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Presented by
John Petheram, Esq.
1845

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HAY ANY WORKE FOR COOPER

A REPLY

"ADMONITION TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND."

BY
MARTIN MAR-PRELATE.

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WITH
AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.

LONDON:
JOHN PETHERAM, 71, CHANCERY LANE.
1845.

INTRODUCTION.

"Have you any work for John Cooper" appears to
have been one of the cries of London, according to a
print in that scarce and curious volume, "Tempesta's
Cries of London," folio 1711.
There are two or three allusions in the present Tract
to its author, wliich, though they afford us no means of
judging who he was, will satisfy us that he was the author
also of the " Epistle" and the " Epitome." " I haue onely
published a Pistle, and a Pitomie, wherein also I graunt
that I did reasonably Pistle them," says he at p. GO ;
and again atp. 41, " lam alone. No man vnder heauen
is priuy, or hath bin priuie vnto my writings against
you, I vsed the aduise of non therein. You haue and
do suspect diuers, as master Paggett, master Wiggington,
master Udali, and master Penri, &c. to make Martin."
It has been inferred, with very great probability, that
John Penri was the author of the Epistle, and it is
remarkable that the author here puts Penri last, against

1V INTRODUCTION.
whom and Udall a much stronger suspicion existed than
against Eusebius Paget and Giles Wiggington.
The " More Work for Cooper," so often referred to,
was never wholly printed, for it was during the printing
of it that thc press was seized, together with several
unfinished pamphlets, and tlie persons engaged on it ;
but whether' the whole work exists in any form is very
doubtful. The original of the present Tract is in black letter,
altogether consisting of 58 pages. It was, without
doubt, printed with the same types as those used for
the Epistle and the Epitome; and the date of publication
may be referred, with some degree of certainty, to the
earlier part of the year 1589, because he speaks in the
beginning of the pursuivants who were sent about the
country to seek for him, which was towards the latter
end of the year 1588, and a little further on he says,
" I loue not the ayre ofthe Clinke or Gatehouse in this
colde time of Winter."

J. P.

London, February 10, 1845.

My anp toorfce Cor Cooper?
Or a briefe Pistle directed by Waye of an
hublication to the reverende Byshopps, counselling them,
if they will needs be barrelled vp, for feare of smelling
in the nostrels of her Maiestie and the State, that they would
vse the aduise of reuerend Martin, for the prouiding of their
Cooper. Because the reuerend T. C. (by which misticall '
letters, is vnderstood, eyther the bounsing Parson of
Eastmeane, or Tom Coakes his Chaplaine)
[hath shrived himselfe in his late Admo
nition to the people of England]
to bee an vnskilfull
and a beceylfull
tubtrimmer.

Wherein worthy Martin quits himselfe like a man
I warrant you, in the modest defence of his selfe and hia
learned Pistles, and makes the Coopers hoopes
to flye off, and the Bishops Tubs to
leake out of all crye.

Penned and compiled by Martin the Metropolitane.

Printed in Europe, not far from some
of the Bounsing Priestes.

A man of Worshipp, to the men of Worship,
that is, Martin Marprelate gentleman, Primate, and
Metropolitane of all the Martins whersoeuer. To
tlie Iohn of al the sir Iohns, and to the rest of the
terrible priests : saith have among you once againe
my cleargie masters. For
O brethren, there is such a deale of loue growne of
late I perceiue, betweene you and me, that although I
would be negligent in sending my Pistles vnto you : yet
I see you cannot forget me. I thought you to bee verye
kinde when you sent your Purcivaunts about the coun
trie to seeke for me. But now that you your selues
haue taken the paines to write, this is out of all crie.
Why it passes to thinke what louing and careful]
brethren I haue, who although I cannot be gotten, to
tell them where I am, because I loue not the ayre of
the Clinke or Gatehouse in this colde time of Winter,
and by reason of my busincs in Pistlemaking, will not
withstanding make it knowne vnto the world, that tliev
haue a moneths mind towards me. Now truly brethren,
I find you kinde, why ye do not know what a pleasure
you haue done me. My worships books were vn-
knowne to many, before you allowed T. C. to admo-
nishe the people of England to take heed, that if they
loued you, they woulde make much oftheir prelates, and
the chiefe of the cleargie. Now many seeke after my
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THE EPISTLE TO THE
bookes, more than euer they did. Againe, some knew
not that our brother Iohn of Fulham, was so good vnto
the porter of his gate, as to make the poore blinde
honest soule, to be a dum minister. Many did not
know, eytlicr that Amen, is as much as by my fayth
and so that our Sauiour Christe euer swore by his fayth ¦
or that bowling and eating of the Sabboth, are of the
same nature : that Bb. may as lawfully make blinde
guydes, as Dauid might eate of the Shew bread: or
that father Thomas tubtrimmer of Winchester, good old
student, is a master of Arts of 45. yeares standing.
xMany I say, were ignorant of these thinges, and many
other prcttie toy™, vntil you wrote this prcttie booke
Besides whatsocuer you ouerpasse in my writings, and
did not gainsay, that I hope wilbe iudged to be true.
And so Iohn a Bridges his treason out of the 448. page
of his booke, you graunt to be true. Your selues you
denie not to bee pettie popes. The B. of sir Dauids in
Wales, you dcnie not to haue two wiues, with an hun
dred other thinges which you do not gainsay: so that
the reader may fudge that I am true of my worde, and
vse not to lye like Bb. And this hath greatly com
mended my worshipps good dealing. But in your con
futation of ,ny book, you haue shewed reuerende Martin
to be truepenie in deede : For you haue confynned
rather then confuted him. So that brethren, the plea
sure winch you haue done vnto me, is out of all scotche
and notche. And shoulde not I againe be as readie to
pleasure you? Naye, then I shoulde be as vngrateful
towards my good brethre, as Iohn of Cant, is to Thomas

TERRIDLE riUESTS.

Cartwright. The which Iohn, although he hath bin
greatly fauored by the said Thomas, in that Thomas
hath now these many yeares let him alone and said
nothing vnto him, for not answering his books, yet is
not asliamed to make a secrete comparison, betweene
himselfe and Thomas Cartwright. As wlio say, Iohn
of Lambehith, were as learned as Thomas Cartwright.
What say you old deane Iohn a Bridges, haue not you
shewed your selfe thankfull vnto hir Maiestie, in oucr-
throwing hir supremacie in the 448. page of your booke.
I will lay on load on your skincoat for this geare anon.
And I will haue my peny worths of all of you brethre
ere I haue done with you, for this pains which your
T. C. hath taken with me. This is the puritans
craft, in procuring me to be confuted I knowe : He be
euen with them to. A craftie whoresons brethren Bb.
did you thinke, because ye puritans T. C. did set Iohn
of Cant, at a nonplus, and gaue him the ouerthrow, that
tlierefore your T. C. alias Thomas Cooper bishop of
Winchester, or Thomas Cooke his Chaplaine, coidd set
me at a nonplus. Simple fellowes, me thinkes he should
not. I gesse your T. C. to be Thomas Cooper (but I do
not peremptorily affirme it) because the modest olde
student of 52. yeres .standing, setteth Winchester after
Lincolne and Rochester in thc contents of his booke,
which blasphemy, would not haue bin tollerated by
them that saw and allowed the book, vnlesse mistres
Coopers husband had bin the author of it.
Secondly, because this T. C. the author of this booke
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is a bishop, and therefore Thomas Cooper, lie is a Bi
shop, because he reckoneth him selfe charged amongst
others, with those crimes whereof non are accused but
bishops alone, pag. 101. Iin. 26. Ka olde Martin yet
I see thou hast it in thee, diou wilt enter into the
bowels of die cause in hand I perceue. Nay, if you
wil commend me, I will giue you more reasons yet.
The stile and the phrase is very like her husbands,
y' was sometimes woont to write vnto doctor Day of
Welles. You see I can do it in deed. Again, non
would be so groshead as to gather, because my reue-
rence telleth Deane Iohn, that he shall haue twenty
fists about his eares more then his owne (whereby I
meant in decde, that manye would write against him,
by reason of his bomination learning, which otherwise
neuer ment to take pen in hand) that I threatned him
widi blowes, and to deale by Stafford law: Whereas
that was far from my meaning, and could by no means
be gathered out of my words, but only by him that
pronounced Eulojin for Eulogein in the pulpit : and by
him whom a papist made to belecue, that the greek
word Eulogein, that is to giue thanks, signifieth to make
a crosse in the forhead : py hy by hy . I cannot but laugh,
py hy hy hy. I cannot but laugh, to thinke that an
olde soaking student in this learned age, is not ashamed
to be so impudent as to presume to deale with $ papist,
when he hath no grue in his pocked. But I promise
you Sir, it is no shame to be a L. bishop if a man could,
thogh he were as vnlerned as Iohn of Glocester or
William of Liechfeld. And I tel you true, our brother

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Westchester, had as liuc playe twentie nobles in a night,
at Priemeero on the cards, as trouble hiin selfe with any
pulpit labor, and yet he thinks him self to be a suffi
cient bishop. What a bishop such a cardplaier 1 A
bishop play 20. nobles in a night? Whie a round
threpence serueth the turn to make good sport 3. or 4.
nights amongst honest neighbours. And take heede of
it brother Westchester : it is an vnlawfull game if you
will beleeue me. Foe, in winter it is no matter to take
a litle sport, for an od cast braces of 20. nobles when
the wether is foule, that men cannot go abroad to boules,
or to shoote? What would you haue men take no
recreatio ? Ye but it is an old said saw, inough is as
good as a feast. And recreations must not be made a
trade and an occupation, ka master Martin Marprelate.
I tel you true brother mine, though I haue as good a
gift in pisde making, as as you haue at priemeero, and
far more delight then you can haue at your cards, for
the loue I beare to my brethren, yet I dare not vse this
sport, but as a recreation, not making any trade thereof.
And cards I tel you though they bee without homes,
yet they are parlous beasts. Be they lawful or vnlawful
take heed of them for al that. For you cannot vse
diem but you must needs say your brother T. C. his
Amen, that is, sweare by your faith, many a time in
the night, wel I will neuer stande argling the matter
any more with you. If you will leaue your card play
ing so it is, if you wil not, trust to it it wil be the worse
for you.
I must go simply and plainly to worke with my

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brethren, that haue published T. C. 'Whosoeuer haue
published that booke, they haue so hooped the bishops
tubbs, that they haue made diem to smel far more
odious then euer they did, euen in the nostrels of all
men. The booke is of 252. pages. The drift thereof
is, to confute certaine printed and published libelles.
You bestowe not full 50. pages in thc answeare of any
thing that euer was published in print. The rest are
bestowed to maintaine the belly, and to confute : what
think you ? Euen the slanderous inuentions of your
owne braines for the most part. As y' it is not lawfull
for her Maiestie to allot any lands vnto the mainte-
naunce of the minister, or the minister to liue vpo
lands for tin's purpose allotted vnto liim, but is to con
tent him selfe with a smal pention, and so small, as he
haue nothing to leaue for his wife and childre after him
(for whom he is not to be careful, but to rest on gods
prouidence) and is to require no more but foode and
raiment, that in poverty he might be answerable vnto
our Sauioul- Christ and his apostles. In the confutation
of these points, and thc scriptures corruptly aplied to
prone them, there is bestowed aboue an 100. pages of
this book, that is, from the 149. vnto the end. Well
T. C. whosocuer thou art, and whosoeuer Martin is,
neither thou, nor any man or woman in England shal
know while you liue, suspect and trouble as many as
you wil, and therefore saue your mony in seeking for
him, for it may be he is neerer you then you are ware
of. But whosocuer thou art I say, thou shewest thyself
to be a most notorious wicked slanderer, in fathering

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these things vppon those whome they call puritans,
which neuer any enioying common sense would affirnie.
And bring me him, or set downe his name and his
reasons that holdeth any of the former points confuted
in thy book, and I wil proue him to be vttcrly bereaued
of his witts, and his confuter to be either stark mad, or
a stark enemy to al religion, yea to her Maiestie and
thc state, of this kingdome. No no, T. C. puritans
hold no such points. It were well for bishops, that
their aduersaries were thus sottishe. They might then
iustly insence her Maiestie and the state against them,
if they were of this minde. These obiections, in the
confutation whereof, thou hast bestowed so much time,
are so farre from hauing any puritane to be their author,
as whosoeuer readeth the book, were he as blockheaded
as Thomas of Winchester himselfe, hee may easily
knowe them to be obiections onely inuented by the
authour of the booke himselfe. For although hee bee
an impudent wretch, yet dareth he not set them downe,
as writings of any other : for then he woulde haue
described thc author and the booke by some adient.
The puritans in deede, holde it vnlawfull for a mini
ster to haue such temporall reuenews, as whereby tenne
ministers might be well maintained, vnlesse the sayd
reuenews come vnto him by inheritance.
They holde it also vnlawfull, for any state to bestowe
the liuings of many ministers vpon one alone, especially
when there is such want of ministers liuings.
They holde it vnlawfull for anye minister to be Lorde
ouer his brethren. And they holde it vnlawfull for

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anye state to tollerate such vnder their gouernment.
Because it is vnlawfull for states, to tollerate men in
those places whereinto die word hath forbidden diem to
enter. They affirme that our Sauiour Christe, hath forbid
den all ministers to be Lords, Luke 22. 25. And the
Apostle Peter, sheweth them to be none of Gods
ministers, which are Lords ouer Gods heritage, as
you Bishopps are, and w oulde bee accounted. These
thinges T. C. you should haue confuted, and not
troubled your selfe, to execute the fruites of your owne
braines, as an enemie to the state. And in these points,
I do challenge you T. C. and you Deane Iohn, and you
Iohn Wliitgift, and you doctor Coosins, and you doctor
Capcase (Copcoat I think your name be) and as many
else, as haue or dare write in the defence of the esta
blished church gouernment. If you cannot confute my
former assertions, you do but in vain thinke to main-
taine your selues by slaunders, in fathering vppon the
puritanes, the ofspringes of your owne blockheads.
And assure your selues, I wil so besoop you if you
canot defend your selues in these points, as al the world
shal cry shame vppon you, you think pretely to escape
die point of your Antichristian calings, by giuing out
that puritans hold it vnlawfull for her maiestie to leaue
any lands for the vse of the ministers maintenance. I
cannot but commend you, for I promise you, you can
shift of an haynous accusation very pretily.
A true man bringeth vnanswerable witnesses against
a robber by the high way side, and desireth the Judge,

