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A07041	The iust censure and reproofe of Martin Iunior. Wherein the rash and vndiscreete headines of the foolish youth, is sharply mette with, and the boy hath his lesson taught him, I warrant you, by his reuerend and elder brother, Martin Senior, sonne and heire vnto the renowmed Martin Mar-prelate the Great. Where also, least the springall shold be vtterly discouraged in his good meaning, you shall finde, that hee is not bereaued of his due commendations	Marprelate, Martin, pseud.; Throckmorton, Job, 1545-1601, attributed name.; Penry, John, 1559-1593, attributed name.	1589 (1589)	STC 17458; ESTC S112313	18,559	34

but as tyrants are commonlie honoured of their parasites and sycophants Thy brother the pope hath the like honor vnto thine that is an honor whose end will be shame and confusion of face for euer The fearefull and contemptible ende that haue beene brought vppon many of them ought to terrifie thee Nay the message of death which the Lord sent lately euen into thine owne house ought to mooue thee and force thee to confesse that thy yeares also yea and dayes are nombred Doctor Perne thou knowest was thy joy and thou his darling Hee was the dragon from whose serpentine breasts thou diddest first drawe this poyson wherewith nowe thou infectest the church of God and feedest thy selfe vnto damnation Hee liued a persecutour an atheist an hypocrite and a dissembler whome the worlde poynted at and he died thou knowest the death due vnto such a life as he ledde thou knowest hee died suddenly euen at thine owne palace of Lambehith when in thine owne judgement he was likelie in regarde of bodilie strength though not of age to out-liue thee And take thou his death for a forewarning of thy destruction except thou repent And these brother Martin with such like points or some of those positions wherwith I could haue thwacked my vncles about the shoulders I weene an I had beene in thy place There is one question more which I woulde haue propounded for mine vncka Bridges his sake O I loue him thou knowest And therefore thus woulde I haue sette downe my proper-sition on his behalfe I Martin Senior Gentleman doe heere protest affirme propound and defend that if Iohn Canturburie will needs haue a foole in his house wearing a wooden dagger and a cockes-combe that none is so fitte for that place as his brother Iohn a Bridges Deane of Sarum And that he viz. Iohn Bridges is by right to displace the other with whō Lambeth now playes the asse and is him selfe to be after a solemne maner according to the booke of ordayning bishoppes and priestes inuested vnto that roome Hauing for his officers and daily attendants these gentlemen following First and formost D. Robert Some for his confessor who also when his maister Iohn Sarum hath no vse of his seruice may be at my Lordes graces commandement to reade the starue-vs booke in his Chappell at Lambeth Secondly if he were not something touched with the coinquinatiō of the flesh I would appoint none but D. Vnderhill to be his Almoner Thirdly Bancroft and drunken Grauate should be the yeomen of his Cellar Anderson a This chaplein robbed the poore mens box at Northampton played the Potters part in the morrice daunce and begotte his maide with child in Leicestershire and these things hee did since he was firste Priest parson of Stepney should make roome before him with his two hand staffe as he did once before the morrice daunce at a market towne in the edge of Buckingham or Bedford shires where he bare the Potters part His two supporters alwayes to leade him by the armes must be sir Lenard Wright and sir Tom Blan o Bedford the one whereof also must carrie his bable and the other a looking glasse for their Maister to see whether his catercappe doth euety way reach ouer his eares and so stand according to his calling As for Mar-Martin and Iohn Fregneuile they alterius vicibus shall be the groomes of his stoole The rest of his officers I referre to the discretion of my father vnto whose censure also I doe humbly submit this conceit of mine And it may be I am bolde to appoint these men their offices who happily are at my fathers direction to giue their attendance where hee hath appointed thē their places But this I le bide by though my father shoulde say nay that Iohn Bridges deserues to haue his place that weares the wooden dagger the cockescombe and the copper chaine at Lawbehith I se abide by it come what wil of the matter The next thing that we are to consider brother Martin is a more just reprehension of the Puritanes then that wherewith thou blamest them For thou findest fault with the Preachers onely and that justly I confesse because they