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No. 5,

TAe State of the Church of England Wc.

[April 1588.]

C5e (Englislj ^cjolar'g tibrari; of
fiDiD ana iftoocrn saiotfi?

[REV. JOHN UDALU

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State of the Church of England

laid open in a Conference between Diotrephes

a Bishop, Tertullus a Papist, Demetrius

a Usurer, Pandochus an Innkeeper, and

Paul a Preacher of the word of GOD

[April 15S8]

EDITED BY

EDWARD ARBER

WESTMINSTER
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO.

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CONTENTS.

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Introduction ...

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The State of the Church of England &c. ... i

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THE DIALOGUE ^» 5-3I

For Speakers, see title page at p. i.

*#* The Scene of the Dialogue is in Pandochus's Inn which is in

a posting town, apparently in the North of England, on

the high road from London to Edinburgh.

THE CONCLUSION 32-34

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B IB LIO GRJPHT.

I. SOME ANTECEDENT ENGLISH WORKS]
IN THIS CONTROVERSY.

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T)'f.A«t.f.i6n. £1", 1790.

II. DIOTREPHES.

ISSUES IN THE AUTHOR'S LIFETIME.
As a separate publUalhn.
1. lApril isBS. London. 8vD.] See lille on /. i.

ISSUES SINCE HIS BEATH.
3, IS April iEj9, SouihgaLe, London. N. Svo, The present impression.

I NTRODUCTION.

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BlHis satirical Dialogue, quoted for shortness at the
n time as Diotrephes, was written against the ad-
ministration of the Anglican Bishops, by the Rev.
I John Udall, the Preacher at Kingston upon
I Thames; and was printed to his utter ruin, by
I Robert Waldegrave, the Puritan printer and
I publisher living at this date outside Temple Bar.
Waldegrave was a Worcestershire roan, as is
proved by llic entry of his apprenlicesliip in the Stationers' Rc^slers —

GREFFETH RoBERTE Walgrave the sonne of Rychard

^L Walgrave late of blacklay in the Countye

^1 of Worcestre yeoman Deceassed hath put bym

^^^^^ self apprentes to Wylliam greffeth, Cetizan

^^^^^^L and stacioner of London /from the fcaste of the

^^^^^^V nativite of saynte John hapteste [24 June] anno

^^^^^^^ 1568 viij yeres vjd.

^ Transcript Sr'c., i. 372. -Erf. 1S75.

^v' He would have been entitled to his freedom of the Company in the
^K summer of 1576; but as the Register for that year has long been lost,
there is no precise record of the date from which he would be entitled to
publish a book in London.

He had in 1588, been actually publishing works, chiefly religious, for
nyears past: and — especiallysince theadvent of Whitgift to the
I Primacy — had suffered many things at the hands of the Bishops, of somR
I nrhichil?^jer/.Vjl//(«/';r,?/,.47'£ has preserved tons the following accounts—

Which Harmonie/was translated and printed by that
Ipuritan Catnbridg printer/ Thomas Thomas, And although

viil In TS ODUCTION.

the booke came out by publike authoritie/yet by your leauc]
the Bishops haue called them in /as things against their']
state. And trust me / his grace will owe that puritanej
printer as good a turne / as hee paid vnto Robert Walde- J
graue for his sawcines/in printing my frend and deareJ^
brother Diotrephes his Dialogue. Well frend Thomas .
wame you before hand /look to your selfe. — The Ep{stU\Nev
1588], ;S. 8. Ed. 1879.

Pitifully complayning/ is there any reason (my Lords grace) I
why knaue Thackwell the printer/which printed popishe ,
and trayterous welshe bookes in wales/ shouide haue more
fauour at your gracelesse handes/then poore Walde-graue/
who neuer printed book against you / that contayneth
eyther treason or impietie. Thackwell is at Ubertie to walke
where he will /and permitted to make the most he could of
his presse and letters : whereas Robert Walde-graue dares
not shew his face for the bloodthirstie desire you haue for
his life / onely for printing of bookes which toucheth the
bishops Myters. You know that Walde-graues printing
presse and Letters were takken away : his presse being
timber/was sawen and hewed in pieces /the yron work
battered and made vnseruiceabie/his Letters melted/with
cases and other tooles defaced (by lohn Woolfe / alias
Machiuill/ Beadle of the Stationers /and most tormenting
executioner of Walde-graues goods) and he himselfe vtterly
deprived for euer [of] printing againe / hauing a wife and sixe
small children. Will this monstrous crueltie neuer bee
reuenged thinke you ? When Walde-graues goods was to be
spoiled and defaced/there were some printers/that rather
then all the goods should be spoyled/ offered money for it/ J
towardes the reiiefe of the mans wife and children /but this ^
couide not be obtayned/and yet popishe Thackwell/though
hee printed popish and trayterous bookes /may haue the fa-
uor to make money of his presse and letters. And reason to[o].
For Walde-graues profession ouerthroweth the popedome of
Lambehith/but Thackwels popery maintayneth the same*!

I NTR OH UC TION.

And now that Walde-graue hath neither presse nor letters /his
grace may dine and sup the quieter. But looke to it brother
Canterburie / certainly without your repentance /I feare me/
you shalbe *HiIdebrand in deed. Walde-graue AfvrcHrana
hath left house and home / by reason of your '" ''='''■
vnnaturall tyrannic : hauing left behinde him a poore wife and
sixe Orphanes/ without any thing to relieuethem. (For the
husband you haue bereaued both of his trade and goods) Be
you assured that the crie of these will one day preuaile against
you/vnlesse you desist from persecuting. — The EpUtk, pp. 21,^1.
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 imprisonment ? But I will give you a president of great
fauor in deede/wherein you may see what an vngrateful
fellow Walde-graue is to his grace /who hath bin so good
vnto him from time [to] time. There being a controuersie
betweene another printer and Walde-graue {all matters of
printing being committed by the LL. of the Counsel! to his
grace) Walde-graue made one of his company his friende
(who could do much with his grace) to de ale for him /who
brake the matter to his worship/being at Croydon in his
Orcharde : so soone as the partie named Walde-graue /he
sweetly aunswered him /saying; if it had bin any of the
company saue him / he would haue graunted the suite / but in
no case to Walde-graue. Well Walde-graue /obtayned the
E[ightj. H[onorable] Lord Treasurers letter in his behalfe to
his grace /who when he had read it /said /I will answer my L.
Treasurer : with that Walde-graue intreated for his fauorable
letter to the Wardens of his companie/ which in the end

X I NTRO D UCTI U !^.

through D. Coosins he obtained (though late) yet went home ]
at night /thinking todeliuer it in the morning: but before he '
was ready/the Wardens were with him/and [arjrested him
with a Purciuant vpon his graces commandement/Walde-
graue telling them there was a letterfrom his grace /which he I
received late the last night at Croidon : who answered/they I
knew it well inougb/but this is his pleasure now: so they |
caried Walde-graue to prison /and in this /his grace was |
Ancwreuenge SO good vnto him / as to help him with an '
smdge. hundred marks ouer the shulders. If this be your j

fauour/God keepe me fromyou/ka M. Marprelate. Bishops 1
haue iustly received according to their desertes / hauing
found greater fauour at my worships hands than euer they j
deserued/ being notorious /disobedient andgodlesse persons/ |
vnthrifty spenders and consumers of the fruits /not of their [
own labors/ (as you say Walde-graue was) but of the posr
sessions of the church /persons that haue violated their faith I
to god/his church/hir majesty/and this wbol[e] kingdom/ J
and wittingly bring vs al without the great mercy of god to our l
vndoing: so that our wiues / children and seruants / haue I
cause to curse al L. Bb. Lo T.C. you see that I haue a j
good gift in imitation/and me thinkes I have 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
lohn of London / and lohn of Canterburie / for their tyranni-
zing 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[i58SJ last/ I
violently rusht into his house/breaking 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 tyrannic /by i
the blood and rapine of her maiesties subiectes ? You haue
bin the consumers of the fruits of Walde-graues labors ; for \

Introduction.

haue you-not sent him so often to prison /that it seemed you
made a common occupation thereof ? For assoon as any book
is printed in the defence of Christs holy discipline/or for ye
detecting of your Antichristian dealings /but your rauening
purciuantes flye citie and countrie to seekefor Walde-graue/
as though he were bound by statute vnto you/either to make
known who printed seditious books against my L. Oih^greimss
Face/or to go to prison himselfe/ and threatned faui^r! ^''^"
with the racke. And are you not ashamed to say /that he
euer violated his fayth ? you know wel inough/that he is
neither Archb. nor L. B. The case thus 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 him. Nor at that time when you
profane T.C told him /that all puritans had traiterous hearts.
Nor at that time Walde-graue tolde his grace/that he was
worse than Bo^njner 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 yat time / when his grace
(good conscionable noble man) violated his promise /in that
he told the wardens of the 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 layesixe
weekes. Nor it was not at that time /when his grace allowed
Watson the purciuant /to take of Waide-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 comminaltie/the
Practize of prelats/A learned mans iudgment/&c. Means
being vsed for his hberty/his frendwho was bound for him
told him /his liberty was obtained in maner following. You
must be bounde saith he /in a too. pounds /to print no more
books hereafter / but such as shalbe authorized by hirMaiesty

xii Intr oduction.

or his grace /or such as were before lawfully authorized:
wherunto he answered /that it was not possible for him to
contains himselfe within the compasse of that bond/neither
Whereby it shouM his consent euer go to the same {the same
™i.vui!r^ wil D. Coosins witnes (that maidenly Doctor/who
lohiifncnd. gi^g cheek by ioll with you) if he will speake a
trueth/ which words Walde-graue vttered to him /going in
the old pallas at Westminster with his keeper before he was
released) yet he woulde gladly haue his libertie if he might
lawfully. For saide he/ 1 being a poore workeman to my
companie / cannot possibly obserue it. For many bookes
heretofore printed / had cum priuilegio, and yet were neuer |
authorized: and againe/that it were hut a folly for him to ■
sue to her Maiestie/the office were very base and vnflt for
her. And he might be wel assured that Caiphas of Cant,
would never 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. — Hay any worke for Cooper \p.-^ March, i
1589], A*. 43-46. £rf. 18S0.

As we shnll see in our Introductory Sketch &•€., that it was Walde- ]
CRAVE himself that set up in type these different accounts of his maltreat- ,
ment, as parts of these two Martinist productions printed by him at the
wandering secret press ; we cannot but regard tliem as his personal con-
tribution to the Controversy.

SHE process of Waldegrave's niination is thus officiaHy 1
\ described in the Records of the Stationers' Company —

May 13, 158S. Whereas Master Coldock \
' Warden.THOMAsWooDCOCK, OliverWilkes, and
JoHx Wolf, on the 16 of April last, vpon search of
Robert Wal[de]graues house, did seise of his and bring to
Stationers hall, according to the late decrees of the Starre-

I NTS QDU C no If.

chamber, and by vertue thereof A presse with twoo paire of
cases, with certaine Pica Romane, and Pica Italian letters,
with diuers books entituled : The state of the Ckurche of
England laid open &c. For that the said Wal[de]grave
without aucthority, and contrary to the said Decrees had
printed the said book. Yt is now in full court — ordered and
agreed by force of the said decrees, and according to the
same, That the said books shall be burnte, and the said
presse, letters and printing stuffe defaced and made vnser-
viceable.

W. Herbert's EdUion of Ames's Typ. An/., ii. 1145. £if. 1786.

In the Stationers' Registers at this date also occur the following entries —
; hem Delyvered to John wolf the xvj'^day of Apryll [1588]
to goe to Croydon to my Lordes grace about wal[de]-
GEAVE iiij' /

I for breakinge a presse and meltinge of letters . . . xij"/
Transcript, i. 528. Ed. 1875.

Strangely enough, in another part of the Registers occurs the following
f entry on the very day of the promulgation of the above decision —

13 Mail [1588].

' Roberts A copie whereof he is to bring the title vj**

WAl[de]gRAVE Transcript, \i. 490. Ed. 1875.

This title he never did bring ; but disappears from all avowed printing
from this date until March 1590, when he is established in Edinburgh as
the Royal Printer for Scotland ; from which country he did cot return till
the accession of James I. to the English throne.

III.

■His Dialogue ^- •n\i\ch also helped to bring about John
\ Udau.'s premature death — is but a brief, yet quietly sarcastic
I statement of the general social War between the Bishops and
\ the Presbyters in England, which will be more fully noticed
lur Introductory Sketch ^'c. ; and in respect to its effects
L himself, in our reprint of his Demonstration of Discipline.
are some striking points incidentally touched upon in this tract
n additional confirmation, if any were wanted, of Lord Burleigh's

xiv I NTRO D U C TI N.

Execution of yuslice in England,t.h.a.\.xi\tTeh.aA-nQ\, beenevenaslightc:
persecution of Roman Calholic Englishmen, as Roman CatAolics, u
Queen Elizabeth ; as there hadbeen of Protestants.underhersister Mary.

It is a testimony to the rapid g;rowth of Puritanism in the four years
that had now elapsed since Whitgift's advance to the Primacy, and so is
another evidence of the utter futility of a. policy of repression in matters of
religious bclie£

The stolid obduracy of the Bishops, their utter unwillingness to make
the least concession, and so to satisfy moderate men ; that significant
absence in them of least movement for reform in Parliament, which drew
on them the censure of Lord BacON in his Advertisement, is also clearly
brought out in this, the forerunning tract of the Martin Marprelate
Controversy.

The strong delusion in all the religious teachers of the time — Protestant
as well as Puritan — that the Lending of Money at Interest was a sin, is
depicted in the character of D«mstilui. It was not (as may be seen in
Lord Bacon's Essay on Usury, 1626) till another generation had passed
away, that Political Econoray, aided by the growing surplus wealth of the
nation, overcame this vulgar error, which sprang from a confusingof things
human and divine.

Lastly, we may note, the vast influence which the mind of Calvin still
exercised on the faith of millions ; so that to dilTer from his views, was
thought to be a departing from GOD. This comes out clearly in the
following attack on the " freewil men ; " that is, on the Arminians before
Arminius,

Diotrep. Doe you not also like of the preaching of
predestination ?