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that the lawe may proceede against him. O no my
Lo/d saith the thiefe, in any case let not me be dealt
with. For these mine accusers haue giuen out, that
you are a drunkard or they haue committed treason
against the state: therefore I pray you beleeue my
slander against the, that they may be executed: so when
I come to my trial, I shalbe sure to haue no accusers.
A very prety way to escape, if a man could tel howe
to bringe the matter about. Now bretheren bishops,
your manner of dealing, is euen the very same. The
puritans say truly, that al Lord bishops are pety Anti-
christes, and therefore that the magistrates ought to
thrust you out of the common welth. Nowe of all
loues say the bishops, let not our places be called in
question, but rather credit our slanders against the
puritans, whereby, if men would beleeue vs when we
lie, we would beare the world in hand, that diese our
accusers are Malcontents and sottish men, holding it
vnlawful for the maiestrat to alott any lands for the
ministers portion, and vnlawful for the minister to pro-
uide for his family. And therefore you must not giue
eare to the accusations of any such men against vs.
And so we shall be sure to be acquited. But brethren
doe you thinke to be thus cleared? why the puritans
hold no such points as you lay to their charg. Though
they did, as they do not, yet that were no sufficient
reason, why you being pettye popes, shoulde be main
tained in a christian commonwealth. Answeare the
reasons that T brought against you : otherwise, Come
off you bishops, leaue your thousandes, and content

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your selues with your hundreds, saith Iohn of London.
So that you do plainly see, that your Cooper T. C.
is but a deceitful workeman, and if you commit the
hooping of your bishopricks vnto him, they wil so leake
in a short space, as they shalbe able to keepe neuer a
Lord bishop in them. And diis may serue for an
aunswere vnto die latter part of your
booke, by way of an Interim, vntil
more worke for Cooper
be published.

2?ap anp toorfce for Cooper*

And now reuerend T. C. I am come to your epistle to
die reader, but first you and I must gp out alone into
the plaine fields, and there we wil try it out, euen by
plaine syllogismes, and that I know bishops cannot
abide to heare of.
The reuerend T. C. to the reader, page 1.
I draw great danger vpon my selfe, in defending our
bishops and others the chiefe of the clargy of the church
of England. Their aduersaries are very eger : the
saints in heauen haue felt of their tongs, for when they
speake of Paule, Peter, Marye, &c. whome others iustly
call saints : they in derision call them sir Peter, sir
Paule, sir Marie. Reuerend Martin,
Alas poore reuerende T. C. Be not afraid. Heere
be non but frends man. I hope thou art a good fellow,
and a true subiect, ye but I defend die bishops of die
church of England saith he, dien in deed I maruell not
though thy conscience accuse thee, and diou art sure to
be as wel fauoredly thwacked for thy labour, as euer

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Aon wast ,„ thy life. Thy conscience I say, must
needs make thee feare in defending them. For they
«e petty popes, and petty Antichristes as I haue
proued, because they are pastor of pastors, Sec. thou
"ast not answered my reasons, and therefore swadled
thou shalt be for thy paynes, and yet if thou wilt yeeld
1 will spare thee. Thou canst not be a good and a
sound subiect and defend the hierarchy of Lorde bi
shopps to be lawful, as I will shewe anone. Concerning
*ir Paul, I haue him not at all in my writings. And
therefore the reader must know, that there is a Canter
bury trick once to patch vp an acusation with a lye or
two. J
Sir Peter was the ouersight of the printer, who
omitted diis Marginal note vz. He was not Saint Peter
which had a lawfull superiour authority ouer the vni-
uersal body of the church. And therfore the priest
wherof Deane Iohn speaketh was Sir Peter.
And good reuerend T. C. I pray thee tel me, what
km was Samt Mary Oueries, to Mary the Virgin. In
my book learning, the one was some popish Trull, and
the other the blessed virgine. But will you haue all
those, who are saints in deed, called saints ? Why then
why doe you not call saint Abraham, saint Sara, saint
leremie. If Iohn of Canterbury should marie, tell me
goodT. C. dost thou not thinke that he would not make
choyse of a godly woman. I hope a would. And T. C.
though you are learned, yet you go beyond your bookes
if you saide the contrary : being a godly woman, then
she were a sainte. And so by your rule, her name

