types, and the engraver himself is 
 bound by his oath to send me the original written 
 copy. In addition to this, I will endeavour in every 
 way to arrest Roy and Hutchins and other op- 
 ponents and rebels of the king's grace and yours, 
 and to find out where they Uve, as John West, and 
 my son Hermann Rynck and John Geilkyrche my 
 servant will assure you by word of mouth, to whom 
 your grace may give credence just as to myself, for 
 they will keep silence concerning and conceal what- 
 ever orders your grace gives them. I send them 
 now to the king's grace and yours, chiefly on ac- 
 count of the favourable issue of the business, and 
 
 1 i.e. about i Sept. 1528. 
 
 ■ By whom ? Probably English merchants, who 
 
 would have repaid the Jews' loan and reimbursed 
 
 Schott. 
 
 E 
 
34 WILLIAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 
 
 HERMANN RINCK TO \IIOLSEy. 
 
 vestram gratiam transmitto, ob commodiorem ipsius 
 negotii exitum, et ut rem gratam regiee et vestrse 
 gratiae exhibeam et faciam. Totaque vita mea 
 cum omnibus et prognatis et posteris hac in re 
 sollicitus et sedulus ero provisor. Neque mei laboris, 
 conatus et pecuniae a me expensae elapsis multis 
 annis neque per me neque meos posteros expetam 
 et efflagitabo, sed singula regiae gratiae et vestrae 
 promissis committo, prorsusque confido permagnas 
 vestrae providentiae, iuxta operam meam quam 
 collocavi in electione Caesareae Majestatis, et regiae 
 gratiae, et secundum vestra pollicita, si sponsalia 
 inter Caesarem Carolum et regiae gratiae filiam pro- 
 gressum et excitum sortita fuissent, turn in ipsis 
 omnem meam impendissem diligentiam et indus- 
 triam, turn per me, tum meos et cognates et affines 
 omnibus modis expedivissem. Nunc vero sponsa- 
 liciis non executis vel progredientibus, spero alio 
 beneficio regia gratia me condonabit, ut suae gratiae 
 literae apertius indicabunt. 
 
 Praeterea, anno dommi 1502, mensis Augusti, 
 maximum privilegium a Caesarea Maiestate regiae 
 gratiae in Anglia et intercursum negotiatorum 
 a Caesarea Maiestate concessum largissima 
 libertate, impetrare iuvi et opitulatus sum, 
 per Caesaris et regiae gratiae commissarios in 
 usum et commodum omnium in Anglia regiae 
 gratiae subditorum, ut manifestius est eo in 
 loco, ubi episcopus Cantuargensis Doctor Domi- 
 nus Warren, antea commissarius cum Carolo de 
 Sowmerschett, piae memoriae, camerario regis 
 Angliae, Becem millia librarum sterlingarum contulit 
 regiae gratiae, dum ego, nomine Caesareae Majes- 
 tatis, huius regis patri praesens obtuli privilegium, 
 praesentibus suis optimatibus, et consiliariis, in le 
 Westmunster, tum religiosis, tum secularibus, 
 simul et decern mil[l]ia librarum sterlingarum data 
 accepi mittenda Csesari Maximiliano, quae eidem 
 Caesari et contuli et meo secrete sigillo libera com- 
 probavi et soluta esse testatus sum, proprioque et 
 nomine et cognomine in maiorem fidem meipsum 
 subscripsi, ac ambasiatorem vel legatum Caesareae 
 Maiestatis decuit, quod Caesarea Maiestas eiusque 
 successores illud ratum et sancitum habere deber- 
 ent, ipsumque a Caesare Carolo nunc et renovatum 
 et confirmatum aestimo, vel saltern augendum regiae 
 gratiae facile sitpassurus, et consensum concessurus, 
 ad quod consequendum, humile et exiguum ob- 
 sequium (si Anglia vestra opus habuerit, et Regia 
 gratia mihi mandaverit) paratissimum et me sine 
 mora advent . . . iure debeo, ac sponte volo, 
 aut vellem, ad Caesaream Maiesta[tera in] His- 
 paniam aut alibi> quorsum sua Regia gratia tunc 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 that I may show and do a thing pleasing to the 
 king's grace and yours. During the whole of my 
 life, I, with all my children and posterity, will care- 
 fully and sedulously attend to this matter, and will 
 not ask or demand, either personally or by my 
 descendants, any return for the labour, trouble and 
 money which I have spent for many years, but I 
 commit everything to the promises of the king's 
 grace and yours, trusting completely in your great 
 prudence, in consideration of the assistance which I 
 gave the king's grace at the election of his Imperial 
 Majesty, and according to your promises, if the 
 espousals between the Emperor Charles and the 
 king's grace's daughter had been proceeded with 
 and taken effect ; in which I used all my diligence 
 and industry, and employed all my relations and 
 connections. Now that the espousals have not 
 been executed and are not still in progress, I hope 
 that the king's grace will favour me with some other 
 kindness, as his grace's letters openly declare. 
 
 Besides, in the year 1302, in the month of August, 
 I aided and assisted in obtaining a great privilege 
 from the Emperor's Majesty, for the king's grace 
 in England, and the mercantile intercourse which 
 was granted with the most ample liberty by the 
 Imperial Majesty, through his and the king's 
 grace's commissioners, to the profit and advan- 
 tage of all the king's grace's subjects in Eng- 
 land ; as was more apparent at the time when the 
 bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Warham, formerly com- 
 missioner with Charles Somerset, of pious memory, 
 chamberlain of the king of England, offered in the 
 name of the king's grace, ;^io,ooo sterling ; while I, 
 in the name of the Emperor's Majesty, offered in 
 person the privilege to the father of the present 
 king, in the presence of his peers and counsellors 
 spiritual and secular, at Westminster, and received 
 the ;^io,ooo sterling to be sent to the Emperor Maxi- 
 milian, to whom I gave the said sum and attested 
 the delivery with my own private seal, signing my 
 own name and surname for greater security, as was 
 fit for an ambassador or legate of the Emperor's 
 Majesty ; and the Emperor's Majesty and his suc- 
 cessors ought to keep it valid and secure. I believe 
 that it has now been renewed and confirmed by the 
 Emperor Charles, or at least he would easily allow 
 it to be increased, and would grant his consent to 
 the king's grace ; in obtaining which I offer my 
 humble and small but ready service, (if England 
 has need and the king's grace orders,) and would go 
 without delay, (as I ought of right, and as I freely 
 wish and would wish to do,) to the Emperor's 
 Majesty in Spain or elsewhere, wherever the 
 
WILUAM ROY'S CONNECTION WITH THESE EDITIONS. 35 
 
 HERMANN RINCK TO WOLSEY. 
 
 iusserit profici . . . obsequentissimus turn 
 minister, turn ambnsiator sive legatu[s . . . 
 eisdcm privilegiis, iuxta quae et me habeo erga 
 regiam gratiam. In quibu[s] . . . privilegiis, 
 meo tudicio, continetur quod per totum Komanum 
 imperium p[r3Ecipue] in Germania obstrepentes 
 Angliac regi neque eiusdem traditores dcbcant con- 
 servari aut perpeti, multo minus haeretici.scditionem 
 Christianorum excitantes totius Anglici regni. Qua 
 propter eiusde[m] privilegii vigore et lege, Emundus 
 de Lapoell qui se ducem Suffolx[iae] nominabat, per 
 regem Philippum desiderabatur ut dignum erat in 
 Angliam adduci. Deinde et Wilhelmus Roy, Wil- 
 helmus T>'ntaell, Hieronim[us] Barlo, Alexander 
 Barckley et eorum adhaerentes,etc., olim observantes, 
 ordinis Divi Francisci, nunc vero apostatae. Nec- 
 non et Georgius Constans, et alii complures, regix 
 gratise obstrepentes, capi plecti et oflerri deb?bant, 
 ob haeresim lutheranam, turn delendam, turn eradi- 
 candam et ad fidem Christianam confirmandam, ut 
 plurimum nunc opus est in Anglias regno. Hanc 
 meam opinionem multo clarius, prjedlctum privi- 
 legium ostendet, cujus exemplar nullum mihi 
 retinui, sed gratiae vestrae excellentissima prudentia 
 haec multo prudentius perpendere et agere potest, 
 quam ipse scriptis exprimere valeo. Cum itaque 
 tale mandatum hue ad me missum fuerit, deo 
 Optimo maximo in honorem ac vestrae gratia: toiius- 
 que regni Anglici turn Christiane, turn diligen- 
 tissime, omnibus viribus et sedulo ipsum exequar. 
 Hoc itaque modo', regiae gratiae et vestrae omnibus- 
 que turn religiosis turn saecularibus subditis 
 Anglici regni in salutem et commodum quantum 
 potui divino opitulamine et iuxta vestrae gratiae 
 mandatum, hsereticorum libros inquisiAd ncque 
 labori neque pecuniae parcens, sed Francofordiam 
 ad nundinas abii, tum papali tum Cajsareo man- 
 dato cum ipsis egi, praesertim usus sum iisdem 
 privilegiis vel mandatis quae a divo Maximiliano 
 Caesare, et nunc modemo imperatore Carolo conse- 
 cutus sum, olim calcographum ipsum lohannem 
 Schott coram consulibus iudicibus et senatoribus 
 Francofordiensibus iureiurando compuli, ut fateretur 
 quot libros tales excusserit in lingua Anglica, 
 Germanica, Gallica, aut alio ideomate, tunc ad 
 sacramentum dictum fatebatur quod solum mille 
 sex quatemionum et adhuc miHc libros novenv^qua- 
 temionum Anglico sermone excussisset, et hoc 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 king's grace might order, as an obedient servant, 
 ambassador or legate, [to obtain] the same privi- 
 leges, according to which I act towards the king's 
 grace. These privileges, in my opinion, contain 
 that throughout the whole Roman Empire, especi- 
 ally in Germany, no rebels or traitors to the king of 
 England shall be kept or suffered, much less 
 heretics who excite sedition among the Christians 
 of the whole kingdom of England. By force of this 
 privilege, Edmund de la Pole, who called himself 
 the duke of Suffolk, was demanded by king Philip, 
 to be sent into England, as was fitting. Then 
 William Roy, William T5mdale, Jerome Barlow,^ 
 Alexander Barclay,* and their adherents, formerly 
 Qbservants of the order of St. Francis, but now 
 apostates, George Constans' also, and Bany other 
 rebels of the king's grace, ought to be arrested, 
 punished and delivered up on account of the 
 Lutheran heresy, which ought to be blotted out 
 and rooted up, to confirm the Christian faith, of 
 which there is much need in the kingdom of Eng- 
 land. This opinion of mine the aforesaid privilege 
 will show much more clearly, but I have retained 
 no copy of it. Your grace's excellent prudence 
 however will be able to consider and manage these 
 matters more prudently than I can express them in 
 writing. When therefore such a mandate comes to 
 me hither, I will execute it to the honour of 
 Almighty God, your grace and the whole realm oi 
 England, as a Christian, and with all my diligence, 
 strength and care. In this manner therefore, foi 
 the safety and profit of the king's grace apd yours, 
 and of all the subjects of the English realm, both 
 religious and secular, as far as I could with divine 
 help, and according to your grace's command, I 
 searched for heretical books, sparing neither labour 
 nor money. I went to the market at Frankfort 
 with a papal and imperial mandate, using espe- 
 cially the privileges or mandates which I obtained 
 from the late Emperor Maximilian and now hold 
 from the present emperor Charles. I compelled 
 the engraver John Schott to take an oath before 
 the consuls, judges, and senators of Frankfort to 
 confess how many of such books he had printed in 
 English, German, French or other languages. 
 Then he confessed on oath that he had only printed 
 hitherto a thousand books of six quires * and a 
 thousand of nine quires ♦ in the English tongue, at 
 
 ' Here we ^et the surname of 'frere Jerome.' 
 » The Enehih translator of T/u Ship of Foo 
 
 How did he come into this list ? 
 ' ».*. Constantine. 
 
 ♦ Or signatures, i.e. sheets. Roy's Rtde mt 
 consists of nine signatures. I suppose TA* Dia- 
 loge out o/laten to oe the one of six sheets. 
 
 E 2 
 
36 THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND, 
 
 HERMANN RINCK TO WOLSEY. 
 
 iussu Roy et Huckyngk,^ qui sere charentes, libros 
 excussos solvere non poterant, multo minus eos in 
 caeteris linguis excudi facere. Quare ipsos ferme 
 omnes emptos Colonise domi mese habeo, ... a 
 gratiae vestrae filius meus persuadcbit et desider- 
 abit ut vestra gratia me certior[eni faci]at quid 
 cum ipsis commergatis libris fieri velit, turn omni 
 diligentia exequatur et fiet, quoad et mihi et meis 
 Deo favente possibile fuerit Regiae gratiae et vestrae 
 obsequium praestandi. Valeat igitur gratia vestra 
 multis faelicibus annis. Datum Coloniae, quarto 
 nonas Octobris, anno 1528. 
 
 Obsequiosissimus ac deditissimus vestrae gratiae 
 ac sanctitatis familiaris, Hermannus Rinckus, 
 manu propria scripsit. 
 
 Addressed, Reverendissimo in Christo patri, ac 
 domino Thomse Cardinal! Ebro- 
 censi, archicancellario, illustrissimi 
 principis regis Angliae, etc. 
 
 Endorsed. Harman Rynge, iiij nonas Octobris. 
 [yUellitts, B. xxi. 43 ; British Museum.) 
 
 TRANSLATION. 
 
 the order of Roy and Hutchins,^ who had no money 
 to pay for the books printed, much less to have 
 them printed in other languages. Wherefore I 
 bought almost all these, and have them at my house 
 at Cologne, as my son will show your grace and 
 will request your grace to inform me what you 
 wish to be done with the books so bought, which 
 shall then be executed and done with all diligence 
 as far as is possible to me and mine with God's 
 favour, to show our duty to the king's grace and 
 yours. So may your grace fare well for many 
 happy years. Dated at Cologne, 4 October, 1528. 
 
 The most dutiful and devoted servant to your 
 grace and holiness, 
 
 Hermann Rinck. 
 Addressed. To the most reverend Father in 
 Christ, and lord Thomas Cardinal 
 of York, lord Chancellor to the 
 most illustrious Prince, the King 
 of England, etc. 
 Endorsed, Harman Rynge, 4 October. 
 
 5, In A Proper Daylogej betwene a gentillman and a Jmshandmanl eche 
 coinplaynynge to other their miserable calamitiej thi'ough the ambicion of the 
 clergye, printed by Hans Liift, at Marburg, in Hesse, 1530 ; and of unknown 
 authorship, unless it be by Jerome Barlow or William Roy ; there occur, in 
 similar triplets, the following allusions to the burning of the New Testament. 
 
 ©tntillmmt. 
 Yf the holy gospell allege we shuld 
 As stronge heretikes take vs they would 
 
 Vnto their churche disobedient. 
 For why they haue commaunded straytely 
 That none vnder great payne be so hardye 
 
 To haue in englishe the testament. 
 Which as thou knowest at London 
 The bisshop makinge ther a sermon 
 
 With shamefull blasphemy was brent. 
 
 Whan they brennyd the newe testament 
 They pretendyd a zele very feruent 
 
 To maynteyne onely goddes honour. 
 Which they sayde with protestacyon 
 Was obscured by translacyon 
 
 In englysshe/ causynge moche errour. 
 
 C. vii 
 
 B. ij. 
 
 V. The Landing and Distribution in England. 
 
 \, In addition to the warnings of Cochlaeus and Rinck, there came 
 other tidings to the king of the designed introduction into his realm of the 
 Forbidden Book. 
 
 Edward Lee, the king's Almoner (who became Archbishop of York in 
 
 ' A mistake : Tyndale had nothing to do with 
 either of these books. This statement of Schott's is 
 
 conclusive that the English New Testaments, which 
 wereoi much greater bulk, were not printed by him. 
 
THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND 37 
 
 1 53 1, and d, 13th September, 1544), journeying into Spain, wTote a 
 letter to the king, from Bordeaux, on 2nd December, 1525, in which he 
 thus announces what he had learnt in his hurried journey through France 
 in the previous month of November. 
 
 Please it your Highncsse to undrestand that sithen I found so large occasion by Englishe merchaunts, 
 your subjects I could no lesse than advertise your Grace as well howe farr I am proccded in my iornaye, 
 as also of the successe in the same. This seconde daye of Decembr I arrived at Burdeaulx, aftre a con- 
 tinuall and as diligente jomaye as this pouer bodie and my cariages togidr would suffr, not sparinge 
 oone daye, Sonda)'es oonelie except, and oone day at Parisse, for the relief of my self and my hors. In 
 certayne places, as Bolayne, Mottrell, Abbevil, Bloys, and this towne Burdeaulx, I fownd cortesie and 
 honor in the reverence of your royall Majestie. At Pariss, Orleanns, and oodr, besides thees rehersed, 
 none. The people shcwe them self joyfull of the peax, wiche they wisshe to be perdurable, God 
 knowethe they have mutche neede of it. . . 
 
 Please it your Highnesse moreover to undrestand that I am certainlie enformed as I passed in this 
 contree that an Englishman, your subject, at the solicitation and instance of Luther, with whome he is, 
 hathe translated the Newe Testament in to English, and within fewe dayes entendcthe to arrive with the 
 same emprinted in Englond. I neede not to advertise your Grace what infection and daunger may ensue 
 heerbie, if it be not withstonded. This is the next way to fulfill your realme with Lutherians. For all 
 Luthers perverse opinions bee grownded opon bar words of Scriptur not well taken ne vndrestonded, 
 wiche your Grace hathe opened in sondrie places of your royall Booke. All our forfadres, governors of 
 the Churche of Englond, hathe with all diligence forbed and exchued publication of Englishe bibles, as 
 apperethe in Constitutions provincial! of the Churche of Englond. Nowe, Sir, as God hathe endued your 
 Grace with Christen courauge to sett forthe the standard against thies Philistees and to venquish them, so 
 I doubte not but that he will assist your Grace to prosecute and performe the same ; that is to vndre 
 treade them that they shall not nowe againe lift vppe their hedds, wiche they endevor nowe by meanes of 
 Englishe Bibles. They knowe what hurte such books hath doone in your Realme in tymes passed. 
 
 Hidretoo, blessed bee God, your Realme is save from infection of Luthers sect, as for so mutche that 
 althowg anye peradventur bee secretlie blotted within, yet for fear of your royall Majestie, wiche hathe 
 drawen his swerd in Gods cause, they dar not openlie avowe. Wherefor I can not doubte but that your 
 noble Grace wiU valiauntlie maignetaine that you have so noblie begonne. 
 
 This realme of Fraunce hathe been somewhat tooched with this sect, in so mutche that it hathe entred 
 amongs the Doctors of Parisse, wherof some bee in prison, some fled, some called in judicium. The 
 bisshoppe also of Meulx, called Melden, is summoned for that cause, for he suffred Luthers perverse 
 opinions to bee preched in his diocese. Faber also, a man hidertoo noted of excellent good lief and lemyng 
 is called among them, but somme saye heer for displeasur, whiche I can well think. The Parliament of 
 Parisse hath had mutche business to represse this Sect. And yet, blessed be God, your noble Realme is 
 yet unblotted. \Vherefor lest any dawnger myjht ensue, if thies Books secreatlie shold bee browght in, 
 I thowght my dutie to advertise your Grace therof, considering that it toochethe your highe honor, 
 and the wealthe and integrite of the Christen fayth with in your Realme ; whiche can not long endur if 
 thies Bookes may comme in. The Holie Gost evermor assist your noble Grace. At Burdeaulx, the 
 second daye of Decembr. . . . Your most humble preest , subject, and almosinar — Edouardh Lee. 
 Sir Henry Ellis's Ortg. Letters, 3 S. it. 72. The original is MSS. Cotton. Vesf. c. Hi. fol. 211. Orig. 
 
 2. The famine in London in 1527 leading to a vastly increased importa- 
 tion of Com could have nothing to do with the first introduction of the 
 Testaments by March 1526; though it may have facilitated their later 
 importation. Edward Halle's account is as follows : 
 
 By reason of the great raynes, which fel in the sowing time and in the beginning of the last yere now in 
 the beguming of thys yere come began sore to fayle throughout the realme, in so niuche that in the citie 
 of London, bread for a whyle was very skant and peopls did starue daily for bread, for wheat so fayled 
 
38 THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 that none could be gotten for money. Sauyng that the king of his goodnes sent to the citie of his owne 
 prouysion, vi. C. [six hundred] quarters, or els for a weeke ther had ben litle bread in London, yet was the 
 scarcitie more then yederth. For then wheat was only at xv. s. [;^ii. 5J. oaf.] the quarter, and from thence 
 it rose to xx. s. \_£\s\ and after to xxvj. s. viii. d. [;^2o] the quarter. Men sayd that the negligence was in 
 sir Thomas Seimer knyght then Maior. Many substanciall men would haue made prouision for their 
 houses, but they feared lest the comminaltie would haue taken it from them. Then were commissions 
 sente into all shires and commissioners appoynted to see what wheat was in the realme, and the commis- 
 sioners ordered that no wheate should be conueyed out of one shire to another, which commaundment had 
 lyke to haue raj-^sed trouble, and specially the citie of London with the same-was sore agreued, for thei had 
 no arable ground to sowe, but must make prouision with money, which prouision was them denied in 
 •diuerse shires by that commaundement, wherat the citezens grudged, so the Maior and Aldermen seyng 
 that the people began to murmure, came to the Cardinall and moued him of ye mischiefe that was like to 
 ensue : either the people must dye for famyne or els they wyth strong hand wil fetche come from them that 
 haue it. To whom he answered yat they should haue wheat ynough out of Fraunce, for the French kyng 
 seyd to me quod the Cardinall that yf he had but three bushels of come in all Fraunce, Englande should 
 haue twayne so muche he loueth and regardeth this realme ; with this answer thei departed and euery day 
 loked for French wheat, but none came : and farther such wheat as ye Marchauntes of England had brought 
 and shipped in Normandy, and other places were ther restrained, so that the relefe ther failed, but the 
 gentle marchauntes of ye Styliard brought from Danske, Breme, Hambrough and other places great 
 plentie, and so did other marchauntes from Flanders, Holand and Frislande, so that wheat was better 
 chepe in London, then in all England ouer. Then the people sayd, se how we had bene serued by the 
 Frenchmen in our necessitie if th[e]emperors subiectes had not holpen vs. For this kindnes the common 
 people loued th[e]emperor the better and al hys subiectes. The kyng of hys goodnes hearyng that ye 
 wheat in Fraunce was stopped, mused not a litle, and so for comfort of thys cyty of London he lent M 
 [a thousand] quarters, for ye whych they both thanked him and prayed for hym. Then wythin short 
 space the marchauntes of London so diligently made prouysyon in all places for Wheat and Rye, that after 
 Christmas [1527-8] they lacked none, and al the parties adioynyng to themwer fain to fetch wheate of them 
 and none to them was denied, notwythstanding their vnkynd commaundement geuen that the Londoners 
 should none haue of them. The xix. yere of Hen. VIII. [22 Apr. 1527 — 21 Apr. 1528.] Fol. 166-7. 
 
 3* A principal person on the continent, connected with the Importation 
 of the New Testaments into England was Richard Harman, a merchant of 
 the English factory at Antwerp, respecting whom there is the following 
 Royal prescript extant. 
 
 By the Queue. 
 
 Anne the queue Trustie and right welbiloved we grete you well/ and where as we be crediblie enformed 
 
 {This is the queen's that the berer hereof Richard Herman marchaunte and citizen of Antwerpe in 
 
 autography Brabant was in the tyme of the late lorde Cardynall put and expelled frome his fredome 
 
 and felowshipe of and in the Englyshe house there for nothing ells (as he affermethe) 
 
 but oonly for that that he dyd bothe withe his gooddis and pollicie to his greate hurte 
 
 and hynderans in this worlde helpe to the settyng forthe of the newe testamente in 
 
 Englyshe/ we therefore desire and instantly praye you that with all spede and fauoure 
 
 conuenient ye woll cause this good and honest marchaunt being my lordis true faithfull 
 
 and loving subiecte restored to his pristine fredome libertie and felowshipe aforesaid 
 
 and the sonner at this oure requeste, And at your good leyser to here hym in suche 
 
 thinges as he hathe to make further declaration vnto you in this behalf Geven vndir 
 
 our signett at my lordis manoure of Grenewiche the xiiijth daye of May.^ 
 
 Cotton MSS, Cleop. E. v. fol. 350. 
 Addressed on the hack. To oure trustie and right welbiloved Thomas Crumwell esquyer chief Secre- 
 
 tarye vnto my lorde the kinge hyghnes 
 Endorsed on the back. The Queenys Grace letters for Richard Harman. 
 
 1 The year is 1534. Cromwell was acting as made a Lord, until 9 July 1536. 
 Secretary of State in April 1534: and was not 
 
^3 , 
 
 r//^ LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. ^¥ nZ ^, 
 
 We possess in a collection of State correspondence between England v^*^^4^ 
 and the Low Countries in 1526-31, now Cott. MSS., Galba B. /x, ^^"" 
 further information respecting Richard Harman's imprisonment at Ant- 
 werp, on the accusation of John Hackctt, the English Envoy. Harman 
 and his wife were sent to prison on 12 July 1528 ; and being charged first 
 with being heretics, afterwards with being traitors, were remanded from 
 time to time, while Hackett was endeavouring to obtain proofs of his accu- 
 sation; which failing to do, they were discharged on 26 February 1529. 
 Hackett Avriting in December 1528 states that Harman estimated this im- 
 prisonment to have entailed a loss of two thousand guilders [;^2oo then, 
 equal to ;^3ooo now] ; and the above 'letters' of Anne Boleyn's show 
 that he was expelled of the English House at Antwerp. When Hackett 
 therefore happened, on the 7 April following, to be in that city, Harman 
 got him arrested for false imprisonment, but the Amant and Lords of the 
 city after long deliberation released him. Whereupon Hackett appealed 
 to the Margrave, and on the 12th April the Amant and Lords of Antwerp 
 were summoned to the court at Mechlin, and there reprimanded and 
 directed to apologise for the affront given to the English Envoy \ which they 
 did. Meanwhile Harman sustained * greate hurte and hynderans in this 
 worlde.' 
 
 We have in the first of Harman's two petitions to the Emperor, in July 
 1528, both written in Flemish, the exact grounds of his first accusation; 
 for the follo^\^ng abstract of which I am indebted to Edward Levien, Esq., 
 M.A., of the British Museum. 
 
 To the Emperor. Richart Hermans and his wife, arrested by the Margrave of Antwerp (i) for having 
 received books from a German merchant (viz. New Testament in English without a gloss '), and sold them 
 to an English merchant who has had them conveyed to England ; did not know he had done wrong, be- 
 cause he is ' no clerk ' [!] (2) Also accused of sheltering suspected Lutherans ; if so, he did it unwittingly, 
 as many people are in the habit of lodging with him. (3) Also accused of eating meat on Saturday ; did 
 so with the knowledge and consent of his priest. As money is due by and to him, and he has much busi- 
 ness with English merchants, who may soon depart and so leave him without means to pay his debts, 
 begs the Emperor will give the Margrave an order to release them on solvent bail, promising to return to 
 prison when ordered ; especially as he has never supported any of Luther's opinions, fol. 131. Orig. 
 
 \, Here, as in our researches we leave the continent and return to Eng- 
 land, we cannot but call special attention to the secret, we might almost 
 say organised action of English merchants abroad, by whom Tyndale was 
 sustained. Tyndale lands at Hamburgh, an unknown man, in May 1524 ; 
 within eighteen months he has printed three books, counting Matthew and 
 Mark as one : which apparently involved an investment of money approach- 
 ing to ;^i 0,000 of the present day. He had to pay Roy and to defray the 
 
 * Although the date, July 1528, is comparatively No other English edition printed in Germany before 
 late, this can be no other than the Octavo, inasmuch this date is known. 
 as Harman bought them* of a German merchant. 
 
40 THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 expenses of living, travelling, and the like ; yet whether at Hamburgh, at 
 Cologne or at Worms, at Marburg or at Antwerp, he is personally cared for 
 and supported in his great work. Money never failed him. We trace 
 this assistance especially, in that the first impression of the Quarto was 
 reduced from 6000 to 3000 not on the score of money but from fear of 
 detection. And not only Tyndale, but Roy also. Had not Rinck been 
 quick, the English merchants would have redeemed his anti-papal works 
 from pawn, and scattered them through England. We know not the extent 
 of this strong Protestant anti-Wolsey feeling, for many of the early printed 
 English Protestant books which were produced abroad before 1532, such as 
 Hortulus Animce in English, the very earliest editions of The Primer^ and 
 the like, appear to have utterly perished. Yet there are sufficient of such 
 works extant to show how heartily many English merchants on the con- 
 tinent laboured for the Reformation of their own country. 
 
 5, The printed English Testaments being ready, there was a people pre- 
 pared to receive them. For upwards of a century, amid all manner of 
 national vicissitudes, the Lollards had been multiplying written copies of the 
 original translation of Wycliffe and of its revised version by John Purvey. 
 They had increased, despite continuous persecution; and were now a scattered 
 unorganised association of tradesmen, craftsmen, and such like, especially 
 numerous in those districts nearest the continent and therefore most ac- 
 cessible to influences- from without, as in London and the Eastern Counties. 
 Many of them learnt to read — an unusual accomplishment among the lower 
 classes at that time ; and where they could not read, they often committed 
 to memory entire doctrinal treatises or dialogues, if they were short ; or 
 whole gospels or epistles of the New Testament. Fewer of them could 
 write, yet it was through the devotion of those few that so many copies of the 
 whole or portions of Holy Writ were spread through the country. They knew 
 each other by the names of brethren and sisters in Christy or as knowii men 
 and known women. We get an explanation of these latter titles in the follow- 
 ing passage of a book entitled The Repressor of over-much blami?tg of the 
 Clergy, which one of their adversaries, Regiriald Pecock, then Bishop of 
 St. Asaph, wrote against them about the year 1449. 
 
 The firste of tho textis is written i. Cor. xiiije 'c. in the eende thus: Sotheli if eny man vnknowith, he 
 schal he vnImowun> Bi this text thei taken that if eny man knowith not or putte not in what he mai his 
 bisynes forto leeme the writing of the Bible, as it Hjth in text, namelich the writing of the Newe Testament 
 he schal be vnknowen of God forto be eny of hise. And for this, that thei bisien hem silf forto leeme and 
 knowe the Bible, namelich the Newe Testament, in the forme as it is writun word bi word in the Bible, 
 thei geucn a name propre to hem silf and clepen hem silf knoivun men, as thoug alle othere han them ben 
 
 1 This is a very corrupt translation by Wycliffe. ing that all the learning of the age was against them — 
 
 The Authorised Version has it, Bnt if any be igno- based upon a mistranslation, shows how eager these 
 
 rant, let him be ignorant : i Cor. xiv. 38. The desig- men were after the Word of truth, as the revelation 
 
 nation, though a perversion — very excusable consider- of the will and mind of Cod. 
 
THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 41 
 
 vnknowun ; and whanne oon of hem talkith with an other of hem of sum other iijc [third] man, the hcerer 
 wole aske thus : ' Is he a knowen man ? ' and if it [be] answerid to him thus : ' Yhe, he is a knowen man/ 
 al is saaf, perel is not forto dele with him ; and if it be answerid to him thus : ' He is no knowen man ' 
 thanne. perel is castid forto miche homeli dele with him. i. 53. Ed. i860. 
 
 While Lollardism had thus long been a standing element in the religious 
 life of England ; there had lately come into the country from the continent 
 two distinct influences of dissent ; the new * learning,' Hebrew, Greek, 
 Plato, and the like ; and the new * faith,' the teaching of Luther and his 
 colleagues. What Lollardism had done for the artisans, these two in- 
 fluences were doing for the Universities, and some of the clergy and monks; 
 unbinding their hearts from old delusions, attaching utterly new ideas to old 
 familiar words, revealing a new way of salvation — faith simply on the 
 Saviour of mankind — and especially giving insight into the depth, beauty, 
 fulness, and sufiiciency to teach, of the Sacred Scriptures. Now the Papal 
 system was, and is chiefly founded upon false ideas being attached to words 
 which are unquestionable. The English Hierarchy, as we shall presently 
 see, instinctively felt that the sting of Tyndale's translation lay precisely in 
 this. Tyndale also knew this to be the point of attack of all others, and 
 inserted the following Prologge entirely for this purpose ; that right ideas 
 should be attached to well known words. The three thousand errors with 
 which his translations were charged were for the most part but so many new 
 meanings attached to old words. We shall see presently the grossly dis- 
 honest way in which that number of exceptions was arrived at. Meanwhile 
 we realise the superlative value and importance of a simple truthful transla- 
 tiori of the Scriptures over all mere attacks or arguments, to the turning of 
 the minds and hearts of Englishmen to a truer knowledge and a purer love 
 of the Triune God. 
 
 6, One of the chief agents in the distribution in England was Simon 
 Fyshe, the author of The Stipplicacyon for the Beggers. John Fox gives 
 the following account of this boldhearted man in his Actes^ <S>v. 
 
 Maister Symon Fyshe, borne of a Noble stock, a gentleman of graies innc, one of a tal stature. A. 
 xxxvi. yeare a goo the fyrst yeare after he came to London to dwell [which was about ye yeare of our 
 Lord, 1525. Ed. 1570] theire was a certeyne playe made by one maister Roo of the same inne genlil- 
 man, wherin partly ther was matter a geinst the Cardinall Wolsey. And where none durst take vpon 
 them to playe that part which touched the saide Cardinall, this forsaid maister fishe toke vpon him to 
 do It wherupon great displeasure followed vpon the Cardinails part. In somuch as he being pursued by 
 the said Cardinall the same night this tragedy was plaid, was compelled of force to voyde his ownc 
 house, and so fled oucr sea vnto Tindall. vpon occasion wherof the next yeare following this boke was 
 made, [ being about the yeare 1527) Ed. 1570] and so [not long after in tlie yeare (as I suppose) 1528, was 
 Ed. 1570] sent ouer to my Lady Anne Bulleyn, who then lay at a pl.ice not farre from the Courte. 
 Whichc booke her brother scinge in her hande, tooke it and reade it, and gauc it heragaine, willing her 
 earnestly to giue it to the king, which thing she so did, xst Ed., 1563 ; /. 448 ; -ind Ed., 1570, p. 1152. 
 
 We have quoted this statement merely to confute it in some particulars. 
 There is an earlier description of this play, which was performed in the 
 Christmas of 1526-7. Tyndale was at that time in Worms. 
 
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42 THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 This Christmas was a goodly disguisyng plaied at Greis inne, whiche was compiled for the moste part, by 
 Master lohn Roc, seriant at the law. xx. yere past, and long before the Cardinall had any aucthoritie, the 
 effecte of the plaie was, that lorde gouernaunce was ruled by dissipacion and negligence, by whose misgouer- 
 nance and euil order, lady Publike wele was put from gouernance, which caused Rumor Populi. Inward 
 grudge and disdain of wanton souereignitie, to ryse with a great multitude, to expell negligence and dis- 
 sipacion, and to restore Publik welth again to her estate, which was so done. This plaie was so set furth 
 with riche and costly apparell, with straunge diuises of Maskes and morishes that it was highly praised of all 
 menne, sauyng of the Cardinall, whiche imagined that the plaie had been diuised of hym, and in a great 
 furie sent for the saied master Roo, and toke from hym his Coyfe, and sent hym to the Flete, and after he 
 sent for the yong gentlemen, that plaied in the plaie, and them hyghly rebuked and thretened, and sent 
 one of them called Thomas Moyle of Kent to the Flete, but by the meanes of freendes Master Roo and 
 he wer deliuered at last. This plaie sore displeased the Cardinall, and yet it was neuer meante to hym, 
 as you haue harde, wherfore many wysemen grudged to see hym take it so hartely, and euer the Cardinall 
 saied that the Kyng was hyghly displeased with it, and spake nothyng of hymselfe. TJie xviith. yere of 
 Hen. VIII,: [22 Apr. 1526 — 21 Apr. is2j]/ol. 154. £d. 1548. 
 
 There is a letter, date, 6 February 1527, in the State Paper Office, 
 of Archbishop Warham, deprecating the excessive punishment of Serjeant 
 Roo. The date of the play is therefore beyond question. It is certain 
 that Fyshe did not go beyond the seas to Tyndale, in January 1527. He 
 may for a time have been in hiding : otherwise when the storm had blown 
 over he occupied his own house in Whitefriars up to the spring of 1528,* 
 and was busily engaged in superintending the sale of the New Testaments 
 which he had received from Richard Harman. 
 
 William Rastell, Serjeant at law, who edited the English 'Workes' of his 
 uncle Sir Thomas More, states that T/ie Supplycacyon of Soulys was 
 'made' in 1529. It was certainly ^r///^;z after Tyndale's Obediejice of a 
 Chi'istia7i Man (the printing of which, at Marburg in Hesse, was finished 
 on 8 October 1528) had reached England, as the note at /. 28 testifies. 
 It could therefore have hardly been written wwiA early in 1529. It was 
 published — as the title-page of the first edition witnesses — while More was 
 still only Chancellor • of the Duchy of Lancaster, and therefore before 
 25 October 1529, when he became Lord Chancellor. More was also 
 abroad signing the Treaty of Cambrai in July and August [the treaty was 
 signed on 5 August], and with the King at Woodstock in September : his 
 Supplicacyon was therefore m all likelihood written in the spring of the 
 year, though it may have been published while he was on the continent. 
 
 The composition of More's Supplicacyon fixes with certainty the public- 
 ation of Fyshe's Supplicacyon for the Meggers, to which it is a prompt reply, 
 to have been early in 1529. *That dyspytuose and dyspyteful person/ 
 which of late vnder pretexte of -pyte/ made and put forth among you/ a 
 boke that he namyd the supplycacyon for the beggars/' fol. i. Fox states 
 that Fyshe's Invective was 'throwen and scattered at the procession in 
 Westminster upon Candlemas day, before the king,' and that Wolsey 
 caused his servants /diligently to attende to gather them up that they 
 should not come into the kinges handes.' pp. 445-9. Ed. 1563. 
 
THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND, 43 
 
 Fyshe may have gone abroad as soon as the persecution of 1528 arose,, 
 and there printed his- Sufpiicacyo/i, which is a small eight-paged tract, 
 now excessively scarce. Anyhow he was soon back again in London : 
 where he died in 1530. 
 
 7. But the most precise evidence as to the Distribution is to be found in 
 the confession of Robert Necton, made apparently at London in 1528. 
 It is reprinted by Strype from the Registries of the Bishop of London. 
 There is no date, but it was certainly made about ihe middle of that 
 year. Necton distinctly refers to this Quarto edition as *of the great 
 volume,' ' of the biggest ' : to the Octavo edition as * of the smal volume ' : 
 and to the first surreptitious edition, printed by Christopher Endhoven at 
 Antwerp in the autumn of 1526, in the edition that was offered to him 
 about Christmas 1527, by the 'Duche' /. e. German man. He also gives 
 us infonnation as to the prices at which the Testaments were sold. 
 
 jE bowght at sondry tymis of Mr Fyshe dwellyng by the Whight Frears in London, many of the 
 New Testaments in English ; that is to say, now v. and now x. And sometyme mo, and some- 
 tyme less, to the nombre of xx. or xxx. in the gret volume. The which New Testaments the 
 said Mr Fyshe had of one Harmond, an English man, beyng beyond see. But how many he had this 
 respondent cannot tell. And this respondent saith, that about a yere and half agon he fell in a quain- 
 taunce with Vicar Constantyne here in London. Which shewed this respondent first, that the said Mr 
 Fyshe had New Testaments to sell ; and caused this respondent to by some of the said New Testaments 
 of Mr Fyshe. And the said Mr Fyshe, at the desire and instance of Vicar Constantine, browghte the said 
 New Testaments home- to this respondents house. And before that Vicar Constantine caused this respond- 
 ent to by some of the said New Testaments, he had none, nor no other books, except the chapiters of 
 Matthew. 1 
 
 And moreover, this respondent saith, that about the same tyme he sold fyve of the said New Testa- 
 ments to Sir William Furboshore synging man, in Stowmarket in'SufTolk, for vii. or viii. grotes a pece 
 [is. ^d. or 2s. 8d. equal to £i iss. od, or £,^ os. od. now]. Also, two of the same New Testaments in 
 Bury St Edmonds : that is to say, to Raynold Wodelesse one ; and lliomas Horfan another, for the same 
 price. 
 
 Also, he saith, that about Cristmas last, he sold one New Testament to a Priste ; whose name he cannot 
 tell, dwellyng at Pycknam Wade in Northfolke ; and two Latin books the one Oeconomia Christiana ; • and 
 the other Unio Dtssidentium* Also, one Testament to William Gibson merchaimt man, of the parish of 
 S. Magaret Patens. 
 
 Also, Vicar Constantyne at dyvers tymes had of this respondent about a xv. or xvi. of the New 
 Testaments of the biggest. And this respondent saith, that the sayd Vicar Constantyne dyvers tymes 
 
 ' Evidently Tyndale's first publication. we are delivered from sin, and concerning infant 
 
 • This book has defied my research. All I can baptism. (4) Concerning predestination, vocation, 
 
 le.am of it js its fuller title, Economica Christiana justification, and glorification. (5) Concerning the 
 
 rem chrisiiauam instituens. double law, i.e. the natural law and the positive 
 
 'A Protestant work by the ' venerable ' Doctor, law. (6) The works of the law. (7) Of judicial 
 
 Herman Bodius. Of the Latin editions of separate law ancl the secular sword. (3) Of grace and 
 
 parts, separately issued one after the other, before merit. (9) Of faith and its works. 
 
 1527, I have been' unable to see a copy ; but have The second part treats (10) Of the sufficiency of 
 
 inspected a French edition, L' union de toute dis- the word of God. (11) Of penitence and the 
 
 corde, printed by Martin Empercur at Antwerp in three modes of confession. (la' Of brotherly 
 
 1532. It is a collection of passages of Scripture rebuke. (13) Of abstinence and fasting. (14) Of 
 
 and of extracts from 17 of the early Fathers ; and prayer. {15) Of the labour of the hands. iC) Of 
 
 has for its motto Spes mea lesus. The first pardons and indulgences. (17) ()f th< 
 
 treats of ( i) Adam's transgression and original sin. of the Body and B!ood of Christ. ( 
 
 (2) All men are dinners through Adam. (3) How order of the ecclesiastical constitution. . , - ..... 
 
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44 THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 bowght of him certayne of the sayd New Testaments ; and this respondent lykewise, of hym. Also, he 
 sold Sir Richard Bayfell two New Testaments unbound, about Cristmas last ; for the which he payd 
 iii^ \\\\d. [£2 los, od.'i 
 
 Farthermore, he saith, that he hath sold v. or vi. of the said N. Testaments to diverse persons of the 
 cite of London, whose namys, or dwellyng places, he doth not remember. 
 
 Moreover, he saith, that since Easter last, he bowght of Geffray [Lolme] Usher of Saynct Antonyes, with 
 whom he hath byn aqueynted by the space of a yere, or therabout (by reason he was Mr Formar>, the 
 person of Hony Lane his servant, and for that this respondent did moche resort to the said persons ser- 
 mons) XVIII. N. Testaments in English of the smal volume, and xxvi. books, al of one sort, caMcdOecona- 
 vtici Christiana in Latin ; and two other books in Latin, called Uftio Dissidentiuin. For which he 
 payed hym xl i'. [;^3o.] Of the which Oeconomia Christiana Vicar Constantyne had xiii. at one tyme. 
 
 And of which N. Testaments since Easter this respondent caryed xv. of them, and the other xxiii. 
 Oecofiomia Christiana, to Lynne, to sell. Which he wold have sold to a young man, called William 
 
 merchant man, dwellyng by one Mr. Burde of the same towne. Which young man wold 
 
 not medle with them, because they were prohibite. And so this respondent left the said books at Lynne 
 with the said William, untyll his retornyng thider ayen. And so the said bookes do remayne ther still, 
 as yet. And two of the said N. Testaments he hath in his own custodie, with another of the great 
 volume. Also, another Testament of the smal volume he sold since Easter to young Elderton, merchant 
 man, of Saynct Mary Hill parishe. 
 
 Howbeit he saith, that he knew not that any of thies bookes were of L,uthers sect. 
 
 To the xviiith [/ e. article of the Indictment], That he hath byn a receptor, he saith, that he twice or 
 thryese hath byn in Thomas Mathews house of Colchestre. Wheras he hath red diverse tymes in the 
 N. Testament in English, before the said Thomas Matthew, his wife, William Dykes, and other servantes 
 ther. And there, and then have herd old Father Hacker speke of prophesies ; and have had communi- 
 cations of diverse articles ; which he doth not now remember. 
 
 To the xixth, so begynnyng. That he iven-t about to by a great nombre of N. Testaments, he saith, that 
 about Cristmas last, there came a Duche man, beyng now in the Flete, which wold have sold this re- 
 spondent, ii or iii hundreth of the said N. Testaments in English : which this respondent did not by ; but 
 sent him to Mr Fj'she to by them : and said to the Duche man. Look what Mr Fyshe doth, I wil do the 
 same. But whether Mr Fyshe bowght any of them, he cannot tell : for which iii. hundreth he shold 
 have paid xvi/. v^-^., after ix^. a pece. [;^3oo at gd. would amount to £\x $s. od. : representing ii.f. 3^. 
 and ;£i68 15J'. od. now. The price offered was evidently put at the very lowest.] 
 
 To the XX. article, That he is injramed ; he saith, that since Easter last, he was at Norwiche at his 
 brothers house, wher as one had complayned of this respondent to my Lord of Norwiche, because he had 
 a N. Testament. Wherfor his brother counceled this respondent to send or delyver his said N. Testa- 
 ment : and said to him. If he wold not delyver it, my Lord of Norwiche would send him to my Lord of 
 London, his Ordinary. And so afterwards he sent it to London by the caryer. 
 
 To the XXI. article, so begynnyng, T/iat contrary to the prohibition, he hath kept the New Testament, 
 he confessith, that after he had knowledge of the condempnation of the said N. Testament, by the space 
 of a yere, or more, he hath had in his custodie, kept, and studyed the same Testament, and have red it 
 thoroughly many tymes. And also have red in it as wel within the citie and diocess of London, as 
 within the citie and diocesse of Norwiche. And not onely red it to himself, but redd and tawght it to 
 diverse other. 
 
 To the XXII. he answeryth and denyeth, that he had Wycliefs Wycket or the Apocalips at any tyme. 
 J. Strype, Eccles. Mem. \. Part 11. pp. 63-5. Ed. 1822. ^^' "^^ ^^^'^^'^ Necton.i 
 
 all the faithful are priests, kings, and prophets ; Gregory, Hilarius, Jerome, Lactantius, Origen, 
 
 but all are not ministers of the church. (20) Of Tertullian, Theophylactus. This work was of great 
 
 the honour due to saints. _ (21) Of the burial value in proving that the doctrine of the Reformers 
 
 of the dead. (22) Of Antichrist. (23) Of the agreed with that of the Fathers and of Scripture, 
 
 flight and per.secutions of Christians. (24) Of the ^ The general tenour of the confession would 
 
 essence of divinity. The Fathers quoted are seem to show that Necton was answering three 
 
 Ambrose, Athanasius, Augustine, Bede, Bernard, general charges ; as to the Quarto, then as to the 
 
 Chrysostom, Clemens, Cyprian, Cyril, Fiilgentius, Octavo, then as to the Antwerp impression. 
 
