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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.
The reply. Sarum.
I wis, ye know ye can not, & therefore ⟨image 74⟩ye do best to say ye may not.
I wis, ye know ye can not, & therfore ⟨image 74⟩ye do best to say ye may not.
¶ Sarum.
YE desire us to leave talking against you, and no more to deal so unmercifully with you in the Pulpits. Alas master doctor, call ye this unmerciful dealing? what was then your dealing, when ye were in place? if ye remember ye could never vouchsafe to call us other then Schismatics, Heretics, or Traitors, in your Pulpits. And yet besides all that, ye used our Bodies as ye know. We only tell the people, as our duty is, that ye withstand the manifest truth, and yet have neither scripture, nor doctor, nor council for you. And that ye have showed such extremity, as the like hath not been seen. And now can give no reckoning why, or if ye can, let it appear.