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being Marie, you would haue her called sainte Marie
Canterburie. But I promise thee, did his grace what
"e could, I would call her sir Man.e Canterburie as
ong as he professed himselfe to be a priest, and this
T .mght do lawfully. For he being sir Iohn, why should
not his wife be sir Marie. And why not sir Marie
Oueries, as well as sir Marie Canterburie ? I hope
Iohn of Canterburie whom I knowe, (though I know no
great good ,n him) to be as honest a man as M. Oueries
was, whom I did not know. Neither is there any
reason why you T. C. should holde M. Oueries and
his Mane, because they are within the diocesse of Win-
Chester, to bee more honest then M. Canterburie and
his wife. Naye there is more reason, why M. Canter
burie and his wife dwelling at Lambehith, should be
thought die honester of the two, then Oueries and his
wife, because they dwel O the bankes side. But good
Tom tubtrimmer, tell me what you meane by the chiefe
of the cleargie in the Churche of England ? Iohn Can
terburie I am sure. Why good T. C. this speache U
either blasphemous or traitorous, or by your owne con
fession an euident proofe, that Iohn of Canterburie is
Lord ouer his brethren. He that is ehiefe of th,
cleargie, is chiefe of God's heritage, and that is Iesus
Christ only, and so to make the pope of Canterburie
chiefe of Gods heritage, in this sence is blasphemous.
L3™,?*116 byclear&ie> M Deane Iohn doedi page
443. rf hls b00ke> both the people and m.n.sters ^
Churche of England: in this sence her Maiestie is
chiefe of the cleargie in die Church of England, and so
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your speach is traiterous. Lastly, if by cleargie you
mean die ministers of die Churche of England, none in
this sense can be chiefe of the cleargie, but a pettie
pope. For our Sauiour Christe flatly forbiddeth anye
to be chiefe of the cleargie in diis sence, Luke 22. 26.
And none euer claimed this vnto him selfe but a pettie
pope. Therefore T. C. you are either by your owne
speach, a blasphemer or a traitor, or els Iohn of Cant.
is a petde pope. Here is good spoonemeat for a Cooper.
Take heede of writing against Martin, if you loue your
ease. Reuerend T. C. page 2. Epistle.
But I Feare them not, while I go about to maintain
the dignitie of priests. Reuerend Martin.
Well fare a good heart yet, stand to thy tackling, and
get the high commission to send abroad the purciuants,
and I warrant thee diou wilt do something. Alas good
priests, that their dignitie is like to fall to the ground.
It is pitie it should be so, they are such notable pulpit
men. There is a neighbour of ours, an honest priest,
who was sometimes (symple as he nowe standes) a vice
in a playe for want of a better, his rame is Gliberie of
Hawsteade in Essex, he goes much to the pulpit. On
a time, I diink it was the last Maie, he went vp with a
full resolution, to do his businesse with greaS commen
dations. But see the fortune of it. A boy in the
Church, hearing either the sommer Lord with his Maie
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by the Church, out goes the boye. Good Gliberie,
though he were in the pulpit, yet had a minde to his
olde companions abroad (a company of merrie grigs
you must think them to be, as merie as a vice on a
stage) seeing ye boy going out, finished his matter pre
sently with Iohn of Londons Amen, saying, ha, ye faith
boie, are they there, then ha w' thee, and so came
down and among them heo goes. Were it not then
pittic, that the dignitie of such a priest should decaie.
And I would gentle T. C. that you would take the
paines to write a treatise against the boie with the red
cap, which put this Gliberie out of his matter at another
time. For Glibery being in the pulpit, so fastened his
eyes vpon a boye with a red cap, that he was clcane
dasht out of countenaunce, in so much that no note
could be hard from him at that time, but this. Take
away red cap there, take away red cappe there : it had
bene better that he had neuer bin borne, he hath marred
suche a sermon this day, as it is woonderfull to thinke.
The Queene and the Counsell might well haue heard it
for a good sermon, and so came down. An admonition
to the people of England, to take heed of boies with red
caps, which make diem set light by die dignitie of their
priests, would do good in this time, brother T. C. you
know well. Reuerend T. C.
The cause why wee are so spighted, is be- %°"b mayr
cause we doe endeuor to maintaine the lawes ceiue tl,a*
which her Maiestie and the whole state of the bishop" "
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Realme haue allowed, and doe not admit a new plat-
forme of gouernment, deuised I know not by whom.
Reuerend Martin.
Why T. C. saye Eulqjin for Eulogein as often as you
will, and I wil neuer spight you, or the Bishop of Win
chester eydier for the matter. But doe you thinke our
Churche gouernement, to be good and lawfull, because
hir Maiestie and die state, who maintaine the reformed
religion alloweth the same ? Why the Lorde doth not
allow it, dierefore it cannot be lawfull. And it is the
fait of such wretches as you bishops are, that her Ma
iestie and the state allowedi the same. For you should
haue otherwise instructed them. They know you not
yet as thorowly as I doe. So that if I can prooue,
that the Lord disliketh our Church gouernement, your
endeuors to maintaine the same, shew that thereby you
cannot chuse, but be traytors to God and his worde,
whatsoeuer you are to her Maiestie and the State.
Nowe T. C. looke to your selfe, for I will presently
make all the hoops of your bishoppricks flie assunder.
Therefore Our Churche gouernement, is an vnlawfidl Churche go
uernment, and not allowed in the sight of God. Because
That church gouernment is an vnlawful church go
uernment, tlie offices and officers whereof, the ciuil
maiestrate may lawfully abollish out of the church,
marke my craft in easoning brother T. C. I say the
offices and officers for I grant that the maiestrate may
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the church if they be Diotripheses, Mar-elmes, Whit-
gifts, Simon Maugustes, Coopers, Pcrnes, Renoldes, or
any such like ludases, (though thc most of these must
be packing, offices and al) but their offices must stand,
that the same may be supplied by honester men. But
the offices of Archbishops and bishopps, and therefore
die officers much more, may be lawfully abollished out
of the church by her Maiestie and our State. And
truely this were braue weather to turnc them out : it is
pitty to keepe them in any longer. And that would do
me good at the hart, to see Iohn of London, and the
rest of his brethren so discharged of his busines, as he
might freely runn in his cassocke and hose after his
bowle, or florish with his 2. hand sword. O tis a
sweete trunchfiddle. /
But the offices of Archbishops and bishops, may be
lawfully abollished out of the church by her Maiestie,
and the state. As I hope one day they shalbe. There
fore (marke now T. C. and cary me this conclusion to
Iohn O Lambehith for his breakefast) our church go-
uerment by Arch, and bishops, is an vnlawful church
gouerment. You see brother Cooper, that I am very
courteous in my minor, for I desire therein no more
offices to bee thrust out of the church at one time, but
Archb. and Bishops. As for Deanes, Archdeacons and
Chancellors, I hope they wilbe so kind vnto my Lords
grace, as not to stay, if his worship and the rest of the
noble clergie Lords weare turned out to grasse. I wil
presendy proue both maior and minor of this sillogisme.
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roundly to worke. For ise so bnmfeg the Cooper, as
he had bin better to haue hooped halfe the tubbes in
Winchester, then write against my worships pistles.
No ciuil maiestrat may lawfully either maimc or de-
forme die body of Christ, which is the church, but who
soeuer doth abollish any lawful church officer, out of
the churcli gouernment, he doth either maime or de-
forme thc churcli. Tlierefore T. C. no ciuil magistrate,
no prince, no state, may without sinn abollishe any law-
full officer, together with his office, out of the gouerne
ment of the church, and per consequence, the offices of
Archbishops and Lord bishops, wliich her Maiestie may
without sinn lawfully abollish out of the church, are no
lawful church officers, and therefore also, the church
gouernment practised by Iohn Whitgift, Iohn Mar-
elme, Richard Peterborow, William of Lincolne, Ed
mond of Worcester, yea and by diat old stealecounter
masse priest, Iohn O Glossester, with the rest of his
brethren, is to be presently thrust out of the church.
And me thinks this geare cottons in deed my masters.
And I tould you T. C. that you should be thumped for
defending bishops. Take heed of me while you liue.
The minor of my last sillogisme, that whosoeuer doth
abollish the office of any lawfull church officer out of
the church, ho cither maimeth or deformeth the church,
I can prone with a wet finger. Because euery lawful
Churche officer, euen by reason of his office, is a mem
ber of the bodyc of Christe Iesus, whiche is the church,
and being a member of the body, Ifthe maiestrate doth
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place thereof voidc, then the maiestrate maimeth the
body. If he put another office vnto an officer in stead
thereof, he deformeth the same. Because the maiestrate
hath neither tlie skil nor thc commission, to make the
members of the body of Christ. Because he cannot tel
to what vse, the members of his making may seme in
the church. Do you think T. C. that the maiestrat may
make an eie for the visible body of the church. (For
you must vnderstand, that wee al this wliile speake of
the visible body) can he make a foote or a hand for
that body? I pray you in what place of the body
would you haue them placed ? If our Sauiour Christ
hath left behind him a perfect body : surely he hath left
therein no place, or no vse for members of the maies-
trates making and inuention : if an vnperfect and maimed
body, I am wel assured that the maiestrate is not able
to perfect that which he left vnfinished. But I hope
T. C. that thou wilt not be so mad, and wicked, as to
say that our Sauiour Christ, left behind him heere on
eardi an vnperfect and maimed body. If not, then
where shal these offices, namely these members inuented
by the maiestrate be placed therein.
Would you" haue the naturall eies put out (as your
brethren the bishops haue don in the church of England,
euer since Iohn of Canterbury vrged his wretched sub
scription) and vnnatural squint gogled eies put in their
steede : when the body cannot see with any eies, but
with the natural eies thereof, displace them howsoeuer
you may seme to help the matter, by putting others in
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What say you T. C. may the Maiestrate cut of[f] tbe true
and natural legges, and handes of the body of Christe,
vnder a pretence to put woodden in their steed. I hope
you wil not say that he may. How then commeth it to
passe T. C. that you hold Iohn of Canterbury his office,
and Iohn Mar-elms to be true and natural members of
die body, that is true officers of the church, and yet
hold it laweful for her Maiestie to displace them out of
die church. I cannot tel brother what you hold in this
point. Me think I haue disturbed your sences. Do
you thinke that the maiestrat may displace the true
members of the body of Christ, and place woodden in
their steed ? Why this is to hold it lawful for the ma
iestrate to massacre the body. Do you thinke he may
not ? Then may not her maiestie displace Iohn of Can
terburies office out of our church : if shee may not dis
place his office, then either he by vertue of his office, is
a lawfull Pope aboue all ciuill magistrates, or els the
Church gouernment is so prescribed in the word, as it
is not lawfull for the magestrat° to alter the same. But
Puritans Iohn of Canterburie, as the puritans their
Cm™, to" be st'1,les confesse, is no Pope. Then either the
no Pope. church gouernment is so prescribed in the
word as it may not be altred, or els the magestrat
may abolish a lawfid church gouernement, and place
another in stead thereof. If the Churcli gouernment be
so prescribed in the worde, as it cannot be altered, then
either our gouernment is ye same which was therein
prescribed, or our Church gouerment is a false Church
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the word : Then Paule and Peter were either no true
Church gouernours, or els Paul and Peter, and the rest
of Church gouernors in their time were Lordes, for all
our Church gouernours are Lordes. But Paule and
Peter, &c. were no Lords, and yet true church gouer
nours. Therefore our church gouernment is not that
which is prescribed in the word : and therfore a false
and vnlawfull church gouernement. If you thinke that
the magistrate may displace the lawful offices of the
bodie, then as I said before, you hold it lawfull for the
magistrate to maime or deforme the bodie. Because
whatsoeuer he pulleth in the roome of the true and
risht members, must needs be a deformitie, and what
place soeuer he leaueth vnfurnished of a member, must
needes be a maime. And this is the onely and sole
office of Christe onely, to place and displace the mem
bers of his bodie : to wit, the officers of his Church, he
may lawfully do it, so cannot man. And therefore the
sots (of which nomber you T. C. and you Iohn Whitgift,
and you Deane Iohn, and you D. Coosins, and you D.
Copcot, widi the rest of the ignoraunt and wretched
defendors of our corrupt church gouernement are to be
accounted) which thinke that the offices of pastors,
doctors, elders and deacons, or the most of them, may
be as well nowe wanting in the Church, as the offices of
Apostles, prophets and Euangelists : do notably bewray
dieir vile ignorance, but the cause they doe not hurt.
For the beastes do not consider that the offices of
Apostles, Euangelists and Prophets, were remoued out
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hee in his wisdome did not see any vse of such members
Theapos- ,n his body> after the time of the first plant-
tltZd i0S ^^ Churche- l s^ ^V ^ere re-
of James mooued by the Lord himselfe and not by
heat/'a's man: because> Paltly the giftes wherewith
thea did h, they were endued, partly the largenesse of
steedafju- , . . . °
das, fet. i. tlicu* commission, with certaine other essen-
tJu!dhZ ti.!l11 l,r°Pcrt;« ^ them belonging, were by
don if the him abrogated and taken away, which no man
apostolicall i i 1 « .
caiih,,; had coula a°- Againe, the Apostolicall, Euan-
manir gcl'Cal and Pr°Pheticall callings, were either
lawfully or vnlawfully abolished out of the
Churche, if lawfully, then they were abolished by the
Lord : and therefore they are neither to be called backe
vntill he sheweth it to be his pleasure that it shoulde be
so, neitiier can die church be truely said to be maimed
for want of them : because he which could best tell,
what members were fitte for his Churche did abolishe
them. If vnlawfully, then those callings may be law
fully called backe againe into the church, and the
church without them is maimed, that is, wanteth some
members. For if their callings were iniuriously abro
gated, they are as iniuriously kept out of the churche :
and being members of the church, the church is maimed
without, vnlcssc the Lorde hath shewed, that the time
of their seruicc in the bodie is expired. But they are
not iniuriously kept out (for so her Maiestie shoulde be
said to iniurie tlie church, vnlesse she would see Apos
tles, prophets and Euangelists, planted therein) neither
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because die Lorde by taking them away hath declared,
that now there can be no vse of them in tlie bodie :
therefore the Lorde abrogated them. Therefore also
they may be wanting, and tlie churche neither maimed
nor deformed thereby. Whereas the keeping out of
eyther of the former offices of pastors, doctors, elders
and deacons, is a maiming of die churche, the placing
of others in their steed, a deforming. Now reuerend
T. C. I beseech you entreat mistris Cooper, to write to
M. D. Day, somtimes of magdalins, that he may procure
D. Cooper, to know of him that was the last Thomas of
Lincolne, whether the now B. of Winchester be not
perswaded, that reuerend Martin hath suffi[ci]ently
prooued it to be vnlawful, for the ciuill magestrate, to
abolishe any lawfull churche officer out of the church.
Because it is vnlawfull for him to maime or defomie
the bodie of Christe, by displacing die members thereof.
But it may be, your Coopers noddle, profane T. C.
doubteth, (for I knowe you to be as ignorant in these
points, as Iohn Whitgift, or dean Iohn their selues.)
Whether a lawfull Church officer, in regard of his
office, be a member of the bodie of Christ, which is the
Church. Therefore looke Rom. 12. vers. 4. 5. &c. and there
you shall see, that whosoeuer hath an office in the
bodie, is a member of the bodie. There also you shall
see, diat he that teacheth, which is the Doctor : lie
y' exhorteth, which is the Pastor : he that ruleth, which
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(as for him that sheweth mercie that is there spoken off,
he is but a church seruant, and no church officer).
There I say, you shall also see, diat diese 4. offices, of
Pastors, Doctors, Eleders and Deacons, are members of
the bodie: and 1. Cor. 12. 8. & 28. you shal see that
God hath ordained them. Out of al, which hitherto
I haue spoken T. C. I come vpon you, and your
bishopprickes, with 4. or 5. (yea halfe a dozen and
neede be) suchc drie soopes, as Iohn of London with his
two hand sword neuer gaue the like. For they aun-
swere your whole profane booke. First, that the plat-
forme of gouernment, by Pastors, Doctors, Elders and
deacons, wliich you say was deuised you knowe not by