Tim LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND, 45 
 
 NectOD; whose brother was Sheriff of Norwich in 1530, and who him- 
 self appears to liave been of good position, does not seem to have 
 carried on this hazardous work of coli)ortage for the sake of money ; but 
 to have sold the Testaments approximately at cost price, viz. at about 
 two shillings or two shillings and sixpence each, bound [equal to 
 ;£\ 10s. od. to ;£i lys. dd, each]. 
 
 If three thousand copies were struck off of each edition by Tyndale's 
 printers ; the amount invested by the English merchants, who supported 
 him in the two impressions, at two shillings each copy, was ;^6oo, repre- 
 senting p^9,ooo of the present day. It would seem also from the above, 
 that the Octavo copies were cheaper than those in Quarto : but Necton's 
 deposition is not sufficiently clear to determine by how much. 
 
 8. Respecting Constantine ^ and Necton, there is the following later in- 
 formation in Sir Thomas More's Cojifutacyon of Tyndales Answer e^ 1532 : 
 with which we must here dismiss them. 
 
 As George Constantync ere he escaped, was redy to haue in worde at the leste wyse abiured all that 
 holy doctryne \_More is speaking derisively\\ what his herte was god and he know, and pcraducnture the 
 deuyll to yf he entended otherwyse. But surely there was entended toward hym somwhat more good, 
 then his dealyngc had byfore deserued. And so mych the more fauour was there mynded hym, in that he 
 semed very penytent of his mysse vsynge of hym selfe, in fallynge to Tyndales heresyes agayne. For whychc 
 he knowledged hym selfe worthy to be hanged, that he haddc so falsely abused the kyngcs graciouse rcmis- 
 syon and pardon geuen hym byfore / and hadde for all that in the whylc both bought and solde of those 
 heretycall bokes, and secretely set forth those heresyes. Wherof he shewed hym selfe so repentaunt, that 
 he vttered and dysclosed dyuers of hys companyons, of whom there are some abiured synnys, that he 
 wyste well were abiured before, namely Rycharde Necton whyche was by Constantynes deteccyon taken 
 and commytted to Newgate / where except he happe to dye before in pryson, he standeth in grete paryll 
 to be ere it be longe, for hys fallynge agayne to Tindales heresyes burned 
 
 How be it Necton now syth he was taken sayed that hys wyfe had burned them. But it is well knowen 
 that Necton had hym selfe and a man of hys also, solde many such bokes of heresye, bothe in London 
 and in other shyres syth his abiuracyon Cc.i. 
 
 How be it as for Constantyne as I sayd before, semed in pryson here very penytent, and vtterly mjTided 
 to forsake such heresyes and heretykes for euer. In profe wherof he not onely detected as I sayd hysowne 
 dedes and his felowes, but also studyed and deuysed how those deuelysshe bookes whyche hym selfe and 
 other of hys felowes hadde brought and shypped, myghte come to the bysshoppes handcs to be burned. And 
 
 ' The following somewhat incorrect account of abroad in order to escape punishment for heresy, 
 
 this man may be preserved in a note. It seems however that sii Thoinas More set him in 
 
 George Constantine, bom about 1504, received the stocks, and that he made his escape and went 
 
 his education in Cambridge university, and was again to Antwerji. He was residing in Wales 1539. 
 
 bachelor of oinon law 1524. Adopting Protestant About 15^6 he became registrar of the diocese of 
 
 opinions he went to Antwerp, where he assisted St. David s, and in 1549 archdeacon of Carmarthen. 
 
 Tyndale and Joye in the translation of the New He was one of the principal accusers of Ferrar 
 
 Testament, and the compilation of various books bishop of St. David's, but before the death of that 
 
 exposing the corruptions of the church and prelate was reconciled to him. In 1559 he became 
 
 the superstition of the age. Whilst in Brabant archdeacon of Brecon, which office w.-»s vacn;-' *'- 
 
 he practiaed for a year as a surgeon. AlKJUt same year by his death. It appears thai 
 
 1530 he was seized on a visit he made to Eng- married, and had a daughter who was the . 
 
 land for the dispersion of prohibited books. Thomas Young, afterwards bishop of St. David s 
 
 He was examined by sir Thomas More, and is and ultimately archbishop of York. C. H. and 
 
 said to have made disclosures as to his associates T. Cooper, Ath. Cantab. /'. 305, EJ. i8?8. 
 
46 • THE LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 therfore he shewed me the shypmannes name that had them, and the markes of the ferdellys, by whych I 
 haue synnys hj^ escape receyued them. And it maye be by goddes grace, that though the man fled hense 
 for feare of suche harme as he wyste he had well deserued/ and yet was nothynge towarde hym, but per- 
 aduenture more good then he was ware of : he is yet amended in hys mynde and hath in hys harte forsaken 
 all Tyndales heresyes, and so I pray god it be/ for I wold be sory yat euer Tyndale sholde glory and 
 boste of hys burnynge. How be it in the meane whyle, tyll it may -wfell appere that he be surely turned 
 to the catholyke fayth agayne, I wil aduyse all good ci-ysten folke and specyally the kynges subiectes, to 
 forbere and estyew [eschuewe] hys company. For j'at englyshe man which shall be founden to be famylyarf 
 wyth hym there, before his conuersyon here knowen and proued, maye therby brynge hym selfe in suspycyon 
 of heresye, and happely here thereof at hys retournynge hyther. Cc. ii. 
 
 9. It is with regret that we cannot enter here into the story of Robert 
 Barnes, D.D., the Augustine monk of Cambridge ; of his Sermon on 
 Christmas Eve, 24 Dec. 1525, and the consequent trouble that came to him 
 through it until it climaxed in that 'gorgeous fasyng with myters, and cros- 
 staues, abbots and pryours,' with Wolsey enthroned at their head, at St. 
 Paul's on Sunday 11 Feb. 1526. There Barnes was put to open penance 
 and thence returned to the Fleet, where he remained about six months. 
 After which he was a free prisoner at the Augustine Friary in London, 
 where we have the following pictures of him, actively engaged in the distri- 
 bution of the printed New Testaments. 
 
 John Tyball of Steeple Bumsted, on 28 April 1528, deposed as follows. 
 
 Furthermore, he saythe, that at Mychaelmasse last past was twelve monethe this respondent and Thomas 
 Hilles came to London to Frear Barons, then being at the Freers Augustines in London, to buy a New 
 Testament in Englishe, as he saythe. And they found the sayd Freer Barons in his chamber ; wheras there 
 was a merchant man, reading in a boke, and ii. or iii. more present. And when they came in, the Frear 
 demawnded them, from whence they cam. And they said, from Bumstede ; and so forth in communication 
 they desyred the sayd Freer Barons, that th[e]y myght be aquaynted with hym ; because they had herd that 
 he was a good man ; and bj'cause they wold have his cownsel in the New Testament, which they desyred to 
 have of hym. And he saithe, that the sayd Frear Barons did perseve vei^ well, that Thomas Hilles and 
 »his respondent were infected with opinions, bycause they wold have the New Testament. And then farther 
 they shewyed the sayd Frear, that one Sir Richard Fox Curate of Bumstede, by ther means, was wel entred 
 in ther lernyng ; and sayd, that they thowghte to gett hym hole in shorte space. Wherfore they desyrj'd 
 the sayd Frear Barons to make a letter to hym, that he wold continew in that he had begon. Which Frear 
 did promyse so to wryte to hym a letter at afternoone, and to gete them a New Testament. And then after 
 that communication, the sayd Thomas Hilles and this respondent shewyd the Frear Barons of certayne old 
 bookes that they had : as of iiii. Evangelistes, and certayne Epistles of Peter and Poule in Englishe. 
 Which bookes the sayd Frear dyd little regard, and made a twyte of it, and sayd, A poynt for them, for 
 they be not to be regarded toward the new printed Testament in Englishe. For it is of more cleyner 
 Englishe. And then the sayd Frear Barons delyverid to them the sayd New Testament in 
 Englyshe : for which they payd iiij \\d \_£\ \is. 6d.] and desyred them, that they wold kepe yt close. For 
 he wolde be loth that it shold be knowen, as he now remembreth. And after thedelyverance of the sayd New 
 Testament to them, the Frear Barons dyd lyken the New Testament in Latyn to a cyTnball tynkklyng, and 
 brasse sowndyng. But what farther exposytion he made uppon it, he cannot tell. And then at afternone 
 they fett the sayd letter of the sayd Frear, which he wrote to Sir Richard : and red that openly before 
 them, but he dolh not now remember what was in the same. And so dcpartyd from hym ; and did never 
 since speke with hym, or write to hym, as he saithe. Also, he saithe, that abowgh a half j^ar agone, he 
 delyverid the sayd New Testament to Frear Gardyner : which he never had ageyne. 
 J. Stkype. Eccles, Mem. I. Part ii., pp. 54-5. Ed. 1822. 
 
 Harl MSS. 42i,/<?/. 35, contains what is without doubt the correspond- 
 
7'//E LANDING AND DISTRIBUTION IN ENGLAND. <^Qs v^-v' 
 
 ing deposition of T. Hilles, servant of Christopher Raven a tailor ot^^^^ 
 Wytham. It runs thus : ' — 
 
 Also he saithe that abowt whytsontyde was twelf moneth he came to london with lohn Tyhall and 
 speke with frenr barons at frears Augustyns in his chambre and the said lohn I'yball told the said frear 
 bar^s that they came from Cantebrige to by some of the new testaments. And in his chambre they 
 fownde a youn;:; gentleman whom he did not know hauyng a chayne about his neck, to whom the said 
 frear did rede in the newe testament and this respondent taryed still in his chambre and herd hym rede a 
 chapitour of powle as he remembrith and after that done I. Tyball moued the said frear barons of sir 
 Richard Ffox and shewed that sir Richard was well lemed and rekened that he wold do well wherfore 
 he desjTcd frear barons that he wold wryte a louyng letter to the said sir Richard which frere barons 
 so wrote a letter to the said sir Richard which letter after he had wryten it he did rede it to this re- 
 spondent and lohn Tyball, howbe it he doth not now remembre what was contcyned in it and dclyucred 
 to Tyball. And afterward eche of them bowght a nfw testament in Englishe of hem and paid iijs [£3 
 55. ck/.] for a pece, which he kept after that it was forboyden [? Sept. or Oct. 1526] vntyll the sondaj 
 before m'yd lent last past [8 March 1528]. In which new testament -he red in Roger a Tanner house of 
 bres GyfTord, bower hall, mother Bochcrs and mother Chartes, and at last sold the said new testament to 
 sir Richard Ffox. 
 
 10. Of the labours of Geoffrav Lolme, Stephen Forman, S.T.P., and 
 other suspected Distributors, not much detailed information has come 
 do\vn to us. 
 
 n. These Testament-Circulators deserve to be held in perpetual honour. 
 They were anti-Papists before the Testaments arrived in this country. They 
 instinctively saw in them the great instruments of deliverance of the 
 people from priestly thraldom that weighed so heavily upon them : and at 
 the hazard of all their worldly health and wealth, they devoted themselves 
 to the dangerous work of their distribution far and wide. 
 
 12. It may be interesting to close this section with the records of the 
 earliest possession of the printed New Testaments in England, viz. in 
 March and April 1526, as yet known. 
 
 John Pykas, a baker of Colchester, confessed on 7 March 1528 : — 
 
 That about a v years last past at a certayne tyme his mother then dwellyng in Kury sent for hym and 
 mouyd hym that he shuld not beleve in the sacraments of the church for that was not the r>'ght way. 
 And then she delyvered to this respondent. on[e] booke of powles Epistoles in Englyshe and bide hym lyve 
 after the maner and way of the said epistoles and gospclls and not after the way that tlie church doth 
 teche. Also about a ij yere last past he bowght in Colche'^ter of a lumbard of london a new testament m . 
 Englisheand paid for it iiijf [£3] which new testament he kept by the space of iiij yeres [? months] and red 
 it thorowghly many tymes. And afterward when he hard that the said new testament was forboden that 
 no man should kepe them, he delyvered it and the book of powles Epistoles to his mother aycn. f/ar/. 
 MSS. ^ii./ol. 17. 
 
 John Tyball of Steeple Bumsted, already quoted, confessed on 28 April 
 1528:— 
 
 Furthermore, he saythe, that abowght ii yeres agon he companyed with Sir Richard Foxe Curate of 
 Bumstede, and shewid hym al his bookys that he had ; that is to say, the NewTcstamente in Englishc, the 
 Gospel of Matthew and Mark in Englishe ; which he had of John Pykas of Colchester ; and a book ex- 
 poundyng the Pater Noster, the Ave Maria, and the Credo ; certain of Powles Epistoles in Englishe, after 
 th[e] old translation ; the iiii Evangelists in Englishe. 
 J. Strype. EccUs. Mem. I. Part n., //. 52-3. Ed. 1822. 
 
48 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND, 
 
 VI. The Persectttion in England. 
 
 The hunting down of the Book (and it is with that chiefly that we have 
 to do) preceded the punishment of its readers. 
 
 t» Our earhest printed information of the very first action of Cardinal 
 Wolsey and the Bishops respecting the destruction of the printed New 
 Testaments comes to us in the name of the King himself 
 
 Luther, on ist Sept. 1525, wTOte his second letter to Henry VIII.; but 
 with bad taste published it before the King himself received it, which was 
 not till the 20th of March, 1526. Some time afterwards Henry printed 
 his answer, with Luther's letter; prefixing to both a short preface Pio 
 lectori ; all three in Latin : in a small book entitled Literarium, . . . 
 quihis respondet ad quandam epistolani Ltitheri, the printing of which was 
 finished by R. Pynson on the 2nd of December, 1526. 
 
 Not satisfied w^ith this, Henry subsequently had this work translated into 
 English : A copy of the letters wherm the most redouted and mighty prince\ 
 our soiierayne lorde kyng Henry the eight] kyng of Engla?ide and of Frauncej 
 defensor of the faith\ and lorde of Irelande : made answer e imto a certayne 
 letter of Marty n Luther j sent vnto hym by -the samej and also a copy of ye 
 foresayd Luther s letter j in suche order] as here after followeth : which was also 
 printed by Pynson, without date : but the latest date assignable to it cannot 
 be long after the beginning of 1527. For Jerome doubtless got the 
 account he gave to Roy of the Episcopal ' consistory,' from it. 
 
 To this English translation tliere was added in the King's name a special 
 preface in which occurs the following passage. 
 
 For we doute nat but it is well knowen to you all/ that Martyn Luther late a frere Augustynef and now 
 ron out in Apostacy and wedded/ hath nat onely scraped out of the asshen/ and kyndeled agayne/ almost 
 all the embres of those olde errours and heresyes/ that euer heretyke helde sythe Christ was borne 
 hytherto: but hath also added some so poysoned pointes of his ownej so wretched,) so vyle[ so detestable/ 
 prouokynge men to myschefe/ encoragyng the worlde to syn/ preachyng- an vnsaciat lyberte/ to alleden 
 them with all/ and finally/ so farre against all honesty/ vertue and reason/ that neuer was there 
 erst any heretyke/ so farre voyde of all grace and wyt/ that durst for shame speke them. 
 We therfore seyng these heresyes sprede abrode/ and inwardly sorowynge so many christen 
 soules to ron to ruyne/ as hath done in other regions/ by the occasyon of suche pestylent 
 errours/ entendyng for our parte/ somwhat to set hande therto/ wrote after our meane lernyng/ a 
 lytell treatyse/ for the assertyon and probatyon of the holy sacramentes : In whiche we reproued/ 
 and as we trust/ suffyciently refuted and conuynced/ the most parte of the detestable heresies of the 
 sayde Luther/ contaygned in his abhomynable bokef entytuledV^ Babilonica Captiuitate. For angre 
 and furj'e wherof] vpon two yeres after/ Luther wrote and sent oute agaynst vs a bokc/ nothyng answeryng 
 to ye mater/ but all reason sette asyde/ stuffed vp his booke with only furious raylyng/ whiche his boke we 
 regardynge/ as it was worthy/ contempned and nat wolde vouche safe any thing to reply/ reputyng our 
 selfe in Christes cause/ nat to good with a ryght meane man to reason or contrary/ but nothing metely 
 frutelesse with a leude Frere to rayle. So came it than to passe/ that Luther at laste/ parceyuyng wyse 
 men to espye hym/ lerned men to leaue hym/ good men to abhorre hym/ and his frantyke fauourers to fall to 
 wracke|«the nobles and honest people in Almaygne/ beynge taught by the profe of his vngratyous prac- 
 tyse/ moche more hurt and myschefe to folovve theroff than euer they loked .ifter/ deuysed a letter to vs/ 
 written/ to abuse them and all other nations/ in such wyse/ as ye by the contentes therof/ hereafter shal well 
 
THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 49 
 
 perceyue. In whiche he fayneth himselfc to be enformed/ that we be tourncd to the fauour of his secte. 
 And with many flateryng wordes/ he laboreth to haue vs content that he myght be bolde to write to vs in 
 the mater/ and cause of the gospell : And thervpon without answere had from vs/ nat oneiy publysshed the 
 same letter and put it in print/ of purpose that his adherentes shulde be the bolder/ vndcr ye 
 shadowe of our fauour/ but also fell in deuyce with one or two leude persons/ borne in this our realmef 
 for the translatyng of the Newe testament in to Englysshe/ as well with many corruptions of that holy 
 text/ as certayne prefaces/ and other pestylcnte gloses in the margentes' for the aduauncement and scttyng 
 forthe of his adbomynable heresyes/ entendynge to abuse the gode myndes and dcuotion/ that you oure 
 derely beloued people beare towarde the holy scrypture/ and to enfect you with the decdly corruption and 
 contagious -odour of his pestylent errours. In the aduoydynge wheroff we of our espedall tcndre zeale 
 towardes you/ haue with the deliberate aduyse of the most reuerende father in god/ Thomas lorde Cardynalll 
 legate de Latere of the see apostolyke/ Archebysshop of yorke/ primate and our Chauncellour of this realmrf 
 and other reuerende fathers of the spyritualtye/ determyned the sayd and vntrue translatyons to be brennedj 
 with further sharppe correction and punisshment against the kepars and reders of the same/ rckenyng of your 
 wisdomes very sure that ye wyll well and thankfully jjarceyue our tendre and louyng mynde towarde you 
 therin/ and that ye will neuer be so gredy vppon any swete wyne/ be the grape neuer so plesaunt/ that ye 
 
 wyll desyre to taste it/ beyng well aduertised yat your enemy before hath poysoned it 
 
 ^ We therfore our well-beloued people/ nat wyllyng you by such subtell meanes/ to be disceyued or 
 seduced/ haue of our especiall fauour toward you/ translated for you/ and gyuen out vnto you/ as well 
 his said letter written to vs/ as our answere also made vnto the same : By the sight wherofy jre may 
 partely parceyue bothe what the man is in hym selfe/ and of what sorte is his doctrine. 
 
 From the Bodleian copy of this excessively rare tract. 
 
 There was then indubitably a secret delibefation of the Cardinal and the 
 Bishops at some time after Tonstall's arrival home in April, 1526; and, as 
 we shall immediately see, before or in the October following. 
 
 2. One of the first results of this concerted action was the sermon at 
 Paul's Cross by Tonstall, Bishop of London, in which he told the people 
 that there were three thousand errors in the translation, and made the other 
 statements quoted by Roy, see pp. 30-31. On this occasion Tyndale's New 
 Testaments were first officially denounced, and publicly burnt. 
 
 Though the date of this Sermon and Auto da fi cannot be exactly 
 recovered, it may provisionally — until demonstrative proof turns up — be 
 placed in September or October of that year. 
 
 A confused rumour of the occurrence reached even to Rome ; and there 
 is extant a letter of Cardinal Campeggio to Wolsey, dated Rome, 21 
 November, 1526, which begins with the following passage — 
 
 Non possum non maxime Isetari, cum quottidie I cannot but greatly rejoice, when I hear dail> 
 intelligam a serenissimo et potentissimo Rege from our most serene and most powerful king, that 
 nostro ope[ra] et diligentia lUustrissimae Domina- by your most illustrious Lordship's assistance and 
 tionis vestrje, aliquod opus gloriosum et salutare diligence, a glorious and saving work is being car- 
 pro tuenda rcligione Christiana in isto su[o] regno ried on in his kingdom for the protection of the 
 geri, sicuti nuper cum summa eius laude et gloria Christian religion; as, for instance, we lately heard, 
 auditum est, Majestatem suam sacrum B[ibli3e] to his Majesty's great praise and glory, that he had 
 codicem,qui ad peruertendum pias fidelium simpli- most justly caused to be burnt a copy of the Holy 
 cium mentes a pcrfidis abominandx sectae Lut[her- Bible, which had been mistranslated into the common 
 anae] sectatoribus uemaculo sermone deprauatus, tongue by the faithless followers of Luther's abomin- 
 et ad eius regnum delatus fuerat, iustissime com- able sect, to pervert the pious minds of simple 
 bun fedsse. Quo certe nullum gratius onuiipotcnti believers, and had been brought into bisj^ingdom. 
 
 G 
 
so 
 
 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 Deo holocaustum fieri potuit. Persistat igitur 
 Illustrissima [Dominatio vestra] in ea in qua est 
 specula, et pium Christianissimumque illud 
 regnum a tarn scelerata et peruersa heresi, (uti 
 semper fecit) tueatur atque defendat, Vt Maximi 
 Regis nostri proprium decus sit Ch[ristianam] 
 fidem non minus felicissimis armis quam diuino 
 ingenio summis lucubrationibus . et exacta di- 
 lige[ntia] a sceleratis hostibus protexisse et in 
 tutiorem, felicioremque statum redegisse. Quod 
 ego, qui eivi[s] incomparabiles uirtutes optime noui, 
 omnibus affirm o, et futurum certissime confido. — 
 Cott. MSS. Vit. B. viii. 164. 
 
 Assuredly no burnt offering could be more pleasing 
 to Almighty God. 
 
 May your most Illustrious Lordship long continue 
 on your present vvatchtower, and protect and defend, 
 as you have always done, that pious and most 
 Christian kingdom, from so accursed and perverse 
 a heresy, so that the peculiar glory of our great 
 king may be to have protected the Christian faith 
 from the accursed enemies, not less by successful 
 war, than by his divine talents, great studies, and 
 careful diligence, and to have brought the faith into 
 a safer and more happy state. Of this, I, who well 
 know his incomparable virtues, assure every one, 
 and I most assuredly trust that it will be so. 
 
 Henry may have himself, as a symboHcal and official act, burnt one copy 
 of Tyndale's translation (for no English Bible existed at the time or for 
 long after) ; but it is far more reasonable to take the Rumour in Rome as 
 originating from the Burning at Paul's Cross. If so, allowing a month 
 backwards from 21 November for the news to travel to the Papal Court, 
 we get the middle of October as the approximate date of Tonstall's Sermon 
 and Bonfire. 
 
 3, This seems the more probable : inasmuch as without doubt that 
 Sermon and its attendant Fire were only a part of a general scheme of 
 attack on the Forbidden Book : and it was on the 24th of October, 1526, 
 that Tonstall issued the following injunction to his four Archdeacons of 
 London, , Middlesex, Essex, and Colchester, after the manner of the 
 following one. 
 
 Cutbertus permissione diuina Lond. Episcopus 
 dilecto nobis in Christo Archidiacono nostro 
 Londo. seu eius officiali, salutem gratiam et bene- 
 dictionem. 
 
 Ex pastoralis officij nostri debito ea quae ad subiec- 
 torum nostrorum periculum, et maxime ad interne- 
 tionem animarum earundem tendere dinoscuntur, 
 salubriter propellere et totis viribus extirpare as- 
 tringimur. Sane ex fide dignorum relatione ipsaque 
 rei euidentia, ad nostram iamdudum peruenit noti- 
 ciam, quod nonnulli iniquitatis filij ac Lutheranae 
 factionis ministri quos summa excaecauit malicia, a 
 /ia veritatis et orthodoxae fidei declinantes, sanctum 
 del euangelium in vulgare nostrum Anglicanum 
 subdola ver&utia transferentes ac nonnullos haere- 
 ticae prauitatis articulos et opiniones erroneas pemi- 
 ciosas pestiferas, scandalosas et simplicium mentium 
 seductiuas intermiscentes, illibatam hactenus sacrae 
 scripturae maiestatem, suis nepharijs et tortuosis 
 interpretationibus prophanare, et verbo domini sa- 
 crosancto et recto sensu eiusdem callide et peruerse 
 abuti tentarint. Cuius quidem translationis non- 
 
 TRANSLATION BY JOHN FOX. 
 
 Cutbert by the permission of god, byshop of 
 London, vnto our wellbeloued in christ the 
 Archdeacon of London, or to his officiali, helth 
 grace and benediction. 
 
 By the deuty of our pastorall office, we are 
 bounde diligently with all our power to forsee, 
 prouide for, roote out and put away all those 
 things, which seme to tende to the perill and 
 daunger of our subiectes and specialy ye distruc- 
 tion of ther soules, wherfor we hauing vnderstand- 
 ing by ye reporte of diuers credible persones, and 
 also by the euident apparaunce of the matter, that 
 many children of iniquitie mainteiners of Luthers 
 sect, blinded through extreame wickednes, wandring 
 from the way of truth and the catholike faith, 
 craft[e]ly haue translated the new testament into 
 our English tongue, entermedling therewith many 
 hereticall articles and erronious opinions, pernicious 
 and offensiue, seducing ye simple people, attempt- 
 ing by their wicked and peruerse interpretations 
 to prophanate ye maiestie of the scripture, whiche 
 hetherto hath remayned vndefiled, and craftely to 
 
THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 null! libri impress! quidam cum glosis, quidam sine 
 glo&is, vt accepimus, dictum pcstifcrum ct pemici- 
 osum virus in vulgari idiomate in sc continentes in 
 promiscuam nostrarum dioc. et iurisdictionis Lond. 
 multitudine sunt disi>ersi, qui sane gregem nobis 
 commissum, nisi citius prouideatur tarn pestifcro 
 veneno et mortifero prauitatis hsercticac morbo, pro- 
 culdubio inficient et contaminabunt in animarum 
 nobis commissarum graue periculum et diuinae 
 maiestatis grauissimam ofTensam. 
 
 Vnde nos Cutbertus episcopus ante dictus de pre- 
 dictis magnopere dolentes et antiqui hostis calliditati 
 ire, quam suis satellitibus ad animarum subditorum 
 nostrorum interemptionem subministrat, ob<iiam 
 curaque pastorali super grege nobis commisso 
 diligenter inuigilare ac remedia opp>ortuna praemissis 
 adhibere cupientes, vobis coiunctira el diuisim 
 committimus ac firmiter in virtute sanctx obediendae 
 qua nobis tenemini iniungendo mandamus, quatenus 
 autoritate nostra moneatis monerive facialis omnes 
 et singulos lam exemptos quam non exemptos, 
 infra vestrum Archidiaconatum vbi libet commo- 
 rantes, quatenus infra xxx. dierum spadum quo- 
 rum quidem dierum decem pro primo, decem pro 
 secundo, el decem pro lertio et peremptcrio termino 
 sub excommunicationis poena ac criminis haereseos 
 suspicionis incurrendae eis assignamus, omnes et 
 singulos huiusmodi libros translationem noui lesta- 
 menti in vulgarem linguam factam continent^ ad 
 nos seu nostrum in spiritualibus vicarium generalem 
 inferanl el realiter iradant. Et quid in pra;missis 
 feceritis nos aut vicarium nostrum huiusmodi infra 
 duos menses a die dati presentium debite cerlifi- 
 care personaliter vel per literas veslras patentes 
 vna cum praesentibus autenlice sigillalas non omit- 
 talis sub poena conlemptus. 
 
 Dal. sub sigillo nosiro 24. die mensis Octobris An. 
 M.D. 26, nostraecons. An. quinlo. 
 
 Fox, Actes, &'c., p. 449. \st Ed. 1563. 
 
 abuse the raoste holy word of God, and the true 
 sence of the same, of the whichc transblion there 
 arc many bokes imprinted, some with gloses and 
 some without, conteining in the cnglish tongue 
 that pestiferous and moste pernicious poyson dis- 
 persed throughout all our dioces of London in 
 great nomber, whiche truely without it be spedely 
 fursene without doubt will contaminate and infect 
 the flocke committed vnto vs, with rooste deadly 
 poyson and heresy. To the greuous perill and 
 daunger of the soules committed to our charge, and 
 the offence of gods diuine maicstie. 
 
 Wherfore we Cuthbert the byshop aforesaid, 
 greuously sorowing for the premisses, willing to 
 withstande the craft and subteltie of the auncient 
 enemy and his ministers, which seke the deslruc- 
 ion of my flock, and with a diligent care to take 
 heade vnto the flock committed to my charge, de- 
 siring to prouide spedy remedies for ye premisses, 
 we charg[e] you ioinlly and seuerally, and by virtue 
 of your obedience, straightly enioyne and com- 
 maund you that by our autorj'tie you wame or 
 cause to be warned, all and singuler aswell exempte 
 as not exempt, dwelling with in your Archdecon[rieJs. 
 that with in. xxx. dales space, whereof ten daies 
 for the first, x. for ihe second and. x. for ye third 
 peremptory terme, vnder pajTie of excommunica- 
 tion, and incurring the suspicion of heresie, they 
 do bring in and really deliuer vnto our vicau" general, 
 all and singuler such books conteyning the trans- 
 lation of ye new testament in the English tongue, 
 and that you doo certyfie vs or our said commissary, 
 within, ii. monthes, after ihc day of the date of 
 these presents, dewly, personally or by your leters, 
 together with these presenles, vnder your seales, 
 what you haue done in the premisses, vnder paine of 
 contempt. 
 
 Geuen vnder our seale the xxKi[j]. of October, in 
 the V. yeare of oure consecration. 
 
 '^tl'> 
 
 i*. A further presumption of a previous examination of the Transla- 
 tion, and a concerted plan respecting it, may be found in that the gravamen 
 of Archbishop Warham's Mandate of 3 Nov., 1526, as addressed to Voysey, 
 Bishop of Exeter, is identical with that of Tonstall's Injunction. 
 
 Willielmus, permissione divina Cant, archiepiscopus, etc. vener. confratri nosiro domino Johanni, Dei 
 gratia Exon. episcopo, vestrove vicario in spiritualibus generali, salutem, et fratemam in Domino charitatcm. 
 
 Ex pastoralis officii nostri debito ea, quae ad subjectorum nostrorum, periculum el maximc ad inteme- 
 donem animarum earundem tendere dignoscuntur, salubriter propellere, et totis viribus extirpare astnn- 
 gimur. Sane ex fide dignorum relatione ipsaque rei evidentia ad nostram jamdudum pervcnit notitiam, 
 quod nonnuUi iniquitatis filii, ac Lutheranae factionis minislri, quos summa excaccavit malilia, a via 
 veritaiis el orlhodoxse fidei declinantcs, non modo sanctum Dei e\-angelium, sed etiam rcliquam Novi 
 Testamcnti partem in vulgare nostrum Anglicanum subdola versutia transfcrenies, ac nonnulloshaereticae 
 praviiatis ar^iculos, et opiniones erroneas, pemiciosas, pestiferas, tcandalotat, et simplidum aaentiuu 
 seductivas intromiscentes, illibatam baaenus sacrae scripturae msgestatem, sub ncfarils ct tortuoais inter- 
 
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52 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 pretdtionibus profanare, et verbo Domini sacrosancto, et recto sensu ejusdem callide et perverse abuti 
 temptarunt. Cujus quidem translationis nonnulli libri impress!, quidam cum glossis, quidam sine glossis, 
 ut accepimus, dictum pestiferum et perniciosum virus in vulgari idiomate in se continentes, in promiscuam 
 vestrarum dioec. et provinciae Cant, multitudinem sunt dispersi, qui sane gregem nobis et vobis com- 
 missum, in [ni ijcitius provideatur, tarn pestifero veneno, et mortifero pravitatis haereticae morbo pro- 
 culdubio inficient, et contaminabunt, in animarum nobis et vobis commissarum grave periculum, et divinae 
 majestatis gravissimam offensam. 
 
 Unde nos Willielmus, archiepiscopus antedictus, de praedictis magnopere dolentes, et antiqui hostis 
 calliditate, quam suis satellitibus, ad animarum dictorum nostrorum subditorum interemptionem subminis- 
 trat, obviam ire volentes, vos hortamur et nihilominus (quia res gravis praejudiccii agitur) in virtute 
 sanctae obedientiae firmiter injungendo mandamus, quatenus cum ea, qua decet, celeri diligentia moneatis, 
 monerive faciatis omnes et singulos, tarn exemptos quam non exemptos, infra vestram dioec. ubilibet com- 
 morantes, quatenus infra 30. dierum spatium, quorum quidem dierum decern pro primo, decem pro 
 secundo, et decem pro tertio et peremptorio termino, sub excommunicationis poena, ac criminis haereseos 
 suspicionis incurrendo eis assignetur, omnes et singulos huiusmodi libros, translationem Novi Testamenti, 
 vel aliquam ejus particulam in vulgarem linguam factam continentes, ad vos seu vestrum in spiritualibus 
 vicarium generalem inferant, et realiter tradant per vos seu vestram auctoritatem igni committendos. Et 
 quid inpraemissis feceritis, n9S citra ultimum diem mensis lanuarii prox. post datam praesentium per 
 literas vestras patentes auctentice sigillatas, numerum librorum hujusmodi ad manus vestras obtentu 
 praefatae monitionis delatorum, ac per vos, ut, praemittitur, numeratorum [incineratorum^] in se continentes, 
 una cum prsesentibus debite certificare non omittatis sub poena contemptus. 
 
 Dat. in manerio nostro de Lamehith tertio die mensis Novembris, anno Dom. M. D. xxvi, et nostras 
 transl. xxiii. Wilkins Concilia Magnce Britannice, iii. 706. Ed. 1737. 
 
 5. Then probably in order of time next came King Henry's Preface 
 to his people, about the beginning of 1527 ; quoted above. 
 
 6. There is also a short but singularly important note from Dr. Robert 
 Ridley, chaplain to Tonstall, Bishop of London, to Henry Golde, nephew 
 and chaplain to Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, which possibly gives 
 the title of this Quarto New Testament. The date is only 24 February ; 
 but we believe from the absence of any mention of the later Protestant 
 literature (Tyndale's Parable of the Wicked Mammon and the like) and the 
 general tenor of the note, that the year is without any doubt 1527. 
 
 Robert Ridley to Henry Golde. 
 Maister Golde, I hartly commande me vnto you. As concernyng this common and vulgare translation 
 of the new testament in to englishe, doon by Mr, William Hichyns, otherwais called Mr. W, Tyndale, and 
 frear William Roy, manifeste lutheranes heretikes and apostates, as doth oppynly apeir, not only by their 
 daily and continuall company and familiarite with Luther and his disciples, bot mych mor by their com- 
 mentares and annotationes in Mattheum et Marcum in the first print,* also by their preface in the 2d prent,* 
 and by their introduccion in to the epistle of Paule ad Romanes* al to gither most posoned and abhominable 
 hereses that can be thowght ; he is not filius Ecclesise Christi that wold receaue a godspell of such damned and 
 precised heretikes, thowh it wer trew, lyk as Paule and our Saviour Crist wold not take the trew testimonial 
 of Evil Spretes that prased Criste trew saying Qjiod filius dei erat,^ et quod ipse Paulus servus esset vert 
 Dei.^ As for errours if ye haue the first prent with annotationes in Mattheum et Marcum, and the preface, ''al 
 
 __ ' True readings in the copy in Voysey's Register * Separate publications simultaneously published. 
 
 ii. 51. at Exeter. See Foxe's Acts, ?/c., iv. 764. ' The present Quarto. 
 
 Ed. by Rev. S. Townsend, M.A., 1846. ♦An aaaptatiou by Tyndale of Luther's Preface, 
 
 John Voysey, alias Harman, was Bishop of translated into Latin'by Justus Jonas in 1522. 
 
 Exeter between 31 Aug., 1519, and 14 Aug., 1551. ^Mark iii. 11. ^Actsxvi. 17. ^ i.e. The Prologge. 
 
THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 53 
 
 is mere frcnesy, he saith that cuangelium nihil est aliud quam dulcis promissio gratiae,' so that by that meanes 
 pcenitentiam agite, is no part of the euangelion, the pater noster is no part of the godspell, ite maledicti in 
 igncm etemam, no part of the euangelion hot only such appropitujuabit rrgnum caelorunt,*iHueHutU rtquUm 
 aHi>Mal>Ms z'estris.* Also he writ[eth] in that preface and annotationes that there is no difference between 
 virginite and an hoor of the stewes, if she cum to repentaunce> Also that lyk as no man doth evil to the 
 entent that he show[d] be punyshed or hanged therefor, so no man showd do good to haue any rewarde 
 therefor,* contra <u/ facUndas iustiJicatioHes tuas propter retributionem^ et ad Hcbraws de Mose 
 aspicitbat enim in rvmuturatorem alias remuneratiotum^ et illud, facite vobis amicos de mammtrna, ut 
 cufK defeceritis, rfcipi-tnt eos in oftema tabemacMla.^ Also that by good warkes we do no thyng merite,' 
 contra illud, ad Corinthos, ut referat UKUsquisque prout gessit siue bonum, siue malum}^ et illud 
 genes(eos] ad Abraam, quod fecisti hanc rem etc.^^ item illud ^Matthaei, quod sitivi et dedistis miki 
 Potum <Sr»c." et, venite benedict i patris mei.^ Also he saith that he that doth any thyng to haue hy 
 place in heven, he is Satanice et Luciferine superbus.* I haue none of thies bowkes bot only I remembre 
 such thj-nges I redde in the prefaces and annotationes. As for the texte of the godspell first the title is 
 hereticall, saying that it is prcnt as it was writen by the euangelistes:'* cum neque consentiat cum antiqua 
 translatione neque cum Erasmica ; this is the bowk of generacion of iesus the sonne of Abraam and also 
 the Sonne of Dauid.i* Cum in archetypo sit nominatus absolutus, et in illo, filii Abraam, /ilii Dauid.^^&'c. 
 fit sensus, ipse unum solum affert eumque minus germanum ; voluit clam ab ea divertere}'' he wold haue 
 putt hir away ; in quo omnes peccaverunt^^ ad Romanos, in so mych that euery man hath synned. et homo 
 stultissime, pcenitentiam agite,^"* repent*** — By this translation shall we losse al thies cristian wordes, 
 penaunce, charite, confession, grace, prest, chirche, which he alway calleth a congregation, quasi 
 turcharum et brutorum nulla esset congregatio, nisi velit illorum etiam esse ecclesiam ; Idololatria 
 callith he worshippyng of images. I wold that ye showd haue seen my lordes bowkes. As for the 
 translation in Franche withowt any p>ostille it is for certane condemned in Parys decreto publico,*' thow it 
 be trewly doon, condemned I say, that it shal not be lawful! to publishe it to euery layman — bot by prests 
 qncrum labia custodiunt s[cientiam].'' and so it was in the old law and in the tyme of the apostles. 
 Vide Sutorem de translatione biblia.^ 
 
 I certify you if ye look well, ye shal not look iij lynes withowt fawt in al the bowk, bot I haue not the 
 bowk to marke tham owt, ye showld haue had lasure yourselff to haue doen it, how be it, it becummyth 
 the people of Criste to obey and folow their rewellers which hath geven study and is lemed in such 
 matters as their people showd heir and beleve, thai showd not iudge the doctrine of Paule ne of Paule 
 vicares and successours bot be iudged by their learrijTig as long as thai knaw nothyng contrary Goddes 
 lawes as Saynt Bernard saith most goodly and clerkly in libro de dispensatione et pracepto. 
 
 Vale in al haist Your awne, Robert Ridlev, priest. 
 
 Item, illud PauH, stuUas qucestitmes devita ^/f.**— bewarre of fowlishe problemes or qucstiones in the 
 scoles. Hoc procul dubio dictum in odium scolasticx theologiz et universitatum. Such a thyng is in 
 the translation, thowh it be not in the same wordes. Ego et pater ttnum^ sumus,^ We ar on, quasi 
 diceret, unus *> sumus, and not on substance or on thyng. Shew yc to the people that if any be of so 
 prowde and stubume stomac that he will beleve there is no fawt ne errour except it be declared to hym 
 that he may se it, latt hym cum hither to my lorde*^ which hath profowndly examined al and he shal heir 
 and se errours except that he be bl>'nde and haue no eys.** 24 FcbruariL 
 
 Master Gold, I pray you be goode to this pore whoman, Gyl Barttes wh3rff, as yet your tenawnt.** 
 
 * See p. 3 oi prologge. » Matt. iii. 2. portions of the Scripture was passed on s8 Aug. 
 » Matt. XI. 29. * Stc p. z'l of prologge. 1525. Lelong. Bibl.Sacrte, i.^ZS- ** Mai. iL 7. 
 » Sec pp. 13, 14 of Prologge. « Ps. cxix. 112. *» A Carthusian monk, Pierre Sutoris, who was 
 ' Heb. xL 26. » Luke xvi. 9. also a Doctor of Theology, wrote De Tra/atione 
 
 • See /. 8 ofproloare. '<• 2 Cor. v. la Biblite, et noroarum reprobatione tnterpretationttm. 
 " Gen. xxii.i6. "Matt. xxv. 35. " Matt. xxv. 34. Licensed 5 Dec. 1524. ITie printing by Jehan Petit 
 *« From the quotation Rom. lii. 23 immediately finished 28 Feb. 1525. The 22nd and ust rhap<<?r 
 
 following, I take this title to be that of the New deals with vernacular translations. 
 
 Testaments, both wanting in the only copies known. •♦ 2 Tim. ii. 23. •* Neuter. •• Johii x. 3a "^ Maac 
 " See text "at /» 17. _ *• Matt. i. i. " A significant admission of the cstimatioa that 
 
 W Matt. i. 19. »• Rom. iiL 23. '» Matt. iiL 2. T>'ndale s. Testaments were held in by the people. 
 ^ i.e. Repent msie^A of Do penance. ** Tonstall would have tried impruoameiit and 
 
 *• The arrit of the Parliament of Paris condemn- punishment to improve their eyesigat. 
 
 ing Le Fevrc d'Etaples' translation into French of ■' 'ITiis line is written in a diOerent t m ^ d , 
 
54 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 Ye shal not neede to accuse this translation. It is accused and damned by the consent of the prelates 
 and learned men, and commanded to be brynt, both heir and beyonde the see, wher is many hundreth 
 of tham brynt, so that it is to layt now to ask reson why that be condemned, and which be the fawtes 
 and errours. 
 
 Luther and his scoole teachith quod nos non cooperamus cum gratia dei, sed tantum patimur ut saxa 
 et stipites, bycawse of that this texte, non ego sed gratia dei mecum,'^ thus is translate, not I bot the grace 
 of God in me. Quam hoc hoeretice, maligne, seditiose et falso translatum sit, qui non perpendit, stupidus 
 est. My lorde your master hath of thies bowkes geven and sende to hym by my lorde my master. 
 
 Shew the people that ye be cum to declare vnto tham, that certai[n] bowkes be condemned by the 
 cownsell and profownde examination of the prelates and fathers of the chirch. 
 
 Addressed. To Master Henry Golde, Chaplayne to my lorde of Canterbery, at Knolle. 
 
 Cott. MSS., Cleo. E. v. : f. 362. b. 
 
 7. Meanwhile, the Archbishop of Canterbury had been actively but quietly 
 at work, buying up, through his agents abroad, all the English New Testa- 
 ments he possibly could obtain. This action on the part of Warham but 
 further illustrates the great union and activity of the English Hierarchy in 
 stamping out the condemned translation. 
 
 Having completed his purchases, and apparently believing that he had 
 bought up the whole of the three Editions by this time in existence, the 
 Archbishop issued, on the 26th May 1527, a circular letter to his suffragan 
 Bishops soliciting contributions towards these expenses. We obtain our 
 knowledge of 'what he had thus accomplished, from the following reply of 
 Nix, the blind Bishop of Norwich. 
 
 In right humble maner I commende me vnto your goode Lordeshippe doyinge the same t'undrestande that 
 I lately receyued your Lettres, dated at your Manor of Lambethe the xxvj daie of the monethe of Maij ; 
 by the whiche I do perceyue that youre Grace hath lately goten into your handes all the boks of the Newe 
 Testamente translated into Englesshe and pryented beyonde the Sea, aswele those^ with the gloses ioyned 
 vnto theym as th'oder ^ withoute the gloses, by meanes of exchaunge by you made therfore, to the somme 
 of Ixvj/z ixj m]d. f;^997.] 
 
 Surely, in myn opynion, you haue done therin a graciouse and a blessed dede, and God, I doubt not, 
 shall highly rewarde you therfore. And where in your said Letters, ye write that in so moche as this 
 mater and the daunger therof of remedie had not be prouyded shulde not only haue towched you, but all 
 the Busshopes within your Province ; and that it is no reason that the holle charge and coste therof 
 shulde reste only in you ; but that they and euery of theym for their parte shulde avaunce and contribute 
 certain sommes of money towarde the same ; I for my parte wulbe contented to avaunce in their behalue, 
 and to make paymente therof vnto Maister William Potkyn your servaunte. 
 
 Pleaseth it you t'undrestande that I am right wele contented to yeve and avaunce in this behalue ten 
 marks [at i3J.4«f.=;^6 13J. 4^., equal to ;£ioo now], and shall cause the same to be delyuered vnto the said 
 maister Potkyn shortely, the which somme I thinke sufficient for my parte, if euery Busshopp within your 
 said Provynce make like contribution and avauncemente after the rate and substance of their benefices. 
 Neuer the lesse if your Grace thinke this somme of ten marks not sufficient for my parte in this mater, your 
 fudre pleasure knowen, I shalbe as gladde to conforme my self ther unto in this or any other mater 
 concernynge the Churche, as any your subgiet within your Provynce. As knowes Almighty God, who 
 
 ' I Cor. XV. 10. Endhoven reprinted the Quarto and not the Octavo. 
 
 ' ' TVi^j^ with the gloses . . . ^/iWifr withoute If so, would that afford a presumption that the 
 the gloses' would seem to show that Christopher Quarto was published before the Octavo? 
 
THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. ^^ V^ - 
 
 longe preserue you to his most pleasure and your herts desire. At Hoxne in Suff. the xiiij. daie of Junii 'W^^ » ** ^. ' 
 1527. Yor humble obediencier and baidman R. Norwicbn. *i, ^^ J 
 
 I wold be as gladd to wayte vpon your Lordeshipp and do my duetie vnto you as any man lyvinge, ^^«»— _— - 
 
 but I thinke I can not so do this somer. I praye God I may have some tyme for to do it. 
 
 Sir H. Ellis* OH^nal Letters, 3rd Ser. it. 86-92. Ed. 1846. The Original b Cott. MSS. Vitell. B. ix., 
 fol. 117. orig. 
 
 With this letter we must conclude our notice of the events of 1527, the 
 second year of the New Testaments being in this country. 
 
 8. It was in 1528 that the persecution first began against the readers of 
 the New Testament. On the 7th March of that year, Tonstall, Bishop of 
 London, licensed Sir Thomas More, then Chancellor of the Duchy of Lan- 
 caster, to have and read Lutheran books, in order that he might confute 
 them ; 'For as muche as you, dearly beloued brother, can playe the 
 Demosthenes, both in this our Englyshe tongue and also in the Latin.' ^ 
 
 More immediately set to work and published, before the end of the year, 
 his Dyaloge ; which was the first instalment of a long controversy in the 
 course of which he successively attacked Tyndale, Barnes, Frith, and Sir 
 John Some; which controversy lasted up to his imprisonment in 1535, that 
 ended in his ever to be lamented death. 
 
