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candels lyghted in their handes, shoughting out prayses to God for de liuerynge me from the handes of these murtherers. The prestes the next daye, to colour their myschefe, caused it to be noysed all the countrey ouer, that it was by the hande of God that my seruauntes were slain, for that they had broken (they sayde) the great holy daye of our ladyes natiuitie. But I wolde fayne knowe what holy dayes those bloodthurstye hypocrites and malyciouse murtherers kepte, which had hyred their cruel kearnes to do that myschefe? O! abhoymynable traytours, both to God and to all godly ordre. Ye here commende murther undre a colour of false religyon, to hyde your owne myschefes to the eyes of the people, but the eyes of God ye cannot deceyue. Youre horrible slaughter must now be Gods doynge, and yet was it the devyll that sett ye a wurke. Ye prate here of the obseruacion of the holy daye, which neuer yet kepte the holy daye as it shulde be kepte. For ye neuer yet preached the wurde of God truly, neyther mynystred the sacramentes ryghtly, neyther yet taught the people to honour God purely, and to keepe his commaundementes inuiolably, which are the only kepinges of the holy dayes.

But on those dayes, more than on any other, ye pampre them vp in all supersticions, false worshippynges, and ydolatryes, to the utter defilynge both of the dayes and of them. Ye are much offended that a good wurke shulde be done on the sabboth daye, as were your fore, fathers the Pharisees, but, with whoredome, ydolatrye, dronkennesse, and slaughter of men, ye are nothinge at all offended, but wickedly ye do mainteine them, as I am able to proue by a thousande of your lewde examples. The natiuitie of our ladye was at that daye a feast abrogated, by autoritie of a christen kynge, and his whole parlement; and yet you saye the holy daye is broken, whan it is no holy daye at all, but as all other dayes are holy to them only which are holy through their true obedience to Gods most holy wurde. Ye had kepte the daye much holyar, in my opinyon, if ye had, in the fear of God, obeyed the commaundement of your christen kynge; where as, in disobeynge the same, ye haue resisted the holy ordinaunce of God for a supersticion, procuringe thereby to your selues damnacion, Roma, 1. Christe, our heauenly Maistre and Redemer, was wele contented that his most holy natiuiție gaue place to an heathnysh camperours obedi ence, Luc. 2. And yow disdaine that daye to obeye a most christen kynge, counsell, and parlement, and yet ye are not ashamed to boast it, that ye kepte the daie holy. O! right antichristes. On the daye next followinge, which was Saturdaye in the afternoone, the forseid treasurer, a man vnlearned, and therwith an outragiouse whorekepar, resorted to me with a nombre of prestes, to tempte me, like as Sathan ded Christe in the wildernesse, sauing that Sathan to Christe offered stones, and that tempting treasurer both apples and wyne. And, as they had than compassed me in rounde about, the seid treasurer proponed vnto me, that they were all fully minded to have solempne exe quies for kynge Edwarde, lately departed, lyke as the quenes highnesse had had them in Englande. I axed them how that was? They made me answere, with a requiem masse and dirige. Than asked I of them agayne, Who shulde singe the masse? And they answered, me,

that it was my bounde dewtie to do it, beinge their bishop. Than sayde I vnto them, massinge is an office appointed of that antichriste, the Bishop of Rome, to whom I owe no obedience, neither will I owe him any so longe as I shall lyue. But if ye will haue me there, to do that office, which Christe, the Sonne of God, hath earnestly com maunded, which is to preach hys holy gospell, I will do it with all my heart.

No, sayde they, we will haue a solempne masse, for so had the quene. By my trouth, sayde I, than must ye go seke out some other chaplayne; for, truly, of all generacions, I am no masse-mongar; for, of all occupacions, me thinke, it is most folish; for there standeth the preste disgysed, lyke one that wolde shewe some conveyaunce or iuglyng playe. He turneth his back to the people, and telleth a tale to the walle, in a foren language. If he turn his face to them, it is eyther to receyue the offering, eyther to desyre them to giue him a good wurde, with orate pro me fratres, for he is a poore brother of theirs; cyther to bid them God spede,, with dominus vobiscum, for they get no part of his banket; eyther els to blesse them with the bottom of the cuppe, with benedictio Dei, whan all the brekefast is done. And of these feates, said I, can I now lyttle skille. With that the treasurer, beinge in hys fustene fumes, stoughtely demaunded a determinate answere, as though he came not thydre without autoritie. Than suspected I somwhat the wickednesse of Iustice Hothe, and such other; notwithstandinge, I axed him ones again, What profyght he thought the kynges sowle to haue of those funeral exequies? Than answered one of the prestes, that God knewe wel inough what he had to do. Yet yow must appoint him, sayde I.