whom, is the inuention of our Sauiour Christ. For
God ordained diem, saith the apostle, 1. Cor. 12. 8. 28.
And therefore vnlesse you will shew your selfe, either
to be a blasphemer, by terming Iesus Christ to be you
cannot tell whom, or els to be ignorant who is Iesus
Christ : you must needs acknowledge the platforme of
gouernment, which you say, was inuented by you know
not who, to haue Christ Iesus for the author thereof.
Secondly, that the word of God teacheth,
Cooper ' that of necessitie, the gouernment by Pastors,
jSS? doctors, elders, &c. ought to be in euery
hisEpisilc. ciiurche, which is neither maimed nor de
formed. Because that Church must needs be maimed
which wanteth those mebers, which the Lorde hath
appointed to be therein: vnlesse the Lord himselfe
hath, by taking those members away, shewed that nowe
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sayde, God hath ordained pastors, doctors, elders and
deacons to be in his Church, proued out of Rom. 12. 6.
7. 8. 1. Cor. 12. 8. 28. Ephe. 4. 12. And he hath
not taken these officers away out of his church, because
the Church hath continuall need of them. As of Pastors
to feed with the word of wisedome : of the Doctors, to
feede with the worde of knowledge, and both to builde
vp his bodie in the vnitie of fayth : of Elders, to watch
and ouersee mens maners : of Deacons to looke vnto
the poore, and church treasurie. Therefore, where
these 4. officers are wanting, there the Church is im
perfect in her regiment.
Thirdly that this gouernement cannot be T.Cooper
c y • i -c taith it is,
inconuenient for any mate or Kingdom, for pagmSeconti,
is it inconuenient for a State or kingdome, to EPut-
haue die bodie of Christ perfect therein ?
Fourthly that euery christian magestrate is bound to
receue this gouernment, by Pastors, Doctors, Elders and
deacons into the church, within his dominions, whatso-
euer inconuenience may be likely to follow the receuing
of it. Because no likelyhood of inconuenience ought to
induce the magistrate willingly to permit the church
vnder his gouernment, to be maymed or deformed.
Fiftly that the gouerment of the church by Lord
Archbishops and bishops, is a gouernment of deformed
and vnshapen members, seruing for no good vse in the
church of God. Because it is not the gouernment by
pastors, doctors, elders and deacons, which as I haue
shewed are now the only true members, that is the only
true officers of the visible body.
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Sixtly and lastly. That they who defend this false
and bastardly gouernment of Archbishops and bishops,
and withstand this true and natural gouernment of die
churrli, by Pastors, Doctors, Elders and deacons, are
likely in awhile to become, Mar-prince, Mar-state, Mar-
lawe, Mar-magestrate, Mar-common wealth. As for
Mar-church, and Mar-religion, they haue long since
proued them selues to be.
These six points doe necessarily follow, of diat which
before I haue set downe, namely that it is not lawfull
for any to abollish or alter, the true and lawful gouern
ment of die church, because it is not lawfull for them to
maime or deforme thc body of the church.
And I chaleng you T. C. and you Deane Iohn, and
and you Iohn Whitgift, and you D. Coosins : and you
D. Copcot, and al the rest diat wil or dare defende our
established Churche gouernement, to be tried with me
in a iudgement of life and death, at any barre in England
in this point. Namely,
That you must needs be, not onely traytors to God and
his word, hut also enemies vnto her Maiestie and the
land, in defending the established Church gouernment to
be lawfull.
You see the accusation which I lay to your charge,
and here followeth die proofe of it : They who defend
that the prince and state, may bid God to battel against
them, they are not only traitors against God and his
word, but also enemies to the Prince and state. I
thinke Iohn of Glocester himselfe, wil not be so sensles
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But our Archbishops and bishops, which hold it
lawful for her maiestie and the state, to retain this
established forme of gouernment, and to keep out the
gouernment by pastors, doctors, elders and deacons,
wliich was appointed by Christ, whom you profane T. C.
cal you know not whome, hold it lawful for her maiestie
and the state to bid God to battel against them. Be
cause they bid the Lord to battel against them which
maime and deforme the body of Christ, vz. the church.
And they as was declared maime and deforme the body
of the church, which keep out the lawful offices, apointed
by the Lord to be members thereof, and in their steed,
place other woodden members of the inuenteon of man.
Tlierefore you T. C. and you Deane Iohn, and you
Iohn Whitgift, and you the rest of the beastly defendors
ofthe corrupt church gouernment, are not only traytors
to God and his word, but enemies to her maiestie and
the state. Like you any of these Nuts Iohn Canter
bury. T am not disposed to iest in this serious matter.
I am called Martin Marprelat. There be many that
greatly dislike of my doinges. I may haue my wants
I know. For I am a man. But my course I knowe to
be ordinary and lawfull. I sawe die cause of Christs
gouernment, and of the Bishops Antichristian dealing to
be hidden. The most part of men could not be gotten
to read any thing, written in the defence of the on[e]
and against the other. I bethought mee therefore, of a
way whereby men might be drawne to do both, per-
ceiuing the humors of men in these times (especially of
those that are in any place) to be giuen to mirth. I
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tooke that course. I might lawfully do it. I, for
iesting is lawful by circumstances, euen in the greatest
matters. The circumstances of time, place and persons
vrged me thereunto. I neuer profaned the word in any
iest. Other mirdi I vsed as a couert, wherin I would
bring the truth into light. The Lord being the authour
both of mirth and grauitie, is it not lawfull in it selfe
for the trueth to vse eyther of these wayes, when the
circumstances do make it lawful ?
My purpose was and is to do good. I know I haue
don no harme howsoeuer some may iudg Martin to mar
al. They are very weake on[e]s that so think. In that
which I haue written I know vndoubtedly, that I haue
done the Lord and the state of this kingdom great
seruice. Because I haue in som sort discouered the
greatest enemies thereof. And by so much the most
pestilent enemies, because they wound Gods relligion,
and corrupt the state with Atheism and loosnes, and so
cal for Gods vengance vppon vs all, euen vnder the
coulor of relligion. I affirm them to be the greatest
enemies that now our state hath, for if it were not for
them, the trueth should haue more free passage herein,
then now it hath. All states thereby would be amended :
and so we should not be subiect vnto Gods displeasure,
as now we are by reason of them.
Nowe let me deale with these that are in authority.
I do make it knowne vnto them, that our bishops are
the greatest enemies which we haue. For they do not
only go about, but they haue long since, fully per
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Lord, to take the sword in hand against the state : if
this be true, haue I not said truly, that they are the
gretest enemies which our state hath. The papistes
work no such effect, for they are not trusted. The
Atheistes haue not infected our whol state, these haue.
The attempts of our forraine enemies may be pernicious.
But they are men as wee are. But that God, which
when our bishops haue, and doe make our prince, and
our gouernors to wadge war, who is able to stand
against him ?
Wel to the point, many haue put her maiestie, the
parliament and counsell in minde, that the church
officers now among vs, are not such as the Lord
aloweth of: because they are not of his owne ordaininge.
They haue shewed that this fait is to be amended, or
the Lords hand to be looked for. The bishops on the
other side, haue cried out vpon them, that haue thus
dutifully mooued the state. They with a loud voice
gaue out, that the maiestrat may lawfully maintaine that
church gouerment, which best fitteth our estate, as liuing
in yc time of peace. What do they else herein, but say
that the magestrat in time of peace, may maime and
deforme the body of Christ his church. That Christ
hath left the gouerment of his own house vnperfect,
and left the same to the discretion of the magestrate,
wheras Moses before whome in this point of gouern
ment, the Lord Christ is iusdy preferred, Heb. 3. C.
made the gouernment of the legal polide so perfect, as
he left not any parte thereof, to the discretion of the
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bers of the church. They are refuted by the exprcsse
text. 1. Cor. 12. will they affirme Christ to haue left
behinde him an vnperfect body of his church, wanting
members at the lest wise, hauing such members as were
only permanent at the magestrates pleasure. Why
Moses the seruant, otherwise gouerned the house in his
time. And the sonne is commended in this point for
wisdome, and faithfulncs before him. Heb. 3. 6. Either
then, that commendation of the sonn before the seruant,
is a false testimony, or the sonne ordained a permanent
gouernment in his church. If permanent, not to be
changed. What then, do they that hold it may be
changed at the magestrates pleasure, but aduise the
maiestrate by his positiue lawes, to proclaime that it is
his will, that if there shalbe a church within his domi
nions, he will maime and deforme the same. He wil
ordaine therein, what members he thinketh good. He
will make it knowne, diat Christ under his gouernment,
shalbe made lesse faithfuU then Moses was. That he
hath left the placing of members in his body vnto the
magestrate. O cursed beastes, that bring this guilt
vppon our estate. Repent Caitifes while you haue time.
You shal not haue it I feare when you wil. And looke
you that arc in authority vnto the equity of the contro-
uersie, betwene our wicked bishops, and those who
woulde haue the disorders of our Churche amended.
Take heed you be not caried away with slaunders.
Christs gouerment is neither Mar-prince, Mar-state, Mar-
law nor Mar-magistrate. The liuing God whose cause
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vnto this slander, contrary to so many testimonies as are
brought out of his word, to prooue die contrary. He
denounceth his wrath against all you, that thinke it law-
full for you, to maim or deform his church : he ac-
counteth his Churche maimed, when those offices are
dierein placed, whiche hee hath not appointed to be
members thereof: he also testifieth that there be no
mebcrs of his appointment in the Churche, but such as
lie himselfe hath named in his word, and those that he
hath named, man must not displace, for so lie shoulde
put the bodie out of ioynt. Nowe our bishops holding
the contrary, and bearing you in hande, that you may
practize the contrary, do they not driue you to prouoke
the Lorde to anger against your owne soules ? And
are they not your enemies ? They hold the contrary
I say, for they say that her Maiestie may alter this
gouernment now established, and thereby they shew
either this gouerment to be vnlawfull, or that the magis-
trat may presume to place those members in Gods
Church, which die Lord neuer mentioned in his word.
And I beseech you marke howe the case standeth
betweene these wretches, and those whom they call
puritans. 1 The puritans (falsely so called) shew it to be
vnlawfull for the magistrate, to goe about to make any
members for the bodie of Christ.
2 They hold all officers of the Church, to be mem
bers of die bodie, Rom. 12. 6. 1. Cor. 12. 8. 28.
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ing of the offices of church government, to be the altering
and abolishing of the members of die Church.
4 The altering and abolishing of which members,
they holde to be vnlawfull, because it must needs be a
maime vnto the bodie.
5 They hold Christ Iesus to haue set downe as exact,
and as vnchaungcable a churche gouernement, as euer
Moses did. Heb. 3. 6.
These and such like are the points they holde, let
their cause be tried, and if they hold any other points in
effect but these, let them be hanged every man of them.
Now I demand, whether they that hold the contrary
in these pointes, and cause die State to practize the con
trary, be not outragious wicked men, and dangerous
enemies of the state, it cannot be denied but they are.
Because the contrarie practize of any of the former
points, is a way to worke the ruine of the state.
Now our Bishopps holde the contrary vnto them al,
saue the 3. and 2. points, whereunto it may be they
will yeeld, and cause our estate to practize the contrary :
whence at the length our destruction is like to proceed.
For 1 They denie Christ Iesus to haue set downe as
exact, and as vnchangeable a forme of church gouern
ment as Moses did. For they say, that the magistrat
may change the church gouernment established by
Christ, so could he not do that prescribed by Moses.
2 In holding all offices of the Church to be members
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they do in the body) they hold it lawful for the magistrat
to attempt the making of new members for that bodie.
3 The altering or abollishing of these members by
the magistrates, they holde to be lawfull. And there
fore the maiming or deforming. '-= | -,
Now you wretches (Archb. and L. Bishops I mean)
you Mar-state, Mar-law, Mar-prince, Mar-raaiestrat,
Mar-commonwealth, Mar-church, and Mar-religion.
Are you able' for your Hues, to aunswere any part of
the former syllogisme, whereby you are concluded, to
be the greatest enemies vnto her Maiestie and the State ?
You dare not attempt it I know. For you cannot
denie, but they who holde it and defend it lawfull, (yea
enforce the magistrate) to maime or deforme the bodie
of Christ, are vtter enemies vnto that magistrat, and that
state, wherin this disorder is practized. You canot
denie your selues to do this, vnto our magistrate and
State: because you beare them in hand, that a lawfull
church gouernment, may consist of those offices, which
die magistrate may abollishe out of the church without
sinne : and so, that the magistrate may lawfully cut off
the members of Christ from his body, and so may law
fully massacre the body. You are then the men by
whome our estate is most likely to be ouerthrowne, you
are those that shal answere for our blood which the
Spaniard, or any other enemies are like to spil, without
the Lords great mercy : you are the persecutors of your
brethren, (if you- may be accounted brethren) you and
your hirelings are not only the wounde, but the very
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who maime, deforme, vex, persecute, greeue, and wound
the church. Which keepe the same in captiuity and
darknes, defend the blind leaders of the blind, slander,
reuile and deforme Christes holy gouernment, that such
broken and woodden members as you are, may be still
maintayned, to haue the romes of die true and natural
members of the body. Tel me I pray, whether the true
and natural members of the body may be lawfully cut
of[f] by the magestrate. If you should say they may,
I knowe no man would abide the spech. What ? May
the maiestrat cutt of[f] the true and naturall members,
of the body of Christ ? O impudency, not to be tolle-
rated. But our magestrate, that is her maiestie, and
our state, may lawfully by your owne confession, cut
you of[f], that is displace you and your offices out of
our church. Deny this if you dare. Then in deed it
shal appeare, that Iohn of Canturbury meaneth to be a
Pope in decde, and to haue the soueraignty ouer the
ciuill magestrate. Then will you shewe your selfe in
deed, to be Mar-prince, Mar-law and Mar-state. Now
if the magestrate may displace you as he may, then you
are not the true members. Then you are (as in deed
you ought) to be thrust out, vnlesse the magestrate
would incur the wrath of God, for maiming and de-
forminge the body of the church, by ioyning vnnatural
members thereunto.
Answere but this reason of mine, and then hang those
that seeke reformation, if euer againe they speke of it,
if you doe not, I wil giue you lide quiet. I feare you
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that because you which are the maim of the church
are spoken against, therefore they, namely our prince
and state, which are Gods lieftenaunts, shal be in like
sort, dealt with, this credulity wil be the magestrates
sinne. But I know their wisdome to be such as they
wil not. For what reason is this, which you profane
T. C. haue vsed. pag. 103.
The sinful, the vnlawful, the broken, vnnatural, false
and bastardly gouernors of the church, to wit archb. and
bishops, whicli abuse euen their false offices, are spoken
against. Therefore the true, natural and lawful, and
iust gouernors of the common welth, shalbe likewise
shortly misliked. Ah sencelesse and vndutifull beastes,
that dare compare your selues with our true magestrates,
which are the ordinaunces of God, with your selues,
"that is, with Archbishops and bishops, which as you
your selues confesse (I will by and by proue this) are
the ordinances of the.Diuell.
I knowe I am disliked of many which are your ene
mies, that is of many which you cal puritans. It is
their weaknes, I am threatened to be hanged by you.
What though I were hanged, do you thinke your cause
shalbe the better. For the day that you hange Martin,
assure your selues, there wd 20. Martins spring in my
place. I meane not now you grosse beastes, of any
commotion as profane T. C. like a sensles wretch, not
able to vnderstand an English phrase, hath giuen out
vpon that which he calleth the threatning of fistes.
Assure your selues, I wil proue Marprelat ere I haue