 In More's Dyaloge we get at the way the English Bishops counted up 
 the three thousand errors in Tyndale's translation. The book is an 
 imaginary Dialogue between himself and the confidential messenger of a 
 friend to whom (cumberously enough) he writes an account of their 
 conversation, as if the messenger would not have reported it himself. It is 
 a distortion of the Table Talk which constitutes the framework of Utopia^ 
 just as the whole of More's well meant efforts in the controversy are a dis- 
 tortion of the natural bent of his genius, leading him to a reckless vituper- 
 ation of his opponents. 
 
 |ot now I pray you let rae know your mjmde concemyng the bumyng of the newe testament 
 in englysh whiche TyTidall lately translated/ and (as men say) ryght well/ which maketh 
 men moche meruayll of ye bumyng. 
 C It is quod I to me great meruayll/ that any good crysten man hauying any drop of wyt in his hede/ wold 
 any thyng meruayll or complayne of the bumynge of that booke yf he knowe the matter. Whych who so 
 callyth the newe testament calleth it by a wronge namcf except they wyll call it Tyndals testament or 
 Luthers testament For so had Tyndall after Luthers counsayle corrupted and chaunged it from the 
 good and holsom doctryne of Cryste to the deuylysh heresyes of theyr owne that it was clcne a contrary 
 thyng. 
 
 4[ That were memayle quod your frende that it dioide be so dene contrary. For to some that red it it 
 semed very lyke, 
 
 < It is quod I neuer the lesse contrary/ and yet the more peryllous. For lyke as to a trew lylu^r grote 
 as false coper grote is neuer the lesse contrary thoughe it be quycke syluered ouer/ but so muche the more 
 false in bowe moche it is counterfeted the more lyke to the trouth/ so was the iranslacyon so moche the 
 
 • The Bishop's letter is given by Fox in his Acles, &*€., //. 491-3. Ed. iS^J* 
 
56 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 more contrary in how moche it was craftely deuysed lyke/ and so moche the more peryllous in howe 
 moche it was to folke vnlernyd harde to be dyssernyd. 
 
 C Why quod your frende what fautys were there in it ? 
 
 C To tell j^ou all that quod If were in a maner to reherse you all the hole boke/ wherein there were 
 founden and noted wronge or falsly translated aboue a thousande textys by tale. 
 
 C I wolde quod he fayne here some one. 
 
 <[ He that sholde quod I study for that/ sholde study where to fynde water in the see. But I wyll shewe 
 you for ensample two or thre suche as euery one of the thre is more than thryes thre in one. 
 
 C That were quod he very stfaunge excepte ye mene more in weyght. For one can be but one in 
 nomber. 
 
 <[ Surely quod I as weyghty be they as any lyghtly can be. But I mene that euery one of them is more 
 than thryes thre in nomber. 
 
 <I That were quod he some what lyke a rydelf. 
 
 C This rydell quod I wyll sone be red. For |he hath mysse translated three wordes of grete weyght and 
 euery one of them is as I suppose more than thryse three tymes repeted and reherced in the boke. 
 
 C Ah that maye well be quod he/ but that was not well done. But I pray you what wordes be they ? 
 
 <[ The one is quod I this worde prestys. The other the chyrche. The thyrde charyte. For prestys 
 where so euer he speketh of the prestes of Crystes chyrche he neuer calleth them prestes but alway 
 senyoursj the chyrche he calleth alway the congregacyon| and charyte he calleth alway loue. — 
 Book III. c. 8. /ol. 97. Ed, 1530. 
 
 More touched the apple of T)nidale's eye in thus charging his translation 
 with intentional falsification. So the first half of his Aiiswej-e is occupied 
 with giving ' a reason of certayne wordes which Master More rebuketh/ as — 
 
 What the church is ? Whey he vsed this worde congregacion rather than church ? Why elder and not 
 presti Why loue rather then chary tel "^Yiy fauoure and not grace 1 Why knowledge and not 
 confessyon\ refeiitaunce and not penatmce ? 
 
 Tyndale herein defended the new ideas which he had associated to the 
 old familiar words. 
 
 When therefore in the second part of his Answere he comes to the 
 above passage all the reply he vouchsafes to it is this : — 
 
 Vnto church/ prest/ charite/ grace/ confession and penaunce is answered him in the begynnynge of the 
 boke. And when he sayth Tyndale was confederatt with Luther that is not trueth. Fol. xcij. 
 
 9. In the months of February to June, 1528, Bishop Tonstall, assisted by 
 his Vicar General, Geoffrey Wharton, D.D.,made inquisition as regards Bible 
 reading heretics until, as he writes to Wolsey, on the 15 March of that year 
 respecting a suspected Reader, ' I committed hym to the Flete bycause al 
 my presons be ful off other persons out off the fordest parte of my Diocese.' 
 To give an account of all the depositions obtained in this inquisition would 
 be to write the history of the English Reformation of this and some previous 
 years. Somewhat we have gathered already in respect to the Distributors, 
 and our space will only permit us to quote one other account of the early 
 readers of our now familiar Testaments. 
 
 10. There is preserved in the first edition of Fox's Ades, &"€.., an intensely 
 graphic but unfinished memorandum, written from memory in 1562, 
 expressly for the martyrologist, by Anthony Dalaber, an Oxford scholar. 
 
THE PERSECUTICX IX ENGLAND. 57 
 
 C CoHCtrttingt tkt stcrye of Thomas Caret, and thingts dotu in Oxforde, by his time, rtporietl to vs 
 by Antony Dalaberi who ivas present at the same. 
 
 |N theyeare of our Lord God a 1536.' or there aboutc, maister Ball of Martyn CoUedge, and 
 
 master Cole of Magdalen Colledge bcinge proctoures in the moneth of February,' \i e. 1598] 
 
 maister Garel' curate of Hoonye lane in London, came vnto Oxforde, and broughtc with him 
 
 sondrye bokes in Lattcn trealinge of the Scripture, with the fyrste part of Vnio Jissidentium, 
 
 and Tindals fyrste translation of the new Testament in English, the which bookes he solde to diuers 
 
 scholers in Oxford, whose names for his accomptable memorye belike, he wrote in a small booke of 
 
 accomptes. 
 
 After he had bene there a while, and had dispatched those bookes, newes came from London that he 
 was searched for in all Tendon to be apprehended and taken as an heretike, and to haue bene emprisonned, 
 for sellinge of those heretical bokes (as they termed them) because they spake againste the vsurpcd 
 autoritye, and mooste filthye doctrine, of that very Antichrist the bishoppe of Rome, and his no lesse fylthye 
 and wicked sinagoge, for it was knowen vnto Cardinall Wolsey, and to the Bishoppe of London, and to 
 other of that vngodly generation, that master Caret had a greate nomber of those hereticall bookes, as 
 the worlde then counted them, and that he was gone to Oxforde to make sale of them there to suche as he 
 knew to be louers of the Gospell. Wherefore they determined forthwith to make a preuye searche thorowe 
 all Oxforde to take and imprison him if they mighte, and to bume all and euerye his foresaide bookes and 
 him to, if they coulde : so buminge whotte was the charitye of those mooste holye fathers. 
 
 But yet at that time one of the foresaide proctors, master Cole of Maudelen Colledge, who after was 
 Crosse bearer vnto the Archbishop of Yorke, was well acquainted with master Caret, and therefore he 
 gaue scacrete wamynge on the Tuesday before Shrofetuesday [18 Feb.] vnto a frende or two of master 
 Garettes of this preuy search and willed therfore that he shoulde forthwith as secreatlye as he possyble 
 coulde, depart oute of Oxforde, for if he were taken in the same search, no remeady but that he should 
 be foiihwith sent vp vnto the Cardinal, and so should be Committed vnto the towre. The Christmas 
 before that time [i.e. 1527] Antony Dalaber then scholer of Albome Haull, who hadde bookes of master 
 Carets, hadde bene in his country in Dorsette shire at Stalbridge wher he had a brother person of 
 that Parish, who was verj-e desirous to haue a Curate oute of Oxforde, and willed me the said Antonye 
 in anye wise to get hym one ther if I could, then this iust occasion offred, it was thoughte good among; 
 the brethren (for so did we not only call one an other, but were in dede one to the other) that master 
 Garret chaunginge bis name shoulde be sente forth wjnh my letters into Dorsette shire vnto my brother, 
 to seme him there for a time vntill he mighte secreatly from thence conuaye him self som where ouer 
 the sea. According here vnto I wrote my letters in all hast possible vnto my brother, for maister Caret 
 to be his curate; but not declaringe what he was in deede. For my brother was a mayster of Arte and 
 rancke Papist, and after was the most mortall ennemye that eucr I hadde for the Gospjelles sake. 
 
 So the Wensdaye in the mominge before shroftide [19 Feb.] master Caret departed out of Oxford 
 towarde Dorset shire with my letters for hys new seruice, how farre he went, and by what occasion he so 
 sone returned I know not, but the friday next [21 Feb.] inThe nighte time he came againe vnto Radleis 
 house where he lay before, and so after midnight in the priuy search which was then made for him, he was 
 apprehended and taken there in his bed by the two proctors, and on the Saterday [22 Feb.] in the mominge 
 
 * This date has unfortunately been a fmitful commissary [= vice-chancellor) by the designment 
 
 source of error to many writers. The year is 1528, - of the Chancellor Archbp. Warham: and took his 
 
 not 1526. The Testaments were hardly arrived in the oath on 7 Dec. 1527. IVood, Fasti Oxen. i. 76. Ed. 
 
 country in Feb. 1526 : but there h.-»d been in the two 1815. 
 
 following years sufficient time to form the associa- (') In the first letterof the Garret corre<!pondcnce 
 
 tion, * the little flock ' of the ' brethren ' at Oxford occurs 'Thys monday the ^'nthias' : 
 
 referred to in the narrative. Yet is there a certain which occurred in 1528. i -ndered 
 
 tmth in the statement, for Pall and Cole were the indubitable by other poiiK-. >.; ....^. ..... ^..Jcncein 
 
 successive senior Proctors ; S. Ball of Merton Col- the letters connected with Garret's apprehension, in 
 
 lege being so elected on n Apr. 1526 and so remain- the State Paper office. _ 
 
 ing till 7 May 1527, when he was succeeded by A. • 1517- Th > '^as this year 
 
 Cole of Magdalen College, who held that office until admitted : h\v 1 , appears not, 
 
 21 Apr. 1528 ; and was therefore the senior Proctor because the 1 ,. >wever m the 
 
 at the time of Garret's apprehension in Feb. 1528. year following he occurs by llie uUe of Batch, of 
 
 (») John Cottysford, D. D., of Lincoln Coll., became Arts. Wood, idem. /. 45. 
 
 H 
 
58 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 deliuered vnto one Dfoctor] Cotissford, master of Lincoln colledge then beinge commissarye of the vniuer- 
 sitye, who kepte him as prisoner in his own Chamber. There was great ioye and reioysinge, among all 
 the Papistes for his apprehension and especially with D[octor]. London Warden of the New colledge, and 
 D[octor]. Higdon deane of Frideswides^ two Archpapistes. Who immediatly sent their letters in post hast 
 vnto the Lord Cardinal to enforme him of the apprehension of this notable heretike . for the whiqhe their 
 doinge, they were well assured to haue great thankes. 
 
 But of all this sodaine hurly burly, was I vtterly ignoraunt, so that I knew, neither of master Carets so 
 sodaine retourne, neyther that he was so taken. For after I had sent him oute of Oxford with my letters, 
 as before is saj^de, the same weke, having taken a chamber in Glocester Colledge,^ for that purpose to 
 studye the ciuil law, because the scholers in Alborne HalP were all arceturs ;* I remoued all suche poore 
 stuffe as I had from thence vnto Glocester colledge, and there was I much busied in setting vp ijkorder of 
 my bed, of my bokes, and of such thinges as I els had, so that I had no leiser to go forthe any where 
 those two dales, Fridaye and Saterday. And hauing set vp all my thinges handsomely in order the same 
 daye [Sat. 22 Feb.] before none, I determined to spende that whole after none, vntil Euensonge time at 
 Frisewide colledge,^ at my boke in mine owne studye, and so shutte my chamber doore vnto me, and my 
 study dore also, and toke in my hand to read Frances Lambert vpon the gospel of Saint Luke, which 
 booke only I had then within there, all my other bookes wrytten on the scripture, of which I had a great 
 nomber, as of Erasmus, of Luther, Oecolampadius etc. I had yet lefte in my chamber at Alborne Hall, 
 where I had made a very secreat place to keep them safe in, because it was so dangerous to haue any 
 such bokes. 
 
 And so as I was diligently readinge in the said boke of Lambert vpon Luke, sodenly one knocked at my 
 chamber dore verye hard, which made me astonied, but yet I sate stil and would not speak, then he 
 knocked again more harder, and yet I held my peace, and straighte way he knocked yet againe more 
 fierslye, and then I thought this, peraduenture it is some body that hath nede of me,'^nd therfore I 
 thought me bound to doo, as I would be done vnto and so laying my boke a side, I came to ye dore and 
 opened it. And there was maister Garret as a mased manne, whome I thoughte then to haue bene with my 
 brother, and one with him, assone as I saw him, he saide he was vndone, for he was taken not remembring 
 that he spake this before the yonge manne. Then I asked him what that yonge man was, he aunswered 
 that it was one, who broughte him vnto my chamber, then I thanked the younge man, and bad 
 him farewell, and asked mayster Garret whether the yonge man was his frend or no ? and what 
 acquaintaunce he had with him ? He said he knew him not, but he had bene to seke a monke of 
 his acquaintaunce in that colledge who was not within his chamber, then he besought this his seruaunt to 
 bring him vnto my chamber, and so forthe declared howe he was returned and taken that nighte 
 in the preuye searche as ye haue harde, and that now at Euensonge time the Commissary and al his 
 companye went to Euensonge, and locked hj'm alone in his chamber, when all were gone, and he hard no 
 bodye stirringe in the Colledge, he put backe the barre of the locke with hys fynger, and so came straight 
 vnto Glocester Colledge to that monke, if he hadde bene wythin, who had also bought bokes of him. 
 
 Then said I vnto him. Alas mayster G^ret by this your vncircumspecte comminge vnto me, and 
 speaking so before this yonge man, ye haue disclosed your selfe and vtterlye vndone me, I asked him whye he 
 went not vnto my brother wyth my letters accordinglye, he saide after he was gone a dales iourney and a 
 halfe, he was so fearefull that his heart would no other but that he muste neades retourne againe vnto 
 Oxforde, and so came againe on Fridaye at nighte, and then was taken as ye hard before. But nowe with 
 deepe sighes and plentye of teares he prayed me to healpe to conuaye hym away, and so he cast of his 
 hode and his gown, wherein he came vnto me, and desired me to geue him a coate wyth sleues if I hadde 
 anye,and toldemethat he wouldegoo into Wales, and thence conuey him selfe intoGermanye if he mighte, 
 and then I put on him a sleued cote of mine of fine cloth in graine, which my mother hadde geuen me, he 
 woulde haue an other manner of cappe of me, but I hadde none but priest like, such as his owne was. Then 
 knealed we bothe downe together on oure knees, liftinge vp oure heartes and handes to GOD our heauenlye 
 father, desiring him with plentye of teares, so to conducte and prosper hym in his iourney, that he mighte 
 well escape the daunger of all his ennemies, to the glorye of his holye name, if his good pleasure and will 
 
 ' Now Christ Church College. and now Worcester College. 
 
 2 Previously called St. John Baptist's Hall, after- ^ i ^. gt. Alban's Hall, 
 
 wards Glyuccster College ; then Gloucester Hall, * Arcetyr, a learner or teacher of art. 
 

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 so were, and then we embraced .iiul kisse<l the one the other, the teares so aboundauntly flowinge oute from 
 bothe our eyes, that we all bewette both oure faces, and skarslye for sorrowe collide wc sjKiake one to 
 the other, and so he departed from me, apparelled in my cote, beinge committed vnto the tuition of oure 
 almightye and all mercifuU father. 
 
 When ^ee was gone downe the staires from my Chamber, I straight waies did shut my chamber dore, and 
 went into my studye shuttinge the doore vnto mc, and tooke the ncwe Tcstamentcof Erasmus translation 
 in my handes, kneled downe on my knees, and with manye a depe sigh and salt tere, I did, with much 
 deliberation read ouer the x. chapter of s. Matthew his Gospell, and when I had so doone, with feruent 
 prayer I did commit vnto God, that our dcarlye beloued brother Caret, earnestlye beseching him, in and 
 for lesus Christes sake, his only begotten Sonne our Lord, yat he would vouchsafe, not only safely to con- 
 duct and* kepe our saide deare brother from the handes of all his ennemies, but also that he woulde 
 vouchendew his tender and lately borne litle flocke in Oxford, with heauenlye strength by his holy spirite 
 that they might be well able thereby valeauntly to withstande to his glory all their fierse enemies, and 
 also might quietly to theyr owne saluation with all godlye patience, beare Christes heauy crosse : which 
 I now sawe was presently to be laide on their yong and weake backes, vnable to beare so huge a one, 
 without the great healpe of his holy spirite. 
 
 This doon I laid a side my bokes safe, folded vp maister Garrets gowne and hoode, and laid them into 
 my presse among mine apparel, and so hauing put on my short gowne shut vp my study and chamber 
 d )res, and went towardes Friswides to speake with that worthy martir of God one master Clarke, and 
 others, and to declare vnto them what had happened that after noone. 
 
 But of purpose I went by S. Mary church to go first vnto Corpus Christi colledge to speke with Dietand 
 Vdall 1 my faithful brethren and felowes in the Lorde there, but by chaunce I met by the waye with a brother 
 of oures, one Master Edon fellowe of Magdalen Colledge, who, assone as he saw me, came with a pityfuU 
 countenaunce vnto me, sayinge that we were all vndone for maister Garet was returned again to Oxford, 
 taken the last night in the priuy search, and was in prison with the commissary. I saide it was not so, he saide 
 it was so, I said nay, and he said ye. I told him it could not be so, for I was sure he was gone, he an- 
 sweared me and saide, I knowe he was gone with your letters, but he came againe yester euen and was 
 taken in his bed at Radleis this night in the priuy searche, for quod he^ I hard our proctor master Cole say 
 and declare the same this day in oure Colledge to diuers of the house. But I told him again that I was 
 wel assured he was now gone, for I spake with him later then either the proctor or commissary djd, and 
 then I declared the whole matter vnto hym, hojv and when he came vnto me, and howe he went his way, 
 willing him to declare the same vnto other our brethren whom he should mete withall, and to geue God 
 harty thanckes for this his wonderful deliueraunce, and to praye him also that he would graunt him safely e 
 to passe awaye from all his ennemies. And tolde him that I was goinge vnto master Clarke of Friswides, to 
 declare vnto him this matter, for I knew and thought verely that he and diuers others there wer then in 
 great sorow for this matter, and prayed maister Edon that he would goo home by Albome Hal to desire 
 my bedfelow sir Fitziames * (for I lay with him in Albome hall) to mete me at sir Diets chamber in Corpus 
 Christi Colledge about v. of the clocke after Euensong, and then I went straight to F'riswides. 
 
 And Euensong was bcgon,and the Deane, and the other canons were there in their Gray Amices, 
 they were almost at Magnificat before I came thether. I stode at the quier dore and hard master. 
 Tauemer play and others of the chappel there sing, with and among whome I my selfe was wont to 
 singe also, but now my singing and musicke was turned into sighing and musing. As I thus and ther stode, 
 in commeth Doctor Cotisford the commissary, as fast as euer he could go bare headed, as pale as ashes, 
 I knew his grefe wel incugh, and to the Deane he goeth into the Quier, where he was sitting in his stalle, 
 and talked with him very sorowfully, what I know not, but wherof I might and did wel and truely 
 gesse, I went aside from the quier dore, to se and heare more, the Commissarye and Deane came oute 
 of the Quire, wonderfullye troubled as it semed, about the middle of the church, met them D[octor]. 
 London, puffing, blusleringe, and blowinge lyke a hungry and gredy Lion seking his pray. They talked 
 together a while, but the commissarye was much blamed of them for kepinge of hys prisoner so negligently, 
 in so much yat he wepte for sorowe. And it was knowen abrode, that master Garret had eskaped awaye 
 
 > N. Udall afterwards the author of Roister of St. Alban's Hall, took hb B.A. ao June ist^. 
 Z7m/^rtook his B.A. on 30 May 1524. He became (Roman Catholic) Archdeaqpn of 
 
 * John Fit/james of Nferton College, aflerwarrfr Tatmton and Prebend of Wells on 97 May 15S4 
 
 II ;; 
 
 K^... 
 
 
6o THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 and gone out of the Commissaries chamber at Euensong time, whether no man could tel. These Doctors 
 departed and sent abrode their seruaunts and spies euery where. 
 
 Mayster Clarke about the middle of Complin ^ came forth of the quire, I followed him to his chamber, 
 and when he was put of his Graye Amis and surples, he asked me how I did, and what newes, I answeared 
 him not so wel as I would, because the newes were not good, but verye doubtfull and perilous, and so 
 declared what was happned that after none. Of maister Garrets eskape he was glad, for he knew of his fore- 
 taking, then he sent for one master Sumner, and master Bets, fellowes and canons there, in the meane whyle 
 he gaue me a very godly exhortation, praying God to geue me, and all the reaste of oure brethren, pru- 
 dentiavt serj>e>itinatn, et simplicitatein coltonbinam, for we shoulde haue shortlye muche neade there of, 
 as he verelye thoughte. When master Sumner and master Bets were come vnto him, he caused me to 
 declare againe the whole matter vnto them two wherof they were very gladde, that maister Garret was 
 so deliuered trusting that he shuld escape all his enemies. They wuld haue had me to tary and haue 
 supped ther with them ; but I would not tary, for I sayd I had promised to go vnto Corpus Christi college 
 to comfort our other bretherne their, who were no lesse sorowfull then they, and praied them to tel vnto 
 our other bretherne there what was happened : for there wer diuers elsse in that colledge. 
 
 When I came to Corpus Christi colledge I founde to gether in Sir Diets chamber, tarienge and lokinge 
 for me Fitziames, Diet, and Vdall, they knew al the matter before by maister Edon, whome I had sent 
 vnto Fitziames, but yet I declared the matter vnto them againe and so I taried ther and supped with them 
 in that chamber where they had prouided meat and drinke for vs before my comminge, at whiche supper we 
 wer not very mery, consideringe our state and peril at hand. When we had end our supper and com- 
 mitted our whole cause with feruent sighs and harty prayers vnto God our heuenly father, Fitziames 
 would nedes haue me to lye that night with him in my old lodginge at Alborne Hall, and so did I : But 
 small reste and litle slepe toke we both their that night. 
 
 In the Sunday [23 Feb.] in the morninge I was vp and readye by fiue of the clocke, and as sone as I could 
 get out at Alborne Haull dore, I went straight towardes Glocester colledge to my chamber, it hadd reyned 
 that morny[n]ge, a good shuere and with mi goinge I had all to be sprinkeled my hose and my shoes with 
 the reiny mire. And when I was comein vnto Glocester coledge, which was about vi. of the clocke, I found 
 the gats fast shut, wherat I did much merueil, for they \^ere wont to be opened daily, long befor that time, 
 then did I walk vp and down by the wall ther, a whole howre before the gates were opened. In the 
 meane while my musinge hed beinge full of forecastinge cares, and my sorowfull hart flowinge with 
 dollefull sighes, I fully determined in my conscience before god, yat, if I shuld chaunce to be taken and 
 be examined I wouldaccuse no man, nor declare any thing further than I did already perceiue was mani- 
 festly knowen before . 
 
 And so when the gate was opened, thinking to shift my selfe and to put on a longer goune, I wente in 
 towardes my chamber, and ascendinge vp the steyers, would haue opened my dore, but I could not in a 
 longe season do it, wherby I perceyued yat my lock had bin medled with all and therwith was somewhat 
 altered. Yet at last with much a do I opened the locke and went in, when I came in, I did see my 
 bedde al to tosied and tumbled, my clothes in my presse throwen dowen and my study dore open 
 wherof I was much amased and thought verely theire was made their some serch that night for maister 
 Caret, and that it was knowen of hys beinge wythe me, by the monkes man that brought him to my 
 chamber. 
 
 Nowe was ther lieng in the next chamber vnto me, a yonge priest monk of shirborne abbey in the 
 county of Dorset come thether to be student, where I was brought vppe from my childhode : for whose 
 sake partly I came in dede vnto that Colledge, to enstructe him in the Laten tongue, and in other thinges 
 wherin I had better knowledge then he. Thys monke assone as he harde me in the chamber, called vnto 
 me, and asked me where I lay that night. I told him that I lay with my olde bed fellow Fitz- 
 iames at Alborn hall, he came to me straight way, and told how our master Caret was sought in my 
 chamber, and asked me whether he was with me yesterday at after noone or no, and I told him yea. And 
 finally he tolde me that he was commaunded to bring me assone as I came in vnto the prior of studentes 
 named Antony Dunston a monke of Westminster, who nowe is bishop of Landafe. And so while he 
 made him ready by me, he tolde me what a doo. there was made by the commissarie and the two proctors 
 in my chamber that night, with billes and swords thrusted thorow my bedstraw, and how euery corner of 
 
 ' i. e. the last or evening prayer. 
 
THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 6i 
 
 my chamber was searched for master Garret, and albeit his gown and hoodc lying in my prcsse was by 
 thcym all to tossed and tomblcd wyth my clothes, yet did they not percciue them there, for by like they 
 toke it to haue bene mine own clothes. 
 
 This so troubled me that I forgot to make cleane my hose and shoes, and to shyfte me nto an other 
 gowne : And therefore assone as he was readye, so all to be dirted as I was with the rainy weather, and in 
 my short gown, I went with him to the saide Priors chamber, where I founde the said prior standing and 
 lokinge formy comminge. He asked me where I had bene that nightc, I tolde him I hye at Albom hal wkh 
 my old bedfellow Fitziames, but he would not beleue me, he asked me if master Caret were with me yester- 
 daye ? I tolde hym yea : then he would knowe where he was, and wherfore he came vnto me. I told 
 him I knew not where he was excepte he were at Woodstocke. For so (said I) he had shewed me that he 
 woulde goo thether, because one of the kepers there his frend, hadde promised him a piece of venison to 
 make mearye wyth all that Shrofe tide, and. that he woulde haue borowed a haite and a paire of high shoes 
 of me, but I had none in dede to lend him. This tale I thought metest though it were nothing so. Then 
 hadde he spyed on my fore finger a bigge ringe of siluer verye well double giltcd with two letters y}. D. 
 ingraued in it for my name, I supose he thought it to be gold, he required to see it, I toke it vnto him, 
 when he had it in his hand, he sayde it was his ring, for therin was his name, an A. for Antonye, and a D. 
 for Dunston. \Vhen I harde him so say, I wished in my hart to be as well deliuered from and out of his 
 company, as I was assured to be deliuered from my ring for euer.* Then he called for pen, inke, and 
 paper and commaunded me to write when and how Caret cam vnto me, and where he was become. 
 
 I had not written scarsly three wordes, but the chiefe bedell with two or three of the commissaries men, were 
 come vnto master prior, requiringe him straightwaies to bringe vs awaye vnto Lincolne coledge to the com- 
 missary and to Z>[octor]. London. Whether when I was brought in to the chapel : there, I founde maister 
 D[octor]. Cottisforde commissary, maister D[octor]. Higdon then Deane of the Cardcnalls colledge, and 
 D[octor]. London Warden of ye newe Colledge standinge together at the altar in the chappcU, when they 
 sawe me brought vnto them, after salutations geuen and taken betwen them, they called for chaires and 
 satte downe and called for me to come to them, and first they asked what my name was, I tolde them that 
 my name was Anthonye Dalaber, then they also asked me how longe I had ben student in the vniuersity, 
 and I told them almoste three yeares, and they asked me what I studied. I told them that I had red 
 sophestry and logike in Albome Hal and -now was remoued vnto Glocester coledg to study the ciuil lawe, 
 the whiche, the forsaide prior of studentes affirmed to be true. Then they asked me whether I knew 
 master Carret and how longe I had knowen him I told them I knew him well, and had knowen him 
 almoste a twelue monethes, they asked me when he was with me I tolde them yesterday at after none, and 
 now by this time whiles they hadde me in this talke, one came in vnto them which was sent for, with pen, 
 inke, and paper, I trowe it was the clarke of the vniuersity. As sone as he was come, there was a bourd 
 and trestelles with a forme for him to sit on, set betwene the doctores and me, and a greate masse book 
 laid before me^nd I was commaunded to lay my right hand on it and to swercthat I shoulde truly aunswer 
 vnto such articles and interrogatories as I should be by them examined vpon. I made daunger of it a 
 while at t]ie first, but afterwarde being perswaded by them partly by fayre words and partly by great 
 threats, I promised to do as they wulde haue me, lut in my hart nothynge so ment to do. So I laide my 
 hand on the booke, and one of them gaue me my oth, and that donne commaunded me to kis the booke. 
 Then made they great curtesye betwene them who should examine, and minister interrogatories vnto me, 
 at the last the rankest papisticall pharesy of them al D[octor]. London* toke vpon him to do it. 
 
 Then he asked me agayne, by my oth where Maister Carrett was an3 whether I had conueihed him, I 
 tolde hym I hadde not conueyed hym, nor yet wiste not where hee was, nor whether he was gon, except 
 he were gonne to woodstocke, as I had before saide, yat he shewed me he would. 
 
 Then he asked me again when he came to me, and howe he came to meand what and howe longe he 
 talked with me, I tolde him he came to me aboute euensong time and that one brought him vnto my 
 chamber dore, whom I know not and that he tolde me he woulde go to wodstocke for some vencson to 
 make mery with all this shroftide, and that he wolde haue borowed a hat, and a paire of high shoes, of me 
 but I had none such to lend him, and then he straight went his way from me but whether I know nat. 
 
 ' It must have been pleasant to Anthony Kitchin self in Fox's book, a thief of old *tanding. 
 or Dunston, who became Bp. of Llandaff on 36 ' Dr. London d. 1543 in the Fleet; haviog beea 
 
 Mar. 1545 [d. 31 Oct. 1565] to have thus read him- committed to that place for perjury. 
 
62 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 All these my sayenges the scribS wrote in a paper boke. Then they emestly required me to tell them 
 whether I had conueyed him, for surely they saied I brought him going some whether this mornynge, for 
 that they might well perceaiue by my foule shoes and dirty hosen that I had trauaild with him the most part 
 of this night, I aunswered plainely that I laye at Alborne Haul with sir Fitziames, and that I had good 
 witnes therof there. They asked me where I was at euensonge I told them at Friswides, and that I saw 
 first maister commissary, and then maister D[octor]. London come thether at that time vnto maister 
 Deane of Frisewides and that I saw them talking to gether in the church. There D[octor]. London and 
 the deane thretned me that if I would not tell the truth where I had don him, or whether he was gonne, I 
 should surely be sente vnto the tower of London and there be racked, and put into litle ease.^ But maister 
 commissary prayd me with gentle words to tell him where he was that he might haue him 
 againe and he woulde be my very greate frend and deliuer me out of trouble straighte waye, 
 I tolde him I coulde not tell where hee was nor whether he was be come. Thus did they 
 occupy and tosse me almost two hours in the chappell sometimes with thretninges and foulewordes 
 and then with faire wordes and faire promises flatteringe me. Then was hee that brought maister 
 Garet vnto my chamber brought before me and caused to declar what maister Garet saide vnto 
 me at his comminge to my chamber but I saide plainely I harde him say no such thinge for I thought 
 my naye to be as good as his yea, seing it was to ridd and deliuer my godly brother out of trouble and 
 pearill of his life. At the laste when they could get nothing of me wherby to hurt or accuse anye 
 man or to know any thinge of that which they sought they al 3. together brought me vp a longe staires into 
 a great chamber ouer M[aster]. Commissarys D[octor]. Cot[tiss]ford's chamber wherin stood and were a 
 greate payer of very highe stockes, then IMaister commissary asked me for my purse and girdel toke 
 away my mony and my knife, and then they put both my legges into them and so locked me fast in those 
 stockes, in which I satte my feete beinge almost as high as my hed, and so departed they : locking fast the 
 chamber dore I thinke vnto their abominable mas, leuing me alone. 
 
 When al they were gone then cam vnto my good remembrance the worthye sore warning and godly 
 declaration of that moste constant martir of god, Maister lohn clarke, my father in Christ, who wel nie 
 two yeres before yat, when I did ernestly desire him to graunt me to be his scoler, and that I might goo 
 with hym continuallj' when and where soeuer hee should teach or preach (the which he did daily) who (I 
 say) said vnto me much after this sort. Dalaber ye desire ye wot not what, and that ye are I feare me, 
 vnable to take vpon you, for though nowe my preachinge be swete and pleasante vnto you, because there 
 is yet no persecution layed on you for it, but the time will come, and that peraduenture shortly, if ye con- 
 tinew to line godly therin that god will laye on you the crosse of persecution to try you with all whether 
 you canne as pure and puryfied gold abide the fire, or as stoble and drosse be consumed therwith. For the 
 holy ghost plainly affirmeth by sainte paule, quod omnes qui pice volunt viicere in Christv lesu, perse- 
 c7itionem patientur. Yea ye shal be called and iudged an heretike, ye shal be abhorred of the world, 
 your owne friendes and kinnesfolke will foresake you and also hate you, and shalbe cast into prison and 
 no man shall dare to helpe or comfort you, ye shalbe accused and brought before the bishoppes to your 
 reproche and shame, to the greate sorow of all your faithful! frendes and kinsfolke. Then will ye wishe 
 ye hadde neuer knowen this doctrine. Then wil ye curse Clark and wish that ye hadd neuer knowen him, 
 bycause he hath brought you to al these troubles Therefore rather then ye shoulde do this, leue of from 
 medlinge of this doctrine, and desire not to bee and continewe in my company. At which wordes I was 
 so greued that I fell downe on my knees at his feete, and with abundance of teares and sighes euen from the 
 bottome of my harte, I ernestly besought him, that, for the tender mercy of god shewed vnto vs in our 
 Lord lesu Christ, he would not refuse me, but receiue me into his company as I had desired, saieng that 
 I trusted verely, that he which had begonne this in me would not forsake me but giue me grace to con- 
 tinew therein vnto the end. When he harde me say so, he came to me and toke me vp in his arms, kissed 
 me, the teres tricklinge downe from his eies and sayde vnto me : The Lorde almighty graimt you so doo, 
 and from hensforthe for euer take me for your father, and I will take you for my son in Christ. 
 
 Now wer there at that time in oxford diuerse graduates and scholers of sundry Colledges and haules, 
 whom god had called to the knowledge of his holy word, which all resorted vnto maister Clarkes dispu- 
 tations and lectures in diuinity, at all times as they mought: And when they mighte not come conueniently, 
 I was by maister dark apointed to resorte vnto euery of them wekely, and to know what doubts they had 
 
 ' A torture den in the Tower. . 
 
f^^^>. 
 
 THE PERSECUTION 
 
 VGLAND. 
 
 in any place of the scriptures, that by me from him they inighte haue the true vndcrstanding of ye same 
 which exercise did me most good and profit to the vnderstanding of the holy scriptures which I most 
 desired. 
 
 This forsaide forewarning and godly declaration (I say) of this most godly martir of god 'maister 
 dark, coming then to my remembrance caused me with decpe sighcs to cryc vnto god from my hart to 
 assist me with his holy spirite that I mought be able paciently and quietly to berc and suffer whatsoeucr 
 it shoulde please him of his fatherly loue to laye "on me to his glory and the comforte of my dearly 
 lieloucd brothern, whom I thought now to be in great fear and anguish, least I would be an' accuser of 
 them all. For vnto mc they all were well knowcn, and all there doinges in that matter. But god be 
 blessed I was full bent neuer to accuse any of them, what soeuer shoulde happen of me. 
 
 Before dinner maister Cotisforde came vp to me and requested me eamestlye to tell him where maister 
 Caret was, and if I woulde so do be promised me slraightewayes to deliuer me out of prison. But I tolde 
 him I could not tel where he was nor more in dede I could not. Then hee departed to dinner askinge me 
 if I woulde eate any meate. and I told him yea right gladly, he saide he would send me some. ^Vhen 
 he was gone his seruauntes asked me diuerse questions which I doo not now remember, and some of 
 them spake me faire and soir.e thretned me calling me heretik and so departed iockinge the dore fast 
 vpon me. • 
 
 Fox THEN adds: Thus far Antony Dalaber hath prosecuted this story, who before th£ finishmge 
 departed this yere Antto. 1562, in the dioces of Salsbury tlie residtu therof as we could gather it of 
 ancient and credible persons, so Jiaue we added here vnto the same. 
 
 After this. Garret beinge apprehended or taken, by mayster Cole ye proctor or his men, going west- 
 warde at a place called Hinksey a litle beyonde Oxforde,' and so being broughte backe againe, was com- 
 mitted to warde, that done, he was conuented before the commissary, Doctor London and Doctor higdon deane 
 of Friswides (now called Christs coUedge) into S. Maries church where they sitting in iudgement, con 
 uicted him accordinge to their law as an heretike (as they said) and afterward compelled him to cary a 
 faggot in open procession from Sainte Maries churche to Friswides, and Dalaber likewise with him. 
 Garret hauinge his redde hode on his shuldcrs like a maister of art, after that, they were sent to Osney, 
 ther to be kept in prison till farther order was taken. 
 
 Ther were suspected beside, a great noml^r to be infected with heresy as they called it, for hauinge 
 such bookes of Godes truth as garret sold vnto them. As maister Clarke which died in his chamber and 
 could not be suffered to receiue the Communion, beinge in prysonne and saienge these words : Crede et 
 tnanducasti. Maister Sommer, Maister Bettes, Tauemer, Radley, with other of F^wides colledge, of 
 Corpus Christi colledge and Vdal and Dier with other of Maudlen coUedge, one Eden [The i^o edition 
 of Fox reads Master Somner, Maister Bettes, Tauerner the Musicion, Rodley, with other of Friswides 
 colledge, of Corpus Christi Colledge, as Vdal and Diet with other, of Magdalen Colledge one Eeden, 
 p. 1369] wyth other of Glocester colledge, and two blacke monkes one of S. Austines of Canterbury 
 named Langporte, ye other of Saint Edmondsbury monk, now yet lining and dean of Norwich nanKd 
 lohn Salesbury, two whit[e] monks of Barnard colledge, two chanons of Saint Maries colleadge, one of 
 them named Robert Ferrar afterwarde BLshop of Saint dauies [David's] and burned in Quene Maries 
 time. These ii. cannones because they had no place in the vnyuersitye with the other ; thiy went on the 
 contrarye side of the procession bare headed and a bedell before them to be knowen from the other. 
 Diuers other there were whose names I cannot remember which were forced and constrained to forsake 
 their colleges and sought theire frendes. Against the procession time ther was a greate fier made vpon the 
 toppe of Carfaxe where into all such as were in the saide procession eyther conuict or suspected of 
 heresye were commaunded in token of repentance and renunciation of theire errores, euery man to cast 
 a boke into the fier as they passed by. //. 6o4-€io. 
 
 ^ This is quite incorrect. Garret eot as far as 
 Bedminstcr, a mile beyond Bristol, where he was 
 arrested on 29 Feb. 1528. The papers rcLntivc to 
 him, including his recantation, now in the Stale 
 Paper Oliicc. arc Driiued in TownscnJ's Kilition of 
 
 Fox's Actes, Vol. V. App. Ed. 184& Thomas 
 Garret, with Doctor Robirt Barnes and William 
 Hii:rT>me the Vicar of Stepney, were together 
 m.iriyrcd by fire at Smitnfield on 30 July. 
 
64 THE PERSECUTION IN ENGLAND. 
 
 The unexpected length to which this Preface has already extended forbids 
 a further pursuit of this part of the subject. The Advent of the first printed 
 Testaments in England constitutes an important chapter in the Story of 
 our Reformation, and one that has hardly as yet received adequate atten- 
 tion. The fashioning anew of a people, as it is a universal and a gigantic, 
 so must it be a gradual Change, prepared and brought about by many 
 causes and instrumentalities. Of these none has been so powerful for good 
 as an unfettered appeal to Scripture ; and it was a most merciful arrange- 
 ment of Divine Providence that when there was a people ready to receive 
 it, Tyndale was raised up to supply the printed Word. In so doing, he 
 sought to transfer the ultimate standard of appeal in faith and morals 
 from the vacillation and contradictions of human belief and opinion known 
 as ' The Church' to the Revelation of the Mind and Will of the Trinity, so 
 far as that could be ascertained by means of manuscripts written by in- 
 spired men of old, and transmitted from age to age down to his own 
 time. Until the peasant could possess and understand ; until he could 
 confidently appeal to an authority in faith and morals which the greatest 
 scholar could not disavow, he was liable to be beguiled by self in- 
 terested jugglery and sophistry of those who pretended ' to keep the lips 
 of knowledge.' Nothing is more painful, nothing so unlike God who said 
 ' Let there be light,' than the combination of the priestly learning of that 
 time to keep the people in gross ignorance, merely for the sake of plunder 
 they obtained through them, and the power that through that ignorance they 
 were enabled to exercise over them. What a Struggle for Light it was, we 
 have already seen : and in that fight, many in the front rank on each side 
 suffered most unjust death for their opinion and belief; so it was left to 
 the few Protestant survivors and to the second race of Reformers to carry 
 on and complete the work. 
 
 In such troublous times as these, with the magnificent self devotion that 
 we have seen, despite every obstacle, and through constant peril, was the 
 modem English Testament translated, first printed, and circulated. Now 
 whoso will, may study it without any let or hindrance. May all who scan 
 this Fragment have the same absorbing interest and delight in our modern 
 version as Tyndale had, when, exiled in a foreign city, under a sense of 
 the most weighty responsibility both to God and man, he secretly corrected 
 the pages of which we now present the Sun-Portraits. 
 
TYPOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCE. 65 
 
 VII. Typograpliical and Literary Evidence, 
 
 The foregoing Story is quite irrespective of the claims of the Text here 
 photo-lithographed to be a part of the Quarto. Before considering this, 
 we may give the account of its late discovery, in 1836. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Rodd. of Great Newport Street, a respectable bookseller in London, having exchanged with 
 a friend, who did not recollect how he came by it, a quarto tract by CEcoIampadius, without any covering, 
 there "^as attached to it by binding a portion in the English language, black letter ; and though it was 
 evidently the gospel of Matthew, with the prologge of fourteen pages preceding, neither Mr. Rodd nor his 
 friend understood, at the time, what it actually was. By degrees, however, this was at last fully ascertained. 
 'The accidental discovery,' says Mr. R., 'of the remarkable initial Y, with which the first page of the pro- 
 logue is decorated, in another book, printed at Cologne in 1534,* first led me to search other books printed 
 at the same place, and I succeeded in finding every cut and letter, with the exception of one, in other 
 books from the same printing office, that of Peter Quentel.' Again : ' I have found the type in which 
 this portion is printed, and the cuts with which it is decorated, used in other books printed at Cologne from 
 the year 1521 to 1540.' * — C. Anderson : 'Annals of the English Bible,' i. 62-3 : Ed. 1845. 
 
 The Typographical proof may be conveniently expressed in three pro- 
 positions. 
 
 I. This Fragment, whatever it may be, was printed by Peter Quentel at 
 Cologne bdbre 1526. 
 
 This is demonstrated by 
 
 1, The Woodcut at /. i6 of the present lithographed text. 
 
 1. This is the work of Anton vo.m Worms (Anthony of Worms), an excellent engraver in wood, who 
 came to Cologne in or before 1525, (as ap[>ears by the date of one of his woodcuts printed there, being 
 inscribed with that year,) and who appears to have lived in that city until his death, about 1538. Some of 
 his works are regular engravings (in particular a large view of the city of Cologne) ; others arc title pages, 
 and others woodcuts. Of these Adam Bartsch in Le Peintre Graveur, viu 488, Ed. Vienne, 1808, 
 quotes II ; but John Jacob Merlo, in Kunst und Kiinstler in Kdln, quotes 64 ; of which 40 of the best 
 are e numerated in G. ^. Nagler's Kiinster-Lexicon, xxii. 91-96, Ed. Munich, 1852. 
 
 The woodcut is one of four representing the four evangeUsts, (three of them with their apocalyptic 
 figures, viz.: Mark with a lion, Luke with a bull, John with an eagle,) sitting and writing, which four occur 
 in two large works which Peter Quentel was finishing about the same time, viz. : 
 
 (a) A German Testament (Emser's revision of Luther's version, with a commentary), which is 
 dated 23 August 1529. 
 
 (b) A Latin Bible, BiMia integm, etc. Ed. by Peter UbcHus, dated September 1529. 
 
 They are also said to occur in an earlier edition of Ubelius' Latin Bible, printed by Quentel in 1527 ; 
 but 1 have been unable to meet with a copy of this impression. 
 
 3. Anterior to these three editions, the woodcut of Matthewjilone appears on the title page, and also iXfol. 
 a of Rupertus' /« Mattharu/n, etc., printed by Quentel in 1526, already referred to at /. as. On account 
 of its immense importance in establishing the date and the printer of this Fragment, we have added on the 
 blank page at the end of this edition a facsimile of the lower part, including the woodcut, of this title page 
 of the Commentaries of Rupertus /« Matthaum, etc., and De Glorification* Trinitatis, etc.; which, as 
 Cochlaeus tells us, was printed by Quentel for Byrckman. 
 
 Therefore the woodcut belonged to and was used in 1526 by QuenteL 
 
 3. Of the next point we are able to supply ocular demonstration. The woodcut as photo-Uthog^pbedoo 
 
 > See next page. obtain from Mr. Rodd all his references. 
 
 ' It is to be regretted tliat Mr. Anderson did not 
 
 I 
 
66 TYPOGRAPHICAL AND LITERARY EVIDENCE. 
 
 the last page of this vohime, used by Quentel in Rupertus' In MattJuejmt, etc., is cut down on the outer side 
 and at the bottom ; so that at the side the pillar and a part of the angel's wings are cut off; and at the bottom 
 the feet of the two pillars and a part of the foreground are cut away. Compare it with the previous one. 
 
 Therefore the woodcut at/. 16 is anterior to that at the end of the book. Therefore the Fragment was 
 printed before the title page of /« Matthcenm, etc., i.e. before 1526. 
 
 4. The motive for cutting down the woodcut appears to have been to allow a sufficient amount of type 
 between it and the inner margin oi /ol. 2 of In M attJuetan, etc., where the redticed cut is used as an 
 initial letter. Whether this be so or not, it is clear that woodcvfts of the other three evangelists had not yet 
 {i.e. earlier than 1526) been designed. For they are the same width across as the reduced cut of Matthew ; 
 and have the apocalyptic figures, which Matthew has not. It seems therefore highly probable that Anthon 
 von Worms designed this woodcut expressly for Tyndale's Testament ; and that that work being suddenly 
 stopped, Quentel made the best use of the block he could, reducing its size as convenient ; and that after a 
 time having occasion for them in other works he got Anthon to complete the series of four to the size thus 
 reduced. 
 
 2. The Initial at/. I. 
 
 I. There were printed by various printers at Cologne, between 1534-40, and under the editorship of A. 
 le Loer, twenty folio volumes, mostly unconnected, of what was intended as a collected edition of the Works 
 of the Carthusian Dionysius de Leuwe de Ryckel known as the ' Ecstatic Doctor.' One of these volumes 
 containing Commentaries on All tJie Canonical Epistles, tJie Acts, and tJie Apocalypse (British Museum 
 Pressmark 1008 e. 8) was printed by Quentel, and is dated September 1533. 
 
 On the reverse oi fol. 72, at the beginning of the Second Epistle of John, is found the initial letter 
 which appears on /. i of this Fragment. That initial therefore belonged to and was used by Quentel. 
 
 3. Here, for want of time, I must refer to Mr. Rodd's statement as regards the other initials, observing 
 that I have met with the two — Was on/. 19, etc., and A as on/. 32 of the Text, etc. — in Emser's German 
 Testament, above referred to. A further search would no doubt identify them all. 
 