If these poure suffrages be a waye for him to heauen, and that he cannot go thydre without them, ye are much to blame, that ye haue diffarred them so long. Ye had, sayde I, a commaundement, the last Saterdaye, of the Iustice Hothe, to haue solempnised them that nyght, and the next daye after. But the deuyll, which that daye daunsed at Thomas-Towne (for they had a procession with pageauntes) and the Aqua Vite, and Rob Dauie withall, wolde not suffre ye than to do them. I desire yow, considering that the last Sondaye ye diffared them to see the deuyll daunse at Thomas-Towne, that ye will also this Sondaye differre them, tyll such tyme as I sende to the quenes commissioners at Dublyne, to knowe how to be discharged of the othe which I made to the kynge and his counsell for abolyshement of that Popish masse; for I am loth to incurre the daunger of periurie. With that, after a few wurdes more, they seemed content, and so departed. The next daye came thydre a proclamacion, that they which wolde heare masses, shulde be suffered so to do, and they that wold not shulde not therunto be compelled.

Thus was that buyldynge clearly ouerthrowne, and that practyse of blasphemye wolde not take at that tyme, as God wolde.

And, as I had continued there certen dayes, I chauneed to heare of manye secrete mutteringes, that the prestes wolde not so leaue me, but were styll conspiringe my deathe.

It was also noysed abroade, by the Bishop of Galwaye, and others,

that the antichrist of Rome shulde be taken agayne for the supreme heade of the churche of Irelande.

And, to declare a contemptuouse chaunge from religion to supersticion againe, the prestes had sodainly set up all the aulters and ymages in the cathedrall churche. Beholdinge therfor so many inconueniences to ensewe, and so many daungers towarde, hauinge also, which was worst of all, no English deputie or gouernour within the lande to com plaine to for remedie, I shoke the dust of my fete against those wicked colligyners and prestes, accordinge to Christes commaundement, Math. 10, that it might stande against them as a witnesse at the daye of iudgement. The next daye, early in the morninge, by helpe of frendes, I conuayed my selfe awaye to the castell of Lechline, and so fourth to the cytie of Dubline, where as I, for a certen time, amonge frendes remayned.

As the epicurouse archebishop had knowledge of my beinge there, he made boast vpon his ale benche, with the cuppe in his hande, as I hearde the tale tolde, that I shulde, for no mannis pleasure, preache in that cytic of his. But this neded not, for I thought nothinge lesse at that time, than to poure out the preciouse pearles of the gospell afore so brockish a swine as he was, becominge than, of a dissemblinge proselite, a very perniciouse Papist. And as towchinge learninge, wherof he muche. boasted amonge his cuppes, I knowe none that he hath so perfightly exercised as he hath the knowne practises of Sardinapalus; for his preachinges twise in the yeare, of the ploughman in winter, by Exit qui seminat, and of the shepeherde in somer, by Ego sum pastor bonus, are now so wele knowne by rott, of euery gossipp in Dublyne, that, afore he cometh vp into the pulpet, they can tell his sermon. And as for his wife, if the mariage of prestes endureth not, he hath already prouided his olde shifte of conueyaunce, by one of his seruauntes. But I wolde wishe, that, amonge other studies, he remembred old Debethes at London, for surgerie; for ywys there is yet some moncie to be paied, and an Irish hobby also by promysc.

About thre yeares a go, he made interpellacyon to the Kynge, in his Lente sermon, for his doughter Irelande; but now he commaundeth her to go a whoringe againe, and to folow the same deuyll that she folowed afore; for that he ded than, was but only to serue the time. He neded lyttle than to haue accused Sir Antony Sellenger of treason, if ye marke him wele now, but that he thought, by such conueyaunce, to winne estimacion, and to obtayne the Hygh Primacie of Irelande, from the archebisshoprycke of Armach, as he ded in dede. Full wele bestowed. Such dissemblinge gluttons, and swynysh Papistes, are a sore plage to that lande, which, for their wicked bellyes, make the people beleue, that sower is sweete, and darkenesse lighte, with their aulters, masses, and ymages. And that causeth me to write this to his. shame.

The salte,' sayth, Christe, that is become vnsauerie, is from thens, fourth good for nothinge, but to be cast out at the dores, and trodden yndre mennes fete,' Math. 5. After certen dayes within my hostes howse, a yonge man of Estsexe, called Thomas, was comminge and

goynge, which, for his maisters affayres into Scotlande, had hyred a small ship, there called a Pyckarde.

I reioyced at the chaunce, as one that had founde a great treasure, and thought it a thinge prouided of God, for a sauegarde and deliueraunce at that present. Anon I couenaunted with him, to paye the halfe charges of that shippe, that I might passe thydre with him, and deliuered to him out of hande the more part therof.