Paul Yea, or els should I dislike of preaching the trueth,
for it is a part of Gods reuealed will.

Diotreph So do not I in these daies, when there be so
manye weake ones, I thinke it to be a very break-necke of all
religion.

Paul I haue heard of freewil men that hauc saide so, but
I neuer heard [a] man of learning affirme it, but one that was a
byshoppe in a Sermon, but his wordes were no Jesse than
blasphemie, and so are yours, and al they that say or think
the same are guiltie of no lesse sinne. — PP- U-'S-

Altogether, while written with a quietude of expression which must have
been difficult 10 the writer, this Conference is as vigorous a bit of Purilan-
ism us anything that has come down to us from that age.

The state ,of the Church of

Englande, laide open in a conference
betweene Diotrephes a Byshopp, Tertullus a
Papiste, Demetrius an vsurer, Pandochus an
Inne-keeper, and PauU a preacher of the
worde of God.

PSAL. 122. 6.

Pray for the peace of Hierusalem^ let them
prosper that loue thee.

REVEL. 14.9 10.

^nd the third Angel folowed them, saying
with a loud voice, if any man worship the
beast and his image, and receiue his marke in
his forhead, or on his hand, the same shall
drinke of the wine of the wrath of God.

THE PRjEFACE.

'Entle Reader, I haue sette down here in a Dialog,
the practize of Satan which he vseth (as I haue
obserued by experience) to subuert and vtterly
ouerturne the course of the Gospel here in England ;
the names of the speakers, containe in them for the most
part, the matter that they defend, and the affection that they
are of. For thou knovvest that Diolrephes was he of whom
S. lohn speaketh in his third Epistle, verse 9. that louing to
haue the preheminence, disturbed the course of good things in
the Church, and therfore sustaineth the person of a Byshopp,
or Byshoply prelate. TeriuUus is he of whom Luke speaketh
in the 24. Acts, that was the speaker in the ambassage
from lerusalem to Fcelix the gouerner, against Paule, in
the defence of ceremonies abrogated, for the ouerthrowe of
the Gospel, and so representeth the papists, that maintaine
their traish, to the rooting out of true religion. Demetrius is
he of whom mention is made, in Actes 19. that was enemie to
Pauh, because he lined by an vnlawfull trade, and for that
cause doth play the part of an vserer. Pauh was the
defender, you knowe of the Gospel in sinceritie, and he whose
pen the holy Ghost did vse to expresse the discipline of the
church most clerely, and therefore speaketh for the ministers
of our time, that stand for reformation. Pandochus is an
In-keeper in Greeke, and it is as much as to saye, a receiuer of
all, and a soother of euerye man for his gaine ; so that the
persons in their nature thus considered: it remain eth that
thou wouldest be intreated by me, whosoeuer thou art, to whom
this little booke shall come, that thou wouldest in reading of
it, set al affection aside, and neither belieue it, because on[e,' of
thy disposition did pen it, neither yet reiect it, because it was
not composed by one of thy complexion; but consider well of
the speeches vttered by euery partie, and compare them with
the practize of the worlde, and then looke what it is, that so

Lib. No.B. 2

THE PREFACE.

LAprd ij

hardeneth Pandochus in atheism, Demetrius in vsery, and
Tertullus in papistrie; and you shall (I doubt not) plainly
perceiue, that the cause of all vngodlines so to raigne in
euery place, and of the papists so to increase in strength
and number, ariseth from our byshops and their vnlawfull
gouernement ; on the other side, look into the answers that
Uiotrephes maketh to Paul, and the counse! that Tertullus
giueth to Diotrephes, and compare them with the practize of
the B. in all poyntes, and you shall euidently perceiue that
the cause why the gospel beeing so longe preached, hath
taken so little root, ariseth from them onely, forsomuch as
they haue weakened the knees of the true preachers, and
euery way crossed them in all good actions. I haue touched
thinges verie briefely of purpose, partly for that they who see
what rtfo;mation mean eth,wil quickly vnderstand my meaning,
and partly for that I would haue him that vnderstandeth
not mine intent and would be resolued, to confer at large of
it with some godly learned of his further instruction. Now I
pray thee, let me intreat thee to think thus of mine intent ;
namely, that it is not of purpose to disgrace any man, albeit
we ought to disgrace them, by whom the sonn of God is
disgraced: but especially to this end, that euery man in his
calling, might see howe he is or hath beene made an
instrument to do harme, or for want either of knowledge, or
prouident forecast, being ouertaken vnder collour of right and
law, and lastly that we all seing the subtleties of the deuill
against the kingdom of Christ lesus, may first of al retume
to God by speedy repentance, from the wickednes that wee
haue in our hands, which in deede is the cause of this curse
vpon fs; and then praye vnto his Maiestie, that he would
detect the craftie subtiltles of all his aduersaries, reueale the
trueth to those that are seduced and abused, and erect the
kingdome of his sonne Christ lesus amongst vs, by the forme
of that discipline that his owne worde
expresseth vnto vs.

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^ Siotr SWTWr^J?lW8 Ine hoste, I pray you staye with n
I and my friende MfasterJ. TertuUus,
I and tell vs some newes, for wee are
I lately come O'-it of Scotland, and
I wouldheere before wee com nereLon-
I don, in what state things doe stande,
1 lest we comming on a sudden, speede

i ill as we did at Edenborough,

and S. Andrewes.

Pandoch Good my Lorde, I can tell you no great newes,
for I go not so farre as to Church once in a moneth, but if I
doe happen to go, one of my seruants doth come for me in all
haste, to make merrie with one gueste or other, but there bee
two in this house, that came from London, if it please your
L[ordshipJ. I wil intreat one of them to come vnto you, it
may be he can tell you some thing.

Biotr I pray thee doe so? you are welcome my friend, I
vnderstand that you came from London, I pray you tell me
some newes, for I hauing bene in Scotlande some space, haue
not hearde muche of the state of England.

Demet My L[ord]. I heare no newes, but that ourtyshoppes

, (Gods blessing haue their harts for it) say prettie well, by

I one and by one, to these precise and hot preachers, for some

I of them are put to silence, some of them close prisoners in

the Gate-house, some wel loaden with yrons in the White-

lyon, and some in the Clinke, I hope to see them one day all

put downe, for they trouble the whole land, and are neither

contented to obey the authority of these holy fathers, neither

yet will suffer vs to liue as our fore-fathers haue done before

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vs, and here is a good fellowe, which I met yesterday vpon
the way, who is iust of their opinion,

Pandoch I know not what religion he of whom you speaka
is of, but I am sure that hee hath many of our preachers
qualHties, forwhiclil like him thewors[e],forsince our preacher
came, I haue not gained halfe so much as heretofore I did,
but if I had but euerj'e niyht suche a guest, within one moneth
all men would refraine from comming to mine house, and so
I might beg. i

Siotre Why mine hoste, what are his quallities, that yo^
dislike so much?

Fandoch What? I will tell you, as soone as i
lighted, my man that tooke his horse, chanced but to sweare
by God, and he was reproouing of him by and by, and a
gentleman cannot come all this euening, in any place where
he is, but he is finding faut with him for one thing or
another: and when he should go to supper with other
gentlemen, sitting at the lower ende of the table, he would
needs saye grace (forsooth) before and after supper, and so
stay them that were hungrie, from their meat the longer, and
from their sleepe afterward : but one wiser then the rest,
serued him in his kind, for he started vp, saying my father
had no grace before me, neither wil I haue any.

Diotr. I perceiue he is one of these peeuish Puritanes,
that troubled the Churche, when my friend and I went into
Scotland, haue not the bishops yet suppressed them, neither
by countenance, nor by authoritie ?

Tertul Suppressed ? No my Lord, a friende of mine v
vnto mee, that one of theyr Preachers said in a pulpit, hei
was perswaded that there were loooo. of them in England?^
and that the number of them encreased daily in euerie plac|'
of all estates and degrees.

Diotreph I am sorie for that, I maruel that you neuej
told me of it ?

, Teitul I did of purpose conceale it, least, together wit^
your ill successe that you, and so consequently I, had ig
Scotland, your griefe should haue bene agrauated, for I knc^^
how that the growing of them doth grieue you.

Diotr. You may be sure that it would haue grieued mqj
if you had tolde mee that, when you toldemeeof theii
of your friendes the papistes, I thinke I should haue diet
for sorow.

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Tertul I knowe that, therefore did I keepe it cloase, hut
if newes had come in like manner, of the growing of the
Catholique rehgion vnto your man, that puritane knaue, hee
would haue tolde it you at the firste, and so haue molested
you the more.

Diotre You say well, and I perceiue it is better to haue
a papist, then a puritane in an house, and more charitie to
doe for them.

Pandoch Your Lorshippe asked me for some newes, but
your speeche of your being and ill successe that you hadd in
Scotland, giueth me occasion, to enquire of you (if I may bee
so bolde) some Scottish newes.

Siolx. Ah my hoste, though it grieue mee to thinke vpon
it, yet it easeth my stomacke to tell it. The puritanes
in Scotland, hadd got vp their discipline, and vttedy
ouerthrowen all the soueraigntie of byshopps, by which they
preuailed so mightilie, that wee feared our fall in England
shoitly to ensue, wherevpon I was sent together with this my
friend, who came out of Fiaunce into England, to goe and
seeke the subuersion of their generall assemblies, and the rest
of their iurisdiction, wherein I preuailed a while, but now it
is worse, then euer it was.

Fandocfa. How came it to passe, that when you had
gotten some ground, you helde it not ?

Diotr Because the whole land cried out for Discipline
againe, and the noble men so stiffely did stand to it ; and
lastly, the Ministers that came home from England, dealte
so boldly with the king that 1 was vtterly cast out wythout
all hope, euer to do any good there again, and nowe I make
homewarde in haste, least I loose all there also, but I praye
you helpe me to speake with that puritane, I shall learne
more by him, because he is better acquainted with the cause
then eyther of you.

Demetri Hee may soone knowe more in that case then I,
for I promise you, mine onely studie is in my counting house,
to see my money, and when eache parcell is due vnto me.

Pandoch And I meddle with nothing but my In-
keeping, as for these controuersies and this Scripturing, I
neuer trouble my selfe with it, but I will go to him to see
■whether I can get him to come to your Lordship, but
I'tefore I goe, I must beseech you to saye nothing to him as

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from me, for you know, I must be frendly to all, least I leese
my customc, and driue away some of my guests. j

l)iotr. Great reason, for eucrie man muste Hue of biiir^
trade, neither must you tell him what I am.

Fandoch Sir, heere bee certaine gentlemen in another J
chamber, that hering of your comraiiig from London, woul^a
gladly speake with you.

Faul Whence are they, can you tell ?

Fandoch They are English men, but they are new come" 1
out of Scotland. I

FauI I am willing to goe to them, though it be late, an^4
so much the rather, because I long to heare some good news.|
from thence.

Fandoch Here is the Gentleman that you desired
spcnke withall.

Diotre Vou are wclcom my friend, I was desirous ■
speak with you for that I perceiue you came from Londosy
I ^aye you can you tell vs any good newes ?

Paul No surely, for I am a verie ill obseruer of sue!
things.

Diotr. You seeme to be a minister, can you tell i
what good successe my Lordes the bishops baue in theii
proceedings?

Faul They haue too good successe, they wax worse ani
worse, they growe euen to the heigth of their iniquity, so thafc]
1 hope their kingdom wil not stand long ?

Siotr. \\'hy sir : what do they, that they offend you i
grieuousJy ?

Faule They slop the mouth of the sheepcheards, and s
at libertie the rauening wolues, and tume the foxes a
the lambes.

IMotr I muste desire you to expresse youre minde i
plainelVi for you seeme to bcc so possessed with disconleal*
ment that it mabeth you to speak (as it were) snatchingly t^

Faol I coofesse my selfe discontented, and greati;
gheued. but j'ct not so much, as to make me Icsse aUe 1
cxprtsse my minde.

Diotr. I pray jrou tber^orc. layc open yoor I
^eches that I may rDden>:aiKl }'our meaning?

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Paul My meaning is this, there are three abhominations
committed by them : The firste is, that they doe beare suche
an enimitie against the kingdome of lesus Christe, that they
put to silence one after another, and will neuer cease (if God
bridle them not) vntill they haue rooted out of the Church,
al the learned, godly, and painfull teachers : The second is,
that they enlarge the libertie of the common enemies the
papists ; The last is, that they commit the feeding of the
flockes of Christe, vnto those that prey vpon them, and
either cannot, or will not labour to reelaime the wandering
sheepe. So that the conclusion that may bee gathered vppon
their actions, must needes be the euersion and ouerthrow of
the gospell, and so consequently the bringing in of popery
and alheisme.

Diotr. They put none to silence, but the puritans, who
do in deed more hurt then good.

Paul I know no puritanes, if there be any, it is meete
that they be put to silence, But Sathan taught the papistes,
so too name the ministers of the Gospell, and you are his
instrument in continuinge the same terme.

Diotr. I meane thera, that are not contented with the
state, but mislike the gouernment of the Churche, and
woulde haue a newe forme of gouernement, which would
marre all.

Paul Woulde you haue them contented with Anti-
christian prelates, to be rulers of the spouse of Christ, when
as the word of God hath prescribed expresly, another form
direct contrary to that ?

Siotre I am a doctor of diuinitie at the lest, and yet coulde
I neuer read any thinge in the worde of God, contrarie to
this gouernement, neither yet to speake of any other, but that
the ordering of the Churche is left to the discretion of the
wise and learned.

Panle Yes, you haue read it, if God had giuen you eies
to see it : But if your studie had bene principally to aduaunce
Gods glorie and benefite his Church, (which you neuer aimed
at, but rather preferred vaine glorie and gaine) you shoulde
easily haue found it, I pray you therefore, when you come to
London, see if you can get these books : the Ecclesiastical
J)iscipline : a lemed discourse of Ecclesiastical gouernement :
Ifhe CounUrpoison : a Sermon on the 12, io the romaiis, and

M. Cartwri[gh]tes last replye: some of which hookes haue
beene extant this dozen yeres, and yet are none of them
answered, and you shall finde it otherwise.

