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

[REV. JOHN UDALU

The

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.

l^ibliography ^

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.

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B IB LIO GRJPHT.

I. SOME ANTECEDENT ENGLISH WORKS] IN THIS CONTROVERSY.

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: her Mni'eslTn InlunHlODI [& undUi'd r^iuoiu. One inU.. . . erandjaged. [697. f. ■ J.J [See A"

•.nia tht in\e or Aa^tstra t&'c [6ijj f a a] •IDlulkvFejineb Minister al M ddlebuiih I A Counler Poyson mi

[t] A LuoenUblE Complunc of the CanuiiDnalty, By Way Of Eapplica-ion To The HIeh CouM ■ Of Parliamenl, For A Learned Minuitery. fii Anno 1585. [4K1J. u.| •[1] Ihe Vnlawful Practises Of PielaUi Ag^nsl Godly Mini&leri, The Mainuinets OfThe

'LTl The Judement of 11 most Kuereud and learned Man fron order of Bishops (i>. 0/ G«i, ir/ man, ami qf llu Vitni.) 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 administration 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

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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*!

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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.— TheEpUtk,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

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 tyrannizing ouer him : by imprisoning and spoyling his goods/ and vexing his poore wife and children/with continuall rifeling his house with their purciuants: who in Nouember[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 \

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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

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 contribution 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-

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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

Execution ofyuslice 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.

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'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 remaineth 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

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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 meaneth,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.

The state of the Church of England.

^ 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

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?

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.

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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.

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

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

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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 ?

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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.

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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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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

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.

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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.

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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,

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 ?

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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.

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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 '

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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 ?

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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.

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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

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

1. The Expedition to Scotland in May 1543.

2. R. Pkekb's fight al Xeiei with a. quarier-atalT against Three Spaniards at once, aimed with poniaids and daggers: when he killed one and put the other two to flight. 1625.

3. The capture of Cris in Galatia by Captain Quaile and 35 men. 1636.

4. Ranks in the British Ariny, about 1630.

5. The Return of Charles 11, to Whitehall, 166a

6. The Retaking of St. Helena, 1673.

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7. The Beginnings of English Trade with the Levant, i5ii-iS7a

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English Life and Progress

10. The BeneSts of observing Fish Days. 1594.

11. The Great Fiost. Cold doings in London. 1608.

■ 2. The Carriers of London and the Inns Ihey stopped at in 1637.

13. A Narrative of Ihe Draining of the Fens. 1661.

English Literature, Literary History, and Biography.

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English Poetry.

IS- Love Posies. CoUecled about 1590. i5. Sir Philip Sidney. Astrophel and Stella [Sonnets] 1591, With the Blorjr of hia affection for Lady PeNELOPK Deversux, afterwards Rich.

17. Edmund Spenser and othin. Astrophel. A Pastoral Elegy on Sir Philip Sidney. 1591.

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I. The Triumpli at Calais ind Boulogne of Henky viti. [with Anne Bolbyn) ind Francis i. Novembec 1531.

a. The CoronitioQ Procession of Queen Annb [Bolryn] Irom the Towet Ihrougli London to Westminster. Juno 1533.

3. English Aim; Rations in 1591.

4. Rev. T. Prince. A History of New England in the foim of Annali, Irom l6oa to 1633. Published at Boston, N.B., in I736-I7SS- This is the most

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English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc

5. Captain T. Sanders. The unfortunate voyage of the Jcsut to Tri] where the crew were made slaves. 1584-1585.

6. N. II. The Third Circumnavigation of the Globe, by Thouas Caveheish, in the Dedre. 1586-158S.

7. The famous fight of the Doifhin agamst Five Turkish Men-of-War off

'PO^^I

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16.7.

English Life and Progress.

8. Dr. J. Deb. The Petty Navy Royal. [Fisheries.] 1577.

g. Captain HiTCKCOCK. Apolitical Plat [Sihtmi^, etc. [Herring Fisheriei.]

10. D. Defoe, The Education of Woraeo. 1692.

English Literature, Literary History, and Biography.

II. F. Mbres, a Sketch of English Literature, etc., up to Septembei i^. This ii the most important contemporary account of Skakespbare's Woria to this date; including some that have apparently perished.

ij. J. Wright. The Second Generation of English Actors, 1625-1670. This includes some valuable information respecting London Theatres during this period.

English Poetry.

13. Sir P. Sidney. Sonnets and Poetical Translations. Before 1587.

14. H. CoKSTABLB, aiid Others. Diana. [Sonnets.] 1594.

15. Madrigals, Elegies, and Poems, by various other Poets.

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English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.

a. |. H. VAN LiNSCHOTEN. Voyage to Gaa and back, in Portugese canacks.