 4. A similarity in the style of setting up the type has already been noticed at/. 22. 
 
 Indubitably therefore Quentel printed this Fragment before 1526; 
 and from its contents, we know that he must have printed it for Tyndale. 
 
 2. Though — judging from what we here possess, viz. sigs. A to H — the 
 portion A to K printed by Quentel at Cologne would hardly have finished 
 the Gospel of Matthew : yet this fragment is not a portion of the Gospel 
 of Matthew printed somewhere abroad for Tyndale in 1524 or 1525. 
 
 1. The first words of Ty^^/r^/isi^i? contradict such an assumption. 'I haue here translated . . . 
 the newe Testamente.' 
 
 Again on /. 2. * After hit had pleasyd God to put in my mynde | and also to geue me grace to translate 
 this forehearced newe testament into our englysshe tonge / howesoever we have done it.' From this it is 
 clear that the translation of the entire New Testament had been finished before the beginning of The pro- 
 logge was written. 
 
 2. The list of the Books of the New Testament would have been purposeless, had only the gospel of 
 Matthew been intended to follow it. 
 
 3. The passage referred to by Roy at (see/. 32) /. 12 of Text proves Tfie prologge to have belonged to 
 the New Testament. 
 
 4. In like manner the passages alluded to by Ridley (see/, 53) at//. 10, 12, and 14 confirm the same. 
 
 3. This Fragment being printed by Quentel before 1526, and not being 
 a part of the Gospel of Matthew printed earlier than that year, must be a 
 portion of the Quarto with glosses referred to by Cochlaeus. 
 
 This has already been proved. We may however notice that The prologge, never reprinted by Tyndale, 
 forms the substance of The Pathway to Scripture, included among Tyndale's Workes, 1573, by John Fox. 
 
L 
 
 '/i 
 
 DID TYNDALE TRANSLATE FROM LUTHER f 
 
 67 
 
 Is THE QUARTO A TRANSLATION OF LUTIIER'S EARLIKR 
 
 VERSION ? 
 
 An important question yet remains. Is this a translation from the 
 original Clrcck, or from the German of Luther? All translators of the 
 Scriptures have availed themselves of existing versions in other languages, 
 as helps. In this way we think Tyndale used Luther's version ; but we 
 must remit this subtle question for resolution to abler hands. Certainly 
 Tyndale was competent to translate it from the Greek, as his translation of 
 Isocrates' Oration proves, and as the title pages of his subsequent editions of 
 the New Testament claimed for him. He was evidently familiar with Latin. 
 He probably had mastered German by the time he came to Cologne ; 
 and without doubt studied Hebrew at Worms and Marburg before 1530, 
 when he published the English Pentateuch. Busche's talk is probably 
 but an exaggeration of Tyndale's linguistic attainments. Evidently there- 
 fore he was capable of an independent translation. His frequent reference 
 to * the tonge' can only be to Greek, and he says, ' Consyder howe that I 
 had no man to counterfet :' see/. 25. 
 
 Whatever may be the case as to the Translation, we can judge of the 
 extent to which Tyndale incorporated the writings of Luther in The prologge, 
 the marginal references, and the glosses. J. Baynes, Esq., of the British 
 Museum, has kindly compared the two versions with the following results. 
 
 1. Luther prefixed to his translation (i*^ Ed. Sept. : and Ed. Dec. 1522) a short Vorrhede or Preface 
 from which Tyndale took nearly five paragraphs— beginning from </rtJ allte testament ist eyn buck] darynnen 
 Gottis gesetz, etc. down to . . . . mehr sterien— being more than half the Vorrliede ; and has intro- 
 duced it into the frologge beginning on /. 3 with Tlu olde testament is a hake \ etc. down to shall never 
 more dye, at the top of /. 4. With this exception, the prologge seems to have been entirely written by 
 Tyndale, who also furnished the four glosses found attached to his quotation from Luther. 
 
 2. The inner marginal references are selected, with a few additions, from Luther's ver ' 
 
 3. Some of the glosses are entirely Luther's, some (and these chiefly explanations of I'.y 
 Tyndale's, and some are identical in meaning but differently expressed from Luther's, as if c;itn «<.rc .1 uu- 
 tinct translation of some earlier original. Of the 92 glosses in the Fragment, the following 41 appear to 
 have been entirely supplied by Tyndale. 
 
 /. 18. That ys to saye by the 
 lesus b asmoche to saye 
 Christe brjmgeth god. where 
 /. 19. lury is the londe 
 p. 20. Rachell was buried not ferre 
 p. 31. Put youre truste in goddes 
 /. 23. All these dedes here rehearsed 
 /. 24. lott. Is as moche too saie 
 
 Breakcth This do they which 
 
 /. 26. Rewarde./ Ye shall not 
 p. 27. Syngle. The eye is single 
 /. a8. Fornace. Men hccte there 
 /. 30. Wilt. Faithe knowcth not 
 /. 31. Centurion. Is a capuyne 
 /. 34. The hcrvest are the people 
 /• 35- Bcyonde the see commcnly 
 
 Fynsshe That ys/ ye shall nott. 
 
 That is to sey openly 
 
 I 2 
 
 
68 
 
 DID TYNDALE TRANSLATE FROM LUTHER? 
 
 p. so. Peter in the greke 
 
 [This long note is an expansion of a short one by- 
 Luther.] 
 /. 51, Itt soundeth jti greke 
 
 Dedes. For the dedes \ ' 
 
 p. 52. Stronge feyth requyreth 
 p. 54, Here all bynde and loose 
 p. 57. Seven a clocke with vs 
 p, 58. By this similitude may ye 
 /. 59. Redeme / is to deliver 
 
 Sonne of david. As many 
 p. 61. Ihon taught the very waye 
 
 /. 37. In the name of a prophet 
 
 water. Compare dede too dede 
 p. 38. Lesse. That is Christe 
 
 Violence when the consciences 
 
 To \'pbrayde is to cast 
 p. 40. Desolate, That ys wasted 
 /. 41. A viper ys after the 
 
 Here may ye se 
 p. 42. He that hath, where 
 p. 43. The seed ys sowen 
 
 Tares and cockle are 
 p. 47. Profytt. Mark the leven 
 p. 48. Tradicions of men must fayle 
 
 The remaining glosses are either literal or paraphrastic translations of Luther, or of some earlier original. 
 If then the Quarto were annotated in this manner, about one half of the glosses were contributed by 
 Tyndale. Thus far at least there is nothing to detract from the genuineness of his work, as a whole. 
 
 Any one who will compare our Authorized Version with this first attempt, 
 cannot fail to be surprised to find what a large proportion of this Text has 
 survived intact the ceaseless tests of innumerable translators; which is 
 another corroboration that Tyndale both went direct to the Greek and 
 that he did his work excellently. 
 
 We must now draw to a close. What was intended as a short Preface 
 has become a small Book : and yet the subject is hardly more than begun. 
 Every point upon which we have touched is capable of a more exact defini- 
 tion, a more ample illustration. It is indeed wonderful that we know so 
 much as we do, considering the circumstances ; but it is certain that there 
 is much more that by a patient search may be recovered. We have. 
 endeavoured here to adduce nothing for which there is not adequate, and, 
 as far as possible, contemporary authority, and we leave off the inquiry 
 feeling that we have only just commenced it. Yet enough has been 
 adduced to show what a great Story surrounds the first beginnings of our 
 printed Testament. Will some one become the Historian of the English 
 Bible ? Wherever he may lead us in that history we shall find that the 
 Introducers of the Bible into our nation, as well as the ceaseless Correctors 
 of it since, have for the most part been interpenetrated with an unfaltering 
 love of Truth and Holiness. 
 
 Hitherto that History has suffered much at the hands of its Narrators. 
 Fox's Ecclesiastical Encyclopaedia is very scanty in its information respect- 
 ing the early English Reformation down to 1530. The first Edition of 
 the AcfeSf 6^c., 1563, contains some valuable original Memoranda, etc., 
 contributed to it by Eye-Witnesses : but in the second and later editions 
 Fox, writing impersonally and violently, deprived all these contributions 
 
CONCLUSION. 69 
 
 of much of their freshness, beauty and graphic portraiture ; and therefore of 
 their power to reproduce to us the life and action of those times. He is 
 therefore to be read with great caution. 
 
 Of later writers, Mr. Anderson, who commenced in his Annals our 
 popular literature on this subject, is often as faulty as Fox. Indeed there 
 has been an unfortunate fatality among some of these later writers. 
 Lewis voted Cochla^us' statement — which is a cardinal point in the His- 
 tory — to be entirely a fabrication ; and Anderson errs as often as he is right 
 One excuse for this is the difficulty of the search. The priestly hunt 
 after the Testaments to -which we have referred was altogether unnoticed 
 in the general movement of the time. The question of the day was the 
 King's Divorce : and the fate of the captured Testament readers, secretly 
 tried, though openly punished, did not — in that age of violent deaths — 
 attract universal attention. So the full history of that of which we have 
 here given a sketch is to be found in the Bishops' Registers and other 
 such recondite sources. 
 
 Of the fruits of the English Scriptures who may sufficiently speak? 
 One great tangible result has been the ennobling and perpetual eleva- 
 ting of the English character. Had the bishops stamped out the Bible, 
 England would have been as Italy and Spain were, and much of the 
 world's history would have been differently written. Hence the story of 
 the English Bible is for ever interwoven with the histoty of England and of 
 the United States. The free Word of God has brought to us freedom of 
 mind, of soul, and of estate ; and we in this, as in so many other things, 
 now inherit, without even a passing thought, principles and privileges 
 which our forefathers oftentimes purchased with their lives. May we in 
 like manner be found faithful to all that is true and right in our day and 
 generation, and hand down intact to our children the munificent gifts 
 which we have received, for nothing, from our ancestors. 
 
 WTiat shall we say of the illustrious Translator? Strange alchemy ! by 
 transmuting the thought of one language into the expression of another to 
 free a people from ignorance, priestcraft, mental and spiritual serfdom. Yet 
 by the grace of God so it was. Tyndale saw his life's work accomplished. 
 Ere he was taken away, the English ploughboy came to know the Scriptures. 
 He was preeminently a large minded and lofty spirited man. He had great 
 mental capacity, but a greater moral purpose. Ceaselessly for twelve years, 
 at the least, he laboured at his great work ; yet, so to speak, in secret : 
 which is one reason for his not having been adequately appreciated by 
 posterity. For example, he was a far greater man every way than Latimer, 
 
70 CONCLUSION. 
 
 Thomas Cromwell, or even More, though not possessing so bright a wit as 
 he had : yet perhaps he has not been so much honoured as they. Another 
 reason of this is, that in translations the less of the translator the better ; 
 so that he was lost in his works, his controversial writings being quite byplay 
 to his effort in translating. Yet even in controversy he wrote with remark- 
 able strength and clearness. All his work was done in exile ; Henry's 
 agents met him as it were by stealth, and tried to cajole him to come into 
 England. The bishops — like Giant Pope, in Bunyan's Pilgrini^s Progress 
 — bit their nails because they could not get hold of him. So at length he 
 was, by the treachery of that arch-Judas Philips, betrayed ; and then, after 
 twelve months of imprisonment at Vilvorde, his last prayer, previous to 
 strangulation, was 'Lord ! Open the King of England's eyes.' 
 
 Much more will some day be known of him. Among the archives of 
 Belgium may yet be found the papers seized in his house at Antwerp by the 
 Emperor's Attorney when he was captured. Among the records of the 
 German Diet may yet be obtained the Emperor's decree ordering his 
 execution. And among some EngUsh dust covered collection may still be 
 found such of his manuscripts as passing into the hands of his Timothy — 
 John Rogers — came over into England. Enough is already ascertained to 
 stimulate in us an unceasing search for every trace of him and an increas- 
 ing study of his works ; and what we already know of his nature and 
 character, of his work and purpose, fully justifies our for ever revering him 
 as the great Apostle of our early Reformation. 
 
 A word or two as to the present lithographed Text. 
 
 In the original, as might naturally be anticipated, some of the lines and 
 letters are faded and broken. With the view of facilitating their perusal, 
 all these rotten letters have been made perfect, and the Text printed black 
 and sharp. After which the Fragment was again read with the original, so 
 as to ensure absolute accuracy. 
 
 It may help those unfamiliar with black letter to state that a dash over 
 a letter indicates that m or ;/ are to be added : as tepte means tewpte, wet 
 we«t. Also that the flourish at the end of some words is the plural es, as 
 whaall^j" (whales), spirit^i" (spirits), etc. 
 
 There are numerous misprints in the text, characteristic of the great 
 difficulties under which it was produced, being secretly composed by 
 the Cologne compositors under great and constant fear of detection. 
 
 FINIS CORONAT OPUS. 
 LAUS DEO. 
 
[The Title Page is wanting in the Grenville Copy.] 
 
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 tben ^ / a^^ tbat b^vc ^ro- ^yfif of 
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 iprurc /ant> mean5>n0c ofr^e fpyiu^ 
 re/rben j>/rocon(ft>u an^ poftl>:c my 
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 tbe fmpture / ot b<xue nor ^ercn rben(jbtcn0li?(Tbe VDo:^e/ 
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 rbatotbcrrbult»ej>mA^ion/tbcnt|>atyfbuI&cu'bearcerbcm. 
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 ned/ wbcrcrbeycftnnorbut ftcmbk/Ant>tvh€Utoftcmbt€ y^^ 
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 nfi-cflTarr a tb»n^e/ orfobeMcnt m«M>e foaffvimc th^t (joot) 
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 ycrb>ercFne^/anl> vf ritie reprorctb a^fmanner fringe. 
 
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 tl)ccmti^at\xi^id)bckngnhtoti)i oti^€t / am> mah of <r^:t(^ 
 ^o(c6 / oftbe^ofpef t!)ci£fttrc j t>e(pife0r<iccanbrobbe 
 
 j^ r / f*^^N«<^b faff from mcfcfcrnyitge into )>^flbcfpic!0U6/bjau^ 
 
 ^mentf Imgeanbfcotej^n^c Aboi«:en>otbf.C[^!)colbctc|tAmet i6 Abo^ 
 Fc/tr jjere in id wiytten tj>c iaxoc anb comaunbmetf of 0ob/«nb 
 t!)ebebe0of t!)em wl>icb fuIfifftl)cm/anboftj>cm alfo wf)icl) ful 
 fifftbemnort. 
 C[^P« »ww€ tcftamct ie a boFewljcre in are cottj?ncb t{)e p:o^ 
 
 ^enewctc myfcdof0o^/anbt^ebebedoftl)emir^id>b€kuct5emoa beU^ 
 
 itamcnt nct^emnott. 
 
 ^f?e aofbel ^wa0cli3Ctf)at ttJccaf tJ)cjofpef)i6a£rreFew)Oibe/t(i0n)rf^l? 
 
 0? mngSi^n d<»b/mcr)^/^lab anb ioypifftj^btn^f /tjjat mafetj) a mcinme>^z^/ 
 vt 0la^ / anb mafctj) ^ym fy n£(c / txkuna atib i^epc fo: ioye. Ze 
 vol>cn i0avybf)abf)?^b(5olj?at6 tjje^caot /cam 0labtybm0f 
 wito tj)c ict»e6/tf>at tl)€ir feaifuffanb rrucffcnemy tt>ae (la^ie/ 
 anbt|>ej?bd)^vcrc^ outeof afFbaiin0cr:fo: glabnee were of/rjje)? 
 jon0c/ba«n<c&/anbwcr %fuffl3n lyfe manner ie tf)e epange^ 
 lion of dob Cwi>td> tpe ca^0ofpe^/anbtl)e netre toflouietDioyj? 
 fiifft)?bm0f /anb a^ fome (ay*c:n 0c6b [>earin0 pubfiflF !)e^ b)> tf?e 
 opoftlcd t^:ou0!) onte aff'rbcn^o:l^^/of (Tb^ifTtJje n0^t ©aryb 
 j)ott>e tj^at f)e |>atf)c fott0{)t tcitl) (yniie / tDitl)betf)e/ant) t^c &e^ 
 Tiff/an&orer cumc t()em»tt)f)ercby aff'mct{)at were in 15d^a0^ 
 to frnne/woflbeb trirf) ^et!>e/ouercu of tl)e beriff/are witj) outc 
 t^ere atme merittf oibefcrt>in0^ /lofcb / in(?y fye^/ reporeb to^ 
 l)rfr/anb faveb/6tou0!)tto Pibertie /ant rccondleb wto t^e fo^ 
 vour of 0ob /anb fctt at one witf) f)ym a^ajme : to^td> tyt>in0f 
 ad mori)^ ad beft vc/fantt ptayfc M'b t^anch 0ob/are ^Ca^/fyn^ 
 
 xx>hi tht ctm ^^ <i"bbattnre foi ioyc» 
 
 Sonrdcal" C^!)«dcvaiigefionor0ofpeffcrl)af >stofaye/fud>e io^^fpff' ty<^ 
 
 1(0 4 tdUmet btn0t)fai> caSeb t Jk newe tefiament . Becanfe tl)at ae a man 
 
wbcn bef i)Affb)?e Apojmrcrh \}ie 0co^^f to be be aft< AnJ) ^i(ln^ 
 buK\>Ciftvr b1?^^crl?c ftmonge rJ)CTn wbid? be namal) tobe 
 bie b«)>*^^-^>^^"ro^bri(l before bi6^ctJ>ccomm«un^e^an^ 
 appo)?ntc^ t\)cu fud)e cr An0c hcn/^o(pcff7cr ty^)?n0ff j)ulbc be 
 ^ecfare^ rb:ou0l) oiitc ofi'tbe xrod^c/anb r!>€re wit j) to ^etic m 
 to <ifftf)at bcfcuc affbie goo^^f /t|)ar ie to fa;^e/hi^ lyfe/ irlKre 
 wirf) b"^fw'aft>lr€^ a^t)'^€X)oure^rp^etbe:bi^rigbt<tX'e^flce/ 
 trbere with be bart)?fbc^ lyrme: j>i6 (alradon/wbcre witb b^ ^ 
 vercom eteriiaft ^amandon^t^otjpe can tb^ twetcl>eb manCri>« t 
 i& xrmppcb in (ynnt/ant> ie inbaun^cr to ^et j)e an^ beff) b^^^**^ 
 nomoareioyufi a tb1rn0cAbcnflld>cgla^an^ ccmfottubfc ty/ 
 ^l^3f /of (rj>:ifJ.©o f b At be cannot but be ^to An^ loiigb fr^"^ 
 tbelotre bottom of bt^birr/if be bfleve fbar ti)(ty^yn^ ore 
 trctre. 
 
 IT Jof?ren0tb fncl> fejetbe wttb off/^ob ptomKe5 tj>id bi« ^^^^ 
 ^efion in tbcolbeteflamentb)rtf>epiopbettf Cae patif(aftl) in 
 tbefin(td>aptcrwitotbe rontons), ^owetb«b<f«>«6 <i>ofcn 
 cute to p^c<ul>e 0obtvf ei?an0el!cn/t»4>icb b« befo« hc^^P^^y^ 
 fet)brtbeptopb«trf in tbebolyfcripturf tbattreAteofbrdfonne 
 VDd)id> troa bo:ne of tbe fce^ of^«t?)^t) ..3rttbetb^^ cb^ptcr of 
 ^enncfie/^ob faitb tot^c fcrpcnt;y rp)?ffputbatreb bittrene tbe 
 an> tbe woman / bitwene t\>y fcebe anb b^rfee^e / tb^tfilfe 
 (ccl>e fbAfirtre<it> tl)y beebvnber fote^^b^P «d ^«^ womane fee^ 
 ^e / be it 16 tbAt batb tro^en wi^er fote tbe bevyfff b^^^ / ^b^* 
 16 to (aye fynnc/betbe/ bcff? «n^ «ff bi^ power. 5o: witb c ut€ 
 tbi^leebfcan uo man avoybef^rnne/betbe/beffanb cuerloflyn^ 
 ^ebanocion. 
 
 C2I^a)rnc ^cn.^rjnj.^ob piom^eb 2(biabam fajri^e:iTt tb)? f«c^« 
 fboftall t\>i^cncrciti66 of tbe ertbe bebftffcb.(rb«(^i« tbat (ee^ 
 ^e ofabiabamfaytb fajmrtpanFint|)e tbryMdtbc0alatbran0 
 -J?e bad) blcflcb aPtbe woifbe tbrou0b th 0ofpf ^^ S<^r wbere 
 (Tb^'Tf J6 nct/tbcrc remainerb tbeairfle tbat fefon oM Od foone 
 ae b« b^b fr" neb/So t^atti^cy are in bondage lm^er tj>e^oml 
 naciort of f)^nnc/^ctbe/an^ b^^^ !2(0aj?n(lctbi6 cwrfTe blef?etb 
 nowe tbe ^ofpcffaa tb e worlbe/in afmochc a& it cryctb openly?/ 
 wbo (o ever belcxKtb on tbe fee^e opbraba fbalbe b!e(|eb/tl)at 
 i5/be fboibebeljnpere^ frd fjmne/^etbe anb b*ffi'^"^*^^^"^^ 
 fortb continue r^ewe^/Ifrrin^e/anb fave^ for euer/ o^ ^bnf^ 
 
 2^ (4 
 
never more ^^c. 
 
 £^belawe(faitbtbe^rfpeff*of3!?onmtl)e firfi cljXfUr)tx>a& 
 
 given be Vnofcetbtir ^rar e a^^ vcritii be 3e(u6 (fj^^iTl. ^be ia^ 
 
 tpe(t»bofemimffer)>6mofc6) tvae geventobryn^e v^rnrotbe 
 
 frtowk^eof ourej^lre^/tb^rwe m^^j^ttl^ereb^^felc ant> per^ 
 
 cert-vetcbAtweareofnature, Cbelatrc con>em^ct^)V6an^ a^ 
 
 0^U'e^e^e&/an^^6calle^cfpAu{(mt:|)etbl)^t> c^ap, ofti)e fecon^ 
 
 pijlle rnto t^e corrimbians) ri?e mj?n)?(lradon of t>etl)e, Sor it 
 
 03?^b oure confciencee ^nb ^ripetb x>^ to be jperacion/in a^ mo^ 
 
 cl)ea$itrequ)!>rrtl)ofp$rbartrl?ycb isvnpoflfible fcire tolxx). 
 
 3i;requ^etb ofp^tbebebf of An trbcle/man. 3trequ)fret(? per^^ 
 
 fecK rove from rl)elcwe bottome anbj^oimbe of tJ)cbert/A0 
 
 tt>effm<xfftbm^f Trl>ycl)tre fu(f re/<i$ in tbo tljin^f w^^cl; we 
 
 b»,But faict 3bon (in t|)e f<ime plAce)^rAce mt> vcritU is 0c^ 
 
 x>in v&m c^rifl. So tij At wfcen tbe latre l;Atl; pA (feb vppcn ve/ 
 
 anbcd^emneb t>atobetb(wb)^cbt^i)i6n<Jmre toboo)rJ>cnl)Are 
 
 tvein (fbrirtdr^ee/t^^Atistofaj^efaroure/ prom^f€Oofl)?fe/of 
 
 mercy /of person frely by tbe meritee o fiTbrifl/Anb in (Tijrif! l)a^ 
 
 p^weveriticAnt>troutbe/intbAt£jot> fnlfillirb ftff tie promyfes 
 
 to tJ^Jt^At beleve^tr^erfore ie tbe^ofpell tbe miniflrAf ion of ly fe. 
 
 pAttl cAlict!> |)it/m t^i foreref)eArcct5 plAce of tbe fecot» cb Ap^to 
 
 tbecor,t|^emyniflrAcion of tbe fpynte/Anb of ri0btetrefne6,3n 
 
 tbt ^o^eUvo^mxvc belewet^epromyfe^/wereceAtetbe fpyrite 
 
 f lyfe / ant) are iufiifictf in tl^eblout) of (ri;nTt from A^tbm^f 
 
 i»j)ere oft^e lAwccon^emneb ve* ^f ijjrifl itie written in t^e 
 
 forerel^eArreb fir(if^Apterof3{)o:^bi^i6{?eof n?i>ofe Aboun= 
 
 ^Aimce / or fuflfned / aatcc bAue rec c At?eb / ^Ace fvr $(rAce /or 
 
 fAvoure fot fixvoure* CbAt is to fAy e /for tbe fat)Oure tbAt ^ob 
 
 I;Atl) to bid fonne (Tbri^/be det?et|) tnto to^ljie favour /Anb 
 
 ^b wiII/A6 A fAtfjer tobiefonnee. 2(d Affirnml; PauI (ayingc: 
 
 wb^ch lorcb vein bis beloreb before tbccrcAtion of t^et»c:f^ 
 
 be. Jot tbelovet^At ^ob bAt!)to(rbri(?/belovetb ve/Anbnot for 
 
 cure Awne faitf. CbriflidmAbcIcrbe over Aff^Anb i^cAft*eb in 
 
 fcripturejiobbf mercy f?olex»^ofoever Pyetbto Chrifi/can m^ 
 
 tbcr beAte nor receave of dob eny otbertbin^^ fAve mercy* 
 
 C3" tbeolbe teflament Are mAny promyfca/tvbycb Are notbin^ 
 
 jjeebbut t^t evAngelion or ^ofpell/ tofave t^ofe t|?At beleveb 
 
t^cm I from the ven^auncr cft^e lawc. 3nt> m thi ^ixct teflon 
 mcntie oftc mc'^^ minoonofrhf lawiVJOfcn^cmthcm/t»^rcl') 
 belcrcnoft rbc prcmj^fc^, iTTcrccucr the Uwc An^ ^cfpclT 
 ffiAi^e ncvcrt>efq?crafc:forfbc ^cfpeff'an^prcmffc^ f<rrc but 
 fbrtro^blc^ confdcnrf wb^cb arbrcu0!?t to befpcradcn an^ 
 felcrbep^rne^of bcff*ant>t>crbc rn^o-t^clawc/an^) are incap^ 
 tixxtk an^ bon^a^i^ rnticr tbc kt»e. 3n aff my^cl>ty mu^ 
 (Ic b^vetbe Utt?c before me to concern mym rnperfectned. 
 Joratf tbatyt>oo (be ^mvix fo perfecte) ie j^et^amnftble f^n^ 
 ne/wben bit is cortiparetJ to tbelawe/wbycb requrivtbtt)e 
 0^oun^e an^ bottoom of m^ne j>crt. 3 mufletl)ereforc bare o\^ 
 wftjrestbclawe in mj» figrbt/tbat^mAye be meNrnt^c fpj^ri- 
 te/an>0fre^o& at^t{^eUu^can^pra^fe/afcrvbin^cto bym off 
 n^btcwcfncd/anl) to my (jrlfc aff'r^^^bt^tre|he^4n^ frniie. 
 3 mufle alfo b<irr tbe proitiy fee before myne ey^ee/ tbAtyt>f^ 
 ffeerenott/ in trbrcb pro mvfeerfc tbe mercy / f^roure/ all^ 
 ^00^ iryff'of ^ot^ opon me in tbe bioul) of l>ie fonne (Tbnft/ 
 wbf cb b Atb ma^« fatiefaction for myne rnperfeetne^/an^ ful^ 
 filled forme/tbaf t»bVf 1^ V coubcnott^oo, 
 C^^remAyeyepcrcearc tbat ttro manner of people Are (ore 
 ^eceavetJ.^irftetbevtrbycbiuftifietbcmfilfe tritb ontewAr&t 
 ^(tiflin tl;attbci? AbfrAyne omwArl^ly from tb at trbycb tbelA;= 
 we forblbt>etb/ an> t^o? outtrArMy tbat tp|?ycb tbekvrecom^ 
 maun^erb. 2ibejf*fompAre tbem fclre^to open (>tttter& an"b in 
 n^ptat of tbem iuflifie tbem feiues cont)cmnyn^« the openfyn^ 
 ncre.Ocrfcnofrbotrc tbe latrcreqnmtb lore from rbebor^:^ 
 tomoftbcbe^t.3ftbcy^y^tbeytrol^£^ottcon^e^etbcrenf0iJ- 
 bour5,ilore (jvbetj) t|)e multitude of frnnee / faitb faynct peter 
 in \)\e ffrft piftle, Jor ir l;om y lore from the ^epe bottom An^ 
 ^rcun^c of mync bert/!>ym cont)em y nott/netljerrccFe/jie^ ^yt)^ 
 ne$/but fuflfre bie treafnce An^ inprmytie / A6 Amotjjer tbe 
 traFnc^ of ber fonne / rntift be^otre rppein to aperferte ni4, 
 C^Tbofcaifo Are^eceA^c?trl?vcbmtboufcAfffeAre of^o^^ere 
 tijcmfdreernto Aff'mancrricc£3.tritb fuff'fo(cnr/An&fuft*t)eler^ 
 tano/barin^eno refpeae to tbe lAtre of ^o^Crn^er trljofe r?^«s: 
 aunce r!)ci? arelocFe^ rp in rAptiritic)butfAve;£fo^ i^ mcrd^iff 
 an^cbnfl^ye^for^6/(uppofin0ctbAtfucbc^rcmy^0fAlI^rma 
 ^mdcici5t^AtfAytl)wbyc^i6fo0reat!^come>e5>ii)ol/fmptiire. 
 
Vi^yi tbatifi nol:l:fa)^t!>/but rcitl}cv A foiiff^c opinion ^ifn^j^^ 
 0e oft j>er« a WrtC nature/ anb id nott gfeucn tj)cm of tpe fp^^rire 
 ofgjob»2'rei»cf<v)rtj)idC<*dfa)?t(>|:!)eapo(llcpauDtj)e gyftc of 
 ^ob aiib 16 0cxjcrt tojyner^ itfter t:bc(aroe(>«r!) paffeb «poiui)em 
 4n& l)*t^ b:ou0f)t t^crecortfJicncf rnrot^e t)jym of t>efperaci^ 
 Ott/Af lb fo:ot»e6 of ^effl 
 
 Ci J)ej? tb<*^ b^^^ ^h^^ *'^£J!>^ f^J^^b / consent to t\)z la wc t!)at it id 
 ri0|)tca)c« ant) ^oob/anbiuf?ific^ob tc!>icf) mabetbe lat»e/anb 
 jjavt bdcctocion in tl^tiatoe CnotttDit^flonbtnigtcr^attljcy can 
 nott fufffiff* it / fo r t !)crc weaFnce^anb t() ej^ a b^orrc tp^ot foe ^ 
 vertj>e lawe foibj^bbetj) /rbou^b t^ej; cannott aror^eit. linb 
 rl)ere create forowc ie/ btcauft ti>t^ cMnot fulfiff* t!>e trittof 
 ^ob in t{)e lan)e/aubtf)cfpy?itc r()ati6 in t!)em crj^ctl) to ffoX> 
 n)^^f>tanb bare for ftrm^i} ant> fjelppc cort^ tearcd Qae faytb 
 Paul) tbai cannot be ejtpreflfcbwitj) tongje. 
 2liiifticiarie £;(^()e fivfic/ti^at idto fa)?ea iufticiane /u)l)ic!> mftifyetj) |)ym 
 filfe toitf) !>id outwarbe bebf /c5(entet j) nott to tjje latre in war;: 
 i>e/netber!)atj) belectacion tberein/j?e/l)etc>oIbc rather t^atno 
 fitc^e latoe toere.So iu(f iftetf) !)e nott 0ob/but ^atctj) bj^m ae a 
 tjjrat/nctbcr caret!) ^efbr tbe prom)?fe6/ buttDiffwttb b*^ awne 
 fh'e^t{>befa\?eour ofS))?mfilffe:now)?fe £|Io2ifyetb|)e0Ob/tf)o^ 
 
 a r nf t» U "^^ ^^ '"^'"^ outtoorbe to two. 
 
 min Ci(>^ fcconbc/ tjjat ie to faj^c t^c fenfctrcfFperfone/ ae a vohip^ 
 
 teoueftr^me/rtet^^rfenrctl) ^obin ^isfrtwe/netbcridtbanfFuff' 
 to t>ym forbid prom)?fe6 anb m(rcy/xo^icl} idfctt fo:tf> m (r!):i(t 
 
 ^ iCtufteii to aSVb«tt t bat be(etx>e. 
 
 man. ilZcti^\>tci}iiftmmam confcntctb totbdatretb^t l)iti&n^\)t^ 
 
 tre6/anbiufhfiet{)^ob intf)eIa\»e/forbe aflfyrmctb rbat^ob 
 td ri^b^^^ <^b lu jle / tipfjtcb id autot of tbe latre / be bclcrct^ 
 tbe paomy fed of gob / anbfe iuftipetb ^ob /inbgyn^c l^ym trewc 
 ftnb belaiin^e tf^at be wi(^ul^a^yd promyfcd* ^itb tbe hvoc 
 J>econbenet^ \)ym fylfc ant) attib»dbebt/anb gfepetbaffVbe ptay^ 
 feto^ob.b^bekuctbtbep:omy(ed/anb ajcribetb atftroutj>to 
 0ob/tbud even? t»()ereiu(lifiet j) b« dotf/anX} pray(ctl> jjob. 
 •Rature. ffBynatnretbroticjbtbefanle ofabam/arewerbecb^^lbrertof 
 wratb/bcj^r«doftbcx>e0eaurtce of ^ob by byztb/yc ant^ from oiii^ 
 re concepcion/ tc»e bane ourc fcffotvfbippewit!>tbebanincb be^ 
 pj^ftj vnbcr t^e power of berfned vnb rule of fatan / vol^yk we 
 
trc are ^m cure morb<r6tponibf6/t{)ou0j) ix>cf!)a»< nctt 
 fbtt(>c t^cfrcutc^ofrjmnc/)?cttart\»cfiift*ofi^c ffomroffpoy^ 
 foni»j)cr€ of off Onfuffbc^f (ptyn^c/an'b canon but fiprmc ouu 
 war^f (bctre never fo )>on0c) yfcccaftoti be 0epcn/fot cure n4 
 na^Jreieto^cof)^ne/«^i^tl>enaturcofaferpemtc fiyn^c 2Jrtt) 
 ae a ferpenr vet i?o^c/ot )^ett vnb:ou0bt fo:tj)e i6fnft*of popfon/ 
 a^^ cannott aft:ertt>art>€ ( vc\)in t^ tytm id ccme anb ocwfioft 
 ^ercn) butt Mjm^e f<Nit j)e tbc fretitce t!>cre of♦2Jn^ ae an cMKr/ 
 a to?^c/o: a (haFc 16 j)atc^ of man/ (ftott fct rl>c )n)dl f Ijot it |) Aff) 
 t)Ofie / bur fo% tt>e porfbn t^t id m it (tn^ hurt whid} it CAnnctt 
 but Do?)So Are tt»e p*ltc^ of jjo^ foi t^tnatureffpoyfon n>^ic^ 
 16 conccAx><t> an^ botne wirl> pe/befote xrc bco en^ outttar^e y^ 
 vcSlZn^ aeti)c yxKU/wi^id} a vcniimoua u)o^meboetf)/niaFetj) 
 itnctt a (crpent : but be cauft itie>a i>enumou9 wwrne. t[)erefo^ 
 re^octb it ^xK^Tanb po>^tietb*^nb ad tljc fhite mahti^ net tj)e 
 tree j^poff : but because ttiean eryfftree/tberfwe ln)?rt^et() tf 
 fott^ eT>)^frute/t3ob^n t()e (eafcn cf frute ie • lExKn fo t)oo notr 
 cure eD^be^f maFe re €v^6t: but becaufe tbar of nature rvt 
 are ew^/t^crfbte tuc botl)c t^ynh anX> hoo cvy&'f anh are rn^ 
 i)er pen^eaurtce/w^er tbc latre/ccnricte tcttima6tt>amnaci6n 
 by tJK latDe/anb arc contrary to tbc tpiffof 0ob in all ourc xxtyS"/ 
 mb in afftl^yn^ confent to t!>e t»j^ff*of t!>c fenbc, 
 e'By 0race(tl)at i& to fay c by fat>curc)t»c arc pIucFeb oute of 
 ^bam tbc^ounbe of aff cP5J&/anb 0raff€t> m e l)«fl t j>c rote of 
 aff*0oc>^^e6. 3n ^bufi 0ob lorcb ve J)i5 elcctc anb ct>ofen/ befo tc 
 tbexx?o:Ibe bc^a/anb re(m»cb x>6 vnto tbc htottie^eofbiiS jbn^ 
 ne anb of 1)^6 bol)? gfofpeff/' anb w\}m tbc gofpeil i5 puad^b 
 tor6l>e openetb ourc bcrttf /onb ^cioct^od gfracc tobcUve 
 anb puttetb tbc fpiritc ofCT^uft in v&/ anb trc fnowcl)iiJ 
 rtic 40 oure fat[)cr maoflmcrq^foS^ / Mb confent to tbc lo^ 
 i»c / anb love it mxrarbl;^ in oure bcrt / aiib bcfjnre to folfy&'it/ 
 anb foioxre becaufe t»c cannot/t»birf? upiff ( fjmne tx>c of fra^^U 
 tiencpcr fo mod)e)iefnfpcient tiff mote frrengtb bt^ccive/tbe 
 bloubof (Tbuft batb mci:t>cfatiffacticn fo: tberefrcrijc Woub of 
 €b^ifi barb obtcymb ali tbi^f fci peof 0ob.(rbnPi6 oure fatif:= 
 fa<tton/rcbemcr/oelvrerer/fat>cour from v<ngtCLunc<ianbwt^ 
 atl)»(DJ)fcruc ani> mah intt^ pijlle^ ofPaiil/«n^P<tcr/ anb 
 
 1^ 
 
ijjoir^b fftirjj be ncvertritl) ctifc Icve an>^oc»l> trerFc^/j?€i:ii^ ou^ 
 rcfarm£|«imf urc^ nctljer to Iciie rtot t?nrc gfoo^ u?erFf / but vnto 
 fwf) onlf ♦iotloue ant> tocr^f ijre vnt>er r^e latrc vo^id^ reqii)?^ 
 rcr|) p?e fecti'on / an^ tbe ^roun^e alt^ fontxync o f tbe ^err / an^ 
 ^anabdlimpcrfccme^, tloweie faitb rn^ci* tj^e p:oin)^fei?/ 
 »?ic^^^afIe nct:but0cv>i aflP^^cc/ mercy an> farowr / iin& tt>|>(it 
 foexfcvie contcfnc^mtbe ptomt^fe^» 
 
 m6<>tbet wi ntairer ofri^l?te wcfnefff^.^l^tfjemfte mmiftmcronof Allman^ 
 fe iidli4tT^ ner of U wes/*n^ tb e ob ( e rrm^c o f rl? e m / ^nt) rn o ? afr ve mie£> 
 02 MUce wercmpbitofopber^ pur d;ere feltciHc An> bU(fe^ttce / vol^id) 
 all are rtotbrjje in t!>e fi^bf of 0O^♦d;ere 10 mI)?Fe maner tbe in^ 
 (liffi^cof ceremortcd/fomcj^ma^td tbemrberecnr febe^/fo^ 
 me contcrfaf ere otl^cr/fxyin^i in rbere bl)>nt)e reafon : fli4?e 1) olf 
 perfort0^r^rbu0an^ tl)u&/a,ni>thc^wcrtbolymi/tbirfou yfy 
 t)oo fo lyfe toyfe y fbaf*pieafe^ot>;burr{;>ef b^t none anftrer of 
 ^oWtl^^^J" r|?atpkaferb.3ri?e ievres feferi^br^tcnee I t!>erc r ere^ 
 monies w^icb^o^ ^avernro rbem/norfojromfrifie:burro>e^ 
 fcribeant>pa>^nr iTbtif^i^nro rbem/ofwfeid^iewe^refrifietbpaul 
 faymrfe l>ou?e r{)atri?ey b<it>e afl^?crl^ to ^ot>;bur nor af?er ft ww^ 
 ie^e/ptf ^e^ g(o aboute to (labliflffjet^ere one mfticilav:^ are not 
 obeMetto r!>e fufhcc otri^fjtetrefne© tbatcometl)of^o^.Cj?e 
 raiife i^rereljj/rbatejrceprea mancofle awa)?el)i^at»ne)?ma0i 
 rtadon an^rea^on/bccannotperfeave^o^/an^pn^erflon^e t|)e 
 vcrtue an^ power ftbt blouT) f (T b Jifl. 2^bere 10 tije ri^l>retvef^ 
 nc0 ofwoi?f (a0)^(ai>e before) w^Stbcbertie a wa)?e/rber fek 
 notbotoe rl^eUwcie (pirituallanb cannot be fulftlleb/bm from 
 r^c bottom ofrbe birtX^trie a fu^Tn^bJ'ctrcfnca/wf^entbe k^ 
 i»ei5 fulfilled fi-omtl>e^roOX)eof tbefjert.CbJ^ j)adnot!?erpe^ 
 ter nor Paul itbi^ l)?feperfccf I)?: but 0>^J)e^ after yt.Cj)e>^ were 
 fo farfo:tl? bleffediniTbtifl/tbar rlx)^ |>ii^red an^ tljutfied af<f 
 ter \uV9^\x\ l>a>tbt>fi>u:(Ie/bec5fentedtotbelatt>eofigrod/tl)at 
 itou^ptfo too be/but be fonn>e an otj^erlufle m b»i? membie^co 
 trary to tf)e/«fleanddefire of l>i6mynde/ an^tl)erfo:c cr^i"^ 
 oute fa)>m^e: 4>() twetc^e^ man tl)(J t y am;wi>o fl^aff^elpje 
 
me from t^ia bcb^^ oft>crbe/ than Ff be to gob tbiowc 3cfue 
 <rb:i|T.<rbc ngbtetocfrree tbat before ^ot> ie orvftluc/ieto bcic^ 
 PC tbc p jomrfcis of aoWafter rbe laxre bad) ccnfovrTfccb rbc con-^ 
 fc!cncc.2l6xx»j?fntbf fff^poj^ff latrcoftc tymce conbermicfb 
 
 rberbffcoimojbereranbb:yrtgetjjb)'"^f^fJ^^^w^o"/fo ^b*^ b^ 
 fcitbnofb'ngebefotefjymbut prffcntbetbe/an^ tbcncdmttb 
 
 g<»bri?Mpt/a<:bartcrfromtbeFynscanbt)el)?\?eKtb !>im-ilyFc 
 wv(cwi)tn gojb^f lawe bfltbbrougbffbcfrnncrinto Fnoirlf:= 
 5eof bim fVlf?/anb b<itb cdfoim^cb b'^Jf^^fj^'^^cc/anb opcncb 
 unro I;rm the wratb anb pen^caunce of 0obAb«" cometb 0»b 
 t^'bingf /rl^e ifcra^clicn fbcwctb vmo l)imrj)e promj^fce of£jot> 
 m(rbnf^/anb l)ou?etbAt(rbn(lbfifb purd?cfet» perbcn forb«m 
 {>atb fatif ficb tbc Uwe for bim / An^ peafeb tbe tcratb of ^ob/ 
 anb tbcporrefvrtncrbdcDctb/lauber!? ant) tt)anfct|) ^ob/tbro:^ 
 i»e(rbrift/<in^ brcaPctbontcintoerccbi^einwarb io>>ant>0lab 
 tice/fir tj)at be b*tb efcapcb fo ^rcatc trrAtb/fo bcrr p^^eaun;^ 
 cc/fo fcArfxiSanb fo ivcvUftingi abet be/ anb be i)cncc fortb i& 
 (Xn bd^et) anb atbur(! aftermorc ri0btewcfnee/tb At be ♦"Ji^bt 
 fiilfi&>bckt»c/«nbmometb contj?nuaII)»fommeM'n^c Xnevoi^ 
 iiFnee vnto ^ob intbcbloub of oure fariour (^hnfi3^(^^ 
 
 C^crefbaffycfccompcfibicufil^^ anb playttJyfcrtort^ 
 
 tb c orber anb procnfe of crer)> tbrn^e afore rebear(eb . 
 tr^'bcfauf^ of ab am b<xtb mabe re b^^l^^'cfi of tbe re^eauce anb 
 rc)r«tl?of^Oc)/anbbeyre0cfctcrndlt>anacion.2(nt)b»itbbrou^ « u / 
 ^btve into captmtt anb bonbo^e rnbcr tbebevvU,2lnt>rbel>e^ ^bet^bh 
 r^U ie onrc lorbc/anb oure rulcr/onrc bceb/oure ^orc mour/ou j^^ ^^ 
 reprirtce/ve anb oure 0ob.2(nb oure i»yff*ie locFcb anb Fnctffi:^ ^ 
 fler vnto t^eiriffof tbcberyffitben coiibean bunbrcb tbotr^ 
 fanbchcynefibrnbcamanrntoa poft,t7nto tbebcrifl'f txullcS^: 
 iemtx)c/t»itb a^onreberree/nyitbaffouremynbee/irirb al ou^ 
 re m^bt/power/fh-enotb/wilUnMufle . tTitb a>b at poy feneb/ 
 bcaM)?/afib renunoue bate/batetb a man bie enemy if u)itb bo^ 
 we^eate malice ofmj^nbe in toarbI)?t»o?tre fief anX^ murtbcr^ 
 tX?itb xr bat riolere an'i< ra^e/ye anb tuitb bo t»e fcrrcnt iufJe co 
 mm xci abuoutrie/fovticarion/ «nb fud? Ir Fe vnclennee i voitb 
 tcbat pleafureanbbclcctattcn tmrarb/y femctb a glcrtcn bis 
 bcffi»fli>irba>batbi%e« t>ifccapewe:'^owebu(rlifeFe tretbe 
 
tljyn^e^ oft!)i^ t»oal>'.'tlD|bat foe vcr wc'bccf/t^fnh/aymmdQi 
 
 on/ie abominahk in t^c fy^^t of ^o^, 2(rt^ xcc are Ae it wen af'y 
 
 lepe in \c bepe bIr>rtt>nc6/rF)At we can nether fe/no: fcPe m tDf>At 
 
 m^(cr3?/t:^:fiI^om/4ltb W2ct4)ebnc$ trc are in/ tjrS^niofefi ccmr 
 
 AHv) voah P6/ant> puWeff^e i^elatre.tP^en we Kjearet^e Mtjce 
 
 trul)?p2cad)cb / ^owei:^atweon0J>tto lot?e an2> |)onoure^ob 
 
 mr|) aff'curefren^^e an^ m)>0^t/fromt()c t^wc bottom of 
 
 t^e ^crt:ft^^ ourc ne^^biirf C)^c oiireencmye^ae oiire feluee ttis? 
 
 xrearM)? fromr^e0rofi^eoft^e {>ert/4nbtoboot»^atfocvcr^ob 
 
 I)l^^€tb/an^ abflcym from what foercr ^ob foiHb^ct^ / rrit^ 
 
 affKopc «nt> meFne^/ trf^tt a fervent An^ a bnmyn^c lufle/from 
 
 t^c center of tf^e ^crr /tf)ert be^)?fTnetj)tj)econfdcncc to r<J^e 
 
 40infl t^c Iawe/<W1^ A^cnp ^o^/t1[o fceC be ^it never fc gfreate a 
 
 tempefl;)ie fo wtqaiet. 3t 10 not pofJ5?ble fo: a naturaff^man to 
 
 confentto t^efatoe /t^At ^itfbnlb be j(oob/oj tj^At^o^ f^uto be 
 
 vi0^tewe&jw^id^ mAFct|> theUwc.^annce x»ttte/re Afon/AnD 
 
 TPtftV^refo fAft ^lue^/)^enAvIe^ Anb 4>f!fncb rntotbetDill oftbe 
 
 ^er)^ff?t^[er^er cAn enj? crcAtiirelowfc t^e bo^c^/fApe t^ebloii^ 
 
 of(f^:ift. 
 
 jCI?tifiref f etfe dZhi^ ie tbe cAptivite anb bon>A^e w^ea €^11(1 t>elyt?:c^ re / 
 
 ps^rt Uberte rc^eme^/An^Iotr(e^»6. 45»^Wou^/|^ie beetle/ j)iepActencc/tn 
 
 fufllr^n^e rebuFe^ An^ tvjon^/j^ieptevAere Anb faftyn^/ l^ie 
 
 meFenee ano fiif fiff^n^e of rbe rtmoft poy nte of tbe lAtre / pe 4^= 
 
 (eD t|>e up: Atb of ^ob/b:ou0bt t^e fArer of ^o^ to re A0Avne/ ob;= 
 
 tcynctf that got> f^tifc fore ve fvt (ic/An^ be oiire f Atb er/Anb t^ a t 
 
 a mercf f«6rfAtl)er/tbAt triSVonfi?b:e oure tnfi'rmitAtc^ ant> wc:^ 
 
 Afne$/An^tt»iff'^cre r^ bi^ fpyiite A^e^ ne(wj>i<^ tr Ae tAFen A^ 
 
 trA^ein tf)efaffof2<t>Am)to rufe govern an^ftren^tb re/ An^ 
 
 to bxeAFe tb c bonded of ©AtAn /where in tre were |o ftrc)rte bo* 
 
 im^e.tri^en <[i)iiftie t^vo wyfe pleAdbe^/An^ t^e piom yfee it^ 
 
 ^eArce^/ wI)i(|Arccontcfne&mrbep:op(>ettf/intbe pfAlmce/ 
 
 anb in ^irerf places f t^e fyrc boFf of mofeeu^en t^c ^erttf of 
 
 -.. ^« .. t^emwbicbArecIectCAn&dbofe/be^intowexefofte/anbtome)tf 
 
 nbivmccb ^^ *^ the bouteoue mercf of ^o^/Anb h;nt>me> f |>ewcb of (T^tift. 
 
 fav>tl?c/&tl?e ^o:wbetbccrA£fclioni6p:eAd>cb/t^efpyiiteof0obcntret^ ito 
 
 bzyngetl? tovc t^cm wbicb ^ob batf> oibeineb Anb Apoj?nteb vnto etcrn Aff'Ivfe/ 
 
 love wwker fe Anb openct^ t|)ere in wArb eyc6 / Anb wotf et^ fu4> belcfe in tbc. 
 
