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A09618	The examinacion of the constaunt martir of Christ, Ioh[a]n Philpot arch diacon of Winchestre at sondry seasons in the tyme of his sore emprisonment, conuented and banted, as in these particular tragedies folowyng, it maye (not only to the christen instruction, but also to the mery recreacion of the indifferent reader) most manifestly appeare. Reade fyrst and than iudge.	Philpot, John, 1516-1555.	1556 (1556)	STC 19892; ESTC S100457	120,727	301

your yeares great exercyse do excell therin but fayth cōsysteth not only in learning but in simplicytie of beleuing that which Godes word teacheth therfore I wil be glad to heare bothe of your lordship or of any other that god hath reuealed vnto by his worde the true doctrine therof thanke you that it dothe please you to take paynes herein Chiche You take the first alleged amisse as though al mē should be taught by inspiration not by learnyng Howe do we beleue the Gospel but by the authoritie of the church and because the same hath allowed it Phil. S. Paule sayeth he learned not the Gospel by men neyther of men but by the reuelatiō of Iesus Christ which is a sufficiēt profe that the gospel taketh not his authoritie of mā but of God only Chichest S. Paule speaketh but of his owne knowlage how he came therto Phil. Naye he speaketh of the Gospel generally which cōmeth not from mā but from God that the churche must only teache that which cōmeth frō God and not mans preceptes Chiches Doth not S. Austine saye I would not beleue the Gospel yf the authoritie of the churche dyd not moue me therto phil I graūt that the authoritie of the churche dothe moue the vnbeleuers to beleue but yet the churche geueth not the worde his authoritie for the worde hath his authoritie only frō God not of man Men be but disposers therof for fyrst the worde hath his beyng before the churche and the worde is the foundacion of the churche and first is the foundacion sure before the buyldyng theron can be stedfast Chiches I perceaue you mistake me I speake of the knowlage of the Gospell and not of the authoritie for by the churche we haue all knowlage of the Gospel phil I confesse that For fayth cometh by hearyng and hearyng by the worde and I acknowlage that God appointeth an ordinary meanes for mē to come vnto knowlage nowe and not miraculously as he hath done in tymes paste yet we that be taught by men must take hede that we learne nothing else but that which was taught in the primatiue churche by reuelation Here came in the B. of Yorke and the bishop of Bathe and after they had saluted one an other and commoned a whyle together the Archbishop of Yorke called me vnto them sayeng Yorke Syr we hearyng that you are out of the waye are come of charitie to enforme you and to bring you into the true fayth to the catholike churche agayne willyng you first to haue humilitie and to be humble and willyng to learne of your betters for else we can do no good wyth you and God sayeth by the Prophete On whome shall I reste but on the humble and meke and suche as tremble at my worde Nowe yf you will so be we wil be glad to trauail with you phil I know that humilitie is the dore wherby we enter vnto Christ I thāke his goodnes I haue entred in at the same vnto him wil with al humilitie heare whatsoeuer truth you shal speake vnto me Yorke What be the maters you stāde on and require to be satisfyed Phil. My lorde and it please your grace we were entred in a good mater before you came of the churche and howe we should knowe the truth but by the churche Yorke In dede that is the heade we nede to beginne at for the churche beyng truly knowē we shal soner agre in the particular thynges phil Yf your lordships can proue the churche of Rome to be the true catholike churche it shall do muche to persuade me towarde that you would haue me inclyne vnto Yorke Why let vs go to the definition of the churche what is it phil It is a cōgregation of people dispersed through the worlde agreyng together in the worde of God vsyng the sacramentes and al other thinges accordyng to the same Yorke This diffinitiō is of many wordes to no purpose Phil. I do not precisely diffyne the churche but declare vnto you what I thinke the church is Yorke Is the church visible or inuisible Phil. It is bothe visible and inuisible the inuisible church is of all the electes of God only the visible consisteth of bothe good and bad vsing all thinges in fayth according to Goddes word Yorke The churche is an vniuersal cōgregaciō of faythful people in Christ through the worlde which this word catholik doth wel expresse for what is catholike elles doth it not signifie vniuersal Phil. The churche is diffined by S. Austen to be called catholike in this wyse Ecclesia ideo dicitur catholica quia vniuersaliter perfecta est in nullo claudicat The church is called therfore catholike bicause it is throughly perfyt and halteth in nothing Yorke Nay