Diotr If their Lordsh[ips]. were taken away, the credit of
the Gospell would fall to the ground, and men would not
regard it.

.' Faule Nay, their iurisdiction maketh it not to bee
/regarded, for the simplicitie of the gospell, cannot matche.
/ with suche outward pompe, it was of more credit before thi "^
/ calling was hatched, then cuerit was since.

Diotr. I hope neuer to see them ouerthrown, and I thinl
they wil neuer giue ouer their bishoppricks ?

Paul I am of your minde, that they wil neuer giue thei
ouer, they haue suche experience of the gaine of them, thi
vse of the bagg, preuailed so much with one of the Apostle
that rather then hee woulde lacke money he would sell lesi
Christ himselfe.

Diotr. You speak too vnreuerently and vncharitably
these holy fathers.

Paul Sure I haue so much experience of their impious
dealing, that I canne no better esteeme of them in respecte
of their places, then of the enemies of God, but as they hs^
men, I wii not ceas[e] to pray for them, that God would op<
their eyes, that they may see their sins, and repent, whicJ
is the best way to deale charitably with them.

Diotre I pray you tell me why these men be put td
silence, I am sure it is for their notorious misdemeanour.

Paul I will tell j-ou wherefore some of them were put to
silence, one had conference with a bishop about subscription,
and he was restrained for that hee gaue his friende a copie
of his conference, another because he taught that the
Churche of Antichrist was no parte of the Churche of God,
another because his prayers before and after sermons were
too long, and such like.

Diotre A way, it is rather for not obseruing the book
common prayer, then for any such thing as you speake of.

Paul Indeed many are suppressed therfore but if any
man will giue them their titles and authoritie, they wiU
giue him leaue to vse his discretion wyth the book, as we
see by experience, for they vse the booke and ceremonies as
bridles to curbe them that kicke at their lordlines, which W
the onely thing that they minde.

.d.

Siotrep. Well, I loue not to heare these reuerend fathers
so abused, and therefore I praye you talke no more of it, but
if it please you, you may depart,

Paul I am contented, onely let me request you this one
thing, that for so much as God hath giuen you som[e] lerning,
you woulde praye vrto God, to guyde you with his grace,
that you abuse it not to your owne destruction, but imploye
it to his glory, and the good of his Church

Diotr I thanke you for your good counsel, and so fare
you wel, we will talke more in the morning.

Paul With a good will ; I praye God our talke may tend
to a good end.

Diotr. M[aster]. Demetrius and mine host, howe like you
this fellow ? is he not a sawcie merchant ? to presume thus
to speake against those that were preachers before he was
borne? but this is the myserie of our nation, that euerye
yoong boy will take vpon him to teache tl-e ancient, and to
reproue them, for that their gieene heades thinke not to bee
true ?

Pandoch Your Lordship saith verie well, I pray you
forget not to vrge him with that in the morning : For it
muste needes make him mute.

Demet I promise you, he is a holde fellowe, it is no
maniaile if suche as bee is, doe stand stiffe against vs that
be vnlerned, seeing they be so bolde with you, I tell you, he
tooke me vp as if I had bin but a kitchin boye, and all
because I saide I liued 'by my money, and was of no other
trade, calling me caterpiller, thief, and murtherer, and saide
plainly, that he that robbed in Stan -gate-hole, was an
honester man then I,

Siotre You must lake heed, that you do not oppresse
your brother too muche, but as for these fellowes, it is their
manner to be so bitter and sharpe, that they do eucr with
their preaching, more hurte then good.

Demet. I hope you wil course him to morow for it; but
I pray you my L[ord]. let me haue a little talke between you
and me, of a matter that now commeth in my minde ; this
man that is with you, and went and came in your company,
what is he ?

Diotrep. To be plaine with you he is a papist.

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Semet Papists are enemies to the Queenes religion and
lawes ; I do therfore much maruaii, that he should he put
in trust by the byshops ?

Diotre The cause is this, he light into the familiaritie of
one of our friendes, who confuted a booke called the A bslract,
and helped him so painefully with reasons out of the
Khemishe Testament, and other such like writers, to confute
the Puritans, that he was thought a lit man aboue all other
of his religion, to gte with me,

Demetri Why ? coulde you not haue had another of your
religion, but you muste needes haue a papist your assibtant ?

Diotr. No no, if I had not had a papist with me, I could
neuer haue looked to haue preuailed.

Semetri Why so? I pray you tel me the reason of that.

Diotr Because our dignities and gouernement, commeth
wholy and euery part thereof from the Pope, and is ruled
and defended by the same canons, wherby his popedome is
supported. So that if I had wanted their helpes, I had had
none authoritie, eyther from God or man, no helpe either
by reason or learning, whereby I coulde haue bene furthered.

Demetri Why did you not rather take some doctour of
the Arches, to go with you ?

Diotreph That was consulted vppon before I went,
but it was not thought meet, because the most of them
woulde neuer deale in that lawe at home, but onely because
they knowe not else howe to liue, and therfore it was feared
that they would not be sufficientlie diligent in a matter that
concerneth others. And for the rest (who in deed) be the
same men they were in Queen Maries time, we durst not
carrie anie of them from home, for none defend our kingdorae
thorowiy but they,

Demet. Me thinks this man should be an vnfit assistant,
for he be a right papist, he will labor to erect the popes
kingdom, and so crosseyou.

Diotr No question but hee did so, and that made for vs,
for all be it wee woulde if wee might, of the twaine, keepe
rather the protestantes religion with our dignities then the j
other, yet had we rather change our religion, then to forge
our priuiledges ; this I tel you between you and me, but J
would haue it go no further ?

Demetri Do the old popish doctors stand you in suchl

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gret steed, me think you might haue had learned lawyers
for euerye place before this time, and haue turned them out ?

Siotre It is true, but we haue retained them of purpose
(man) for we can beare, I tel you, with their religion, so
that they do beare vp our authoritie ; doe you not see
likewise, that we haue reserued many popish prists in the
ministery, wherof diuers doe yet remaine, which wee haue
done vpon special consideration ; to wit, lest there should
bee too many learned, not one whereof wil stand to vs, saue
onely that they either haue, or look to haue better preferment,
or liue more easilie then S. Paules Epistles wil allow them,

Demetri I haue bin bolde to trouble your L[ordship]. I will
now leaue you for this time, and wil come vnto you in the
mominge, to breakfast.

Diotr, You shall be welcome vnto me at all times, for
I perceiue you are none of them that fauour the puritans ?

Pandoch My Lford]. your breakfast is ready, wil you haue
them come vnto you that were here yesternight.

Diotr I would haue him that taned yesternight so late,
for hee is a verye honest gentleman and a quiet, but in any
case let not the puritane come vntil breakfast be done, for
'[C is to[o] precise : I must needes be mery, and if he be here,
iC wil not let to reprooue vs, if we do but fortune to swear
it vnawares, so that 1 shal be a feard of him in euery word
1 speak

Fandoch Here is but simple cheare this morning, because
it is fasting-day.

Diotr MJaster]. Tertullus wil eat no eggs to day: wit you
M[aster]. Demetrius?

Demetri Yea by S. Marie, I am aprotestant, for I ioue
to eat Hesh on the Friday?

Dlotr. It is wel saide, but I pray you, thinke not ill of

'[asterj.Tertullusforit,for Saynte Paulehath taught vs.tJiat

; that eat, must not iudge them that eat not : for we being
atrong, must beare with the infirmities of the weake.

Demetri, You promised yester-night, to sende for the
puritane, to talke further with him, I pray you do so, for I
would haue him taunted thorowly ?

Diotrep. By my trothe I had forgotten him, mine host

,1 him.

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Fandocll Here is the gentleman you willed m? to call ?

Diotr. You are welcome, this Gentleman M [asterj. Demetrius
telleth me that you and hee had great controuersie on the
way yesterday, and he is very desirous that I might heare
your reasons, and giue my iugement of them for his
satisfaction.

Paul Sir, I saide nothing to him but the truth out of the
word of God, in condemning of vsurie, by which he sayde he
liued, and shewed him the horriblenesof the sinne, the
jnconueniences temporal that come of it in the common-
weahh, and the iudgements of God against tlie practisers
thereof.

Diotrep. Vsurie in deed in some sort is vnlawfull, hut it
seemeth that you dealt not with the man, as meaning to win
him, but rather by such sharpenes as might harden him.

Paul Surely my desire was to winne him, and therefore
my purpose in reasoning was, to lay open the sinne vnto him,
and the cause why I dealt somwhat roundly, was this. He
confessed the scriptures that I alleadged, but so cauelled and
wrangled against the cleare light therin conteined, that it
appeared vnto me his purpose was, not onely to abide an
vsurer, but also to iustitie it by the word of God.

Diotre Such chollericke fellowes as you doe mar all, for
you cannot deale mildelie and so you trouble the conscience,
and disquiet the minde of the weake.

Paul His conscience must be troubled bylauncing, before j
that euer his soul can be cured,

Diotre Then I perceiue you like welof them thatpre[a]c|
the law, ?o much as they do.

Paule Yea, or els shoulde I not like of bringing men vnto
Christ, which can neuer be vntil they be humbled by the
law, and made pore therby to receue the gospel

Diotrep. Doe you not also like of the preaching of
predestination ?

'Paul Yea, or els should I dislike of preaching the trueth^j
for it is a part of Gods reuealed will,

Diotrepli So do not I in these daies, when there be so
|hanye weake ones, I thinke it to be a very break-necke of all
Religion.

/ Paul I haue bearde of freewil men that haue saide so, but
I I neuer heard [a] man of learning affirme it, but one that was ^ ^

:fore ^
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byshoppe in z. Sermon, but his wordes were no lesse than
blasphemie, and so are yours, and a! they that say or think
the same are guiltie of no lesse sinne.

Diotr, Are you a preacher and speake so of these reuerend
fathers, it may he it was your owne ordinary to whom you
are sworne, to giue canonical obedience.

Paul It was the byshop indeed, who vsurped ouer the place
where I dwelt, but I neuer sware him any obedience.

Diotr, Wei, wee are gone from our matter.

Paul And I praye you let vs tarrie a little longer from it,
to consider one thing before we doe retume, whiche the
talking of the byshops bringeth into my head.

Diotr. What is that ?

Fatil Surely, that I thinke you are either a B. or els
brought vp in the scboole of a B. and woulde faine bee one, for
you doe vse your selfe verie like, as I haue knowne them do.

Diotre Wherein ?

Paul In this, that whereas we reasoning of vsurie, wherin
your conscience is clear with me, you are contented for the
fauor of him, and for that you like not me, to maintain the
same, and to disgrace the truth, because of the paitie that
defendeth it, who is not according to your humor.

Diotrep. You may bee ashamed to speake so of these holy
fathers. I dare saye that none of them euer did so.

Paul If mine eares had not heard it, mine eies not sene,
and mine own person had not felt the experience therof, I
should haue bene of your minde, for I once liked them, and
their verie wicked dealings made me looke into the lawfulnes
of their calling, which I see now to be meere Antichristian,
but shall I tell you one example among many?

Diotr I am willing to heare you, but I can neuer be
brought to thinke so.

Paule Vet will I tell it you, that you maye thinke of it, I
was accused vnto the B, of suche crimes as were most
slaunderous and false, wheiTpon I desired him to send for
mine accusers, and see how they could prooue them, that I (if
I were conuicted) might be punnished.orels they might haue
the reward that molesters of the preachers of the Gospell do
deserue : he graunted it me, and appoynted a day, which
being come, rather then I (whom he thought not to fauour
his authoritie) should haue any helpe at his handes, bee made

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mee a sleeuelesse aunswere and sent me away. Thus are
byshoppes contented to bee bawds vnto all kinde of sinners,
rather then they wil any wayseeme to further the ministerie
of those whom they fauour not, and euen thus doe you: for
your hatred vnto my person, maketh you to stand with that
monstrous vsurer, but take heede of it, for God will not be
mocked, he seeth your dealing, and wil iudge you accordingly,
howsoeuer you can pretend the contrarie to the world.

Diotr As for mine owne parte, I passe not what you
speake, but let me aske you one question concerning these
holy fathers, and that is this, what reason is there that they
should do any good in any respect vnto any of you, seing they
knowe you to bee professed foes vnto their dignities ?

Paul Because they taking them-selties to be the fathers
of the Churche, shoulde haue a regarde to the good cause,
and defend it, without respe[:t of pi^rsons.

Diotr No sir, I see no rtason in that, for aboue all things,
they must looke to themselues, without whose authoritie the
Gospel would be troden vnder foote : and therefore they may
defend no cause nor person further then may stand with their
owne safetie.

Paul Suppose that were lawful, what hinderance is this
to themselues, to see them that bee common and knowne
drunkards, vsurers, adulterers, and profane persons punished,
■for that they are railers at mee, for teachinge the trueth of
religion, and reproouing sharply their godles conuersation.

Xtiotr Oh you are a simple man, it is great hindrance, for
they can doe nothing in defence of you, though it be in
matters wherein you and they do agree, but it tendeth to the
derogation of their owne estimation, such is the contarietie
betwixt your building and theirs.

Paul By that meanes shal we be so wearied with
aduersaries, that wee shall neuer haue any hope to doe good,
but euen to be constrained to giue ouer the ministerie,

Diotr. I would I mignt see that once come to passe, we
haue labored for it hitherto, and neuer could attaine vnto it,
neither will the Churche euer be in quiet vntill you be all
turned out.

Paul So thought the Sodomites, that' they should neuer
be wel, so long as Lot was in their city, but when he was
gone, fire from heauen consumed them : but I pray you tel

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me, if all wee were turned out, how should the people be
taught, for it is euident, that none els (almost) maketh a
conscience of his duetie that way ?

Diotreph You think teaching would fail without you :
No sir, teaching woulde bee more regarded then it is.

Faille Shew me how that can be ?

Diotr. We would haue none to preache aboue once a
moneth, and then should he do it profoundly, and confirme his
matter out of the fathers, and humane writers substantially,
whereas you taking vpon you to prech three or four times
a week, must not only of necessity, handle your matters very
■rawlj', but also breed loathsomnea in the people.