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Whcthc vcc>fvilkd(ciccc&fcU^taft€hcvtefvcctc athi^cthclytf 
 tcr bcrbc of (T^j^jfti^/i bott»c mciYyfnllt lorin^c^o^ 16 rbicti^b 
 ifbriftce purd>c(Vn^e Ati^ mQrittf/Zl^£f bigyv to lore aQaym/ 
 anZ> to confititttotbchvoe of^o"^ /hcw(tbat i>iti& ^oob / an't> 
 ou^bt fo to bc/afi> tfcar ^c^ ie ri^btctfcs trbvcb rtitfbe tr/ 21^^ 
 ^cfjrrc ro fulfiStljcUtre/ercn as a ficFe ma ^cfyrct() to be xti^o^ 
 U/antf ate «nl)cngtrc^/ anbatljirfJ a(icr more ri^btetreffie^/ 
 an^ a(ler moie ftre^tj^c /to fuIfiffVbe lawe more perfea(v.3n^ 
 in AfTthat tt)ef^a>/oa omittan^ leat>ern^one/tbc)rfefc^o^w>ed 
 ^onoure/a^^ hi^tci^vcitl} mefrte6/ercrcont>emn^n^etf>eoni? 
 perfeme^oftl^erc>e^e0byt()elal»e. . 
 
 lEtlotre (Tbrifl flon^erbv^inJ>oMe (ie^c^nbferretbr^m>o ^rV^^^ 
 mancr tpife. ^irf^bf i50urere^emer/^ely^?erer/reconcllcr/ mc^ ncuVrclr/ano 
 Motor/ inter reflbr/abpof^t/aiturne>>/folidter/cureboopc/com^ Reverb an cn^ 
 f ortc/f^ef^e/prctef rion/^cfen^f r/ftren^b/beltb/ fatisfamcrt/ rumple tcwc 
 a^^ fabadon.^te bIol^^/!?i^^eatb/d(^t!)at ^e erer^r^/ isou^ f^ be ftovc re 
 re6.2(nb (T^rif! him filffc/tritl; afftbat be i^ or cS l>(x>/ i^ om-ee. ^^^'r* 
 £ii& blo»^ fbc^^'H^fe A^^ ofTt j^^zt be >yb/ ^oeti) me dd ^c©b (er^ 
 rice/a6tbou^b v mr^ffeba^ ^oneit. 3nl) 0o^ C*^ Create ad 
 bci6>3mrnc wit(>aft'tj?<u be batb/t!?2cw(^bnTta^^ bi^ pur< 
 d)a(Vrt^e. eS^coti^ar^if aflcr tl?at we be overcome witb Ic^^ 
 re an^ Frn^rtee/an^ notre fefe to ^oc»tbc \»iff*of^o^ C^^y^ t^ 
 a cbriftenmancfi ni3nirc)^ben have tre c bri(le an e n (a mple to 
 counfcrfct/ae (ait^ cbrxfi ^im |li(fe in 3bon: 3 barc^ercn^on 
 an enfam p/e.2f n^ m an or ber eron^elf fte/be fait J):^e t!>at vcH^ 
 be Create amende ron fbctlbc yourc ferraonr anbmtm/?er/a0 
 tbe [dm ofmaca to minifiircin'^ net to be rtnniflerc^ rnto»2inb 
 Paul fair^:£oimterfet(rbrif?.21nb peter faitb: <fbr^^t^ie^fo: fa^tl^ercce'^ 
 you/an^ lefte you an^ enfam pleto foJowe l?i> fJeppe^. tTbar arerij ofgot>/ 
 foerertberfo:e faitb batbreceareb of ^c>tbiott» (Tbnflf Mou^ ^ni> ^^1*'^^^ 
 art^^efer^)rr1^e/tbatfamemuflIoue (t)c^ outeererrtrbitr/an^ 9^^^^ ^ 
 beftoirebitOTionre ne^bboiirf rntotb^re proffet/>>e an^tbat nrgbbonr. 
 tbou^b tbey be oiire enrm;"$.Befaitb Trereceareofoo>/an> b< 
 love tpc fbeb ottte a^a^^ne, 21 nt>t^atmu(! tre ^oo frcljrafler t^e 
 cnfample of ^Tbrift rrirb cote ertf ctbcr refpccte / fare cure 
 ne^b bourf tee Itb cnk/an't netbf r loFe for retrar^em ertb /ner 
 >^ttl^^epe^foroure^e^e6:bwtofpure loremuft ire brftotrc 
 
 •IX 
 
ourefcloe^/afftb^tt rx>e !)ave/ant) a(ft|>at wear ftbic to t>a>/ewn 
 ^ trcxpe d>n' on oiirccncmye to bryncje tljem to ^o^/con(il)er)>n^c nor!?)?nge 
 ^^"u"k" hf^/ bwtt^erctx»dr!)/ae(ri)zif?^yt>oure6. €\)iift ^y^nott I)i6^c^e6 
 
 Ycb^b^cbri// bieftlrebby/^ewaej)eyretl)creof/!)itt»<i6l)i0becri^mtaurice: 
 rtcs purcbcfin butb)r^ t^cm frel)? fo: cure faFe^/cofib cringe no tfeinge but oure 
 ge/a n^ tb«rfo tctlt^farit> to blunge t^e farour ofeo^ to re <i^a)^nc / anX> v^ to 
 vc lo vetj7/ano ^ct).'2(e no n<;ituraft'fonne tbat ie ^i6 fatbetf be)^^e/t)oer^ ^ie fa^ 
 ja7omctP/to ^jj^j.^ ^ -n j,^ ^^y j-^ jj ^ ^jj^ijjp 1,^ (?e)^re/t j)a r be ie alrebb^ be biir b : 
 
 onlv/anj>ro !)i&f<it{)er0avebim tbat^^er l>et»a5 bcrne/anM6lot()tbert!?ar 
 "oraweiiltbin ^ef!)ulbc(<»wtt^outeit/tl)en j)e{)imftlfe !)at^ mrttobe:but 
 ge^ CO 5ct>. of puer love boet(> f>c tf)at ()e boetl;, 'Zint) axe f)im w!>)^ (>eboetb 
 cn^t(>)«i0etbat^eboet!)/^eanftr>eretl>jmyfatbcrbabe/!ttem5> 
 far ()erf will / it pleajerb m^r father. JBctio ferrauntf trorfe for 
 f>yre/<rbHbren for love, ^or tj)ere fat|>er wrtb all t>c\:)M^/ie t{>e^ 
 rf alrebb^So boet^ acljriften man freljr all tjjat l>e boetf)/con^ 
 fit>ercrbnotf^yn^ebuttj)ewillof^ob/anb biene^bbourf weltb 
 only.'yf5^1it7e4^afte/3bcot>itnortte obteynebeventjjerb^ 5or 
 tl>m f j)ulbe r :>05 wron^c ro tbe bloubof€bnTt:(f btif^e^bloiib 
 fjatj) obteyneMitetl^at/cTbitfte^merertf bavemabeme^e)?rc 
 r!)erecf,^ei'dbotbboreanbrra)^eff)er!?ertrar^f. Het!>ertl3at 
 yloFe for an !>yerroume ml; eve/ tj?entl)cyfl>all l>avewbycl> liV 
 ve m weblocf e/otj)er t^en a Ijoare of tl;e flewee Cy f f be repent:) 
 for tbat iveretbe pr^^eoflucifer:Bntfrel)^to wdytc ontj)e e^ 
 vangelion/anb to fen>em)^b:othcrwiti? all/even oe onebant>e 
 l>clpetb anot{)er/or one membre anot!)er/becau(e one feletl) an^ 
 otbcrf grcfe/anbtbepa)>neoftbeoneietf?e paync oftl)cotber. 
 TO^at joever te bone to tl?e leefl of V6 C wl)ctber it be^oob or 
 bA'i>^ it 16 bone to€^rifl, 2inb irl)atfoex>er iebone to my bro<J 
 t!)er(if5^beacI)nfIcnman)tl)atfamei6bonetome,rtctberbOi? 
 etl? m)?brotberf pa^'ne ^rcvcme leflc tben myt}c atvne* tTTe^ 
 tbcrr«oj>fcv*lcfTe atjji^welthtbcnatm^^neaicpfte. Jf l)itxre^ 
 renotfo .• bowe fait^ pauWet^im tbat reic>;>fet{) / rcioyfe in 
 tbclotKtF>ati6 to fayecl^rift/wljyd^ielotbeover all creatures, 
 yfni^mcrettf obte)met>mel;eve/or an i^yirroumc tf)ere/tl)en 
 ^a^y vc^crc in y my^^t nioy(c be (j^bee te ilotb e. 
 C 0ere fe )re tl?e nature of t!>e la wc/anb tl;e nature of tlje eva£tc^ 
 
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Iiort.^otv^ tl^t iLavot byn^eth an^ ^amth all me/an> t^t ^^ao 
 |ionlotrrctbrbfma0c)fnc,2^!)elAttcjjoer^ before /ft^^ t()< cv5<^ l^obtrt^an^ 
 ^cIi5folotrcrb.^l)maprcad)crprecd?crbrI>eilarPc/ l)cbpi^ lowu. 
 ^crb allcon|cic^c<e/a^^trben bcprca<^ctbtbc (Bofpcli/bclctc^ 
 
 fctb ^fj f "^ agayne.^b^ (^ ^^^ falvceCf meanc rbc Hawc Cint> t\}€ 
 (BofpclOvrctb (Dot) an^bl6 prcacbcr to bcalc an^ cure friimriJ 
 tpitb oil.^ be (awe ^r)>vcrb oiite tbc t>i|cafc/4n& maFctb btr apc^ 
 reMn^ id a f barppcfalw/artb a frcoirngccoifej^/an^ Fyllctb rb« 
 '^ec^f^c|Tb«/ft^^Iol^fetb an^^rAwctbtbe|orei>our br tbe rctce/ 
 fln^aUcorrupcior?. ^tpiilictb from a man t^e m)fian^confr* 
 t)fcerbAt bebAf^»"bimfilfe/ant)mbiecncworFf / mcrittf/ 
 t>efervin0f ant>cercmonc6. 3f Wcrbbim/fent»ctb bim t>otrtte 
 to^cll/anc) bryn^crb b»^1tovttcr^ifpcrac^on/anbprfp♦lrrctb 
 tbctpav^cfUK Io:^/a^ bifid wrj^trcn of3bon tbcBaptef?. 
 ^or I;iti0 nott pofliblc tb«Otiflfb«l^ come ro a man/aeI5^ 
 geae ^e rru^ctb inb>ttifil(fc/onncny wotblytbvn^c. ^ben 
 commcrb tbc ^r wt^ch'on / a more gentle pla(!cr / vo^ydf foto^ 
 pUtb/an& (tra^erb tbct»o^^c6oftbc con|cicnfc/an& bryn^etb 
 bcltb. 3t bryngctb tbe rp3?ntc cf^o^ / trbycb lotrfctb tbc bon^ 
 ^ce of fotart/ anb coplerh ve to ^0X> an^ bid will tbtow (Iron^e 
 fftitb an^ fcrrentlopc/tritb bon^e6 toflroncjc for tbcl'cryll/tbe 
 wojte/orcrt)? creature to lot»fetb^»tt.3n^tbcpor:can^ irrct^ 3 cljnfte ml 
 d)c^frnnerfclcrbfo^eatemerc^/lorc / anMrnbncdmgoV ^^'^^^ ^/ ^ 
 rbatbeidruerinl)imfiJfe jjowe tbAtiNdnottpoflfiblctbat^ob f^ffJ"/Joc^^ 
 ^bul^ foifflPe bi^n/or i»irbl>ratro bid merc)^an^ lore from bim. |„' ujg foulcl 
 2(n^bolMj?cr$>ctbouna?itb paulfayingc: tObofballfcperate anoinall trt^ 
 \>6 fro tbe love rbat^ofelotJetbvdtritballftrbatietofajre.trbct buJanons 
 rbal[maFcmebcUwrbaf£}oMorabmcnertf0ballmbuIaaV f"^ ?^T^^ 
 onr21n0iiv(rbc-pcrrccucion:'6ballbu£jenft:iaFe^neef6bftUa J!^^ a melrv^ 
 fwcarbef tTaf/3<imfeirfrtbarnctbcrbfctb/ iterlvre/nerbcr f„iifat»?erAn2) 
 angcll/ncrberruie/nerpotrer/nerbcrprcfcnt tjj^^f/ncr tbyfi:= alovrnfic. 
 5ftocomeMcrberbyenerIo\re/nefber en)? creature id able to fc 
 peratc V6 fro tbe lore ofgob u»bic^ id incbtiff 3cfu onrc iot^c. 
 3n all fudKtribuladonda<rb*if^ctt man perceaverb tbat got> id 
 bid fatbcr/artMovetbby»n/ even ad heloreb^bnfl ccb^nbe 
 ^>e^bldblon^ on tbe croflTc .?rnaU)?/ad beforeA»be>> trad bob 
 to tbe bcrr II anb bf d roiil/y wzog^t all maner tvyll anbtwicfebe 
 ned/nottforbclledfafcTt>bid?idrberet»ar5>cofOnc/butbecaure 
 
y wa& \>c^rcof ^dl by byitb ftn^ bonM^c to tbc^et)HI/t>)?^ ^ e< 
 
 vyU.5or3coul&nonccti)€ra>e(c^(». to^oc) (j^nwa^nii nature. 
 
 icveitfoncwe fenrcranr cop(e^ to cjoD bv^ (f ?)nrtce blou^ /t><X) 
 
 y vodl/nott for ^cvcn^ (ah tbin be cAufe )^ am i>cvn of^cvcn by 
 
 0r^ccan'i)€i>rifi'f purcb€(yn^t /ar^^!)Arc tlje |>)?rif ofgo^/J 
 
 4)CD ^oobfrcl^/for fo i> nt)^ naturc.2t^ a 0co^ tree br)?n^f th fortl; 
 
 0<x>7> fnm/an^ an errff'trec er)>fflfrute. Byt^€ frutce (i>affyc 
 
 frrowe xvi>at tl)c tree ie, a mannce ^e^ee t>ed«re voi)at^c i& 
 
 tritf) ill birt mah (jutt nct!>er 0cot) net b4D -rc.tPe mtift be firfl 
 
 tv^iiycrvoc^xx} cv)?fi7ae a ferpenti^ prfl poy(ene^^r l>c poj^fcn. 
 
 n>emu|lbeal|b0oD^ y^ we^oo^^/ae tjjc (^^e tiutfi be firft 
 
 ^ott y^er l)itt»arme enyt^yn^e, Zahan enjample^ 21^ tf)o(e 
 
 ^Iyn^e tt>t>)^c^ 4rc airei> m t^e cvangdion I coixot nott fct)^(f 
 
 iTbrifl b^^ ^eren t^em fi^fjt/ 2Int) ^eff cout>e nott l)eare / tytf 
 
 iT^rifl ^a& ^epen t^em jjeot^n^e/^fn^ tbofe jicFc coube nott ^oo 
 
 fbe^e^eeofa^\»bcIem«n/tj?fv^j)nfll)a^0ercntl)cmbealtb: 
 
 00 can no man ^oo^oo^m bi$foule/t)?ft'$r()rif? bitvelovpfe^ 
 
 \^im onteoft^ebon^eeoffata/an^ ^ve^ere J)im noberewit^ 
 
 to ^05 000^/ re an^ fhfle (?ave potx're^ into ()im tl^at felfe 0oo?> 
 
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 <t)bct)bec(att3cfff' 
 
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 c6<i>?»b tbc Fyn0c bc^arr @clomon/cf I)tr tl>at WA6 rj>c 
 
 Solcmon begarrobo^m: C^yff cfwj?: 
 
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 2(d>a5b«^arr£5ed)i«6r 
 
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 3c(iA6 bc0att:3c<^onia6 anb ^i6 brertr<rt about tin tymc of 
 
 tbc captirirc of babi fort 
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 ^rhaf veto rave ^l««5*rbc^attiTrartl)art: 
 
 powerofcfjc^olf 3*<^obbe^att3ofcpf>t^)cF)ufbanbof mAr)^/ofnp!)om voae 
 eo(te. borne t^ at 3cjue vol)i<i) ye caS^^ d^iifi^ 
 
 Tb ^^j?^"^ ij, €[2llltt|)e0cricrac!oti6 from 2tbm^am to 2>Mttb ar fowv^ 
 notpatbemop^ tefic0encracto5.2(n^from©ainb rnro tbecaptiriteofbA- 
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 lo vce (^e 0V& re ^ufbanbc 3o(^Pf>/^€>"^^ ^ pcrfccrc man/anh kt^t to * bcfci,^^ 
 
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 ver/foibconUfa^, Fcvntotbc/iTtaiy t^j!rw^fe.yonf)attr^i^i6 concravebin 
 
 t^etlj allmcnfrom f>€r/!6oft^cM>^^<»P-Sf)cf|^aIlb:yn£fcfoit^ca(onnc/anb 
 
 rljcir f^nnce bi Ijie tf)ou j1[)alt c<xfl ^i6 name ■K3efud» Jo: ^c f^all fat>e l^i^ people 
 
 merrteu wirl? oii^ from tbeir fj^nne^. 
 
 re f l2erc oefervmg ^^(II t^ie xvae bone/to fulfill tf)at trbic^ wa^ fpof en of t^e 
 
 Cburf-c bzvMRerh ^"^'^^Z ^^ ^^^ p:op^et faj^in^erbe^olbe a maybe fbalbe xvit^ 
 
 ffo^. wf^Tc Cl?n-^ d?yfbe/aftb f^ all biyn^c foitljc a fonne/ anb t^iy(t>aU call l>i6 
 
 it 16 ri^ere is tjoo . name ^maniicffV vo^id) ie ae mo<I?c to (nyc/bc intapxctad^ 
 
 Ant> were c^jift on/cic>0obmtl^v&, 
 
 isnottf?^rci6^ot |i;3cfep^a6fccncae beawoFeoutofflcpt/byb ae tfje ati^/ 
 
 fbe ! refbdiinort ^^^^ "^f ^^^ ^^^^^ ^*^^ ^^^ / ^^ ^^^^ ^** ^^f'^ ^^^^ bim/anb 
 fuppoofe r^at Ije Fnewe ()ernott^c/tyn n?e|)abbebrou5l)tfojt|>e ber fyr(lfcn^ 
 iie/anb callcb ^i& name3efu6. 
 
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fcnpturcfo tofpe 
 
 JbmSffuo maobomr m^nh |ilg^ 
 
 Icbcmarounccfnirj^/mtfjetimcoftvn^e^Qcro^ tcrwaewoke vp 
 ?c/5cI)oIbc/r{)cre cam^c TX)yfc mc fro tf)c c|lc ro 3^ pc aiit> r^c ertii 
 rufakmfayiit0c:trj)erc lei^etjjAt ieboinc fyn^ DiYc/rtefcriprure 
 
 dc of the icttce:' roc have fcnc ^ie flarrc in the cflc/Anb Arc co "'canerl? notr /Ije 
 mctotro#ippc^ym, ^ ^ ,^ . ^ , . , vpar^e : cv^n Too 
 
 |£=8«•o^c tN f>n0eMfter bc^ab^c {)crbetf)i6/TOa6trou^ tjcrc/tiffdott'cft 
 Wcb/anb all 3(rufalcvcitl) f)ym / an^ {>e fcnt for all tf)€ d?efc not rfeat lofepl? ke 
 free|lc6anbfcrfbe6oft!)cpecPlc/anbbcmaimbcb cft{)cm we ourclat>taf/^ 
 xD^crc (Thnft f Ijulbc be 5o:nc.t^cy faybc rnto ^im : in bct^^J f ^^ warbc. 
 le j)em a tonne of iury. Jor tbiie ie it tprjrtte bj? tf)e prophet; * ^»y^e men. 
 mi'cfe. V 2<nb thotibctf)Iehem in tl)c lobe of ^«iury/fF)alt not be t l?e (ecfl (0 f matJjcg tl?ef 
 a^perte)?nyn^ctot!)ep:yncf ofiiiba. Joroutoft{)cff)aIIco^ arcaUiD :K>agi/ 
 mc acaptayne / wf)y4) fljall ^orcrn my people i|ra()eL tr^aTtbJ eft/ obi 
 CCf)cn^erobprepd)? calIebt{)eTO)?femcn/ant) b5?li^cntfy lofopljcre cotifn;? 
 enquj^rcbof t^cm/tlje tymeoft^e (lane that appcrcb. 2tnb ge in nar uraUcau 
 fcntt()emtobet^leI)cmfayin0e:icr?)€nye be come t())?bcr fe^ fes t effectee/anc 
 ard^e bili^cntly fo: t{)e ^^ylbe. '2Jnb trbcn ye l)auc fotinbe f)ym ^^^ ^y ^* n^t^^ 
 btt^emct»02bc/tl)aty ?naye come anbtrorfbippe f)ymalfo. ^^^^'^ *^*' ^ 
 tt>^etf>cv ^ab bcrbe tl>e F)^n^e/tl)ey bcpartcb/anb lot(>e flari^ *5ujrV »^ ^fe^ '^"^ 
 re a>l)i?d? t^ey fatre in tl)ic e(?e went before tl)an/ vntyil it ca ^^ h w krnrc^ 
 anb flobe overtime place w!)cretf>ed>ylbc trae.tD^et^cy faj? fbat^t)vrelt ttjere 
 rpe tj)eftarre/t{)ey trere marreyIoufiv£(Iabbe.2(nb<ntrcb in^ m. 
 to tl)c boufe/anb foiib tbe 4)ilbe tt)itf)i11ar)r by6 motf)cr/anb 
 Fncicb boune anb n7orfT)ippcb ^ym / :int> openeb t^crt trca^ 
 fettrf /anb offrcb rnto fjmi 0yftee/ 0oIb/francfynfcnce / anb 
 myr,2lnb after tijeytreretrameb in tbeir flepe/ tj) at t!)e>» 
 f()ulbcnot^oa^evnetO:f?erob/t^eyrcturnebinrot^ereaw^ 
 ne coiintre anorbcr tcaye. 
 
 C2lfier tl)at t^ey were beparteb /lo t{)e an^ell of tlje loabe a^ 
 f crcb ro3ofcpb in I)ieflcpefayin^e;aryfe an't* tafe rlje d?ylbe 
 M'b bid mct!>er/ anb fiyc in to c0ipte / anb abybe t^ere tjpll y 
 ^yn0ctbcxro:be.5or igcrcb wpyll feFe t^e cl?>'Ibctobe(?royr 
 
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j))?m. Z^tn ^e Arofc / anb toFe r|>e <^)?Ibe Mlb ^le m^t j)er by 
 iiy^^t/anb'^cpamb into c0iptc/ «nt)tra6t^cre\?ntot^ct>c;? 
 t^c of bcrob/ to fulfill t^At xxf^id^ wne fpoFen of tF)c Iort>e / l>)r ^ r . 
 t^c prop!)et/t»f)ic^ |«yct{):outof c^iptc ^aue)? cdkt> my (one. -|^ ' 
 IfC^m ftcrob percc<tx)yit0e t^at ^c was t1tocFe^ of r|>e wy^ jrjt.||*» 
 (c mzn/voA6 c)cc€t>p^^€ wrM^c/an'Ct fcntfon^c atiiy f Icwc dl 
 tf>c <^)r(t>z^t^tx»cre in bct^lef>e/anb i all t^c ccoflce t^erc 6f/ 
 as many ae were tvro yerc ofee anb Dnber / accorbi0e to t^e 
 tymcto$i<^ ^e babbilifilently fearc^eb out of t|>e tryfe men. 
 -*» u n ^i. irCbena?a6fu(filleb/tf)attDf>yc^tpae(poFebytl)ep:op^et 71^-^ 
 ^iMlrTefrom 3eremi/faymcje:(Dnt^e^inestra6apotce^erbe/moiirn)m. f,^T; 
 l)ctl2lel?cm/ao tl?c £je/wepyn0e/anb^earelamentacton -x-5acbe|trepyn0e for 
 propl?ec fiijmfierl? ^er c^ilbre/aub roolbe notbe cofcrteb/bc caufe t^ey were not. 
 t^at AS Q?c mour |j;1CPj)eni^erobtDa&beeb/Io anan^elloftfjelorbeapereb rn^ 
 ncx> ^cr fonc benj- ^^ 'Jofep^ in e^ipte faym0e:aryfe anb tah t^c c^ylbe ati^ ^ie 
 bvT%^cD/r^ motf>er/anbgointot^elonbeofirraber. iort|)cy are becb/ 
 fl?ulofl?e inotl^e^ w^i<^ fou0^t t^c c^ylbed beet^.C^e i)e arofc vp/ anb tofctbe 
 rjj of tljefe cl?ilt)F/ d^yltyc ant> ^ie mot^ e r/anb cam into tF)e lonbe of i(ra^eL 23nt 
 eti mournc . ^115 ^kg„ |>e|[)erbe tl>at 2f rc|>ilau6 byb ray^ne in lury/ in tl>e rou:= 
 tlTit^LZb% ineof^i* father aerob/^e was afra);beto 00 r^yber / not^ ^^ , , 
 wav^/ \viri? the H witf)|lonbyn0e aflerjje waewamcb in ^idflepc/l^e tumeb a< Jm"/^- 
 gljrccl^tifleninea fibcinto tf)e parties of0alile/ anb t»ct anb bwelt in a cetecal^ J,^^^- 
 before rl?c\vorl&/ (cbna^aret^/tofulfiH/t^atw^ic^ was fpoFe by the propbcrf: ^^^* 
 
 »f^?« C!ittlim0t(Clia|ltm 
 
 cv arc vPon^crhl/> '^ * 
 
 teJo'Zari B^tBtltofttidrf$giitmtlitbft^ 
 
 of 0ot>/aaevnil all ^Sj |^y P^yfer / c(im anb prea4>eb in t^c rpylbernes of 1in. m. 
 
 powcjofijeiu |^*'PW|i'oryfayn0e; repent/ t^eFyrt0€bomof^ercny6 Jf)0,t 
 . l^^i^iSl at^onb£f)yi& yel)c ofvo^om it ys jpoFen be tbe 
 propbet 3ray/ir|)ycl? fayt^ jtfje roiceof a cryer in trylbernes/ 
 prepaireyct^elorbestt?aye/anbmaFe|)yspat^e6 flray0^t. '^c^ ^{ 
 I[tbys3f)onl)abby60armentofcamcllt I)eere/anba0)^r=^ ^^r 1* 
 
 ♦ toaiftes / are ^V ^^ ^f ^ ff l^nne a boat ^ys loynes. 4S ve meate tras -k locufif / 
 
 moret^cn ovpm ^n'^rxylbpcony. (Tj^en went out to f^im3mifarctit/ anb all 
 
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Hmy/Cint> all rj)e region rcunbe about iorbAne/Anbwcrc ba^ $it(f^cppnB/^ fou 
 ptrrebof^ymmiorbane/FnotPlcb^yn^cr^ercfj^nnee. c[}cmtnv(€toeai. 
 
 CtrbctefaxTcmart^of t^cp^arifcd ariboft^c {(Ct>iict6co^ tei^irtwpurticB 
 rtKro^yebaptim/^cfaybrmot^e. (D0cncradcnofriperf/ ofrljccftc. 
 tr^ ^at^ tau0 j)f you to Pyc fro t|)c regaucc to comc^brjrn^c 
 fortbc tbcrforc t^cfrntrf bclon0j?n0ctorcpcnt4nncc. :21nb 
 fet^Atyccncct^ynFcnotro fayc m ycurcfclrce/trc^aue^^ ^w yometuinc 
 brabamtoourcfat^cn^oryfaycrmoyou/tbat^obye aWc I:5^^!?^^,T!f^^'J 
 oftf)efe f?once/torcyfcx)pc^yIbrernto2(bra^am.^rcnno^ aS favS 
 t»£y6t{)cajc€putrntot^crcrccft{)ctrcc6:forbAtcr<ry tree be an enfaple vn// 
 ipf)y<^bryn0ct^notfort()/0CDbfriite/ f^albe^ewcnbcune/ tofou-znotvome 
 anb cafi in to t^t fyrc/ 2."'^1^ cofiDenc e 
 
 , -, , ^ ^^ , * . . . xrbcn \refo:rdke 
 
 pourb0ebyi>noorc/anb 0abt)retben?pectcin to pye garner/ alioiuc awnert'/ 
 anb voiU bumc tbed?a(f toitj) crcdafiin^c fyre. gtcvpcfnee / rt<ic 
 
 ir5"bcn cam 3cfut5 fromctalilcmtciorbanto 3^on/forto be got>onl^ JL"^^1*^ 
 baptifcb of ^im.But3^on forbabc byin faym^c:; ou0|)tto be ^£^"^^^^.1^^^ ^ 
 baptifeb oft{)e:anb comcf? t^ou tc mcf 3cfu6 Anft5p«rcb«nb mak^rj? ngbxrea/ 
 faybto^im/Utyttbcfonotre. ^orr^nebit becomer^ x>e>/to rist?tw<re/r]?:o\t> 
 fnIf)?UalUri0^rctrcfrtC0.3I^c^cfiiffrcb^rf". 2(nb3cf«» A6 fdfl?.^l?i6Docf^ 
 (cone a& ^cp?A6 baptifeb/ca Oray0 j>t outof t^e Ta?atcr;21nb f o 5'?<J"| t\f ^ •?? P" 
 
 lob I '^^^^^<^^^P^»ntohim:anb^cfatt'ct|)efpintcof0obbc(ccbe '^^^^^ ^IIJJ 2? 
 ^*at. ^^^^ * bovc/anb (y0btrppo bim,2(nb lo t^crc cam a voice firo ^^"^"S^bcwe^/ 
 
 jrpij, b^^^ fayin0 : tbyd ye> my beare fcmte/ in w^oiti ie my bclyte. fn?ct> of iCI?i^fl a^ 
 
 Ctie faurgjlir iCtottr. ^l?ti& 
 ^."uii- ^^^^« ^^^ 1^^^5 ^^ iimaitof sJctt^o'^: 
 
 2a^|t^«rpiHf£intOA befcrt/tobctefiipt<boftbeb€p^' onbrmiburruffr"/ 
 ^m rU/^nbtr?)ci)r;cF,abfaflebfourtye bayce/anb^I. fl'^i^ri^:^!^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 came pntyllbym tbe tcmprcr/anbfaybc : yff tl)oubetj)e fo^^ ofl?c2 rljin^^c t^en 
 nnfofgob/commannbct^att^cfc flonc^ be niabe brccb. oecr^. 
 
Cl^e(5ofpe«of 
 
 onlybibteabe/Butbj? cpcry\i>o:bctf>«p:cceabctl) ouroft^e 
 iiioutl)of0ob. 
 
 frCbcrtt^ebevj>n tooFeljim rp in to r{jc ()olt^ cetc / cinh (tt 
 f)ymoit a p)?nadc of tl)ctcmplc/anbfa)?br>ntc5im;yftbou be p|aLjrc 
 t^e foniie of ^ob/cAJi t|^y (ylfc boime. Jo:^lr)^6 tt»:)?ttcii/ f)c 
 ff)ali ^cpc i^ye an^dU d} ar^c oucr thc/Ati^ xcitl) there ^abce 
 r!)cy ff)all |lc)?t^ex?p/tJ)atr^ou bafl^c notttbj^fotc a^(X)?ii(i 
 a (lone . 3cf!i& fcybc to {>)^ni /^ir )>^ t»:)*ttcn alfo J t^op f ^It ^^y ^^ 
 not tcmprc t j)y f oibe^ob. 
 
 CZi>c'^tvyHtohhymvpa^Cifnt <tnb Icbbcf>»tt into mt)t^ 
 ccbyn^e bye iiioutaync / Ant> f f)etDcb ^ym all t j)c Fyn0bome« 
 of t^c tx)o:lbc/anb tf)e bcMUy of tfjcm/artb fa)?b x?rtto bin^ ; <^n 
 t^cfc W)?Il )? 0epctbc /)^f t^oii n>ilt fall boime anbvc»o:ff)ipiJ 
 pc nic»i(>cn fayb 3cru6 pnto l>vm / at>o^b fatan. Jo: i>ity& >. 
 tpr)?ttm/tboiifF)alttx>o:f^ippc tF)y{otbc0ob/anbf)jrmonI)^/ '^^'^•^^ 
 fl^alt tl)oii jcrtjc. 
 
 li:C^cntf)cbci?)?U fcft f>im/ anb lo tf>c an^jcllf cam anb mt<^ 
 niprcbvntobym, 
 
 CVX>?)cn3c|ije[)abf)crbc tf)at3^ontpa6taFcn/f>cbcpar^ 
 tcb in to 0alilc/ anb left na3arctl>/artb trcnt anb btrclte in ca^ 
 pcrnau/tc>?))>c^)?eacetcpppon t^efcc/intl^ecoflf of 5abuIon 
 anb neptalim / to fuffvU tl}at vol)yd) wae (poFcn be 3{ay tl)e 
 prop^ct/fayin0e:t^c Jonbe ofjabulon Ant^ neptalim/ 1 j)c tra^J 
 yc of tlje fee beyonbio:b an/0alile of tl^cffcmyle /tj^e people 
 wl>)?d; fatt in bcrcFnc^/fawc 0reat l)?0tl)/2tnb to t^em xcl)i^ 
 fartin t^crc^ton anb fi)abot»cof bcetl> ly^tl) is fp:on0e. 
 f[ Jrom t^at ry mc 3^rw^ be^an to p:eac^e/anb to faye : }^c^ 
 pent/for ti)eFyn0et)om of^cvcnjf^eat Ijonbe. 
 €r2(i5 3cr"i>w^lfcb by ti^e fee of^alile/^efatvc ttro b:etbt<ft. O^av.i 
 ©ymon wf)yc^ wad callcb peter /anb 2(nb:ew f?y6 brotl^er/ 
 ci^ftyni^c a nett in to t^e fee Cjfo: tl)ey were fyflf^ere ) anb ^e 
 faybvntotl)em/foloweme/anb3wyll n\Sih you fy(f!)ci6 
 of men, 2^nb tl)ey f^re^cjljt tvaye lefte tl>ere ncttf /anbfolowcb 
 l)ym, 
 
 4L'2in^ f)e went foztl)e from tjjence /anb fa we otl)er two brc^ 
 tl;rcn /3amei3 rl)e fonnc of jebebe/anb 3^on I>id b:otl)cr in 
 
 22 
 
th({b!^ppi/\vit^ ^thcbc th<ir father /mmt>\n0tt^<n mttf/ 
 a^bca^c^tI)em.2(nb tf>cyvciti}outtarym0tUfitl}c f^yppc 
 ant> there farbcr anbfoloxrcb \)ym. 
 
 ^£rt^. 
 
 ill. VI. 
 
 t[2fnb3cfu& tret about all ^alile/tcacbyii^c in t\)ert fyna^o^ ^?« vrorlDc ti}i// 
 ^ee/anepKachyn^ctl)€go\p<lloft})ciryt^^bom/ant>i)calyn^. ^?^^ ^9^ po^^tffe 
 0calImaniicroffyrfiK6/anbaIlmaner bileafcs amende t^e IJenlXeut ^/ 
 people . Znb l)ye fame fpub a btoabc tb:oiig^ out all firia. ne/wljcn ri^ev Jfc 
 2fnb t()C)> b:ou0!>r rnto {))?m all fide people/ tF)at trere taFen violence •: power; 
 tcit{) b;>rer6 bifeafes anb c^ypyn^/an'b t^cm r j^attrcre pof? J2J^^'?'*'^ reacf^e-^ 
 fcflcb wirf)bev?)^S^/anb t^ofc xvl^id;^ xcae limatich/an'b \\)o<^ ^ X^V^^^ ]?^'^^ 
 ft tb«t ^at, tk< m •■ an6 1)c ^>calc^ tb? 2(..b t^m folou^eb Z&!"coZ 
 biiii a 0rcate noub:c of people/from rjalile/ anb from tbc ten l^/ anb \v»r^ cure 
 ccte<>/anbfromicruralem/anbfrom iiiry /anb from t^crc^ power an^vlole^/ 
 0ione»t!jarlycbeyonbiciban. ^^' 
 
 ail rbefc ^f^c6 
 
 ibm.lit fmuf thf pfoplr/ftriSSS 
 
 ircntx^p mto a mountaine/anbircnpc waejett/ ^e not a man ha/ 
 bys bifciplee cam pnro bim /anb ^e openeb^id ppfeanD blcflcD/ 
 
 inioiit^/anbtau0btrF)cmfayin0c:BIefrcbaref()e nerl?er ^e^ervet^ 
 
 pop:einfp2ere:fo:rl;erei6tbcryn0bom of !>«'«": BlcflTcb K„^,^^^^^^^^^ 
 aretpcjrtbatmoume:fo:tbcyfbAlbc comfo:tcb .Bleffebarc jj„j, fefhfte rbat 
 t|^c meFe:fo: tbeyff)all inberet ^ctbeert^>e,Ble(feb arctbey tre arel?appr in?) 
 rDbicbf)nctcr anb tbur(lfo:ricj^tctrefnce;fo:tbevfbalbefyl< WefleDean&Vf^at 
 Icb.BrejTcbarct^emcrcyfulhfoubcy ({>aS' obteyne mercy, wcfljallbaveijr// 
 BlefTrt arc tt,e pure m bcrt:f«r rbeHV" fMJcb . BkfV S^c^L^'^ 
 feb are tbc mayntcyncre cf peace : fo: tbcyfbalbe ca\U^ erbvsioure brr^ 
 rf)e(^ylb:cnofcfob.Blc(lcbarctf>cytrbid?|uflTcpcrfeaJcion tes rl^ar trc ure 
 fo: ri(jbtetocfnc6 faFe ; fo: i\)exe> ie tJ>c Xyn^^Qtn of ^cren. ^<>^^^ fonnes/ 7 
 Bleflebare yetr?>emcnfbaffrcryleyou/anbpcrfeciitcyoii/ "J^^F'v^Nr (To^ 
 anbfbal falflyfaycall manner of ct)lefaym£rf a^aynflyou ^J^^^;!;.'',^:^^^^^^^^ 
 for my fafe.^cioyce ob bc0labbe/fo:0rcate leyoure rctoar^ ^cxtn to vu frdy 
 beinbft7en.5o:foperfecutebtl>c)>tl)cp:op!>ettf irbicb trcre ofgo^ford^nftec 
 
 befoieyourebayce. blou&De^ralu ao 
 
 '^ ^ qiemenfffs 
 
 23 
 
J^©«lt. fiycareJt:^^cfaIiroft^e crt^cAyvt afi^ftU(du hccnccvnfa 
 
 Sf wofoc/tf^c fo:iiot^ynrjc/5nt tobecafloittat t^ct>o:ce/an^ t^«t men 
 muftc rf?ev ncOca rrcabc it \?/tber fete . ye arc t^c Ii0^t of tt>e \voilt>e . 2f cite 
 be <?pp:cflet) trr^ tbatiefettonart bill cannot be jjyb/nct^crbomenli^^tacaff 
 ot> vnocr fote w^ ^(^ Mb put it vnt>cr a bnfl^ell / hut on a canbelflycFc / onb it 
 
 cton5^"'^^^ ^ ^'^f^^^^^ ^^^^^f^ ^^** ^^^ *" tf>eboufre.@e tbat youre li^bt 
 * iijott* forc^)?nebcfo2cmen/tj)attj)ey fnayefc route 0cob werff /anb 
 Tf6fl0 iiiocl?c too 0lo:r fie yourefat^er/t»^i4 16 in ^ewm 
 
 tr fit^isMc ^y^ f^^^^ "^^ ^^^"^^ / ^^^^^ ^"^ ^^^"^^ ^^ H^nuH t^e fatpf 
 cfl* letter fl?at tl?e ^^^^^ ^^^ pioph^ittfmo y am not come to byfanull ti>cm / but 
 grekeu ottljebc^ tofulfijntbcm.^ortrnefy)rfar vnto)?ou/t)?II bercnanbcrtbe 
 b>«edl^mic/caUeD peryfj|)e/one*3ott/oronetytleof tf)elat»e fljallnot (cope/ 
 t3)jeakrtl? t)jIlaUbef«Ifrtteb. 
 
 l2id? fii^c tbat tbc CvPpofoepcrObreaFetbone of tpefclec ft commaunbmentf / 
 fe/Cbuftfcomauf onb f5)al(tei>cmcnfo/^efbalbe callcbt^c^Ieefl in tbe Fyn^ 
 ?Mncntfarcnorco jjbom of bcpen ♦ But wbofocverfbaU cbfcrre anb ttac^c 
 ToSce'^^ t^em/tJ)atpeifonc ff)albcca(rcblC^rcatein t^e fyn0bomcf 
 
 ^f ^ I? f /^V^- Ci<5«*3r*y >^"<^o y<>w ejrcept y ourePVi^J) tewcfned ejrr ebc/tbe £rO;Tr. 
 rijalbeUtdefetbf n^^uvoe(nce>cftl^c(crybce anb pbaryfe6/)^e cannot cntre in •^•^^• 
 
 Ssictic tot^eFyn0bomoff)et>cn. 
 Stbat iB/fbalbe Cyc^ave J)erbe^ow>eittipa6(aj?brnto fbcmofthcoIbetr^Xcrrmf'. 
 inocbc rert bv/t meX^ouf{)aItnotfyH,tX>f)ofocper fbaflfyll /fbalbe inba^ 
 ^be"iroolne^^of tin0erofiub0ement.BMt3 fa^^trntoyou/wl^ofocper^^ean^ 
 t\}€ pf^arifaiefi/fto !^« tribt b V^ brorbcr/f^albe m baun^cr of iiib^emet tPbo^ 
 Mtb in ovtwar&c jocverfb^Wfay vnto{)i0brotber^racba/f^aIbeinbaucjer of 
 woiKnappiera^ acoufeilL Bnt«)bofoei?erfbartfay x?ntobi6brotbertJ)otifotf 
 "^^u'l tbr h (e/f^albeinbaun^erof^clf f)>re,5r|)erfore wi>e t^ou offerefi 
 lis oFtbebelte! tby 0)»fteattt{)ealtre/anbtberf remenibrefi t^atthy brotbcr 
 
 •K Tflacba. bfttbcnj?tbyn0ca0aynfl t^c ; leve t^ere t|))?neo|fryn0e bi^ 
 3t» tbc tpboarre fore t()ea!trc/anb0ot^3? tray cfjorf? anb reconcile t^y filff to 
 iouoe in tl?e rf?:o'/ thy brother / an'^ tbcn com e m^ offre t{)y 0)>fte, 
 
 alfiygneo* ofwv C^^«witbtl;ineabrcrfary atonce/n?|>)?le6t^ouarte tntbc 
 arl^ tvayc\vit^j>ym/lcpt|)ineabucrfar)?bctix)rct5)c tot^eiub^c/ 
 
 24 
 

 €ro.xx. Anb t\)thib^cbtlyvt€t^ctot}^tmimf\<r/anb t%etl)Oubccafl 
 in to piefon. 3 fay v>nto t^t rcrely: t^ou f j)alt not come out 
 t^cncc tyll t^ou ^avc pay^^ t^c rtmooft fort^yn^c . * '*sr ii 
 
 eye ^avc ^erbc ^oxvt yt xca^fay^t to t{)em of olbc tymc/ ^0 plucke oate 
 t\)oii(^a\t notcommytt aZivoutric'ButJfxyvmoyoii/t^at (piritual^ ie Ij^-^ 
 vcl^ofotyxrcytth awyfc/luilyn^c afinhtr /^{it^c contmyt^ ^f coimmunt^ct)/ 
 Ut> abvoutric xvitl> jjcr altcby in ^le bcrt. fcs li^c w 7i/a/ 
 
 CVrjxrfore yf t^)?ri0f)t e)>c offcnbc tj>e/* pfucfc |)ym out waJcan^K^^lJ)l^ 
 «nb caflc I)im front t^c/Bettcr $it le for tf>c / tf)at one of t^y ^ks^^rt . 
 mcinbred pcr)?fffc>et^entbat t^yw^ok boby f{)ulbbe caftc j&n r^^^^^ 
 in to M 2((ro);frbr n.^bt |)onbe offent) tlje / cu ttj>ym of XLSa ,„.t 
 onb caftc ^ym front toe. Better bit ie> tpu one of t j»r mcm:^ offym (Tlrfe ooir ^/ 
 bred perifl^e/t^en t^t all t^yboby fi^ulbe / btcaftc in to arel?ere fo2byt>e/ 
 |)e||, nevcrffpeleOctP^^ 
 
 oi^atb C:«it)rdf«y>b/tDf)oroer<rputawa)re{)i6tr)>fe/Iet!>ym0e^ !fe«bb«rf m^^^? 
 ^J^^^*?' ve b<r a teflynionyair of ^er b.rorcement, Bin 3 fay rnto X^^^Xlt 
 mar. I'x. )?ou:t»|>ofoercr put awaye ^y£^ tryfeCejtrcept j)it be for for^ oure rei]uv:if^ ^// 
 k>^ . nicadon) cowfetb ^er to breaPe matnmony/2(nb w^o foe* ir/ri?en 10 t^if vpeli 
 J^^- ^ rermaryetbbertbatidbirorfeb/breaFrtbtreblocfe. pone rco fwearc. 
 
 ri;-. C^^^^yni^ vebAuebcrbe/boweitwAefaibtotpcniofoibet)^^ bt^^enl0/tmls 
 manr- nie/tboufbaltrtotforfxrerct^)>filfc/butf^a(tpcrform<t^ine UwDaWe tt>pel?it 
 lu . vt. otbe to ^ob.But 3 f<^y« vnto 5>oul^ftrerenot at aUmet^cr by pi^^^itl^ of love 
 ^'^^' bcrcn/for bitye cjobbee feate ; nor >^et by t|>e errf) / for it id !j,S?"|i"''^ 6^ 
 ^ysfotefiole; tletbcr by 3frufalcm/for It iet{)e cite of tJK ^ 
 0reatefyn^c: tletb^r fbaltrboufvcereby t!)y |)ecb/becaufe 
 tboucftnflnotmafeonefjecrtX){)yte/crb(«cfe;Bnt)ronrec5^«^^j„ji„^^j^^^/ 
 mumcac!onfl)albc/ye/ye:na)?/nay. JJortDJ^atfoepcr i^mo^ venae \}yme filfe/ 
 re t^en t^at/coinmctb of cr(e. 0: (eke \»rfd<e/no 
 
 ^f«: Cyfbave|)erbef>ott>eiti6f(XybMneyeforaneye: a tot^tfor Juf f {'[T/^u,'^^^' 
 r^"*?* ft totb^ But3fay rmoyou/tb6tyetx)itbf^onbnor*t»r30e: bif b f?arb t|?r7St 
 ^^ But yf a man gcvc t^ea bloxve on tfay rigfjt <^eFc/tume to ea rbe ft^ilit oo fu ', 
 nj:. by*^t^^ctbre. 21nbyfenymAnTO>>lIjuetbeatr^cIa.n>«/Anb cbtl^yngf of byf»i 
 iuc. vi'. tftFetbicootc from t^e / lettbym b«ve tj>! dooFe alfo. 2(n^ ^•'(V''^ ^'?X?' ^^-^ 
 TU.vip. tx>bofoet>erwyHcompeU t^c to 0« ft myle/ ^co wytl? b)^m ^"eTym/anb 
 tJTw. tti>ayne.(5epetoi^imtbfttftxet{^:dnb from^imt{?attx?olbe requfrel^fm. 
 bcroire tumt not a wfty . 
 