I thought at all tymes by him, and by an other whom I there had also herde of, hauinge their continuall occupyenges thydre, to haue, from tyme to tyme, knowlege of the deputyes comminge ouer into Irelande, and so to resort againe to myne owne, in case all thinges were to my minde: As that the tirannouse Bishop of Rome had not his primacye and old doynges there againe, as it had bene boasted he shulde, and that the Christen religion gaue not place to blasphemouse pa-. pistrie. And as he and I were togyther in the shippe, there tarrienge vpon the tyde for passage, an Irishe pirate, yea, rather a cruell tiraunte of helle, called Walter, beinge pylate, as they call them, or loades man in a Flemmish shippe of warre, made the couctouse captaine therof to beleue that I was a Frenche man, and that I had about me innumerable treasure. The captaine, hearinge of this, with an excedinge fearcenesse, inuaded our poore shippe, and remoued both the yonge man Thomas and me from thens into his great shippe of warre; Where as he searched vs both to the very skinnes, and toke from vs al that we had in moneye, bokes, and apparell. He joke also from the maistre of our pickarde, or lyttle shippe, v. pounde, which I and the seyd Thomas had given to him in part of payement, with all his beere and vitayles, notwithstandinge that he perfightly knewe vs to be Englishe men, and no Frenche

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In the ende I loked fourth of the captaincs cabyne, and behelde a fayre howse, as it had bene a mile from vs, and axed of the yonge man, whose howse that was? He made me answere, that it was the howse of one Mr. Parker, the searcher there. I instauntly desired of the captayne to be deliuered to him, but in no wise wolde he graunt it. I required anon after, as I beheld a farre of, the citye of Dublyne, to be brought thydre for my honest tryall (for they had accused me of treason) but it might not be allowed. The next daye after, we came into the hauen of Waterforde, where as also, for my tryall, I desired to go a lande, but in no wyse wolde it be graunted. After that we passed more than the halfe seas ouer, towardes Cornewale, and were driuen backe againe with so fearce and terrible a tempest, that the whole seas, to our syght and feling, went ouer vs. And, as we were come yet ones againe into the hauen of Waterforde, I sayde vnto the captaine, God hath with violence brought vs hyther againe (I perceyue it) that I shulde trye my innocencye. I desyre yow (sayd I) as I haue done heretofore, to deliuer me into the cytie of Waterforde, where as I am wele knowne. He refused vtterly so to do, and, after certen other talk, he desiered me to content myselfe, and I shulde, he sayde, in the shippe haue all thinges to my mynde. Whie, sayde I, ye go not iny waye, neither is it fit for me to seke for pryses, and to go a roauinge as yow do, but to sattle myselfo sumwhere.

Sens ye came to our shippe, sayde he, I hearde yow wishe yourselfe in Duchelande; and I promise yow, we will honestly brynge yow thydre, and not longe tarry by the waye. My chaunce was, in dede, to fynde there amonge them an Hollander, called Leonarde, which knewe me in Nortwick, with Maistre Iohan Sartorius. To him, in familiar talke, I had wished myselfe there at that present: But how will ye leade me, sayde I to the captaine, as ye haue done hytherto, lyke a captiue prisoner, or lyke a free passenger? No, sayde he, I take ye now for no prisoner, but for a man of worshipp, and for a most honest passenger, and so will I deliuer yow there. But all this time he had my moneye in his owne kepinge. Within ii dayes after, we were driuen into S. Iues in Cornewale by extremitie of wether; where as the forseid wicked rate Walter got him a lande afore vs so fast as euer he coulde, and accused me there for an haynouse traitour, yea, for such a one as for that cause had fledde out of Irelande.

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And, to bringe his wicked purpose to passe of winninge sumwhat by me (for he thought than to haue halfe my moneye which was in the captaines hand) he fatched thydre one Downinges from vii myles of, by the counsell of the mariners of that towne, which was noysed to be the most cruell termagaunt of that shire, yea, suche a one as had bene a begynnar of the last commocion there, both to examine me and appre hende me.

And, as I was commen to that examinacion before one of the baylyses, the constables, and other officers, I desiered the seyd baylyfe, apearinge to me a very sober man, as he was in dede, to axe of the seyd Walter, How longe he had knowne me, and what treason I had done sens that tyme of his knowlege? He answered, That he neuer sawe me, neyther yet had hearde of me, afore I came into that shippe of warre a iiii or v dayes afore. Than sayde the baylyfe, What treason hast thu knowne by this honest gentelman sens? For I promise the, he semeth to be an honest man? Mary, sayde he, he wolde haue fledde into Scotlande, Whie, saith the baylyfe, and knowest thu any impediment, wherfor he ought not to haue gone into Scotlande? No, sayde the fellawe, but he was goinge towardes Scotlande. If it be a treason, sayth the baylyfe, to go towardes Scotlande, a man having businesse to do there, it is more than I knewe afore, and truly, sayth he, than are there manie traitours abroade in the worlde.

Good Fellawe, sayde he, take hede that thy grounde be good in accusinge this man, els art thu wurthie to suffre due ponnishiment for it; for thu doest it els vpon some other affection, than desire of right. With that he stode still, and was able to saye nothinge, for he was as dronke as an ape, in hope of a bone viage.

Than came in the captaine and his purser, and reuiled the seyd Walter, reportinge him to be a very noughtye fellawe, and a commen dronkarde, and that I was a very honest man.

For they feared, at that tyme, the discharge of my moneye out of their handes, I offeringe myselfe, for my tryall against him, to be brought to the sessions, which were than not farre of.

Than sayde the forscid Downinges in great displeasure, Gods sowle, what do I here? This is but a dronken matter, by the masse; and sø

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