Paul Surely my heart waxeth cold, and my flesh trembleth
to heare you speake so monstrously: doth preaching
consiste in quoting of doctors, and alleadging of poets and
philosophers, in what part of his commission hath a minister
warrant so to do: you finde fault with our often preachinge,
because your selues cannot so doe, but if you would leane off
your vaine glorie, in hunting after promotion, and your
couetousnesse in adding murther vnto theft, I meaiie lining
to lining, and betake your selues to studie and prayer, bending
your whol[e] endeuor to the glory of God, and edifying of his
people, you should see the blessing of God so aboundantly
vpon you, that you shold preach foure times euery weeke,
with more fruit then you can doe now foure times euery yeere,
for while you bee minded as you are. the lords iugement is
vpon your gifts, and his curse vpon your labours, that you
appeare ridiculous euen vnto children. And whereas you say
often preaching cloyeth the people, you shewe your selfe
(plainly to haue no feelinge in the sweetnes of the worde of
JGod : for it is so delightfull vnto the childe of God, that the
[more he heareth and readeth it, the more desirous is he to
/proceed therein, it is the propertie of the vngodly, to whom
) the word is folishnes to be cloyed with the same.

Diotreph You shal not be my teacher, nej-ther will I
leame at your hands, I know well inough what I haue to do ?

Paul I do not speak as a teacher vnto you, but in
brotherly loue doe admonishe you, and if you refuse mine,
or rather the councell of the holy Ghost vttered by me, you
doe but as they doe, whose condition you defend, I pray
God forgiue it you, and laye it neither to your nor their
charge.

Diotr. They are great nioates in your eyes, they know
better what to do then you can tel them, they see what is
meet for the Church, being ancient graue men of long
experience, better then a sorte of yong boyes start vp
yesterday.

Paul Though some of vs be but yong, yet al are not so,
for we haue som more ancient then they haue any, we haue
of al ages and degrees in schools to compare with the best of
them, and yet yeares, and humane learning, and experience,
must not Carrie away the matter, hut the euidence of truth
in the old and new testament, and as for experience, they
haue none, for they were first brought vppe in the vniuersities,
then became Deanes, and suche iollie feliowes, and now are
made Mitred Lordes, so that they canot tell what it is to
traine vp a people to the gospel, and reclaime them from
ignorance and sinne, for they neuer stooped so low as to
labour therein, but if they had euen my experience, they
would sing another song, for before I came into the haruest
to worke, I liked their hierarchy wel inough, but when I laid
it to my labours to further them, I found that they could not
possiblie stand together.

Diotre Did the Gospeil euer so flourishe in England as it
doth now at this present ?

Paul No surely, God be praised for it, and encrease ijb
more and more, but to what end do you speake it ?

Diotr To prooue that the authoritie and wise gouemmei
of the byshops hath had good successe.

Paule I thought so, but it is (if you woulde look into
the matter with a single eie) cleane contrarye, for the gooi*'
that hath bin done, the Lord hath brought it to passe 1
these men whome you despise, and by that course whiche thf
bishops were euer enemies vnto.

Diotr, How can you proue that I pray you, let me hear
your reasons that moueth you to think so, for I am perswaded
of the cleane contrarie ?

Paul It serueth not in this case what you are perswaded
of, for a bishopiick hath so blinded your eies, and corrupted ,
your iudgement, that you like nothing but that which agreet^.a
therewithall, but I will shew you my reasons that maketh m^V
of that iudgement, and if you look equallie into the matter'
or aske anye indifferent man, you shall see it to bee so

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Diotr, Shewe mee them, for I long to hears them, I am
sure they be wise stuffe ?

Paul Firste for the men, what congregation, what towne
or people is there in this land, that haue bene in the raigne
of our soueraign Q Ehzabeth, conuerted to the gospel, that
those men haue not bene the instruments to perform, whome
the bishops haue continualhe persecuted, and for the courses
that haue been taken, and which God hath greatly blessed,
whiche uf them haue not bene ouerturned by tiie B. and the
preachers put to silence, assoone as euer the gospell began fo
appeare ? on the other side, tell me if you be able, of any
such effect of the ministerie of a B. or bishoply preacher, in
anie place of this land, though it hath bene vninterrupted
these twenty years, as you shal see in many places by the
other sort, euen in few raoneths nowe and then, so that the
matter is not onely cleare vnto all that will weigh it in the
baltance of equitie, but vnto me, if I had no other reason, it
is an euident profe that they take the right way, whose
labours the Lord doth so blesse, and contrariwise, the curse
of God is on the other, for their indirect dealing.

Diotr Thus you imagin, because you please your selfe in
your owne peeuish waies, but te! me who are of your opinion ?
euen a few puritans like your selfe.

Paul Cal vs as you list, Christ was neuer the worse, for
that his enemies called him a seducer and a deceiuer of the
people, but.I am sure, (all for the moste part that feare God)
of euerye degree and calling are of the same minde, sauing
those whome you by your subtilties haue bewitched.

Diotr. You wil haue but a fewe then in this lande that
feare God, and so you will condemne the rest, which is the
manner of you all.

Paul I condemne none, I wishe that not a few, but al (if
it were possible) did truely feare God, but I woulde haue you
I learne of Christe with mee, who maye without disgrace bee
your teacher, to try the tree by the fruite, and seeke me out
' that man which maketh a conscience of sinne, and hath a
care to liue as a christian, that is not of the same mind with
jn the other side, marke what kinde of men they bee,
that are the patrons and defenders of the bishops, and you
shal see them to be men that make no reckoning of sinne,
but haue their wayes fraughted with all impietie, if they bee
tried with the touchstone of Gods word.

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Siotr. Wei then you confesse yet, that the general sway
goelh on our side, and so long as it is so, we care not,

Paul I wil easily grant it, and so haue they from the
beginning, and shal to the ending of the world (against al
goodnes) but I wil tel you one thing euen of them, that few q]
them like you in deed.

Siotr. How can these two stande together, many
with vs, and few like of vs, they be meaie contrary ?

Paul I wil tel you how, the papist is on the B. side",
because he can find shilter vnder thera to hide his idolatry.
The atheist is tooth and naile for them, because by them he
inioyeth carnal liberty, the raan of most notorious life
defendeth them, because he can from them, redeem the
corporal punishment of his sins by mony, but non[e] of these
like of them indeed. The first, because they keep the
possession of the seats of their popishe prelats, the other,
because they are so greedie of their courts for money, that
euen euerye man crieth shame on them, who then do loue them
indeed, and stick to them, onely these three hangbies, that
depende vpon them and line by them, as their chaplins and
seruants: theCananit[e]s(I should say) the canonists: and such
ministers as either cannot, or wil not labour in their function,
to conuert soules vnto God, so that they doe stinke in the
nostrels both of God and man, especially in these three last
yeres of their tyrannic, that I do verily hope their sinne is
very neere the hejgth, and the Lord in mercie will ease vs
of them shortly.

Diotre You are a strange fellow, and please your selfe
with wonderful persuasions, but I pray you tel me what
maketh you saye, they are nowe more hated, seeing that in
these last yeeres, the best means haue bene vsed to establish
the ministerye in a consent and conformitie vnto them ?

Paul Let the meanes be as good as it will, I praise God
for the successe of it, howsoeuer the contrary was ment.

Diotre Why praise you God for it, I am sure you neuer
liked of it ?

Paul The meanes in deede, I neuer liked, neither I thinke,
did euer any reasonable man, but it being a brittle wal,
daubed with vntempered morter, had that successe that such
sandie foundations do deserue.

Diotrep, Why man, what successe had it, I am sure the

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greatest part, yea euen of your forwardest men subscribed :
and those that did not, are not like to tary in the Church
very long.

Paul Wei, sooth vp your selfe in your own perswasion,
and brag of the multitude of subscribers, if it were to do
againe, hundreds of them would neuer doe it, because they
were subtilly circumuented and deceiued (they meaning wel,
and tendring the peace of the Church) but (being now sorie
for it) wil stand in defence of the cause (I dare say for them)
■with their brethren, euen vnto death : So that the bish[ops].
haue but their names written : And yet, that (if they would
also shew the protestations, and conditions, by which they were
induced, and wherof the B[ishops]. made alowance) it would
plainly appeare, that either they dealt wickedly to admitte
exceptions, if the articles were true, or more vngodly if they
wer[e] not, euer to attempt any such matter.

Diotre Tel mee nowe, what is that wherein you seeme to
reioyce, as though the issue of it fel on your side ?

Paul It is euen this, that the bish[ops], straight dealing,
made men looke so narrowly into the cause, and to seeke the
reasons on both sides, for their owne satisfaction, that there
are at this day (I am fully perswaded) ten times as many
of all degrees, that are fully perswaded of the matters of
reformation as were before, so gratious God is vnto his
seruants, to make euen their enemies to do them good, and
so tender is hee ouer his owne cause and glorlc, that he wil
make the very meanes intended to oppugne it, bee notable
waves to aduance it.

l)iotre. I do not beleeue you, albeit I cannot controlle you
in it, because I haue not beene in England of late, but what
wil come of it, if it be so ?

Paul Euen the gouernment of the church, by the rules of
that Discipline whiche Christe himselfe hath prescribed in
his word, which I do perswade my selfe to see before it bee
long.

Biotr You woulde bee examined before a iustice jnd
punished, for saying you hope to see an alteration, you cannot
be the Q[ueen's]. friende that thus looke for innouations in
the state.

Paulo Examine me when you will, and punish mee as God

shall giue you leaue, I will be tried to be so far the Q[ueen's].

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friend, as that I wlslie so wel vnto her as vnto mine owne
soule, and al that I saye or desire, is not to inuert any thing
in the state that is good, but to haue the corruptions therof
remooued, and her Maiestie more honoured before God and
men, in drawing more neere vnto her God, in aduauncing
the kingdome of his sonne more gloriously within her
dominions.

Diotr These be but feigned words, I do not belieue that
you speake as you thinke?

Paul It is because you measure me by your selfe, who in
deede care neytherforQ[ueen]. Countrie, nor your owne soule,
but for a byshoppricke, but I thanke God in Christ, my
conscience beareth me witnesse, that tliey bee all verj-e deare
vnto me.

Diotr. Awaye thou rayling hypocrite, I will talke with
thee no longer, if I catche thee in London, I will make thee
kips the Clinke for this geare.

Paul In deede the Clynke, Gate-house, White-lyon, and
the fleet, haue bin your onely argumentes whereby you haue
proued your cause these many yeeres, but you shall preuaile
no longer, for your wickednesse is made manifest vnto all
men, which God will shortly repaye into your owne bosoiiies
seuen folde, but pray to God to giue you repentance, that
those things hapen not vnto you.

Diotr. Pray thou for thy selfe, and care not for mee ? I
knowe well inough what I haue to do without thy counsi
but it is your maner to teach all men ?

Tertul Out vpon him, what a fellow is this my Lord ;
neuer hearde such a one in my life,

Diotr I can tell you he gesseth shrewdlie, I perceiue
that our course whiche wee haue taken, and our intent in our
actions, haue bene descried by one means or other,

Tertul My Lorde, it was a thing obserued in the Puritans
at Geneua, and in France, while I was in Rhemes, that we
coulde neuer inuent any practize, for the furtheraunce of the
Catholicke religion, but they knew it often before wee put it
in execution, so that for the moste part, they preuent all our
determinations.

Diotrep. Howsoeuer it be, I am wonderfullie sorie that
they seeme so to triumphe, and that our matters haue no

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tetter successe, it behoueth vs to looke about vs, we will
peed our selues to London, to take someway in hast, least it
e too late, in the means while, I pray you tel me (for you must
: my counseller when al is done) what way you thinke best to
E taken ?

Tertul I will doe the best I can, but I must first request
one thing of you before I ioyne to helpe you.

Siotrep. What is that? if it be not vnreasonable, you

<ay assure your selfe of it, for you know, that I haue neuer
n strait laced againste you, or anye of your friends,
Tertul I doubt not of it, but how can I haue it before
aske it of you ? you knowe, that we receiued letters from
ngland, that there were very hard lawes made this last ,
Parliament against the Catholiks : this is it therefore I must
request, that you would vse meanes that the rigour of them
be not inforced, for you knowe that wee haue manye both in
Court and countrie, that shall else bee in great daunger.

Diotr I am very well contented to doe so, but what way
shall 1 take to doe it?

Tertul Surely, suche a way as shall also make greatly for
your owne cause, and that is this, complaine of the domesficall
foes the puritans, and say, that they be woorse then we, and
that you shall neuer preuaile against vs, vntill firste they
be suppressed, and desire that wee may be let alone for a
time, and that al men would bend their forces against them.

Siotr. This is excellent, I am verye willinge to do this, for
it wil helpe forward our owne cause : nowe go on, and tell
mee what is to be done further ?

Textnl The first thing you must take in hand, must be the
suppression of those preachers in London, and in other
countries, that be of most speciall note, for their forwardnes
against you, and you must do it very wisely : that is, you
may not suppresse them all at once, neyther all of them in a
long time, for you must take heede that the world do not
conceiue opinion of you, to be enemies to the Gospel, for
then haue you no way but to turne wholie vnto vs.

Diotr That will be a verye good waye, but how shal we
jaue good matter against them, for their Hues are thouglit to
I very vpright, and they haue learned of late to be more
ollitike then heretofore, for if they speak against any thing
ttablished, they doe it so cunningly, that aduantage cannot
I taken against them by law ?

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Tertul Neuer doubt of that, was there euer any man that
ment to beat a dogg, but he could easily finde out a staffe to
doe it, you muste in this case preferre your safetie before your
credite, or the estimation of anye that bclongeth vnto you?

Diotr. Yea, but shew me some perticulars, for I promise
you, \ see not how to doe it ?

Tertul You must be sure to let none preach at Paules
ciosse, but they of whom you haue experience to like well of you,
and you muste giue them instructions before hand, that they
jnuey mightily against the reformation that your aduersaries
desire, and there wil one or other of them speake against that,
and so you may haue sufficient aduantage against them.