Cy « !) Av« ^ert>ct)oxrc itie> fait>c:tboo f b«U !o\?e tl>yne iKgl)^ 
 bcur/ant) i)ater{)ync enemy. But j? faye rntoyou/loucycurc 
 enemies. Bleffc them tl>atcurf|c yon . ©CO 0cDt> to tj)enu!)ftt 
 [)ate y>ou/p:a)^efcrt5em TDl)tcb^«> )?ou ttnon0e/alt^ pcrfeni 
 tc you/r|>atye mayc be tlje c^)>lt):en of ycurc ^tvcniy fAt^er; 
 fot !>c maf et^ h»^ (unnc to Ary fe /on t^e cvk/Mb ontbc ^co^/ 
 <vnb fcnbetl) ^ie re)?ne on t|>e iufle an^ on tbe oninfle, Jo: if ye 
 f^ali love tbcm/tt»blc^Io^?eyou:rc>()^trea>ar^cfbaU )?« b<^ 
 
 ••J^ubhcan^jgab// uef i^oonot tj)e*publtca6c^Jenfo;?2ln^tfye bcfr^My to yon<J 
 
 t)rtft> rcntetv roll/ j.^. bactjjjc only; trbatfm^ikrt[)yn(Je boo )?ef0conotttj)t? pn^^ 
 
 Z%Tr7iZ^^^ blicanelyFe wyfe^ye fball tbcrforcbeperfecte/cticaeyourc 
 
 wciv f onjclf Ipcf/ b«v»cnly fatj>cr ie perfectc* 
 
 ]}cn men tl^ervi^/ 
 
 to appoircD of rbf 
 
 tomans. 
 
 €\\t^pn<l^^tn 
 
 ^k httst m vnmt almto. t% ^^ ^ 
 
 atye^Jercitnotintbe fyj^^t of men/to t^e intent 
 iJtbatye toolbe be fene of tbem. (Dr eUf ye ^ctt no 
 rewarbcofyoiirc f«tf>€r in ^zvmXOl)enfotvtn\}€rforc tbou 
 ijcxjcfltbync 4lme6/t!)oti fbalt not mah a tro nipet to bcblo^^ 
 vren before t\}c/ae t^eypocryttf boin tj)c fyna^o^/ «nb iii 
 tbe fh-etf /for to bcprayfcb of mc.t>eryly Sfay rntoyou/tbcy 
 |)av>ctbercrcwat^e.BnttDbctbouboe|I tbyncalinee/kttnot 
 tby lyfte b3b fnotrc/wbat rby rigbt Ijonbbot f)/tbattbyne al^ 
 mee> ntaye be (ccret«/4nbtj)y father wb*4> f^^^t^ ifecrctc/(T)ftll 
 reuoArbetbc openly. 
 
 ir2(nbu?/>en tj)ouprayefT/tbottf bait nott be ci& t\}c ypocryt*^ 
 
 rf arcjor t^e^ lore to fionb an'b praye in tbe fy na^o^^f /anb 
 
 in co!*ner;6 oft^effrerf /becatife rbey wolbe be fmc ofmc.De^ 
 
 rely 3 f*y^ ^nto you tl>ey ^aiit tbere rewarbe.But wbe tjjou 
 
 praycft/entreintotbicbamber/anbfbutt tbibore to tbe /anb 
 
 praye to tbi fttbcr wbicby^in fecrete : m'^t\>i fatbcr wbicb 
 
 + iR^warbe. feitb '" r^crcte/fbalUretrarbetbc openly. 
 
 t* fbrtlhiottbvH// C!13ut\vben^eprAye/babblenotmocl>e/«6 tljc^entv^lebo: 
 
 nc/fbat oure beb// f^^ tbey tbmte tbat t^ey fb^lbe ^erbe/fo2tj)ercmo4>c bab'^ 
 
 z6 
 
bl^nijf faFe. Bt).enotIyFcr!)cmtf)crefo^. Sot yciire fat()cr y'j;?;?'^c^';j J^f 
 Fnou>«f> n?{)f rof yc Jjavc nca^c /5c fore veajrc of^im , ^Jfrcr bourar Dcrcrurri) 
 r!)y6 inancr t j)crc fore prftyc )y. ^^e l?yrc. 5F0Z all 
 
 ^wc. pi. ^0 ourc fat{)cr/tr^ic^ art m ^cvcn balotteb be t^^r mmt* £cct> iipnQce coo 
 Ux t^y Fyn^bom come. 2:^^ tr;!! be fulfdlcb / Afwell in ertb/ "V^ <?^f &f txMinf e^ 
 aof)it5^6 iri^epcn,(Bcrcr6t^i6barcoiircbAyry b:cabe/2(nb lllJr^Xmr^^^^^ 
 foirjcrereouretrcafpafee/cpcnaj&tre fot^ere t{)em xc\)^d^ 7trewri?ofgo&bi 
 trcAfpaeve. £cbe\?6nortui totemptocion. biitbclyrrerfi f(?c ocfermngcof 
 froiny\7cII/2(men.io:anbyf)^cn>an fcic^cve otbcrinenrbe^ jCtn^tblounSIf 
 :2e>ar(?. retreafpafe6/yourefarberinbcrcfIjaIIalfofo:0ere)toii.Bnr ^"^^^J.^ ai"^ner 
 xm. (inbyetrinnorrfot{Jere men t{)eretrcafpAfce/no more fj)dl/ fayrfrbHabu^^^^ 
 mar. ;:i. ^^^^c father fo:£(eve yonrttreafpafe^ gj,n^ ^ae t»cll 
 
 CtTtorcorrcxr>^cnyefaftc/benotfabadt5)e ypocryttfare. rc\Tart>r&} rmo 
 5ort^)rbiffi^uretl)crcfacetVt!)ar^itm)>0bfApperepntome ti ttarl?arl? but 
 t^at tj)cy fafle. "Dcrely y fay rnroyou/r^ey {)auet{>crereti?Ar;r *'^*^^®"^^f , «*^ivi 
 bc.Butt^ouvvbc"t^oijfAfIef?/annoynrcrf)yncl)ceb/anbtraf^ man?^ 
 ^c r^y face / tf)at it appere nor rnto men !?o\t»e t^&t tbou 
 fa|?e|i:btltvntotf>yfat()ertt>^ic^?y6infecrete: m\> tpy father 
 tr{)i(^ (cy tj) in fecrete/(T)alIrctrarbe t()e openfy. 
 ,, C^^^^bre not treafure to ^ct()er oncrt^ / tr^ere ruf?e anb 
 ^^'^'' mc't^t|)f6 conuptc/anbtt(>eretbex?c6breaFcrbrou0|> anb 
 
 (iealcBut^abbrc ye treafure to0ybbre infjeren/w^trenetf ^S^^ngle. 
 tf)erriif?c/neryctmot^t|>cecorruptc;anbtcbcrctbere6 ne^ jT^eefc iafifiH^Ir 
 
 ffot^/t Icker I? 
 
 be-KJyn^le/alft^y boby ye full of li^jjt. But anb yffhyne eye for l9u^e/boncur 
 be tt)ycFeb/tl)cn ie allt\^y bob'^y fullof bercFnce. tDbrefore 0: cnioH^c rrevrar 
 Vfxl>t liaht that ye in the be bercFneetfaotPc Create yetbar ^f ^J r^'^s;^'^'^^^'^^ 
 bercFncef ^ ' ^ 9 ^ y ^ Jl^^'^encfjfvn 
 
 Eu.jrvi: C tlo man can ferre ttro maflere. 5or otj^er f)e fball ^atethc J^umc il?f vevnto 
 one/anblore tbeotbcr: orele befbaldcnetorbc one / anb [^is t>et^c0 : but 
 befpifctljatot^er.yecannortferpe ^obanb mamon. 2^{)crc ofccprcrf?! l?<^J'en 
 forey faye rnto you/benotcarefiill for yonre fyfe w?)at yf(>)all as drl?i0 purcf;»a^ 
 
 care/orttMr^f^HbryncFe/noryetforyourebobby/trljar'^^^^^ 
 lai.jru. raymetyefbanweare.yenott!>elyfcmoretrortf)ttenme^ 1^^^^;, frdyfoilo^ 
 atei:anbtl)c bobby moare of value tf^tn raymtnti Bebolbc res fake onlf . 
 
t\>t foulc^of t()eAier:forr^ey fowcnot nct^ctrnpt/nov^tt 
 cary into tj>e barned/anb yettyourc ^cvilf father fcbct^ tl)e. 
 2trc )?€ notr t>ctter rf>cn t^e^r :: 
 
 C lX>^i4>^of)^<>"Ctbou^^^ctoFc t{>ou0^i:t6erefore)cculb€ 
 put one cubit vntobieftaturc f Znt> xx>hf care j?c tl?en for 
 raymcnt:! Be ^olbe t^e lylcs oft^e felt>e / l>0wc tl^<y £|rowe/ 
 C^c)^ Ubour nott/nct^cr fpyn.:2ittb )?ct for allt^ot 3(ayc rnto 
 you /r^terertSo(omof I in a!I{)i6ro)>af{e/t»a0 notftr(t)>ebi|5£o.i>. 
 lyFc rnto one of t^efe. ID^crfcre )>f £job fo dotfec tl)c 0ra(fc / 
 wf)ic^ j?e to bave m tf>c felbc/ 7 to morowe f^albe caft into 
 
 * fon^^cc: ttc-Kfournacc:fl>an ^e not niodbe more bo the fame rnto vou/ 
 
 witl2 rud^ettrn^ c:^f>««'foretaFenot^ou0^tfa)?m0c:tr^atn>atttt>eeate/or 
 
 jjcs in t^ofc cut! // yx^f^at f ^all we brynf e/or w{)crt t«?it|> f^cdl t»c be dotbeb :r 
 
 trctf f a . C^lftre all r^efe ti>yn^-f fcFe t^e ^ent)?l6 ) ^or j^oure h^vmly 
 
 father Fnowct^t^atye|>auertcabe of alltj)efetf>3?n^,Btit 
 
 ratbcr feFe ye fyrfltf>e f igfbo ofber^/7 tbe rt^^tetrefnee t^e < 
 
 fco(7<tnb all t^c(c tbin^f f{)albe miniftreb rnto you . ^are 
 
 nottt^erefore for tF)ebaye fofotryn^e.^ort^ebaye folotryn^ 
 
 ^ M «' ^, 0efM^<''»'^«'<^f<>«'»^W^-^*«^*)^«^*^<>tt^I^)^^fwffycifntfc^ 
 
 Wl2irbevnoii0l? -. .-^ 
 
 fojtijer care. 
 
 Xoo3f;ibge<«colj^0^1jgr ttOtt If ftf J^f lit tttUgt H . l„c v, 
 
 ^Z'nl^^^^^^^^^^ Pgg 5ora5yemb^e/fon>aUyebe«,b^eb, 2rnbtrir^ 
 vrl?o fomeacr iu^ Kj ^ ^^^^ meafure ye mete,wit^ tf)ar fame f^aff it be 
 b^ett? xpiti} outt I^^^Smeafurebtoyoua^ayne,u>^yfeifftbouamoote 
 ^ooot cotruunu-^ in t^y hrotl}cv<i eye /anbperceareflnott t()e beame that^ein 
 
 l%x%%U3tbc pJ«^f^^^"f A"ta>teo«t oft^yne eye/ ^nb be^olbe a beame 
 
 bcamcint^eetc »^«"JPy»cawnee)?e. ypocrite/ fyrf? cafl out t^e beame out 
 
 of tbync awne eye /anb t^en f ^It tf>ou fe cferely topIucFe 
 
 * "^^ly e . out tb e moorc out of tby brot^er^ eye , 
 
 X»?e ijolf e H^ifies |[ (geve nott t^ot wj^yc^ 10 ^c ^oly to botf^/netj^ercafl yt 
 
 ae 
 
yourt pitd(6bifort^voym/ltfl t^cytrcCLttt^tmvnbtrt^t^ an the voooit^t of 
 ir fete / anb the cr^er rumc a^aync ant) all to rent you, 0o^/r^>flt functifi^ 
 
 f "'^'v C2(;-cartb f).t f I)al()c ^ercnyou: 6eFcant)yc (l>dl fynbc/ gt^^g/^jrc^'^c ^ 
 ■^^'-' FnccFcanbitf{)aIbcopfnebrntoyou. Jforxv|)ofocrerajret{) feciitfro of tl^c 
 ^^^^' rcc€ai><t!)/anb!?ct^at|cFctHynM{)/anbto^imt^atFnoc^ tpoiof. 
 
 Fctf)/ir|1)aU>ccpcneb yi>rbereenymanamon{je)^outt)j)id; •J'Swynf/aretp^ 
 wolbc proffer 1)16 (onm a f?one if J)c a;:cb ^j^m brceb:' or if^c ^^„^^[f, flefW'?^^ 
 a;:ebfr|>e/t»oIbc{)e proffcrbim a fcrpent:? yfytt^tn w^i(I^ ^^ ^ i,ffp,fc rfec 
 are crlc/can 0et)c to yoiire cbylbren ^oob ^yftc&i^cwt moc^e tocibe 
 tnorcf ball ^^ourcfatber/ro^ycb i& in I^eve/^cpegoob tl)in0t/ 
 ^u.vi. totbemtbata;reofbyrii;r 
 
 CC^erfore vc^at foeuer ye wolbc tl>at mm f^ufbe bo to 
 you /even fo bo ^^e to t^em, ^}}yo ie t^tlawt anb r^epro^ 
 pbettf. 
 
 X.u.pn. |[^ntre in att tbe fhraiu yate : for w^^be i& tlje yate / anb 
 broabc y^tbt tcayt tl^atkabttl^ to bef?niccion : anb manj^ 
 tberebe/wbycb^omtbereat, ^or flraite id t^e yate/anb 
 narrpei6tbewaie/i»I)i4? Icaber^pntolife ; Cint> feaupc tjK^ 
 re be/tbatfynbeitr. 
 mar. viij cBe ware of fafce propbettf / tt>bic^ come to yon/ in f be^ 
 ^"•^- pef3 clerby»^e / ^»t '"tt^^rb^y tbeyare raven^rn^e xxjolvee. 
 '* yefb^hf770U?et|)em bytb<refnitci^ . Qomen gabbrc^ra:s 
 peooftbomee^or feggf of bryercec'iHrfnfo tv<ry ^oob tree/ 
 bryn^erb fortb 0cob fnite.But a comipte tre e/brin(jctb fcr^: 
 tbe eryll f rute . Z gcob tree cannot brin^e fortb babbe frnte; 
 ner yet a babbe tree can brin^efoirbe^cob frnte. i£uerytree/ 
 tb^t brin^erb notfbrtbgtcob frute/(^albe betuen botrne/anb 
 rafl in to tbe fyrcAT>berfore by tbere frutceye f bad fnoroe 
 tbern. t^ottalltbcy tbat fayevntome/niaf?er/maffer/fbal( 
 entre in to tbe fyngibom of b<pen; Butb^tb^t fitlfilfetb 
 my fatbere tryll vol^yd) ie in bet>en. tTlany u>y/I faye to 
 me in tbat baye / mafler/mafier / b^pe tre not inti>y name 
 propbtff ebf anb yn t^y name bape we nott caff out itvyll^f 
 anb in thy name have vce nott bone many myracU^i 
 2{nb tbenttyU 3 f noxDle^^e vnto tbem/rbat3 nepcrFnc^ 
 xoet^em ♦0ep«rtc fromme/ycwcjFere of iniquite. 
 
 *9 
 
l^-yere ;£i?:jftc rcqui CtObofo^^^*' Ijearetl) of me ri)efc fo^yiit^f /anb borl>e t!)e*fai^^„.j,f { 
 ritb ^^jj'jf^^^;^^^^^^^ inc/y w)>II lychn him vnto a wife mm/ n?f)yd? bi(t ^is^oulfe iuc.x,i. 
 [0 not tbe comaun^ <^" ^ rocUi anX> iibotmbAunce ef raync t>c|<:cnt)cl) /ant> tpe 
 Dmcnt FulftUeoiTRo . fiiibb-fcam/ ant> tbewj^nbbf bicwe / anb bat \>ppon t\)at fa^ 
 iq . ^nt) ail gcot>c tnc f)ouffe /anb it wafriot over t[)roweri becaujc it u>a& gro^ 
 woihes after ovt^ gobeb ontbcrocfe, 2(/ibtr()ofoct>crbcarct[)pfnjct()efe(ayin^ 
 
 fvn: contr/iric w^fc VDl}y<!l) byltt bi^ {>ouf]e apon t^e fofibe / Anb abounbauce of 
 \pberefaitl?i0/tl?e-^ ra)>nc be(cmbeb/ anb tbcfliibbf cam/an^ t^c wynbbfble^ 
 re mud tl?c veary Tx>e/artbbcct v>ppontbatj>oufc/artbttwa0Ox?ert^ron?e/anb 
 goo^cwcrkesfolo/ 0i.catrt)a6t!)cfaU of it, 
 
 bcrVSi™^^^ tr^nbitcamtopafl-e/tbat irbm Scfuebabcnbebtbcfefa'^a^aM'. 
 Wf? a pure berte. yn^/t!>c people were afronicb at bieboctrj^ne.^orbetau^b^/iu.iiii. 
 J^^ctu.jtrv. 3nt> (oi)// t\)cm 00 one b^^'^X^^'^ po«?cr/anb nott ac tl)c fcribee/ 
 
 feitb- K\^I^K3 ^^^^ ^^^"^ *^!^^ Mtounta3?nc / mocbe people fo^: 
 
 ■n'Jln mtnc&. ^0^ I^W/^^ lowebbim,2(nb lo/tbere c^ a leprc / anb tDor< 
 rcseaUirbtbelaxye ^^fWy^ f0epebb"ttfa)?n0e;mafier/iftbou vvylt/tbou 
 a ttfytnesvnto rbe ll^ifcAfe^canflmafe me dene, Z^e putt fortbebtebonb 
 Ehrf; w'Sfifh f ^'^^^^•^^ ^ttt> fa)>n0e:3 wyH/beclene/ftnb imebiotfy bre 
 
 vD^ierteSmV'^ 
 
 a^aynftourerfrt. ly JP^{^"f 9<> <^nb f!)e we tb>Mcl ftotbeprefle anb offer t^e ^>v 
 Ue \»f fe b«re/f F ti^e fteytbat mo(cd cdmatmbeb to be ojfreb ^irr tritned to tbem. 
 preftcsbarerecozDe C[U>bfn3efii$rpa©entreb into copernaum/ tbere cam \?rtto 
 c&t^^^ bttnacerta)rne^enturion/befed>j^n^ebmi/anbfayn0e: im^ 
 vet belevyo not/tQ ^^*'{'">^ f^rpaiit I^etb ficfe att \)oim f tbe palfyc/ Anb le. gfre* 
 ktificb tbeva^airt ^wRvpAyneb. 2(nb3efu6feybpntobim: 3 wtHcomeanb 
 tljemrdvesl aire bn".2:be(fenturion anfwereb anb^aybti&yv/Jam not 
 
 * wit wortbi/tbattboufbnlbcficome rnbertberofeofmy botiffe/ 
 
 * jFatff?? htiotpetb l>»ffpf^K'tbeti>orbeonlyMnbm)rfen>arit fbalbebealeb.Jor 
 ffJu^ni^^ '!!^i yA^fomyfeifeamamarnbrcpowcr/anbbarefowbeei'f pn<^ 
 c/o^oS ^ ^remc/artbyfayctoone/^o/anbbe0octb;anb toonotj^erc/ 
 
6. iTtat^. So.ip. 
 
 tbbit.tl)!)en3cfII^|)cr^ctbcfefay^c(f:4oem«rw)tIc^/an^ 
 fai> to tjjcjti tb At folotcc^ bim: V\rcly 3 fe)^ rnro y cu/3 Ijare 
 nott fou^c fo c(rcar faytb:no/nor i yfracil. 3 fay t^crc fore mto 
 you / t^at iiioiiy fbal come from t^c ccft a^^ xrccfl / afi& fDall 
 rzflvcith Zbrahc^mf yfa«c/ anb 3acob / in rJK frn^^om of 
 j)ci?cn:anbrbc cl>il^:c oft!)efin9NMnft)albccafic«riiirorf)c 
 ^tmcofi^crFrlC6 / rbcrefoalbewcpf^c ant> ^af[t)in^oft<t\)€. 
 Z^cn 3efim fayb vnto t^e K^iTcnrmion/j^o t^i xvayc /aiib ao 
 thoub<*fJbeUrcb fobcitrntorbc.2(n^f)'^f^*'^**"^^^^b^^^ r^xCcntun'on. 
 lc^ tbat fame bource ^ « captarnc ofait 
 
 Z«^ar.ic:2(n^ 3cfo^ trcnfintopctcr^bot^fic/art^fawcbii^ wywe (^^'"^'X^^^^^ 
 Xuciiij morberlyinfje firfc ofa fcine / ati^ i)c toii<^€^ bcr bAn^e/ am> on/bur fo: r be incoft 
 t^c fcrre Iccft bcr: a^^ fbc «rofc/ anb minifht'b vnto ti}tm, parte an vm)crcap^ 
 HVP^cntbcerentras come tbcy b:cu0bt ^nto l)im many ray"? 
 tjjat were poflcffe^ vcit^'bcvj^llf/ari^^ccciil out rbe fpiritee 
 tPttt)awor^e/ant)l)^^l«^ <^Jl t^at trereficFe/to fulfill tl? at tcb^ 
 e(ar.[i^ icb^ae fprofenby <Jfay tbcpropberfam0e :betofe en j)im 
 Itte.V otirc mfirmytc6/anb bare onrc ficf nef|e5. 
 
 £tX>b^» 3cfu6 fawe mocbc people about bJm/ \>€ commaiin^ 
 ^e^ to cjo orer t^e trater.2(n^ tbcrc cam a fcdbe cm'^^ fay^ vn^ 
 tob«m»maf?er/ "^ well foloxcc the TObytbcrfnmmerer tl)oa 
 goeff . 2(nb 3«^f"^fAi^ ^"tob"n:tbc fojcc6 bare bole6/art^ tjje 
 bryl>^f of t^e aier \>avc nefles/ bmtl)c fonne of rbe man bat^ 
 not trbcre on to leycbyfi ^c€i>/ 2f notbre tbat trae one ofbyd 
 feifnplcd fcy^ vnto b'm - niaffcr fuffre me fyrft / to 0o an^ 
 * burye my fater. ButS^fo^ f«t^ mto ^im ; folotre me / anD 
 let tbe^ce^ burye tbc^r^ec^. * bune 
 
 zpar. u-2( ^j, ij^ ^„t^g^ J t^ a(^y ppc/an^ bie ^tfctpIe^ fofotccb btm/ ^o'"f pj«ent> goo^ 
 li. v,^ '^n& lo tbcre arofe a Create flomie m tbe fee/in fomocbe / rbat tbcT^^olbt nor"fob 
 tbe ibyppe^ra6by^ttntbt^are6/an^bctraeaflcpc. Znt JJc^hX" bde^ 
 bw ?>ifcipleB cam vnto him/an'^ awoch \)im/ (apn^c : ma^ vc : bur /Cb2irVeri9^ 
 (tcr/farei»e/t»cperif^e. 2rnt>bff^«^^ototbem:Ttby are ye niftab/tbrttfurb 
 fcarfull/oye en^etre^ttitblyteIfaItbc^ ^Tbcn bcarofe/an^ wcrkf are^eeOanX) 
 rebufe^tbett»yn^•f an^tbc(ec/an^ tbere foIorre^ a rjrcare *^*^'^' 
 f alme.2(nt> men marpeylIe^ an'i> (ai^ivohat man in thi&jtbat 
 botbc wyn^f an^ fee obey bim;f 
 
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 (rf)e(!>ofpeUof 
 
 IE ^rtt> t»i>a f^c wae come to t^e orj)cr|>be/mto tl>c<rootre of 5f«''V(; 
 t!)e ^rc^efeitdf /t()cre met ^im ttro poffefle^ ofbex))^Hf /Tcr|)y4> ^n ^»»^- 
 cam outof t()€ ^raveeMnbtpereoutof meafurefcrecc/fo t|>At 
 Iiomanm)>0l>t0ob)^t{)<ttrpa)?e. 2(rtbIot^e>> crycboiit fayru: 
 0c; <D icfii r^eforifte of 0ob/w J>at ^xxx voc to bo witj) t j>ctfart 
 t^ou comc?))^t^crtotorm& r6bcforetf)et)?mebccomc:f^^c;» 
 re X0A6 a 0<»b toaye of from tbem a ^catc |>ecrb of fwy ne fc^ 
 bin^e, C^en t^e bevylf befbn^bt f)»m faj^it^e j ift j)ou cafl ve 
 out / fu jfre Pd to ^0 oure wa^c into t|>e ^ccrb of (try nc, 2(nb 
 be (ait> vnto t^em:^o youre waj?e5.i^en went tl>err out/ anb 
 beparteb into |>eerb offcoym. Zn'b lo / alUl)c beerb of | w»)?nc 
 toae caryeb tt»itj>\)iolcce$cblm0e ito ti>efee/':penff!)eb in t^e 
 ti>atenC^ct|>c^)eerbme/Peeb twlttterctpay^ ito t^e cite/7 
 to(be cvtry t^ingc/mi^ xo^at l>(ib foituneb rnto t j>e t^ At xot^ 
 re pofleff«b of tl)ebevj?Itf , Znb (o/all t{>e cite c5 out / anb met 
 3efu6.2fnb w^et:j)e)^ (avot pirn t^ty befon0j>t f>im/to bepar;? 
 teoutoftjjerccofttf. 
 
 anb pafjeb oper anb cam in to "pi^ avont citcZnb tLulv 
 lo /t^e)>btou£f^tpnto |)im«^mAn(icFeoft{)e paU 
 fcy/lyingz in|>t6 htb, 2inb w^enSefuejavrc tbe^s 
 re fait J)/bejaib to tf>efecFe oft^e p^Ifcy ; j^nne be of cfcob c^c^ 
 Yclthy(mnte ^^refosyerent^e* d^nblocerteyneofr^cjcribed 
 fatbin t{>emfelre6/^e bla(pemetj>.:2(nbtx^^e3e|n6 (a\x>c tl;e<s 
 rctf)ou0^te6/j>efa)?b:wberforetj)inFe ycexjyIlin)rourc bert^ 
 tf ;tP^etbery6efyerto (aye/tbi(5?unt^^t fo:yeven t^e/or to 
 fayaa ryfc anb walhiZ^at yc mayc fnovot /ti)att^c fonne of 
 man^Atbepoirerto fotyeref)?fie6inert{>/t^)efaib ^cx?ntotbe 
 ficFe of t^c palfey : avyfc/tah rppe tpi hcb/anb ^o borne to 
 tl)ym bouffc.'^nb ^e arofe anb bepArteb to pi& |>cuf|c. 2[I)e 
 people r^at fatrcbit/marre;?ffeb anb 0lorifieb 0ob/n>^i9 
 l}ab iJeven fuc^e power to itun^ 
 
 3z 
 
2ua "v *i"»^" fytt At t\)e reccyrc of cufliifiie rumcb iTla^ 
 thcxv I an^ \ix\'i> ro b«>n : folotoc me. 3nM)c arofc 
 
 fyimcrd/cam a^^ fatt^ownc Alfo wit j) 3cfii6 /an^ manner 4vr4f ca . cone wave 
 
 t{)e pyjiaou/butt tbcy tbat arc jicrc. (bo ai»^ Icrnc/ pl^anfoicc/vc 2 Jl^ones tnTf 1 
 ©fc.vi. tp^at t^aniieAnct!>/3 b^ueplcafurcinmcrcy/anb plc? eftctiic'grf^rc: bur ^od 
 nottmoflFcryn^c. ior3 am note come to call tl>c ^<^'P"cf'?'?»f-^"orber\va', 
 
 ^licVC^:^^"*^^'"*^^^**-''^^'**^'^^^^" tobim/laym^e; crio asfi^ame/rcbiiixc/xi'jj// 
 
 'u?()y^c»^t»ean^tbcpbarife6 faflcoftc /bllttb!^i|^ ^c/x>€ctb.(nc\}ctcoui^p^y 
 
 cipfeefafle notrf2inb3efu6 fay^crntot{)cm:call cienrlvanovpirl? goooxpilf/ie 
 
 rbcvret)^yn^ed>ylt)rcn l::^mornca6Pon£jeafit!)c !^^l''M52?^fr."^.f'^*^'J?^'2 
 
 bWomey.tr.tbtbcm^Cbetymemaca/t.b^ 
 
 tbcbry^c^ome (f)albetarc^^romt^)em/an^tbcn arrtl?emana(jc/\v/?vlc rlJ 
 fl^a/1 rbcy fafie. Ho man ^ pccyt!) an ol^c garment br^De grnic t j? vert wir ^ rl^r/ 
 TOitb a pece of nctt>e clotl>. f or t^e taf ctl) ^e a was: J^ c>cfaiDerl? tl?eni / yc 7 £;o& 
 yetbc pcce Ci^^z from tbc cJar^nent/an^ t^c rent P r^ J51i'''^fJ"S^ "^ ^ ''<?»^ 
 
 intooberefldlf cfortb^t^erenellf breare/anbtbc notgoD/r^crmufl faWcnf/^. 
 vo^nc runetf) OIlt/an^tI)€ reflellt pcnfbe.But tbcy tcr jCl^rftf ^cf (? x fu/fre pdf^ 
 potrrenetretfyneintonewe relTcllf / m^ foarc neoftjocj^f Ipaiio an^oiDer^ 
 botbcfax>c^to0ytber. a maiiS "rrnb^ n*" b"" h'^ 
 
 2Uc. vin f ^'rt^ync ruler / an^ worfl)ippct) j)im fayin^Je : veo/fc t \i>l?crc iri?n^ fi^f^ 
 my^ou0btcry6^eet> all ret>fr/bnt come /an& Icy vpctbl?v^Tirilfc fnn^iy auA 
 tbyb«nl>onber/ant)fbc|l)ainivc.2fnt>3cfu6ar05: t^'V^f f^*"^"!^ / f'?<'»^f mu(t< 
 re.folotrc^bun/rmtbb;e^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 tx>omatt)|)icbtradt)ifea|eb tritb an yffnc of blou^ rt>t jCI?inllD:rverl;tl?f in TrJ 
 xq.vcree/cam be^yii^e J)iman^toud>eDrI)c!)<»ti jj^mad t(?emxp|?icl2vfiDer^ 
 of^)n^ pe(Iure. Jor \^t fait) in b<r fylfc. 3fy »n*^ 
 
 33 
 
(je/aa cor crnige rl^e bm> ftb»>urc/ arTbl)e{>c{bc^cr/fa)?m0e;t>ou^()t«t' ^^ of 0oob (O^ 
 Ubertie otitis t>ifcO/ fom/rJ^y fait^ E>at|) iiiat>c r^e fafcSnbf^c wae maSe w{)ole 
 pko/ftnDfanl^•1Ic even t^At fame ^Qurc. 
 
 vpc clotl^c/foz the ol tf)cn)m(trcl(f/anbtpc people trortbryn^c/pcfa^rb vntotpcm: 
 be l^olDid? not rlje (Jctt you ^cnce/for tl^e maybe ye iictt beet>/5iit jlepet^. 3rib 
 rncl^c/aiiw^ofairl? t^cyku0^{>»mtofcornc, 2(6foonea6tl^e people were putt 
 fucbc fpirimaane^ fort^a bore0/()CTt»cntinanbtofel^er by t^e^obe/anbtk 
 &^X'ZTh maybearofe.2(nbtf)iv^traert0).febt^:oiicjl) ou t all t^ at Ipbc,^ 
 olbcfler»^i^ bertj'. p C2(nba6iefudbepartcbtbcrtce/ttx»o5Iynbeinefo(oiT>cbpim 2war. 
 acbc fo fkfijlv pe// cryin^c/anbfa^ni^c (Dtboiifonnc of bauib/^ave mercy oft ^*i* 
 opic a^l^ tl^ey xoejce v&, Znb xcf)c f)e wae come in to t\)c f)OU|Te/t^e hlyn'i>t cam to 
 wojfe/da wcfc w^ lyim, Zn'^H(ue\ait> mto tl)cm bckvc'^ctl^atyc.tn able to ^o 
 fJlI^AM t^y^itl)cy(ai6vntoi)mm mafier. C^cntoud^eb I)e t^ere 
 (i^ct>ni\vitl^bitvm «ycdfayn^e:acforbin0etoyourc faitbbe^it: witoyou. 2(nb 
 to carnaUUiftc. tl)ereeye6Trer openeb*2(nb f)cd>ar^ebt()em/fayn0e: fetf)at 
 no man Fnotoe of it.But tl}c^ ae fonnc ae tl^ey wer bcparteb/ 
 fprecb a broabe 6 J^namc t|>roii^f) out all t^at lonbe. 
 |[2(s5 tbey went out/bef)olbe / t^cy brou0l)t to {)im a bom ma ^^^ j,. 
 poffeffv>b of a bc\?yIL2(tib as fconc ae tl)e bevy 11 was caft out/ 
 tb e bom fpcih, ^ni^ tlx people marveyKcb/ fayncje ; it never 
 fo apiercbmifrahel But(:j)epbaryfe0feib:^ecapetl) out be 
 ryllf/be t{)cpoTrer of tl)cdbcfe bevyll. 
 C2(nb3ctus Trent about all t!)e due anbtoume/tUi^m^e 
 in t^ere fy na^ocf^f /anb ptccid)m^€ t^e ^o(pcII of t^ e Fyn^bo, 
 2tnb ly^alin^t all maner fycfnes anb btfeaje a mon^c t^e peo== 
 pie. But tvbc^e fanoc tf)e people/ Ije ^At> pittc on t^e/ becau^ 
 fe tf;)ey wercpyncb avocty^/ani> fcattreb abroabe even ae (l)C/ 
 M iri}c l?crveft are p^/b^vit^^c no (bep^erbe. ^^en faib ?)c to bii> bifcipless ; t^e 
 rt?c people reDy to |)arvefty6cjreate/butt^elabour€rdarfeatre.Vri)erforep:a<: 
 reccvetf?? cvac;cho/ ye the barvef t lorbe/to fenb forth fabourerf in to bis berPe(?» 
 aOtl?eliibo:erc are ^„^^ ^t 
 
 rljetruc pjcacl?cra. l,^:vri«l Cftf j^ (CtfilpW* 
 
 pnto^im/anb£jave t^cm power A0a)>n(? vncle- vi. ^^* 
 
 34 
 
0» Htarf>ctr. 5o.)rf. 
 
 rrefryritee/tc cafltbcni cur/anb tol)f4lf afl manner cffichs 
 ncflce/anb all manncrofbifcaff^. 
 Xtt.vi. tECj^c riamce of the jrij.apoflke are t Jjefc. (t|K firfl Simon 
 xol^id^ 16 calleb pctcnanb Znbnvcc ^ie brother. 3amc&tf)e 
 fcnncof 5fbct>c/anb3b5 !)i6bror^cr.pWIippe anb Barrier 
 
 ofalp^c anbJELcbbcue/ot^crtrifc callcb ^[)abbc ue.Smion of 
 c?)ane/anb 3ubae ifcarm^/vo^id) alfo berra)^eb fjim. 
 
 ^^^ f[Ccfc)rti.f<nt3cru6/Anb commaunbeb rf)cm fayin^e. (5oo 
 '^* nortin rct[)e wayee t()at leabcro tbc0entyle/anbin tor{)c 
 dted of r^e famcritane cnrre yc rtott; But 0o ratf)«r mro t^c 
 ioofJfl^epc oft^f f)oijf]c of tfra^el.(5<» anb prcac^c fayn^c; {)o^ 
 tcoctjjeJyngbom ofbewcnydaft^onbcrfi^^^^^^f'^f^/^^'^"* 
 fe rjje lyptref reyfc tf)cbccb/ca(T out rbc bcvyllf . J?rcly yc {)a^ 
 »creccarcb/freIy0cveai0eyne, poflfefi nort^olbc/norfyl;^ he^onbctbcfeeco 
 rer/ner^cr braflV in yourc^erblce/ nor yet fcryppctowarbf mcntyttcv r?avcaf 
 youre iorney. t^crbcr two coatf /ner^crf^uee / nor ytt a vpcllb.'afenmonevr 
 robbc:^or rbc worcFman ye worthy ro ^arc f^y^ tiuare. 3n ^ of goloc i fvlvcr. 
 to tr^ar (iimmcper cite /or toonc ycfpalkomc / inqtiyrc tr^o 
 h wortl^y in it J anbrf)crc abybc ty Uy c ^o from thence. 
 
 7L»c.%, €[2(rtb xo\)iyc come in to a^ouffe ^rete tjjefame. Qinb yft^e 
 j)Ouff bcwort^y/yourepeacefballcomevppot^efame.But 
 (fit be nottw?ort^y/your«peaceff)aIlretiime toyou a^c^ym. 
 2fnbTa)I)ofoet?cr ftall nott receaveyou/norttyll^carc youre 
 prco^in^e/to^en yc bepartcoutof tf)at^oufTe/ortI)atdte/ ^ 
 OaFcoft^e -KbnPeofyonrefete. ^Jrulyyfayepntoyoii/ljit ^jKa^^Jfc that r « 
 fbalbeeafycr for t^elonbc of 5oboma/anb0ommorra/ in tj)e ^^\^c nco rljingeof 
 baye of iubtjement/t^em for t{)ar cite. r l?r/in fo moclpctl?^ 
 
 fc^our^e you mtberefyna^o^gf* 2lnbj?e fpaloe bjougpt to trcycfof^bmct yo^ 
 tbe bceb ruferc aub F^'n^f for my faFe/ in witnce to r}>em anb mc a\x>ne ptofht: 
 totbe^cnryle. butrfeere IjeUl? 
 
 CBut tjo^cn tbey put you rp taFenotj>ou0l)t/bon)c/or 
 tx>[)at ye fpall fpeaFe/fo: it f^albe ^c vyn you epen in t|>At fame 
 f>oure/ n?bat ye fpall faye. i'or It le nott ye tj^atfpeaFe /but t{K 
 
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ithc(Bofpdlof 
 
 fpirite ofyottttfciti)(rwhy<jS) (peafetj) in yon. Cf)ebrotber 
 fj>aH bftvAyc r^c bioti}trtoX>iet\^e/&nt>t^e fcit\)(t tl>e fonne. 
 2(n^ t!)e d^yibren (i^all avyfc ac(eynftft>ercfatl)er5 / anb mo* 
 t!)cro/anb f ball purr ti)emrobeerl)/ant> ye f^albc batcbojf 
 ad men/ for my itAme,Bur wbofbcwer fball conrj^ruie vmo 
 ("be cnbc/fbalbe (ftt)e^. 
 
 C[tD()cn rbcy pcrfecure you in room cite/ flye in ro anotber. 
 ^ fynfflje. 3f«dyou for a rreutb/ye ri>a((noti:* fynyffbe aU t})c cited of 3oa.rv 
 Xbrtt vtj / ve ft?ftU i(ra bel/ tyU tbc forme of man be come.2^()c bifciple ye nort a^ 
 nott l?flue CO verret> bo ve bis mafter; t^or yn t\)e ferpaiinr above bio ioit>€, 'Jt te 
 01 p:e>icl?c&. ynou^b forr^e bifcipfero be a^i)ye maflerytJ /anb rbat tbe 
 
 fervannr beaeb'^^^^f^^yi^' yfrbcybAv>ecaI(cb tbelorbe off 
 tbe bouffe bechebub: boroe moc^e more fbdl rbey calltj)em 
 of bie boaf b*>'^^ f<^* fearetbem nott rl)erc fore. 
 C^bereieno tbin^cfocIofe/rb<it fb*^ "C»tr beopcimcb /anb 
 no rbingfe fo lyi^/ ti)at f ball nort be Fnowen. 
 IEVX>bat3tcUyouibcrcFnei5/tb4t fpeafeycilyefbt ^nb wbat 
 .^ ye beare in t^ceare tbat pjcacbe ye on tbe bc»lT<^toppe6* 
 
 c^^/X?e cw^ C:2(ribfeare ye nott tbem xr-btcb fyil rbebo^y/an^be nort 
 mrt marc l?ere, *^^^^ ^^ fyllrbe foule.But satber feare bim / wbie^ i^ ^ble to. 
 beflroyebotbe fouieanb boby in bell. 2(re nor two jparoireij 
 folbe for a fartbin^e:r 2(nb none of tbem botbe lyjjbr on tbe 
 {tfcimbe/witbontyonrefatber. 2(nbnotpearealIrbebeci*f 
 of youre bee^numbreb. ^earc ye not tbeifore.yc arc of nic^^ 
 re raliie/tben many fparrowe5. 
 
 tir^b<>f<>cver tberfore fttotofecjctbrne before men/bim wyfi'^yJ^^JJ' 
 3 Fnowle^cje before my fatber in bepe.Biitwbofoercr fball 
 benve me before mcn/^imxvill 3 <ilfo "^cnyc before my fat^cv 
 xcl)id}y6in^even, 
 
 ir^bynf nott/tbat y am come to fenbe peace in to tbe ertf). 2iuc. jrif 
 3 cam nott to fenC) peace / butaftvearbe. Jory am come to 
 \(namanattvarfanncc a^eynfi})i& father / anbtl)e bonc^b- 
 rer arteynftbermotber/anbtbeboucjfbterelavpe a^einft ber 
 morberelai3pc;2(nb a mannee fooee f|)albe / tbey of bid otrne 
 boufbolbe. ' %uriiii 
 
 CftetbatlovitbbisfAtber/ormotbermoretbenme/ysnort ^ 
 
 worrbyofme,2Jnb ^etf)atlovetbbii>fonc/orbono0bf^f «'<*^ 
 
 36 
 
refb^rtmc/ii^noffmetc forme. Zn'^^cth(ittaht\)t\otthy^ 
 croffc anb folowetl? me/idnottmfecfcnnc. ^ftjjarfynbcif) -kSntfjefiame ofa 
 I>^dlyfe/fball(cfc ir:anb ^e tf)at lofi't j) ^i6 lyf( for my faFr/ p:opl?erAi n(;^rw// 
 fballfviTbeir. fs man/oza Wfcip* 
 
 26>ar.ijr |[ .^e rl)at rccearit 
 Xuc.jr 
 
 
 ^iic.vi} 
 
 Clif)et.(Dii^tm 
 
 pirbmc/reccavii 
 
 pl)ct -Kin filename ofa propI)et/f j)«Ilr<ceav<apropI)<rff re^^ 
 
 irarbc.2(nb ^c tb«r rcceariti) a rigbteon^ ma i tl)c n Ante of a 
 
 rj>0l)rcou6ma/fbal(receapetl)cre\»arb ofang^rcou^ ma, 
 
 2fnb trhofoeper f f) All ^cpc vntonjon ofrf? efc lytic wortf etc/ 
 
 b2iFc acuppcofcolbc 1:::^ it>areronly/mfbcnAmcofabifcr^ "*" ^^^5^^^"^*^'^ 
 
 plc;3rdlvoiJofAmietI?/l)c njdlnorrlofe^y^ iwarbc, ^^^e^e^ef/b^^ 
 
 norl?cr; but coparc 
 tbemro/gob/foarr 
 tBcv all lv^^/J^ on? 
 
 t^bitmmto|idTf mirm '^p :vXr.;??;;tr 
 
 V. fui5 ^at enbcb 1)16 prcccptf pnto I)i6 bifciplce/l)? movrtf? a ma / 1 ry 
 ^cpartcbtI)ecc/toprcad)e«nbtcad)eit^erc cited. 155 ? ^"^'f ^^^^^^5 
 Clvpert Jbonbeifi^cjn prcfonberbetbcwoiFf of c^rift/f)e fl^o:owoiire alltte 
 fcntrnooofbif' bifitpleoaribfaybcrnfo^im, C(rte tl>ou be newcrfftamrt bero 
 tjjatf^all come; orfl^allrDelofcfo:aftot^er.3c(o&an(ti?crcb kenet^ torecafer 
 
 wa. I^i ^„^ f^^^^ p„j.^ tbem.CBo anb (htvot 3i)on trb^r ye bare be:^ f''"*' l" ^'^u -^t^'?; 
 bcanbfenc.2:i>eblynbfc/tl)ebalt0co/tbclypper6«rclenfeb; %'^^1'^'%\^'\I^ 
 r^ebcef{)eare/tbebecbarereyfebppa0finc/anbt{)e0ofpcll a^biit n cirpentArG* 
 i6p:ea(^eberot^eporre. 2fnb h^ppy i5F)etf)ati* noot t^ foe astl^ei fuppo// 
 l)UYtc by me. Tet) / 2 ^e l?Ym fdfe 
 
 C^renAet^eybepArreb / 3efue be^An to fpeaFe imto t{>e alfojicarpeter/t^is 
 people of 3I>on, tV^at wemyc for re fe m t\>c n^lberne^^ i"t' ^™ 
 tpetyeouttofearebercapenn^eTOirbtbcTOynbct'obertc^at p^i- ^|^^n /f^,^ f^^ 
 t»enryeoutforto fe:frcenryerofc a mafulcrf)ebiMfccfre ray^ wef^miputtofovf 
 mentfBebolbe/t!>ey t|)at wcare foofte clor^yn^e are in ^yn^ If i ijeerp/ fdldene 
 l)oufe&. ^iit rol;at uvt ye out for to fc:'tt>et ye out to fe/a pro? ^.^^ r^eftiim/x c oo^ 
 pl)et:'ye 3 fayeroto you/anb more tbe A propl^et.Jfc: t^ie-ie "^^^^'t^^^* 
 
 2fi)aU . j)c oftp^om it id trryttc.J8el)olbe/3pbf my meffen^er before 
 
 «*i- t^y fAce trJ)i4) f^All prepaire t[)y tpAye before t!>e. 
 