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pnuy, or hath bin priuie vnto my writings against you,
I vsed the aduise of non therein. You haue and do
suspect diuers, as master Paggett, master Wiggington,
master Udall, and master Penri, &c. to make Martin.
If they cannot cleare their selues their sillinesse is piti-
full, and diey are worthy to beare Martins punishment.
Well once againe answere my resons, both of your
Antichristian places in my first epistle vnto you, and
these nowe vsed against you. Otherwise the wisdome
of the magistrate must needs smel what you are. And
cal you to a reckoning, for deceauing them soe long,
making them to suffer the church of Christ vnder their
gouernment to be maimed and deformed.
Your reasons for the defence of your hierarchic, and
the keeping out of Christs gouernment, vsed by this
profame T. C. are already answered. They shew what
profane beastes you are. I wil heere repete them.
But heere first the reader is to know what answere this
T. C. maketh vnto the syllogismes, whereby I prooue
all L. bishops to be petty popes, and petty Antichristes.
I assure you no other then this, he flattly denieth the
conclusion, wheras. he might (if he had any learning in
liim, or had read any thing) know, that euery dunstical
logician, giueth this for an inuiolable precept, that the
conclusion is not to be denied. For that must needs be
true, if the maior and minor be true, he in omitting
the maior and minor, because he was not able to an
swere thereby, granteth the conclusion to be true. His
answeare vnto the conclusion is, that al lord Bb. were
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Hooper, were not petty Popes. They were not pety
popes, because they were not reprobates. As though
you block you, euery petty pope and petty Antichrist
were a reprobate. Why no man can deny Gregory the
great, to be a pettye Pope, and a petty and petty Anti
christ. For he was the next immediate pope before
Boniface the first, that knowne Antichrist : and yet this
Gregory left behind him, vndoubted testimonies of a
chosen childe of God : so might they, and yet be petty
Popes, in respecte of their office. Profane T. C. his
1. and 2. reason, for ye lawfulnes of our church gouer
ment. And what though good men gaue their consent
vnto our church gouernement, or writing vnto bishops,
gaue them their lordly titles ? Are their offices there
fore lawfull, then soe is the popes office. For Erasmus
was a good man you cannot deny, and yet he both
alowed of the popes office since his calling, and writing
vnto him, gaue him his titles. So did Luther, since his
calling also, for he dedicated his booke of christian
liberty vnto Pope Leo the tenth. The booke and his
Epistle vnto the Pope, are both in Englishe. Here I
would wish the magistrat, to marke what good reasons
you are able to afford for your hierarchie.
Thirdly, saith profane T. C. page 75. All Churches
haue not the gouernment of Pastors and Doctors : but
Saxoni and Denmark, haue L. bishops. You are a
great State man vndoubtedly T. C. that vnderstand, tlie
state of other Churches so well. But herein the impu-
dencie of a proude foole appeareth egregiously. As
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as vnlearned, as a man of diat trade and profession can
be, with any honestie, would be belieued against knowne
experience. Yea, but Saxonie and Denmarke haue
Superintendents, what then? ergo L. Archb. and bishops?
I deny it. Though other Churches had L. Archb. and
Bb. this prooueth nothing els, but that other Churches
are maimed and haue their imperfections. Your reason
is this, other good Churches are deformed, therefore
ours must needes be so to. The kings sonne is lame,
dierefore the children of no subiects must go vpright.
And these be all the good reasons which you can bring
for the gouerment of Archb. and bishops, against the
gouerment of Christ. You reson thus. It must not be
admitted into tbis kingdome, because then Ciuillians
shal not be able to liue, in that estimation, and welth,
wherein they now do. Carnal and sensles beastes,
whoe are not ashamed to prefer, the outward estate of
men, before the glory of Christs kingdom. Here againe,
let the magestrate and other readers consider, whether
it be not time, that such brutish men, should be looked
vnto. Which reason thus. The body of Christ which
is the church, must needes be maimed and deformed in
this common welth, because otherwise ciuillians should
not be able to lino. Why you enemies to the state, you
traytors to God and his worde, you Mar-prince, Mar-
law, Mar-magcstrate, Mar-church, and Mar-common
welth : do you not know that the worlde should rather
go a begging, then that the glory of god by maiming
his church, should be defaced ? Who can abide this
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wrath against them, by continuing the deformity of his
church, and it may not be otherwise, because the ciui-
lians els must fall to decay. I wil tel you what, you
monstrous and vngodly bishops, though I had no feare
of God before mine eies, and had no hope of a better
life, yet the loue that I owe, as a natural man, vnto her
maiestie and the state would inforce me to write against
you: her maiestie and this kingdome, (whome the Lord
blesse, with his mighty hand, I vnfainedly beseech) must
endanger them selues vnder die peril of Gods heauy
wrath, rather then the maime of our church gouernment
must be healed, for we had rather it should be so, say
our bishops, then wee should be thrust out, for if we
should be thrust out, the studie of the ciuil lawe, must
needs goe to wrack. Well, if I had liued sometimes
a citizen, in that olde and auncient (though heathenish)
Rome, and had heard kinge Deiotarus, Cesar, yea or
Pompei himself giue out this spech, namely : that the
citty and empire of Rome must needes .Jbe brought
subject vnto some danger, because otherwise, Catelin,
Lentulus, Cethegus, with other of the. nobilitie, could
not tell how to liue, but must needs go a begging. I
woulde surely, in the loue I ought to the safetie of that
state, haue called him that had vsed such a speech, in
judicium capitis, whosoeuer he had bin : and I woulde
not haue doubted to haue giuen him the ouerthrow.
And shal I being a christian English subiect, abide to
heare a wicked crue of vngodly bishopps, with their
hangones and parasites, affirme that our Queene, and
our State, must needs be subiect vnto the greatest
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hunger diat may be, vz. the wrath of God, for deform
ing his Church, and that Gods Church must needes be
maimed and deformed among vs, because otherwise, a
few Ciuillians shal not be able to liue. Shall I heare
and see diese thinges professed and published, and in
the loue I owe vnto Gods religion and her Maiesty, say
nothing. I cannot, I will not, I may not be silent at
this speech : come what will come of it. The loue of a
christian Church, prince and state, shal I trust, worke
more m me, then die loue of a heathen Empire and
state should do. Now iudge good reader, who is more
tollerable in a commonwealth, Martin that would haue
the enemies of her Maiesty remoued thence, or our
bishops which would haue her life, and die whole king-
domes prosperitie hazarded, rather then a few Ciuillians
shoidd want maintenance. But I praye thee tell me
T. C. why should the gouernment of Christ impouerish
Ciuillians ? Because saith he, pag. 77. the Canon law
by which they liue, must be altered, if that were admit
ted. Yea but Ciuillians liue by the court of Amraltie,
and other courts as well as by the Arches, vz. also the'
probatts of Testaments, the controuersies of tythes,
matrimonie, and many other causes, which you bishops
Mar-state, do vsurpingly take from the ciuill magistrate,
would be a means of Ciuillians maintenance. But are
not you ashamed, to professe your whole gouernment,
to be a gouernment ruled by the Popes Canon lawes,'
which are bannished by statute out of this kingdome ?
This notably sheweth that you are Mar-prince and
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vnles by vertue of them, you meane eyther to enforce
die supremacie ofthe prince to go again to Rome, or to
come to Lambeth. It is treson by Statute, for any sub
iect in this land, to proceed doctor of the Cano law, and
dare you professe your church gouerment to be ruled by
that law. As though one statute might not refer all
matters of the Canon law, vnto the temporall and com
mon law of this Realme : and this is all you can say,
Yes sayth he, the gouernment of Christe, would 2
bring in the iudiciall law of Moses. As much as is
morall of that law, or of the equitie of it, would be
brought in. And do you gainesay it. But you sodden
headed Asse you, the most part of that law is abrogated.
Some part thereof is in force among vs, as the punish
ment of a murtherer by death, and presumptuous
obstinate theft by death, &c. Hir Maiesties prero- 3
gatiue in ecclesiastical causes, should not be a whit
diminished, but rather greatly strengthened by Christs
gouernment. And no lawe should be altered, but such
as were contrary to the lawe of God, and against the
profit of the common wealth : and dierefore there can
be no danger in altering these.
The ministers maintenance by tythe, no puritane 4
denieth to be vnlawfull. For Martin (good M. Par
son) you must vnderstand, doth account no Brownist to
be a puritane, nor yet a sottish Cooperist.
The inconuenience which you shew of the gouer- 5
ment which is, that men would not be ruled by it, is
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not be better obedient vnto Gods law, if the same also
were established by the lawe of the lande, then to the
Popes lawe and his Canons. You think that all men
are like your selues : that is, like bishops, such as can
not chuse but breake the laws and good orders of God
and her Maiestie.
7 The lawes of England haue bene made, when
there was neuer a bishop in the Parliament, as in
the first yere of her Maiestie. And diis reason as al
the rest, may serue to maintaine poperie, as well as the
hierarchie of Bb.
8 The gouerment of the church of Christ, is no
popular gouernement, but it is Monarchical!, in re-
garde of our head Christ, Aristocraticall in the Elder
ship, and Democraticall in the people. Such is the
ciuill gouernement of our kingdome : Monarchical! in
her Majesties person : Aristocraticall in the higher house
of Parliament, ot rather at the Councell table : Demo
craticall in the bodie of the commons of the lower
house of Parliament. Therefore profane T. C. this
gouernment seeketh no popularity to be brought into
/the Church : much lesse entendeth the alteration of the
ciuill state, that is but your slaunder, of which you
make an occupation. And I will surely paye you for
it. I must be brief now, but more warke for Cooper
shall examine your slaunders. They are nothing else
but prooffes, that as by your owne confessions you are
bishops of the Diuell, so you are enemies vnto the
state. For by these slaunders, you go about to blinde
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the Church in our dayes. I saye, that by your owne
confession, you are bishops of the Diuell. I will prooue
it thus. You confesse that your Lordly gouernment,
were not lawfull and tollerable in this comonwealth,
if her Maiesty and the state of the land did disclaime
the same. Tell me, doe you not confesse this. Denie
it if you dare. For will you say, that you ought law
fully to be here in our commonwelth whether her Ma
jesty and the Counsell wil or no: Is this the thankes
that her Maiestie shall haue, for tollerating you in her
kingdome all this while, that nowe you will saye, that
you and your places stand not in this kingdome by her
curtesie, but you haue as good right vnto your places, as
she hath vnto her kingdome. And by this meanes your
offices stande not by her good liking, and the good
liking of the state, as do the offices of our L. high Chan
cellor, high Treasurer, and high Steward of Englande.
But your offices ought to stand and to be in force, in
spight of her Maiestie, the Parliament, Counsel], and
euerie man els, vnles they woulde doe you iniury. Soe
that I know, I, you dare not deny but that your offices
weare vnlawfull in our common wealth, if her Maiestie,
the Parliament, and the Counsell woulde haue them
abollished. If you grant this, then you doe not hold
your offices as from God, but as from man. Her ma
iestie she holdeth hir office, and her kingdome, as from
God, and is beholding for the same, vnto no prince nor
state vnder heiien. Your case is otherwise, for you
hold your offices as from her Maiestie, and not from
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beholding vnto her Maiestie for the same in regarde of
right, then she is boundc to be beholding vnto other
states in regarde of her right : and so you in regarde of
your Lordly superioritie, are not the bishops of god,
but as Ierom sayth, the bishops of man. And this the
most of you confes to be true, and you see how dan
gerous it woulde be for you, to affirme the contrary :
namely, that you holde your offices as from god. Well
sir, if you say that you are thc bishops of man. The
tell me whether you like of Dean Iohn his
' ' booke. O yes sayth T. C. For his grace
did peruse that book, and we know the sufficiencie of it
to be such, as the Puritans are not able to answere it.
Well then, whatsoeuer is in this booke is authenticall.
It is so, saith T. C. otherwise his grace would not haue
alowed it. What say you then to the 140. page of that
booke, where he saith (answering the treatise of the
bishop of God, the bishop of Man, and the bishop of
the Diuell) that there is no bishopp of man at all, but
euerie B. must be either the Bishopp of God, or the
Bishop of the the Diuel. He also affirmeth, none to
be the bishop of god, but he which hath
E*,' warrant, bodi inclusiuely and also expresly
310. line!. jn gQlis wor(h Now you Bishops of the
Diuell, what say you now, are you spighted of the
Puritans, because you like good subiects defend the
lawes of her Maiestie, or els because like incarnate
Diuells, you are bishops of the Diuells, as you your
selues confesse.
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what pestilent and daungcrous beasts these wretches are
vnto the ciuill state. For either by their owne con
fession, they are thc Bishops of the Diuell (and so by
that means will be the vndoing of thc state, if they be
continued therin) or else their places ought to be in
this commonwealth, whether her Maic3tie and our state
wil or no : because they are not (as they say) the
bishops of man, that is, they haue not tlieir superioritie,
and their Lordly callings ouer their brethren by humane
constitution, as my LL. Chancellor, Treasurer, and other
honorable personages haue, but by diuine ordinance.
Yea, and their callings, they holde (as you haue heard)
not onely to be inclusiuely, but also expreslie in the
word. What shifte will they vse to auoyde this point ?
Are they the Bishopps of men, that is, holde they their
iurisdiction as fr5 men. No saith Deane Gridges, no
sayth Iohn of Canterburie and the rest of them, (for all
of them allowe this booke of Iohn Bridges) for then we
are the bishops of the deuill, we cannot auoid it ? Are
they then the bishops of God, that is, haue they such a
calling as the Apostles, Euangelists, &c. had : that is,
such a calling as ought lawfully to be in a christian
common wealth (vnlesse the magistrate woulde iniurie
the Church, yea maime, deforme, and make a monster
of the Church) whether the magistrate will or no. We
haue say they. For our callings are not onely inclu
siuely, but also expressely in the worde. So that by
Deane Bridges his confession, and the approbation of
Iohn Canterburie, either our bishops are bishops of the
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out flat and plaine treason, in ouerthrowing her Maies-
ties supremacie. And so Deane Bridges hath written,
and Iohn Whitgift hath approoued and allowed, flat
treason to be published.
Is Martin to be blamed for finding out and discouer-
ing traitors ? Is he to be blamed for crying out against
the Bb. of the Diuel. If he be, then in deed haue I
offended in writing against bishops ? If not, whether is
the better subiect Martin or our bishops : whether I be
fauored or no, I wil not cease, in the loue I owe to her
Maiestie, to write against traitors, to write against the
Diuels bishops. Our bishops are such by their owne
confession. For they protest them selues to be bishopps
of the Diuel. If they should holde the preheminence
to be from man, If they hold it otherwise then from
man, they are traytors. And vntil this beast Docter
Gridges wrote this booke, they neuer as yet durst pre
sume to claim their Lordships any otherwise lawful
then from her maiestie, yea and D. Bridges about the
CO. page saith the same. But they care not what con
trariety they haue in their writings, what treason they
hold, as long as they are~perswaded that no man shalbe
tollerated to write against them. I haue once already
shewed treason to be in this booke of the Deane of
Sarum, page 118. I shew the like now to be pag. 340.
Because Deane Bridges durst not answeare me. They
haue turned vnto me in his stead, a beast whome Jby
the length of his eares, I gesse to be his brother, y' is,
an Asse of thc same kinde. But I wil be answered of
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treason, or else, his cloister shal smoake for it. And
thus profane T. C. you perceue what a good subieet
you are, in defending the established gouernment.
Thus also I haue answered all your booke in the mat
ters of the lawfulnes of the gouerment by Pastors,
Doctors, Elders and Deacons, and the vnlawfulnes of
our bastardly Church gouernment, by archbishops and'
bishops, where also the reader may see, that if euer
there was a church rightly gouerned, that is a church
without maime or deformity, the same was gouerned by