are no more forward in casting off these our popes But I say that with more equitie thou mightest haue blamed both the gentlemen and people together with the Ministers then the Ministers alone For the Ministers although they be faultie yet notwithstanding thou canst not denie but the Gentlemen and people are as deepe in faulte as they are And I woulde wish them both the one the other to take this or some such course as I heere set downe which also for a great parte of it though not all I sawe in a Puritans hand and so came by a coppie of it thinking if I coulde haue heard of my father to let him haue the vse of my copy but now you see I publish it my selfe I would then haue al the Puritans in the land both lordes knights gentlemen ministers and people to become joint suiters in one supplicatiō vnto her Majestie and the Lords of her honorable priuie counsell in these petitions 1 First that there may be a redresse of the great ignorance wherewith our whole land is ouergrowen by placing able and faithfull teachers ouer euery congregation as neere as may be 2 Secondly that al vnlawful and sinful callings may be remoued out of our ministerie church 3 Thirdlie that the church within her Majesties dominions may bee gouerned by these offices and officers onelie which the Lorde Christ Iesus hath set downe in his worde 4 Fourthlie that for the quiet and orderlie taking vp of these controuersies which are risen in our church concerning the gouernement and ceremonies thereof betweene our Prelates and those learned men which are contrary minded vnto them there might be had a quiet meeting of both the parties and the controuersies determined on their side who shall be found to deale for and not against the trueth Or if this fourth petition cannot take place I would haue this in the steade thereof viz. That it may please her Majestie and the Lordes of her Majesties honourable priuie counsell to see that the true subjects of this crowne may not bee troubled as nowe they are for defending such points as being according vnto the word of God are also according to the priuiledged doctrine of the church of England which is maintened by the statutes of this land and that in case the Prelates doe molest any man as now they doe for mainteining the doctrine of our church or otherwise contrary vnto the lawes of our land it may be lawfull for him or them thus injuried to haue his remedie at the Kings bench against the saide Prelates Nowe Iacke what sayest thou I am sure thou canst not denie but these petitions in thy judgement would be an easie sute I trowe so too and I thinke that now thou findest greater fault or at the least as great with the

Puritane noblemen gentlemen and people as with the ministers because this or the like course goeth not on forward And I can tell thee there would be gotten an hundreth thousand hands to this supplication of knowen men in the land all her Majesties most loyall and trustie louing subjects Thou mayest then well thinke what a stroke so many woulde strike together especiallie in so reasonable and just a suite And heereby our bishoppes shoulde be prooued to be Lord bishoppes in deede that is a A pretie briefe definition of a Lord bishop vngodlie and slaunderous lyars When her Majestie sawe that the Puritanes seeke not any intollerable course for if the foresaide petitions be not to be borne I know not what is sufferable as the bishops woulde pretend And further it should appeare that they are not a fewe and of small reputation but in a maner the strength of our land and the synowe of her Majesties royall gouernement which our bishops do falsely note with the names of Puritanes The consideration whereof I tell thee euen in policie woulde make that this their suite shoulde not be hastely rejected especially in such a time as wherein wee nowe liue in daunger of our ennemies abroad and therefore had neede of no causes of discouragement at home Whie man this were also such a course as it would descrie our bishops English to be plaine slaunder and treacherie against the trueth and the mainteiners thereof as indeede it is The bishops English wilt thou say Bishops English Now I pray you reuerend brother what is that Whie Iacke doest thou not vnderstand what our bishoppes English meaneth I doe not greatly maruell because I my selfe came but latelie vnto the knowledge of it aright But nowe that I haue bestowed a little studie that waie I doe thinke there are but a few in England that see into it as farre as I doe Semper excipio Platonem you know I alwayes gine place to my father for he made the first grammar and lexicon in our time for the vnderstanding hereof Thy small experience then considered I wonder not of thine