 C "Derely y fay e rnto you/ Ainorte t{>c d^ylbren ofipomen Aro - 
 fct^ere nott a gretter t^tn 3^on bApti(l, t1ot witl>(lon^ 
 
 »7 
 
t^lLefre. hinizl>t tl}(it}^^t^k(fi m t^e fyn0bc»mof(J;etJeH^6$frctteriu.jn)L 
 Cfeati'a i3?i^» t!>erij)C, Jrcmt^etymcof3f)obapti|l&)?t^eitc»/rf>c f^it^bo'/ 
 me of Revert ftijfrcr^-jt vyolcnce/aiib r^cy r^at nmh x>v'cTmcc 
 pullet^ It to thtm, ^oral! rbcp20p^ctf/anb tbe (awcpro^,^ , 
 
 pSZvAkXl ti>y^y^f>dya^/'^hid>m^cconu. Idtil)(,ti>Citf>c cm&t^S^r. 
 t\2ct tktttfie m no'/ ()care w^itl) all/ktt^im ()c<trc, tji 
 
 tlJfng^cfinUttfeetti |[Bui:nol)carc»fttof^aH 3 l)^?^ f^i^ ^cttcr^dnof ity6iy^^^^' 
 hvnto<!^yl(>rc/vo^td)(yti tt)cmMUtt/^cdl ^ntotf>cnftk-^'gl'- 
 i»eey'Jraye:tDcF)apcp)?pct>x)rttoyouA)?e^avenottbafifeb/wc ' ' 
 j}AvcmormbvntOf0U/m'^ytl>(^vcnottfor0voct^, Soi'3h^^ 
 ca/ ncti)er eatj^n^c nor b:j;>nf yngfc / 2 tf>c)? f<t)r€/{)c I)ar{) rj^c bCi 
 vyllJC^t fonc of ma c5 catj^tt^e atib b :)?nf yn^e/anb tl)cy f^j^e/ 
 bej^olbc a^lutton/itnbabrynFcr oftryne/anbafrertbc vnto 
 publjc«n6/anb (5?n/icri5.2(nb tr)?fbonic ye iiifhfieb of ^cr 
 4?J^rbrm, ^uc r 
 
 ir K vh'tff CC^e&c^a^etov>pbra)rbtf)ecite5/irf)crDf)ici>cm<»f!ccff)y0 
 St dinan inrbe myvAckewtvbonc/hccciufctl)cy bybnotttcpet,VOo be tot^e 
 tctte . ^^ or<t(i.tPobc to t^e bct5<t)rba/fo: yftl)c myiCickevol)id)m^ 
 
 re f^cweb iyou/ f>ab bene bone i t)?re anb in fybo:tbe^ trolbe 
 ^avc repeteb lo^e a^Ofte I facFcclotf)Mnb i a(t{>ej5. (;^ercrtl?c^ 
 Icflc j> fay ernto you/it (T)albe eafy er for tyre 2 fybo/ at tbe bcye 
 of iub^cmet/tF)en fo: yoin2(rib tf)ou capeniau/tt>^ict> arte (>ft 
 v»pperntob<it)eit/f0altbe tfjrnft bou/icto^elLjor/ft^cm;^ 
 racIc5Ta)l>id>|)apc bene bone in t{>e/f)ab bene f^eweb in 3obo/ 
 f ^ey |)ab remayneb to t^ye ^aya tl:ercrr!)eleflrc 3 fay vnta 
 you/t{)atit|^albe cafyerfor 5obomint()ebayc of mb^emct/ 
 tf)€n for t5>c» C^en 3efu6 anjwereb anb faybc. 3 p^ciyfc t Ijco 
 fatl)crIorbeofF)epenanbert$ /becaufe t^ou^aft bybt^eafe 
 t{)in^from ti)ewyfeanbprnbent/anb()a|I opcncbtj)em wi^ 
 to hahce / even fo fat|>cr/ for fo it pleafeb t|>e, Zll tl}yn^ m 
 (Jeven vnto me of my fat^er/21nb no man f nowct^ tpe fonnc/ 
 but tf)e fat()er nether Fnowe t^ eny ma tl)e fat^ e r/ fave t^c (oj^ 
 ne/anb ^e totJo^om tf)c fonnc try II open ^im. 
 C^Tome mto me all ye tf)atIabour;aiibareIabe/anb3tt^)'U 
 cafcyon.CaFe my yoolfe onyou/anblerne of me /for y am me^ 
 Fc/anb lowly in l^tvu; c^n'^ y c fi[)al( f)>nbe c<jfc vntoy oure fcu^ 
 
 36 
 
Ifft^r+myycofeyseaff/Artb my burthen ye Iy0j>r. Tb'^^l^i^^* 
 
 i.lRcgu. 2^ [^^ tl)cf«botbaye i{)crctr<f t[)ccome/anbbi6bifd^ 
 
 ^^ Bn ^^^B P^*^^ ^'^** <^"^""^^^ / ^"^ bc^an ro pIucFc tf)c cfl^ 
 ^LlSl ree of cornc/onb to catc. tX>J)cn tr)c fartfce j)ab fc=: 
 mrbar/rbey faybe rnto j>imf Bebolt>« rl)y bifdpleebo rjjar 
 vcf}id^ ye not latrfuK to bo a pon t^e fabot bay c.:i^c faybc rfir^ 
 tot^em: ^axjcycnotrrcbctrbatbauib byb/trbcn i>c wae 
 imbn0rcb/rvnb t^ey dfo trfjicb were tritf) b»mf ,(5owc b^ ^n^: 
 treb into tf)e bouflfecf 0ob/anb an tbcbalotrcb hv€e>/vc\>id} 
 TOfie n ott latrfull for bim to cAte/netf)cr fortbcmTt)bi4>^^^ 
 re iritb f>\in/ Buttonf)? for t^e pr€c|lc6,(Dr bare yc nottrcb^: 
 bt in tbc latpc/^otrctbat rbeprceflcein tbc temple brcafe t{)e 
 fabotbayc/ anb ycr are blamicflTcf }?ut3 f^ye vnro you /that 
 
 0(c.xu bcrc 16 u>o greater tbf"f be tempfc. ITb^rforeyfye bab vcifl/ 
 wbattbydfaymgc mcanetb- Srcquyrcmercy / anbnottfa^ 
 .., cryfyce/vetroIbencDcr bare conbcmpncbmnof enrf. ^ortbc r-^err/ji^kM+i 
 
 '^^'••^'^•fonneofmany^IorbeerenoftbeL^eabotbaye. a^lJ^^Xni.•«/. 
 
 CL2(nbbcbepartebtbence/anbTt»cntt in tot{)cre (yna^og^te/ g^ of oil cdmaunt*// 
 onb b€f>oIbe/tberc rrae a ma /vo})id) ^ab j)i& ^aiibbrieb rp mctf (^o^c fo yrcdt^ 
 3nbt!)er ajreb b»mfayinitc : ye bit iatvfullto b^ale rppon ly il^vf/tl?iir rbrve 
 tberabct!> bare:f be canf^tbeymygbtaccufebim. Qinh\>c '^J,ZTn7wbt! 
 rayberntotbem;Tt»bicby6beamon0eyou/yf^ebaba ftepe ?c love ad ne«^f re^ 
 foHen in to a pyt on tbefabot bare/ tbatwofbenott tafil^im qunc. 
 anblyftebimontf 21nbbotremocbeyt>amanbettertbena 
 fbepe;? lX>bcrfor< ytye leftilltobo a 0cx)bbebe on tbc jabot 
 baye. Zbin (a^bc be to tbe man;f!rccbe fortbe tby bonbe / anb 
 beftreacbcbfon!)ey anbittraeagayne mabe evenaerrbolc 
 ae tbeotben 
 
 C^ben tbe farife^ trent fortbe / anb toFe foiinfcilf af(enf?c 
 mm/'bowe tbey mycrtb biffroye binT.\X>bc 3cfii6 fnctrc rbot 
 bcbeparteb tF)encc / anX> mocbe people fclowcbe bim / ati^ b« 
 
 39 
 
C!)e0ofpcUof 
 bealc^ tl)c AlUnb d>ar^eb t()e r6«t/t!)cy ftwlbe nor rtul^e bitn 
 
 u)^icbfa)?er{);Bc^oI^c my fonne/tr^o 3 ^^^^^ c^o(cn/my ber^7ii|. 
 lingfc/m w5om myfotik ^at\) !)a^ bcUte.Stryll put my fpiri^ 
 tconbml/afl^^e^palIf|^ctPctu^cJcmemto t^e ^entyle. ^Oe 
 f^adnot ftryvz/^t^^cdi not ci^c/net^er f^allcny man be are 
 {>y6 voyccin t^c flrccrf/a brofeD rc^c / jljdl b« "oi: t>reacfe/2 
 \\c]cct\>atbc^ynmti}t0 bmncl^c fbAllnotquecbc/tyUl>e fen^ 
 be forrf) inb^emenr pnro Picrcry / An^ in ^y& name fpall t^e 
 jjcntyie trnfte. 
 
 CC^c was b:ou0bt to bynt/wonpoflTeffcb wirb a t>cr)^Il n>!j^ 
 yd> wai56otbMyn^can^^om / an^l}^i>cakt>\^iin/in foniocb 
 tbarl>ew{)^4>t»a^blyn^an^^om /botbfpah -: fat»e. 2(^^ 
 all t5)c people were amafe^/an^ faybc:ye not t^ie^ t\)c foneof 
 i>avi^;'tP^cntf)epb^rife&bert)etbar/r!?cy fayt>e:bc ^ryrcrf) 
 rbcbex)>>l6iwnotbcr Wife oute/but by rbc i>dppcoffbd{cbnh<^^^ 
 rf)ccbefeoft!)e^ex)yHf. i^X 
 
 CBut'Jefu^Frietretberetbou^btf/Anb fa)^t>e to tb^» ^-^vcry^Ui.ri. 
 *BeroIaf e. fyn0t>o ^e\?y^e^ \t>it!> in it fylfe (b^lbe * &cfolate.t^etb«r fball 
 .Tipat yo waJleV cnyciteo:!)o«rbol^e&evybc&ayef!irfyIfc/cdrynue.@oyffa= 
 beftrof ebAbjoug// f^„ ^.^(^ outfaran/rben ye bc^ev»yt>e^ aycnfi bim fylfc, Jno^ 
 ijr ro nougijt. wefoall tbc bve- r>'n0&d euburer2liro ify by rbcbclppe of bd*^ 
 
 3ebub cafl out^cvyle : by trbofc bdppe boyonre cbyll>re ca(l 
 r:>6oof!-. tbcm oumberfore tbeyfoalbcyoure inb0ed;B«t if3 cafl out 
 
 ^^v"^ a^eynfle f\}e f b"* ^«t>yl$ by tbe fpirite of 0o^: t^em ie t\}t Fy ngbom of 0ob 
 IMy gojfr/ydberp// come on you:' 
 
 '^nl%fo%\t^na ^^"^'^ ^^'^^ ^^ ^ '"^ ^"^^"^ '" ^^ ^ "^^^^^^ '"^""^^ ^^"A"^ / 
 wb^r^ tbat bybetb/ ^"^ ^7^^«"tby tc^h a ivaye bte 0cob&f;cr« PPt^ be fyrfl byn^ 
 it) no remedy <^f\\n, ^^ tbe ftron^c ma/ an^ tben fpoyle bit^ bouffc:'45e tbar is not 
 foi \t fv^} retb fltre/, witf) me/i& a)?enfle me: 2(nb be tbat 0at>^rctb not rrirb me/ 
 "/; T^^/^W? y« fcatrrerb ab:oabe.VX)b^rfore 3 fayevnto you/all m^er of fyni^^, 
 
 ly' 
 n?s&e>arfe. foryepenbimrbiitwbofoeverfpeaFetbayenfletbc bol/^oofl/ 
 
 * where :iJ^atbcw »tf(?aH not be foryeuen bim.-no/netber in l^y^\X)(idX>tlmt\)tx 
 layet-b b^^e ncfber ^mtb^worlbctocome* 
 
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6. ttlarJKW. fo.^i^ 
 
 f[©r!>ermaret[)arcc^c»b/AnM)i6 frurecKcbealfo/crcflf ^^i^Z'kVtb^ 
 maht^c trtC€vyU/7^y& frutc cvyllalfo. ^crr^c tree iefno- ^€it>inc>tiunger off 
 n>f by ^ye frure .0 jjcneracid ofviperf /botoe can yi fayt vocf 'tn-miil OflnaV ion. 
 !Smc.Vi. lc/a>b«tyc);^oiirc fclpeearcryllfforofr^c abofibaiincc of rbc ^-Sviper ye aftrr 
 ^<rrc r^c inoiit^ fpeaf eri).21 0cob man out of tj)c goo^treafiu ^'?*'* m«Jcr oran ao// 
 rcofb5^e!?mc/bryn^etbfortj)0a)bctbyntjf.anbancryHma ^''ftftJi^JJ^vrr 
 out on>i6 (vyll trcafurc brj^n^ct^ fort^ cryf t(?)^n£jcf>.But 3 ^'v^iion. 
 
 fayc rnro you/tbat of every ybyll x»orb</t^at men fpall (jarc 
 fpofe/t^ey |baU0ct»c acoptf or tb<b«ye of lubgemet iorby 2>cr€ fti«f pf fctj^ 
 tby w>orbc6 t^u j^altbe iM|lyfi?cb;anb by t^y tootbe^ r^ou ^^ wojdcs t dc dc* 
 fbaItbcconbempne^• ^^fj^^^ oiifwarMy 
 
 GChcanrTrcrybcertayn^JeoftbefcrybttoftbfPbarifeefay. J^^f^reTt^eff? 
 2t^^^ m0e:vn«f?er/wctt»olbcfaync fe afy^ncoftjjc.^c anfxpmb ts xpifl;>l?f m oz ag 
 vip. tl>c fay n^jc. rl)e et>yU ftnbabiioiitroiiejjeneracio feFft()afy£f^ tfnf^ \^pl^/butne<f 
 Xac.jri. ne/but t|icre f ^allno fygnc be^cve rnto t^cni/buttf)e fygnt ^^^ ^^^'^ ti"» go^ 
 oftf>cprop^et 3ona6.^ora63onaett?a(M^t)ayee/7itjny^ mireofc?arc?b^ 
 ^j)tce/i tf)cia>^aallt beIly:fo f l)al! t^e fone of ma be iij ^ayta gf r^^. ^ ^.^ ^ ^g/^^J 
 '3one r *"^ *^ "y^!)tc^ i^b^ f)crreof t()c ertb.J^e me of ninit>yrefpall makctbcyr nerj^cr 
 •^ ' ' ryfe fttrbc bayc of iub^mcnt/ wit^ t^ye nacion / ftnb cdbepne gcoo nor b«o. 
 t^cm:Sottl)ty rcpentcb attt^ep2cad)in0eof3ona6*2Inbbe^ 
 {)ofoea(Jreattcrrf)en3on«6y»i'bcrc.Cl)equcnc ofr^efout^ 
 f^allryfc at t^cbaycofiub0mctTOirf)tbiegencracionyanb 
 »^•rc0•T ^pCill conbepnet^em:5or f ()e cam from tl)c rtmofle partve d 
 of r j)e TOorlbe/to f^eare t!)e t^)yf^om of ©olomon.3nb bepol^ 
 be f)ercy6 a ^catcrt^n Solomon. 
 |[tt>ben t^c mdenc fpriteie ^one our of a man/h>t walftth 
 tj)rou^^ourebrcy placee /feFyn0ercefl/anb fynber^none. 
 Z^cn^cfayti) : 3'cryIIretume a^eync into my ^ouflc/ from 
 ttjbcnce3f5out.2tnbi»^enl)ei6 come/^efynbetj^tt^c ^of 
 uffeempte/anbfroept /anb^amyflbeb. Cbcn ^c^ott^ fy& 
 trayc/anbtafet^.ri;.fptnrfa>oifletbc bint fylfc/anb fo enter 
 tbey in anbbn?cIItf)erc.21nbtbeenbcoftbat ma IS TOorjfe tb»' 
 rbe be^yniiynge. ^v>en fo 0)^11 it be to t^ye frotverb nadon. 
 tEVDbyli^erctralFcb rnto rbepcoplc : bebolbe / ^ye-mct^tv 
 ^^ - anb by^bretbre flobe xc\t^ out t^c boree/befyringe tofpeaFe 
 ^^Jj-j^vcitboim. Cben won faybc rnto bim:beJ)oIbe tt>y mot^tv 
 ^' Anbtby bretbrc (?5be xvitl) out/bcfyryn0c to fptah wir^ tp€ 
 
 S ^ 
 
 61 
 
refl^f woiDc ofrto& 
 \o vfit>etfeoNvfi?c^ 
 re l?it multjpdcrl? t 
 makitl;) t\}€ pocple 
 bftrer. wl?ct-cl;)itis 
 
 eiiri» \)ir t>ecrca(it\} 
 imaMjff^rl^epoepIc 
 
 mor!>cr/orw!)o «rc nty bretf>crefif 2(n^ !)e fh•ad;e^ fori^ f>i6 
 i)Olt^co^>er^i^t>ifciplc6/art^fa)>^c;Bcbol^e iti)^i«otbcr anb 
 my bmbrcn.for u>bofocver fulfilkr!) my fatljere t»yU/a)biiJ 
 4? ye in j^cvm/^t ye my bvoti}iv/ my fuf tcr/anb my motj^cr. 
 
 ?bt famr ijim mtttrt3ffU0M 
 
 ouroftli)cj)cuf^c/antfattby^l)cf€cfy^«/an^mo' ' ^ 
 d?« people ^cfom^ pnto l>!m/|b ^rcfly tl)ar l?e tret 
 ^^ ^.. l ant> fatm a f^ypp?/ant> all tlje people f?obe on rl)e 
 |iSre.2(ftbl)efpaFemaityti)yn^f torhcm m(lmilltu^f /fa^ 
 yin^c : be[)olfcc / tf)c fewer wenr fort j? ro fo trc / 4»it> a&\)€ fo^ 
 lre^/fome fell by tl;e ooaycd fy^e/t tl>c fowllf ca /6ll^ ^ero!T^ 
 rcb it vppe. @ome fcHaport f fony 0rouii&e wjjere it !?^t> nott 
 mod>c crtl)/atib a non it fpron^e v>ppe/be c aufe it i)<l^ no ^es 
 p!)tofertl):«nb trj^cn tfje |im voae^vppe/^itcavti^ !?ect / Anb 
 for IftFe of rot)?n0c tpyb^re& awaycSome fell amon^e tj>or^ 
 n€& I ant> the tijorned Arofe/Anb d)OoFebit, parte fell in 
 ^oot>e fjrounbe/«nb 6rojJj)t foitlj^oob (hite: feme An b""^ 
 t>re^fofc/fome fyfty folb/fometj^yrty folbe.tDfJofoever fjatl? 
 e4rc6 to fteare/lct ^im l)c«re. 
 
 IC2(n^()y6^ifciplc0 cam / anbfay&etol)im: tl)f)y fpeafefl 
 ihoii ro tijcm in parable ef (je anfwereb a^^ faibe vnto tl)em: 
 4f5it id 0ev»cn rnto yonto hiot»etl)efecrettf ofrj)e fyn0bo:^ 
 me of l)eren/ but to the m it ie nott g|even» ^or tDl>o|time\;^r 
 barb/to \^\m fball \)\t be^even; an^b \)^ f^all bane abounMu^'"^^^*' 
 nccf Biit w^ofberer ^Cit\) nott ; from !)im fj^albe tct^>^n a 
 waye ere t(>at fame t!)atbebatl).iri>erforefpeaFc3 tot^em 
 infimilitubf; .?ort|!)ou0()tbcy fe/tl)cyfenott:flrtb jjearyn^e 
 tf)eyl>ear(not:net5)cn?nberflon^e.:?^nbinr()em ye fiilf^^Ile^ efavi. 
 tl)e propl>e(y ofcfay/tr!>id>prop!)en faytl): toirl) youre eares 
 ye f jball bearc/anb fball not rnberftSbe/ an^ witb youre eye^ 
 yefi>ailfc/ant)f()all notp erceape, 5crtl>i0 peoplee^ert ya 
 
 42 
 
t^^b JJroflR;2ln^tl1crcarr^ irer t)«ll of btaryii^c/anMlwr 
 ej>c0 ^ave r l)cy clcfc> / Icfl rbcy ^l)!ll^c fe xvith rknr eyes/ an^ 
 iKArc u>itb t[)«frc carc£^/aM^lpul^; vnX'rf?on&«^ trirhrlKW 
 i^crttf /anb fpiilbe touriu/tljAt k> fti^^eb^ h^aU thcrti. 
 CBiir bU|]cb ar roiirc eye*/ fortbcy fc/artb roiire c arc»3 /for 
 fj)iyb^Are. Dcrdy3fari'vmoyou / tijat many piopb^ kH' 
 flnb pctfaitte men ^am UfcriX> to fe t\}c tbin^f t»hid> ye fe/i 
 I)ftv< not fc net j)em; anbto b^flre tbotbin^yirbid^yebeare/ 
 ant)b*^"<5tbert>etl>en.i5eareyet!?erefor£ tb« fimilitube of 
 tjje fewer. tObf" A»"5bearet!> tbetroi^e of tbe fyng^ome/ 
 ftn^ wiberflonbct j) it nott: tf)cre c ometb f b^ ^^^^ ma/anb cA^; 
 
 gob/ant) anon trithioyereceawrb if/ yet batb be no rcottf in go^. 
 
 bim felffe/anbtberefo:ebe biiretl; but a fcafonrfor ae foone ae 
 
 tribulacion o: peifecnqon aryfetb be canf: of tbe wotbe/ by:^: 
 
 anby be fallitb. 46e tbat roae fotvne a mon^c tborne^/ ye b«/ 
 
 tbatbearitbtbe tror^Jeof (Jot) /buttbe careof tbii>»orl&e/ 
 
 on^ tJK bi (fay tftilnee of ryd^ee d)oh tbe worbe / at<b fo ye b« 
 
 m4^e^nfrotfilll. fje tt(>id? ie fownc in tbe ^cob ^ronnbe/ 
 
 ydbe/tbatbeaiirbtbe worbeanb rnberffonbetb it/ tt()if!>ali^ 
 
 foberitb friite /anb bryn^e forf()/fum an i)imbieb foib»Vfum 
 
 ffftyfolbe/onbfumtbytty folbe. 
 
 C^orb(r(imilitube pnt jje fortb /rnto tbem fayin^e, STj^C 
 
 fvn^cbcm of beuenye lyFe unto a man tt»bicbfotret) ^oob fee^ 
 
 be in biefclbe. But trbyll men |Iepte/tl)ere cam bid foo/anb ^ ., 
 
 fotrcb tares amon^i tbe trbeafe/anb tret 10 tr aye. iflDbcn tl>« ^j^'J^tV^r Sr^^^^ 
 
 blabewa^ fprongerp/anbbabbrougbt fortb frute/tt>en ap^ amonflecoine. 
 
 pierybtbetareealfo.Jbeferrauntf cam to t^e bonflebolber/ 
 
 anb faybf vnto bim. 6yr fowebef! not tboii ^rob feeb m tby 
 
 cloffc/from wb«n«tben batbit taree^r^e faybe to xl)im lt\)< 
 
 ennouo man barb bone tbie.^Cben tbe ferrauntt faybe rnto 
 
 »>im:^yIttboiirbfn tbatt»e0oanb(jebberit t onbbe faybe/ 
 
 "Ay^/Ml trbyllyc jfoabonte to trebe out tbe tared/ye ^\v\kU ' 
 
 rpp« airowitbtbctbe wbcateby tberortf; let botbecrrotre 
 
 ro 0ytbcrty(l|,arwf} cum/ anb m tynu of |>arrefl/ 3 voyM (i^ 
 
 S »«r 
 
 43 
 
Srj>e(5ofpfllof 
 
 ri^lc a tl?f nge i cfjc *" fbcvce to be brent: but i^abtbcr tf)c u>becre in to m)^ bc^mt. 
 tPoUoe/oimozeoe^/ f[inot{)cr parable be puftfortbevittotbcm fayinge. C^e 
 rpirct)/tf?en tlje goP/ tyn^cboni of beven ye \yh rnto a ^rayne of ^ muflarb feebe/ 
 
 t^clawextlj 
 
 rkee ooetl? (r nor. tne/anb byl^e in tt hvaund^ce of it, 
 K^^£v^n b^fiife^/ C3notf)erfimaitubcfaibebetotbem,Cbefyncfbomof^cvc 
 li^i? tt e goSelUl^ ^^ ^V^^ rnto t::^ lercn tt>f)icb ^ woman tore anb t>ybbe m lij 
 fo.foi ft cVungerl? pecFf of iiicele/ tvH all tra^lewnbcb. 
 a man ^nto a nctpe 112111 t^cfe tl^m^f fpah iefiie rnto tt)e people b)^ fifttihtnbf / 
 nature. ^ji^ tt>it^ cute (iniiltfiibf fpaf e i)C no t^yn0e to tbcm / to fuU ^^^^ 
 
 f)?ntbat«>^kt)'a?ae (pofen h^tt^cpropl^ttfciyin^e : 3 ^5^^ o^ |^^' 
 pen my moutb in fimilitubf/anb xx>y\l fpeahfortb tbyn^f 
 tt?I>ycb ^^^ bene f epte fecrcte from t^e bi0ynyn^^ ojf tbc 
 iroilbe. 
 
 CC!>en fent 3efue tbe people axoayt/anb cant to boufic / anb 
 
 bye bifcipleeca rnto bim/(ayin0e:beclare rnto retbe fimus 
 
 litube of tbc taree of tbc fclbe: ^^cn anftoereb be <:int> faybe 
 
 to tbcm. :0e tbat fotret^ tbe gcob fceb / ye tbc fcnne of m an/ 
 
 tbc fclbe ye tbetrorlbe. ^|[>ecbyl(>renof t^e tyn^ebom are 
 
 tbc^oob f^eb, (r{)e cry U mane cbylbrcn aret^etarce.Buttbc 
 
 znemy rc»!>tcb fotretb it/ietbeberyll.(rbcb<!itre)lye t{)c in'C^c 
 
 of tbc irorlbe/anb t^c rcpere be tbe an^cUf . Sor eren oe tbc 
 
 taree 4re jjobbrcb/anb brent intl^t fyrezfo ftall it be in t\)t 
 
 cnbe of tbte xro:lbc.Cbc fonnc of ma (ball ^m'^t fortb ]>\e> an^ 
 
 ^Tr.^r..f.yy^\^a 0«^^1'/'^ tl^cy(t>a\\ ^abtbcroutof biefyn^bd dUl>in^tHt 
 
 *bTg^rpSl/ xJblb ^^ b"rte/Anb alltbem rcbi^bo iniqnite/anbfbalkarttbem^ 
 
 gev^ vs grace ao ^ * fumc6 of fyre.Cb ere (Tjalbe tray lyn^ic an'd ^afl])y n^e of 
 
 rygbt^»e^"c5 witb tet|).Cbcn fball tbc iufte men f bync ae brygb^ ^^ ^b^ fnn in 
 
 out ou re beferyyng tbc f yn^bom of tbcre fatbcntrbofocrer batb earee to bcare/ 
 
 tberctotcxrefrn&e Jetbimbcare^ 
 
 feave'^meJ^K C:2l0aync tbc ryn^ebomoff^ercnielyfe rnto ^treafurebyb^ 
 
 ctu:e/a tbv»gc cbat bcmtf)efelbe/tberDbicb ama founbe anb bybbcit: atid for ioy 
 
 no man c J obccyne tbcre of ^oetb z felktb all tbat be batb / an'^ byetb ^\>^^ felbe. 
 
 wif b wojkea, ir^0<^y"t/tl)e fyn^om of ^ercn ye lyf c rnto a marcbaunt/ 
 
 ^4 
 
[cfyn^t after ^cob pcarlce which trF)c I>e b ab founbe one prt^r ^ ^^ pe arlr fe 
 CJ0U6 lO pcarU/ went anb folbe all that i)c l)ab / ^ bou0t)t ir/ aKo ti^e cvagfUon. 
 |[2(^eyrte/t[)ef7ngboin off bcpenielyh vnto a mttcaftm to 
 tj>t fec/tj)ar^abbrctbof alltynbfoff)>(lb«&«tbct»I)icb ttbcit 
 16 full / me b:a\x»c to lobc/anb fit an'^ 0abrc tl)c 0oot> into t{)C5: 
 re pcflcWanbcAlttbc bab 4t»ayc.6o i\>a\lit b< attj^ecnbc of 
 t^c wo:Ibc. (rf>ean0cl6 foallcomc anbfct)crtj)c babfrom r|)e 
 goob/anbfbaUcafft^cm mtoafurnceoffyrt/tl)crc fl)albe 
 rraylyn^c anb ^na^yn^c of tcrl). 
 If 3<fu6faybcrntotbcm!|>ax7e yc rnbcrflonbc flllr j)efc t j)yn^ 
 gf :rbcy faibc ye fyr.Cf)en faybc{)e rnro rfjcm:^ !>erfore every 
 faybc wl}id} i&conyn^cvmo tjjetyngbom of bere/ielyl^ean 
 j)oun)olber/tpI;!d)bryn0etj>fort[)/our of f)F6treafure/t^yn<^ ^ 0loc/tbel«trr. 
 ^^ bot^e * net»e anb olbc» -Rcxpe/t^c gofpeU/ 
 
 C2lnb!)yt cam to paffc xsy^tjt^ue^ l)ab fynnefTb^^ ^\f^^^ (*^ ct evangdiou. 
 tiiilitubf tljat bebcpartcb tljerue/anb cam in to l^i& atone cO^: 
 untre/ailb tau0f)tin tberefyna^o^^f /in fomoc^e tl)Citti>iy 
 fv^ trere aflimyeb/anb fa!be:tt>l)encc ca alltbye xx>y\t>d anb po- 
 ^[' xccrvntol)imiie>nott})y&t})ccarpitcre>f:>fKii&not by^mo^ 
 tber calleb mary^anb by^ brctf)rf n be callcb/3amc6 atii'C> 3o= 
 fee atib ©ymon anb Ju'^ae>iant> are not bye fyftere all l)tn 
 mthveiroJ)(ncc batb b« ailtbefc tl^ync^-fi 2(nb tbey t>oer=: 
 burreb)»b»^»2^j)c3efudfaybepntot{)em;t^erei6nopropb<t 
 wirb out I)onoure/faT?c in hy^ avcnc countre/anb amcgc hyo 
 awne Fynne,2fnb l^< byb nott many myraclee t^cre for tf^erc 
 pnbefefc6(aFc. 
 
 ^ ^tmh€h^tt. 
 
 Msttmtv^mht thm gpj-„« 
 
 trad>a berbe of tbe fame ofjefu/anb \ayot \>nto er tl^c fcurtl? parte 
 
 {>y6fert>arittf:(rbi^y&3bon boptift/bcy^ rifen of a realmc . 3f«»t 
 
 a0eync fro bcetb / anb tbere fore by^e- power y& Wtbber pertcna^ 
 
 HrcU. 5p: b.robcrofc3bon m.t,bo..n^cbrm/<,n^pu« ZZ'Sff, 
 
 byni m prefon for perobiao fare/ pyo brorper ppiuippt wv p^^^ ^ 
 ffe: ^or 3bcn faybe vnto bym / i)\t y^ nott latrfiill for tbc 
 to ^avi bcr* ^n^ xoptry^t xpclbc ^av< f utt^ym to bcet^ 
 
 46 
 
C^c(Bo(pc[lof 
 
 he fcarcb tl;e people/be catife tj^cy cotmtc^ ^tm Ad a prop j)ct « „ rwM 
 CQ^f>ert fjerobf byrt^ t>Ayc wftd come t^c t»ou0l)rcr of ^ero:= ^* 
 byae :)aunfy^ before t^em/ant> pIcAfy^ ^erot>c. tt>^erfcre ^e 
 from)?f)^^ w'tl) an ot|>« / tbat^c^x>ol^e^cre bcr wbarfoe^ 
 pcrft)e«?olOeajt:€. 2(nt>fp£bejrn0c cnformcb oflf(>cr mother 
 bcfoxc/fxyU ycv€ me l)ere3bo baptiftf bcct» in a pkrrcr.21nD 
 r^e ffni^c forowct>mercrt^lcffc for ^i& ot^ce fafc/t for t^cre 
 faPce wljid^ fatr dfo At ti^c table/^c co^lalm^e^ ^it to be 0c re 
 |)er.2(nt> fent An^ be!>e^^e^ 3bon in t^e prefon: anM;i^ ^ec^ 
 wodbrou^bf inapfarter. anb)?cx7ento t^e ^amfeU/an^foe 
 brou£|btl»?t to /)er morf^er* Zn^ ^l6^lfcIpfe6cam / an^ tofe 
 pppe by^ bo^y/a nb biirj^eb |)il::2(nb went anb tofoe 3f fu^. 
 CXO^^nJi^c{m^ab (>erbt^4t/^ebepartebtj)enceby f^yppc 
 into a beferr place oiite oft^e traye.^nb tr{>cn t^e people ^al> 
 |)erbetf>ereof /t^ey folowbe^im a fote ontof t^crecitee.^n^ 
 3efa^wentfort|> anbfawe niod^e people : anX> bi€> Jjerte bjrt»€ 
 mcltex)pportt^?/anbl)e j)ealel) of tl>€mtl)ofe t^attrereficF*. 
 tt)j>en eren trae cum/ljt^bifciplee cam to J>im fayin0e.C^i& 
 )?eabcfertpIace/anbt^eba)^eid(pent/lettbepeopIe beparte 
 t?)at t|je)r maye ^o in to tl>c tounee/ anb bey r^cm vymyllf, 
 But 3^ju6 faj^be ynto t^em.C!>e)» J>ape no neabc to ^o atra^ J^*'- ^* • 
 ye:®eveyc t(>em to eateX^en faybe tbej^ viito^im: xre f)arc.|!J'^^^f- 
 pere burvJot>e0 / mt> two fi^flo^^^ ^^ faybe / brj^^e t^cm J' V*'"^* • 
 I))rbtl)er to me.2inb ()c comaunbeb / t^e people to fyt botriic 
 on t j>€^rafje/anb toFetf)e.rJove6/anb tbe,tj.f)?fr*>^^ / «"^ ^^ 
 fyt> vppe to i)cvm/c^tiZ! bfeffeW atit> brah/ ant> ^ave tbe lore* 
 to |)j?^bifciplr6/an^ tbe^ifciplea 0ax>e tbe to t jje people.2<nb 
 t^er all ate /anb wer fuflfyfeb, 2inb t^zf 0abreb vppc of t|^« 
 gobbettf tj)at remaynet) jctj bajf ctf full. Cl)e)? t^at ate tper m 
 nubre aboute.p.tll, men/bejVb^ee wemtn ajU> Mit> c()y|brc« 
 C2tnt> fh-e^^^^t tra)^e 3«rttd mabe ^y& bijciples entre in to 
 . a ^ippc/atib to 0o over be fore bim/ tcbyll f)e fenrt tbe people 
 
 XbeTvd?M'n tbe ^^*^^- a^nb ae foone ad ^e f)at) femttJ>e people awaye/ be 
 oloe tfmewae be// wentrp intoamonntaj?nealonetopra)?e. Ztibw^^mny^ht 
 vioct) into uij qua'/ waecum/be toadtb^re |)ime fylfc alone.cnb tbe fi))^ppe trad 
 rtcr^Mtiotcoeverx in tbe m)>bbfoft^e fee/ anbtraetoofl \x>ithtpapce/ for bit "^'^*'^': 
 P«»«^ w^«3 gcvfii waeacotrar)?ex»ynbe.^3nt^ciiq\wat(i>eoftl;en>^£lbt3e^^r»*'» 
 
 46 
 
S.i11atl)cw. 5^;wj 
 
 . fuecam rntctf^cm/ tt»alFyn0c on t^i fee :anb tt)|jcn breNfci;^ 
 z§ Jr P^*^ 1*^^ ^^'^ walFyn^c on t!>e fee/ tbf y were ftnlAfe^/ fa;in^ 
 
 * ye3fri'^rp^^^ rnrotl^crti fa>>n0c;bcof0cc^4?e<^«•e /itiey/ be 
 nottafra)?e^. 
 
 f[pctcranfti>ercVanblAi>c:ma(lcr/an^ rbou bcbe/bib^eme 
 come x>ntott)eonrbc water, 2Inb j>c faI^e come.2(n^ vo^cf>€^ 
 tcrwaecome t>oune out of tl)cf^yppc/l)e ir alFeb on ti)c xca^ 
 tcr/to^oto3cfud. Burttfycn l)e(aix»eam)?0l)r)(>tr)rn&e/ j>e 
 trae afrayet)/2Jnb ae (>c be^a to f)>nFc/t>e crycb fay in^c :nia:^ 
 (icr fare me.2(nb inmcbyotl)? 3ef«6 |irctd?c^fcrr() !>ye. j)on^ 
 ^e/an^ cau^^t t}im/Ant> foibe to !>tni: <D t j>oii of l^tellfa^tf): 
 t^()erfore^)^^^efl t^>o^^ollt:^ 2(n^a6foo^e ae tbey trereco^ 
 mem tot()efl[>j?ppe / tbe u?^n^eceaflc^. Cfcen tbey t\}at trere 
 m tl)e foyppe cam ati^ trorfbyppeb bmi / (ayin^^ : of a tnitl> 
 tbou arte t^e fonne of 0o^. 2ln^ tpbcn tl)ey trer e come over/ 
 the)? trcnt in to tbeIon^e of ^yna3arer!).2(^^tt>!)cnlbem?off 
 tb«t place ba^f7loa>le^0€ of jjim/tbey fcntout intoaUtbar 
 courtt:e roun^e about /an> brou^^t vn to fynt all that trcre 
 ficFe/ an^ bcfou0f>f bim/t{)at t^ey m)?0bttou4>e tj)e bor^er 
 of()y6 t>e|rureonly.3nb aemany ae tou^^eb l))?tt/ wer ma^ 
 ^efafe. ^'p^off^t.Tharkt 
 
 ,_^- ^- rt?f(cVi'oflrtI?cpfy/ 
 
 Vom mm to |fff"$:rn?bi« SSS 
 
 arit p\}aYy(e& from 3erufal?/fayin0ettr!)y bo tb)^ the pi^mks fct rl?^ 
 
 bifcfple^tranf0rcf[cti)etrat>icibn3offbefentor6:f ere tcniporjli lucre 
 
 for tbey wcfi^e not tbere ^onbf /tr^en rljey eate< iferp:cr(f^ yr faf n^; 
 
 breet). 4^e anfweret) /an^far^e^Jntot&em:t»^)^^oycalfo S?mo%«/orfS^r 
 
 tranf^reffe t j)e comaimbment of 0ob/t|>orot©e y ourc trabict^ ^^,/ c^<j ^^vvrj f j^j 
 
 oni3ffor 0ob coma^l^e^/fa)?In0c:bo^ourc thy far(>er anv> mo< pbanfrt^bi/rbciJ ful 
 
 ^er/an^[)etj)at fpeaFctf)cryUa)7enfl j^yefarberormorber/ vcifb robery •: crro// 
 
 :acui. fballfuffer^«et().But)rcfa)re/e\>«ryman^)aUfayeto {)yefa^ rnon/trbepoviffa 
 
 nix tberormotber: tr^atfoercrtbm03 offer/ tbatfame^ot^ nteSnrr!^ 
 
 •K p:ofytttbe/ant) fo (T)an be nor bonourcbief^txr ant» mo^ anDnert&e. 
 
 t^cr.2(n^> t^ue {)ax)e yc niabe/t{>at t^e comaun^ment of0ob 
 
 (B 
 
 ♦7 
 
CTe©ofpdUf 
 
 lStpit]|>OUtcffccte/tf)rou0byotIretra^lClon6. ypocryt^VDcH^. 
 propJ)efic^ of you/ c| a)^ fayin^c:S>i6 pcopfe bra wetj) n)^e pn= fj" '^ • 
 to nic wir^tbcrcniout|^ed/2 ^onorefb met\)it{) tfecrc lyppe^/ 
 ycttl)irt ^ivU ie ferre fro inc ;but i )?a)>ne tl)c)rxDorfl)ippc me 
 tca«^in0eboctryne/w^icl) i$?Tothyn0c bufmcn^ precepted, 
 C.Znt> j)c cadet) t^e people vnto ^im/cinb fay'tfc to t^em:^ca^ 
 rcanbpnberflonbe. d;atw!)idj0oetl)mrotf)e mou0tf)/be 
 fyIer{)itotaman:[)iitt^attc>bj4cdmctI)oiitoft()c mou^t^/ 
 befylct^t^emam 
 
 flil)encam t)?6 bifciplee/anbfaybc rntoljnti: perceaveft 
 t^ou/^owe t^at t{)e p^aryfes are oflfenbeb (Jearin^e tf)y rai<; 
 
 T>el-l2 ever. i^etttf)ealone/t^cy betf)e Wynbe Icbbere oftbe blynbe.3ft!>e 
 
 biynbe leebe t\}t blyribe/bootf>e (l)an fall in to tf>ebycbe. 
 CC^c an jwercb peter anbfayb to {jim;beclarepntovditf)y6^i,^, 
 para bif ,d!)en faybe 3cfu6:are ye ycrtt»it!) ontcn unberftcn;? 
 bm(](e:perceat>eye nottAb at tr^atfoeper rjoctf) in at rlje mo^ 
 iit|) /befcenbetf)boune in to r{>ebeIy/anbyoca(l out in to t|)e 
 brau0^t;*^uttbole t{)ingf wl)icl) proccbe outof tfef »nou£^^t 
 comefromtbf lb«rte/anbtf)eybyffy!eaman.^or out of rbe 
 {)crte come evylItbouc(F)tf /miirber/ breafync^ of weblocFe/ 
 rr|)orb6/t()eefte/faIcewitne5beryn£je/blafpf)ciny.Cbfr^are 
 t^ctj^in^f xol^id^ befylc a nian^Bnt to eate voitl) vnujeffb^f^ 
 bonbe0/befylet() nottaman. 
 
 C^"^3cr»iJtprnttbence/anbbepartebintotf)ecofff of tire ^an 
 anbfibon.3nbbeF>olbe a womdtt>f)id? was a canany tc cam "^^ 
 outoft!?e fatnecoo(lf/anb crycbrnto^iin/fayn^e: ()ave mer^ 
 cy on me lorbet^efone of bauib/my boti^b^f ** iepytiouffy x>t^ 
 xeb\»itj>abepyll2(nbf)e^at»ef)erneDeratrorbeto anfwcr. 
 (Tben cam to I)im bye bifciplee / anb befonrjbt b«m fayin£?e: 
 fenbcI)era\»aye/for fi^efoloetF) v& ci-yin^e. ^eanfwereb/ 
 anb faybf :3 am nott fent/but vnto tb? Iwfl ff)epc of tfjc bonflfe 
 oftfraJ>eUC()en ft^ccam anb worfbyppeb^im/layinge : ma^ 
 fterfucfer mc:^e anfwerebanb (aibe; ttye not 500b /to taFc 
 tF]j« ci)ilbren0 brceb/t tocaf! it to wj>elpf .©{)e an(xrereb artb 
 faibe; itiftrutf)e / nepertfjejeffetbewb^lppee rate off t^e 
 
 48 
 
fr5mc»5/trbid?Wlfrcmtbcrcttia(lcr6tahfcX()cn3cfudan5: 
 jtccrc^ ant> lay^e vnto l>cr.0 tpoinan ^uau id rbv \ayth / bf 
 i^it to t|>c/ct)cn ae t^ou b€iyrcfuZnt> b<r ^cu^5;rcr ir«o ma^ 
 betrbclecrcnartbAt \amctymc, 
 €Cbcn3cfu6 tv>cntatt»aye from tj)CItc€/«n^ cam nyc vnt^ 
 tl)c fee of i^aldc/anb trcnr rppc in to a n\omaym/arii> fat bo^ 
 imctbcrc. 2lnbmocbe people cam vnto bym b^vyngc with 
 tbcm/l)*l^'/bIyn^e/^om/maynu^/ anb otbermany; an^ caft 
 them boime at 3«fw^ ff te. 2(nb be bealeb tbem /m fo mod>e 
 rbat tbf people xron&reb /tofetbebom fpcafe/tbemaymcb 
 
 w>bole / anb tbe bait to 00 / tbe Mynbc to fc/ anb 0lcr>fycb tb^ 
 ^oboftfrabcl. 
 