it is called catholyke bycause it is vniuersally receyued of all Chrystian nations for the most parte Phil. The churche was catholike in the Apostles tyme yet was it not vniuersally receyued of the world but bicause their doctrine which they had receyued of Christ was perfect and appointed to be preached and receaued of the hole world therfore it is caled the catholike fayth all persons receyuing the same be to be counted the catholike churche And S. Austine in an other place writeth ad Neophitos that the catholike church is the which beleueth a right Yorke Yf you will learne I wil shewe you by S. Austine writing against the Donatistes that he proueth the catholike churche by two principall pointes which is vniuersalitie and successiō of bishops in one apostolycal sea from tyme to tyme. Nowe thus wil I make myn argumēt The churche of Rome is vniuersal hath had his succession of bishops from tyme tyme Ergo it is the catholike churche howe answere you to this argumēt phil I deny the antecedent That the catholike churche is only knowen by vniuersalitie by succession of bishops Yorke I wil proue it And with that he brought furthe a boke which he had noted out of the doctors and turned to his commō places therin of the churche recyted one or two out of S Austen specially out of his epistle written against the Donatistes Here S. Austen manifestly proueth that the Donatistes were not the catholike churche bicause they had no succession of bishops in their opinion neyther vniuersalitie and the same force hath S. Austins argument against you phil My lord I haue wayed the force of that argument before nowe And I perceiue it maketh nothing against me nether it commeth to your purpose for I will stand to the tryall of S. Austen for the apꝓbacion of the catholike churche where of I am For S. Austine speaketh of vniuersalitie ioyned with veritie of faythful successours of Peter before corruption came into the churche and so yf you can deduce your argumēt for the sea of Rome now as S. Austen might do in his tyme I would say it might be of some force otherwise not Yorke S. Austine proueth the catholike churche

at knowlege therof procede to depriuacion Phil. Master doctour you knowe that the common lawe is otherwyse And besydes this the statutes of this realme be otherwyse which geueth this benefyte to euery persone though he be an heretyke to enioye his lyuyng vntyl he be put to death for the same Cooke No ther thou arte deceyued Phil. Vpon the lyuyng I passe not But the vniust dealyng greueth me that I should be thus troubled for my conscience contrary to al lawe Cholm Why wyll you not agree that the Quenes maiestie maye cause you to be examined of your fayth Phil. Aske you of master D. Cooke and he wyll tel you that the temporal magistrates haue nothyng to doo with maters of fayth for determinacion therof And S. Ambrose sayth Diuina imperatoriae maiestati non sunt subiecta That the thinges of God are not subiect to the power and authoritie of princes Cooke No may not the temporal power commit you to be examined of your fayth to the bishop That is an other mater Phil. Yea syr I denie not that but you will not graunt that the same maye examine any of theyr owne authoritie Cooke A sure solucion Let hym be had away Phil. Your mastership ꝓmised me the last tyme I was before you I should see your commission by what autoritie you do cal me and whether I by the same be boūde to answere to so muche as you demaunde Roper Let hym see the commission The scribe What thā he exhybited it to master Roper and was about to opē the same Cooke No what wil you do he shal not see yt Phil. Than do you me wrong to call me and vexe me not shewing your autoritie in this behalfe Cooke Yf we do you wrong cōplayne on vs and in the meane whyle thou shalt lye in the lollardes tower Phil. Syr I am a poore gētelmā therfore I trust of your gentlenes you will not cōmitte me to so vyle and strayte a place being founde no haynous trespacer Cooke Thou art no gentilman Phil. Yeas that I am Cooke An heretyke is no gentilman for he is a gentelmā that hath gentil condicions Phil. The offēce can not take away the state of a gentilman as long as he lyueth although he were a traytour But I meane not to boast of my gētlemanship but wil put it vnder my foote synce you do no more esteme it Storie What wil you suffer this heretyke to prate with you al this daye Cooke He sayth he is a gentilman Storie A gentilman ꝙ A he is a vyle heretike knaue Naye he wil not take your name from you For an heretyke ys no gentilman Let the Keper of lollardes tower comme in and haue hym awaye The Keper Here syr Storie Take this man with you to the lollardes tower or els to the bishops Cole howse Phil. Syr yf I were a dogge you could not appoint me a worse and more vyle place But I must be cōtent with what so euer iniurie you do offer me God gyue you a more merciful hart you are verye cruel vpon one that hath neuer offended