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The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop…The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop…
The true copies of the letters between the reverend father in God John Bishop of Sarum and D. Cole upon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Queens Majesty, and her most honourable Counsel. 1560. Set forth and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.The true copies of the letters betwene the reuerend father in God Iohn Bisshop of Sarum and D. Cole vpon occasion of a sermon that the said Bishop preached before the Quenes Maiestie, and hir most honorable Counsel. 1560. Set forthe and allowed, according to the order appointed in the Quenes Maiesties iniunctions. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per septennium.
London: printed by John Day, 1560
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
❧ A Letter sent from the Bishop of Sarum to doctor Cole, wherein he requireth of him a true and a full Copy of the former answer.
❧ A Letter sent from the Bishoppe of Sarum to doctour Cole, wherin he requireth of him a true and a full Copie of the former answer.
I Understand by the report of di•ers that appearing of late before y• Queens Majesties visitors at Lambeth, and being there demanded of a Letter that was then abroad in your name, as answer unto me, whether ye would acknowledge the same as your own, or no, and so much the more for that ye had used the matter under covert, and sent your copies abroad into all places, even into mine own diocese, & yet not unto me, thereby to discredit me in corners at my first cumming, whereof I have the greater cause to complain of your doings, ye ⟨image 35⟩made answer not only that it was your own, but also y• it was much abridged, & that y• original was twice as much. If it be so, the fault is your own, that would so unadvisedly bestow your writings. As for my part, as they came to me not by your sending, but by very chance, even so did I cause them to be copied out justly, and truly, without adding or diminishing of one letter, and according have I made out mine answer to the whole. Now forasmuch as I understand there […] certain both honourable, and worshipful, that would gladly have our doings to the print, and so published, these shall be to desire you, for the bettering of your own cause, to send me your own copy full and