Diotre But these fellowes be verye sharpe to firde a fauUe ?
what and if the matter which our friend preacheth be false,
and so the other take occasion to confute it ?

Tertul Then must you vrge him to defende that which
he hath said, and so shal you haue more occasion to intrappe
the aduersarie.

Siotrep. But in so doing, he whome we set on worke shall
lose his credit.

Tertul what and if he doe, do you compare his credit with
the waight of your byshopricks ? there is no comparison ?

Diotr You saye true, but what if it shall fall out, that
the aduersarie be not blameworthie, neither in matter nor
maner?

Tertul If he maintaine the controuersie, it is sufficient
cause to put him to silence thogh he haue the better part,
for you must maintain the peace of the church

Piotr But this is not all, for how shal we do for the
courte, that is the place, whiche aboue all we must fortifie,
or els we are gone ?

Tertul In deede there is great care to be had of it, and
there be many wayes to preuent vs there, but we will doe
what we can in it. First you must take heed from time to
time, what chaplains be put to the Q[ueen]. seeing they are the
teachers of the whole court, namelie, that they be eloquent
of toong, and good companions, not too precise in their
conuersation,

Diotr. It is verie true, for they may els mar all, I haue
hearde some of them speake daungerouslye, euen before her
Maiestie.

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Tertlll Therefore you must take heede, that they be such
as can be contented with the course of the worlde, and then
if they happen to speake home now and then (as it is a thing
incident vnto a rethorician to be girding) the courtiers will
neuer regard his wordes, because they see bee walketh not
according to that himselfe.

Siotre But I am afraid that the court shal in time come
to knowlege by their preaching, and then we are gone.

Tertul Feare not that? I read once in a book made by
one of the puritans, that if a man would haue the blessing
of God {as he termed it) vpon his hearing, he must submit
himselfe to an ordinarie teacher, which thing (I promise you)
is some-what: 'for I see, that the greatest knowlege of their
religion, is in those places, and men tJiat haue the same
ordinarie teacher : and therefore keep them from anye more
preaching, than on euerye Sunday, and that by diuers men,
and I warrant you that gappe is stopped for euer.

Diotr. It is something that you say, and I will not forget
to looke vnto it, but there is another thing which is greater
then that, which is, howe we may keepe the Queene on our
side, for I haue often feared her, seeing (there is no question)
but she is grounded in the foundation of religion.

Tertul How haue you kept in with her all this while ?

Diotr, Marie thus, we haue bene verie careful to take
heede who bee admitted to preache before her in the Lent :
There was one Deering, that by our neglygence preached
once: if he and such as he, had but continued the whol[e]
Lent, I am afraide, there would haue bene neuer a Lord
Byshop left in England before the next Lent had come
againe.

Tertul That I like very well, but that is not all, they wil
make books, and it cannot bee but some of them do come to
her hands, how will ye do if she like well of them, and the
matter of Discipline in them?

Diotr, I promise you I cannot tel, you must helpe vs at
that dead lift, or else we are vndone.

Tertul It is an easie matter to remedie, you must when
you hear her speake of such things, make her beleeue that al
is wel, and that the drift of these men is not seene, for they
woulde haue no Magistrate, and so would pul downe Kinges
and Princes, and this wil he sure to preuaile, and make them
to bee esteemed the vilest men aliue,

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Siotr. Howe can I tell her that all is well, when I haue
beene constrained to tell diners preachers, that haue so sore
vrged me with the text, that I could wish things were
amended : but the Q[iieen], wil not at any hand ?

Tertul Surely, you are a very simple man, my Lord, (as
though) the Queene heares what you saye to them, or they,
what you saye to the Queene, you must still continue that
course of excusing all thinges to her, for shee beleeueth that
you are learned, and lay all the blame when you talke with
them on her, (for you cannot ouerthrow them by Scripture}
and so you shall not onelye keepe the Q[ueen]. on your side :
but also make the preachers haue a tollerable opinion of you,
that you would haue some things refourmed if it lay in
you.

Diotr. That is a notable way, I will alwaies obserue and
practise that, but there be many noble men, counsellors, and
great courtiers, that seeme to like wel of our aduersariea:
how shall we do to retayne them, or to bridle them that are
gone from vs ?

Tertul That wil he somewhat hard to doe : yet the best
counsell I can see nieete to be taken, is this : you must
shewe your sclues very affectionate vnto those that desire
glorie and estimation, you must winke at the vices of all of
them whatsoeuer they be, and not reproue them, much lesse
correct them ; and those of them that bee needie, you must
haue them to beg the Byshoppricks, Deanries, and such great
places, and let them that shall haue them pay wel for them.
So shall you not onelye haue them beholding vnto you for a
benefitte, but keepe them still on your side, in hope to haue
the like bootie another time.

Siotr. This is very well, and shal bee alwaies obserued:
but there is yet an other thing, I heard of late, that there be
verie manye gentlemen and gentlewomen in the Court, that
like vs not, and it hath often times bene, that kings and
princes, haue beene induced by information of meane menne,
to doe that which greate counsellours coulde not beat into
their heads, how shall we do to stay the tnischiefe that may
come of these ?

"■-Ttnl Easilie, jx>u must consider that they be of two
■er they be such as bee highly in ^uour, c
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when you haue o[p]portunity to speake to her, tel her,
that shee must take heede of such, and such persons : for
though they be verie wise and discreet (bicause you must not
dyslike anye that shee hketh) yet are they (being of a good
nature) deceiued, by the fair pretence of Puritans, and for the
other you may say they do great harm, by reason of their
countenaunce in the court, with fauoring the Puritanes, so
that it shall come to passe, by these informations, that the
Queene shall not onely reiect their speeches, (if they vse any
against you) but also take them vp roundly, that they shall
.rot dare to speake any more.

Siotr. This pleaseth mee at the very heart, but how shall
we doe to be sure at the Counsell table, for they are wise,
and manye of them like vs but from the teeth outwarde, and
we haue receiued many a foyle there ?

Tertul That is euen the hardest of all : I know not in the
whole world any way but one.

Diotr, Tell me that one, for if once I knowe it, we will
sav wel to it, but we wil bring it to passe ?

i?ertul This is it, in King Edwardes dayes ther wer[e] Bb.
the counsel; now if you could get (though it were but
me) to be a counseller, then might he very wel, whensoeuer
any matter of complaynt came, tell the Lords it pertained to
ecclesiasticall iurisdiction, and he and his brethren woulde
heere it at large : so might he stop their mouthes quickly,
and then hee might for fashions sake, heare the cause, but
sende the plantifes away with a flea in their eare. And thus
very quickly would all complaintes to the counsell cease.

Siotr. Ohmoste notable deuice, all our friends in England
shal fayle vs, but we will haue this take place: there is yet
another thing that must bee helped, and that is the vniuersities,
for they haue great priuiledges, and puritanes starte vp there
euery day.

Tertul So there will do some do what you can, vnlesse
you haue fire and fagotte, (which weapon of ours, you only
lack, and none else) the best course that I knowe to be taken

this, let no Colledge chuse his owne head, but let him haue

Mandamus, procured from the Queene, and see that he be
ich a one as hath bene a non-resident before, and let him
laue diuers liuings : and so that will draw with it forrhalitie.

;t himbetbeQLueen'sJ.chapline, or at the least brought nowe

The state of the Church of England, {i^^f^^

and then to preache in the Lent, and that will so set him a
gogfor a Bishoppricke, that you shalbe sure he wil suppresse
your aduersaries as they arise, and let the heades of the
houses be admonnished from time to time, that they chuse
none to he fellowes that be puritans, but such as like the
state, and for the more assurance, let them be vrged to
subscribe, yea, to sweare to your authoritie, before they be
admitted.

Biotrep. Shall we go to Cambridge, and see this put in
execution as we go ?

Tertul Nay soft, be sure of the court, before you enterpi
anv other where, least you marre all.

t)iotr. You say very well : nowe how shall we doe for the
parsons and vickers, of the countrie that 'ike vs not?

Tertul I promise you, those that be in alreadie, will say
harde vnto you, and those that bee to come also, if they will
subscribe to the articles, so far as they concerne faith and
sacraments, the statute law fauors them too much.

Diotr But haue we no helpe by the canon lawe ?

Tertul Yes, there is helpe inough in the canon law, if they
will take it : but I will tell you one thing in your eare, which
I would not for a thousand pounds were knowne abroad, and
that is this : if the statute made in the 28, of H. oct, cap. 19
and the reuiuing of it in the i. of Elizabeth, cap. i. were
thorowly sifted, I am afraid, not any cannon lawe would
be found good law in England, and so what woulde become
of you, and your aucthoritie? but 1 knowe to whome I
speake it.

Diotr What shall we doe then ?

Tertul You must set a good face vpon the matter, and
pretend law, both statute, and cannon, especially cannon,
bicause they know not that, then depriue them of their
linings, which if they (though they know you do them wrong)
could remedie by law, yet are not their purses so wel tilled
as yours, and so lack of liuing wil make them to yeeld at
length, as we see it hath done many.

Diotr. But may we not well suppresse them, for not vsing
the surplice, and book of common prayer in all points?

Tertul I tell you there is no law in England to hurt them,
for any thing that they haue done concerning the surplice,
the ludges hauing bene set on by you and vs, haue inditi '

me ^^

The state of the Church of England. 29

them for it, but it is more then they can warraunt by lawe,
and as for the booke it is cleare, that the strickte keeping of
it was meant against vs, but wee thanke you for turning the
edge to them from vs. Summiim ius, must be your best
help in this case, and looke that you practize it continualhe.

Diotrep, This will do very wel, how shal we do to keep
the Minislerie from too much knowledge, for that must bee
doone. though we pretend the contrary?

Tertul In deede, it is a thing that you must looke
narrowlye vnto, and therefore take heed aboue al things, that
the exercises of prophesie come not vp again, for j'ou know
what harme they did vnto you in euery place where they
were kept, and especiallie where men were moderators therin,
that had bene beyond the seas, to see the practise of
them at Geneua, and you must beware of the exercises that
ministers haue at their meetings : for you knowe, that in
Leicester-shire, they furthered knowledge greatly.

Diotre But how shall we do with this, the exercise of
prophesie is expresly set down in the 14. of the i. to the
Cor. and it is knowne that they whome you and we set on
worke to gette it forbidden, confessed since that they knewe
it not, but tooke it to be foretelling of things to come, and
not expounding of the scriptures.

Tertul You must answere it as you do the rest of their
reformation, the particulars whereof are expressed in the
newe Testament: namely, that they were things onely for
that time, and for them that helped you, what if they
confessed their ignoraunce? you must stil accuse their
exercises to bee vnlawful assemblies, and conuenticles to
breed sectes and schismes, and your authoritie wil beareyou
out in ai this and more to[o].

Diotr. But what shall wee doe to make the worlde beleeue
we would haue the ministery learned ?

Tertul Make them first ministers, and then set them too
schoole,enioyningthem toget som[e] part of M [aster]. Nowels
Catechism, or of Bullingers Decades by heart, and so you
shall seeme to desire a learned ministerie, as wel as these
reformers.

Diotr. Wee wil not faile to put this also in practize, is
there anye more that you knowe, that may serue our turnes,
for the further establishment of our dignities ?

J-VA^^^

The state of tlie Church of Englaftd. Updn'Sr

Tertul No nothing of any great waight, but it may be
referred to some one of these pointes, but the particulars of
euerye braunche are many, which your owne wisedome may
easily looke vnto.

Diotr Then let vs go, for I long vntil I do set these things
abroach.

Tertnl Yet I pray you remember to do somtbing for vs
poore Catholikes, seeinge you stande by our heipe especially,

Diotr. Great reason we should doe so, or els were
vngrateful creatures, but you must deuise what must
done?

Tertnl You knowe that some of vs be in prison, and othi
abroad, for those that are restrained, I pray you that
may haue the iibertie of the prison, and their friendes
come too them, and when anye of them come before
that you would deale fauourabiy with vs.

Diotr Your request is verye reasonable, for the first you
shal see that jour friendes shal haue the best chambers in
euerye prison, and when anye puritanefalleth into our handes,
you shal see him haue the most stincking place that can bee
found. Now when any of you, yea if you your self com[e]
before vs, you must be content to let vs rayle on you, and
call you traitors, and threaten you greuously, but yoil shall
sure you shall sustaine small harme, if you receiue any,
must impute it to the times and not to vs.

TertlU I thanke your Lordship, let vs now be going,
we haue tarried too long in our lodging this morning.

Diotre Hee neuer tarrieth too long that is wel imployi
as we haue beene, it was the best morning that euer I spi

Demet. How now mine host, what say you to these ioly
fellowes, had not they notable talke ?

Pandoch Ves sir, I haue learned of them, that that will
do me good I hope.

Demet What is that ?

Fandocli I haue learned howe to course our preacher, a
hee shall be sure of it, and though it cost mee the price o'
tunne of wine.

Demetri Wh\-, what doth he that deserueth coursing ?

Pandoch What ? He setteth men together by the eai
the towne was neuer at quiet since he came, he teachei

iaily.

you
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ides,
! bee
m[e]

and

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such doctrine aa some doo like, and some not, and so they
fall at variance.

Demetri I pray you tell me some particulars of the worst
of all.

Fandoch This for one: our towne standeth on vittelling,
because it is a thorow-fare, and he preacheth against good
fellowship (which hee calleth drunkennesse) and against
playing at cardes and tables, wherein, if he might haue his
wil, I and my neighbors might go on begging within one
twelue-moneths, and he hath so preuailed. that I take not so
much by foure poundes in a weeke, as I was woont to doe :
yea I haue had ten shillings of one man in a weeke for
drincke onelie, that will nowe scarce spend three, but I will
looke vnto him.

Demetri Well mine host, deceiue not your selfe, I
perceiue that you and I are in a wrong boxe, you are an enimy
to the Preacher, because he speaketh against your vnlawful!
gaine, and so was I yesterday with him that tooke the same
course to amend me i and I thought he had spoken falsly,
because he was a Puritan : and when I came to heare my
matter debated, the bishop disallowed my course, and yet
tooke my parte. And why? Because I might defend him
in his vnlawfull calling. But I see their iugling wel inough,
and if the manne, with whome I was so offended be not gone,
I will talke further with him, for I perceiue that hee meant
better vnto me than they did.