ignorance in this poynt But to satisfie thy demaunde the bishops English is to wrest our language in such sorte as they will drawe a meaning out of our English wordes which the nature of the tougue can by no meanes beare As for example Receiue the Holy-Ghost I am sure that they woulde not for forty pence that Receiue a bishopricke shoulde be expounded vnto wish thou mayest receiue a bishopricke when they receiue the Holie-Ghost in good bishops English is as much as J pray God thou mayest receiue the Holy-ghost And againe My desire is that J may be baptized in this faith to their vnderstanding and in their dialect is after this sort My desire is not that J my selfe but that this childe vvherevnto J am a vvitnesse may bee baptized in this saith Further to intreate her Majestie and the Parliament that the miseries of the church may be redressed in the Prelates language is to seeke the ouerthrowe of the state and the disquietnesse of her subjects And if a man shoulde goe and aske thine vncle Canturburie but stay boy I meane not that thou shouldest goe and demaunde the question of him what it were in the tongue which he and his brethren doe commonly vse to put vp such a dutifull supplication as before I haue set downe why his answere woulde be presently that to deale in such a suire were to rebell against her Majestie to pull the crowne off of her head to make a faction to wrest the scepter out of her hand and to shake off all authoritie A wonderfull thing in thy conceit I knowe it will bee to thinke that humbly and duetifullie to entreate shoulde in the English tongue signifie by vnbrideled force vnduetifullie to compell and that to seeke the remoouing of vnlawefull callings out of the church should be to threaten that the lawfull magistrate should bee thrust out of the common-wealth but simple boy such English must thou studie to vnderstand or else thou shalt neuer be able to Pistle thine vncle Canturburie so learned lie as my father and I can doe And therefore I woulde wish that of the first money which thou meanest to bestowe in bookes thou wouldest buie thee thy fathers a These bookes act not yet printed Grammar and his lexicon with a briefe thing called his capita concerdantiarum and studie these well but one moneth and out o doubt thou shalt with the pretie skill which thou hast already be able to ouerturne anie catercap of them all I would thou knewest what great light to the vnderstanding of all the bishops treacheries a little time bestowed in these volumes haue affoorded vnto me Wel by this time I thinke thou perceiuest what a braue waie this supplication which I speake of were to prooue our bishops to be treacherous and vile slaunderers For hereby her Majestie should perceiue that the rumors which the bishops raise falsly concerning the great daunger that woulde ensue vnto her crowne by the reformation which the Puritanes seeke and labor for are nothing els but in a cunning and mysticall kind of vnnaturall English to translate The Puritanes by the establishing of the kingdome of Christ seeke the sure vpholding of the crovvne and dignitie of their dread soueraigne ladie Elizabeth into this handsome bishoplike miter The Puritanes by their platforme of reformation seeke the vtter ruine and subuersion of Ladie Elizabeth her Crovvne and d●gnitie I am sure her Majestie woulde welfauouredlie laugh at such a translation as this is and yet beholde such she must be content with if shee will vouchsafe to yeelde her eares vnto a bishops perswasion Yet thus much must I say of them namelie that although they bee not the best expounders of wordes that euer I read yet doe they neuer translate anie thing everbo ad verbum which by learned men is commended as an especial vertue in a translator But O that I as simple as I am might reade a lecture or twoo concerning this bishoplike translation if not before her Majestie yet at the least before some of her nobles I woulde not doubt but to vnfolde such a deale of strange English and yet the verie vernacula viz. the naturall mother tongue of our vnnaturall Prelates as was neuer heard of in this land since the Saxons time Here I knowe that thou arte readie to enquire two points of mee for thine instruction the one how our Prelates can be prooued Antichristes by the church of England the other howe thou mayest come by those bookes of my father before quoted Well thus I will brieflie aunsweare thee in both For the first Maister Tindall in the Preface of his booke called The Obedience of a Christian man pag. 102. prooueth them to bee Antichristes in as much as in their doctrine and their dooings concerning nonresidencie they are directlie against Christ and his worde I charge thee reade the