This work showed the way to the East, and led to the formation of the Dutch and the English East India Companies. For neatly three years this Dutchman, returning in charge of a cargo of pepper, spices, etc., was pinned up in the Awres by the English ships ; of whose daring deeds he gives an account.

3. E. Weight. The voyage of the Earl of Cumberland to the Aiores in 1589. This is a part of Lihschotbn's story le-told more fully from an English point of view.

4. The first Englishmen^OHN Newbery and Ralph Fitch— that ever reached India overland, iii& Aleppo and the Persian Gulf, in 1583-1589. They met with Linschotkn there; and also T. Stevens the Jesuit, see vol. L p, 130.

English Life and Progress.

5. J. Caius, M.D, Of English Dogs. 1536. Translated from the Latin by

English Literature, Literary History, and

Biography.

8. J. Devden. Of Dramatic Poesy. An Essay. This charming piece of English Prose was written in 1665 and published in 1668. With it is given the enlrre Controversy between Drvden and Sir R. Howakd on this subject.

English Poetry.

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a. J. Fox. The Imprisanment oflhe Priocesa EuzAaETK. 1SS4-I5SS-

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4. The Coronation Procession of Queen Elizabeth. Jiinuary 1559.

5. Sir Thomas Ovekbury. Observations of Holland, Fhuidcts, and F in 1609. A most sagacioits Political Study.

6. James I. The Book of Spoits. 161S.

7. Abp. G. Abbott. Nartaiive of his Sequeslralion from Office in 16279 Charles I., at the instigation of Bcckincham and Ladd.

8. Major-General Sit T. Morgan. Progress \i.t. March\ in Fiance ( Flanders with the 6000 ' Red Coals' at the taking of Dunkirk, etc, in 1657-^

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9. The first Britons who ever reached the city of Mexico 1 T, BuiKS;9 Scotchman, before 1536; and J. Field and R. Tomson, 1556,

10. The wonderful Recovery of Ihe Exchangt from forty-five Turkish p ot Algiers by J. Rawlins and twecty-fouc other slaves. February 162a.

English Life and Progress.

II. T. Gentleman. England's Way to Win Wealth. [Fisheries.] Dutch obtaioed more wealth from their Herring Y'i^STf along the EngHtk sl than the Spaniards did from their Americao gold mines.

English Poetry.

12. ? T. OCCLBVE. The Letter of Cotid, 140a-

13. L. Sbbphkrd. John Bon and Mast[er] Parson. [A Satire o; Mass.] 1551.

14. Rev. T. Brice. A Register of the Tormented and Cruelly Burned wiltG,_ England. 1555-1558. These verses give the names of most of the Marian Murtyrs.

15. J. C, Alcilia; Philoparthrn's loving folly 1 [Love Poems.] 1595.

16. G. Wither. Fait ViRTt;E, the Mistress of Phil'arbtb. i6a2. This is Withkr's masterpiet*. Over 6000 lines of verse in many metrical forms..

17. The Songs that JOHN DOWLAND, the fcmoos Lutenist, s

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1. J. Savile, King James's EntetUinment at Theobalds, and his Welcome to London. 1603.

DucDALB. The Time Triumphant. King James's Coionstion at Weslminster, 25 July 1603 j and Coronation Piocessioo [delayed by the Plagne], 15 March 1604.

English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.

3. The Voyifiss '° Brazil of William Hawkins, Governor of Plymouth and biUier of Sir John, about 1530.

4. Sir J. Hawkins. First Voyage to the West Indies, 1562-1563. This IS the b^inning of the English Slave Trade.

5. R. Bodbnham. a Trip to Mexico. 1564-1565.

6. Sir J. Hawkins. Second Voyage to the West Indies. 1564-1565,

7. Sir J. Hawkins. Third and disastrous Voyage to the West Indies, 1567-1569 : with the base treachery of the Spaniards at San Juan de Ulna, near Vera Cnu; and the extraordinary adventures of Three of the Survivors. This was Skakb's and Voyage to the West Indies} and the first in which he commanded - ship, \hc Judith.

8. Sir F. Drake's 3rd (1570), 4th (1571), and 5th (1572-73), Voyages to the West Indies. Especially the 5th, known as The Voyage lo Nombre de Dios: in which, on 11 February I573, he first MW the Pacific Ocean; and then bc-tloQght GOD to give him life to sail once in an English ship on that sea. [See opposite page.]

English Life and Progress.

English Poetry.