Fandocll I perceiue we shall haue a Puritan of you, if
you would so faine speake with him, he is but newe gone out
at the gate, you may ride after him : but as for our Preacher,
I will in hand with him, because I cannot tel howe I shall
else gaine my liuing, and maintain my selfe as heeretofore I
haue do one.

THE CONCLVSION.

SRethren, ye see by lamentable experience, howe*
iiniuriouslie the church of G O D in England is dealtftfl
Hwithali, by taking away, and stopping the mouthsl
"of their faithful teachers, and by thrusting vppon vsj
vnlearaed and vnsufficient menne, which neither haue v/ilM
nor abilitie, with wholsome barking to driue away the woolfe,.*
but contrariwise dooth giue pnuie encouragement vnto the *
enemie, to continue in his wickednesse, whereby the church
of God is assailed most dangerouslie : and Sathan doth not
cease by al meanes possible, to ouerthrow that good worke
which is begunne in England : and therefore it behooueth vs
brethren, to looke about vs, and not to suffer the enemie to
growe so strong against vs, if by anie meanes wee may let
and hinder his wicked enterprises. And now, my brethren,
what is to bee done on our partes? Surelie I am one of the
simplest of a thousand, to giue aduise to proceede in any
good course in so waightie a matter. But this, in my
iudgement were a good waye, euento ioyne our selues together,
so manie as feare GOD, and to frame our moste humble
supplication vnto her Highnesse, shewing vnto her Maiestietbe
greate dammage and losse that the Churche dooth sustayne,
for that they can not haue the voyces of their faithfull
pastors, which haue diligently, and with great paines labored
to draw men backe from superstition, and the false worship
of God, vnto the true and sincere worship of his maiestie,
and laying downe before vs most purely, the doctrine of the
Scriptures, to the end, that we should know what wee ought
to doe, and what to leaue vndoone, leading vs, as it were,
euen by the hand, vnto the true worship of God, and our
loyall dutie vnto her Maiestie, and al her officers. And these
men (we can not tel by what meanes) are letted and stopped

from dooing those notable dueties of their calling, and are
not permitted to speake anie more vnto vs in the name of
the Lord, whereby we hir poore subiects sustaine great dearth
and scarcitie, euen of the foode of our soules. Therefore wee
her loial subiects, most humbly do entreate her highnesse,
thatshee woulde looke vpon the affliction of the poore Churche,
and let vs hatie our true teachers restored vnto vs againe.
And so we her subiects should yeeld continual thanks vnto
her highnesse, praying vnto God ahvayes for her prosperitie.
And (our brethren) if this way shall be thought good, when
there shalbe some aduice taken vpon it. Then to choose out
some fitt man that can indite and frame our supplication, one
that feareth God, that hath a feelinge of this plague in his
hearte (as the Scripture speaketli) I meane of the want and
lacke of these good preachers.

And this heeing doone, then to appoint other goJly and
honest men, to present our supplication, two or three, as it
shall bee thought good vnto you, and the rest to ayd them
with money, or in what other daunger may fal out : so that
they present it in the name of the whole congregation, or
otherwise, if it shalbe thought good. First to moue our sute
vnto some of the Byshops, as Winchester or Salisburie, or
both, or anie other that you shall thtnke good : I beseech you
let vs not sit stil, when wee are touched so neer, but as those
good men haue ventured their libertie and lining for our
good : so let vs take some paines for them, to aduenture some
daunger of reproofe, or what else maye fall out.

Better is the day of death (saith Salomon) then the day of
birth, man that is borne of a woman, liueth but a short time,
and is replenished with many miseries, but happie are the
dead, that die in the Lord.

Man is borne of woman in trauell, to liue in miserie, man
tlirough Christe, doth die in ioy, and liue in felicitie. He is
home to die, and dieth to liue. Straight as hee commeth

34 The Conclusion. W^^r^l

into the worlde, with cries, hee vttereth his miserable estate,
straight as he departeth, with songs he praiseth God for euer.
Scarce yet in his cradle, three deadlie enemies assault him :
after death no aduersary can anoy him : whilest hee is here,
hee displeaseth God : when he is dead, he fulfilleth his will.
In this life, here he dieth thorow sinne, in the life to come,
he liueth in righteousnes, thorowe many tribulations in earth,
he is still purged : with ioy vnspeakable in heauen, is he
made pure for euer : here hee dieth euerie howre, there hee
liueth continuallye : heere is sinne, there is righteousnesse :
heere is time, there is eternitie : heere is hatred, there is
loue : heere is paine, there is pleasure : heere is miserie,
there is felicitie : heere is corruption, there is immortalitie :
here we see vanity, there shall wee behold the maiestie
of God, with triumphant and vnspeakable ioye in glorie
euerlasting.

Seeke therefore the things that are aboue, where Christ

sitteth on the right hand of God the father, to whom

with the Sonne and the holie ghost, be al

honour and glorie, worlde

without ende

Amen,

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[One of these was the death of J. Partridge, the Almanack Maker, on 29 March
1708.] Other Tracts of this laughable controversy follow.

9. [J. Gay.] The Present State of Wit- 3 May 1711. [A Survey of otir
Periodical Literature at this date ; including the Review, Tatkr, and Spictaier.']

10. [Dr. J. Akbothnot.] Law {i.i. War\ is a Bottomless Pit, wemplified
ia the Case of the Lord Strutt [the Kir^i of Spaitt\, JOHN BuLL [B^gloMd]
the Clothier, Nicholas Fsoq IBblland] the Zjoendraper, and Lewis Babook
[Louis XIV. of Bourbon = /ro««]. In Four Parts. 171Z.

This famous Political Satire on the War of the Spanish Succession was
designed to prepare the English public for the Peace of Utrecht, signed on II
Apnl 1713. Id part I., on z8 February 171Z, £rst appeared in our literature,
the character of JOHN BuLL for an Englisbman.

11. T. Tick ELL. The life of Addison. 1721.

12. Sir R. Steele. Epistle to W. Congrevb [in reply.] 172a.

English Poetry.

13. The first printed JSaiiti Hood Ballad. Printed about 1510,

14. W. Percy. Coelia. [Sonnets.] 1594.

15. G. Wither. Fidblia, [This is Withkr's second masterpiece.
Lament of a Woman thinking that she is forsaken in love.] 1615.

16. M. Drayton. Idea. [Sonnets.] 1619.

17. The Interpreter. [A Political Satire interpreting the meaning of
Protestant, The Puritan, The Papist.] i6zz.

An English Garner. 7

VOL. VII.

Small Paper. Cloth, $s. net.

English Political, Naval, and Military History,
etc. etc.

. Sir F. Verb, General of the English troops in Hit Dutch sen-ice,. Com-
itariea of hia Services; at (i) the Stoiming of Cadii in 1596, (l) the Action at
Tunihont in 1597 (3) The Battle of Nieuporl in 16Q0 : but especiaUy (4) the Siege
of Ostend, of which place he was Governor from ll June 1601 lo 7 Jane 1601.

3. The Retaking of The Fritnds' Adventure from the French by R. LvDE and
» boy. 1693.

English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.

3. H. Pitman. Relation, etc For doing noble Red Cross work at the
Battle of Sedgemoorj this Surgeon was sent asaWliile Slave to Barbadoes, etc,
16S9.

English Life and Progress.

4. W. Kemp's [SKAKBSPBAEia's fellow Actor] Nine Days Wotider; performed
in a. Morris Dance from LoDdon to Noiwich. April ll3oo.

5. A series of Texts on the indignities affered to the Established Clergy, and
especially the Private Chaplains, in the Restoration Age, by the Royalist laity;
including

Dr. J. Eaciiahd's willy 'Grounds of the Contempt of the Clergy and
Religion.' 1670.

English Literature, Literary History, and
Biography.

6. Anotber Series of Tracts, in prose and verse, illustrating the great Fnblic
Services rendered by D, Dbfob, up to the death of Queen Anne ; including x

D, Defoe. An Appeal to Honour and Justice, etc 1715.

D. DEFOit, The TVwr; Bom Englishman. 1701.

D. Defoe. The History oi Kentish Fetitim. 1701,

D. Dbfob. Legion's Afemcrial. 1701.

D. Dbfob. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, etc. 170a.

D. Dbfob. A Hymn to the Pillory. 1703.

D. Dbfob. Prefaces to the Review. 1704-1710.

English Poetry.

7. T. Delonb?. Three Ballads on the Armada fight. Augijst 1588.

8. R. L. (0 DlBLLA[Sonnets];(2)TheLoveofDomDlEGOandGYNKOKA.
1596.

9. An, Sc. DAiPHHANTtJS, or the Passions of Love. 1604.
See also above.

D. Defob. The True Bom Englishroan. 1701.
D. Dbfob. A Hymn to the Pilloiy, 1703.

An English Garner.

VOL. VIII.

Small Paper. Cleth, 5j. net.

This Index Volume will, if possible, coatain thefDUowine! —

English Political, Naval, and Military History,
etc. etc.

I. J. Proctor, The History of Wvatt's Rebellion. 1554.
z. The bniniDg of Paul'E Church, London. 1568.

3. G. Gascoicnk the Poet. The Spanish Fury at Antweqj.

4. J. LiNCHAM. English Captains in the Low Countries. 1534.
S- The Burial of Mary Quebn of Scots at Peterborough Cathedral.

1587.

6. T. M. The Eotertainment of James i. from Edinbai|[h to London.

7. Bp. W. Barlow. The Hampton Court Confereocc. 1604.

8. The Speeches in the Stat Chamber at the Censure of Bastwick, Barto
and Prynnk. 1637.

g. N. N. The Expedition of the Prince of Orangb. I68i

English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc,

la The strange things that happened to R. Haslbtoh in bis ten years Travels.

English Life and Progress.

te of Clothing \tht manufact

English Poetry.

left in^^

13. A translation f ? by Sir E. Dybx] of Sii of the Iiiyllia of Theocwtds.
1588.

14. Verses penned by D. GwiM, eleven years a slave in the Spanish galleys,
and presented by him to Queen Elizabeth on 18 August 158S.

15. W. Smith. Ckloris. [Sonnets.] 1596.

16. T. Storer. The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey. 1599.

17. E. W. Thamescidos. In 3 Cantos. t6oo.
iS, Some CoUections of Posies. 1624-1679.

Chronological List of Works included in the Series
Index.

<f?nsli01j Xle|tvint0.

Milton Areopagitka 1644

Latimer The P laughers 1549

GoBaon The School of Abuse . . 1579

Sidney An Apology for Poefry . , . ? 1580

E. Webbo Travels 1590

Selden Taile Talk 1&34-54

Ascham Toxophilus 1544

Addison (7«V(«j»( o« Paradise Lost . , 1711-12

Lyly EupHUES 1579-80

Villiers Ths Rehearsal 1671

Gascoigne The Steel Glass, etc. . , . 1576

Earle Micro-cosmographie , . . 1628

Latimer ^ Sermons before KoivARD VI. . 1549

More Utopia 1S16-57

Puttenham The Art of English Poesy . . 1589

Howell Instructions for Foreign Travel . 1642

Udall Roister Doister .... 1553-66
VOi. oi'Z-n^'R. The Revelation, exc . . 1186-1410

James L A Counterblast to Tobacco, etc. . 1604

Naimton Fragmsnia Regalif . . . . 1653

Watson Poenis 1582-93

Habington Castara 1640

AHCham The Schoolmaster . . . . 1570

Tottel's Miscellany [Songs and Sonnets] . 1557

Lever Sermons 1550

W. Webbe A Discourse of English Poetry . 1586

LordBacon AHarmony of the^jjov* . 1597-1626

Roy, etc. Read me, and be not ■wroth ! . . 1528

"RdXeigh, itc. Last Fight of the ' Revenge' . . i;gi

Qooge Eglogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets , 1563

(For fUU titles, etc., see pp. 11-20.)

PIHHIHVI^^^I

ro English Reprints. ^^M

JOHN

HUGH

STEPHEN

MILTON.

LATIMER.

GOSSON

Ex-BUkcp of a'urccUiT.

St«t. Ox«,

Areopagitica.

The

The School

1644.

Ploughers.

of Abuse. ^^_

IS49-

'579- ^H

(a) Areopagitica :

A notable Sermon

(a) Tlie Schoole ^^H

j4 Speech of Mr. John

of ye reuercnde father

Abuse. Conteining

Milton For the

Master Hughe

a fleasaunt intuctive

Liberty ef Vnlicened

Latimer, vihicke he

against Poets, Pipers,

Printing, To the Far-

preached in ye Shroutis

Platers, /esters, and

liament of England.

at paules churche in

sueh like CaterpilUn

London on the xviii

of a Common wealth;

ChBmber, conCEmiDE Frint-
Ing, mode the deuenlh of

^(^An'SS^'oV-theLcrd.

daye of/anuarye.

Setting vp the Plagge

of Defiance to their

SiiR.Mduson. Didthere

mischieuotis exercise.

PMluunem Tar Ihe Rcgul...

ever inv one (1 eny not in
Enjknd only.bnl MipnB other

and ouerihrowing

lime "S the" Ajwsi^mT who
pnached the jospel more dn-

their Bulwarkes, Sy

L'S„"fis;,t.'ss

Prophane Writers,

er«T HUeanun ihould weir
u k >[Ea spoa his hind, ud
ufrontletibetweeDhiseye^

?S;'%u''.Tl!;T'Sli.'rrua

Naturall reason and

of Witrnlir. — Afiimoixa

common experience.

-EM-iurri Xiviiw,^ 344,
AipiU lias.
3. Hallah. limy pis-

Catumtaanim . . fuHui

Joannes coclsus 6^., f.

