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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.
¶ Cole.
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The reply. Sarum.
YE know, that in your own law there was evermore, Exceptio judicis incompetentis. And by what law can ye find, that a man may be a competent judge in his own cause? if the indifferent using of the matter may be tried by experience, in this your last general council holden at Trident, ye know, that not one man of our side, notwithstanding there were a great number of them there, sent thither of purpose by their Princes, could be suffered to sit among the rest or to have a voice, or to yield a reason of his faith. And y• Pope, Julius third, gau out under his brief, that