you I praye you master cholmeley shewe me some frēdship that I be not caried to so vyle a place And he called me asyde and said Cholm I am not skylfull of theyr doyng neyther of theyr lawes I cā not tel what they meane I would I could do you good Phil. I am content to go whither you will haue me Ther was neuer man more cruelly hādled than I am at your hādes that without any iust cause knowen should thus be intreated Storie Shal we suffer this heretyke thus to reproue vs haue hym hence Phil. God forgyue you and gyue you more merciful hartes shew you more mercy in the tyme of nede Et quod facis fac citius So quickly that you haue in hande Storie Do you not heare howe he maketh vs Iudases Phil. That is after your owne vnderstāding After thys I with .iiij. other moo were brought to the kepers howse where we supped in pater noster rowe and after supper I was called vp to a chāber by the archdeacon of Londons seruaunt and that in his masters name he offred me a bedd for that night To whome I gaue thankes sayēg that yt should be a greffe to me to lye wel one night the next worse Wherfore I would begynne as I am like to continue to take suche part as my felowes doo And with that we were brought through paternoster rowe to my lord of Londons colehowse Vnto the which is ioyned a lytle blind howse with a great payre of stockes apoynted both for hand and foote But thankes be to God we haue not played of those orgaynes yet although som befor vs had tried them And ther we founde a Minister of Estsex a maried priest a mā of godly zeale with one other pore man And this minister at my comming desyred to speake with me and did greatly lament hys owne infirmitie for that through extremitie of imprisonment he was constrayned by wryting to yeld to the bishop of London Wherupon he was once set at libertie And afterward felt suche a hel in his cōscience that he could scarce refrayne from destroyeng hymselfe and neuer could be at quiet vntyl he had gone to the bishopes regester desyring to see hys byl agayne the which as sone as he had receyued he tare yt in peaces And afterward he was as Ioyful as any man might be Of the which when my lorde of Londō had vnderstanding he sent for hym and fell vpon hym like a lyon and like a manly bishop buffeted him wel and plucte awaye a great pece of his beard But now thankes be to God he is as Ioyful vnder the crosse as any of vs and verye sorye of his former infirmitie I write thys because I would all men to take heede howe they doo contrary to theyr conscience which is to fal into the paynes of hell Here an ende The maner of my calling fyrst before the bishop of Lōdon the secōd night of my imprisonment in his cole house THe Bishop sent vnto me master Iohn̄son hys Regester with a messe of meate and a good pott of drynke breade sayeng that my lorde had no knowladge erst of my beyng here for that which he was sorye Therfore he had sēt me my felowes that meat knowing whether I would receyue the same I thanke god for my lordes charitie that it pleased hym to remember pore prisoners desyring almighty God to encreace the same in hym and in all others And therfore I woulde not refuse his beneficence and therwith toke the same vnto my brethern praysing God for his prouidence towards hys afflicted flocke that he stereth our aduersaries vp to helpe the same in theyr necessitie Iohn̄son My lorde would know the cause of your sendyng hyther for he knoweth nothyng therof and wondreth that he should be troubled with prisoners of other dioceses then hys owne And I declared vnto hym the hole

the B. calling for .ij. chaires placed by him sayeng M. sherif I would you should vnderstād how I do ꝓcede against this man M. sherif you shal hear what articles this mā doth maītaine And so he red a rablemēt of fayned articles that I should denye baptisme to be necessarie to them the were borne of christiā persōs That I denied fasting praier al other good dedes And that I maintained only bare faith to be sufficient to saluaciō what so euer a man dyd besydes And I maintained God to be the author of al synne and wyckednes be fayne to imagine these blasphemous lyes against me you might as wel haue sayd I had killed your father the scriptures say that God will destroy all them that speake lyes And is not your lordship ashamed to say before this worshipfull gentyll man who is vnknowen vnto me that I mayntayne these abominable blasphemies which you haue rehearsed which yf I did mayntayne I were wel worthy to be counted an heretike and to be burned an hundred tymes yf it were possible London I doo obiect them vnto thee to hear what thou wilt say in them howe thou canst purge thy selfe of them phil Then it was not iustly sayd in the beginning of your lordship that I did mayntayne them synce almost I hold none of al those articles you haue red in forme as they are written London How sayst thou wilt thou answere to them or no Phil. I will fyrst knowe you to be myn