 *2l^flr. |[3be(ud cdkb bis bifciplee tofjim anb faybe; 3 b^ve com^ 
 
 ^^*i' paffioii on tbc people/bc caufc tbey b^^^^^ont^rniieb tt>itb tnc 
 
 ncwc itj-bayed/anbhavcnotbingc to catc:anb Jxcyllnot let 
 
 tbem bcpartc faflin^c Icfle tbeji^peryjlhc in tbe waj^e.^lnb bid 
 
 bifciplcefaib rntobinnwbece ft)ulbtre 0ct(b mod>e breeb in 
 
 tbecryIbenK6a6ff)u(befujfy|efo0reatcamu(titubc^anb3^^ 
 
 fudfaibernto tbc: botre many I0PC6 bare yc:fanbtbeyfeyDe: 
 
 fcxjcanb afeavc>efyfll)C6.3nbbecomaunbebtbc people tofyt 
 
 bouncontbe0rounbe,anbtoFctbefcrclov»ee/anbtbcfyfTbe5 
 
 an^ 0ave tbanFf / anb braFc tbem/anb 0a ve to \}y^ bifaple*/ 
 
 anb by^ bifciplee.0aretbetotbepcopIe. 2Inbtbevallarc/anb 
 
 xjpere fuffyfcbanb tbey tcFe x>ppc of tbe b:oFt' meatc tbat wao 
 
 lefte Dij.baeFetf full. ti)cy tbat ate were ii^, iTI. men/ befybc 
 
 tremen anb d>ylbren. 3[nb be fent atcaye tbe pcople/anb toF^ 
 
 fb vppc anbcam in to tbe parnee ofma^Hia; 
 
 CtitMClwptfr. 
 2^.,. ii==ijtbfn rmtt to Wm rbf pfranffs 
 
 wtti) tbefabuces alfo /anbbyb tcpte bi'm /bcfyr^ 
 in0c tbat betrolbefOetpc tbe fomefrgnefro be^ 
 ven.4^<anfi»erebanbfaibet»ntotbem: 2Itcwn 
 
 viij. 
 
 ye faye/xrefhallbape fayrctrcbber.anbtbatbecaufetbcffyr 
 y6reeb:ti tbe morni0e:yefayc/tobayc (>>albe foulc wcbber/a 
 ^f-^- tbatbccaufctbe fFycietr5beIcu^anbmb.(Dycypocrytf/y< 
 
2^e(BofpeIlof 
 
 *!Svane&, ^^" bifc emetic faflion of tfcc jTryc:«nb can ye nor bifcerfic the 
 Xteft'gncs arc cf?-'/ ^* jV^ned ofrbc tynice:rCf>e frovccrbcnacio/anb abrcuiroiis/ 
 riftf woDerfutl t>C'/ fefer^ afyijnc;t$crc f^all no not[)erfy^nc be ^et?en rn to t^e/ 
 Atjc^ ant) miraclce/ 5y|. ^ u^ Lane of the propbet3ona6.6oIcfrc be rbeni Cin'i> t>e^ 
 
 ttcTfl?ul&ebcDone C2(nbtr'^enpt0bi|cipk6t»erecometotf>eorper|ybeofrbe 
 in iCIpnftcs t^me. toater/ rf)€yb^b forgotten ro tAFcbreebtritj>t{)em.C^c3es: :^r. 
 lEfmpvL (u6 (a!& vnto r^em:£aFe l)c'i>c an^ bcirarc of t|>e leren cf t^c ^'^• 
 
 pbarifeeMnboftJjcfabucee, 21{)e)r r^ou^bta mon0c t^em 
 
 nfeffiois fl?c rocke. ^b^ <^fc yourc niynbee cubreb btcaufc yt I)ape broii^l>t no 
 •Howefe fimobar/^ brceb:f©ovcnotyetperceAt)e/netj)erremebcrtF)ofc v lovee/ 
 <oita/orfim5ionas t»!)etl)crevr)ercp. Vl l.me/? botxjemany ba(>ettf tofeyerpf 
 bTcSlS// ^''^'^ '^' t>pJore6/tt>{)e tl;a-e voereiiq.ill, anb botx)e nu^ 
 m<5. wtofoevcr rf?e "^ bafFcttf toFe ye t)ppef t»^)> perceaoe j^e not t!>c/ t^at>^ fpa<^ 
 tl?i6\vrfecofeflcrI? fcnot witoyouof brceb/tt>bc3 faybe/becoareofrlje leren cf 
 ofiC^:ifte/tl?e fame t^cpjjanfee o,x<^ of tf>e fobuce6ifC()en pnberftobe t{)e)>/I)0we 
 i^c^\^^^'P^tp'.r\o/, t^at^cbabnotrt^embetPar(Joft|5clex?enofbreeb:biJltoff 
 cTet^cotrrbar^^^^ tl^eboctryncoft^c pbartfee/anboftb^fabucee. 
 tmcctndcn. X\}e C^^eicfui? ca in tot^ecooftfcft^e cite ro|>id;i£vcdlebcefa:^ :^a|.^ 
 ye every cl^riTtc ma rca p!)tlippi / l)e ajreb ^ye bifciplee fay in^e : whom bo mm viij. 
 t wcmapcfer.TRc^ fayet^at3t[;e ^onm of man amf(E!;cy faibe/fome ^ixye t\)U 
 
 loivfingcTbynMng oftbeprcpbcttf.^cfevbex)motbem/buttwbomfayeyerI;at 
 anD nor el?o\re l?te^/ 3 i^tnfSymon peter an fxrereb/anb faybc: ^bon arte cbrifl 
 TO djccket^ tl?e pr// tbe fofieof tf)e Icpyn^e (Job, 2lnb 3?!"^ anftDereb i faybc to 
 efiimnooftljeplja-. l)im:J)appyartetboufimont^efoneof3onaci/forPefbeanb 
 &^l'r;f^rno^ bloubba.enotopeneb rntct!)etbat/butrny fater xt>bfd^ y6 
 nioflrcus irerpzcr ', mbex?en,2lnb 3faye alfo rnto tbe /tbattbcti artei:;^ peter. 
 fln'ons as cure new 2fnb apon t^^ye roocFc3 ^y^ bylbe my cd0ref(adon;anb t{)e 
 gos)t)ei>l?avefeyne&£jateeofbenfballnotprev?eylea^eynf?it. 2(nb3n?yII/crc 
 '^'^Ln-fb^^^lt v"^otbe/tI)efeyeeof tbe !=yn^bom of bcven /anb wbatfoc^ 
 ncof Fox tiougl?f t\y, ^<^»*fbo«b)?nbcf|pppon ert^/ytn)all be botmbe in bcwn.anb 
 at C\}n(x bi^^^ be// t»batfoe\?ertbou lowfeft onertbe/ytfbalbc lowfeb in ^eve, ^ . 
 wareof rbeievcn of CCben be cf?arcteb biebifcipfeo/tbat t^ey fbulbe tell no ma/ ojivar'^' 
 tteptariTe^.noD tl^/ rf?at 5)C roaeSefu© c^rift.^rom tljattyme fort|)/3efu^ be(ja yi'^' 
 
 56 
 
6. iTTatbcw. 5o.xi>. 
 
 roffccirc mto J)i6^ifdpIee/l)otrc tj)At{)c mu(?0ornto3<ru:?Yn5et«rorcrcreth* 
 fak7an^^uffer many tbin^ cft\>i (emorf/anb cftbf bvcprc^ ar tt^ct muke notfo 
 (Ice/anboft^c fcribc6/an^mu^rbcF^lIc^/an^ryfc againctbc ^^^ witf^rl^cre tt'/ 
 tb;ri)c ^ay cperer toh bim a f>bc/anb bcgfln to rcbuFt Jjym ^{S^/:u^'i'!I'u 
 fayin0e;majlcrfapcrtby frifc/rbiefballncrtcomc rnrotbe.Si>vng^^^^^^ 
 V)m tumcb be abotire/ anb faybc rnto peter :0o aftermc fa^ bircrer ripen r fpe ol^ 
 ran/rboiiotfcnbeflme / becaufet^cu pcrccapcfl nctt0cblyi>ela>rc/ici?rifte0 
 tringf :butirorlMy tbin^t- *'"7*?^ 10 bevier rl? 
 
 Cjcfu^tbenfarbctobveMfcipIee.yfcnyman tx>yH folowe ^jJ^lJ^^S^^^^^ 
 mcIcctbimfcrfaFcbim frlfc/anbtaFcbiecrcflc «nb fdotcegft^f^^gf^nrtmes 
 me.iort»boroct>eru>yllfavebyelyfc/fbainoofc ^,2Inb tcbo more grmoua ripen 
 foeper foall loofc b)^& I^^fc for m )? fafc / fl) all fvnt>e >rt. tDbatr xcao cv^r t\^c icvrea 
 fpallbirf -. - .. <i-u..K.« 
 
 fo^c loofe 
 
 ^eme bf^ i vjMiv ^yuy»v .. « .^ *;"-^^^» "^'^ »^"^ ^'' '"**" ' j;rr:r, r> 3ft roun^e^l? pi 
 mc m tbc^Iorr of b;6farber/i3Pitbby6flngeb/anbrbeftAllgj.j.,^/^^3^^^3'^^ 
 
 j>erct^ar^e every wa acccrbin^c to f>)?u * bebee.t^erely 3 fa- fatlpan/ ano are rbe 
 yct>ntoi?ou/fonietI>cre bcamon0etbcmt^atbercftd^f/tp|)^ famewort^f vft^ia^ 
 ycbfM^ "<?« f^(f^ of i:>beetb/t;»lltb<y Oall |)Ape fcne i^c |o^ ^trifle fpakc xmo 
 nne of m«n come in i>ye Fy n^om/ v^f??!?" v^a" ^l 
 
 Fe Peter anb3amc^ anb3b^n ^^^e-b rotter/ flnb mai«in\var&e/ri?e 
 brou^b^ tbem vppe into an bye mcuntaj?ne out treeflpalbepterfei) 
 oftbetrare/anb vcae>tranefy^urc> before tbem. f^^^^^ ^^ ^* 
 Mb^ye{accbyt> fbrne aet^c fun/a nb by^ clotbe^tcere <*^ ^ jJ u <ru 
 wby^e aetbe ligbr.^Inb bebolbc tbere appiercb rnto tbemo:? h r^^^^'^*^^ 
 fee Anb belvae talFinge tritb bmi.^rben anfirereb peter/ anb S 5 mXAll n^^^ 
 faibcto3cru6:mafTer bereie goobbein^efcr t50.yf tboii wy:^ Oeerl^.^o.^. 
 Meet re maFe b^re iij.tabernadee/tt?on fortbe Anb wen for 
 mofee/anbtronforbcljrae. XVi^yllhi y^tt fp«Fc/beboIbe a 
 b:v0btcloubcfbabcn?eb tbem. ant lo arora* out of rbedou^ 
 be jA)?be:2'biei6nirbcare (onm/invc^dJtxUu/htAtz^im, 
 2nb wb^n tbcbifnplee berb t^at/tbty fell flatten tberr fa^ 
 cce/anb were fo?re Afraybe.21nb 3efue f Am an'b toue^e^ t^/ 
 
C!>e(5ofpdl,of 
 
 attb(aybe:aryfeanbbenoto(ravbe. ^^elyftct\}Cft^ppe t\^c^ 
 re eyc^/atib fatreno tmn/but3((ue only, 
 fE2fiiba^ ti)iycAm bourn fromti^smoimtaym /i)€ cb^irgfcb 
 tbcm faym^c/fct()ar yc(t)cvoetbyi^vy(iontono m<xn/ty!lt6e 
 fonnc of man bcryjcna^cync frombcctjj. 2(nb5iebifdpk$ 
 arcb of !>im/faym^e:tP(?y tl><^nfayctl?c (cvibc&f tt)Cit JRdyad 
 mnilc fytft comef3cfu0anftt)ercb/anb fayJ>cx?ntot!)em:l)C5 
 lya^ (])aHfyrf?comc/anbrcf?oreantf)i>)g(f,2(nb3ffiyc unto 
 yon/ti}iit \>dya&iecomc cdhtby: 2(nb t^ey Fnew?cl>>m nott/ 
 but bfii'P*^ bone vnro !;iin trbatjocrer t^cy Uifteb, 'Jn (yf circle 
 fbaU alfo tbe fofie of ma (ujifrc of tbcm. itl)c b»^ bi jcipke pcr^ 
 f ca veb/rbar be fpaFe vnro tjbem of 3f)on b aprift. 
 f[2lnb wben t j)y t»er come to yc pcople/tb ere ca to j>im a ccr^ 
 taynemart/anb fiielcb boune unto bint fayin0f:nuffer lyavt 
 mercy on my fonne/for be y& frantyFe/anbiefore \?ejLeb,i(rtb 
 oftetymci>faHctbin totbefyre/anbofte into tbe water/ anb 
 y biou^jjt \^im to t\>ybi^cipk^/ant> tbey coulbenot beafe bmi. 
 3efti6an|rpereb anb faybe. (D^eneracion faytb(ed/anb cro^ 
 Feb;boxt>e lon^e fball 3 be t»itb)^ouf b<5X»e lon^e (paU y ftifj 
 fer)^oufb:yn0ebim bybber tome,2(nb3^j»»^r^i'wfcb tbebci? 
 ryll/anb }>e cam out, ^nb ti)t cbylbe tr»ae bealeb ere tb^tfa^j 
 me boure, 
 
 G^TbcncAmbysbifcipIedfecretlyanb faybe:trj>ycoulbe not 
 tt>eca(ibimotit3e(ii6faiber>ntotbem/becao)e of yoiire t?n 
 belere.^02 3 f^y^ verely rntoyou/yfye b^b foytbe/ ae a^ra^^ 
 yne ofmiiflrabe \c€b/yc (l)ulbefayepntotby6 mountayne/rc^ 
 mere bence to yonber pface / anb be foiilbe remere; Hetbcr 
 Stronaefeytb ^^^^ fijulbecny tbingc bernpofpblcforyou tobo.But tbtt^fynbe/ 
 
 lejaibevntotb^/ 
 
 ^ rbonbe6ofmc/«nt> 
 
 Tttftcs vnquycf nott rf^ey fb^U f yll fyim/anb t\>t tbyrbe bAye b« fP^H ryfe acjeyne. 
 a mines ni^iioe. ^^b tbe^foroweb ^eatly, 
 
 ILlCDbcntbey were come tocapcrnaom,Cbey tb^t were tx»o^ 
 te to ^abbre poll mony /cam to peter Mxb (c^xbeibot}^ youre 
 maftcrpayetributt^be faybe/yc.2(nbtt>benberpa6come in 
 to tbe bcuffe/3cfwe (paFe fyrfl to l?im/fayin^e;tDl)attbyn^ll 
 
 62 
 
2«bar. ^i'^" fyntcniofxv^cm bo t{)c hn^^ of rN m^e tdPc trybutt/ 
 IT. orpoII^lc^cy::oft^crc4>vl^rc/crof|lralJn0fre1'Pcrcrfay^e 
 
 3tji.|n. rnrobimyof|iraiin0erf.5rbenfaibc3efiieto j)yni«0arnc» * .frc. IThouah 
 (Tbc ar tbetl^Wbrcn -k frct^crcrr^clctlclcf] t>pc |l)ulbc offcb< /Cl^nd uvrcfre yet 
 rbem/fi(o to tbc fee (inb caftc in ti>ym an^yil/ant tah rljc fyf^ g'*^^^ '?5 trYt^wre fci 
 f^etbat frrflc5mct^rppe:anbTrbcn tbou ^aft opcncb bi'e feovad!S'^n^'''*'i 
 ftiouti)/rbou fftalt fynbe Apecc cf jcq.pencc r^«r tafe anb pa^ frei aUrbrnit'^sD 
 f€ for nte anb tbe. ^ ^ r cy ny^ng to l^is n ^o 
 
 Ibf Um tvm x\]t utfripl^ isa^Ct;?. 
 
 cam to 3cfudfa)>in0e:tDbo ierfocgreatcffin tbc !j^''l^*/55''^^^T'^, 
 fyn0bemofbcre-3cfuecaIIebad)Hbepnto!>im/ ^^^^^^^^^^ wt«?«U 
 Afibfetbiniinrbe mybbf of tl)cm anbfaybe:t)cj; 
 cdy 3 fay evnto youATrccpte yt, tourne/ anb become ae ^iU 
 t>rc/y€ccinctcntrc m to t^c Fyn^bo of beve: wb^f^"**" ^b^ te* 
 fore ; fball fubmjrttbim (ylfiaetifye chylbe/be y& t^e 0rea* 
 teflintbef)rn0bom ofbcvcm 2tnb u?bofoc\jcr recearetb fu^ 
 2Jbar. ^^ ^ cbylbe in mj? name / receavetb me . But T»bcfoet?er 
 ix! offcnbe wone oftbcfelytcIlond/iDbicb bclcvc m me;irtrere 
 24Ujrvt| better for bmi /tbat amyllffonc u'ere b*ingjcb aboiite by* 
 necFe/anb tbatb^ trerebrounebintbcbeptb of tbe fee. Wo 
 be rnto tbe worlbe be caufc of zvyll occafionij. 3*^ »* neccf=s 
 fary tbat eryll occafibno begercn/nexxrtbt'lcffetrobe totbaf 
 man/by t»bom ecyli occa|ion cdm€tf>,XV^crfov€ yft^y bo^ 
 nbe/ortby fote/^cretbe an occafion of erylhcur bmi off/ 
 M'b cafi b»m from tbe.^fj't ie better fortbetoentrc into lya 
 febalt or may meb/ratbertb en tbou fbnibcfl barin0e.tj.bv>* 
 bee or.tj.fcte/becafieintoeverlaf?in0cfyre.2inb yfalfo tby^ 
 ne eye offenb tbe/plucf e bini out an^ cafl bim from tbe.it io 
 Zii.rv. bctcr for tbe /to tntrein tolyfe witbwcneye/tbem barm^e 
 if.cyeetobccafteinto bellfyre. 
 
 C^etbatyebefpifenottron oftbefelityllwone. yor3(a:5 
 yerntoyou/tbat in beretbere an^ebbebofbctbefaccot my 
 fatber/tt»bid> ie i bet»c. ye An\> tbe fone of ma ie come to fat>e 
 t^at vo\)id)i&lop<,^ovc(t^ynhye .^fa ma b*»b an bobre^ 
 
 A3 
 
^5? anb nyjtc in tl)c momayne^ / aitb^jo anb fc f c t{)At wo trfjicJ? 
 ie ^one afirayc:!yf ^it ^appet^at ^c ffnbe him/ verelf 3 faye 
 pnro ^ou/hcrcioyfa^ more of tj)at (T)cpe/r|)eof t^c nynty anb 
 nyrte/t»J)i4? went nott a|Tra)?e.5Ex?en |b tilt ie nott t^c wjrll cff 
 yourc farl^cr in f>ex?en / tf)«t tpon off t^i& little xoono ftulbe 
 fcrifjje. 
 
 (E iTTore over yftl}y brorbcr trefp<i6 ayenfi t^e. (5o anb rcU 
 !)im ^i6 faut bittrcne t)im anb tbc alone.yf !>c ()e«rc t^e/t!?ou 
 ^A-fItt?cnetl;)?brotber:bnttifl)e|>earet|)enort t^cntafctpitb 
 t^e i.or.ij.t^^itin t\}s mout^ cf ii*orAq.wixmf[c&/ all fayin^f 
 maycflonbc. yf^ebearenot tj)em/teIl{)itt?ntot^e cd0rc0a^ 
 cion.)(>fbeI)care nott t^e con^re^acion/taFe ^im ae an ^etljen 
 m an anb ae a pnbliun. t>erel)? 3 fa)? e rnto yon tDf>arfo ever 
 
 *berc all bynbeanb y^^y^^"^^ on ert!)/f^albebo«nbein^eren» ^nbtr^atfoevcr 
 
 loto fc. ye lofe on erti>/|^aibcIo(cb in f>eren, 
 
 |[2i^ayn 3 fay e vnto yon t!>at if ii of yoo f f>an a^e m ertj) 
 ineny manert{)in0e t»l>ar foerer t^cyfpall bcfyrc : i^itfpdU 
 ^event^emofmyfabertp^ie^isin j>even. ^ortr^ercij onij 
 are £(abbreb to ^ybber in my name/tl>cre am 3 tn t^c mybbf 
 cfft^cm. 
 
 ILC^cn cam peter to ^im/anb faybe:maficr / j)0tre oftc ff)all 
 my brotber trefpa^ a^cynf! mc/m'!> 3 n>^W forycre l;ym; 
 (bfcdl 3 former e {>im rtj^tymee^ 3^f"^ f^y^ t^nto Ijim: 3 (^^T^ 
 not vnto tl^evrj^tymt^tbut fcvynty tymc^ fcryn tymee.S'l^ere 
 fore iet^efyn^bom of (>c\?enIyFncbrntoa artaym Fyn^e/ 
 taj&ic^ wolbctaFe a coimrf of l)i0 fcrvavntf/ anb xvl)c l>e i^ab 
 bi^mto rerfen/t»onwa6brou0^tpnro^im/w^id> on^l)t 
 i}\mtcn tl)Oufanbe talcmtf ;butTOlK"^<^^^bnougf>t topa^ 
 yc/t^c lorbe comaimbeb l)im to be (olbe/anb ^ie tryffe / anb 
 {)i0 cbilbrcn : an'b all t^ at |)e h^a'^ / anb payment to be mabe. 
 C^efervauntfcllboune anbbefon^^t^im fayin^e: 0yr/ye^ 
 vc mere(pytc/anb 3 o?)^n payc^it every vcifyt, il)m ^abtbe 
 loibe py>ttc on t^e (crraunt/anb lowfcb l)im an':^ forgave t)tm 
 tjjebetr^ 
 
 G;2^«r<ifne ferraunt went out anb founbe tvoneof ()i£> felc^ 
 tt>e^/w^ict?oti0l)t|)imanl)unbreb pmc€, Zn'bky'bc l;onbf 
 
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 So.xp* 
 
 en !>ym/«nb to Fc l>i b^ t j)e ttrootc/fayin^c: paye rbftt tj^ou 0^ 
 xrc|l.2Iiit> ^i& fclotrcfcllboune/anb bcfoughtbf^K^T^ng^* 
 l^&vcpAcicnccwit^ m<c/avit>3wy\[ pays ti}€ all.anb ^e t»oltf 
 ^c not/but u?fmanbcafr(?im into prefon/ryll bf fhuIbcpAj^c 
 t^c bet. tP^cnbie otbcr felottJcefatpe wb^Jttcae bone /tbff 
 trcrcrcry fory/anbca ttclbcrnto tbcrclorbc alltbaf bftb 
 ^(Xpcncb.JbetbcIorbecaUcb^vm/anbfatbc vntohyw,(0 v^ 
 »)>urerx)fturtr/3for0apctbeaU t{)atbct/bc cauff tboupra)^^ 
 bcflme: Q^aeitnotmcrealfo/tbat tboun^uIbcftpAvcbab^ 
 be compafllcn no t h)> fclotre/c pen ae 3 ^b p)?ttc on t^ii anb 
 bi^lorbe tras wrootb/ anbbcly crcb \ym to t^ijoyltre /tpH 
 be (l)ulbe pare all tbat traebue re b^wt. 0ol)?fe wyfe fl)an 
 youre bc>?«ttlr fatbcr bo rnto ^ou/^fyc tt»)?U not for^eve u?ub 
 yourebcrttf/eacbetron to bi^brorbcrtberetrefpafcd* 
 
 €i}tm*€U}^m. 
 
 
 iBU tii« folomttijohm Jttm 
 
 b<tbbefi?ny(Tbcbe tbofefAyin^f/be gxthym from 
 ^alik/anb ca in to t\)c ccoftf of ietrry berSbe 3oi^ 
 ^a/diib mocbe people folotr cb bitti/anb ^c^talyt 
 tbctii tbcare. 
 
 C^b^ncani t?nto bimtbe pbanfee to temptc brttt/anb (Aibt 
 
 to brmryehitlawfijU for a mctn to ptitt a wayc l)iBwyf€ for 
 
 all manerof caufeef ^e anftrereb/anb faybe rnto t^e^i^ave 
 
 yt not rebbe/botre tb« be trbic^ mftbc ma at t^c be^ynnyn^ 
 
 0e/mabe tbem man anb tromanif anb faibe:for t^y& tbin^c/ 
 
 (Bene.i. ft^ail a ma Icve fatbcr ^"^ mother / anb ckvc rnto by&wj^fc/ 
 
 am> q. finb tbey rtrayne (^albe iron fteffbctPb^rforc not»c arc tifiy 
 
 not tirafnc/biitu?5flc(Tbe.£etnot man therefore put afuns: 
 
 ^^yj ber/rbattrbicbcjobbatbcuppleb to ^ybber.vEbcn faybe tbe^ 
 
 x):i\i(J^^y^^'^hy^y'^ mofee comaimbe to^cve untobcr atcfh:? 
 
 moniaUofbirorfmet/ anb to put ber a iraye^f In((ar'^c rnto 
 
 theimofeebecaufcoftbe -k b^rbnee ofj^oure bcrttf fuffrcb 
 
 7011 to pur atpay^e jpoure try reerBut from tbe be^jr nnvn^e bit 
 
 WA6 not fo. 3 Cf^y^ tbereforc rnto you/irbofoercrputtctb 
 
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 *2^arbne6.Xa wed 
 pmirt 7 fuffcr manf 
 ri?fngf/roaretbca 
 woifTc fconrenfencf 
 op^i'cl? so^ vuili iu^ 
 tJgcipuiitntc. 
 
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(mother/ breafett) tPcblocFc^ ^nbtDbofoeper marict|> [>er 
 i»J)id> Id bttjorfcb/ boti) corny t abvourry, 
 dCbc fpaFe ftb bifciplce to ^ini:)>f tj)c matter ^e fo betnjcfie, 
 ma anb xr)7ffe/t|>cn ye it not^cob to mAry..f5cfaibe rnto tl)e; 
 afl mm cannot atpaye t»it^ t^at (ayin0e:butt j)cy to txjfjcm 
 It i60eve.t|)ere are 4)afce/trt>id> were fo borne out oftf?e mo* 
 ^STelveeXfee tl?^ rf>fre 6eny.2(nb tbereare e^afte/tcj>i<l> be mabe cl>afle of nic. 
 r^Dc f fjaftire mufte 2(nb tl?cre be d}Afl€/xx>l>id> ^axre mabe t|)e -k fe bee ^afu for 
 be gofliY vnOcrftoD t^e Fy n^bom of f)epee faFe.^c t5)at ca tah it ktt ^m tah it. ^ 
 teSated^ C2:^en r^cre bro«0j,ttol;ym yongfc .^yibrcnMar be fm.U>e |V^ 
 
 witl? t^e fecotiDe/ 3^f"^frvbe pntotbemjfuffret^e d;ylbrc /anb forbib r{)e not 
 yobic\} is ourwan>e to come to me/for rnto fuclSe belon^erb tbe fyngbo of beven, 
 Itlicfuiltie 2(nbtpJ)en be ^ab put I? iebonb-f on tbe/bebepartebtbence» 
 
 C.'^intf be^olbewoca/anbfaibe x>nto^im;0oobma(!er/a»{)At 
 (:>i5oo&e.^0j€b//^^^^^'^^fi>^^^3^^/^^*^3mayebapeeternaUl)>fef^cfa 
 rid fpeakerf? '^o.vij ^c t)ntb ^im; vo^y culkfi tbou me C^ gcobf t^ ere ie> none ^a>b luc.jrt>iij. 
 m^Doctnne^enott b«ttro/anbtbattd^ob»Buttt[)ou wilt entre in to lyfe/Fepe 
 m)f D£ttrme/c<'enro tbecomaimbme"tf.|5efaibe:tPbJ<*^2rnb 3^fii^ faibetthou 
 notac^r>%lh^^^ jpalt not FylUboiijb aft not brcafe webroocFe, tbou fbaltnot 
 kerl? of bi^l?innan^ !tefe;tboiifi)altnot bere falce trirnc6,l;onoure t^y farber anb 
 ite/x»l?erexpit[?^e motbcnanbtbou|])a!tlorc t}}p\t ne0bboMr adtby(yife:tf)e 
 ever lee&etf? v^too yon^emanfaybex>nto^)?m;3P^^^<^5f^^^^^l^^^^r'^ tbin^f 
 S<>^' f^om myyut^/tt>^atl)at?evmorctobo;3eruefarbvntobnti: 
 
 'i'.'tscrfcctneeiepp^^ yf tbou wyft be ^ perfecte/ j|ooanb(ent{>attbouj)afl/ anX> 
 eri^ tl?e kepjnge of ^^^^ ^^ t^ {he porrc/anb tboufDaltbape treafure in bcvc/anb 
 therVotTbTJpv^^^^ ^^"^^^^^ folotteme: tr^ent!>e^o^enta{)erbetbatfayin0e/ 
 rerb cvtoentlv /tf?ar ^c t»cnt avoa^pt momyn^e.for Ijc l>at> Create poffeffione. 
 tfyi man l?abbe not CS^fw^f^^^^^ct^envnto ^iebifcipkeiVivd^ 3faye rnto )?oii 
 fulfillcD goDt)f 6 ca^ a rydre man f^alf tritb biffrculte cntre into tf)e fyn0t>om of 
 maunbemcttgrou// j)cvcn.2(nb moreover 3 fayevnto you: itid eafycrfora ca^ 
 T^^V^^X'u^iSfi n^«'^ f^ 0ot{>rou0|)t|>ceyeofanebfe/tf>en for ary^jc ma to 
 bfur^^^&bc ^^^^^ '"f^^N l^yn^bomof bcpen-tPbenbyebifcipIedbcrbe 
 pntrefbf(>:tbevnco tbat/tbeyweree;:cebin0l)^amafeb/fayin0e:Trbot|)cn canbe 
 b^mf cberigbt \»o^ fareb^3ffu6 bc()dbetbem/anbfaybe»ntot|)em :mtj) men 
 2keolfrbecomaut); tl;je)7ernpo(fyble/butwitl)0oballtl)in0f arepoffyble* 
 
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 S.iJTAtbciD. Jo.xrii 
 
 "ifi^ar.r.C^be" anj wcr€bpercr/an^fa^^ctol>>♦m:Be!>oI^c tt»el)rt^. 
 
 lu.jruiiij. ucforfaFcnall/anb bare foIoxDeb the; trhat ftalf i»c have »Tic"t/flnbuib0rt(^ 
 
 *^ri?'''"^''f ^r^^rr^^'^ 3fa).emto^o«/rf>at J^JI.rcVl^tv''^^ 
 
 ycAroto? f>ax)c folotrifb mem tpcfccoi ibe gcncrocion C tcj^cn of x»l?ore nob:r rl?ie 
 
 t^€ fcmit off matt ft)aU fyt in tl)C fearc of f)b mai.f^O 0!)*^ Tongc ma wap/m 
 
 (vtolfo pppofi rt.fearf/anb iub0etl)ert.tiT6f of ifraM. fbAllaiUl?crbcrafe 
 
 3nbtD^ofoet>crforfafctHo»iflrc/o:bret{)rert/orfF((cr0/otbcr ^"^^ Rfp<^go^f co// 
 
 farbcr/ormotl)cr/orTryfc/ord>j;lbrcn/orIypcIob/ form|^ mauncmcnrf. 
 namcefaFe/t^e famefjDall rcccarc an^unbrcbfoofoc/ anb 
 (^oll m^cr)^: epcrla/lm0? I)>fc, Wan^ t^atU fyvfi/ft>a\bt laf! 
 anb tt^i la/^e/fhalbc fyrf?, 
 
 (Dt rfif Kpitgtom of fittjot t'0 
 
 rarbc.2lnb Ijcagreeb wrtj) t{)claborcrf for apc^ Sciexpee/tif.ia (^. 
 ny abayc/ Ciw> fcnt tF)c in ro bye p yrt j^arbe . 2f nb he rret oitt ^qaa rf/iii . at r afrcr 
 aboutc t()e tl)irb b^"»*<^/^rtb fat»c other (lonbin^c yble in rb^ '^'"5 ^^^'^ T* ^^.'^ 
 mftrFerplacc/anbfaiberntotj;em:0o)>eaIfointomjr pync tntbtbctn/aovue 
 yarbe /anb «»b<^ffo«v^r V^n^bt/ 3 wyl I^cve>^ou.anb tbey ^^^"^^^* 
 wa)ttl}crcway€. Z^aync \)i wint onr about tbe vi. anbii:. 
 i>ourc/anb t>yb lyF tpy fe. 3nb be went out about tl)c elcrcntb 
 ^oure anbfounbc otbcr flonbin^eybcK/anbfaibcpnro tbcm 
 iPbyf^onbeycbcrc alltbcbayeybd^tbcyfaibf vtxto ^pn;bc 
 catifc no man batb b^f eb v&.^i. (aibe to them: ^oyc alfo in 
 to my vyn€ycivb€/ant>wl^at(oiVir^a\b€ry^\)t/tl)ati!i)aU 
 yereccavc. 
 
 C[tPb«" cvtnvoae come/tbdorbc oftbevyneyarbe / foibe 
 imtobt6|Ictrarbe:caU tbeloborerf /anb^ctb«m thereby* 
 rc/becjynnyn^e atttbelafltyllrbou comcto tl)C fyrft. 'Znb 
 tbey xrbicb trcre b^f^b about tbe.;ti.bourc/cam anb recea* 
 peberery man a pcny, STbcm cam tbc f)?r(i/fuf pofmgc that 
 tl^cy fl)u(bc receapc more/anbtheylyFe opije reccareb every 
 man a peny. 2Inb trben tbey l)a'b rcceavcb hit/tbey ^rub* 
 0eb a0aynfl tbe gcob man o(f ti)e bcwflc/faymge ; ^^b^f^ 
 
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trf)C0ofpdIof 
 
 laflc ^a\?e wro0!)t but won f)oiire/anb tbdu i>d|le m^c tbctn 
 cquallpnroPd w^td>bapcboomct!)c tiirt^cn anb bcaucf 
 Bvtbidftmilinit)e tf>cb<iyc, 
 
 no'fiiiSefSt ^^' *"<'^'*'^^ ^^ ^^^ Of tl>em/ra)^m0!)e;frenbc 3 bo tf)c no 
 
 vctferbroxpabottt/ «)**cnc(e.b)?befltl)ciinota0rcx»it{)mefcrapenK C^FctM 
 
 biicfil one tf?vng CO W)|)»d?i6tl))?buric/«iib0ot|)yto<i)»c, 3wj?U0crerntotf)yd 
 
 tefncoitljefumlir^ lafle/afmocbc aeto rf)e.y6 itnorlatofuUfor mctobo Asme 
 
 ut)c.S0f I?i6 lose pa Iyfiet() / tritl? mync awnc^ ye rl»'ne eye cvyU be canfc 3 Am 
 
 rte'^K formally are caUeb/anbM^ ...... X^^arr 
 
 fc weeke fvnners/ C:3nb3cruearccnbebtof)icruraie/anbtcFetf)e;:i|.bifciplc6 r^, " jf 
 
 xrl?/ef?ramexii>erftc apArremtf)eix>aye/anbfaibcro t)?cfn:[o tx>e ^o rppc to bic^ '' 
 
 l?olv (hall not rl?ere rufAkm/artbt!)e fonne of man fpalbe befrayeb rnro tbc Ae^^ 
 
 afrbc&X'^' fepreftf AnbrntotN fcrybf/anbtby f^aH conbempne J»mi 
 
 ineffrftetavc Ijerc tobet|)/4nb ^dlbelyrcr j)yfn totf>e0entyle/to be mocfcb/ 
 
 butt ftjalbc rciccte x ro be fcour^eb / anb to be aucifieb : anb rl>c iq. b^iyc [?e ff)aU 
 
 pur awflt^/ becau<> ry|e a0ayne. 
 
 rerl?cvftalenge(?ic ^^cncam to J>ymr{)cmot{)erof5cbebei6 d>ylbrc tcitl) !)cr 
 
 mrwT<^afff^ ronc6/tPot#yppf0ej>imAbefiri0eaceitaynet;)in0ccf!)im, 
 
 *^ ^ * {)efaibepntob«r:n)l)atwyltrboul)arc^9l>cfaibevnroj)im: 
 
 0i*aunre tl)attbefe my troo fcimcs mayefw/voon on tf)y ri^ 
 
 0f>t bonbe/anb t()e otl)cr on t^y Itfte bonbe in t})y fyngbom, 
 
 3cfu6 anfn?ereb/« faibe: ye tt>ot not trfcat ye ajce.2(re ye able 
 
 4^ The cttppc fi^iYi ^^ ^""^^ ^f^^^ -Kcuppe tbat 3 fb ^U brife off3nb to be bapty^^ 
 
 ctb fi^ccroflez-zru// fcbtwt!)tf)ebaptim/tbftt3 fbalbe baptyfcb tritl)* ^T^cy an^s 
 
 ffcryng.bur rl?c f le// ftpereb to \)^mtthCit voc are. ^e fatbe wnto tl^int: ye fOaU bri:s 
 
 Jbc woloe be glon-^ ^f ^ of my cuppchnt> fbalbe baptyfcb vpit^ tf>e baptim r|>at 
 
 {If 74'oteS^^ 3fbalbe,baptyreb trnf) all. But to fyt on my rygjjt ^onbe/or 
 
 teb t Iif te vp an l?y c ^" "^^ ^^f^^ ^onbc/y6 not myne to y eve you; but to t Nni for 
 
 Vertf2fC9ftOcttne. trbomytie prepay reb of my fatl>er. 
 
 C2inb 
 
 ie^ar.r. 
 
 !inbtpbctf)ejt:.{)erbetf)i6/tf)eybefbayneb atttbeij.brctJj^ T^.rrn! 
 rcn.But3«ru^f<in^b*^^cm t)ntobym/anbfaibe:ycFnowe/ ^* 
 t^Attbe lorbf of tl)c 0entyl5 jji^pebominadon orer tf)e/2f nb 
 t^cytbatare 0reate/ejterdfe potrcr orertfjcnt, ytfbailnott 
 be fo amon^e you:Butt»l)ofoet>er tcylbe Create amo^c you/ 
 let buttbeyouremiftcr/anb n>bofoevertrylbcd>efc/kttbym 
 beyourc fcrvannt. ^vw ae t(>e fcnnc cf man cam/not to be 
 
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mlftrcb viito/bunomiii!Pcr;ant>to^re j?)?6l)?fcfcrt!)<rc^ •^c^emc/lelro^d^// 
 ^cmpcio^^ of many. vcr out off boiioagc 
 
 r^ II2in^ as r{)C)? ^cprtrtc^ from f)icrtco/mod?c people foIotrc6 
 
 *'**^''^ ri;cy^cr^e/tj)at3cfu6pafrc^by/cryc^fapnge: i11«ftcrtbe ^-'^^^^^ ^^J^^^^^ 
 
 nne or c>ftuiD.(Lpe jcjue ifooc rryu/ano caueo rpcm/^nu ,«.. j^y.^^ off (;oo/wl?i^ 
 
 b<:Trf)ar tpyll )rct{)at 3 |^AlI^o to yQUit}}iy fiMbcrnropym: ^^^fljuloe come ano 
 
 maf?cr/t!)atourtcred mare beopencb.3efii6peryebt|)c/anb rcDcine ifrafjcll/foJ 
 
 to^d>e^therecyc^,anbinme^iatI)? there cyeereceave^frcbr; itwa0 4?iTi|rcor^ut 
 
 Wt!)c)^ foloieb f^ vm. ^Ic'nr "'^ 
 
 3!?o.)cq. 
 
 ilbm tlifi; tixmt tm onto fri^ 
 
 erufalatt/anbtrere come to betpj)a0e/rnro mc^ 
 unteoUx)ete/tI)efcnt3er«6ij. of bi^tufdplce/fa^ 
 )rin^etotbcm:C5oinfotf)etounc that iyaI>or€r 
 
 a^aynflc you/anb anonyc ff)all fynbe an afle bownbe/anb 5)e»* 
 colttwitj) F>er/lofe t^cm an'b btyngt them vnto me. :hnb if ei= 
 nyttxan faye ou0l)tx)ntoyou/fayeye tI)fltyoiirema|icr^atb 
 neabe of tl>em/anbflrey0l)ttraye^etryII IettI)e0o.21IIr!>yd 
 . iras bonne/to fDlfyIltl)atrpbicbtra6fpoFcn by t^c prophet/ 
 pea. ir. fft^in0e:tellye the boiigj)ter of (ion;be^olbc tr)y fynge cdtnet^ 
 rntotI)emerc/fyttin0c x^ppd an affe anb acoltc/tbc fcolc of an 
 a(]e rfcb to tl>t ycoh,^}}( bifcipke tret/anbbyb ae 3cfn£> cd^ 
 maunbeb tbem/anb brought tf)e affc anb tf)c colte / anb pot 
 on the there dothee/anb fet^)7mt!)ercon.iTlanyofthepcoi; 
 pic fprcebtF)ere ^armettf in tl)e t»aye . otf)er cut bonne bio^ 
 n&fie from tj)e treee/ anb (iraweb them in the toaye.i^ore^ 
 opcrt^epcopfethatrret before/t they alfo that CiTflflcrcryeb r> Jbofiamt/iefi^^ 
 fayin0c;{::> J)ofianatoti)e fonneofbauib. BIrtrebbet)etbat T?!^ ''f [^ g ^^^J 
 commeth m the name of tlje Iorbc/|)o(ianna in t\>(hytft. g^ucKe 7 fee^lrl?. 
 CT^nb xi>I)en l)e voao come in to ^ierwfaUm/ail tl)(dt€ wao 
 
2j>c(I5o(pcUof 
 
 Scfuerbc prophet of nojarctF) a dt« of 0alik/2tftb 3cfiie tx»c^ 
 fn to rbc tcmpk of cjob / ant> cafic out all t\^e i^at bought <inb 
 fol^c in tl>€ temple/ 2irtbot?ertl)rewtl)e taMc6oftl)c mon^ 
 ci>aun^ard/anb t{)c featf oft j)^ tl) at (blbc box)C5. 3 nb fatbe to 
 t^?ntt6ix>rittcn/m)^ne^oufl|c f^albccaftcbtf>cl)oiiffcofp:a:= . 
 yer/but)rc|)avcmabcitabefioftbet>ce.2(iibt?)c Mynbe anb ^'^^'^ 
 t^e|>alt ca to ^ym mt^ctcmpk /anb f)c^eakb tf>ertt . 
 f[tPF)entbe d)cfe precflf anbfcribee jatretbe nmnjeyUce 
 tl)atf)cbyb/anbtj)e4>ylbrcn cryin0cmtl>c tcmpkanb fay^j 
 in^e/jjofiannft to tf^efonnc of bauib/tjjey bc(bayficb/anb fay=: 
 bcwtof)ym:f?ercf{t^>ouwl^attbe(c(aycf 3cfiid faibe vnto . ,.. 
 t\)zm ; \><ivc ye itet>errecb/oft|)emout{>ofbabbf anb fticFc::^ pwl.\)ti| 
 lin^ tbou \)^ih orbeneb pra)>(e^^nb f)e Ie(ie t|^em/anb went 
 out of tf; e cite vnto bttf}My/Mib paffeb t!>e tymt t})€re. 
 €[3nt^c moriiyn0e oe ^e retameb intotbe cite a^eyne /^)e 2%av. 
 l)uucjrcb/anbfpycb a fy^^ tree in t()€ wayc/onb ca to it/anb jr i. 
 fcunbenotbtnj0ctl?ereon/butkvedon(y/Anbfatbtoit/nex)er 
 fhitc^rowcvntj)cbcnce forworbf. 2(nbandtl^e fy^^etrce 
 wybbrcbatuaye. 2Inb t»^el)y6bifciple6 fau>e t^at/ c^ey mar 
 t^elkbfayini^: ^on>e(conci6tl)efy00erreetsc?ybbreb axo<^^ 
 yef3«fu6anfti?ereb/anbfaibetmtotf)em: Verdyjfxytvnto 
 you/yf yc fr)alH)are faitb/anb fl)all not bout/y c (l>all not on? 
 Kr bo t^ttD{>id)y b^TPcboneto tf)efy0^e tree ; bnralfo yf ye 
 (poJlfayexmrot^bmoimtayite/tafet^yfiffeawayc/anbcalJ 
 tl>y felfe in to t^e fee/itf|)a[beborte.2(nb t»bat foever tfj i^e yc 
 fJDall axe in youre prayere y fye belevc/ye fl[)afl receai>e btr» ^ 
 C:2(nb when be wae come intotfee tempk/tbe4>efe preeflf ri j^^^' 
 H^efeniorf of tf)c peopk ca rntobym aebewaeieadjyn^c/^^uc.jcx, 
 ortbfaibeiby to[>at aiiftoriteboefitbontf>efet^r^fanbtx>|)0 
 0CiXf€thiti)ie powers 3«f"* anftrereb/anb faibc vnto t(>e 1 3 
 alfo t»yU ajce of you c^ctrtAynt qneftio/wljjid^ yfye afoyk me/ 
 y in ly te wyfc wyll tcUyou by wfyatanctoriu 3 bo t^efe tf}in^ 
 0f .u>|)cncerpad t^e boptt of3bc>nffromberen/or ofmcn^ 
 2tnb t^cy tf)OU0l)t in t^e febe^/fayin^etyf roe fr>aU fay e/from 
 bepf/{>c wyllfaye vnto ve: w^y bybyenottl)em bekrc ^im:f 
 bntanbyfwi f!>a(irayeofm?/ tf>en fearewet^epeople* Jor 
 
 60 
 
allmert belbe Jt^cn ad a prop\}iU Znt> tJK)? anrtt?crcb3crud/ 
 aii^ fai^e:wc cannottell. ^e tyf c royfc faiDc wto tl??; ruf j>cr 
 rcll 3 ro" l')^ ^'^b^i^ auctonrc 3 ^o tl)cfc tbin^.tTor fare yt to 
 t^y&Ya f crraj^nc ma bab q.jbrmee/afib ca to tI^ecl^cr (ayw^c: 
 00 dnt> w>orf e toba)?c in my vvm )>arbc» j>e an ft»crc^ anb fa^ 
 y2)/3 wyli rtor:but aflerttarbe repcnreb anb U5<nt.?r()cnf am 
 fjc to t{)e fcronbe/ anbfoibc lj>Fc TOijc/onb ^>c anftrcrcb 7 fay^ 
 ^c;3wyW(yr♦7Ct trcm^e not.ti?l?ybbcr of t^cfeij. fiilffllct) 
 H)<re fatF)cr6 wyllf Znt> tl^cy faibt wnto j)jrm/tl)c fyrf?.3^fud 
 faibe mto tf)cm:rerelyy fayc vnt03?cu/t^att^c puhhcae onb 
 tbe!)arlctff{)aJlccmciiTtot^cf)rn£rbCfnof0ob before you.* ^ Stonraugi^ttte 
 ^Or3h^fi^^ntvntoy0u/mtf)cvoaytcfvigt)Uvo((m&/Cinbyt vci^wavevnto n-'/ 
 bcla»ebl))rm not^ntd^epuMicaeanbtbetcbcpre^bcIcrcb gI?tnrern«:5^ojf^e 
 ^Vrn.£ut^c (tl)ou^J)^e fcwc it)vett»crenottmopeb wit}} ljM^'!^'^*^t!i^'^^**^v 
 repcfiraunce/tJ)arycm>^^f)tafterwarbe{)ape5eIevcb jjjmi. X'/aTbi^'J!f"n 
 m>ar. C /5«*'f^n anot()er fimilirubc. 5!^ere trae a certayne bouf? nghtexrcfnee/ an& 
 xif. l)olber/n?!>j»d>fctA P)?ricvarbe/arib^<b^ebirrounbe obcm/ Drive mcvnroiCt// 
 'Zucri. Aftb mobea pvnpreffcmit/anbbvlte atoxtjcr/anbktcitout nfl/fofehetrucng^ 
 to (?o(banbmen / anb went in to a firaun^e countre, Zrib "^^ obrmicM^ 
 i»bcntf>etymeoftI)c frutebretrencare/Ije fent fjie ferra^^ h«ebLuoc. 
 untf to the ()ufbanbmc/toreceaT>etl?efnJtj'ofit/aiib t^c |)«f= 
 banbmencaii0l?t!>ie(ctuauntf / atib bettrcn/FyllebaitOi^ 
 xhtv/ florKb anotj>cr. 2l0ayne ^e fcnt ot[)cr ferrauntf mco 
 t^entl)ef))r(^/anb tj^cyferrebt^cmlyfe tcyfe. But lafloff 
 all/l)efcntrmo tl)cm()y6 atcnefonne/fa)>ir^c:t()e)?tx>j?Ufe:? 
 arcmj!>(bnrte» DObmtbcl)ufbatibmcn fatreI)V6fomie/t^cy 
 {aybe artion0c t[)cm fdvt&tZl^ye ye t^cf)eyre/comc on lett 
 w fyUl)\m /anb Utt ve taFc l)ye in^crytauncc / tooure fel:: 
 PC6. 2nbtf)C)^ cau0!)rbymanbtbrupb)?mouto(ftl)e ryss 
 ne3(>arb< / anb n>Ietpc ^rm. tr{>cfi ti)z lorbe off t^e rv^ 
 ncyarbccommet^ : xv^atwyW f)ebo trit^tbofe piwbanb^ 
 ttirnr C?jey(aybe unto J»?m;bet»)^II ei>i?IJ bcftroyc tl^ofee;: 
 rfllperfone/onbtpyn letoirtl))^^ ryne^^arbc rntoor()ir ^ufi? 
 baiibiTJcn / xvl^yd} j^oll bclyvzr ^ym f>)?e frut^ art tyoice c^^ 
 Dcnicnt. 
 pfal. ir3ef"dfaiberrttotJjcm;b^byencrcrre€be int^cfcripturf/ 
 ctPij- tj)efame /lonctvI?id;t^ebylbcr6 r<fuf<b/ia feti ti}cpnncy> 
 
 ex 
 
pall parte of ifyc comer, t^ie roae t{>e lorbed bom^cUn^ ft ^5 
 
 mtvvdou^ in ourc eyce, C!)erfore faye 3 '^nfo yon/tlKfjrri^^ 
 
 bom of c|ot> ft)albc taFcrt fromyou/anb fpalbc ^cpeto t{)e 0c^ 
 
 r)rl6 w{)id> ft>anbryn£fc forti) tbe frutce of it. '2int> wf)ofocvcr 
 
 ■K^ll^U mud fall f^all * fall on tl>jr6 (ro?u/ft)albe alto broKti. 2(nb wl)ofoc vcr 
 
 c: fl-oble at Cl?nft/ t{>ie flonb f^cdl fall oppon/[)c n)all ^rynbe l)pn to potobcr. 
 
 rome cort?ercralv/ 2tfibwj)en t|>c<^efeprcefifaftbp^ar>fce^crbcl)it>fi'miliru^ 
 
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