__. B. Baknes. Partkbnophil and PARTHBNOPHa. Sonnets, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes. 1593. [A perfect Storehoose of Versification, including the only treble Sestiae in our language.]

It. Zbfhbkia. [Canzons.] 1594.

13. Sir J, Davibs. Orchestra or a Poem on Dancing. 1596.

13. B. Griffin. Fidbssa, more chaste than kind. [Sonnets.] 1596. r t*. Sir J. Davibs. Nescit,ipmml In two Elegies: (i) Of Human Know jedge, (z) Of the Soul of Man and the Immortality thereof. 1599.

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English Voyages, Travels, Commerce, etc. etc.

English Life and Progress.

4. The most dangerous Adventure of R. Ferris, A. Hill, and W. ThomasS who went in a tost by sea froni London 10 Bristol. 1590.

5. Leather. A Discourse to Failiament 1639.

6. H. Pbacham. The Worth of a Penn)', or a Caution to keep M 1641. With all the variations of the later Edilions.

7. Sir W. Pbtty. Political Arithmetic. [Written in 167?.] 169a. C the earliest aod best books on the Science of Wealth.

English Literature, Literary History, and Biography.

8. Isaac BiCKKRSTAFF, Esq. [Dean J. Swift.] Predictions for the year 170S. [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.

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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.

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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 Plaughers 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.)

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 CkhJMaster 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 Englishman 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 Matters of weight andh igh consequence, relating especially to Religion and State.

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

EV edl thjigs, Lihfrtyl

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 Proportion, 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^

A

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 Revelation, &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.

I

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 Schoolmaster. 1570.

77ie Scholemasfer, or plaim and perfite 7vay of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, in Latin toftg, but specially 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. Together 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.

(c) Tlie Essaies of

Sir Francis Bacon

Knight, the Kings

Solliciter General!.

161 z.

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

d

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 honorable Tragedie of Sir Richard Grinuile,

Knight. 1595.

[By Ghbvasb Mabkhau.]

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

ByjAK HUYQHIH TAN

Naral^isl

19

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.

I

William Caxton,

Ti-anslation of

Reynard THE Fox.

1481.

[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» Regent 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. Containing 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 Supplication 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 conference 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-

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, Presbyter, 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. Camillas alarum to slumbering Euphues, in his melancholie

Cell at Silexedm. Wherein are deciphered the variable effects of Fortune, the wonders of Loue, the triumphes of inconstant Time. Displaying in sundrie evn-ceipted passions (figured in a con-iinuate Historie) the Trophees that Virtue carrieth triumphant, niaugre the wrath of Enuie, or the resolution oj Fortune.

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

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, diligently 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. Containing 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 Cassandra. 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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WORKS.-1608-1631.

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Occasion was liken, in the pteparation of Ihia Edition, dispassionately to

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Small Paper Edition, ^^d pp., in One Volume, Demy j^o, £i. Large Paper Edition, in One Volumt, Royal ^to, £3, 31. The Three Books are— (i.) Of thenev landeg, etc. Printed at Antweip about 1511. TTiiiis first English book in lohicA the suorrf America [('.r,, Annonica]m \2.) A Treatise of the new India, etc. Translated by Richard Edbs from Sebastian Muekster's Cmmografhy: and printed it The Second EtigUsh Book on America, (3.) TheDecadesof the Kew World,etc.,by PtiiTRoMARTiEB[PETBii9^ Martyr], traoslaled by Ejchard Edbn, and printed in ISJS-

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This Master Key to English Bibliography for the period j gives the approximate period that each Publisher was in business.

Demy, 4io, 32pp.,

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The First printed English New Testament, in Quarto.

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:—

In 1534 TlNDALE went from London to Hamburg; where remaining for 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 Testament.

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 New Testament. In great alarm, he informed Herman Rinck, a Senator of 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.

TiNDALE and RoY lied with the printed sheets up the Rhine to Worms; and there completing this edition, produced also another in Svo, wil/wut glosses. Both editions were probably in England by March 1526.

Of the sis thousand copies of which they together were composed, there remain but this fragment of the First commenced edition, in 4I0; and of the Second Edition, in Svo, one complete copy in the library of the Baptist College at Bristol, and an imperfect one in that of SI. Paul's Cathedral, London.

In the Preface, the original documents are given intact, in connection with

Svidetue connected with Ike first Two Editions of the English New Testament, rU., in Quarlo and Octavo —

I. 'William Tindalb's antecedent career. 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

Text. The prologs. Inner Mai^inol References. Outer Marginal Glosses.

•,• For a conlinualion of this Story see G, Joy's Apology, at p. 25.

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