Pastors, Doctors, elders and deacons.
Whau, whau, but where haue I bin al this while.
Ten to one among some of these puritans- Why Mar
tin ? Why Martin I say, hast tow forgotten thy selfe ?
Where hast ti bene, why man, cha bin a seeking for a
Samons nest, and cha vound a whol crue, either of
ecclesiasticall traitors, or of bishops of the Diuel, of
broken and maimed members of the church : neuer
winke on me good fellow, for I will speke the truth,
lett the puritans doe what they can. I say then that
they are broken members, and I say Iohn of Canter
bury if he be a member of the church, I say he is a
broken member, and that Thomas .of Winchester is a
Cholerick member. Yea and cha vound diat profane
T. C. is afraid lest her Maiestie shoulde giue Bishops
liuings away from them. And therefore shutteth his
booke with this position, vz. That it is not lawful to
bestow such liuings vppon lay men, as are appointed by
Gods law vppon ministers. But hereof more warke for
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Reuerend T. C. Admonition page 1. 2. 3.
We vse die Ministers most vile nowe a dayes. God
will punish vs for it, as hee did those which abused his
prophets. Reuerend Martin.
Look to it T. C. then. For out of thine own mouth
shalt thou be iudgcd, diou vnrightcous seruant. Our
bishops are they whicli abuse the ministers. Our bi
shopps were neuer good ministers as yet, and therefore
they are not to be compared with the propliets.
Reuerend T. C. Page 4.
Some men will say, that I do great iniurie to the
propliets and apostles, in comparing our Bishops vnto
the. But we may be happie if we may haue tollerable
ministers in this perilous age. }¦
Reuerend Martin.
I hope T. C. that diou dost not mean to serue the
church with worse then we haue : what worse then Iohn
of Canterburie ? worse then Tom Tubtrimmcr of Win"-
chester? worse then the vickers of Hell, syr Jefferie
Jones, the parson of Micklain, &c. I pray thee, rather the
we should haue a change from euil to worse, let vs haue
the euil stil. But I care not if I abide ye venture of
the change. Therfore get Iohn. with his Canterburi-
nesse, remooued, &c. (whome thou acknowledgest to be
euill) and I doc not doubt, if worse come in their stead,
but the diuell wil soon fetch them away, and sd' we
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T. C. is it possible to find worse then we haue. I do
not maruel though thou callest me libeller, when thou
direst abuse the Prophets farre worse, then in calling
the libellers : for I tel thee true, thou couldest not haue
anye way so stayned their good names, as thou hast
done, in comparing them to our bishopps. Call me
Libeller as often as thou wilt, I do not greatly care :
but and thou loucst me, neuer liken me to our bishops
of the diuell. For I cannot abide to be compared vnto
those. For by thine owne comparison, in the 9. page,
they are iust Balaams vp and downe.
Reuerend T. C. page 8. 9. 10.
Though our bishops be as euil as Iudas, the false
Apostles, and Balaam, yet because they haue sometimes
brought vnto vs Gods message, wee must thinke no
otherwise of them, then of Gods messengers. For God
will not suffer diuellishe and Antichristian persons, to
be the chiefe restorers of his gospell.
Reuerend Martin,
First T. C. I haue truly gathered diine argument,
thogh thou namest neither Iudas nor die false apostles.
Prooue it otherwise. Then hast thou reuerend Martin,
prooued thy selfe a lyar. Now secondly then seeing it
¦is so, I praye thee good honest T. C. desire, our Iudasses
(whc( was also one of the first Apostles) not to sell
their master for money, desire our false Apostles (who
preached no false doctrine for the most part) not to
insult ouer poore Paule, and desire our good Balaams,
not to followe the wages of vnrighteousnes. The coun-
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sell is good. For Iudas, thogh one of the first pub
lishers of the gospell (so were not our bishops in our
time) yet hung himself. The false apostles had their
reward, I doubt not. And Balaam, as soon as euer the
Israelites tooke him, was iusdy executed for his wick-
ednes. The forced blessing wherewith he blessed die
saued him not.
Reuerend T. C. page 10. 11. 12. 13.
Ma[n]y coniecturall speeches flye abroad of bishops,
as that they are couetous, giue not to the poore, hinder
reformation, Simoniacks, &c. but the chiefe gouernours
ought to take heede, that they giue no credit to any
suche things. I trust neuer any of them, commited
idolatrie as Aharon did.
Reuerend Martin.
Yea, I beseeche you that are in authoritie in any
case, not to beleeue any trueth against our bishops.
For these puritans (although the bishops grant them-
selues, to bee as euill as Balaam) coulde neuer yet
prooue the good fathers, to haue committed idolatrie as
Aharon did. And as long as diey bee no worse then
Balaam was, there is no reason why they should be
disliked. You know this is a troublesome worlde,
men cannot come vnto any meare liuing without friendes.
And it is no reason why a man should trouble his
friende and giue him nothing, a hundred poundes and a
gelding, is yet better then nothing. To bowle but
seuen dayes in a weeke, is a very tollerable recreation. ^
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preached (as this profane T. C. hath giuen out to his no
small commendations) thrise in a yeare at Paules crosse.
A sore labor, it is reason that he should bestowe the
rest of the yeare, in maintaining his health by recreation,
and prouiding for his family: giue him leaue but to
keepe out the gouernment of the Church, to swear
like a swag, to persecute, and to take some small ten n,
the hundred : and truely he will be loath euer to com
mit idolatrie as Aharon did. I hope, though Iudas sold
his master, yet that it cannot be prooued since his call
ing, that euer he committed idolatrie.
Reuerend T. C. page 16. 17.
Though bishops should offende as Noah did in drun-
kennes, yet good childre should couer their fathers fHts.
For naturall children, though they suffer iniunes at their
fathers hands, yet they take their griefes verie mddely.
Reuerend Martin.
Bishop Westphaling. But what then? Parson Graual
parson of sir Iohn Pulchres in London (one of dumbe
Iohns bousing mates) will be drunke but once a weeke.
But what then? good childre sli-mld take l.nkes in a
cold morning, and light them at his nose, to see if by
that means some part of the fire that hath so flashed his
sweete face, might be taken away : this were their
dutie, sayth T. C. and not to crie redde nose, redd nose.
' But T. C. what if a man shoulde find him lying in the
kenill, whether shoulde he take him vpp (all to be
mired like a swine) in the sight ofthe people, and cary
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6 !um there toke his rest, vntill his Ieggs woulde be
aduised by him to earie him home. But ine d.inks
brother T. C. you defend the bishops but euilfauoredly
™ these pointes. For you doe, as though a thiefe
should saye to a true man, I must needs haue thy purse
thou must beare with me, it is my nature, I must needes
Playe die thiefe. But yet thou dealest vncharitably
with me, if thou blasest it abroad : for though I make
an occupation of dieft, yet charitie would couer it So
^ye you, though our bishops make a trade of perse
cuting and depriuing Gods min.sterS) ^^
a trade of continuing in Antichristian callings, yet cha-
nt, wouhle haue their faltes eouered, and^e th 1
nnldely del WIt , As though T Q ^ ^
difference, betwixt those that fall by infirmitie into
some one sinne, not making it their trade, and not
defending the same to be lawfull, and our bishops
which continue in an Antichristian calling and occu
pation, and defend diey may do so. But wil they
leaue think you, if they be mildly and gently delt with.
The good Iohn of Canterbury, I pray thee leaue thy
persecuting : good Iohn of Canterbury leaue thy Pope-
dome : good father Iohn of London, be no more a
bishop ofthe Diuell : he no more a tray tor to God and
his worde. And good sweet boyes, all of you, become
honest men : maim and deforme 'the church no longer :
sweet fathers now, make not a trade of persecuting :
gentle fathers keep the people in ignoraunce no longer :
good fathers now, maintaine the dumb ministerie no
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good sweete babes nowe: leaue your Nonresidencie,
and your. other sinnes, sweete Popes now: and suffer
the trueth to haue free passage. Lo T. C. nowe I haue
mddely delt with thc good fathers, I will now expecte
a while, to see whether they will amende by faire
means, if not, let them not say but they haue bin
warned. Reuerend T. C. from the 20. to the 30.
Though the bishops be faltie, yet they are not to be
excused that finde fait with them for synister ends.
And the prince and magistrates, is to take heed that by
their suggestions, they be not brought to put downe
L. bishops, to take away their liuings, and put than
to their pensions. For the putting of them to their
pensions, would discourage young students from the
study of diuinity. Reuerend Martin.
I thought you were a fraide to loose your liuings, by
the courtier Martins meanes. But brethren feare it
not. I woulde not haue any true minister in the land
want a sufficient liuing. But good soules, I commend
you yet, that are not so bashful, but you will shew your
griefes. Is it die treading vnder foote of the glory of
God, that you feare good men. No no say they, we
could resonably wel bear that losse. But we dy'e if
you deminish die alowance of our Kitchin. Lett vs be
assured of that, and our Lordly callings, and we do not
greatly care, how other matters go. , I will when more
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means to liue, though they haue none of your Bishop-
domes, if they will be ruled by me.
Reuerend T. C. page 35. 30.
There haue bene within diese fewe weekes 3. or 4.
pamphlets published in print, against bishops. The
author of them calledi him selfe Martin, &c.
R. Martin.
But good Tom Tubtrimmer, if tliere haue bin*3.-or 4
published, why doth bishop Cooper name oh[e] only,
why doth he not confute all? why doth he inuent
obiections of his owne, seeing he had 3. books more to
confute, or 2. at least then he hath touched, nay, why
doth he not confute one of them thoroughly, seeing there
in his Bishopdome was reasonably caperclawed. I haue
onely published a Pistle, and a Pitomie, wherein also I
graunt that I did reasonably Pistle them. Therefore
T. C. you begin widi a lye, in that you say that I haue
published either 3. or 4. bookes.
Reuerend T. C. page 38.
His grace neuer felt blow as yet, &c. What is he
past feeling, wilt thou tel me that T. C. he sleepeth belike
in the top of ye roust. I would not be so wel thwacked
for the popedomc of Canter, as he hath borne poore
man. He was neuer able to make good syllogisme
sii.ee I am sure. Hee alowed D. Bridges his booke
quoth T. C. I pray thee what got he by that, but a
testimony against him selfe, that either he hath, allowed
treason, or confessed him selfe to be the bishop of the
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T. C. page 38. He that readeth his grace's answere,
and M. Cartwrights reply, shal see which is the better
lerned of the twoe. So he shal in deed T. C. and he
were very simple which could not discerne that. And
there is soe much answered already as thou saist, that
his grace dare answere no more for shame. And T. C.
you your selues grant T. Cartwright to be learned, so
did I neuer thinke Iohn Whitgift to bee, what com
parison cann you make betwene them ? But Thomas
Cartwright, shall I say, that thou madest this booke
against me, because T. C. is sett to it, wel take heed
of it, if I find it to be thy doing, I will so besoop thee,
as thou neuer bangedst Iohn Whitgift better in thy life.
I see heere that they haue quarrelled with thee Wa[l]ter
Trauerse, Iohn Penri, Thomas Sparke, Giles Wigging
ton, Master Dauison, &c. Nay it is no matter, you are
een wel serued, this wil teach you I trow to become
my chaplaines. For if you were my chaplains once, I
trowe Iohn Whitgift, nor any of his, durst not once say
blackc to your eies. And if I had thy learning Thomas
Cartwright, I would make diem all to smoak. But
though I were as verye an Assehead as Iohn Catercap
is, yet I coulde deale well inough with cleargie men :
yea with olde Winken de word, D. Prime his selfe.
And ile bepistle you D. Prime, when I am at more
leasure, tiiough in deede I tell you true, that as yet
I doe disdaine to deale with a contemptible trencher
chaplaine, such as you, D. Bankcroft, and Chaplaine
Duport are. But ise be with you all three to bring one
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but once in hande. You see how I haue delt with
Deane Iohn, your entertainement shalbe alike. But
Thomas Cartwright, thou art T. C. so is Tom Cooper
too. The distinction dien, betweene you both, shall be
this : he shalbe profane T. C. because he calleth Christ
Iesus, by whom the gouernment by Pastors, Doctors,
Elders and Deacons was commanded, to be he knowes
not whom : and diou shalt be simple T. C.
Concerning Mistresse Lawson, profane T. C. is it not
lawfull for her to go to Lambeth- by water, to accom-
Q . . panic a preachers wife, <going also (as com-
quod vuit monly godly matrons in London do) with her
noTvJt"* man : No saidi T. C. I doe not like this in
audiet. women. Tushe man, Thomas Lawson is not
Thomas Cooper, he has no suche cause to doubt o£
Dame Lawsons going without her husbande, as the
bishop of Winchester hath had of dame Coopers gad
ding. But more worke for Cooper, will say more for
mistresse Lawson.
From whom soeuer Charde had his protection, his
Face is glad of itb for otherwise he knoweth not how to
get a printer, for the established gouernment, because
the bookes will not sell.
Touching the Premunire, let the Libellei
40. ' Pa6' and his, doe what he dare. Why brethren,
what wisedome is this in you to dare your betters ? dot
you not know that I can sende you my minde by e
Pistle, and then prooue you to be pettie Popes, and
enemies to the State. And how can you mend yom
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Maiestie will giue me leaue to haue the law, I will be
bound to bring 10000. poundes into her coffers vpon
that bargain. And therefore foolish men, dare your
betters no more. And here I pray thee mark how I
haue made the bishops to pull in their homes. For
whereas in this place, they had printed the word dare,
they bethought themselues, y' they had to deale with
my worship, which am fauoured at the Court, and being
afraide of me, they pasted the word can vpon the word
dare, and so, where before they bad me and mine doe
what we durst : now they bid vs do what we can,
hoping thereby^to haue a frinde in a corner, whoe
woulde not suffer vs to doe what wee ought and durst :
and so our abilitie shoulde not be according vnto their
demerit. Marke now, ye bishopps of the Diuell,
whether you be not afraide of me : I will see you iolled
with the Premunire one day.
The like thing you shall finde in the 135. page. For
there hauing said, that they will not denie the discipline
to haue bene in the Apostles time, they haue now
pasted there vpon that, That is not yet proued. So
that although their consciences do tell diem, that the
discipline was then, yet they will beare the world in
hand, that that is not yet proued. Here you see that if
this patch T. C. had not vsed two patches to couer his
patcherie, the bishops woulde haue accounted him to be
as very a patch as Deane Iohn.
A, but these knaue puritans are more vnmannerly
before his grace, then the recusaunts are, and therefore
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for wee ought to haue no popes. The papists liketh
the Archiepiscopall Pall, and tlierefore reuerenceth a
petty Pope therein. And though the recusant come
not to heare the sermons, yet he is an informer very
often, vppon other mens information.
His grace denieth diat euer he hard of any such
matter, as that the lesuit should say, he would becom a
braue Cardinal, if popery should come againe. I knowe
T. C. that long since he is past shame, and a notorious
Iyer, otherwise how durst he deny this, seeing Cliffe an
honest and a godly cobler, dwelling at Battell bridg,
41 did iustifie this before his grace his teethe,
yea and will iustifie the same againe if he be
called. So will Atkinson too. Send for them
PQCC 44: * if he dare. Ministers of the Gospel ought to
be called priests, saith his grace, what say you by that ?
Then good sir Iohn O Cant, when wilt thou say Masse
at our house. His grace is also perswaded, that there
ought to be a Lordly superioritie among ministers. So
was Iudas perswaded to sell his master. If you woulde
haue these thinges prooued, profane T. C. referreth you
to his grace his answer vnto simple T. C. and to doctor
Bridges. That is, if you woulde learne any honestie,
you must go to the stewes, or if you would haue a good
sauour, you must go to the sincke for it. Why thou
vnsauorly snulle, dost tow thinke that men know not
D. Bridges and Iohn AVhitgift. Yea but his grace also
firmely beleeueth, that Christ in soule descended into
Hell. This is the 3. pc^t of his catholike perswasion :
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this beliefe, and my finger in his mouth. Let him tell
what our sauiour Christ should do, if he did not harrow
Hell. Where thou saiest M. Yong had .onely the
dealing with Tliakwcl the popish printer, without his
graces priuitie, thou liest in thy throat : M. Yong him
selfe brought him to his grace, who ordered the matter
as it is set downe in my Pistle. But did not I say
truely of thee, y' thou canst cog, face and lye, as fast '
as a dog can trot, and that thou hast a right seasoned
wainscoate face of ti nowne, chwarnt tee, ti vorehead
zaze hard as home.
Concerning Walde-graue, its no matter how you deal