ordinarie and that you maye lawfully charge me with suche thinges than afterward being lawfully called in iudgement I wil shew my mind fully therof and not otherwise London well then I will make thy fellowes to be wytnes agaynst thē wher are they come Keper They be here my lord London Com hyther syrs hold them a boke you shal sweare by the cōtentes of that boke that you shall al maner of affections layd aparte say the truthe of al such articles as you shal be demaūded of concerning this man here present which is a very naughty man take you hede of him that he doth not deceyue you as I am afraid he doth you muche hurte and strengthe you in your errours Prisoners My lord we wil not swere excepte we know wherto we can not accuse him of no euil we haue ben but a whil acquaynted with him phil I wonder your lordship knowing the lawe wil go about contrary to the same to haue infamous persons to be witnesses for your lordship doth take them to be heretikes and by the lawe an heretike can not be a witnes London Yes one heretike agaynst an other may be witnes well ynough And master sherife I wil make one of them to be witnes against an other Phil. You haue the lawe in your owne hande and you wil do what you list My prison felowes No my lorde London No wil I wil make you sweare whither you wil or no. I wene they be Anabaptistes maister sherife they thynke it not lawful to swere before a iudge phil We thinke it lawfull to swere for a man iudicially called as we are not nowe but in a blynde comer London Why then seyng you wil not sweare against your felowe you shal sweare for your selfes and I do here in the presence of M. sheryf obiect the same articles vnto you as I haue don vnto him and do require you vnder the payne of excommunication to answere particulerly vnto euery one of thē when you shal be examined as you shal be by by examined after by my regester som of my chaplaines My lord Prisoners we will not accuse our selues If any man can lay any thing against vs we are here redy to make answere therto otherwyse we pray your lordship not to burden vs for some of vs are here before you we knowe no iust cause why London M. sherif I wil trouble you no lenger with these frowarde men And so he rose vp and was goyng awaye talkyng with maister sheryf Phil. Maister sheryf I pray you record howe my lorde procedeth against vs in corners without al order of lawe hauīg no iust cause to laye against vs And after this were all cōmaunded to be had awaye And I was commaunded to be put in the stockes where I sat frō mornyng vntyl nyght the keper at nyght vpon fauour let me out The sondaye after the Bishop came into the colehouse at nyght with the keper and viewed the house sayēg that he was neuer here afore wherby a mā may gesse how he hath kept Goddes cōmaundement in visiting the prisoners seing he was neuer with them that haue bene so nigh his nose And he cā not then for any good zeale but to viewe the place and thought it to good for me and therfore after supper betwene eyght and nyne he sent for me sayeng London SYr I haue great displeasure of the Quene and the counsel for keping you so long and for lettyng you haue so muche lybertie And besydes that you be yonder and strengthen the other prisoners in their errours as I haue layd wayt for your doynges and am certifyed of you wel ynough I wil sequester you therfore from them you shal hurt no mo as you haue done And I wil out of hāde dispatche you as I am cōmaunded onles you wil be a conformable man Phil. My lorde you haue my body in your custody you may transporte it whither it please you I am content And I would you would make as quicke expedition in my iudgement as you saye I long therfore and as for conformitie I am ready to yeld to al truthe yf any can bryng better then I. London Why you wil beleue no man but your selfe what so euer they saye phil My belefe must notheng vpō mēs sayenges wtout sure auctoritie of Goddes worde the which yf any body cā shew me I wil be pliāt to yt. Otherwise I cā not go frō my certain fayth to an vncertaine Lon. Haue you thē the truth only Phil. My lorde I wil speake my mynde fully vnto you vpon no malice I bear you before God You haue not the truth neither are you of the church of God But you persecute both the truthe the true church of God for that which cause you cā not prosper long You see God doth not prosper your doinges according to your exspectation he hath of late shewed his iuste iudgemēt against one of your greatest doers who by reporte dyed myserably Gardiner I enuye not your authoritie you are in You that haue learning should knowe best how to rule And seyng God hath restored you to your dignitie lyuing agayne vse the same to goddes glorie to the setting forth of his true religiō other wise it wil not cōtinue do what you cā London With this sayēg he was apaused and sayd at lenght that good man was punished for suche as thou arte Where is the keper come let him haue him to