1S79-

u<«u.thi.&«<». JctVe
■doiinblf elogaent: ui in-

{b) A» ApologU of

the Schoole of Abuse,

leme love of libeny and truth
flows thn»£ti It :>1.eD.>jestic

IIWMiDUi« Sermon, that
Latihhr (himself in «.

against Poets, Pipers,

W0I of Milton hiuthetsoch

Bi^p) ustooished his geoer.
»tion,bys«ying thiu the DevU
was the DoaSligent Prelate

Players, and their

ulteitid htian.—lHlreducHoii

Excusers. [Z?«.]

UIA. Lil^MiuT, ^Emft,

and Preacher in all England.

IS79-

lii. 6«a. Ed. 1B39.

W. H. Pkkott. The
BSM iptendid ueuinenl, pcT'
hlpt, the world hud ihea

-.- This allacli ia Ihentlit
SlONET's writing ofthe follow-

lellectuiL liberty,-MW^ ^

GossoH was. in nuxenioa,

BEXDIHANDluidliABBLLA,

Poet, Aaor^iamld^sX

iii-W., B4.iin.

Sir PHILIP
SIDNEY.

An Apology
for Poetry.

[? 1580.]

An Apologie for
Peeirie. Written by
the right noble, veriu-
out, and learned Sir

Philip Sidney,
Knight. 1595.

oftanButit ..___

UttUTolnmCpwhichthc schob
may lay bcDeaEh hisi '"

English Reprints.

5-
EDWARD
WEBBE.

A CkhJM aster Gumitr.

Travels.

1590.

'did'X w

Til A naiomji oftkt EJicti

TbA,

Si Anattmf iif llu Purta
tfPftr,.
Olgictmu U Pcclry as-

The rare and most

which Edward
Webbe art English-
man borne, hath scene
and passed in his
troublesome trauailes,
in the Citties of ler-
usalem, Damasko, Bt-
thelem. and Galely ;
and in all the landes
of lewrie, Egipt,
Grecia, Russia, and

in the Land of
Prtsterjohn.

Wherein tssetfoorth
his extreame slauerie
sustained many yens
iogither, in the Gallies
and wars of the great
Turk against the
Landes of Persia, Tar-
taria, Spaine, and
Pertugall, with the
inanner of his release-
ment and coming to
England. [1590.]

6.
JOHN

SELDEN.

Table Talk.

[1634-1654-]

Table Talk : being
the Discourses of ]oas
Seldek, Esq.; or his
Sence of various Mat-
ters of weight andh igh
consequence, relating
especially to Religion
and State.

,.,„-.'— /nirsdnctioH t. .
Lilcrainn ^Earnft, iH. %.

EV edl thjigs, Lihfrtyl

12 English Reprints. ^^^H

■

ROGER

JOSEPH

JOHN LYLY.^B

ASCHAM.

ADDISON.

""""■

Toxophilus.

Criticism on

Euphues. ^H

IS44-

Paradise Lost,
i7n-i7ia.

Toxophilus, the
S<hoU of SIteotinge,

From the Sficlalor, being
iu Saturday laues between

EuPHVES, the An- ^^|
atomy of Wit. Very

ainteyned in two

pleasant for allGentle-

hoohs.

10 Paradiii iorf, Addtsok

ftten to reade, and most

To all Gentlemen

p«.ed, lo°the ™e.al_Ejgl"h

and yomen of Eng-

Wherein are con-

lande, pleasaunte for

nearly lulf-Meniuiy.

teined the delights that

theyr pastime to rede,

Witfolloweth in his

andprofita hUfor theyr

youth, bythepleasant-

use to follow both in

After I general diseuisIoD

nesse ofloue, and the

war and peace.

of the Faiii, iht Ciamclm,

happinesse he reapeih

gmtri, and the Difiets of
MitTOf's Great Poem; (hi

in age by Ike perfect-

In • (Jialngue befweai

Critic devoten a PapK to the

nesse of Wisedome.

ToxOPHIivs tai PHII.O.
EOOUS^ ASCHAU QoB only

consideration of the Sautui
ofeaeh of iu Twelve Boaki.

1579-

gives ns sue of Che very best
books oo Acchery id our
language: but as he lelll
Kins «"'?,J".V i" ."^

Euphues and his

England. Contain-

ing his voyage andad-

Dedicaiioji, " Ihis hile tteatiie
was purposed, begon, .ad

titntures, myxed with

ended of me, onelio Tor this

sundry pretie dis-

courses of honest Loue,

recouer agaloe thai place and

t)ie description of the

ihrirUe GamlnE, aad Vke
huh put them fni."

countrey, the Court,
and the manners
of that Isle. ^H

English Reprints. '3^^B

Ii.

GEORGE

JOHN ■

VILLIERS,

GASCOIGNE,

EARLE, H

Stcna Duii ef Buck-

■'"""""'"'■

AJUiwds Biiksp lU ^^1

The

The Steel

Microcosmo- H

Rehearsal.

Glass, &c.

graphle. ^H

1671.

■S76.

ITie Reheanal, as ii

(0) ARemembraunct

Micro-cosmographie, ^^|

was Acted at the

of the viel imployed

or a Peece of the ^H

Theatre Royal.

life, and godly end, of

World discovered; in ^^|

George Gaskoigne,

Essays and ^^|

Esquire, whodeceassed

Characters. ^^|

died in tnii famcKu Dramafic

at Stalmford in Lin-

Satin on OXPEH in Ibc diar-

coln shire, tite 7 of

Thi« cElchtatcd book of ^H

•cler ai BAYBS. an placid

October, 1577. The

Characters ii graphlixlly de- ^H
scriplive of the E^i^ foetid ^H

■ life Df Ihia Duke ImiCKINi^
^ RAH i> Klw prtfixad u ih.

reporie of Geor.
Whetstons, Gent.

life of the lime, u it pre- ^H
aentaditselflo a young FeAow ^H

■ The HaiHcPlay^Gril intra.

ducEd bySirW.D'AvBHAKT.

Atetdtldmali.&c. ^^H

and afletwards grcaily de-
•eloped by Dkvphk, ua the

(b) Ctrtayne notes
of instruction cancer nn

Tbii Work ii a nntable ^^1

BArks, imitaiEd thi dtM

ing the making of verse

Mhich help" Pi^eiily 'much ^^|

awlEstiiculBlian of Dbydkn.

or ryme in Eng-

bellor lo undecsiatid the ^^H

Eusitto SiSKi of BucKiSc-

lish. 1575.

iDR turn ^ Ib'e i^^tcr"of

T)» is our Finl piisted
picKofPoa.icaICrilid.in.

£lMRI in hU ABSOtOU u-n

{c) The StuU Glas.

Writla. in Blank Vane.

English Satire : those by BiK-
claV Roy. and Sir T. *yatt

■

{d) The Complaynt of

^^^^^^H

Philomene. An

Elegie. 1576.

English Reprints.

ELIZABETH.

The Art

of English

Poesy.

1589.

Tlu Arte of English
Poesie.
Contriued into three
Bookes : The first of
Poets and PoESiE,
the second of Pro-
portion, the third
of Ornament.

Ed. ijjfi.
O. Gll-CHBIST. On muji

1* DH of UW BOM

valmbt*, EHXto tf the an
of Qduh EuiABcra. "an
copioni inMnnImm oT coo-
tomparuyuiecdotBi tndiliaa,-
rnannen, opEruonBi Kud Iha

nS^

Instructions

for Foreign

Travel.

1642.

Instrtulions for

forreinetravell. S/iew-

ingby whatcours, and

in what compassi of

time, one may take an

exact Survey of the

Kingdomes and Stales

of Christendome, and

arrrtie to the prac-

tieall knowledge of

the Languages, to

good purpose.

GnndTgaiDfEnn

diiideU^tfaUy quaint Writer,
ii PnncA Spain, Italv, Swil-
nrIuid,Gcrmsiiy,lhBNethei-

dlinE, tho veUTt
U &i difjctut

Roister

Doister.

[1553-1566.]

Thll II bcllEWd 10 be lIlE

first truQ Enffliah CooiEdy

ROISTHK DOISTE

rou Tbuei-bnnv,!
Damt CusTANCH

The Revela-
tion, &c.

ii85[-i4iol. 1485.

Ii ffere begynnyth
a maruelousreuelacion
that was sehewyd of _
almighty god by sent
Nychelas to a monke
of Euyshamme yn the
days of Kynge Richa rd
thefyrsl. And the
yen of own lord.
M.C.Lxxxxvi.

OueoflheruaCofEpetish
books primed bv one of ilie

Willi ah'di MacuhiTI''^
frinled this text about 14«J.
M ihtlifttimi^CAXTON.

The e^Gence of the EID17 is
u oldu it profetKS la be;
but cODCaiiu later additions,
the onhognphr beipg o(
flbani .410, It b veiy^ de-

The Writer is ■ [mtatype of
Buhtan; and his dncnption
of Iha Gate in tbe Ci7»al
Wall of Heaven, and oT iha
lotemn and marvelloiulTn'eec
Peal of the Belis of Heaven

b very beautifal.

lO English Reprints

.^^

19.

20.

^^1

JAMES I.

Sir ROBERT

THOMAS

NAUNTON,

WATSON,

Mailir n/tht Court c/

Lstrloncr, SludiHl-at-Lmm. ^^^_

A Counter-

Fragmenta

Poems. ^1

blast to

Regalia.

I5S2-I593- ^H

Tobacco.

1653.

1604.

^^1

(a) The Essayes of

Fragmenta Re-

a Prmtise, in the

galia: cr Observations

or Passionate Cen-

Diuine Arte of

on the laU Queen

turie of Loue.

Poesie.

Elizabeth, her

Divided into two

Prid«d whP. JAUB VI.

ofScollB°<U>l EdinbDrgfab
idatt Inaliu, ccHliiiing

Times and

parts : whereof the

Favourites,

first expressetk the

[1630.]

Authours sufferance in

lami Sndii ami Catiltlii ta

Loue: the latter, his

SeBiHTrctiic, which is jm-

N.ll«on writes:

long farewell to

^^IZ^'i^nl^ "

'■AodlhusIll.vedeIE«Iea

Loue and all his

(6) A CounlerblasU
to Tobacco. 1604-

Prio'cB "«d h« Tinie>.*ii^'

fyrannie. 1583.

Ihe Sernnu of her Sulc snd

{&) Melibceus,
Siae Eeloga in obitum

To Ihu (eit bu been Bdded

Honoratissimi Viri

,« EngUnd. .Th. itrb fira
came into uie in Europe u s

Domini Francisci
Walsinghami. 1590.

rncdidn;!] Jeif fat poultics :

iraimi from the AmMican

lated into English, by

Indians.

the Author. 1590.

■^S':ir.„l"

{d) The Tears 0}

aSSh?ti"JS

Fancie, or Loue dis-
dained. 1593.

KKHis lo Ibe Longs, and in
Ibc blaclie Elinking fomi:

From the UHiglu copy,
wiBlirg Sotatli 9-ifi. in "•
SSb. Esq., ofBritwell.

■ho horrible SligianiDioke of

WILLIAM
H A B I N G-
TON.

Castara.
1640.

Castara. The third

Edition. Corrected
and augmented.

Castaka wu Lady Lucv

r -7, IhtyoungeitchUd

K Lord PoKis: and

nuks tXtSe
pure counaluF
uppr nuTTJai
■re aba Songs

there va four priHe C
Kim; on A lilalria
U'Oi. A Fritnii, lud
Hair Man.

English Reprints.

23.

ROGER

ASCHAM

The School-
master.
1570.

77ie Scholemasfer,
or plaim and perfite
7vay of teachyng chil-
dren, to vnderstand,
write, and speake, in
Latin toftg, but spe-
cially purposed for the
priuate brynging vp
of youth in lenttemen
and Noble mens
houses, (s'c.

laias Ihe siocy of Lady Jare

able b iSttl ,

booonble ilile oflh
earie of Surrey, ■
wdcbtineasc of thi
tritted Sx Thomai Wyst

] pacei in sondry good E

English Reprints.

25-

Rev. THOMAS
LEVER,

Filltui o-rf PritttLi' n/SI
/ihn'l Cslltit, Camiridgi.

Sermons.

{a) A fruit/all Set-
men in faults church
at London in the
Shroudes.

{h) A Sermon

preached the fourth

Sunday in Lent before

the Kynges Maiesiie,

and his honorable

Counsell,

(f) A Sermon

preaclied at Pauls

Crosse.

from th« orifiiul editioDS,
which aro gf axtrrmt r^ty-

Ttic]i Ihiow much light on Lhe
cgaununiulc Iheorici of tho
Norfolk Kbeti: ud Ihe one

carious accounLoFQuubrid^
UnlvHsiiy life in th« rdjEn of
EdhaidVi.

WILLIAM
WEBBE,

A Discourse

of English

Poetry.

1586.

A Discourse of

English Poetrie. To-
gether vdth the Authors
iudgement, tounhing
the reformation of
our English
Verse.

Only Ittfo copies 0I

Thu WoA .hOBld b,
nlh Stahvhukst's 1
latien <>/ jBiuid, r.-IV,,
«e p. 61. Webbk ■
idiocsu of Eaeliih ]

Dlhei

K fine two £elocau

1 Sappblci Colin's Sode
' Fourth Eglagqe of

27.

FRANCIS

BACON,

a/UrwardsLmi VXseLAM

A Harmony ■
of the

Essays, &C.
i597-i6a6.

alter atr, viltat I add. Si
thai moihing h floiihtd, HU
all btfiniiStd.—^ Fhahcu
Bacoh. 1} Feb. ifiiHii.1

(a) Essayes, He-

ligious Meditations,

and Places of ptr-

swasion and disswa-

sion. IS97-

{b) The Writings
of Sir Ffrancis
Bacon Knight the

Kinges SoUicitor
General! in MoralitU,

Policie, Historie.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knight, the Kings

Solliciter General!.

16 1 z.

{d) The Mssayes
or Counsells, CivUl
andMoraUofY^KViCK
Lord Verulam, Vis-
eauntST.ALBAS.i6z$.

English Reprints.

28.

WILLIAM

ROY.
JEROME
BARLOW.

Read me,

and be not

wroth !

(a) Ridi mi and it nul

O Caylx/c Tuitn linn Ihynkat

Wilk cemfiuiffK (AffH ihaii

iMvta/all.