with him, heez a foolish fellow, to suffer you to spoyle
his presse and letters : an a had bin my worships
printer, ide a kept him from your douches. And yet
it is pitie to belye the diuell : and therefore you shall
not belye him and goe scotfree. As for the presse that
Walde-graue solde, he did it by order, vz. He solde it
to an allowed printer, I. C. one of his owne companie,
with the knowledge of his Warden, Henry Denham, &c.
And cal you this fauor, in releasing him after long im
prisonment ? But I will giue you a president of great
fauour in deede, wherein you may see what an vngrate-
ful fellow Walde-graue is to his grace, who hath bin so
good vnto him from time [to] time. There being a con-
trouersie betweene another printer and Walde-graue (all
matters of printing being committed by die LL. of tlie
Counsell to his grace) Walde-graue made one of his
company his friende (who could do much with his
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worship, being at Croydon in his Orcharde : so soone as
the partie named Walde-graue, he sweetely aunswered
him, saying : if it had bin any of the copany saue him,
he would haue graunted the suite, but in no case to
Walde-graue. Well Walde-graue, obtained the R. H.
Lord Treasurers letter in his behalfe to his grace, who
"hen he had read it, said, I wil answer my L. Treasurer :
with that Walde-graue intreated for his fauorable letter
to the Wardens of his companie, which in th<? end
througli D. Coosins he obtained (though late) yet went
home at night, thinking to deliuer it in the morning :
but before he was readie, the Wardens were with him,
and rested him with a Purciuant vpon his graces com-
mandement, Walde-graue telling them there was a letter
from his grace, which he receiued late the last night at
Croidon : who answered, they knew it well inough, but
A new re- this is his pleasure now : so they caried Walde-
uenge for ¦ ,.,.,.
an old S™uc t0 pnson, and in this, his grace was so
grudge. good vnto him, as to help him with an hun
dred marks ouer the shulders. If this be your fauour,
God keepe me from you, ka M. Marprelate. . Bishops
Iiaue iustly receiued according to their descrtes, hauing
found greater fauour at my worships hands the euer
they deserued, being notorious, disobedient and god-
lesse persons, vnthrifty spenders and consumers of the
fruits, not of their own labors, (as you say Walde-graue
was) but of the possessions of the church, persons that
haue violated their faith to god, his church,^ maiesty,
and this whol kingdom, and wittingly bring vs al with
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wiues, children and Beruants, haue cause to curse al
L. Bb. Lo T. C. you see that I haue a good gift in
imitation, and me thinkes I haue brought your wordes
into a marueilous good sense, wher as before in the
cause of Walde-graue, they were ilfauoredly wrested :
and as for his wife and children, they haue iust cause
to curse Iohn of London, and Iohn of Canterburie, for
their tyrannizing ouer him : by imprisoning and spoyling
his goods, and vexing his poore wife and children, with
continuall rifeling his house with their purciuants : who
in Nouember last, violently rusht into his house, break
ing through the maine wall thereof after midnight, taking
away his goods, for some of the purciuants solde his
books vp and downe the streats, to watchmen and
others. Ah you Antichristian prelats, when will you
make an ende of defending your tyrannie, by the blood
and rapine of her maiesties subiectes ? You haue bin
the consumers of the fruits of Walde-graues labors : for
haue you not sent him so often to prison, that it seemed
you made a common occupation thereof ? For as soon
as any book is printed in the defence of Christs holy
discipline, or for ye detecting of your Antichristian deal
ings, but your rauening purciuantes flye citie and coun
trie to seeke for Walde-graue, as though he were boiid
by statute vnto you, either to make known o the
who printed seditious books against my L. f£aJ"£ef
Face, or to go to prison himselfe, and threat- fauor.
ned with the racke. And are you not ashamed to say,
that he euer violated his fayth ? you know wel inough,
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stood, after he had remained a long time in prison, not
that time when Hartwell his graces secretary wisht that
his grace might neuer eat bit of bread after he released
hiin. Nor at that time wlien you profane T.C. told
liim, that all puritans had traiterous hearts. Nor at
that time Wald-graue toldc his grace, that he was worse
the Boner in regard of the time. Nor that time when
he was straungely released by one of the Lorde of good
Londons Swans. Neither was it at y' time, when his
grace (good conscionable noble man) violated his pro
mise, in that he told the wardens of die stacioners, that
if Walde-graue woulde come quietly to him, and cease
printing of seditious bookes, he would pardon what was
past, and the wardens promised his wife, that if he were
committed, they would lye at his graces gate til he were
released, and for al this, yet he was committed to the
white Lyon, where he laye sixe weekes. Nor it was
not at that time, when his grace allowed Watson the
purciuant, to take of Walde-graue, 13. s. 4. pence, for
cariyng of him to the white Lyon. But it was that
time, when his grace kept him 20. weekes together in
the white lyon, for printing the Complaint of the com-
minaltie, the Practize of prelats, A learned mans iudg-
ment, &c. Means being vsed for his liberty, his frend
who was bound for him told him, his liberty was obtained
in maner following. You must be bounde saith he,
in a 100. pounds, to print no more books herafter, but
such as shalbe authorized by hir Maiesty or his grace,
or such as were before lawfully authorized : wherunto
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himselfe within the compasse of that bond, neither
should his consent euer go to the same (the Whereby
'..-.„ . , , . , , it mai/ ap-
same wil D. Loosins witnes (that maidenly „rart. /„.
Doctor, who sits cheek by ioll with you) if swn" '""
J J ' to Ins
he will speake a trueth, which words Walde- friend.
graue vttered to him, going in the old pallas at west-
minster with his keeper before he was released) yet he
woulde gladly haue his libertie if he might lawfully.
For saide he, I being a poore workeman to my com-
panie, cannot possibly obserue it. For many bookes
heretofore printed, had cum priuilegio, and yet were
neuer authorized : and againe, that it were but a folly
for him to sue to her Maiestie, the office were very
base and vnfit for her. And he might be wel assured
that Caiphas of Cant, would neuer authorize any thing
for his behoofe, and so it fell out. And thus Martin
hath prooued you in this, as in all other things, to be
lyars. And what is it that you Bb. and your hangones
will not saye by Walde-graue, whom you would hang if
you could. I will be briefe in the rest, but so, as reader
may perceiue that T. C. was hired to lye by commission.
I wil stand to it, that his grace accounteth the
preaching of the word, being the only ordinary page 4 J.
meanes of saluation to be an heresie, and doth mortally
persecute the same : his appellation to the page 47.
obedient cleargie shall stand him in no steed, wheu
more worke for Cooper is published. And there I will
pay thee for abusing M. Wiggington, and MasCer Da-
uison, whose good names can take no staine, pnge 47.
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Euans for want of conformity, why is the quare impedit
gotten against the bishopp of Worcester, by die noble
Earl of Warwick his patron. I hope he wil see both
the quare impedit, and die premunire to, brought vppon
the bones of father Edmond of Worcester. It is a corn-
page 48. mon bragge with his grace his parasites, and
with him selfe, that he is the second person in
the land. More work shall pay his grace for com-
2 i;sciras mending the Apocripha, a profane and a lying
14. 21-37. storye in many plates, to be vnseparably
ioined with the holy word of God. You grant
D. Spark to haue set his grace and your selfe T. C. at
page 50. a „„„ plus, for the septuaginta is contrary to
the Hebrew, and therefore, you maintain contrary trans
lations, and require men to aproue both. Martin hath
marred Richard patriks market, for otherwise he was in
good hope to haue a benefice at his grace his hand, and
to be made a minstrell. Shamelesse and impudent
wretches that dare deny Iohn of Cat. to haue bin at any
time vnder D. Pcrne, but as a fcllowe of the house,
where he was master, whereas all the world knoweth
him to haue bin a poore scholler in that house, yea and
his grace hath often confessed, that hee beinge there a
poore scholler, was so poor as he had not a napkin to
wipe his mouth, but when he hadd gotten some fatte
meat of O the fellowes table, would go to the skrine,
and first wipe his mouth on the on[e] side and then O
the other, because he wanted a napkin, iudge you whe
ther this bee not a meaner state, then to cary a cloakbag,
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to pull the pride of Gods enemy an ase lower. Although
wee cannot beleeue D. Peine in the pulpit, yet in this
point wee will not refuse his testimony. I am gladd
Iohn of London you will not deenic, but you pagc 51.
haue the Diars cloth, make restitution then : 5--53. 51.
thou madest the porter of thy gate a minister Iohn, and
thou mightest do it lawfully. Why so I pray thee, why
man, because he was almost blinde, and at Paddington
being a small people, hee could not starue as many
soules, as his master doth, wliich is a great rage 55.
charge. I hope M. Madox will thinke scorne, 5(i-
' to ask Iohn of London forgiuenessc. The substance of
the tale is true. I told you that I had it at the second
hand. Are you not asliamed, to deny the elmes to be
cut downe at Fulham ? Why her maiestics taker tooke
them from Iohn of London. And simple fellowes, are
you not able to discern between a plesant frump giuen
you by a counsellor, and a spech vsed in good earnest.
Alas poore Iohn O London, doest thou thinke, that M.
Vicechambcrlain spake as he thought. Then it is time
to begg thee for a swagg. And so it is if thou thinkest
wee will beleeue the turncoate D. Peme speaking vnto
vs in his owne name, who like an Apostate, hath out of
the pulpit, tolde so many vntruthes. And as it is as
lawfull to boule, O the Sabboth, as it is to page 57,
eat, and for you to make dumbe ministers, as °a'
it was for Dauid to eat of the shew bread, pag. 110. or
for the Machabees to fight on the Sabboth, or for Moses
to grant a bil of diuorcement ? I pcrceiue these men
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gotten for money. Yea and our Sauiour Christ, sware
by his faith very often. How so good Iohn.' I neuer
hard that before, why saith T. C. he sayd Amen Amen
very often, and Amen, is as much as by my faith, page
62. horrible and blasphemous beastes, whither will your
madnes growe in a while, if you be not restrained. M .
l>agc 58. Allen the Grocer is paid all saue 10. pound :
for the vse of that, thc executors haue Iohn O Londons
blessing. And I thinke they are reasonably wel serued.
page 50. If the tale oix Benison be not true, why was
Iohn of London alotted by the counsel, to pay him (I
think) 40. pounds for his false imprisonment. Iohn of
London is not dumb, because he prcachcdi somtimes
tluise a yeare at Pauls crosse. Then we shall neuer.
jageG. make our money of it I see. But I pray thee
Gl. G2. 'p q howe canst thou excuse his blaspeemie, of
Eli, Eli, lama sahuchthani : there haue bin 2. outra-
gious facts amongst others committed in the world, by
those that professe true religion, the on[e] was the
betraying of our sauiour by Iudas an apostle, the other
was the horrible mocking of his agonie and bitter pas
sion, by Iohn Ehnar a bishop in this speeche. If he
had bene in some reformed Churches, the blaspheemer
woulde haue hardly escaped with his life. And is it
true sweete boy in deed? Hath Leicestorshiere so
embraced thc Gospell without contention, and that by
Dumb Iohns mcanes? Litle doest thou know what
thou hast done nowe, howe if Martin be a Leycester
shicre man, hast not thou then sett out the praise of
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your Caiphas Chaire more wracke and misery, then all
the whole land beside. And therefore thou seest, a
man may be so madd somtimes, that he may praise he
cannot tel what. The bishop of Rochester in page G3.
presenting him selfe to a parsonage, did noe more then
lawe allowed him. And do so againe good Iohn of
Rochester, and it will be for thy credit. Fo, these
puritans woulde findc fault I thinke with Iohn of Cant.
(if he beleeuing that Christe in soule went to IlcllJ
should holde it vnlawfull for a man to pray vnto Christe
being in hell. And sweet Iohn of Cant, if euer thou
praiedst in thy life for any bodies souls, now pray for
thy brother D. Squire and Tarletons soules. They
were honest fellows, though I think dean Iohns
cars be longer. For why good sweet Iohn, may not
your worship do this, as well as William of j,agc G3.
Lincolne might pray, that our soules should 0l-
be with the soules of professed traiterous papists.
The good B. of Winchester did not protest, that at
sir M. Oueries which was laid to his charge, p.lge ] j.
but he spake som things that way. Wel bro- u5.0b.&o.
ther Winchester, you confesse the most part, and we
wil beleeue the rest for your sake without witnes.
The B. of Winchester neuer said that it was ^age 71.
an heresie, to holde that the preaching of the worde was
the only ordinarie means to saluation, but inasmuch as
Penri helde that the effect of saluation coulde not be
wrought by the word read, he said that was not far
from heresie : why brother Cooper, what is this els but
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writhes holdeth the word read, to be no ordinary means
of saluation at al. This I know you wil accout an
heresie, otherwise your case is damnable, that cause the
people to content themselues with reading, and hold
that they may ordinarily be saued thereby. Yea but
page 72. T. of Winchester disputed a M. of Art, 45.
'5' yeare ago in diuinitie. Here is an old lad
once. I hope that disputation was very cholerickly
performed. And he did once as prety a thing as that
came to. For once preaching at Canter, he was dis
posed to note out T. C. I meane simple T. C. in his
sermon, his part he plaid after this sort. He noted 4.
great Hidraes of the gospell in his sermon. 1. Carnall
security. 2. Heathenish gentility. 3. Obstinat papis-
trie. 4. saith he, when I looke in his forehead, I finde
T. C. 'Written therein, whicli I cannot otherwise inter
pret, then thankles curiositie, thanklesse for the benefits
already receiued, and more curious than needs in vain
and needles questions. The old studet did not know
himselfe to be T. C. when he thus spake, and this is
yl thankles curiosity yl hath answered Martin. Yea
and he saw martins picture drawn when he was a yong
man. I perceiue then he was not blind, as the old
porter of Paddington, whom Iohn of London bedeaconed
and beminsti elled. Lucian of Winchester himselfe was
the painter. Mydas of Cant, the iudge. The one of
the 2. wonie caled ignorance, was the goodwife of Bath,
D. Culpable warden of new colledge, yc other called
ielious suspicion, was ye fox Iohn of Exetor. The came
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Winken and his L. of Winchester, drew innocencie : to
wit, Martin Marprelat gentleman by the hairc of the
head. Then followed Dolus fraus insidiee. To wit,
D. Perne, D. Renold and D. Cosins. The treader was
cankered malice, his eyes were fierie, his face thinn and
withered, pined away with melancholi, and this was D.
Copcoat. Then followed dolfull repentance, yl is, dean
Iohn repenting that euer he had writte in the Bb. behalfe
because his grace is not as good as his worde. T. C.
consider this picture vntill we meet againe. Now my
busines calleth me away, I am trauelling towards Ban
bury, for I here say that there hath bin old adoe. For
bakers daughters wold haue knights whether they would
or no. I wil learne the trueth hereof, and so I will post
to Solihill, and visiting som parts of Stafford, Warwick,
and Northampton shires, I will make a ioumey backe
againe to norfolke and suffolke : I haue a register at
Burie, and by that time my visitors will be come out of
Cornwall, Deuon and Hampshire. And now fare thee
well good profane T. C. 1 cannot now meddle with the
long period which thou hast in the 33. 34. pag. of thy
book, it is but 38. lines : thou art longer wi[n]ded then
Deane Iohn is I see, though he hath longer periods then
that which I set downe. Whereas thou dost complaine
that the liuings of our bishopps are so small, that some
of their children are hke to go a begging. There is a
present remedy for that. For to what end els, is Iohn of
Cant, vnmaried, but to prouide for the bishops children
who shalbe poorly left. Though in deed, I neuer said in
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I know there was some acquaintauncc) betwccne mistris
Toye and Iohn Whitgift. And ilc befie em, ile befie
em that will say so of me. And wherfore is Richard of
Peterborowe vnmaried, but to prouide for other mens
children. O now I reuienibcr me, he has also a charge
to prouide for, his hostesse and cosin of Sibson. The
peticoat which he bestowed vpon her, within this six
moneths was not the best in England, the token was not
vnmeete for hir state. Farewell, farewell, farewell olde
Martin, and keepe thee out of dieir handes for all that.
For thou art a shrewd fellowe, thou wilt one day ouer-
throw them Amen. And then thou swearest by thy
faith, quoth Iohn of London.
Martin the Metropolitane to Iohn the Metropolitane
sayth, Nemo eonfidat nimium secundis.
Martin to his troubled sonnes sayth,
Nemo desperet meliora lapsus.

Anglia Martinis disce favere tuis.

NOTES.

Title.] Thc words inserted in parenthesis, form, in the original,
an erratum at the end.
P. 7, 1. 4. sir Iohns.} Sir was a title formerly applied to priests
and curates in general. Dominus, the academical title of a bachelor
of arts, was, at the Universities, usually rendered by sir in English ;
so that a bachelor, who in the books stood Dominus Brown, was in
conversation called Sir Brown. In the use of the word by our old
dramatists and writers, the Christian name appears to have been
generally used, although at the Universities it was omitted. In
the " Epistle to the Terrible Priests," Reprint, p. 53, we have the
amusing story of sir Iefferie Iones, in which he is also styled sir
Iones. Sir Hugh Evans, in the M-rry Wives of Windsor; Sir
Topas, Twelfth Night; Sir Oliver, As You Like Tt ; of Shakspeare ;
and the Sir Hugh Pancras, in Ben Jonson's Title «f a Tub, will
readily occur to most readers. Whether it was from the general
prevalence of the Christian name John, that we find so many Sir
Johns, I cannot tell ; but it would appear from many instances,
that it was applicable to all such as had proceeded to the first
degree at the Universities, that of bachelor of arts. The author
has in the present instance used the term generically, in which
sense the following illustration from Latimer may be quoted : —
" Instead of a faithfuU and painefull teacher, they have a Sir
John, who bath better skill in playing at tables, or in keeping a
garden, than in God's word." — Latimer's Sermons, Dedication.
The reader who is curious'in the matter may consult the Notes
to Reed's Shakspeare, ed. 1813, v. 7. 229; viii. 117; xiv. 3W0.4S2.
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P. 7, 1. 13. out of all eric.] This expression, which is to ho met
with in the title also, Is one of a numerous class of expressions,
meaning, out of all measure, beyond measure.
" Sirrah, Serjeant ami yeoman, I should love these maps out of
crie now, if we could see men peep out of door in 'em." — Puritan,
iii. 5.
'¦ And then I am so stowt, and take It upon me, and stand upon
my pantofles to them out of all crie." — Six Old Plays, i. 174.
So also in Martin's Month's Mind, " he knew not which way to
turn himselfe, and at length [was] clean Marde [marred], the
greefe whereof vext him out of all crie." — Sign. E 3, verso. Shak
speare has out of all whooping, As You Like It, iii. 2. In Greene's
Fryer Bacon, " For he once loved the fair maid of Fresingfield
out of all hoe." In Martin Mar-Prelate's Epitome, Reprint, p. 49,
1. 3, "This is put home I tiow, and ouerthroweth the Puritans
out of all cesse : and in Shakspeare, I. Hen. IV. " the poor jade is
wrung in the withers out of all cesse. In page 8 we have out of all
scotche and notehe.
P. 7, I. 20. moneths mind.] This expression has nothing to do
with the office of the Romish Church for the repose of. the dead,
formerly used in England, although it is possible the expression
might have originated from it. Here it expresses the meaning of
a strong desire, and just in the same sense it is used in the western
counties to this day. Shakspeare, in the following quotation, has
used it in this sense, although the Commentators have given some
most strange illustrations : —
" Julia. I see you have a menth's mind to them."
Two Gent, of Verona, i. 3.
Fuller has the expression, " The king had more than a moneth' s
mind to procure the pope to canonize Henry VI. for a saint" —
CA. Hist. b. iv. § 23. So Hall,
"And sets a month's mind upon smiling Mary."
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And llutlcr, " For if n trumpet sound, or drum beat,
Who hath not a month's mind to combat"
Hudibras, Part i. Cant. ii. ver. 3.
Nares has given, from Croft's Excerpta Antiqua, a different origin
to the expression, but which does not on examination appear very
tenalilc. P. 8, 1. It. dum minister."} This story is to be found in Martin's
Epistle. P. 8, 1. 25. true penie.] Hamlet uses this expression to the
Ghost: " Ha, ha, boy I say'stthou so? art thou there true-penny f"
It also occurs in the Malcontent, 1604: "Illo, ho, ho, ho; art
thou there old True-penny?" See also Forty's Glossary.
P. 10, 1. 7. Stafford law."} i. e. club law.
P. 10, 1. 20, 1. 22. Eulogein.] Enlogeni in the original, but cor
rected by the author in the errata.
P. 10, 1. 27. no grue in his poclted.} Nares, in glossing the
word grew, says that it "seems to be put for thc Greek term ynv ;
i. e. any trifling or very worthless matter." The allusion in the
text having evident reference to the moderate knowledge of Greek
which Martin's adversary possessed, may therefore mean, when he
hath very little or no learning wherewith to answer him.
P. 11, 1. 1 and 8. our brother Westchester.] i. e. Winchester.
P. 11, 1. 2. Priemeero on the cards.] Primero was a game at
cards, very fashionable in the reign of Elizabeth. This unrd
occurs in Pap with a Hatchet, in the Note to which, p. 46, 1. 24,
I must request the reader to correct an error inadvertently com
mitted, for Greene to read Cooke, the latter being the author of
the play of "Tu Quoque."
P. 11, 1. 15. ka.] i. e. quoth. It is remarkable that the woru
does not appear in Nares' Glossary. It is frequently used by this
writer in his Epistle.
P. 11, 1. 26. argling.] i. e. arguing.
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P. 18, 1. 21. adient.] Adjoint, adjunct It refers to the then
general custom of placing in tlie margin, or " margent," suoh
notes as were necessary to elucidate tile text, whether in reference
to the author or the tide of his book.
P. 14, 1. 21. besoop.] To belabour.
P. 15, 1. 13. qf all lows.] A tender expression frequently used
instead of by all means. Coles renders the phrase by amabo.
Shakspeare has some instances : —
" But Mrs. Page would desire you to send her your little page
of all loves ; her husband has a marvellous infection to the little
page." — Merry Wives of Windsor, ii. 2.
" For all tlie loves on earth, Hodge let me see it"
Gammer Gurton, O. P. ii. 76.
' Alack where are you ? speak an if you hear ;
Speak, of all loves ; I swoon almost with fear.' '
Mids. N. D. ii. 3.
P. 16, 1. 8. vntil more workefor Cooper be published.] The allu
sion to this intended tract, in the printing of 'which some short
time afterwards the press was seized, is frequent in the present
work. P. 17, 1. 10. haue felt oftheir tongs.] Meaning, I suppose, their
tongues covered with felt Shakspeare has the word : —
" It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe
A troop of horse with/eJ«." — Lear, iv. 6.
See Reed's Shakspeare, xvii. 550, ed. 1813, for other instances.
P. 23, 1. 15. O tis a sweete trunclifiddle.] Nares has the word
Trunchefice, with the following illustration, which, as the running
qualifications of Bishop Aylmer are referred to, may not be inap
propriate : —
" Or say' st thou this same horse shall win the prize,
Because his dam was swiftest Trunchefice,
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P. 24, 1. 1. bumfeg.] i. e. belabour j I see no reference to it
in any Glossary: bumbaste, a word of similar meaning, sometimes
occurs. " 1 will so codgell and bombaste thee, that thou Bhalt not be
able to sturre thyself." — Palace of Pleasure, sign. K 6.
" I will bombaste you, you mocking knave."
Damon and Pitliias, O. P. i. 209.
P. 24, 1. 17. stealecounter.] Counters were small circular pieces
of base money used for reckoning ; and, according to Dr. Farmer,
were introduced from France towards the latter part of the seven
teenth century. A stealecounter, therefore, must be one of the
pettiest of thieves.
P. 24, 1. 20. this geare cottons.] i. e. succeeds, prospers.
" Still mistress Dorothy ! the geer will cotton."
Beaumont fy Fletcher, Mons. Tho. iv. 8.
" Now Hepheetion, doth not this matter cotton as I would."
Lyly's Alex. St Camp., O. P. ii. 122.
P. 24, 1. 26. proue with a wet finger.] i. e. great ease. Nares
seems to think it is derived from the custom of wetting the finger
to turn over the leaves of a book with more ease, and quotes the
following : —
" I hate brawls with my heart, and can turn over a volume of
wrongs with a wet finger." Gabriel Harvey's Pierce's Superer. 21, Reprint.
P. 27, 1. 12. pulleth.} Evidently an error for putteth.
P. 30, 1. 9. soopes.] i. e. blows.
P. 33, 1. 18. Nuts.] The expression "that's nuts," when any
thing witty is said, and especially in reply to another, is very
common in the West of England.
P. 40, last line, so ouersecne.] i. e. guilty of oversight.
P. 43, 1. 26. Denmark.] In the original in one copy is Den-
make, and in another Denmark, a fact hardly worth noticing but
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edition, nor can I trace but one edition, although it is slated by
more than one authority that there were at least two about this
time; there was a reprint I believe in 1641.
P. 44, last line, procure god to wrath.] The sense requires
proooke, unless wrath is used as a verb.
P. +5, 1. 28. ought.] i. e. owed. It occurs in tiie Mirror for
Magistrates, p. 420 : —
" The trust he ought me, made me trust him so."
P. 45, 1. 29. hangones.] A word still in use in some counties,
frequendy joined to rascal, and probably means a person who
deserves hanging. It occurs again at page 69. A friend has,
however, suggested that it might only be another form for
hangers-on. P. 4C, 1. 20. court qf Amraltie.] i. e. Admiralty. Amral occurs
in Paradise Lost
P. 47, 1. 26. Brownist.] Robert Brown, from whom the Inde
pendents or Congregationalists date their origin, was a gentleman
of Butlandshire, who suffered several imprisonments for adherence
to his opinions. He was a violent opponent of the Church of
England discipline and ceremonies. The Brownists were for a
long time the subject of popular satire. " I had as lief be a
Brownist as a politician," says Shakspeare in Twelfth Night.
P. 48, last line, regiment.] i. e. government It appears to
have been in general use amongst our old writers to the time of
James I.
P. 51, 1. 16. Deane Gridgcs.] i. e. Bridges, probably an error
of the printer. It occurs again in the next page.
P. 63, 1. 14. tow.] u e. thou ; it occurs again at page 64,
line 26.
P. 53, 1. 15. Where hast ti bene, 8fc] i. e. thou been, why man
I have been seeking for a salmon's nest, and I have found a whole
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P. 5.1, 1. 10. Samons nest.] Ofthe meaning of this expression
I must confess my ignorance.
P. G3, 1. 25. patch.} i. e. fool.
P. 65, 1. 2. harrow Hell.] Harrow; to plunder, spoil, lay waste,
subdue. The ban owing of hell is an expression constantly applied
to oui- Lord's descent into hell, as related in the Gospel of Nico
demus. There were several early Miracle-plays on the subject,
one of which, of the age of Edward II., has recently been edited
by Mr. Halliwell, from a MS. in the British Museum. Spenser,
in one of his Sonnets, addressing Christ, says,
" And having harrowed hell didst bring away
Captivity thence captive." — Sonnets, 68.
P. 65, 1. 8. cog, face and lye, as fast as a dog can trot.] This
proverb I do not recollect having seen in any collection, although
" to lie as fast as a dog can trot" is still in use in Somersetshire.
P. 65, 1. 10. ti nowne, cliwamt tee, ti vorehead zaze hard as horne.]
i. e. ill plain English, " thine own, I warrant thee, thy forehead is
as hard as horn." Steevens, in his Notes on Lear, says, " When
our ancient writers have occasion to introduce a rustick, they
commonly allot him the Somersetshire dialect. Mercury, in the
second Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses, assumes the appearance of
a clown, and our translator Golding has made him speak with the
provinciality of Shakspeare's Edgar." See Golding's Ovid, ed.
1603, b. ii. One of these peculiarities is in the various forms
which the personal pronoun I is made to assume. Mr. Jennings,
in >is Somersetshire Glossary, says, that it is variously pronouneed,
Ise, ^fch, Iche, Utchy. Whenever the word occurs in composi
tion, the mark of elision should be put before instead of after the
eJt ; thus in the text, chwarut should be 'eh want. Without ex
tending this note further, it may lie worth while to remark, ihat in
the present instance, in Lear, in Gammer Gorton's Needle, and in
every instance wliich I have met with, the sense requires this
mark of elision before the ch.
P. 70, 1. 26. shrine.] Screen 2

§4 NOTES.
P. 71, 1. 17. frump.'] i, e. a jest : it sometimes means a con
temptuous speech.
P. 74, 1. 22. martins picture, ifrc.] The description which fol
lows is cvidentiy an allusion to the exhibition of Martin on the
stage, some particulars relating to which will be found in the
Notes to the Reprint of Pap with a Hatchet
P. 76, 1. 16. Richard af Peterborowe.] Bishop Howland held
the see of Peterborough at this time.

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