Tbis is Ille &ID0U9 utiri: aa
Cardinal Wolsev, and a Ihe
First English Prelnlant book

tioo of Holy ScripiLw. Sm
/. u for lb< Fifth luch book.

onfi boolc, pnnted ^ Han£

(i) ji proper dya-
lege, betmene a
Gentillmaa and a
husbandman, echt com-
playnynge iooihtrthetr
miserable calamtte,
' through the ambicion
of the ciergye.
(c) A compendious
I tOld treatyse, shewynge,
I how that we ought to
hatte the scripture
in Englyssht. \

39.
Sir WALTER

RALEIGH.

GERVASE

MARKHAM.

J. H. VAN LIN-

SCHOTEN.

The Last

Fight of the

" Revenge."

1591-

(o) A Report of the
trvth ofthefigitt about
the lies of Acores, this
last la Somvier. Be-
tivixt the Reuenge,
one of her Maiesties
Shippes, and an
Armada of the King
of Spain*.

[By Sic W. ItAi^mSH.]

(b) The most honor-
able Tragedie of Sir
Richard Grinuile,

Knight. 1595.

[By Ghbvasb Mabkhau.]

{c) [The Fight and
Cyclone at the Azores.

ByjAK HUYQHIH TAN

Naral^isl

30-

BARNABE
GOOGE.

Eglogues,

Epitaphs,

and Sonnets.

1563-

Eglogs, Epytap/ies,

and Sonette! Newly

written by Barkabe

GooGE.

Ttine copiei only luiDwn,
Reprioud rcDD Ihg HulA

ij Ikt Li/l and yyrilingi ej
B. GOOCE, will be found an
account of the trouble he had
in winniog MaKI Dakbu. foi

A new Lileranire generally
be^ns with imitntiou and

first appeared, Tjaailatiou

'Woang England" of the day,
Thii Collection of urignial

the more soliccable. Ths
roduction rives a gUmpue

e's^udl'Lf the A^on ■(
Mimr/ar Masiitrata,
Translators of SKNBca'a
jgeditt, Stc-, and [Qcladino
b names as Baldwin.

VAKD^ BlOKDKBTOB,
VILLB, NOBTH, NodroM.

The English Scholaf's Library. 2 1

William
Caxton,

Ti-anslation of

Reynard
THE Fox.

148 1.

[Colophon.] /
haue not added ne
mynussktd but haue
/olowed as nygke as I
can my copye which
was in dutche j and by
»M WILLIAM Caxton
translated in to this
L rude and sympii en-
glyssh in f^ej d>bey
ef westmeslre.

InlcTCBliDe far ita own sake ;
bul Hpeciltly » b'liiiE trana-
Uud B weD ai primed by
Caxtoh, <rbo finished tha
priolnwone Jbm ijBi.

The Stan is the History of

of tbe Fm from punishment.
Die recsid of the Dereat at

IKnreTof ^ows, » conflict b«-
tmtm Ubd and Muter. It
m necenuT for Ihe physi-
adb wok toliave Eloquence:
Ihe^duH oF Rbvnabd il in

John Knox,

The First
Blast of the
Trumpet,&c.

1558.

(a) "nt First Blast

of the Trumpet against
the monstrous Jiegi-

meni of Women.

{b) The Propositions
to I ■

Second Blast.

THs work was wnine oul
dF the heart of John Knox,

the n^tyi't^of^Eolland,
and was an^ished theieby.

of Great Britain, and theiein

lay in the taps of fanr women
— UrtSV oF Loraine, lh» Re-
gent of Scotland; heidaugh.
ler Mahv (tlie Qieen of
Scots): Quern Maev Tu-

(t) Knox's apolo-

getical Defence of his

First Blast, &c to

Queen Elizabeth.

Clement
Robinson,

A Handful

OF pleasant

delights.

1584.

A Handefiill of

pleasant delites. Con-
taining sundrie new
Sonets and delectable
Histories, in diuers
kindes of Meeter.
Newly deuised to the
newest tunes that arc
now in vse, to be sung:
(uerie Sonet orderly
pointed to his
proper Tune.
With new additions of
certain Songs, to verie
late deuised Notes, net
commonly knowen, nor
vsed heretofore.

Opu^UA quo:
Nnig<Lit /^ ■" ■

Av. in this Poetica!

oF Ihe LadI,

pearod four years irreviously.
This is Ino Third printed
Poelical Miscellany la odt

22 The English Scholar's Library.

[Simon
Fish,

A Supplica-
tion FOR THE
Beggars.
[? 15.9]

A Sapplkoiyim for
the Beggars.

Tliii is the Fifth Pi
book fpai beinE ■ p<
Holy Scriohue} it

D Sir T. MoBE-s

[Rev. John
Udall,

Miatiittrat Kinaten on
Thama\

DiOTREPHES.

[1588.]

The state of the
Church of Englande,
laid open in a con-
ference betweene Dio-
TREPHEs a Byshopp,
Tertvllvs a Papiste,
De uetrius an usurer,
Pandochus an Inne-
keeper, and Paule a
preacher of the word
of God.

This i> Iht rorerunnuiK tract
at the Maktin Marfrb
LA TB CvKtrvctftjr^ For the
prodaclioo of it, Robkbt
Waldsgbave, the ptiDtei,

Ediuba

I fhuD LoDdoD ta

&
[ ?

The Returm

FROM

Parnassus.

[Acted i6oa.] 1606.

The Retume from
Pernassus: or Tiie
Scourge of Simony.
Publiquely acted by
the Students in Saint

lohns ColUdge in
Cambridge.

This play, wrillen by a
Uni»™i<ymaninD«epbtr

the Sta^e, and makes ibem

VK ^cl o( Lha ° »i>le? O^J
and tlut writer Uctami^
flusii, and laIkE too nudi of
Pnstrtiim and [nffitir.
WhT hcreuDor kWotiSliait'
tfitn pats them all dowsE, I

What Ihu tDnttDVETiy bs-
iween Shu; BsrejiiiS and Tan-

^F The English Scholar's Library. 23 ^H

W Thomas

The Editor.

[Rev John H

1 Decker,

Udall, ■

^1 tic Dramalist.

Minister ai KinzsloH on ^^|

1 The Seven

An introduc-

A Demon- H

I Deadly Sins
H OF London,

tory Sketch
to the martin

Marprelate

stration of ■
Discipline. ^M

■ . ^^'

Controversy.

■

H ' 1606.

1588-1590.

H 77ie Seuen deadly

{a) The general

^ Dtmonsiralion of ^^|

V Sinnes of London:

Episcopal Adminis-

C.^ /n^ifM 0/ that dis- ^M

drawn in seuen seutrall

tration, Censorskip,^c.

cipline w^iV^Christe ^H

Coaches, through the

(i) The Origin of Ike

hath prescribed in his ^H

seuen severall Gates of

Controversy,

wordtfor the goueme- ^^|

1 tht Citie, bringing

men^ ^ ^» Church, ^^|

■ the Plague with

Examinations.

in a// //'mf^r and places, ' ^^|

m them.

id) State Documents.

iw:'!?/ /A; ^KdV V' ^H

■

{e) Tin Briff held

Mrt worlde. ^^|

^B A proH allKorical Satire,

(5)' A> John Pucker-

Ei;,srjil.E':sf

ing, against the Mar-

Printed with the secret ^H
Mantnist ptB», at East Mole- ^^H

ThsSevmSiniare-

tinists.

TbeRe».J.UDAt.L<i.-ho««

ho-erer «/ . Mutinist):

iribuled with the Efiitmt ^^M

Ltiho.

Mrs.CiiANB,of MdIoht ; Rav.

J. PeHIT; SirlCKHICHTLBT,

For this Work, Udall Ud- ^H

Of F.wsley. near North-

ApiaimBSS (Chancii qf

=mpt<.p;HimFEBvNKW«AH,
the Londoa cahler! John

It is perhaps the mast com- ^^|

SnAvmc IChtaliHg), and

S5'ff^K'S=3«:

CRUm-TT.

Their cbuiots, tlrivtn,
1 ^ STi^T^ltgorical)).

sioD ; Job Throckhortok,
E«,.i REN>ySHA»K,baak:

the four prmteri.

(/) Miscellaneous

nood. ' Its Buthor ssKned for ^^|
b^ ni.1 p:>ised ,anr. befon ^H

^_p«H.

Information.

rience) much of t^is Church ^^|
Poiitr had been discarded. ^^^^|

{g) Who were tht

^^H

Writerswhowrote un-

^^1

der the name of VLkr.-

^^1

TIN MaRPRELATE?

24 The English Scholar's Libmvy.

Richard
Stanyhurst,

tia Iritk HUiman.

Translation of

^NEID I-IV.

158a.

Thu first fovrt
Booku of Virgil his
£neis translated
intoo English heroical
[i^., hexameter]
verse by Richakd
Stanyhurst, wyth
eother Peetiail diuises

tkeretoo annexed.
Imprinted at Ltiden
in Holland by Iohn

Pates, Anno

M. D. LXXXII.

the Engtlsh language : uid
hanDg been pnQIaJ m Flui-
dos, the Dtieinal Editioa ji

kindpeu oT Lord AsKBUJtH-

HiUamlS.CllfilStlB-MlU.EH.

Esq.. npnntcd Ihua the only
tva CDpiH known, qeither of
which a qaile perfect.

Gaburl HaavKV desired
to be enlaphed. Tlit Ittanslar

EueLi^ wDrd« iti mit the
■aifeodei of Clascal fecL

Martin
Marprelate.

The Epistle.
1588.

Oh read oucr D.
John Bridges, ^r //

is a worthy worke;
Or an epitome of the
fyrste £ooke of that
right worshipfull
volume^ written a-
gainst th* Puritanes,
in the defence of the
noble cleargie, by as
worshipfull a prieste,
John Bridges, Pres-
byter, Priest or Elder,
dodor of Diuillitie,
and Deane of Sarum.

TlieEpitonu\p.2^\
it not yet publisiud,
but it shall be, when
the Byshops are at
conuenient Insure to
view tlie same. In
the medne time, let
'them be content with
this learned Epistle.

Printed oversea, in
Europe, within two
furlongs of a Bounsing
Priest, at the cost and
charges of M. Mar-
prelate, gentleman.

Robert
Greene, m.a.

Mehaphon.

1589.

Menaphom. Cam-
illas alarum to
slumbering Euphues,
in his melancholie

Cell at Silexedm.
Wherein are de-
ciphered the variable
effects of Fortune, the
wonders of Loue, the
triumphes of incon-
stant Time. Display-
ing in sundrie evn-
ceipted passions
(figured in a con-
iinuate Historie) the
Trophees that Virtue
carrieth triumphant,
niaugre the wrath of
Enuie, or the resolu-
tion oj Fortune.

moitjupuU^Viirl
a in EnElsnd, np I
earaiKre of Sic 1

The English Scholars Library. 25

George Joy,

An Apology

TO TiNDALE.

1535-

An Apologye made
by Gborck Joye to
satisfye {if it may be)
w. Tindale: to
pourgt and defmde
himself agdmt so
many sdaunderotise
lyesfayned vpon him
in TiNDALS vn-
charitable and vn-
sober Pystle so will
worthy t to be prefixed
for the Reader to
induce him into the
vnderstanding of hys
new Testament, dili-
gently corrected and
printed in the yeare
of our Lorde 1534.

in Nouember
[Antwerp, V} Feb. IS3S-]

This Blmost loa book is onr
only ADthoritT m T«p«:t Lo

the EogUili Ntvi Tutamatt.

Eogliih mutut with itrf

priBUnwiio knew Qot English,
b ihe ininvfll bctwesn

14.

Richard

Barnfield,

' Dariatlen, Slafftrdikin

Poems.
1594-1598.

The affectionate

Shepheard. Contain-
ing the Complaint of
Daphnis/o/' the Loue
of Ganymede.

to (he followiPB WoA,
Barni'ield smics t^al ihis u

IheEeCDDdEilDEiieo

CVMTHIA. With
Certaine Sennets, and
the Legend of Cass-
andra. 1595.

^H^ UbovenTen-ed lo) io

10 Iha reading ot thai, which

T/te Encomion of

Lady Pecunia; or.

The praise of Money.

1598.

T[homas]
C [coper].

ADMONITION TO

THE People of

ENGLANDi

[1589-]

An admonition to
tilt people of England:
Wherein are an-
smered, not onely the
slaunderous vntrue-
thes, reprochfully vt-
tered by Martin tlte
Libeller, but also
many other Crimes by
some of his hroode,
objected generally
against all Bishops,
and the chiefe of the
Cleargie, purposely to
deface and discredile

the present state of
the Church.
[/"■ ■SS9.1

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Fraidint of Virginia, and Admiral of New England.

WORKS.-1608-1631.

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The First printed
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Bv W. TINDALE and W. ROY.
Sixty photo-lithographed pages; preceded by a critical PREFACE.

BsiBFLY told, the story of this profoundly interesting work is as follows: —

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about a year, he journeyed on to Cologne ; and there, assisted by William Rov,
subsequently the author of the satire on WoLSBV, If^dt nit and be nalt mrotke
[see p. 19], he began this first edition in 4to, viilh glasses, of the English Mew
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A virulent enemy of the Reformation, CocKLi£i;s, at that lime an exile in
Coli^ne ; learnt, through giving wine to the printer's men, (hat P. Qubntal
the printer had in hand a secret edition of three thousand copies of the English
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the dty, who moved the Senate to stop the printing ; but C0CHI..CUS could
neither obtain a sight of the Translators, nor a sheet of the impression.

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II. The Printing at Goitre.

in. The Priming at Worms.

IV. William Roy's connection with these Editions.
v. The landing and distribution in England.

VI. The persecution in England.

T^grafkicai and Literary Evidenee connected toith the present Fragment —
I. It was printed for Tindalb by Pbtbr Qubntal at Cologne, before 1526.
II. It is nut a portion of the separate Gospel of MatlAiw printed previous to
that year.

HL It is therefore certainly a fragment of the Quarto.

Is ths Quarto a translation d/Luthbr's German Versionf

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